PowerShell Highlights of 2010

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

• Scripting games,
  
• PowerGUI contest,

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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