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Dr Dobbs PowerShell Article

February 27, 2008 Feb 27, 2008 02/27/08

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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 ...

Help Wanted: PowerShell Usability Studies in Redmond

February 22, 2008 Feb 22, 2008 02/22/08

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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 ...

How to Write Interdependent Scripts

February 22, 2008 Feb 22, 2008 02/22/08

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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 ...

PowerShell/MSBuild Integration

February 18, 2008 Feb 18, 2008 02/18/08

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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 ...

New (French) PowerShell Book Available

February 7, 2008 Feb 7, 2008 02/7/08

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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/...

10 Cool things you can do with Windows PowerShell

February 7, 2008 Feb 7, 2008 02/7/08

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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 ...

Scripting Games 2008

February 1, 2008 Feb 1, 2008 02/1/08

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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 ...

"The smile starts with PowerShell…"

February 1, 2008 Feb 1, 2008 02/1/08

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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 ...