For the past couple of months I have been playing with PowerShell and it has been a real pleasure to dig-in and get my hands dirty in a command-line interface again.  Not since my early days with the Amiga and ARexx have I enjoyed learning about a new CLI and an associated scripting language.  The PowerShell team has done a great job of bringing windows scripting and the CLI into the 21st century.  Not only has Microsoft been putting in a lot of effort into PowerShell, but you are also seeing an explosion of third-parties who have also jumped onboard to push the new language and hosting environment.  Companies like Sapien, Quest, /n Software, and ShellTools are creating great tools and sponsoring community sites like PowerShellCommunity.org.

With all of this excitement and passion in the PowerShell community, how could I not look to see how I could use PowerShell with DotNetNuke.  Thus was born my session idea:  PowerShell for DotNetNuke which I will be presenting in Las Vegas at OpenForce '07.  During my session I will be showing how you can use PowerShell to enhance managing DotNetNuke, both for installing new sites and for sites that are already up and running. 

One of the early ideas I had was that I might even be able to create a DotNetNuke module that would let a user execute PowerShell commands and scripts on the server.  Since DotNetNuke allows you to lock down access to any module it is fairly secure.  The initial code for this module is based off earlier examples by Scott Hanselman and Dominick Baier.  Here is a sample video of my work so far.

I still have some enhancements that I will be making before the conference, but you can download the latest code here.