{"id":3690,"date":"2012-01-03T14:50:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T22:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/?p=3690"},"modified":"2016-10-27T13:58:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T20:58:56","slug":"2012-is-the-year-of-powershell-are-you-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/03\/2012-is-the-year-of-powershell-are-you-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Is The Year Of PowerShell\u2014Are You Ready?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You really need to make PowerShell your top New Year\u2019s Resolution because 2012 is *the<\/strong>* year of PowerShell.\u00a0 Microsoft is putting it front and center in its Windows Management Framework 3.0 which is due sometime in 2012.\u00a0 And you need to be ready for it.\u00a0 Sure, you need to put exercise and a good diet at the top of your priorities, too, but you need to feed and exercise your brain as well.\u00a0 Keeping your brain in shape will lead to job security, a fat wallet, and incessant praise from your colleagues and your end users.\u00a0 Well, maybe not the end users because they never appreciate your work, but you get the point.\u00a0 You WILL be a better person for knowing PowerShell.<\/p>\n

So, here\u2019s the deal for the month of January 2012: purchase PrimalForms 2011, the PowerShell Training videos, and easily the best book on PowerShell\u2014Windows PowerShell 2.0 TFM\u2014for the ridiculously low price of $299!\u00a0 That\u2019s over 30% in savings but you don\u2019t even need to think of it in terms of savings.\u00a0 Rather, think of this deal in terms of your future potential.\u00a0 Everything is going to be PowerShell in the networking world this year and so you need to be ready for it.<\/p>\n

PrimalForms 2011 is our powerful and versatile PowerShell scripting environment. \u00a0It works with both command line and GUI-based scripts and comes with both a 32-bit and a 64-bit debugger.\u00a0 If you work primarily in the console, you have both 32-bit and 64-bit consoles that allow you to switch back and forth between them without restarting or losing your context. \u00a0You can even drag and drop lines from the console into the script pane and vice-versa for easier development and unmatched scripting\/console integration. Of course, PrimalForms is great at creating visual PowerShell-based executables that you can distribute to your end users.<\/p>\n

Our set of PowerShell Training videos is completely downloadable and comes in four main modules: Fundamentals, Intermediate, Advanced, and What\u2019s New in Version 2.0.\u00a0 Starting from scratch, these titles provides more than 30 total hours of instruction, including conceptual animations, demonstrations and samples, hands-on exercises, and much more, all in a friendly, easy-to-understand style.\u00a0 Check our website for samples you can download: https:\/\/www.sapien.com\/books_training\/Self-Paced-Training<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWindows PowerShell v2.0 TFM\u201d is (unabashedly) the best book out there on the subject.\u00a0 Written by Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks, both scripting gurus, it walks you through PowerShell scripting from the ground up: you don’t need any prior PowerShell, VBScript, or any other scripting or programming experience. You’ll learn about cmdlets, snap-ins, scripts, PowerShell’s security model, and just enough of the .NET Framework to be effective. Written in an easygoing, casual style with plenty of examples, you’ll find yourself producing useful PowerShell scripts after the second chapter!\u00a0 You can download a sample by clicking the \u201cTry It\u201d button at\u00a0http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/books\/Windows-PowerShell-2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of course, even if you believe that the world ends in 2012, you should still buy this special.\u00a0 We\u2019re not quite sure how to argue this point other than by saying that the world will probably not end and, therefore, you will need to be PowerShell-enabled.\u00a0 Make it *your<\/strong>* year of PowerShell!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You really need to make PowerShell your top New Year\u2019s Resolution because 2012 is *the* year of PowerShell.\u00a0 Microsoft is putting it front and center in its Windows Management Framework 3.0 which is due sometime in 2012.\u00a0 And you need to be ready for it.\u00a0 Sure, you need to put exercise and a good diet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":[19,509,575,25],"tags":[28,314,217,228,996,997],"class_list":["post-3690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-training","category-primalforms-software-news","category-primalforms-2011-software-news","category-windows-powershell","tag-powershell","tag-primalforms","tag-sapien-press","tag-sapienpress","tag-vbscript","tag-windows-powershell"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12771,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions\/12771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}