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Microsoft Compute Cluster now has a PowerShell Provider and Cmdlets
Today the Compute Cluster group announced the release of their Tool Pack HERE. This includes a monitoring tool, a ping/pong diagnostic tool and (drum roll please……) a PowerShell Snap-in which provides a provider and a set of commands. I really like what they have done. I've include the text of their about file so that you can see for yourself. Here is a test - take a look at the file below but don't read any of the text – just look at the command examples. See if you can figure out what it is doing. Now go back and read it again with the text and ask yourself whether the text really added a lot more to your und...
Microsoft Command Line Standard
The Microsoft Command Line Standard is now published HERE. I wrote the draft of this document (Dean Tsaltas did the editing) to define the operational standard for any command line tool independent of the technology that is implemented in. Clearly the preferred implementation is Windows PowerShell. There is no cheaper way to implement the standard than by providing PowerShell Cmdlets (because the PowerShell engine implements the standards for you). That said, as long as you implement the standards in this document, you'll be delivering our common customers a common experience and that is what counts at the end of...
RFC: Deprecating Parameters
Request For Comment One of our partners asked what the guidance was for a product that releases a cmdlet and then decides that they need to deprecate one or more of the parameters in a future release. We don't currently have guidance on this topic so I thought I would tell you what we were thinking of saying and then you can comment about whether that is reasonable or not. Background The problem is that a bunch of scripts might have been written to use that parameter so if they just drop the parameter in the next release, it will break those scripts. It's easy to say, "never drop a parameter" but that isn't...
Windows PowerShell: The Definitive Guide
Lee Holmes' book is now complete and a "rough cut" is available HERE from O'Reilly. This is an early access program where you get access to the book in electronic format before it is completed all the editing passes. The nice thing about this book is that Lee takes a very task-oriented approach to the subject matter (seems appropriate for a task-oriented shell like PowerShell J). He starts out with PowerShell fundamentals but then quickly addresses the questions most users really want answers, "How do I use this to solve problems?". Lee is a developer on the Windows PowerShell team but was not one of the f...
MS PowerShell for Linux?
ENJOY! http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-05-10-019-35-OS-SW-DV "Those that don't understand Windows are doomed to recreate it?" :-) 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
TUI – The Ultimate User Interface
Check out Tom Yager's article on TUI (Text User Interface) HERE. People from every corner of the industry are beginning to figure it out. TEXT (CLI [Command Line Interface]) is your friend. I'm strongly believe that this is a GUI AND CLI issue not a GUI OR CLI issue. It was a mistake to think that GUIs ever would, could, or even should, eliminate CLIs. "Hey Hey, My My, CLIs will never die!" (apologizes to Neil Young) Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows Management Partner ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShellVisi...
PowerShell Podcast on Microsoft Watch
I had an interview with Joe Wilcox from Microsoft Watch. The podcast is available at: http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/podcasts/microsofts_power_play.html 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
Online Training Survey
Don Jones is running a survey regarding online training for PowerShell and Vbscript. Please help move the community forward by spending ~ 5 minutes to answer 10 questions at: http://blog.sapien.com/current/2007/5/9/online-training-what-do-you-think.html Cheers! 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
Proposed new standard verbs
Hi, The PowerShell team is planning on adding the following verbs to the standard PowerShell verbs' list. Please review and send us any feedback you might have: Thanks Wassim [MSFT] <Updated to correct PUSH/POP definitions and capitalize Search - jps>