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First, my bona fides: I own a long-standing SharePoint training and consulting company, was one of the first SharePoint MVPs (there were only two of us in the first award cycle for STS), and I continue to devote my professional life to teaching about and extending SharePoint. What I like: PowerShell. Nearly everything about it. Composability and grammar, pipelining, introspection ... It's a wonderful thing. Installing SharePoint via PowerShell is a system automator's dream, IMHO. When you're using the Windows machine it's on. Or using objects with remoting support baked in. Or have configured PowerShell remoting, which is a bit of a security black box for me to understand, and also, still requires Windows. Now, the devops dream, one I think is shared by more people than are willing to speak up about it. I know there are third party apps that enable this dream, but they're so unknown and themselves have security issues, so devops-focused folks haven't embraced it. But with this dream, envisioned with the below sample fictional exchange from my terminal, a new world is open. One with Ansible/Chef/Salt/Vagrant/etc singing in the choir. One with GitHub-hosted repos proclaiming how a new Capistrano plugin will deploy their new ASP.Next app from their Mac development environment to their Windows IIS host. One where I and others can say, "hallelujah, hot damn, now we're talkin'!" $ ssh user@windowsserver.example.com
Connecting to windowsserver.example.com...Connected
User:PS>
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I'll speak up about it. WinRM is cake, but the cake is a lie.
DSC has potential. Nano and DSC together with spdustin's request is nirvana.
@brendanp, you should have shared contact info in your profile. Since you didn't, check my profile, check my name in Microsoft press releases[1] for bona fides, then hit me up because we are working on this aggressively and have just recently been talking about reaching out to you on this topic.
And to anyone else who thinks this is a cool space, email me, I'm hiring.
1. Read between the lines of my second quote here: http://news.microsoft.com/2000/06/12/microsofts-new-digital-...