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Become a HanselFan
I had the pleasure of doing a Channel 9 interview of Scott Hanselman of Corillian and the ever popular HanselMinutes podcast. Scott explains what Corillian does and how they use PowerShell in detail. They are doing a number of very creative things with PowerShell to deliver both a product and software as a service. One of the more interesting things they are doing is using Source Code Control tools to implement a ITIL-style Definitive Software Library (DSL). By using PowerShell, they were able to re-engineer a process that used to take a day to provision a machine and can now do it in 11 minutes! Scott also highl...
What’s for DinnerNow? Alphabet Soup.
DinnerNow is a .NET demo application that uses the latest and greatest .NET technologies. The nice thing about it is that it shows you how to use these technologies working together in the context of a real-world application. The individual teams typically provide isolated demos to highlight their technology and leave it to you to figure out how to combine it with other things to solve a particular problem. DinnerNow.Net uses IIS7, ASP.NET, Ajax, Linq, WCF, WWF, WPF and (best of all J ) PowerShell. You can learn more about DinnerNow, get a demo and meet the development team in a new Channel9 video HERE. Jeffre...
PowerShell Wins Best of Tech-Ed from Windows IT Pro Magazine!
Windows IT Pro magazine awarded PowerShell the Best of Tech-Ed Award in its category last night. PowerShell won on the basis of strategic importance to the market, competitive advantage and value to the customers. It's wonderful to see the superstars on the PowerShell team get the recognition they deserve for their incredible hard work and innovation that resulted in PowerShell V1.0. Most of us came to work at Microsoft for one reason – to have an opportunity to change the world. In six months since we release, we've had nearly a million downloads and won Best of Tech-Ed, that feels like a pretty reasonable sta...
PowerShell Hits a Million Downloads in the First Six Months
Having come up with the initial idea of Windows PowerShell and then worked on it for a (really) long time, I was very optimistic about how it would be received and widely it would be adopted. I have to admit that even I'm shocked at where we are just six months after our release mid Nov 2006 release. Shortly before we released, Scott Ottaway (our marketing guy) expressed an opinion that we have a million downloads in our first year. I thought he was delusional or just plain ignorant about how long it takes for technologies like this to be adopted. Imagine how much crow I'm eating now that we are about to have ou...
New and Improved Start-Demo
Attached is a new and improved Start-Demo script. Here is a brief list of the differences: Fix bug for demo files that have a single line Intro text explains that this is a REAL demo Cleaned up HELP and added some usage notes Now emulates TYPING by introducing a random pause between key output You can control the pause interval Entering a key during the command typing will cause it to cancel the pauses The command to be entered is displayed on the window title before the typing starts so you can see what is coming. Colors are control via variables (so you can easily change them for your environment) I ad...
Upcoming PowerShell Webcast
TechNet Webcast: Windows PowerShell in Windows Server 2008 (Level 200) Wednesday, June 20, 2007 - 1:00 PM Pacific Time To register, please visit: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032342044&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Mark your calendars and register now. I've you are a old time PowerShell user, this probably covers material that you already know but it is probably a great thing to recommend to your friends who are on the fence about using PowerShell. Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http...
TechEd: /n software to launch NetCmdlets for PowerShell and Distributed Must-Have Goodies
I just got word from Gent Hito (president of /n software) that after 6 months of beta testing NetCmdlets, they are going to be officially launching it (them? J) at TechEd in Orlando next week! Gent is also giving away a 100 copies FREE at their booth. Obviously this will be on a first come, first served basis so you'll want to trip the people in front of you and walk over their bodies when the doors open – or not. Gent said that these won't be given out to any j-random attendee, you'll have to give the magic passphrase, "I read about the free software offer in the PowerShell blog" (I thought "rosebud" would have...
Tab Expansion by MOW
Just when you think it can't get any better, MOW releases a new version of his Tab Expansion scripts and blows the top of your head off. It has been a while since I picked up his latest drops so I had quite a bit to catch up on. Mow (The PowerShell Guy) had been amazingly creative with this. I'm sooooo glad that we decided to make tabexpansion be a user definable function. That has certainly turned out to be a good decision. KUDOS TO MOW! 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...
New Book: Microsoft Windows PowerShell Step By Step
Ed Wilson's book Microsoft Windows PowerShell Step By Step is finally shipping. I ordered my copy a couple of day's ago and I can't wait for it to arrive. I've exchanged emails with Ed a number of times and then I finally got to meet him at a recent event. Ed does a lot of hands-on scripting training for Microsoft so I can't wait to read his book. Here is what the MSPress site says about it: Learn Windows PowerShell—one step at a time—with practical, hands-on instruction from an expert. Learn Microsoft Windows PowerShell —one step at a time—with practical, hands-on instruction from Microsoft's leading scripting...