In PowerShell, two plus two does not always equal four.  Why?  Because there are twos and there are twos. Let me explain.  PowerShell does a ton of work on your behalf so you can think about what you want to do and not how to do it.  Think about the difference between an automatic transmission and a manual one.&nb...

The PowerShell team is very much into unit testing so, when  I ran into this blog by Adam Geras today, I found it very interesting.  All its entries are on using PowerShell for testing.  I especially liked this entry on using PowerShell and Excel for data driven testing because I always love it when you can leverage o...

This weekend my wife was searching for some stuff and came across the following photo on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/windbag/167080724/  Apparently someone had taken a photo of the one of the slides during my TechEd talk. I just loved the comment.  This one has a fun comment as well:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/windb...

MOW has done it again.  Check out  http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/posh/archive/2007/01/06/it-is-to-me.aspx for another one of MOW's freakishly powerful PowerShell one-liners.  It is so powerful and pithy that makes my head spin.  Enjoy! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows PowerShell/MMC ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShe...

I just saw a PowerShell blog entry on spaces ( http://hung-yuwu.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!744FB258BF8C8020!1291.entry ) but it was in a language I don't read (I think it was Japanese)*.  I thought I would check it out for yucks and was delighted to realizes that while I couldn't understand anything the blogger was saying, I could perfectly...

In my previous blog entry, I talked about how Michael Fisher had blogged his intial impressions about PowerShell. One of the things that Michael did not like was the hyphenated command names.  A discussion about the Pros/Cons of hyphens isn't actionable at this point because we've placed our bets and shipped V1.  Even if there wa...

Michael Fisher has just started using PowerShell and is blogging his impressions.  You can see them at http://fastdad.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/windows-powershell-10/ .  10,000 thanks Michael! I can't tell you how valuable we find it when people do this!  We fully expect that you are going to have to invest a few hour...

A PowerShell User (BS) has started a new blog with a very nice,pithy set of examples showing the range of capabilities of PowerShell Functions.  Think of this as the Cliff Notes for PowerShell Functions.  Check it out at: http://mybsinfo.blogspot.com/2007/01/beginning-and-end-process-to.html Cheers. Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows PowerShell...

Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks (co-authors of the Windows PowerShell: TFM book) will be offering PowerShell Training in the following cities: Check out details and dates at: http://www.scriptingtraining.com/classes.asp If you are intersted in private in-house training, contact them directly. Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows PowerShell/Aspen A...

There is an interesting blog entry On Scripting Languages over an the AdminSpotting site.  One statement was so absolutely spot-on that I plan on stealing it and using it often, "What the Programmers call 'Dynamic Languages', the Admins call 'Scripting Languages'." Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows PowerShell/MMC ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShe...