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PowerGUI: "Dude, this is fricking AWESOME…"
Andy Schneider has a great blog entry called: Confessions of a PowerShell Evangelist where he talks about not thinking much about PowerGui. Then it RTMed and he told some people about it and one of his operations people emailed him an awesome response an hour later which caused Andy to reevaluate his assessment of it. The response starts with the phrase, "Dude, this is fricking AWESOME...". Any day that has that reaction has got to go down as a good day. Read Andy's blog for the rest of the story - it's good stuff! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit...
Mascot Naming Contest
Have you see the totally cool new ads for Windows server 2008 at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/serverunleashed/default.html ? This is one of the best things I think I've ever seen our Marketing dept ever developed and they feature this awesome looking robot: 3 cheers to the superstars in Microsoft Marketing! I just LOVE this guy! I've decided to declare him the informal PowerShell mascot. Stick a flag on him - he's ours. :-) After all, what conveys automation better than a robot? The problem is that I can't think of a good name for him. That's where you come in....
Remoting Using PowerShell V1
As you probably know by now, "remoting" is one of the cornerstone features of the next version of PowerShell. I am absolutely thrilled with the stuff we are doing here and the benefits that come from that approach. That said, there are lots of things that need to be buttoned up before this is ready: the right user experience, proper serialization, where and how much throttling to do, how to maximize bandwidth utilization and of course our primary concern: how to make remoting safe and secure. We are working closing with some of the companies top security people reviewing what we are do...
PowerGUI Now Officially Released!
Yesterday was the official launch of Window Server 2008, the first version of Windows to include PowerShell! Is that a good day or what? How could the day get any better? Well, the people at Quest Software answered that question by officially releasing PowerGUI! PowerGUI ROCKS! If you haven't used it yet, you should download it (it's free) and kick the tires. Dmitry Sotnikov and the guys at Quest really got where we were going with PowerShell and PowerGUI does a great job exploiting PowerShell's capabilities. This was no small feat. When I first started telling peo...
Frank's At It Again: Another Free PowerShell Book
Frank Koch is an Infrastructure Architect in the Technet team in Switzerland. In THIS blog entry, I talked about how Frank wrote a very popular Windows PowerShell book and made it available FREE (aahhhh - there is that magical word again! :-)). Needless to say, he had a lot of downloads. Motivated by that success, and his love of PowerShell, Frank is at again with a new FREE PowerShell Book. This time the focus of the book is on Server Administration. This is nicely timed with the release of Windows Server 2008 which SHIPS WITH POWERSHELL! That said, the book works equally well with...
Dr Dobbs PowerShell Article
Check out Doug Finke's excellent PowerShell article in Dr Dobbs HERE. It is exactly the sort of crisp yet meaty content that makes Dr Dobbs so useful. If you have a Developer friend that hasn't yet caught the PowerShell bug, this would be a great article for them to read. Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx
Help Wanted: PowerShell Usability Studies in Redmond
IT administrators with PowerShell skills wanted for usability studies in the Redmond area Microsoft’s Usability group is recruiting IT administrators who have experience working with PowerShell for upcoming usability studies. This is a unique opportunity to provide feedback and improve the user experience of the next version of PowerShell. The next study will run from March 4th to March 10th. This is a two-hour lab study focusing on the remoting feature of PowerShell version 2. Additional studies are also being planned in future. All studies will take place on Microsoft’s main cam...
How to Write Interdependent Scripts
A lot of the time, I want to build scripts that depend on other scripts that I’ve already written. Sometimes I will just want to be able to use a custom Cmdlet or function I’ve written. Sometimes, I’ll simply want to always call the underlying script without changing anything and sometimes I’ll want to change to make the default arguments to a command customizable (like giving a custom Copy-Item script a default destination). There are two ways you can approach this. You can reference the script, by .\ or by absolute path, and pass it’s arguments normally, or you can determine the locati...
PowerShell/MSBuild Integration
Bart De Smet recently posted a blog entry showing to invoke PowerShell script from within MSBuild with 45 lines of C# !!! 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 PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx