My weekly column that I’ve been writing for MCPMag.com is now officially Prof. PowerShell. The column’s goal is to introduce you to PowerShell and help you get up to speed. I obviously can’t teach you everything in a weekly 300 word column, but hopefully it will be enough to get you going and if nothing…
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Techmentor Just Around the Corner
The registration deadline for the first Techmentor conference of the year is almost upon us. I’ll be doing sessions on using Powershell to manage Active Directory, PowerShell and WMI, Logon Scripts and more. Plus, I’m always happy to hang out and chat. I always have a great time. Hope to see you there. If you…
My Samsung Rant
I’ve never been one to rant and rave in public, but I’m so frustrated that I have to write it down. For Christmas I got my wife a Samsung K5 MP3 player. I liked the built in radio and the speaker features. Before you comment, I skipped Apple products for a variety of reasons, none…
Techmentor San Francisco 2008
I finished up my slide decks last week for the first Techmentor conference of the year in San Francisco (March 30 -April 3). If you’ve never been to a Techmentor conference you’re missing a great opportunity to hear and see your favorite IT speakers. Plus it’s a lot of fun to meet your peers, swap…
Practical PowerShell
I am writing a new monthly column for a new eJournal from RealTime Publishers. The column, Practical PowerShell, will be a regular feature in Windows Administration in Realtime. The eJournal is a free PDF although I think you have to give up an email address. My column is intended to provide practical PowerShell solutions for…
Windows 2008 Launch Day +1
I’ve been invited to speak at a Windows 2008 related launch event in Syracuse, NY on February 28. I’ll be speaking about PowerShell in as much time as they want to give me. The event is sponsored by Visory Group, a Microsoft Gold Partner. Microsoft will also be there in person and virtually to talk…
PowerShell Blogging
Late last year I had moved my PowerShell blogging to PowerShellCommunity.org. However, decisions have been made to discontinue the blog module. Now, all my PowerShell related blogging will be back at blog.sapien.com. Hopefully you already have it in your RSS feed. You can click on the Powershell category to see all related posts from not…
Windows PowerShell: TFM 2nd Ed. on Amazon
Amazon.com now has a page for the 2nd edition of Windows PowerShell: TFM. This is a different book, with a ton of new content. It has a separate ISBN, so make sure you are looking at http://www.amazon.com/Windows-PowerShell-v1-0-TFM-2nd/dp/0977659763. The book shows out of stock right now, but you can still order. They should have books to…
Explore Your World
This week’s Windows Tip Sheet column is about opening an Explorer window from the command prompt. One of my readers sent me an email about using this tip in Vista: I’m currently running Vista and when I type “explorer.exe /e, %cd%” I get the same results as “explorer.exe /e /root, %cd%”. So is /root really…
Safe at any Price?
In my current Windows Tip Sheet column on the popular freeware program nLite, reader Tim from Michigan makes an excellent observation: Have used both nLite and vLite and agree both are excellent tools and have real value. My concern however is what else is the program doing? The program is free and having built multiple…
Prof. PowerShell
As many of you know, I write the popular Mr. Roboto column for REDMOND magazine. Starting in January, I will be taking on a new title, Professor PowerShell. The weekly Windows Tip Sheet column I’ve been doing for MCPMag.com will be come Prof. PowerShell. The column will still be weekly, but will focus entirely on…
Conference Samples Available
The demos, updated slide decks and other stuff for the Fall Techmentor conference, as well as the 2 day PowerShell pre-conference event before WinConnections last week, are now available for download at http://www.scriptinganswers.com/essentials.asp. I think I spent half of November in Las Vegas (not that its a bad thing). Thanks to all of you who…
PowerShell v2.0 CTP e-book Offer
As you may well be aware of by now, Microsoft has released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of PowerShell v2.0. This is pre-release software, not even a beta. It is not approved or even remotely recommended for production use. Because it is a CTP, documentation (other than the help files) is a little sparse. But…
One More MVP
It looks like I missed the addition of Brandon Shell who maintains a great blog at http://bsonposh.com/modules/wordpress/. He has a pretty complete list of PowerShell resources at http://bsonposh.com/modules/wordpress/?page_id=13 Congratulations Brandon! Technorati Tags: PowerShell, MVP
Congratulations to new PowerShell MVPs
Well deserved congratulations are in order for some new Microsoft PowerShell MVPs. Marco Shaw, who is also a PowerGadgets MVP, is a frequent contributer to ScriptingAnswers.com and maintains an active blog at http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com/. Dmitry Sotnikov is one of the brains behind the Quest PowerShell cmdlets and has done a great deal to make managing Active…