Monad Evolves to Windows PowerShell

Tuesday, 25 April 2006

Bob Muglia’s Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) keynote this morning unveiled a series of exciting announcements surrounding Monad – now known as Windows PowerShell:



This marks a significant milestone in the Windows PowerShell product lifecycle, and brings us an important step closer to getting a finished product in your hands.


The MMS announcement (and updated beta) will also bring many more users into our community.  If you’re one of them, welcome!  Here are some helpful “getting started” resources (thanks to Bob Wells for collecting these!)



Microsoft TechNet Script Center
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   http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx


   Scripting with the Microsoft Shell
   http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx


Webcasts
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   Next Generation Command Line Scripting with Monad (Part 1 of 2)
   http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?eventID=1032277850&Culture=en-US


   Next Generation Command Line Scripting with Monad (Part 2 of 2)
   http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?eventID=1032277852&Culture=en-US


Miscellaneous
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   Articles:
      “Monad: The Future of Windows Scripting”, by Thomas Lee
      TechNet Magazine, November o December 2005, Scripting Column
      http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2005/11/Scripting/default.aspx


      “A guided tour of the Microsoft Command Shell”, by Ryan Paul
      http://arstechnica.com/guides/other/msh.ars


   Blogs:
      PowerShell Team Blog
      http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell/


      Arul Kumaravel’s Blog
      http://blogs.msdn.com/ArulK


      Precision Computing: Software Design and Development (Lee Holmes’ blog)
      http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/default.aspx


     
   Books:
      Monad
      Introducing the MSH Command Shell and Language
      by Andy Oakley
      First Edition December 2005
      ISBN: 0-596-10009-4
      206 pages, $34.95 US, $48.95 CA, £24.95 UK
      http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/msh/


   Newsgroups:
      Microsoft Windows Server Scripting
      nntp://microsoft.public.windows.server.scripting


   Sample Scripts:
      The Monad Script Centre
      http://www.reskit.net/monad/samplescripts.htm


   Videos:
      Channel 9 Forums >> The Videos >> Jeffrey Snover >> Monad explained
      http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=25506


      Channel 9 Forums >> The Videos >> Jeffrey Snover >> Monad demonstrated
      http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=25915


      Channel 9 Forums >> The Videos >> Jeffrey Snover >> More talking about Monad
      http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=127819


   Wikis:
      Wikipedia
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSH_(shell)


      Channel 9 MSH Wiki
      http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.MSHWiki


   Additional Resource Listings (like this list, only different):
      Monad-MSH
      http://www.reskit.net/monad


 

[Edit: Monad has now been renamed to Windows PowerShell. This script or discussion may require slight adjustments before it applies directly to newer builds.]

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5 Responses to “Monad Evolves to Windows PowerShell”

  1. dominick writes:
    No. 1 — April 25th, 2006 at 4:57 pm

    Hi Lee,

    i love monad! But i have one issue -

    i am used to have several shell (cmd.exe) windows open, running under different security contexts, e.g. i run as a normal user, but i have a admin cmd.exe open where i drag and drop programs from the desktop or startmenu (e.g. .lnk) files to start them using elevated privileges.

    This works fine with cmd.exe, but not with monad…this is a major show-stopper for me…

    is there a workaround for that?

    thanks!
    dominick, DevelopMentor

  2. Lee writes:
    No. 2 — April 25th, 2006 at 5:03 pm

    I don’t run as Administrator either, Dominick, and I do this every day — what doesn’t work for you?

  3. dominick writes:
    No. 3 — April 25th, 2006 at 5:37 pm

    hi,

    lets say i drag and drop a VS2005 from my start menu to a monad window, i get this:

    MSH C:\etc
    > "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Microsoft Visual Stud
    io 2005\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.lnk"

    and when i hit enter – the string is just echoed to the console…

  4. Lee writes:
    No. 4 — April 25th, 2006 at 6:23 pm

    Ahh, this is because strings are a direct data type in Monad.

    For example:

    PS C:\temp> 1234
    1234
    PS C:\temp> 5 * 5
    25
    PS C:\temp> 0×1234
    4660
    PS C:\temp> "Hello World"
    Hello World

    and your issue,
    PS C:\temp> "c:\temp\myProgram.exe"
    "c:\temp\myProgram.exe"

    You want to invoke that string, though, in which case you would use the "&" syntax:

    & "c:\temp\myProgram.exe"

    Lee

  5. dominick writes:
    No. 5 — April 27th, 2006 at 7:21 am

    thanks!

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