Check out Doug Finke's excellent PowerShell article in Dr Dobbs HERE. It is exactly the sort of crisp yet meaty content that makes Dr Dobbs so useful. If you have a Developer friend that hasn't yet caught the PowerShell bug, this would be a great article for them to read. Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit...
IT administrators with PowerShell skills wanted for usability studies in the Redmond area Microsoft’s Usability group is recruiting IT administrators who have experience working with PowerShell for upcoming usability studies. This is a unique opportunity to provide feedback and improve the user experience of the next version of PowerShell. ...
A lot of the time, I want to build scripts that depend on other scripts that I’ve already written. Sometimes I will just want to be able to use a custom Cmdlet or function I’ve written. Sometimes, I’ll simply want to always call the underlying script without changing anything and sometimes I’ll want to change to make the default argumen...
Bart De Smet recently posted a blog entry showing to invoke PowerShell script from within MSBuild with 45 lines of C# !!! Check it out HERE. Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter...
There are 2 worlds: The difference between these two is what is called the semantic gap. Our industry has been struggling with the semantic gap for decades. An excellent example of the semantic gap is provided by the TechProsaic blog entry: VMWare Perl Toolkit verses Powershell V1 ToolKit which shows the 20 lines of P...
This is the first PowerShell book to be available in French. Details available HERE. Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter...
Check out Jody Gilberts TechRepublic's article HERE. It is a surprisingly eclectic list. It shows that she's been kicking the tires. I can wait to see what else she comes up with. I especially liked her caveat: Note: Be careful, very careful Yes, this is a tool worthy of the name. PowerShell can easily cause massive configurati...
The Scripting Guys have REALLY upped their game with this year's Scripting Games 2008 being held between Feb 15 and march 3rd. This year you can submit scripts in either VBScript, Perl or PowerShell. They have an amazing brochure describing the event in full color downloadable HERE. Sign up and show that what you can do with PowerShell...
Peter Varhol of RedmondMag.Com has a very good look at Windows Server 2008 HERE. He does a good job covering some of the points of a very large release. He has some particularly kind words for PowerShell. Here the start of that section: "The quality of the release is directly related to the quality of tools provided to...
At ITForum, I had a blast giving the session: Advanced Windows PowerShell Scripting. In previous conferences, I tried to have talks that everyone could come to and get something out of. That worked well a the beginning but I began to get feedback that beginners didn't like it when we went deep and advanced users didn't like it if we did...
