PowerShellCommunity.org has announced that they have a got a new sponsor, Pragma Systems . SSH and Telnet folks know Pragma very well. For Powershell users they provide the capability to access Windows PowerShell from any client that runs a ssh or telnet...

Smart guy Don Jones has a good blog entry where he discusses ABSTRACTIONs with the question, " Do I need .NET, WMI, COM, and all that to use PowerShell?" I agree that the correct abstraction for users (admins, etc) is Cmdlets (and Providers [Don...

It is great to see how prominent PowerShell is at this years MMS.   Here are some highlights so far: All attendees where given a copy of Ed Wilson's PowerShell Step-by-Step book (included in their bag). There are 9 sessions explicitly covering...

Windows Server Site Visits in July 09 (Open to US and Canada participants only) The Windows Server User Research team wants to conduct site visits to learn from people who are involved in any and all aspects of managing servers! We’re hitting the...

In a recent comment Peter asked if we could mark blog entries that relate to v2.  We are already doing that with TAGs.  If you look at the bottom of an entry, it will say FILED UNDER and then a set of tags.  We are marking blog entries...

The 2009 Summer Scripting Games have officially begun. For the last few days the Scripting Guys have been revealing the events one day at a time. For more information on the events, you can refer to this post from ScriptingGuys. This year’s scripting...

I'm really enjoying the book Windows PowerShell Cookbook by Lee Holmes. It has lots of neat scripts. I decided to grab one and re-write it to highlight some of the features in the PowerShell V2 CTP. Below is the content for Get-AliasSuggestion.PS1...

PowerShell MVPs Hal Rottenberg and Kirk Munro were interviewed for HanselMinutes audio talk show during TechEd 09 - good overview of Powershell http://www.hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=180 Osama Sajid, Program Manager

Marco Shaw is hosting the 6th PowerShell Virtual User Group meeting on June 24th. (See http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com/2008/06/windows-powershell-virtual-user-group.html for details and sign-up). He has graciously allowed Wassim and I to present some of...

Yesterday, Bruce Payette and I delivered a talk on System Center Foundation Technologies which covered WMI, BITS, WSMAN, PowerShell Engine and the CLI/Scripting experience. What we did was to walk System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)'s architecture...

I’m going to be doing a PowerScripting Podcast tonight @ 9PM EST.  There’s a live chat room where you can ask questions and pick the brains of a tester / avid scripter on the PowerShell team. It should be fun.  I hope to see your questions there...

If you visited our blog yesterday and were driven to go get a basket of "Freedom Fries" - you can relax. If you visited our blog yesterday and thought we were trying to get some class - I'm sorry to say that that is not the case. The good news is that...

Want a couple hundred new cmdlets?  Download the beta version of Windows Server 2008 R2 and check out all the cmdlets that we've been dying to talk about but have not been able to.  Also, take a look at what is missing and complain early, often...

Microsoft’s Usability group is recruiting IT administrators who have intermediate to advanced skills with PowerShell for upcoming usability studies. This is a unique opportunity to provide feedback and improve the user experience of PowerShell version...