February, 2008

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...

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...

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! :-)). ...

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...

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...

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...

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:   ...

There are 2 worlds: The world as we think about it. The world as we can manipulate it. The difference between these two is what is called the semantic gap .  Our industry has been struggling with the semantic gap for decades.  An excellent example...

This is the first PowerShell book to be available in French.  Details available HERE. Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:    http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell Visit the...

Check out Jody Gilberts TechRepublic's article HERE .  It is a surprisingly eclectic list.  It shows that she's been kicking the tires.  I can wait to see what else she comes up with. I especially liked her caveat: Note: Be careful, very...

The Scripting Guys have REALLY upped their game with this year's Scripting Games 2008 being held between Feb 15 and march 3rd.  This year you can submit scripts in either VBScript, Perl or PowerShell.  They have an amazing brochure describing...

Peter Varhol of RedmondMag.Com has a very good look at Windows Server 2008 HERE .   He does a good job covering some of the points of a very large release.  He has some particularly kind words for PowerShell.  Here the start of that...