{"id":3291,"date":"2009-12-23T16:39:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T16:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2009\/12\/23\/powershellpack-reaches-10000-downloads-in-3-months\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:06:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:06:04","slug":"powershellpack-reaches-10000-downloads-in-3-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/powershellpack-reaches-10000-downloads-in-3-months\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerShellPack Reaches 10,000 Downloads in 3 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just before the release of Windows 7, the Windows 7 Resource Kit PowerShell Pack was released.&#160; Today, it hit 10,000 downloads.<\/p>\n<p>It contains 10 useful modules that help you do more with Windows PowerShell.&#160; It has modules that can help every IT admin ( like the TaskScheduler module), and modules that can help any .NET developer (like PSCodeGen).&#160; There\u2019s also a nifty module, IsePack, which provides a set of tools for working with the Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment. 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