What were your key events of last year? Here’s my list:
PowerGUI Highlights
- Reached 1,000,000 downloads (frankly, I still cannot fully comprehend that),
- Released MobileShell - PowerShell server which gives you PowerShell command line (and scripts) to manage your IT in any computer browser or even mobile device: iPad, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone…
- Script Editor is now extensible and has a rich set of add-ons adding almost any feature you could think of.
PowerShell for developers
- PowerGUIVSX now lets you edit and debug PowerShell scripts right in Visual Studio!
PowerShell Projects
- PowerShell Community Extensions v2
- PowerShell in Bing Visual Search,
- PowerTab got back from the dead and now supports PowerShell 2.0,
- Karl Prosser’s Portable PowerShell.
PowerShell Training
- 5-day MOC Course 10325A: Automating Administration with Windows PowerShell 2.0
- New Microsoft Official Curriculum for PowerShell v2
- New PowerShell, AD and PowerGui training
Contests
Usergroups
- PowerShell Power Users group on LinkedIn has over 1,300 members,
- PowerShellGroup.org launched and is a great resource to find a local usergroup – quite a few of them actually launched in 2010!
New cmdlets
A lot of companies and Microsoft product teams released cmdlets, modules, PowerPacks, etc.:
- Intel has released a vPro PowerShell Module,
- NetApp released a set of cmdlets to manage your storage and cloud resources,
- PKI & certificate management cmdlets,
- Windows Azure Cmdlets,
- SharePoint 2010,
- Lync 2010,
- JAMS enterprise scheduling,
- NetPoint IT inventory management.
Books
- PowerShell for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrators
- PowerShell in Practice
- Windows PowerShell Cookbook, Second Edition,
- PowerShell v.2 TFM
Oh, and NASA started to use PowerShell to control their space craft. Almost. OK, not really… This was an April 1 joke. But wouldn’t it be cool if they did?
I know that the list seems a bit biased including a lot of PowerShell projects in which I was involved one way or another. This is not by intent and is a simple consequence of how memory works. 
This has been an amazing PowerShell year! Please add your PowerShell events of the year in the comments below!
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a great New Year to all of you!
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Dell released the PowerShell cmdlets to manage EqualLogic storage, there is a PowerShell group on Facebook too, I released my remoting ebook ;-p, and I became a PowerShell MVP
Ravi,
Thanks! Yes, this was a great year for the PowerShell MVP community I was just worried that if I start naming new PowerShell MVPs of 2010 I will miss a few – which would be bad. Let me try though:
NEW POWERSHELL MVPs of 2010:
Aleksandar Nikolic
Jonathan Medd
Sean Kearney
Martin Zugec
Ravikanth Chaganti
Krishna R
Niklas Goude
Efran Cobisi
I hope I did not miss anyone!
Dmitry
I thought my scripted powershell provider stuff was pretty cool, cough.
http://psprovider.codeplex.com
Oisin,
PowerShell Script Provider is indeed supercool and elegant! It’s a shame indeed that I missed it when compiling the list. Thanks for fixing this and posting the link!
Dmitry