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The intended purpose of the PowerShell Community Blog is to provide a platform for the PowerShell Community to show off the great things you can do with PowerShell and Windows PowerShell. Each article should provide a set of (relatively!) simple steps to take, with PowerShell, to achieve some task. Blog posts can cover either Windows PowerShell, or the open source PowerShell 7. While we welcome deep, deep posts, most posts are likely to be at the 200-300 level. Posts should make clear the problem the article helps the reader to solve. In other words, great practical advice on how to solve real-world IT professional problems, with a side-helping of technical depth. This blog welcomes submissions to the blog both from internal Microsoft teams and external people.
Posts to the blog can discuss products and technologies that are not part of the core PowerShell product or even made by Microsoft, as long as the post's content is relevant to PowerShell users and is not marketing those products.
The published language for the PowerShell community is English, and mainly American Ennglish, although posts other variations of English are acceptable. The article review process focuses on the language and structure of each article as well as the specific details. If English is not your first language, or even if it is, the review process can help to iron out any problems.
There are several ways you can interact, depending on your needs and levels of enthusiasm.
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The entry-level, so to speak, is to read the blog and enjoy the content. You can come to the PowerShell Community BLog directly or use a blog aggregation mechanism to view the content. Over time, we hope and expect the major search engines to index these posts, making it easy for IT Pros to find and use the information contained.
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You can also comment on any of blog posts directly on the blog. This blog uses WordPress, so in order to add comments, you need to create and then login to a WordPress account. Once you logon successfully to the blog, WordPress allows you to add comments to the posts here. See our Coimmunity Blog Wiki pages for detailed instructions. We welcome comments - but keep them civil and constructive. We prefer comments in English. Feel free to use Bing Translator or Google Translate if English is not your first language.
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You may want to contribute to the development of blog posts. You are welcome to create new posts, file issues on any article (or proposed article), or help review content submissions. And should you find an error, feel free to file an issue on GitHub. If there is a specific question you feel might make a good blog post, also file an issue.
If you want to either create new blog posts or participate in the creation and review of new posts, then you need to head to this blog's GitHub rep;ository home. You need a GitHub account to be able to submit anything to the blog's GitHub repository. You can sign up for a GitHub account at GitHub's new account sign up page. And, you need to be able to use GitHub and, most likely, git on your workstation.
Acceptance of any blog post is done at the sole discretion of the Blog administrators. Before we can accept any blog post submission, you must sign the Contributor License Agreement (CLA). This is a one-time event.