[olug] Vista is AMAZING!!!!

[Adam Lassek]

Powershell is awesome. It's basically the equivalent of a proper Unix shell
(and even accepts a lot of Unix syntax) but also lets you access
system-level stuff in windows. For instance, you can easily access WMI from
the shell, and traverse your registry like a filesystem. Some of the
security features regarding scripting is kind of a pain, so be prepared to
fiddle with it. A pity Microsoft decided not to ship it with Vista.

On 7/16/07, Dave Hull <dphull at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> There's something MS is calling "Powershell" that you can download for
> Vista (and XP SP2) and supposedly it's very powerful. I've got it, but
> haven't dug into it. I'm told by those Windows folks far more
> knowledgeable than me that with Powershell an admin can pretty much
> script everything that can be done in the GUI. It's about fricking
> time.
>
> I tried (very little) to find a DHCP server that I could run on this
> system. It's multi-homed and I wanted to string a switch off of one of
> it's NICs and hang a test bench off of the switch. This is something
> I've been doing with a Linux box with good success for years. Forget
> it. Microsoft doesn't have a DHCP server that you can run on Vista.
> You have to have 2008 server beta or 2003 server. 2008 Server Beta
> kept puking on this system.
>
> So I downloaded RHEL Linux 5 and installed it one the box. Of course
> the NVidia card wasn't properly recognized. Nothing new. I downloaded
> the driver from NVidia and got it working. The sound card wouldn't
> work and it turns out Creative isn't producing drivers for Linux until
> late in the year, apparently they spent all their time developing a
> Vista driver.
>
> At the end of the day, I couldn't live without sound so Vista went
> back on the box... for now.
>
> Most people I talk to and work with in IT are putting off the
> conversion to Vista for as long as possible and I think that's going
> to hurt Microsoft (very little). Unfortunately, I think many software
> vendors believe their survival is tightly intertwined with Microsoft.
> They will produce Vista versions that won't run on XP and people will
> be forced to upgrade. We are tentatively planning to go to Vista next
> summer.
>
> I'm told SP1 will be out in November. Since changing jobs in October,
> I've learned more about Windows than I ever wanted to know (I still
> have lots to learn), but after years of working as a Linux admin, I
> figured I'd better get some exposure to the other side.
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