Author Ilse van Criekinge is writing Exchange Management Shell: TFM, and two unedited preview chapters are now available on the SAPIEN Press Web site.

I was recently interviewed for Episode 16 of the PowerScripting Podcast. The hosts were kind enough to let me discuss several PowerShell-related topics in some detail, including my role with PowerShellCommunity.org, how to get started with PowerShell if you're a complete newbie, where this PowerShell thing is going anyway, and more. Give it a listen! Fair warning - it's pretty lengthy as podcasts go, but I think you'll agree that it's worth it. Play it during the morning commute!

The introduction of IIS 7 with Windows 2008 brings a managed code (.NET) API for IIS. This means we can administer it through PowerShell. Add the remoting features of V2 and you have a very powerful administration tool. This post shows some examples of remotely administering IIS 7 with PowerShell

PowerShell is the perfect tool for wrapping complex command-line tools. By simplifying the API and using the built in Tab expansion capability, PowerShell makes even the most cumbersome commands usable without giving up any of their power. In this example we'll look at how I converted a batch file for SubSonic to a PowerShell script.