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That’s right, for just $400 you can guarantee yourself a seat at the PowerShell Summit North America 2013, to be held at Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, WA. Just 10 tickets will be made available at this low-low-low price, which is $150 off the normal registration rate. Why so low? Why …

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PowerShell Workflow: When Should You Use It?

Microsoft recently posted the online help for PowerShell v3 Workflow (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134242), and I wanted to take an opportunity to explore some of what the help says - and perhaps offer an outsider’s perspective. What is Workflow? Workflow is a set of …

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Want to Contribute?

We’re looking for a few good PowerShell contributors! You don’t need to be a PowerShell expert in order to make a valuable contribution to this community - there are a number of ways in which you can help.

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The New PowerShell Community

Welcome to the new community! This site represents an evolution of the old PowerShellCommunity.org (also accessible at PoshComm.org). We’ve moved the site off of the old DotNetNuke software, and are now using a combination of WordPress (for community-hosted blogs) and Vanilla 2 (for the forums …

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Join Jeff and I for a live PowerShell video chat cast!

Jeff and I are going to be hosting a LiveMeeting-based “hangout.” We’ll start with a discussion on PowerShell v3 Workflows just to get things moving, but we’re relying on you to bring your questions! We’ll have PowerShell v3 available for demos… hope you can …

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Comparing "Lunches:" v2 to v3

I’ve been getting a few questions like this in my inbox: I love "PowerShell in a Month of Lunches" and I'm wondering how much of the 3.0 book that is coming out soon will overlap with the one I have now? In other words, how much of the new book is catching us up to speed on what's …

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Measure PowerShell Performance

I’m often asked by folks if there’s a “better way” to do something in a script. Often times, they’re looking for a better procedural approach - following best practices like object-based output, for example. But sometimes, they’re looking for better performance …

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Release Dates for PowerShell 3 announced!

Microsoft has just announced, at its Worldwide Partner Conference, that Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 are on track to hit “Release to Manufacturing” the first week of August, with general product availability in October. That means PowerShell v3 will start becoming available in …