It’s easy not to notice all the great things that are available for extending PowerShell. For example, here are a couple of CodePlex projects that add PSDrives to PowerShell, allowing you to treat external storage systems as if they were a file system (like you can do with the registry).<\/P>
http:\/\/www.codeplex.com\/PSSharePoint<\/A> connects to SharePoint Portal Server 2003, http:\/\/www.codeplex.com\/PSBizTalk<\/A> works with BizTalk Server, and http:\/\/www.codeplex.com\/NewsGatorPSProvider<\/A> actually works with NewsGator for obtaining RSS feeds. Neat. One, http:\/\/www.codeplex.com\/JunglediskSnapIn<\/A>, connects PowerShell to the Amazon S3 sotrage services (Jungledisk). <\/P> There are, of course, the PowerShell Community Extensions at http:\/\/www.codeplex.com\/PowerShellCX<\/A>, which are a must-have (although some of the cmdlets do overlap existing functionality in PowerShell – just functionality that isn’t in a cmdlet, but rather accessible through some other means like an object method).<\/P> And all of the above are open-source – the commercial world is catching on, too, with cool tools like www.PowerGadgets.com<\/A> and, of course, our own www.PrimalScript.com<\/A>. Worth checking out – you never know when some add-in will provide the exact “killer app” functionality that pushes you over the edge to start learning PowerShell!<\/P> PS. Don’t forget, you’ve only got until January 15th, next Monday, to claim your free upgrade to PrimalScript 4.1 from PrimalScript 4.0. It’s at www.primalscript.com\/upgrade.asp<\/A> if you haven’t yet taken advantage.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s easy not to notice all the great things that are available for extending PowerShell. For example, here are a couple of CodePlex projects that add PSDrives to PowerShell, allowing you to treat external storage systems as if they were a file system (like you can do with the registry).<\/P> http:\/\/www.codeplex.com\/PSSharePoint<\/A> connects to SharePoint Portal Server 2003, http:\/\/www.codeplex.com\/PSBizTalk<\/A> works with …<\/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":[2,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-windows-powershell"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","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=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}