January, 2007

This weekend my wife was searching for some stuff and came across the following photo on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/windbag/167080724/ Apparently someone had taken a photo of the one of the slides during my TechEd talk. I just loved the...

MOW has done it again. Check out http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/posh/archive/2007/01/06/it-is-to-me.aspx for another one of MOW's freakishly powerful PowerShell one-liners. It is so powerful and pithy that makes my head spin. Enjoy! Jeffrey...

I just saw a PowerShell blog entry on spaces ( http://hung-yuwu.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!744FB258BF8C8020!1291.entry ) but it was in a language I don't read (I think it was Japanese)*. I thought I would check it out for yucks and was delighted to realizes...

In my previous blog entry , I talked about how Michael Fisher had blogged his intial impressions about PowerShell . One of the things that Michael did not like was the hyphenated command names. A discussion about the Pros/Cons of hyphens isn't actionable...

Michael Fisher has just started using PowerShell and is blogging his impressions. You can see them at http://fastdad.wordpress.com/2007/01/05/windows-powershell-10/ . 10,000 thanks Michael! I can't tell you how valuable we find it when people do this...

A PowerShell User (BS) has started a new blog with a very nice,pithy set of examples showing the range of capabilities of PowerShell Functions. Think of this as the Cliff Notes for PowerShell Functions. Check it out at: http://mybsinfo.blogspot.com/2007...

Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks (co-authors of the Windows PowerShell: TFM book) will be offering PowerShell Training in the following cities: Atlanta, GA Chicago, IL Dallas, TX Las Vegas, NV Omaha, NE Philadelphia, PA Toronto, ON...

There is an interesting blog entry On Scripting Languages over an the AdminSpotting site . One statement was so absolutely spot-on that I plan on stealing it and using it often, "What the Programmers call 'Dynamic Languages', the Admins call 'Scripting...

One of the things that motivated us to develop PowerShell was the belief that we (Microsoft) had been doing a poor job supporting the Admin Development Model. All the effort seemed to have gone into treating Admins as GUI-only users or as though they...