As our development team gets ready to focus entirely on PrimalScript 2009 and some other, still very secret, new products, it is time to look back on PrimalScript 2007’s path. It is hard to believe it has only been one year. Since its initial release in August 2007 a total of 39 new features have […]
Category: Windows Scripting News
PowerShell, VBScript, Shells and Cmdlets
We are currently running a survey about PowerShell adoption. If you haven’t had a chance yet to participate, please go here to do so: Take the survey I would like to thank all those who already took the survey for participating and for leaving a huge amount of very interesting comments. One thing that really […]
PowerShell 101 now part of PrimalScript 2007 Enterprise Edition
As of August 1st 2008 every CD of PrimalScript 2007 Enterprise shipped will include a copy of our PowerShell 101 Class-On-Disc. To find out more about this title please look here: PowerShell 101 If you already own PrimalScript 2007 Enterprise you can order a replacement CD with PowerShell 101 from ScriptingOutpost.com Ordering will require a […]
Techmentor NYC and Las Vegas
I am slated to speak at this fall’s Techmentor shows in New York City(Sept. 7-10) and Las Vegas (Oct.13-17) . I’ll blog about scheduled sessions at a later date. Although you can assume plenty of PowerShell coverage. I hope you can make it out for one of the shows. TechMentor Conferences If you’ve never been […]
ActiveXPoSH is now a free download
The ActiveXPoSH COM component released with PrimalScript 2007 Service build 566 is now available as a free download from SAPIEN.com For more details please review this document: ActiveXPoSH.pdf ActiveXPoSH is free for personal and commercial use. You can download the installer from here.
Follow Me
Even though I’m an old dog, I can still learn new tricks. One of my new tricks is finally getting on the Twitter bandwagon. I’ve often wondered about the utility of this platform. I mean, who cares that I just ate a cheese sandwich. But after using it for awhile, I’m beginning to see some value if you consider Twitter as a micro-blogging platform.
What am I reading?
I never cease to be amazed by the amount of information you can get in the 21st century. Blogs and RSS feeds make the world a much smaller and cozier place and speed of knowledge transfer can be breathtaking. To that end, I thought I’d offer what I have in my blog reader.
Best Practices
We’re beginning to collect scripting best practice recommendations at http://www.scriptinganswers.com/essentials/index.php/category/best-practices/; you’ll also find additional PowerShell-specific best practices (including those related to PowerShell development, rather than scripting), at www.powershellcommunity.org. Best practices are a way for you to benefit from the hard-earned lessons learned by others, and are usually a great way to produce more professional scripts than […]
Class Is In Session
If you’ve been a regular reader of the Windows Tip Sheet column from MCPMag.com, you probably noticed a change recently. This column is changing subject matter to PowerShell. It is now called Prof. PowerShell.
Troubleshooting WMI
How good are you at troubleshooting WMI? Do you know the tricks for tuning it, making it work better, finding problems, and really digging deep into this important management technology? I’m doing a session entitled "Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting for WMI" at TechMentor San Francisco this coming March, as part of an entire track full […]
