Get-PowerShell Andy Schneider's Blog about Windows PowerShell

For the last year or so I have been trying to get people I work with excited about Powershell. Some people love it right away, but for others, it is a bit overwhelming. That being said, I had an interesting experience the other day. In order to set the context of this, I must confess something.  I have not been a big fan of PowerGui. My attitude was always something like this: "PowerShell is a SHELL, not a GUI, and the last thing in the world that I need is yet another GUI application."

Don't get me wrong here. It's not that I thought PowerGui is a bad application, its just that I personally didn't see the value in it for me and what I was doing with Powershell on a daily basis.

In spite of my point of view, I let my team know that PowerGui had RTM'd and forwarded a link to my co-workers.

Within about an hour I got an email from one of our Operations guys that included the following:

After reading that my attitude about PowerGui started to change :) Another 4 or 5 hours go by and I get another email from the same person:

I would like end my confession with an apology to Dimitry and the rest of the PowerGui crew.  I just wish I had started telling people about it earlier. You guys have created an awesome tool and it has absolutely helped me in getting more people in my organization using Powershell. Thank you very much for your hard work and all that you give to the Powershell Community.

By the way, I have been a die hard fan of the Quest AD Cmdlets from the very beginning.

As we - the Powershell Community - work together to get people on board with Powershell, we must remember and realize that what works well for us as individuals may not work well for others and vice versa. We must be able to step into the shoes of people we are working with, understand their concerns, and help them solve their problems, (with Powershell of course.)