Jeffery Hicks has a very cool blog entry where he defines a Get-Weather script which downloads the weather from yahoo.com, casts the results to XML and then reports the weather using the Speech object.  It's totally cool.  I'm going to show it off today during my demo.  I'm down in LA meeting with MySpace and getting a tour of the ...

Recently I posted the following to the Microsoft.Public.Windows.PowerShell newsgroup (which you should participate in if you are not yet)  Below is a function that I encourage you to add to your Profile files and then use when reporting an error or ask a question about a exception you are seeing.  This function provides all the...

A while ago I posted an entry about PowerShell and IIS7 which then directed you to a video of the demo I did with Bill Staples the PUM of IIS.  BTW - PUM stands for Product Unit Manager aka "BigWig", aka "Grand Pooba".  A PUM has like the CEO of a product of feature, they have Development, Test, and PM all report into them.  These a...

Boy do I love the community aspect of PowerShell.  The great thing about it is that you get the leverage really smart people from across the world.  I never spent any time thinking about screen savers and it turns out that you can just execute them like an exe. Here is a blog entry with a script Start-ScreenSaver which starts a random sc...

Get-PSUGUK is the name of the PowerShell UserGroup being formed in the UK.  They are having their first meeting  on January 24th 2007 at Global Knowledge's office in Workingham starting at 18:00.  PowerGadgets is providing the beer and pizza.  The draft agenda is: Be sure to bring your laptops along and they'll  help you ...

You still have an opportunity to step into the winners circle by submitting your PowerShell Scripts to our Scripting contest.  Your entry has to submitted by Dec 15, 2006 to be eligible to win.  We all techies so let's do the math -   Conclusion:  If you submit a few scripts, you stand a good chance of winning (...

Hot on the heels of the last announcement, AddOn is providing a PowerShell Training class in Germany AD435 -- Systemadministration mit Microsoft PowerShell Enjoy Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows PowerShell/MMC ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:    http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShellVisit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter...

Don Jones is going to give a TechNet Webcast about PowerShell.  Don is a very good speaker and has great ways of explaining things so it should be well worth your time.  BTW, Don is the author of the upcoming book Windows PowerShell: TFM (as in the TFM of RTFM). Don also has a great PowerShell Blog and a Script-specific Search Engine Even...

What to learn about Windows PowerShell without installing it?  Download our Windows PowerShell 1.0 Documentation Pack Overview The documents included are: I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how good/useful this documentation (as well as our help) is. BTW  - our Doc team is very eager to hear about any comments or prob...

DesktopEngineer.com is offering a 3-day PowerShell training course.  Check out the details at: http://desktopengineer.com/ps310 Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows PowerShell/MMC ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:    http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShellVisit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at:  http://www.microsof...