Here’s an interesting little piece comparing Microsoft’s PowerShell to good old Bash.

It is as non-biased as I have seen these comparisons be and it does a good job of pointing out the major difference, PowerShell is object-oriented and Bash isn’t. I don’t think that this in itself is reason enough to consider one better than the other, but it does mean that PowerShell can have a very steep learning curve whilst overall being more powerful.

It is an interesting PDF so have a look if you get chance.

I found a bunch of great cmdlets that have now been bundled into the free Quest ActiveRoles Management Shell for Active Directory package.

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For those of you that are interested in PowerShell to the point that you’d be curious as a possible release date then Jeffrey Snover may be your man.

A blog post of his indicates that v2 is feature complete and although he cannot explicitly mention a release date he intimates that mid 2009 is a good guess.

I think PowerShell is the best thing that Microsoft have done for many a year so I’m pretty excited by a big feature update.

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I don’t know about you, but not being a programmer means I sometimes struggle with some of the concepts. I hope you find this article by Jeffry Snover over at the MSDN PowerShell blog as useful as me.

It gives a very nice analogy of how you can equate objects and their functions to riding a bike.

Nice and simple, just how I like my explanations.

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I try not to use the word legend too often, but Carter Shanklin my friend you are a legend.

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I found a fantastic reference card/cheat sheet relating to Powershell over at DZone.com.

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