As you may know (or not), I’m doing a PowerShell session at TechEd 2007 in about five weeks. I’m a bit nervous; the session has garnered a lot of early interest, so they’re not only repeating it once, but also simulcasting it via LiveMeeting. Eeek – no pressure. So, I figured since PowerShell architect Jeffrey Snover always gets rave reviews, I’d copy some of<\/strike> learn from his example. For example, he starts his sessions using a PowerShell script that runs MS Agent – little talking cartoon characters – and he’s even published the script he uses. Which isn’t quite Vista-compatible. Erk.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, the Vista compatibility issue appears to be in MS Agent itself – it doesn’t like to be resized on Vista. So I commented out the resizing code from Snover’s scripts, hardcoded a session start time (well, for the moment, at least), and I’ve reposted the scripts here (click “Files” in the blog’s navigation menu, to the right). I should point out that these are still preliminary and I’ll post final (more neatly-formatted) versions in the future. You do need both<\/strong> scripts living in the same folder; run Start-Session to actually kick things off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As you may know (or not), I’m doing a PowerShell session at TechEd 2007 in about five weeks. I’m a bit nervous; the session has garnered a lot of early interest, so they’re not only repeating it once, but also simulcasting it via LiveMeeting. Eeek – no pressure. So, I figured since PowerShell architect Jeffrey Snover always gets rave reviews, I’d copy some of learn from his example. For example, he starts his sessions using a PowerShell script that runs MS Agent – little talking cartoon characters – and he’s even published the script he uses. Which isn’t quite Vista-compatible. Erk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-windows-powershell"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}