Ok first of all as you may have noticed, I haven’t posted for a while! Appologies! I will get my finger out of the next week or so and make up for it.
Moving on… Windows PowerShell. The new scripting technology from Microsoft. Let me just say, I’m not a programmer/scripter and never have been.
But I’ve recently started tinkering with this again. I say again, because I was first inspired to ‘play’ with this about a year ago when I was at a Technet briefing at MS and Thomas Lee (PCPro columnist) was showing it off. It was then know as Microsoft Scripting Host and was still in development. Thomas was really excited about WPS and that really came across, he spent quite a while showing what WPS could do, but more importantly how easy it was to use.
Thomas explained that MS had tried to design WPS to be an easy conversion whether you are used to Linux, or VB. The problem I had was I wasn’t used to either. I downloaded the BETA anyway and