Monad Evolves to Windows PowerShell

Tue, Apr 25, 2006 2-minute read

Bob Muglia’s Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) keynote this morning unveiled a series of exciting announcements surrounding Monad – now known as Windows PowerShell:

This marks a significant milestone in the Windows PowerShell product lifecycle, and brings us an important step closer to getting a finished product in your hands.

The MMS announcement (and updated beta) will also bring many more users into our community.  If you’re one of them, welcome!  Here are some helpful “getting started” resources (thanks to Bob Wells for collecting these!)

Microsoft TechNet Script Center

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx

Scripting with the Microsoft Shell http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx

Webcasts

Next Generation Command Line Scripting with Monad (Part 1 of 2) http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?eventID=1032277850&Culture=en-US

Next Generation Command Line Scripting with Monad (Part 2 of 2) http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?eventID=1032277852&Culture=en-US

Miscellaneous

Articles:

      “Monad: The Future of Windows Scripting”, by Thomas Lee
      TechNet Magazine, November o December 2005, Scripting Column http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2005/11/Scripting/default.aspx

“A guided tour of the Microsoft Command Shell”, by Ryan Paul http://arstechnica.com/guides/other/msh.ars

Blogs:

      PowerShell Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell/

      Arul Kumaravel’s Blog
      http://blogs.msdn.com/ArulK

Precision Computing: Software Design and Development (Lee Holmes' blog) http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/default.aspx

Books:

      Monad
      Introducing the MSH Command Shell and Language
      by Andy Oakley
      First Edition December 2005
      ISBN: 0-596-10009-4
      206 pages, $34.95 US, $48.95 CA, £24.95 UK http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/msh/

Newsgroups:

      Microsoft Windows Server Scripting nntp://microsoft.public.windows.server.scripting

Sample Scripts:

      The Monad Script Centre http://www.reskit.net/monad/samplescripts.htm

Videos:

      Channel 9 Forums » The Videos » Jeffrey Snover » Monad explained http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=25506

Channel 9 Forums » The Videos » Jeffrey Snover » Monad demonstrated http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=25915

Channel 9 Forums » The Videos » Jeffrey Snover » More talking about Monad http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=127819

Wikis:

      Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSH_(shell

Channel 9 MSH Wiki http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.MSHWiki

Additional Resource Listings (like this list, only different):

      Monad-MSH http://www.reskit.net/monad

[Edit: Monad has now been renamed to Windows PowerShell. This script or discussion may require slight adjustments before it applies directly to newer builds.]