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James O'Neill got it into his head that he could translate literature into PowerShell.  He has a hilarious one-line Waiting for Godot and a one screen MacBeth HERE.  Dmitry Sotnikov picked up the challenge and has a Hamlet blog HERE. I like the idea and have decided to do the world a favor and finish the job that Jean Paul Satre's editors...

I talked about this before but a number of people have missed it so here it is under a better title.  In V1, we had a problem which caused our assemblies to not get ngen'ed during installation.  If you don't know what "ngen" is, don't worry - you don't need to.  All you need to know is that we didn't do the step that makes thin...

Marcus Nasarek did a nice comparison of Bash vs PowerShell in Linux magazine HERE.  It is only 2 pages but he covers the key elements and has been very fair to it.  I appreciate the fact that he took the time to clearly understand PowerShell.  In the past, a number of people in the Linux community have assumed they knew what we ...

Shay Levy has a review of the latest/greatest IIS PowerShell provider CTP2 HERE. In that review, he shows how you can use Get-Command to show all the cmdlets in a snapin.  That works great but produces a linear list of cmdlets.  I think the following produces a easier way to digest the information: function Show-SnapinCmdlet ($snapin...

IIS team is happy to announce release of   IIS7 PowerShell Provider Tech Preview 2   Here is a quick overview: What’s new with TP2? ·         IIS7 Powershell provider now supports SSL (installing and acquiring a certificate, creating an ssl site binding) ·       ...

Kirk Munro blog entry HERE says that PowerGUI has just it the 100,000 download milestone.  This comes on the heels of them winning the Breakthrough Product Award at TechEd.  These guys are on a roll! Congratulations to the entire team!  Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows Management Partner ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerSh...

Quest is holding a PowerGUI scripting contest starting tomorrow July 1.  If you are not familar with PowerGUI, it is a PowerShell scripting and execution GUI.  If you aren't already a PowerGUI user, here is a great opportunity to kick the tires.  If you are already a PowerGUI user, here is an opportunity to turn that skill ...

Rod Trent from MyITForum.com  has the details HERE  Enjoy! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows Management Partner ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:    http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShellVisit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at:  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx

Check out what EWeek has declared to be the #7 Best Microsoft Product:   http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/The-Best-and-Worst-Microsoft-Products/8/   And that is Version 1 -  wait until they see Version 2!   SNOOPY DANCE!     Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows Management Partner ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShell Te...

The SQL team has been receiving a lot of bashing lately over some of the decisions they made integrating PowerShell into SQL 2008.  I thought I would take a couple minutes to clarify a few things, eat some sin and talk about a constructive engagement model between the community and the feature teams implementing PowerShell cmdlets. First let m...