"Marco Shaw [MVP]" <marco.shaw@_NO_SPAM_gmail.com> wrote in message
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> RickB wrote: Quote:
>> I'm having an argument about the level of committment that Microsoft
>> has expressed towards PowerShell.
>>
>> One of the things that would help greatly is a list of products where
>> PowerShell has (or is planned to have) a significant footprint.
>>
>> It would be very nice if someone knew where I could find a link to a
>> statement I thought I remember hearing at a major MicroSoft conference
>> that SQL Server will be supporting PowerShell -- Am I wrong here???
>
> -SCVMM 2007 & 2008
>
> This would make a good list for poshcomm.org...
>
> PowerShell is now part of Microsoft's Common Engineering Criteria as of
> Microsoft's 2009 fiscal year (starting July 2008).
>
> All server products should have PowerShell support. Now that support can
> vary from the level of integration with Exchange to having PowerShell
> support provided from some kind of existing API/interface/.NET assembly. Interesting. At my last MVP Summit (sniff...) I attended a presentation on
Exchange 2007's powershell-based management interface. It seemed so
blatantly obviously a great approach to making exchange more manageable that
I asked if this was going to become a standard, MS-wide. The answer at the
time was that such decisions are generally left up to the development team.
From what you say above, it appears that things have moved along a bit
farther.
/Al