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.]