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PowerShell and IIS7 Revisited
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 are the people whose "butts are on the line" for a feature. That demo was kinda quick and not the best fidelity. The actual keynote demo itself was even quicker (when you do a keynote demo - you say want you agreed to say, you show what you agreed to show, y...
Start-ScreenSaver
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 screen saver http://lunex.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!64CB3857E28BD106!145.entry Cool stuff - Enjoy! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows PowerShell/MMC ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShellVisit the Windows PowerShell...
Get-PSUGUK – UK Users Group
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 to get PowerShell up and running for you. For more details, checkout: http://tfl09.blogspot.com/2006/11/launching-uk-powershell-user-group.html Enjoy! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows PowerShell/MMC ArchitectVisit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: ...
PowerShell Scripting Contest – 2 weeks left
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 (no promises but you do the math :-) ). If you can pipe GET-PROCESS to WHERE {$_.HANDLES -GE 500}, you should be submitting your scripts (ok so you probably won't with with that one since I submitted it about 3 seconds after the contest started, but you ...
More Commercial PowerShell Training Available (this time in Germany)
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 at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx
TechNet Webcast: An Overview of Windows PowerShell (Level 200)
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 Event Name: TechNet Webcast: An Overview of Windows PowerShell (Level 200)Start Date: 12/19/2006Start Time: 1:00 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)End Date: 12/19/2006End Time: 2:00 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) Summary Join this webcast to exp...
PowerShell Documentation Pack
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 problems you have with the documentation so let let us know. You can leave comments here, post them to our newsgroup or see http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2006/05/09/filing-bugs.aspx for details on how to file a bug. Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]Windows Po...
Commercial PowerShell Training available
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.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx
What's up with PSBASE, PSEXTENDED, PSADAPTED, and PSOBJECT?
"Brandon Shell" asked:> I have seen adding psbase to alot of things "fixes" problems... What is this > psbase (thingy) and why do I have to use it? > There are lots of different object & data technologies in the world, each with their own particulars. Most of us never care about those particulars, we want the data and functions and that is that. The particulars get in the way of our problem solving. The clearest example of this is XML. Just try to get your data out of XML - it's a nightmere. With that as a backdrop, PowerShell "adapts" various object technolo...