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Comment on TechMentor Orlando 2010 Decks and Demos by Jeffery Hicks

Jeffery Hicks — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:55:44 +0000

It wouldn’t be fair to Mark, now would it.

Comment on TechMentor Orlando 2010 Decks and Demos by Hal Rottenberg

Hal Rottenberg — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:33:46 +0000

Glad to hear you had a good show. I guess they didn’t put one of your sessions opposite Mark Minasi.

Comment on New File Shortcut by Jeffery Hicks

Jeffery Hicks — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:18:08 +0000

Now I have the right file in the right formatting.

Comment on New File Shortcut by Jeffery Hicks

Jeffery Hicks — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:11:32 +0000

Oops. Wrong file attached.

Comment on TechMentor Orlando 2010 Decks and Demos by Jeffery Hicks

Jeffery Hicks — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:32:48 +0000

The debugging scripts most likely have mistakes on purpose so there is something to debug. I never got a chance to properly demo debugging with them.

Comment on PowerShell in the Enterprise by Jeffery Hicks

Jeffery Hicks — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:26:18 +0000

Those are some good ideas. Thanks.

Comment on PowerShell in the Enterprise by Nicolas Blank

Nicolas Blank — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:41:47 +0000

Hi Jeff
Loved the paper and blogged as much as well. I teach on this topic a lot (It’s a biggie in the Exchange world as you can imagine) and you’ve done a suberb job in highlighting a number of issues, especially the requirement for standards.

What I’d like to see in the whitepaper for future topics perhaps:
Choosing which snapins and modules to make avaiable for your scripting verse accross the enterprise.
How to determine, document and enforce what your production powershell standards should be.
Suggested workflows moving scripts from DEV to Stage to Live?
How to choose a powershell editor standard and how to evaluate these?

a lot on standards suggested here and it’s mostly since the companies I consult to have to work these things out from scratch every time without having a nice external guide. Your whitepaper is a great start to this, so very well done.

Feel free to ping me offline if I can help or comment on anything!

Comment on PowerShell in the Enterprise by Jeffery Hicks

Jeffery Hicks — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:17:11 +0000

I don’t see why they would complain. I hope I’m not saying PowerShell is simply a console substitution. It’s an entirely new management paradigm.

Comment on PowerShell in the Enterprise by iHunger

iHunger — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:19:05 +0000

JV – Microsoft won’t want to hear that you think PowerShell is a command.com replacement.

If writing PowerShell scripts isn’t your style, you might want to check out PowerWF – It’s basically Visual PowerShell.

Comment on PowerShell in the Enterprise by JV

JV — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:43:07 +0000

In a short space you said a lot.

I will keep the link and refer interested parties to the paper as it does a fairly good job of describing PowerShell and provides a beginning direction for large scale deployments.

I still like to think of PowerShell as primarily a replacement for command.com.