Microsoft has launched a new scripting portal “Community-Submitted Scripts Center”, it’s a place for IT professionals to share information about system administration scripting.
Read more at source.
SAPIEN Technologies has lanuched www.SearchScripting.com, a search engine dedicated to find scripts on the Internet. It’s actually pretty cool, try doing a search for IIS and see all the scripting resources and examples for IIS.
Quote from SAPIENs blog:
We’ve been stealthily working on a new project, which is now online in beta form at www.SearchScripting.com. It’s essentially a search engine focused entirely on scripting topics; right now, we’ve loaded it with hand-selected sites related to Windows administrative scripting. We’ve built it to support other scripting technologies, but want to get some feedback on folks who are using it so we can fine-tune stuff before we go wild with the content we’re crawling. Our theory with this site is that mainstream sites (Google, MSN, and what-have-you) make it tough to get really specific search results for scripting, because you get a lot of “noise” results. We’ve had our engine crawl only hand-selected sites that contain scripts, tutorials, reference materials, and so forth, and implemented a query language that allows you to be VERY specific about what you’re looking for. The system then provides ranked results, tells you what site each result came from, what type of site that is (a blog, reference, etc), and even (like Google) lets you view cached pages in case the original isn’t available.
Do you own searches at www.SearchScripting.com
Don Jones has published a free eBook about Microsoft PowerShell. So if you want to get started with MS PowerShell this might been a good book to start with.
Forget batch files and set your VBScripts aside: There’s a new scripting and automation kid on the block and its name is Microsoft® PowerShell™. Designed from the ground up to be powerful, flexible, consistent, and complete, PowerShell™ promises easier and more efficient Windows and Windows Server System administration. In this short Realtimepublishers eBooklet, An Introduction to Microsoft® PowerShell™, scripting guru Don Jones introduces you to PowerShell™, tells you a bit about how it works, and gives you a sneak peak of PowerShell™ in action. Now’s the chance to start learning what some are calling “the most significant technology for Windows administrators since the invention of remote control.”
Download it here.
For more Microsoft PowerShell information, see Microsoft’s websites:
Matt Michie has posted an article on using PowerShell securely remote through SSH using Cygwin.
One of the first things that an admin wants to do with PowerShell is run remotely. To do this securely, you must encrypt your data. SSH has been the proven way to do this. So the question becomes, how do I connect SSH and PowerShell together?
Read the full article at source.
Chris Crowe has published a great script for locating unused logfile directories.
When running IIS on a server edition you can create multiple web sites and over time you may add and remove sites. When you do this the Log Files are still retained
The following script can be used to find unused log file directories that are no longer associated with any IIS Web Sites – it does not delete them just displays them.
Read more at source.
I’ve previously posted about Moned/Microsoft Shell…, it now has a new name, which is Windows PowerShell. It will be available as web download in Q4 later this year. Read more about it on the new PowerShell blog.
Windows PowerShell is a new task-based command line shell and intuitive scripting language for system administration that provides comprehensive control and automation for Windows administrators.
It’s available as download in RC1 version here:
- Windows PowerShell RC1 (for .NET Framework 2.0 RTM) x86
- Windows PowerShell RC1 (for .NET Framework 2.0 RTM) x64
Documentation Pack is available here.
Microsoft has finally released Windows Shell, formerly known as MONAD in the final RTM version.
Windows “Monad” Shell is a new interactive command-line and task-based scripting technology in Windows that enables administrators to more efficiently and securely automate and control system management tasks on both desktops and servers.
Download it here.
Need some Shell scripts, see TechNet Script Center.
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