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Date: 31 July  2008

Time: 7pm BST (GMT+1)

Marco Shaw, PowerShell MVP will be talking about /n software netcmdlets

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Not sure how I missed this one but CTP2 of Powershell version 2 is available for download.

Remoting is working (requiring a separate download of WinRM 2.0 (also a CTP).

From the official blog:

 

This release adds a plethora of new features. PowerShell remoting now allows a one-to-one interactive experience. Thought about partitioning and organizing PowerShell scripts? Use modules to create self-contained and reusable units. This release introduces transactions support in PowerShell engine and APIs along with an update to the Registry provider to support them. We introduced eventing support in Powershell engine for listening, forwarding and acting on management and system events. Support for multiple parameter sets in script cmdlets bring them to par with C# cmdlets. For the adventurous folks…. application developers can host PowerShell in IIS to support multiple remote PowerShell sessions in a single process. These are just a few of the new features we have packaged in this CTP2 release. Additionally this CTP2 includes some simple updates… like new parameters to several existing cmdlets. More feature descriptions and details are in the Release Notes and in the “about” topics included with the installation.

 

As with the previous release I’ve got to stress that this code isn’t even at beta stage yet and shouldn’t go ANYWHERE near a production system. Everything *should* be backwards compatible but V1 and V2 can’t coexist so this could really break things if you’re unlucky.

Download Powershell V2 CTP2

Download WinRM 2.0 CTP (needed for remoting)

Link: Official Blog

After the news of kernel-parity between Server 2008 and the first service pack for Vista it was no surprise to hear that they would both be available prior to next months launch. What is surprising however is that I’ve just received news that they’ve RTM’d within 20 minutes of each another.

From the WindowsServer blog:

As I write this, I’m in the room where it all happens; in building 26, better known as the ship room. Ten minutes ago Windows Server 2008 officially RTM’d. Also in here with me are my colleagues who have been working on Windows Vista SP1; also RTM’ing today. We’ve all been working towards this day for the past 3 years and over 5,000 people have contributed to this release.

A separate post on Vista SP1 RTM’ing is available at the Vista Team blog here.

Technorati Tags: Powershell, Windows Server, Windows Server 2008, Vista, Vista SP1

The one year anniversary meeting of GET-PSUGUK (UK Powershell User Group) will be held in Reading on Tuesday 15th January 2008.

The meeting will consist of a talk from Jeffrey Snover on version 2 and Richard on PowerShell thus far, looking forward to Windows Server 2008.

A LiveMeeting stream will be available - email powershell-uk [at] hotmail [dot] co [dot] uk for more information of the meeting location or LiveMeeting URL.

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Looks like a community technology preview of Powershell v2 will be released by the team next week.

There’s plenty of information on this over at their blog so I won’t regurgitate it unnecessarily, except to repeat my usual mantra regarding CTPs and betas, this one is doubly important as Powershell v2 doesn’t coexist with v1 it will replace any existing installation - do not install in production!

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Our November meeting is happening on the 20th at Clarkslegal LLP in Reading. I believe three presenters are scheduled - Ben Pierce and James O’Neill of Microsoft, and Adam Bell. We’re working on some swag for the meeting, more news when we have it.

The plan is to have another crack at broadcasting this via LiveMeeting, I think we worked out most of the bugs last time so this months session should go off without a hitch

I’ll post the topics when Richards confirms them, hopefully this week.Update: Adam has more info here.

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