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Kirk Munro

Voting for the 2013 PowerShell Summit sessions is now open!

Voting is now open! As of this morning you can vote for the sessions that you want to see at the 2013 PowerShell Summit! We have 97 session proposals (see below), plus additional content from the PowerShell Team. Your vote is really important, so please take some time to indicate what you would like …

Don Jones
PowerShell for Admins

Session Voting for the PowerShell Summit North America 2013

Voting is open! As you know, the PowerShell Summit North America 2013 is coming in April 2013, and we’re relying on you to tell us what sessions you’d like to see there. We’ve already accepted dozens of proposed sessions, and we’re ready for you to vote. Go ahead and take the …

Keith Hill

PSCX 2.1 and 3.0 Release Candidates Posted

Oisin and I have been busy prepping the PowerShell Community Extensions to support Windows PowerShell 3.0. With this release, we are providing two packages. There is a Pscx-2.1.0-RC.zip that is xcopy deployable just like PSCX 2.0. Just remember to unblock the ZIP before extracting it otherwise …

Kirk Munro

PowerShell Summit North America 2013 Call for Content

In case you haven"™t heard already, there is a great opportunity to learn a lot more about PowerShell coming up next year. It"™s the PowerShell Summit North America 2013 conference, and it is held on Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA from April 22 to 24, 2013. This conference is run by the …

Don Jones
Announcements

PowerShell Summit: Best Conference Deal Ever!

What’s the average tech conference cost these days? $1500? $2000? And that’s just to get in, to say nothing of hotel, air, food, and whatnot. The PowerShell Summit North America 2013 has an idea. Lets do a community-owned event, with a goal of breaking even and supporting an annual …

Don Jones
Announcements

That’s right, for just $400 you can guarantee yourself a seat at the PowerShell Summit North America 2013, to be held at Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, WA. Just 10 tickets will be made available at this low-low-low price, which is $150 off the normal registration rate. Why so low? Why …

Don Jones
PowerShell for Admins

PowerShell Workflow: When Should You Use It?

Microsoft recently posted the online help for PowerShell v3 Workflow (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134242), and I wanted to take an opportunity to explore some of what the help says - and perhaps offer an outsider’s perspective. What is Workflow? Workflow is a set of …

Don Jones
Books

eBook: Secrets of PowerShell Remoting

This is a free e-book that covers PowerShell Remoting. There’s a brief overview and tutorial of actually using Remoting, but that part isn’t in-depth. What this e-book provides, that you won’t find elsewhere, is step-by-step, screenshot-based instructions for configuring Remoting …