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Itsa — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 00:01:49 GMT

So why do we need it? So why do we want it? So why do we care? How will this make using your PC better? Why not create a batch of PC utilities that execute from the command line to aid the PC's life and ease of use? Not hackers will have a new toy to explore and we will all have to pay the price.

DOS worked. . .

CMD was OK. . .

Why not just use perl for windows? ? ?

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Jakob Bindslet — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:57:55 GMT

"So why do we need it?", well PowerShell is an improvement over DOS, cmd and wsh.

Is it perfect? Certainly not!

Every new technology has the potential to be used for good or bad. Should this stop us from making progress? Should we crawl back into the trees and fear anthing as advanced as fire? Well, I don't think so.

I believe that PowerShell is a (huge) step in the right direction for Microsoft, and I'm certain that more steps will follow.

I also use perl for windows - but for many tasks PowerShell is just better.

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thomspengler — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:49:43 GMT

SAPIEN has training as well,

see: http://www.scriptingtraining.com/classes.asp

Taught by authors of "Windows PowerShell™: TFM®", Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks

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LSeery — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:16:17 GMT

New Horizons MN also has PowerShell Training!

http://www.newhorizonsmn.com/CourseDetail.aspx?CrsNum=NHPowerShell

Get in on it now!!

Stupid!

Tony Nguyen — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:32:26 GMT

PowerShell is still in beta, and in fact, it has changed so much since it first came out. Why do I have to buy a book / pay for the training course when most of the commands and syntax do not work after 5, 6 months since last Oct, 2006.

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PowerShellTeam — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:09:59 GMT

Hi Tony;

PowerShell 1.0 in fact released on November 14, 2006: http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2006/11/14/windows-powershell-1-0-released.aspx.

Any training and documentation would cover the RTM product.

Lee

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Paul — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:38:19 GMT

I used MKS toolkit in the past

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Paul — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:39:30 GMT

Do we finally get equivalents of grep and sed ?

findstr is kind of limited.

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Jason Fossen — Sat, 05 May 2007 03:06:14 GMT

The SANS Institute also has a PowerShell training course. You can read more about here:

http://www.WindowsPowerShellTraining.com

And here:

http://www.sans.org/training/description.php?tid=1057

Cheers,

Jason

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Brian V — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:52:53 GMT

Before I begin, I don't believe this is the correct forum for such a comment, but I'm unsure of where to report bugs on Powershell.

I have a few problems with powershell (so far; I've only had it installed for 20 min), one of which seems central to its design. Anyway, here they are:

1) Why is it slow to load & perform various actions? In cmd (which isn't exactly fast compared to the DOS days either), a simple directory listing begins to display as soon as you hit enter, unless there's a lot to display. In powershell, listing the contents of the root C drive requires about .2-.5 seconds before anything happens. Regarding slow load time, I'm talking about opening powershell: cmd loads immediately, as did command.com, but powershell takes 2-3 seconds to load.

2) Why was it necessary to change the name of things that have had the same name for 20+ years? "items", "child-items", and "containers"? I understand what they correspond to, but that'd be analagous to walking into the math department and saying you came up with a new way of doing math, and start calling functions 'functors', renaming variables to 'varying-quantity-containers', etc. The documentation is also wordy, jumbled, and needs better punctuation. To quote:

"The Get-Childitem cmdlet gets the items in one or more specified locations.

If the item is a container, it gets the items inside the container, known

as child items. You can use the Recurse parameter to get items in all child

containers A location can be a file system location, such as a directory,

or a location exposed by another provider, such as a registry hive or a cer

tificate store."

Why cmdlet? Why not just 'program', or 'command'; another standard term clarified with a more obscure term. How about the line "..., known as child items". It wouldn't be necessary to clarify what is meant if standard terms were used.

Additionally, if 'ls', and 'dir' are going to serve as a default alias for "Get-ChildItem", why not list it as a variant? This goes for all commands; if an alias exists, the documentation should show it.

That's pretty much it. I don't expect a reply, my goal is mainly to have those concerns examined. Powershell seems very powerful, but in a day when new languages are cropping up in the professional world every week, it seems, adding more complexity rather than simplification can be maddening.

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John — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:18:14 GMT

TRACIT (Belgium)has an excellent PowerShell training:

http://www.tracit.be/displaycourse.asp?row_id=21

John

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H de V — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:51:17 GMT

So I downloaded it and it looks like you just tried to make a clone of GNU bash. It's a pile of fail, IMO. There's this thing called "UNIX", and the future was 37 years ago.

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pavan kumar — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:02:31 GMT

I wish to extract the functionality of power shell to other application is there any way to do it

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Piet — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:29:06 GMT

Be sure to have a look at the Global Knowledge course in Powershell, given by a MVP, really good quality course

http://www.globalknowledge.be/Default.aspx?page=461&coursecode=GKPS

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Christopher Chapman, MCT, MCITP — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:27:58 GMT

Hey all,

Just wanted to mention that there is a Microsoft MS-6434 Automating Windows Server 2008 Administration with Windows Powershell Class available in the world.

SQLSoft currently offers this course on a pretty regular basis. You can get more info here:

http://www.sqlsoft.com/coursedescriptions/MS-6434.html?c=1608

Thanks.