Jeffrey Snover - Monad explained

Posted By: The Channel 9 Team | Oct 15th, 2004 @ 12:59 PM

If you were at the PDC last fall you might have heard about Monad. That's the code-name for a new command shell. Jason Nadal, on his blog, said he was "blown away" by what he saw.

So, of course, we had to track down the Architect on the team (officially named the "Administration eXperience Platform" team, the product hasn't been named yet), Jeffrey Snover.

In this clip Jeffrey explains the vision behind Monad. On Monday he'll give us a demo.

Tags: Monad, PowerShell

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mscott
Whatup!!!

this guy is a genius

Sven Groot
You can't have everything; after all, where would you put it?

This sounds really, really interesting.

In the middle of the video, before I would forget to do so, I ran off to BetaPlace (whose URL is not betaplace.com, but http://beta.microsoft.com, and has been for quite some time now) and filled in the survey.

I'm very curious on how this'll turn out.

compugab
From Québec in Canada

knew Monad from quite a while. In fack I first hear about it in the .Net Show. There was a little segement about Monad in this episode : http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/theshow/Episode043/default.asp

with good demos. If you can't wait until monday, go watch that one. By the way, I try Monad and it's very cool.

Rossj

That sounds very cool. Is there a solution for automation that doesn't require the command line though? Sort of like http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/automator.html

jsnover

>Is there a solution for automation that doesn't require the command line?
Yup. Cmdlets are .NET classes which are hosted by Monad. Monad then surfaces that class as a Command line interface, an API, and eventually a WS-Management Web Service.

We surface the cmdlets as an API for management applications and to support rich GUIs. Both of these need very low latency access.

jps

Rossj

jsnover wrote:

>Is there a solution for automation that doesn't require the command line?
Yup. Cmdlets are .NET classes which are hosted by Monad. Monad then surfaces that class as a Command line interface, an API, and eventually a WS-Management Web Service.

We surface the cmdlets as an API for management applications and to support rich GUIs. Both of these need very low latency access.

jps

Sorry I may have missed that in the video, the WMV quality on OSX is *very* poor Sad

Looks interesting, time to try out that beta - sure I've got some windows boxen around here somewhere.

JamesC

Excellent work! One question:

I struggled for a long time trying to figure out what was required to make SQL Server integrated security work between two computers. Was it a Windows login issue, a SQL issue or some sort of Windows privileges issue. Even after getting things to work I still don't know what "events" go on when one machine connects to another.

Can Monad help me see those sort of links in the chain?

Pseudo
Another guy with a dumb look on his face.

He said that you can sign up and the next day get it...this isn't exactly the case. I signed up and got access a few months later. It's well worth it though, a VERY interesting product. It still has a few problems with perf (serializing as XML), and consistancy ("dir | get-member" returns members of the items IN the array, not OF the array), but nothing that wont get resolved.

He's not kidding about how easy it is to use compared to UNIX shells, and even more powerful IMO.

fatboy_au
itnewslog.com

Thank you, thank you, thank you! This sounds amazing and I can't wait to try it! Great video!

Cameron
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