{"id":1501,"date":"2014-10-20T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2014\/10\/20\/heads-up-hey-scripting-guy-blog-series\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:05:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:05:13","slug":"heads-up-hey-scripting-guy-blog-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/heads-up-hey-scripting-guy-blog-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Heads Up: Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. This week, the week of Oct. 19, I begin a special series of Hey Scripting Guy blog posts where we will be talking about why upgrade to Windows PowerShell 4.0. This series will be way cool, and I have enlisted the help from various MVP&#8217;s, as well as from the PowerShell team. So, what is in store for you? Here is the lineup:<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday I talk about the parade of features we have added to PowerShell over the various versions. The point of the article is to try and get ahead of the learning curve.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday PowerShell MVP Richard Siddaway talks about some of the considerations involved in an upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday PowerShell MVP Teresa Wilson, aka Scripting Wife, talks about how PowerShell 4.0 makes her life easier in day to day usage.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday PowerShell MVP Jeff Wouters provides a history lesson with Windows PowerShell and concludes that PowerShell 4.0 Rocks.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday IIS MVP Terri Donahue talks about some of the changes brought about by PowerShell 4.0 that compelled her to upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday PowerShell MVP Dave Wyatt says the big reason for upgrading is DSC, DSC and DSC.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday Windows PowerShell Team Member John Slack rounds out the week by providing his unique insiders perspective.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In all it is a powerful week of articles that you will not want to miss. Hope to see you over there.<\/p>\n<p>ed wilson<\/p>\n<p><em>Microsoft Scripting Guy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/scriptcenter\/default.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/scriptcenter\/default.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scriptingGuys\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/scriptingGuys<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. This week, the week of Oct. 19, I begin a special series of Hey Scripting Guy blog posts where we will be talking about why upgrade to Windows PowerShell 4.0. This series will be way cool, and I have enlisted the help from various MVP&#8217;s, as well as from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. This week, the week of Oct. 19, I begin a special series of Hey Scripting Guy blog posts where we will be talking about why upgrade to Windows PowerShell 4.0. This series will be way cool, and I have enlisted the help from various MVP&#8217;s, as well as from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}