WmiSpy is an online tool to help you build WMI functions in PowerShell. You can search over 7000 WMI classes and create PowerShell functions to interact with WMI.
Start-Automating recently finished helping Microsoft augment the cmdlets in System Center Operations Manager 2012. We will reveal more project details after System Center 2012 releases to the market.
When Microsoft wanted to get Office365 ready to show to customers, they realized they had quite the complicated automation problem to solve: Each sales team demonstrating Office365 needed to be able to create a unique environment to demonstrate the sale, filled with hundreds of slightly different sample emails, contacts, and calander items. It simply wouldn't scale to create each email environment by hand: you'd never get time to show a customer how it works, so Microsoft decided to Start-Automating.
This tool was developed for private release, and is not available to the general public.
When Microsoft wanted to make sure that each dedicated SharePoint deployment was good to go, it had an incredible automation problem to solve: How to validation hundreds of different settings across thousands of different machines and present the results in an easy-to-use format. Microsoft decided to Start-Automating, and we developed a technique of writing PowerShell functions to collect remote data in parallel and a series of complex commands to collect information about network configuration, disk configuraiton, RAID settings, Virtualization Settings, SharePoint Settings, and much, much more.
This tool was developed for private release, and is not available to the general public. You may use this online tool to turn any PowerShell script into a Remote Data Collector
XBPS is a module for automating Xbox Developer Kits with Windows PowerShell. It was built with the cooperation of individuals on the Xbox Certification Team, the Xbox Developer Support Team, and the PowerShell team. Module contains roughly 30 commands to automate deployment and interaction with Xbox Developer Kits, and remotely controls N Xbox developer kits for each interaction.
XBPS was developed by Start-Automating founder James Brundage while working at Microsoft.
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Considering moving your mail to the cloud? We can help. Start-Automating has extensive experience in automating both SharePoint and Exchange, the base technologies of Office365. We can help your automate your transition to Office365, or help build customized solutions for your company and Office365. We can automate communications to and from your mail accounts, just like we did for the Office365 demo toolkit that Microsoft uses every day. Find out more about how we can help you Start-Automating Office365 by contacting us.
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