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In my last post I hinted about more news coming soon for the 2013 PowerShell Summit.  In addition to the fantastic list of sessions that attendees will be able to attend, we also have a special event lined up for the last day of the event.  On Wednesday, April 24th, for the entire afternoon attendees [...]

After almost 100 people voted for the sessions they would like to see the most at the 2013 PowerShell Summit, the results are in!  These votes are for the sessions chosen by the community, and additional sessions from the PowerShell Team will be announced at a later date (as soon as I have them). Below [...]

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 to [...]

It’s hard to believe that April is almost here already.  Last week we had record high temperatures reaching 31°C (that’s 87.8°F for those of you living south of the border), and the night before last it was -16°C (or 3.2°F).  What wonderful consistency.  Maybe that’s why I like PowerShell so much, because it provides great [...]

With the release we published yesterday, both PowerSE and PowerWF received a new feature: product-specific profiles.  This feature allows you to have profile scripts that you only want run in PowerSE or PowerWF run there so that you don’t have to use if statements to check the host name in your profile scripts.  With this [...]

This morning PowerWF and PowerSE 2.7 were released to the web and they can now be downloaded from http://www.powerwf.com.  These releases offer a lot of new value to PowerWF and PowerSE users, as follows: PowerWF 2.7 Highlights New Start Page with New Workflows The start page in PowerWF has been completely redesigned to provide immediate [...]

Recently there was a discussion between community experts and a product team about a module they are working on.  The topic being discussed was cmdlet aliases: whether or not they should provide aliases for their cmdlets out of the box and if so, how they should be provided.  Aliases are great for ad-hoc PowerShell work, [...]

Every year around Christmas I anxiously await the New Year to see if I receive the Microsoft MVP award again that year.  Well that email came on January 1, 2012, and I’m quite thrilled about this one because it’s a milestone this time (year 5 as a PowerShell MVP).  Thanks to the community for being [...]

A little over a week ago we released PowerSE 2.5.3 to the web.  You can download the latest release here.  This release includes many great improvements to the PowerSE product, many of which were requested by you, so thanks for your feedback and please keep it coming! No time limit for freeware With this release, [...]

I always enjoy this time of year.  There is something about the transition that happens over Labour Day weekend that always gets me excited.  Maybe it’s a lingering feeling of anticipation over the new year at school or university from years gone by, a feeling that I can still appreciate these days as I watch [...]