{"id":3844,"date":"2013-04-11T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/04\/11\/microsoft-script-explorer-next-steps\/"},"modified":"2013-04-11T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T11:59:00","slug":"microsoft-script-explorer-next-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/microsoft-script-explorer-next-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Script Explorer: Next Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Summary<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">: The next steps Microsoft Script Explorer are revealed.<\/span>\nFor those who are familiar with Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell, you know that we haven&#8217;t released additional updates since we published the release candidate (RC) in August 2012. Over the past few months, we have been talking with customers and partners and taking a hard look at the adoption rate of the RC in terms of the number of downloads and the feedback we&#8217;ve received.\nOne of the results of this analysis was that the adoption and usage of the pre-release versions of Script Explorer were not at the level we had hoped for. Part of this stems from the fact that customers already have a number of options in the market for discovering and sharing Windows PowerShell scripts, and most customers appear content to continue using these existing mechanisms. As a result, we&#8217;ve decided not to bring Script Explorer to RTM.\nIn the meantime, we will start winding down the Script Explorer project. This will be a gradual process to allow time for existing users to move to other tools. We&#8217;ll start by removing the RC package from the Download Center this week.\nFor those who have already downloaded pre-release versions and are actively using Script Explorer in their environments, we will continue to operate the back-end script aggregation service that is used by Script Explorer for a few more months. We plan to turn off the service on June 14, 2013.\nTo help with migrating from Script Explorer to other solutions, we would like to highlight a few of the existing options that you might find useful for discovering and sharing Windows PowerShell scripts:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/scriptcenter\/\">Microsoft Script Center<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/poshcode.org\/\">PowerShell Code Repository<\/a>&nbsp;(PoshCode)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/powershell.com\/\">PowerShell.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/powershell.org\/\">PowerShell.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/powershellcommunity.org\/\">PowerShellCommunity.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idera.com\/Free-Tools\/PowerShell-Plus\/\">PowerShell Plus<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.idera.com\/Free-Tools\/PowerShell-scripts\/\">PowerShell Scripts<\/a>&nbsp;by Idera<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powergui.org\/\">PowerGUI<\/a>&nbsp;by Quest<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/software\/powershell_studio\">PowerShell Studio<\/a>&nbsp;by SAPIEN<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/code.msdn.microsoft.com\/\">Microsoft Developer Network<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codeplex.com\/\">CodePlex<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/\">Bing<\/a>\nThere are lots of other options. Feel free to add your favorites in the following Comment box.\nThanks,\nThe Windows PowerShell Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: The next steps Microsoft Script Explorer are revealed. For those who are familiar with Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell, you know that we haven&#8217;t released additional updates since we published the release candidate (RC) in August 2012. 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