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This weekend, we’ll be conducting maintenance on PowerShell.org. We have several goals: **New visual theme. **We’ll be installing a new visual theme. While we hope to catch everything, you may run across something goofy-looking. Please use the Community Discussion forum to report that, …
Spoke too soon in the morning’s updates; my designer buddies worked last night and took their first stab at the forums pages. They also changed their mind about the big black boxes, which I appreciate ;). The forums material is denser now, meaning more info per page, which should please some …
I wanted to share a quick update on PowerShell.org, Inc. First, a couple of Web designer friends of mine have volunteered to do a visual re-theme of the site. Below is some of their early work, and you’re welcome to comment; I’ll just remind you that they’re volunteers and doing …
In The Scripting Games this year, more than a few folks took the time to write detailed comment-based help. Awesome. No debating it - comment-based help _is a good thing. _ But some folks felt that others took it too far. There were definitely scripts where the authors used, for example, the .NOTES …
John Mello gave a presentation on Tips and Tricks learned from the 2013 Scripting Games, a copy of his presentation and scripts can be obtained here Various group members contributed to a Script and Tell, scripts and participant names are forthcoming. A recording of the meeting is available on our …
You’ve probably been hearing about Desired State Configuration from a number of sources (Runas Radio, the PowerScripting Podcast, or the Channel 9 TechEd video for example). If you haven’t go check out those previously mentioned resources, I’ll wait… Ok, now that you have a …
Later this month, Jason Helmick will be offering a revised “PowerShell Scripting and Toolmaking” course at Interface Technical Training in Phoenix. This new course carries the Microsoft Courseware Marketplace number 55039 - that’s right, this is an official, unofficial course that …
As most folks are aware, I’ve been writing the Windows PowerShell column for Microsoft’s _TechNet Magazine _for… wow, going on 7 years now. For 2013, I was doing a serialized column on PowerShell Workflow, introducing a bit of the technology at a time in each month’s …
PowerShell Summit North America 2014, April 28-30 (special precon on April 27) is open for registration to our 2013 alumni, shareholders, and to TechLetter subscribers. The alumni block will be released on August 15, and the subscriber block on September 15th; shortly after, sales will be open to …
Soooo…. it’s time for me to start looking at updating my various training materials (books, videos, courses, whatnot) for v4. I’m going to, with at least some of these, take an all-versions approach. I’ll teach what’s in v2, then cover what v3 added, then cover v4, …
