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Graphing with Glee
Doug Finke has a blog HERE which shows you how to use PowerShell to program GLEE - Graph Layout Execution Engine. GLEE is a .NET tool for graph layout and viewing developed by Lev Nachmanson of Microsoft Research. You can read more about GLEE HERE. I got pretty excited about this and grabbed Doug's example and hacked up a few functions to explore the GLEE a little bit more. I'm happy with the direction these are going because it is much more PowerShell like in that it operates against sets of objects and utilizes metaprogramming which allows you to do a ton of work with a tiny amount of specifi...
Developing Your Own Custom Commands
Jim Truher has written a great article in the Dec 2007 MSDN Magazine walking through the steps for writing your own custom commands. Jim was one of the founding members of the PowerShell team and co-designed the Language with Bruce Payette. Sadly, Jim has moved on to another project inside Microsoft but he remains a very active member of the PowerShell community. Check out his article HERE. This is my first blog entry using Windows Live Writer (thanks to Lee Holmes for recommending it to me!). As such, I'll add a gratuitous image of a very scary looking Jim Truher (because I can). Je...
RedMonk Interview
I did an interview with Michael Cote from RedMonk at IT Forum earlier this week. It runs 10 minutes and covers a range of topic including our V2 CTP. You can check it out HERE. I've had a number of talks with Michael and really enjoy them. Michael has a deep background in both Unix and Management (he used to work for BMC) so he always asks great questions (both technical and cultural) and really gets the answers. 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.micros...
PowerShell Security
Derek Melber has a very good analysis/summary of the PowerShell security over at WindowsSecurity.Com. If you run across someone concerned about the security aspects of PowerShell, this would be a good article to point them to. The article is HERE. 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
IT-Forum: Demo files for all talks
Attached is a zip file containing all the demo files I've used at IT Forum. 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 ITForum-DemoFilesForAllTalks.zip
IT-Forum: Mgt308 Managing Systems with PowerShell – PDF
I'm doing this as seperate posts because I'm having trouble doing it as a single ZIP file. Attached is a PDF of my presentation. 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 MGT308 Managing Systems with PowerShell.pdf
IT-Forum: Mgt308 Managing Systems with PowerShell – PPT
Attached is my presentation. 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 MGT308 Managing Systems with PowerShell.ppt
SQL Server Support for PowerShell!
Finally the information is public!!! You can't image how difficult it has been to know this information but not be able to tell anyone. It's so cool you just want to stop people on the street and tell them. Check out this eweek article: Microsoft Releases Another SQL Server 2008 CTP. In it is the following: "SQL Server 2008 running on Windows Server 2008 provides customers with trusted and secure access, high availability through revamped failover clustering, and simplified scripting through Powershell," Francois Ajenstat, director of product management for SQL Server, told eWEEK here at the TechEd IT Forum c...
-Name in Get-XXX Cmdlets
I just saw a cool article by Don Brown who has written a set of SMS Cmdlets for Windows PowerShell. These work with SMS 2003 and are well worth a look-see if you are an SMS customer. (Btw – I wrote Get-XXX to mean GET-(any nounname) but now that I look at it, it looks like a cmdlet to get hardcore porn – YIKES!! I can only guess at what the parameters to such a command would be. J ) While Don has published a relatively small set of initial cmdlets: It is a good start and may be something the community wants to create a community source project around at http://codeplex.com/ . (hint hint hint). As I looked at...