I’ve written this up on the new website for our Rochester PowerShell group and on the old blog, and on UGSS Facebook and Twitter … and now that there’s only two days left, it’s time to mention it again, on my blog

This Wednesday, January 20, 2010 – 6:00pm

It’s a new year, and a new opportunity to get started with PowerShell. With the new year, we’re going to put a renewed focus on trying to make our meetings valuable to everyone. With that in mind, the first Rochester meeting of the upstate New York PowerShell users group in 2010 will feature two separate presentations:

Getting Started: The PowerShell Pipeline (100 Level)

• Different types of commands in PowerShell
• Variable assignment and Pipeline arguments
• Understanding the Pipe
• Why PowerShell’s pipeline is different

• Exploiting pipelines for fun and profit

Creating PowerShell script Modules (300 Level)

• Turning your script or function into a module
• What makes a function an “advanced function”
• Providing in-line help for functions
• Controlling what functions and variables your module exports

• Why you should use Module Metadata files

Everyone is welcome, from beginners to pros! Bring a friend and introduce them to PowerShell. As always, our meeting will be at New Horizons’ in Henrietta, 50 Methodist Hill Drive, Suite 50.

In order to keep things on time, we’ll be starting our presentations at 6:30 exactly, after a short pizza, wings, and networking time starting at 6pm. We only ask that if you can come early for the food you let us know ahead of time and come ready to pitch in a few dollars to help cover the cost.

PS: There will be swag. We have several books, an Arc Mouse, and copies of Windows 7 and Office 2007 to give away…

The meeting starts with pizza at 6pm and my presentation will start around 6:30pm. They ask for RSVPs (particularly if you want Pizza) and if they don’t get a sponsor to cover the Pizza, you may be asked to pitch in $4 …

VDUNY meets at the offices of Microsoft, at 100 Corporate Woods in Brighton (across from MCC, on the north side of Crittenden Rd ... near the intersection of I390 and highway 15A (East Henrietta Road). If you’re coming from the East, give yourself some extra time because East Henrietta Road is under major construction (otherwise, come up/down West Henrietta road, and turn on Crittenden at the 7-11). Here is a map to the VDUNY meeting

Hope you can make it! There will be swag, and this great presentation:

Windows PowerShell for Developers

PowerShell From 10,000 feet

• Think “DOS.Net”
• The Object Pipeline
• Cmdlets: a new command-line standard
• Windows (Administration) Automation

• Active Directory, Exchange, SQL Server, IIS...

Developers, Developers, Developers

• Not just an admin tool!
• Some tools you can use
  • PoshCode.org, PSCX
• PowerShell Plus, PowerGUI, PoshConsole, Graphical PowerShell 2.0
• How do developers use it?
• RAD Prototyping (interpret for me)
• Testing (unit and otherwise)
• Scripting (it’s .Net, silly)
• Digging in (Command Line Investigators)
• Deep Dive on PowerShell
• Functions (in 2.0)
• Cmdlets (so easy, a caveman…)
• Providers (Containers, Items, and Properties, oh my)

• Hosting (did someone say scripting?)

Hopefully we can get through all of that. I could probably turn that same overview into a 2-day course, so we’ll be flying through some of it, if you see any gaps, or have questions about specific things … feel free to speak up in the comments below so I can make sure to cover it all…

PDC 2008 – ES24 PowerShell: Creating Manageable Web Services
Presenter: Jeffrey Snover

Update: TechEd Barcelona Session

TechEd Barcelona 2008 – MGT322 PowerShell V2 – the next stage in the IT revolution
Presenter: Jeffrey Snover
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TechEd Barcelona 2008 – MGT318 Managing Large Infrastructures with PowerShell v2
Presenter: Jeffrey Snover
(streaming only)

TechEd Barcelona 2008 – PowerShell Tech Talk: Group forum
PowerShell community all-stars
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