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New Technical Product Manager at Provance Technologies

Today is my first day working in my new role as Technical Product Manager at Provance Technologies. A little while back Provance approached me to talk about this position, and it seemed like a very natural fit. Rarely have I felt such a positive vibe from a company through the interview process, so I was really happy to accept the position of Technical Product Manager with them and I have been looking forward to starting work with them.

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Hands-on Workshop at the 2013 PowerShell Summit

In my last post I hinted about more news coming soon for the 2013 PowerShell Summit. In addition to the fantastic list of sessions that attendees will be able to attend, we also have a special event lined up for the last day of the event. On Wednesday, April 24th, for the entire afternoon attendees will be able to attend a half-day Windows PowerShell scenario walkthrough, presented by the PowerShell Team.

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PowerShell Summit Community Sessions List [Updated]

[Update: April 19, 2013] Important Note: Due to some last minute schedule changes for some of our speakers, several of the sessions below were replaced with other sessions.  To see the final list of sessions offered at the 2013 PowerShell Summit, please visit this page: https://powershell.org/2013/04/19/powershell-summit-2013-conference-schedule/{.vt-p} After almost 100 people voted for the sessions they would like to see the most at the 2013 PowerShell Summit{.vt-p}, the results are in!

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Voting for the 2013 PowerShell Summit sessions is now open!

Voting is now open! As of this morning you can vote for the sessions that you want to see at the 2013 PowerShell Summit! We have 97 session proposals (see below), plus additional content from the PowerShell Team. Your vote is really important, so please take some time to indicate what you would like to see from a PowerShell-specific conference with deep technical depth. Here"™s what you need to do:

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PowerShell Summit North America 2013 Call for Content

In case you haven"™t heard already, there is a great opportunity to learn a lot more about PowerShell coming up next year. It"™s the PowerShell Summit North America 2013 conference, and it is held on Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA from April 22 to 24, 2013. This conference is run by the PowerShell.org community, and it will present a ton of deep technical content on anything to do with PowerShell. What content will be covered, you ask?

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Kirk Munro, Product Manager, Architect, and PowerShell MVP for hire

While I have loved working at Devfarm Software for the past 11 months, circumstances have unfortunately forced us to part ways and as a result I am a free agent now and looking for a new place to hang my hat. Working with Ben Vierck and Brian Butler at Devfarm has been a fantastic experience, and if it wasn"™t for the small yet annoying detail that there isn"™t enough money in the company to continue to pay my salary and keep the business going full steam ahead, I"™d still be working with them today.

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This April is "Learn More About PowerShell" Month with the 2012 Scripting Games, the 2012 Microsoft Management Summit, and the 2012 North American PowerShell Deep Dive!

It"™s hard to believe that April is almost here already. Last week we had record high temperatures reaching 31°C (that"™s 87.8°F for those of you living south of the border), and the night before last it was -16°C (or 3.2°F). What wonderful consistency. Maybe that"™s why I like PowerShell so much, because it provides great consistency that just isn"™t apparent in so many other places in life (that"™s a swell tagline: “Use PowerShell, because it"™s more consistent than the weather” ).

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Windows 8"¦reimagined?

The series of releases of client versions of Microsoft Windows seems to suffer all too much the same fate as Star Trek movies have in the past. This concept has already been discussed before, and there are even blog posts about it, such as Ewan Spence"™s comparison of Windows releases between versions 3.0 and Windows 7 to the Star Trek movies from “The Motion Picture” to “First Contact”. Windows 7 did indeed end up being a very impressive version of Windows, much like First Contact was a very impressive movie in the Star Trek franchise, and now we"™re watching with anticipation since Windows 8 Consumer Preview is now available and Microsoft is marching steadfast towards its release.

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PowerSE 2.7 KB: PowerShell profile does not load on startup

Note: This blog post refers to an issue identified in PowerSE 2.7.0. It has been corrected in PowerSE 2.7.1, which is now available. With the release we published yesterday, both PowerSE and PowerWF received a new feature: product-specific profiles. This feature allows you to have profile scripts that you only want run in PowerSE or PowerWF run there so that you don"™t have to use if statements to check the host name in your profile scripts.

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PowerWF and PowerSE 2.7 are now available

This morning PowerWF and PowerSE 2.7 were released to the web and they can now be downloaded from http://www.powerwf.com. These releases offer a lot of new value to PowerWF and PowerSE users, as follows: PowerWF 2.7 Highlights New Start Page with New Workflows The start page in PowerWF has been completely redesigned to provide immediate value out of the box for PowerWF customers. The new design highlights the Workflow Library that is included with PowerWF, allowing customers to play workflows in the library without opening a workflow or script document.

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