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March 19th is International PowerShell User Group Day and there are lots of PowerShell user group meetings going on during the month of March… In order to nudge you along into the rapidly-expanding world of PowerShell, we are offering a 25% discount off the purchase price of PrimalForms 2011 during the month of March. PrimalForms is THE next generation PowerShell development environment. It offers a powerful, visual, and easy-to-use scripting environment whether you work with command line or GUI-based scripts. It comes with both 32-bit and 64-bit debuggers and also offers both 32-bit and 64-bit consoles that you can switch…   More »

The next class for Windows PowerShell training has been scheduled!   More »

SQL Saturday #40 came and went and I must say I had a great time. Friday evening I attended the Speaker Dinner where I had the opportunity to meet with Max Trinidad, one of our SAPIEN MVPs, who helped organize the SQL Saturday PowerShell track. Max is an energetic, friendly, overall great guy. He also happens to currently be the only PowerShell MVP in South Florida. I also had the opportunity to meet with the other SQL Saturday speakers, including some of the organizers. Speaker Dinner: Joe Healy from Microsoft (left), David Corrales (middle), Max Trinidad (right) The following day…   More »

For some time now, SAPIEN has been distributing a free "Scripting Toolkit" CD at various trade shows and events. This CD contains copies of all of our free tools, trial versions of our paid applications, samples of our ebooks and training videos and other cool stuff. All of this stuff is available individually for download on our various sites. But because you have asked for it, we have made available the ISO image that we use to burn all of this cool stuff onto CD. So with one (rather large) download, you can get the full CD's worth of scripting…   More »

In the past we we have provided no-cost NFR licenses of PrimalScript or any other SAPIEN product upon request to Microsoft MVPs if they were working in a field related to scripting or Windows administration. The same applied to MCTs, as long as they provided us with their MCT number. It has become more and more obvious that this is unjust towards the many professionals and teachers in the field who promote and use SAPIEN software without becoming a Microsoft MVP or MCT. So we are no longer providing these NFR copies just because you are a Microsoft MVP or…   More »