{"id":6721,"date":"2008-02-01T11:51:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T11:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2008\/02\/01\/the-smile-starts-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:16:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:16:14","slug":"the-smile-starts-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/the-smile-starts-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"&#034;The smile starts with PowerShell&#8230;&#034;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Varhol of RedmondMag.Com has a very good look at Windows Server 2008 <a href=\"http:\/\/redmondmag.com\/features\/article.asp?EditorialsID=2412\">HERE<\/a>.&#160;&#160; He does a good job covering some of the points of a very large release.&#160; He has some particularly kind words for PowerShell.&#160; Here the start of that section:<\/p>\n<p><em>&quot;The quality of the release is directly related to the quality of tools provided to nurse it through its daily chores. In this regard, Windows Server 2008 might just bring a smile to all the <strong>overworked admins<\/strong> out there. The smile starts with PowerShell, the widely reported replacement to the NT command script workhorse in use for over a decade.&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I like the comment about &quot;overworked admins&quot;.&#160; I think about how we can help those folks all day long.&#160; I firmly believe that admining Windows:<\/p>\n<p>1) Shouldn&#8217;t have to be this hard.   <br \/>2) Should be FUN!<\/p>\n<p>When we are done, if you aren&#8217;t having fun managing windows it means one of 2 things.&#160; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]   <br \/>Windows Management Partner Architect    <br \/>Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:&#160;&#160;&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell<\/a>    <br \/>Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at:&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Varhol of RedmondMag.Com has a very good look at Windows Server 2008 HERE.&#160;&#160; He does a good job covering some of the points of a very large release.&#160; He has some particularly kind words for PowerShell.&#160; Here the start of that section: &quot;The quality of the release is directly related to the quality of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Peter Varhol of RedmondMag.Com has a very good look at Windows Server 2008 HERE.&#160;&#160; He does a good job covering some of the points of a very large release.&#160; He has some particularly kind words for PowerShell.&#160; Here the start of that section: &quot;The quality of the release is directly related to the quality of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}