For those of you who use the MSDN and TechNet library content, you may have noticed that Microsoft has changed the UI of these subsites: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library and http://technet.microsoft/com/library . . These are essentially the same site...
The TechNet folks have produced a nice list of PowerShell features offered by Microsoft . This page has a list of all the features offered plus links to information about how to get the individual features. The list looks reasonable complete – and is...
Discovery is process by which a user will learn to use any product. The more discoverable any product is, the easier it is for new users to get started. A disoverable product enables any user both to leverage what they already know and to find more. PowerShell...
I’m a fairly heavy contributor to the MSDN and TechNet Wikis - also known as MSDN and TechNet Community Content. I started posting there pretty much ever since Microsoft setup this feature a couple of years ago. My contribution has included over 10,000...
Last summer, I posted a blog article about the MSDN wiki , better known as MSDN Community Content (there’s also an equivalent set of content around IT Pro type information, namely Technet Community Content. This morning I got a comment on that entry...
A very long time ago, when I was contracting for Microsoft, I got a copy of a cool internal application called Rich Copy – sort of a RoboCopy on steroids. The Internally obtained version of Rich Copy timed out after a while which was a shame.But today...
Just a heads-up that those cool Scripting Guys from Microsoft now have a on-line web forum for help on scripting. Just launched, The Official Scripting Guys Forum is a part of the overall TechNet forum and is a web-only forum (sadly no NNTP). The forum...
Microsoft TechNet has produced an on-line Virtual Lab on PowerShell. The lab, which lasts up to 2 hours 50 minutes, covers the following topics: PowerShell Variables Branching and Script Blocks Looping, Functions, and Filters WMI Scripting .NET Forms...