Graphical PowerShell Apps See Jeff's Scripting Blog Plus for more information - SAPIEN has released "PrimalForms," which is a graphical UI designer that emits PowerShell script code. So you visually design your GUI, and then PrimalForms translates that into the PowerShell code necessary to actually create the GUI. PrimalForms doesn't need to be

Weekly Shell: Script vs. Shell A ways back Jeff Hicks blogged about some of the top issues he sees admins having when adopting Windows PowerShell. His #2 pick was "VBScript thinking" in PowerShell, and he's right - if you approach the shell as you would approach VBScript, you're working too hard and not leveraging what

The Next Big Thing Jeff Hicks has noted that the current "big thing" is virtualization; he wanted to start a conversation on the next big thing. He opines that it'll be really, really fast hardware, and that the nature of desktop and server management will change as (I'm interpreting his post) as the OS

Book Available: Managing AD with PowerShell Jeff Hicks' opus on managing AD by using Windows PowerShell is finally available. It's probably on Amazon, too, if you do a quick search. The book focuses both on "native" management via LDAP, and on management by using the Quest AD cmdlets, which I myself strongly prefer. Jeff spent forever

PowerShell Misconceptions SAPIEN's Jeff Hicks blogs about what he feels are the top 5 misconceptions related to Windows PowerShell - things admins don't know or just plain get wrong when they get started. Worth a read: These are important. If you find yourself doing one or more of them, get it fixed.