Posts Tagged ‘Windows’
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 by David Corrales
There was a lot of interest about PrimalForms during this year’s TechEd. Rumor has it the Microsoft PowerShell Team even demonstrated PrimalForms in one of…
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Tags: applications, gui, powershell, PrimalForms, PrimalScript, TechEd, Windows, Winforms
Posted in Events, PrimalForms, Windows PowerShell | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 by Jeffery Hicks
"I'm new to scripting and need a book recommendation." "Should I learn VBScript or PowerShell?" "What are some good books for learning scripting?"
These are natural and common questions. A few years ago the answers would have been simple. But today if you are just getting started with administrative scripting, the answers only bring more questions. The real question isn't what book should you read but what technology should you learn? If you are a a SAPIEN blog reader I'm going to assume that the choice comes down to VBScript or PowerShell. The quick answer is to learn both, but I realize that's not practical. So let's look at this a bit further and realize that some of this will change once PowerShell v2.0 is released as part of Windows 7 and depending on your adoption of Windows 7.
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Tags: ADSI, automation, don jones, powershell, SAPIEN, SAPIENPress, scripting, tfm, VBScript, Windows, wmi
Posted in Books and Training, Howto, VBScript, Windows PowerShell | 1 Comment »
Monday, November 3rd, 2008 by Alex Riedel
We are pleased to announce that the free GUI builder tool for PowerShell is now available for download. Head on over to http://www.primaltools.com/freetools to get…
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Tags: forms, gui, powershell, PrimalForms, SAPIEN, Windows, Winforms
Posted in Free Tools, General, Software News, Windows PowerShell, Windows Scripting News | 12 Comments »
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 by Jeffery Hicks
If you've been to the SAPIEN blog, hopefully you've noticed the simple poll: "Are you using PowerShell in a production environment?" Right now 75% of respondents are using PowerShell today to manage their network. I'm curious about the other 25%. I'm not passing judgement but am genuinely interested why an organization is NOT using PowerShell. Here are some reasons I can think of.
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Tags: Management, Microsoft, powershell, Windows
Posted in General, Windows PowerShell | 22 Comments »
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 by Jeffery Hicks
I've been getting things ready for my next Techmentor appearance. This one is practically in my back yard. I'll be in NYC on Monday and Tuesday next week.
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Tags: ADSI, Mr. Roboto, powershell, scripting, Techmentor, VBScript, Windows, wmi
Posted in Batch/CMD, Books and Training, General, VBScript, Windows PowerShell | 1 Comment »
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 by Don Jones
These are the sample scripts from the last printing of Managing Windows with VBScript and WMI, by Don Jones. Download ZIP file.…
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Tags: scripts, VBScript, Windows, wmi
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Monday, March 10th, 2008 by Jeffery Hicks
If you've been reading the Windows Administration in RealTime ejournal, I hope you've enjoyed my Practical PowerShell column. You've also may have been wondering where to get your hands on the code.
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Tags: administration, automation, powershell, scripting, Windows
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008 by Jeffery Hicks
I came across a nice intro article about PowerShell on Dr. Dobb's by Doug Finke. Given that the site is targeted at developers some of…
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Tags: powershell, scripting, Windows
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