Start-Automating is a very cloud-centric company.

We think Azure is absolutely amazing, and use it in almost all the automation we build.

We can help you understand the cloud space if you're just getting started. We can help you understand the benefits of using cloud architecture and help save you time and money while operating your Azure instance.

Here are a few cool ways we've automated Azure:

• We build PowerShell Pipeworks

Pipeworks is a web platform that connects to various cloud services. It includes free cmdlets that let you interact with Table Storage and SQL Azure, and Azure Package Authoring tools to create massively multi-tenant Azure deployments

• 50+ Services. 100+ Domains. 1 Azure Instance

We have maximized the efficiency of an Azure deployment. We currently host over 50 services and 100 domains on a single Azure instance, and can help you achieve the same level of efficiency.

• Continious Integration

We build out all of our software services every 12 hours and automatically deploy them to Azure. We can help your product lifecycle become more lean by automating your build and deployment.

Want to learn more? Contact Us

We love to Start Automating data

We can help build you automation to convert tedious data into actionable information.

We can help you:

• Convert Old or Unstructured Data into any custom format
• Save structured data to the cloud for safe keeping
• Mine Useful Results from Large Mounds of Data
• Convert data into action

To find out if we can help you automate your data, please contact us

PowerShell is an automation platform.

It has been built into every Windows desktop and server since Windows 7.

It was originally published by Microsoft in 2006, and is the backbone of everything in the IT ecosystem, especially the Microsoft technology set.

We are the premiere professionals in PowerShell. We have written many PowerShell Modules and indispensible PowerShell tools, like IsePack, PowerShell Pipeworks, ScriptCop, EZOut, and ShowUI.

Powershell is an incredibly versatile and easy-to-use scripting language, with a focus on creating well-designed reusable parts called Cmdlets. We are experts in developing PowerShell cmdlets, and in helping architect PowerShell-based solutions to suit any customer's needs

Here is an incredibly short list of things that are designed to be automated with Windows PowerShell.

Cloud Services

• Amazon Web Services
• Azure

Microsoft IT

• Active Directory
• Forefront
• Exchange
• IIS
• Office365
• Sharepoint
• System Center Operations Manager
• WMI

Virtualization

• HyperV
• VMWare
• XenDesktop

In a very short period of time, PowerShell has gone from obscure to pervasive within the IT industry. Contact Us to learn how PowerShell can help you.

Start-Automating is optimized with Office365

We've been proud Microsoft Partners of Office365 since the beginning.

Start-Automating has helped Office365 and has been an Office365 customer since just prior to launch. We build the tool Microsoft uses to demonstrate Office365 to new customers, the automation used to validated every deployment to Sharepoint dedicated, and much of the health monitoring that keeps Office365 alive and well.

We've also been Office365 customers since it's launch in June 2011, and extensively automate our own account. We use the Exchange component of Office365 to manage the mail for dozens of different sites. We store asset information, manage mailing lists, and coordinate communication across dozens of web properties.

We also run a nifty Script-O-Matic for Office365, Optimize365. Please, contact us about how we can help you automate Office365.

Start-Automating talks Twilio

Twilio is one of the most exciting cloud platforms around: It lets you automate cloud based calling and texting.

Start-Automating is a Twilio partner and expert implementer. Our web platform, PowerShell Pipeworks includes implicit support for Twilio, letting us develop phone automation in a flash. You can Contact Us, or you can leave us a voicemail by calling 206-607-6555. Talk to us about how Twilio's automation can help you.

The biggest benefit to automating anything is that it saves you time.

Time is the one thing we can never get back. Why waste it repeating yourself? We enjoy automating away the annoyances

We believe strongly that if a task is going to be repeated, it should be automated.

By automating a task, you save yourself valuable time.

Saving time lets you:

• Focus on what's more important
• Avoid the depression of repetition
• Improve your work/life balance

Everyone know's that time is money.

Not everyone is aware that saving time is not the only way automating saves you money.

Automation saves you money in many important ways: it improves reliability, enables scale, and cultivates competition.

Automated tasks reduce risk.

Automation sets you up for Six Sigma without costing six figures.

We believe in helping everyone save time and money by automating.

Everyone should be able to experience the big benefits of being automated

Being automated means:

• Competing at a fraction of the cost of your competition.
• Being ready to react instead of busy with the back and forth.
• Saving less time on each repeated task, instead of more

Help us understand what you need to automate by contacting us

Start-Automating makes many Rich Internet Applications.

We use our web framework, PowerShell Pipeworks, to produce rich internet applications and their backend with Windows PowerShell.

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Win8 Apps

Hand Crafted Apps

• Gruvity

We also build internal and custom apps we cannot show here.

Autogenerated Apps

These applications were automatically generated with PowerShell Pipeworks.

• BetterBeer - Beer database
• CodeCraft - Churn out the code with CodeCraft
• EZOut - Flexible formatting in PowerShell
• Formulaic - Math tools and flashcards
• Get-Random - The World Weird Web
• Optimize365 - Open up options on Office365
• Start-LearningPowerShell - PowerShell resources
• ScriptCop - PowerShell static analysis tool
• WmiSpy - WMI online lookup tool

Cmdlets are the simple, resuable components that form the backbone of PowerShell.

Cmdlets ideally have simple and self-explanitory cmdlet names, like Send-MailMessage, and a comprehensive set well-documented and easy to understand parameters, such as -Body, -Subject, -To-, -Cc, -Bcc.

At Start-Automating, we have developed roughly 8000 cmdlets to date. As far as we are aware, that is the record. We can help you understand the process of designing quality cmdlets. We can provide cmdlet development training or implement cmdlets on your behalf.

To get a sense of the breadth of cmdlets we have created, check out Our Modules

Flexible Frameworks are Few are Far Between.

A flexible framework can make a project fast and fulfilling. An unforgiving framework can lead to endless frustration.

Framework development is an incredibly subtle science. Good frameworks are easy to extend, fleet on footprint, and amazingly well architected. They often allow anyone and everyone in an organization optimize the way things are done. They are capable of being customized, and are concentrated on cutting down the cost and complexity of the tasks you want to tackle.

We've forged a few frameworks at Start-Automating, and have made many more for customers. Here are some of our flexible and free-to-use frameworks:

• PowerShell Pipeworks is our framework piping out pages in PowerShell
• ShowUI is our framework for simplifying WPF development
• IsePack is our framework for PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment tools
• ScriptCop is our framework for analyzing PowerShell scripts
• EZOut is our framework for writing formatting and types in PowerShell
• AutoBrowse is our framework for automating the web browser

We've also built several frameworks that are used every day at the largest software company on earth, Microsoft:

• Dashpoint lets engineers drill down on details within the Office365 data centers
• PowerTest helps people test PowerShell products throughout Microsoft
• PSProductStudio has helped Microsoft automate their bug tracking system, Product Studio, for many years
• PSWTT has bridged together the common windows test tool, WTT, and PowerShell
• PowerRazzleShell has powered up interactions with Source Depot, Microsoft's Source Control system, since 2006
• PowerTracker has helped run Nebula, the system that build out test boxes for all of the Windows division on demand
• VMBot runs the Zero Day Attack Lab, the largest and most complex VM farm in the world

Frankly, we find that framework building can be a lot of fun. We love a challenge. Contact Us to communicate your challenges: We'l see if a flexible framework might help make them extremely easy.

Another important reason why to use PowerShell Pipeworks is the degree to which it can let you have an integrated intranet.

Since most web languages come from a linux background, making them work with windows is often like trying to fit a round peg into a square hole.

Most enterprise IT applications need to do things like work with Active Directory, Exchange, or Sharepoint - Technologies PowerShell already works well with. You can use the -AsIntranetSite parameter on ConvertTo-ModuleService along with -AppPoolCredential to make any module available on your intranet as a certain user.

PowerShell Pipeworks also includes a useful function to look up information from Active Directory: Get-Person. ## Windows is the way of the workplace. PowerShell powers Windows. We power PowerShell.

Our professionals have been automating windows as a platform since the early days of the desktop.

Almost everything you automate in a workplace has to be made easy to use for everyone in the company (and no one outside of the company). This almost always means the development of an Intranet application.

As experienced automators, we know more than most the importance of providing ease around your automation. We also know how hard it can be to integrate anything in a Windows intranet when you're building an Intranet web application atop a language that loves Linux a little more, like PHP or Perl. The combination of these two needs led us to build PowerShell Pipeworks, a powerful web language built atop PowerShell.

Pipeworks is a powerful tool for powering up any site, and it's a potent part of any Intranet experience. We've built incredibly integrated intranet experiences atop Pipeworks, including powerful web front ends that keep state of the art software services such as Office365 up and running.

Please contact us to talk about how we can integrate your business with an intranet site.

Start-Automating has made many PowerShell Modules.

Must Have Modules

• PowerShell Pipeworks - The PowerShell Web Platform
• ShowUI - Simplify UI scripting
• EzOut - Easily make types and formatting files
• ScriptCop - PowerShell Static Analysis

Or download all of the must have modules by downloading IsePackV2

Nifty Niche Modules

• AutoBrowse - Automate IE
• CodeCraft - Code Generation Tools
• DemoPowerShell - Demo file player for PowerShell ISE (v1) and PowerGUI
• Heatmap - Lightweight performance monitoring with PowerShell
• Patchy - Patch management with PowerShell
• PingMe - PingMe. Quick machine monitoring
• ScriptCoverage - Code Coverage For PowerShell
• PSRSS - Tools to work with the native RSS feed store
• PSImageTools - PowerShell Image Manipulation Tools
• PSSystemTools - A Grab Bag of General System Tools for PowerShell
• TaskScheduler - Automate the Windows Task Scheduler
• Twilio - Talk to the Twilio API in PowerShell
• XBPS - Automate Xbox Developer Kits with PowerShell

Start-Automating creates several automated software services

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Phoneominal

Phoneominal is a remarkably smarter phone line. Phoneominal simplify communication clutter by letting you make or take phone calls from the cloud. Phoneominal phone lines cost $3/month, and calls start at $.03/minute.

Start-Automating makes many websites and online tools

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Blogs

• Start-Scripting
• Update-Web

Education

• Formulaic

Entertainment

• get-random

PowerShell Resources

• Show-PowerShell - PowerShell Videos
• Start-LearningPowerShell - PowerShell tips, resources, walkthrus, and video
• PowerShellJobs.com - PowerShell employment opportunities

Online Tools

• Show-Logo - Online Logo Creator
• WmiSpy - WMI Search Engine

Web Resources

• shouldbeonschema.org - Microdata for the masses

Start-Automating is a cloud-centric company

We maintain dozens of sites on Windows Azure, and operate our Office with Office365. We have developed on the few web platforms to be deeply cloud-centric, PowerShell Pipeworks, and have made it the center of our automated lines of business.

Please Contact Us to see how we can help you realize the cost savings of the cloud.

Start-Automating specializes in creating intregrated intranet experiences in next to no time flat.

We've built Intranet solutions from the small button to check on a server to the big infrastructure that helps keep large software services like Office365 up and running.

We build a web framework, PowerShell Pipeworks that seamlessly integrates with Windows PowerShell, the linga franca for internal administration. This lets us save tons of time and money that would be spent forcing most web technologies to work with Windows administration technologies.

Our framework is free to use, and provides seamless Intranet authentication using active directory, small workgroups, and LiveID. This lets us provide you a secure intranet experience, no matter what the size or shape of your IT department looks like.

Please Contact Us so we can help you with your Intranet needs.

Start-Automating can help find you diamonds in the rough market of semi-qualified scripters.

Start-Automating is the only PowerShell specialist company in the world. We are well-respected within the PowerShell community and are deeply familiar with PowerShell experts around the world. When hiring for a specialitiy like PowerShell, we can save you the time and trouble of dealing with unqualified staffers who are incapable of identifying poor PowerShell candidates.

We maintain the only specialist site for PowerShell Jobs, powershelljobs.com, and maintain a private database of PowerShell skillsets. We've helped Microsoft, Citrix, and Bank of America find staff to suit their needs. Please get in touch if we can help you start staffing.

Start-Automating can significantly simplify your system administration story.

As the premiere PowerShell professionals we are able considerably more capable than your average company when it comes to automating any systems administration. We love building automated tools to help any administration action a lot easier to accomplish.

Start-Automating started out of this passion: the founder worked on the WMI team, the Task Scheduler Team, and the PowerShell team at Microsoft, and developed a personal reputation for providing powerful tools. This reputation continued to grow within Microsoft: We built tools tackle bug triage, send out status updates, track complex changes across Windows, and we helped re-engineer the way that Windows itself is built every day.

This passion became a calling: To help anyone and everyone automate away their annoyances.

We've since helped many clients millions of man-hours by helping them to Start-Automating. Our automation helps ensure that top-tier software services like Office365 stay up and running every day. We can tie together everything and anything in the Windows ecosystem. Please contact us about what administration challanges you face, and how we can save you time and money by automating your administration.

IT isn't as smooth as it can be. Together, we can find a better solution.

Solve it Together is a simple way to price automated IT services. It lets any IT professional get professional DevOps at personable prices.

How it Works:

• You determine you have a need
• We help you define the need
• You pay per thing that solves the need

We help identify the right reliable automated solutions and help you fit them into your environment. You get professional solutions at a predictable price, and we get to help more IT professionals automate their annoyances away with PowerShell.

Start-Automating is the software services company.

We love helping people save time and money by automating away their annoyances. We believe in providing adaptable automation at predictable prices. We provide IT services, and build software and software services.

We power our automation with PowerShell, Microsoft's automation platform. We've helped some of the largest companies in the world improve the power of their PowerShell.

We use PowerShell to create Apps, Cmdlets, Frameworks, Modules, Software Services, Websites, and Web Platforms.

We can help you automate Azure, Data, Office365, Twilio, Windows or (almost) anything else.

Start-Automating has helped many companies automate or find qualified automators.

Here are a couple that are in the Fortune 100

• Bank of America
• Citrix
• Microsoft

We love to help out others in the Puget Sound. Here are a few we've worked with:

• 3Sharp
• Counseling West Seattle
• Edgile
• Seattle Children's Hospital
• Talking Dog Media
• WebFoot Staffing Solutions

We've also helped several smaller companies automate or find automators

• Monitis
• DoveTail HR

Start-Automating was founded in October 2010 by James Brundage, a former member of the Windows PowerShell team.

Start-Automating initially helped Microsoft to build the partner launch toolkit for Office365 and helped developed updated versions of the Sharepoint deployment tool SPEasySetup. Start-Automating also assisted Microsoft Sharepoint Online Dedicated in the development of health monitoring tools for their deployments.

Start-Automating developed a growing reputation for being able to create tough to-build-tools and put a prettier face of them then a normal PowerShell console. Start-Automating's reputation for creating compelling experiences atop PowerShell was solidified by working with the community to merge the Powerboots and WPK projects into one unifed platform for WPF in PowerShell, ShowUI.

Start-Automating's reputation for tough tasks was solidified in summer of 2011, when Start-Automating became an official Microsoft vendor and began work on the Zero Day Attack Lab and updates to System Center 2012's Cmdlets.

The Zero Day Attack Lab is the most complex automation we've built (to date) for Microsoft, and the largest VM farm in the world. It is used to provide test virtual machines of nearly endless variety for security testing. It helped Start-Automating develop extensive expertise in patching and virtualization automation.

Start-Automating's work on System Center 2012 is a testament to their PowerShell prowess. System Center 2012 failed a certifcation related to the quality of their cmdlets, and Start-Automating was contracted to save the day. In less than 1 month Start-Automating built over 90 cmdlets, nearly doubling the automation available to every individual using System Center 2012. Start-Automating also cultivated considerable capabilities in automating System Center that can be applied to both System Center 2012 and System Center 2007.

As more customers requested more diverse experiences atop PowerShell, Start-Automating spent the time to develop PowerShell Pipeworks. Pipeworks is a web framework built atop PowerShell that's perfect for putting up paywalls and offering software as a service, and it forms the backbone of Start-Automating's current and future projects.

Pipeworks powers Start-Automating's software services and Websites. Pipeworks helps Start-Automating pop out Apps for them or anyone else, and it has quickly created a cottage industry of intranet development with Pipeworks for Microsoft and many others.