As you may know (or not), I’m doing a PowerShell session at TechEd 2007 in about five weeks. I’m a bit nervous; the session has garnered a lot of early interest, so they’re not only repeating it once, but also simulcasting it via LiveMeeting. Eeek – no pressure. So, I figured since PowerShell architect Jeffrey Snover always gets rave reviews, I’d copy some of learn from his example. For example, he starts his sessions using a PowerShell script that runs MS Agent – little talking cartoon characters – and he’s even published the script he uses. Which isn’t quite Vista-compatible. Erk.
Fortunately, the Vista compatibility issue appears to be in MS Agent itself – it doesn’t like to be resized on Vista. So I commented out the resizing code from Snover’s scripts, hardcoded a session start time (well, for the moment, at least), and I’ve reposted the scripts here (click “Files” in the blog’s navigation menu, to the right). I should point out that these are still preliminary and I’ll post final (more neatly-formatted) versions in the future. You do need both scripts living in the same folder; run Start-Session to actually kick things off.
