In its keynote, Microsoft delivered a huge lot of marketing blabla but also some really exciting live demos. Essentially, it came down to this: moving a basic or standard IT to a dynamic IT can reduce cost significantly while at the same time make your IT work and perform better.
Eh, so... what exactly is a "dynamic IT"?
It is an IT managed by virtualization, models and rules, thus enabling you to automate things. Ah, there we go!
PS> Automation -eq PowerShell
On a high level, Microsofts management tools allow you to consolidate your physical servers and rautomatically espond to performance or error conditions. And: Microsoft opens its management tools to non-Microsoft technologies such as VMWare (virtualization) and Linux (OS level). Can you find the cute little penguin in that picture below?
On a lower level and behind the scenes, PowerShell V2 with its remoting capabilities plays an important and growing role. It will be installed by default on Server 2008 R2 which is expected to be available "in the same timeframe as Windows 7" - which leaves us guessing, probably end of 2009 or early in 2010. Of course, the same hybrid approach applies to PowerShell as well, so expect to be able to manage Unix systems through WS-Man.
We can expect PowerShell V2 to be one of the key enabling features in a dynamic and cost effective IT and have approximately one year left to get prepared for it. One first step would be to learn and become proficient with the PowerShell language so I feel we are right on track with PowerShellPlus Professional and its ability to serve as a comprehensive learning tool.
Stay tuned and come back as there will be a lot more PowerShell related news coming up this week, most PowerShell sessions scheduled for Thursday.
-Tobias
Posted
Nov 03 2008, 01:25 AM
by
Tobias Weltner