&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Articles from March 2011 on PowerShell.org - Welcome Automaters!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011/03/</link><description>Recent content in Articles from March 2011 on PowerShell.org - Welcome Automaters!</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><atom:link href="https://powershell.org/articles/2011/03/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Happy 4th Birthday PowerGUI®!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-03-28-happy-4th-birthday-powergui/</link><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-03-28-happy-4th-birthday-powergui/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:52:30 +0000</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Today is &lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/"&gt;PowerGUI&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;™s 4th birthday, and what would a birthday be without cake?  The awesome graphic artists that provide me with all of our fun desktop wallpaper for PowerGUI have done it again with a new desktop wallpaper image to celebrate PowerGUI&amp;quot;™s birthday.  You can download it from the &lt;a href="http://poshoholic.com/2011/03/28/happy-4th-birthday-powergui/www.powergui.org/downloads.jspa"&gt;downloads page on PowerGUI.org&lt;/a&gt;, or you can click on this picture to download a high-resolution version directly:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/servlet/KbServlet/download/3422-102-5427/1920x1200.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://kirkmunro.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/image2.png?w=504&amp;amp;h=316" alt="image"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It&amp;quot;™s hard to believe it&amp;quot;™s been 4 years already since PowerGUI was first made available for download on March 28, 2007.  What an amazing 4 years it has been too! What started out as a free extensible Administrative Console based on Windows PowerShell has grown into an award winning product that also includes a free extensible Script Editor with tons of useful features like Intellisense, syntax highlighting, script snippets, script signing, and many, many more.  There&amp;quot;™s even a Pro version called &lt;a href="http://poshoholic.com/2011/03/28/happy-4th-birthday-powergui/www.powerguipro.com"&gt;PowerGUI® Pro&lt;/a&gt; that adds Version Control, Easy Remote Script Execution, and a component called MobileShell that allows you to perform systems management from your handheld device!&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Today is<a href="http://www.powergui.org/">PowerGUI</a>"™s 4th birthday, and what would a birthday be without cake?  The awesome graphic artists that provide me with all of our fun desktop wallpaper for PowerGUI have done it again with a new desktop wallpaper image to celebrate PowerGUI"™s birthday.  You can download it from the<a href="http://poshoholic.com/2011/03/28/happy-4th-birthday-powergui/www.powergui.org/downloads.jspa">downloads page on PowerGUI.org</a>, or you can click on this picture to download a high-resolution version directly:</p><p><a href="http://www.powergui.org/servlet/KbServlet/download/3422-102-5427/1920x1200.jpg"><img src="http://kirkmunro.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/image2.png?w=504&amp;h=316" alt="image"/></p><p>It"™s hard to believe it"™s been 4 years already since PowerGUI was first made available for download on March 28, 2007.  What an amazing 4 years it has been too! What started out as a free extensible Administrative Console based on Windows PowerShell has grown into an award winning product that also includes a free extensible Script Editor with tons of useful features like Intellisense, syntax highlighting, script snippets, script signing, and many, many more.  There"™s even a Pro version called<a href="http://poshoholic.com/2011/03/28/happy-4th-birthday-powergui/www.powerguipro.com">PowerGUI® Pro</a> that adds Version Control, Easy Remote Script Execution, and a component called MobileShell that allows you to perform systems management from your handheld device!</p><p>It"™s been great fun having a direct hand in helping make this happen, but this product would not be what it is today without the support that we have received from the community!  Your feedback and support through our<a href="http://www.powergui.org/">PowerGUI.org</a> community site, on Twitter, on FaceBook, and blogs and articles around the web has been fantastic and it"™s something that I appreciate every single day!  Thank you for helping this product to continue to grow!</p><p>I hope you enjoy celebrating PowerGUI"™s birthday with us this week with the fantastic wallpaper, and look forward to continuing to watch this product grow for many years to come!</p><p>Enjoy!</p><p>Kirk out.</p><p>Technorati Tags:<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PowerShell">PowerShell</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PoSh">PoSh</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Poshoholic">Poshoholic</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PowerGUI+Pro">PowerGUI Pro</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PowerGUI">PowerGUI</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/wallpaper">wallpaper</a></p><p><a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/kirkmunro.wordpress.com/532/"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/kirkmunro.wordpress.com/532/" alt=""/><img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=poshoholic.com&amp;blog=1436967&amp;%23038;post=532&amp;%23038;subd=kirkmunro&amp;%23038;ref=&amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""/>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Adam Driscoll talks about PowerShell and PowerGUI® on .NET Rocks!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-03-22-adam-driscoll-talks-about-powershell-and-powergui-on-net-rocks/</link><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-03-22-adam-driscoll-talks-about-powershell-and-powergui-on-net-rocks/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Recently Adam Driscoll of &lt;a href="http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/01516103-d487-4a7e-bb40-c15ec709afa3/"&gt;PowerGUI VSX&lt;/a&gt; fame was a guest on the &lt;a href="http://www.dotnetrocks.com/"&gt;.NET Rocks!&lt;/a&gt; podcast show, chatting with Carl and Richard about his TFS plugin for Android, PowerShell, &lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/"&gt;PowerGUI&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/01516103-d487-4a7e-bb40-c15ec709afa3/"&gt;PowerGUI VSX&lt;/a&gt;.  Today that show was made available for download, so head on over to the &lt;a href="http://www.dotnetrocks.com/"&gt;.NET Rocks!&lt;/a&gt; page listen to Adam, Carl and Richard in &lt;a href="http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=647"&gt;Episode 647 of .NET Rocks!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kirk out.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Technorati Tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PowerShell"&gt;PowerShell&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PoSh"&gt;PoSh&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Poshoholic"&gt;Poshoholic&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PowerGUI"&gt;PowerGUI&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PowerGUI+VSX"&gt;PowerGUI VSX&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/podcast"&gt;podcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/kirkmunro.wordpress.com/520/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/kirkmunro.wordpress.com/520/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=poshoholic.com&amp;amp;blog=1436967&amp;amp;%23038;post=520&amp;amp;%23038;subd=kirkmunro&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Recently Adam Driscoll of<a href="http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/01516103-d487-4a7e-bb40-c15ec709afa3/">PowerGUI VSX</a> fame was a guest on the<a href="http://www.dotnetrocks.com/">.NET Rocks!</a> podcast show, chatting with Carl and Richard about his TFS plugin for Android, PowerShell,<a href="http://www.powergui.org/">PowerGUI</a>, and<a href="http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/01516103-d487-4a7e-bb40-c15ec709afa3/">PowerGUI VSX</a>.  Today that show was made available for download, so head on over to the<a href="http://www.dotnetrocks.com/">.NET Rocks!</a> page listen to Adam, Carl and Richard in<a href="http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=647">Episode 647 of .NET Rocks!</a></p><p>Enjoy!</p><p>Kirk out.</p><p>Technorati Tags:<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PowerShell">PowerShell</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PoSh">PoSh</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Poshoholic">Poshoholic</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PowerGUI">PowerGUI</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PowerGUI+VSX">PowerGUI VSX</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/podcast">podcast</a></p><p><a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/kirkmunro.wordpress.com/520/"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/kirkmunro.wordpress.com/520/" alt=""/><img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=poshoholic.com&amp;blog=1436967&amp;%23038;post=520&amp;%23038;subd=kirkmunro&amp;%23038;ref=&amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""/>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>PowerGUI® Spring 2011 Desktop Wallpaper</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-03-21-powergui-spring-2011-desktop-wallpaper/</link><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-03-21-powergui-spring-2011-desktop-wallpaper/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:44:47 +0000</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Spring is here already, and even though it doesn&amp;quot;™t seem like it&amp;quot;™s Spring everywhere just yet (it has been snowing most of the day here in Ottawa), with the change in seasons comes a change in desktop wallpaper.  The Spring 2011 wallpaper for &lt;a href="http://www.powerguipro.com/"&gt;PowerGUI Pro&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/"&gt;PowerGUI&lt;/a&gt; is now available:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/servlet/KbServlet/download/3402-102-5388/1920x1200.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.powergui.org/servlet/KbServlet/downloadImage/3402-102-425/thumbnail.jpg" alt="PowerGUI Spring 2011 Wallpaper Thumbnail"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To download this wallpaper, simply visit the &lt;a href="http://powergui.org/downloads.jspa"&gt;PowerGUI downloads page&lt;/a&gt; and scroll down to see all of the sizes and varieties that are available.  We have Fall wallpaper there as well for our friends in the southern hemisphere.  As always, all of our wallpaper images are stored in the &lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=393"&gt;Wallpaper folder&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/"&gt;PowerGUI.org&lt;/a&gt;, so if you want to use one from a previous year or a different season or holiday, take a look around&amp;quot;¦there are currently 27 different varieties to choose from.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Spring is here already, and even though it doesn"™t seem like it"™s Spring everywhere just yet (it has been snowing most of the day here in Ottawa), with the change in seasons comes a change in desktop wallpaper.  The Spring 2011 wallpaper for<a href="http://www.powerguipro.com/">PowerGUI Pro</a> and<a href="http://www.powergui.org/">PowerGUI</a> is now available:</p><p><a href="http://www.powergui.org/servlet/KbServlet/download/3402-102-5388/1920x1200.jpg"><img src="http://www.powergui.org/servlet/KbServlet/downloadImage/3402-102-425/thumbnail.jpg" alt="PowerGUI Spring 2011 Wallpaper Thumbnail"/></p><p>To download this wallpaper, simply visit the<a href="http://powergui.org/downloads.jspa">PowerGUI downloads page</a> and scroll down to see all of the sizes and varieties that are available.  We have Fall wallpaper there as well for our friends in the southern hemisphere.  As always, all of our wallpaper images are stored in the<a href="http://www.powergui.org/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=393">Wallpaper folder</a> on<a href="http://www.powergui.org/">PowerGUI.org</a>, so if you want to use one from a previous year or a different season or holiday, take a look around"¦there are currently 27 different varieties to choose from.</p><p>Enjoy!</p><p>Kirk out.</p><p>Technorati Tags:<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PowerShell">PowerShell</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PoSh">PoSh</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Poshoholic">Poshoholic</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PowerGUI+Pro">PowerGUI Pro</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PowerGUI">PowerGUI</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/wallpaper">wallpaper</a></p><p><a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/kirkmunro.wordpress.com/529/"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/kirkmunro.wordpress.com/529/" alt=""/><img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=poshoholic.com&amp;blog=1436967&amp;%23038;post=529&amp;%23038;subd=kirkmunro&amp;%23038;ref=&amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""/>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>PowerScripting Podcast with Jeffrey Snover and Kenneth Hansen</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-03-16-powerscripting-podcast-with-jeffrey-snover-and-kenneth-hansen/</link><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-03-16-powerscripting-podcast-with-jeffrey-snover-and-kenneth-hansen/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:21:07 +0000</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Last week &lt;a href="http://www.halr9000.com/"&gt;Hal Rottenberg&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/#!/jonwalz"&gt;Jonathan Walz&lt;/a&gt; recorded another great episode of the &lt;a href="http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/"&gt;PowerScripting Podcast&lt;/a&gt;, this time with Jeffrey Snover and Kenneth Hansen as guests.  Jeffrey and Kenneth talk about PowerShell of course, but also discuss the upcoming &lt;a href="http://www.theexpertsconference.com/us/2011/general-information/2011-powershell-deep-dive/"&gt;PowerShell Deep Dive&lt;/a&gt; event.  You can find the link to listen to the podcast along with the show notes &lt;a href="http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/episode-141-the-powershell-deep-dive-conference-with-jeffrey-snover-and-kenneth-hansen/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This podcast is a great source of PowerShell news and I highly recommend listening to it regularly.  It&amp;quot;™s a great way to pass the time during your daily commute to and from work.  There are 141 episodes so far, with tons of great interviews and content, so check out this podcast when you have some time.  It&amp;quot;™s definitely worth it.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Last week<a href="http://www.halr9000.com/">Hal Rottenberg</a> and<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/jonwalz">Jonathan Walz</a> recorded another great episode of the<a href="http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/">PowerScripting Podcast</a>, this time with Jeffrey Snover and Kenneth Hansen as guests.  Jeffrey and Kenneth talk about PowerShell of course, but also discuss the upcoming<a href="http://www.theexpertsconference.com/us/2011/general-information/2011-powershell-deep-dive/">PowerShell Deep Dive</a> event.  You can find the link to listen to the podcast along with the show notes<a href="http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/episode-141-the-powershell-deep-dive-conference-with-jeffrey-snover-and-kenneth-hansen/">here</a>.</p><p>This podcast is a great source of PowerShell news and I highly recommend listening to it regularly.  It"™s a great way to pass the time during your daily commute to and from work.  There are 141 episodes so far, with tons of great interviews and content, so check out this podcast when you have some time.  It"™s definitely worth it.</p><p>Enjoy!</p><p>Kirk out.</p><p>Technorati Tags:<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PowerShell">PowerShell</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PoSh">PoSh</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Poshoholic">Poshoholic</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/podcast">podcast</a></p><p><a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/kirkmunro.wordpress.com/527/"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/kirkmunro.wordpress.com/527/" alt=""/><img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=poshoholic.com&amp;blog=1436967&amp;%23038;post=527&amp;%23038;subd=kirkmunro&amp;%23038;ref=&amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""/>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>MVP Summit 2011</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-03-09-mvp-summit-2011/</link><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-03-09-mvp-summit-2011/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:43:57 +0000</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Testing out my first WordPress blog post after the switch from Windows Live Spaces (sniff, I will miss you) to WordPress.  Regarding the MVP Summit last week, I can&amp;quot;™t really talk about much due to just about everything being NDA, NDA, NDA!  I will say that I&amp;quot;™m excited about the future of PowerShell!  Probably the most fun part was hanging out with the other PowerShell MVPs for a week.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that Microsoft still values their relationship with the MVPs as evidenced by the party they arranged for MVPs last Wednesday:&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Testing out my first WordPress blog post after the switch from Windows Live Spaces (sniff, I will miss you) to WordPress.  Regarding the MVP Summit last week, I can"™t really talk about much due to just about everything being NDA, NDA, NDA!  I will say that I"™m excited about the future of PowerShell!  Probably the most fun part was hanging out with the other PowerShell MVPs for a week.</p><p>It seems to me that Microsoft still values their relationship with the MVPs as evidenced by the party they arranged for MVPs last Wednesday:</p><p><a href="http://rkeithhill.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/mvp-summit-20110302-dsc_0052.jpg"><img src="http://rkeithhill.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/mvp-summit-20110302-dsc_0052_thumb.jpg?w=644&amp;h=429" alt="MVP Summit 20110302-DSC_0052"/></p><p>Yep, that is SafeCo field in Seattle where the Mariners play.  They rented the whole stadium out for the evening!  There where a couple of bands &ldquo;“ one called<a href="http://www.thebeatniks.com/im/index.php">The Beatniks</a> played out near centerfield.  You could run the bases, bat some balls up into the stands. Yeah, it was an awesome party.</p><p><a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/rkeithhill.wordpress.com/209/"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/rkeithhill.wordpress.com/209/" alt=""/><img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rkeithhill.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18780344&amp;%23038;post=209&amp;%23038;subd=rkeithhill&amp;%23038;ref=&amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""/>
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