While reading the blog of Andy Meers, I came accross a good site with lots of information about Active Directory group policy. Check out http://www.gpoguy.com for more info.

Windows PowerShell is a great new object-oriented shell with lots of new features. Many Microsoft products will leverage the functions of the new shell, like Exchange Server 2007 and Virtual Machine Manager. They do that by creating cmdlets that do the configuration and then build a UI that calls these cmdlets under the hood. The great thing is that the UI shows the cmdlet and the parameters of the cmdlets so you can reuse them in your own scripts.

Because learning a new shell like PowerShell can be daunting, some help is needed in the form of books and tools. Sapien Technologies have released a book, Microsoft PowerShell: TFM, to help climb the steep learning curve. They also have support for PowerShell in PrimalScript 4.1, a visual development environment for various scripting languages.

Take a look at www.primalscript.com for more info.

I am going to IT Forum this week to catch up on Microsoft's new and announced products such as Exchange 2007, Office 2007, WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007, Longhorn and last but not least, Windows Virtualization.

If time permits, I will blog about interesting stuff that is going on there.