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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Monad Evolves to Windows PowerShell

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 3:53:34 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00) ( )

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

New Name: The new interactive command line shell, formerly code named “MONAD” will be called Windows PowerShell
Availability: Windows PowerShell will be available as a web download in Q4 of 2006
Updated Beta: RC1 is now available for download:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?freetext=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
===============================
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx

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

Webcasts
========
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
=============
   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.]

Comments [5] | |

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 4:57:07 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

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

dominick

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 5:03:51 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

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

Lee

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 5:37:56 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

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...

dominick

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 6:23:13 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

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> 0x1234
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

Lee

Thursday, April 27, 2006 7:21:01 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

thanks!

dominick

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