Powershell providers for BizTalk Server

I was reading the latest edition of BizTalk Hotrod magazine, one interesting article which captured my eye was PowerShell provider for BizTalk developed by Maxime Labelle, Michel Hubert and Randal van Splunteren.(Page 42 onwards: http://biztalkhotrod.com/Documents/Issue8_Q4_2009.pdf)

Microsoft also announced its out of box support to PowerShell for management tasks in its BizTalk Server 2009 R2 release which is expected this year. (http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/roadmap.aspx#2009r2)

Interesting to see Microsoft’s effort to next generation technologies to replace scripting languages and batch files for the management task. The obvious benefits of PowerShell over the scripts and batch file is object oriented programming model and much better debugging facilities.

I am going to try the PowerShell provider for my BizTalk Server 2006 projects before Microsoft’s PowerShell providers in 2009 R2.