David Aiken
Management, Building Manageable Applications, Design for Operations, WMI, DSI, MMC, VSMMD and of course Windows Powershell
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Date: 05/30/2008
Visual Studio Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool (TSMMD) Ships
Visual Studio Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool (TSMMD) v2.0 CTP is now live at...
Date: 02/21/2008
64bit DinnerNow, testing, Virtual Server and Hyper-V
A few people have asked questions about, or have had trouble installing the latest version of...
Date: 02/13/2008
Happy Birthday DinnerNow
It's just over 1 year since we released the first version of DinnerNow to the Web, and I'm proud to...
Date: 02/08/2008
Keith Pleas shows Design for Operations
Not long after my appearance on .NET Rocks - my good friend Keith appears on show 100 of .Net Rocks...
Date: 02/03/2008
VSTSMMD requirements
Not long ago, I posted about the new version of the Management Model Designer. One thing I did not...
Date: 01/29/2008
LINQ and WCF Syndication
I must admit, having survived the last 22 data access technologies, I'm really liking LINQ. The fact...
Date: 01/29/2008
How much do you love PowerShell?
Here is someone who possibly loves Windows PowerShell more than I do. Check out...
Date: 01/28/2008
Dinnernow at the LEAP Conference
Yesterday I presented twice a 3 hour session on DinnerNow.NET to Lead Enterprise Architects at the...
Date: 01/25/2008
.NET ROCKS
It was my great pleasure to chat with Carl and Richard earlier this week on www.dotnetrocks.com. The...
Date: 01/11/2008
New Year = Models, Code Discovery and Management Pack Generation
Some of you may have already seen the existing Management Model Designer from...
Date: 01/09/2008
New Channel 9 Tag: VS2008+Training+KIT
Now we are pushing out the videos from the Visual Studio training kit, we have created (thanks to...
Date: 11/20/2007
Cooking with powerShell
Oh My! I just received a copy of Lee Holmes Windows PowerShell Cookbook. The book is 429 pages of...
Date: 11/20/2007
VS2008 Virtual Lab available on MSDN
You can now take one of the Hands on Labs from the Visual Studio 2008 training kit on MSDN Virtual...
Date: 11/19/2007
Visual Studio 2008 training Kit now Available
Today we released the Visual Studio 2008 Training kit. You can download it right now from...
Date: 11/19/2007
Windows Powershell and Windows Mobile SDK?
Had the pleasure of demonstrating the Windows Mobile part of DinnerNow to a Windows Mobile PM....
Date: 08/29/2007
SML & SML-IF working Drafts Published to W3C
The first public working draft of SML and SML-IF has been published today on the W3C site. SML:...
Date: 08/08/2007
Test Drivin' and installin
I've been on vacation - which really means I haven't done any work for the last few weeks. Now I'm...
Date: 08/07/2007
Hosting Windows PowerShell Part 3 - The Revenge of the MMC
I've just posted the final screencast on hosting Windows PowerShell to Channel 9. In the final part,...
Date: 07/03/2007
More Hosting PowerShell on Channel9
I've just posted the 2nd of 3 screeencasts to channel 9 on hosting Windows PowerShell. This time I...
Date: 06/26/2007
Hosting Windows PowerShell Sample Code
Having posted the first of three screencasts to channel 9 on Hosting Windows PowerShell, I thought i...
Date: 06/22/2007
Building Administration User Interfaces
Do you build GUI's for your application administrators? Do you provide a consistent familiar...
Date: 06/21/2007
Microsoft Virtualization Job, Viridian Evangelist
Volker, who is part of our larger team, has a new role available for a Technical Evangelist for...
Date: 06/21/2007
Windows PowerShell and Microsoft Management Console 3.0 Quick Start Labs
I'm pleased to announce the Hands On Labs that were used in the Windows PowerShell and MMC Confernce...
Date: 06/20/2007
No Traffic Cops Here?
Keith Pleas and I were discussing strategies for modeling SLA's in Management Models. Our goal was...
Date: 06/14/2007
Secret Powershell Training Video found
What can I say. our secret method of getting customers to adopt Powershell is out... Thanks to the...
Date: 06/11/2007
Hanselman, Snover, Corillian, PowerShell, Channel 9
Jeffrey and Scott talk again about how Corillian has been infested by PowerShell, and how they use...
Date: 06/09/2007
Getting lost on the way to TechEd
So I was on my way to the convention center today, and turned off at the wrong exit. Not having any...
Date: 06/09/2007
Top 5 PowerShell Questions at TechEd
Ben Pearce, the guy on the PowerShell booth at TechEd this week, has blogged the answers to the top...
Date: 06/08/2007
/n software. Netcmdlets and a PowerShell Sticker
Thanks to our friends at N Software - I now have a nice shiney PowerShell sticker on my laptop. N...
Date: 06/06/2007
Dinnernow Video on Channel 9
Hot off the tracks of our DinnerNow 1.3 release to codeplex and out Orcas release. Comes a Channel 9...
Date: 06/06/2007
Cooking at TechEd Orlando
It's great fun being an evangelist. 3 years ago I would have attended a TechEd talk about ".net end...
Date: 06/03/2007
Windows Server "Longhorn" Beta 3 - Playing with ServerManagerCmd.exe
So I've installed beta 3 of Windows Server "Longhorn" from DVD. It seemed to go pretty quickly, in...
Date: 05/02/2007
Windows PowerShell and MMC Quick Start Labs Pt2
Here is the 2nd part of the PPTs THIS POSTING IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITH NO WARRANTIES, AND CONFERS NO...
Date: 04/24/2007
Windows PowerShell and MMC Quick Start Labs
I've just completed presenting a 2 day workshop on building the next generation GUI and command line...
Date: 04/24/2007
Finding airports with PowerShell and Local.Live
So a few weeks back i came across this puzzle in an internal discussion list. There is a comma...
Date: 04/11/2007
Turning your Death Model into a Health Model
Thanks to Charles, we just posted to Channel 9 an interview we did a few weeks back with Keith...
Date: 04/04/2007
Visual Studio Management Model Designer on Channel 9
Today I posted the 2nd of 2 short screencasts on using the Visual Studio Management Model Designer...
Date: 04/03/2007
Announcing the Visual Studio Management Model Designer VSMMD
Today we got one step closer to building manageable applications. On codeplex, right now, is the...
Date: 03/30/2007
Windows PowerShell in the Longhorn Server box
I know, i know. It was announced 2 days ago at MMS Windows PowerShell will be in the box on Longhorn...
Date: 03/30/2007
Windows Workflow met Windows PowerShell on the DFO Show
I've just posted a few minutes back a new DFO Show episode that we put together with Full Armor's...
Date: 03/27/2007
Technology Leaders Submit Modeling Specification to the World Wide Web Consortium
So SML has now been submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). SML, or Service Modeling...
Date: 03/27/2007
DSI at MMS
It's Microsoft's Management Summit this week in San Diego, CA. A big theme of the week is...
Date: 03/26/2007
Design for Operations Workshop
Dear Valued Microsoft Customer, You are invited to attend the Design For Operations for...
Date: 03/05/2007
Compress Files with Windows PowerShell then package a Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget
Somedays I feel like the Windows PowerShell Evangelist. Anyway, Johnny Halife and I were working on...
Date: 02/12/2007
Enable/Disable Network Connection
Whilst waiting for lunch, i stumbled across this post on Channel9,...
Date: 02/09/2007
Creating a Windows PowerShell CmdLet using the Visual Studio Windows PowerShell Templates
1st grab the Visual Studio Templates from https://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=256835....
Date: 02/07/2007
Just Realized
I just realised i wrote a whole post and didn't mention Windows PowerShell - the pills must be...
Date: 02/02/2007