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Bash Vs Powershell

Paul Shannon — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:56:04 +0000

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.

PowerShell Active Directory Cmdlets

Paul Shannon — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:48:09 +0000

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

PowerShell v2 To Ship Mid 2009?!?

Paul Shannon — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:16:07 +0000

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.

PowerShell For Dummies

Paul Shannon — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:03:57 +0000

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.

Powershell, Excel & VMware… Harmony!

Paul Shannon — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:14:28 +0000

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

Powershell Reference Card

Paul Shannon — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:35:36 +0000

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

VMware Powershell VI Toolkit

Paul Shannon — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:05:42 +0000

VMware have recently announced the beta of a Powershell related toolkit that contains a library of commonly used administration functions in cmdlets.

These cmdlets are executed through the best thing that Microsoft have done in a very long time – Powershell.

You can read all about it here and download the toolkit here.