PowerShell

"A set of tools aimed at Extract Transform and Load tasks, focused on getting the most common ETL tasks done without SSIS."

Automatically copies values (and references) from one object to another matching up on property name and type

This book helps you use PowerShell to get things done. It contains hundreds of solutions to specific, real-world problems. For systems management, you'll find plenty examples that show how to manage the filesystem, Windows Registry, event logs, processes, and more

PDFsharp is an Open Source .NET library used to create and modify PDF documents programmatically from .NET languages like C# or PowerShell. 

PC audit and inventory of software, licenses, security configuration, hardware, network settings... can be called on the commandline, xcopy deployed (single exe)

VS2010

A basic remote file-system explorer based on powershell providers and using pmodem for file transfers from remote systems

Where one draws the line and says "I give up" after making a certain amount of effort.

everything you see in MobileShell ... including settings dialog boxes and intellisense is exposed as web services. You can write your own apps and execute any PowerShell scripts in production environment over HTTP/HTTPS, preserve session state, even get meta information such as intellisense.

A list of PowerShell user groups around the world

Admin Command Prompt Here, Copy To, Move To, Encrypt/Decrypt, Take Ownership, etc.

Covers the basics well (variables, arrays, conditional logic, WMI etc). Good to get beginners up and running

Natural language input parsing for dates -- as a web-service (trivially callable from Ruby or PowerShell, for instance)

Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft's Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs), even on a system that's online. Disk2vhd uses Windows' Volume Snapshot capability, introduced in Windows XP, to create consistent point-in-time snapshots of the volumes you want to include in a conversion.

You can attach "any" attribute to your function parameters ... (gi function:foo).parameters.str.attributes.add((new-object System.ObsoleteAttribute) )

The Windows Azure Code Samples includes samples for running CGI apps, services, websites, and even PowerShell on Azure.

Scenario: Using PowerShell remoting, normal users can perform non-admin tasks on a machine remotely. There might be situations where an Administrator of the machine may want to terminate specific sessions created by specific users.

Short version: use the Get-WSManInstance cmdlet, duh!

Attached is a new and improved Start-Demo script. Here is a brief list of the differences: Fix bug for demo files that have a single line Intro text explains that this is a REAL demo Cleaned up HELP and added some usage notes Now emulates TYPING by introducing

Writing LINQ in PowerShell without breaking lazy enumeration...