PowerScripting Podcast

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Blain Barton and Chad Miller about IT Pro Camp!

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• Microsoft TechEd 2012 videos are all posted to Ch9. Special mentions to:

  • Jeffrey and Don’s #1 session: Windows PowerShell Crash Course

  • Aaron Nelson – The Dirty Dozen: Windows PowerShell Scripts for the Busy DBA

  • Travis Jones & Hemant Mahawar – Advanced Automation Using Windows PowerShell 3.0

• We have an official Windows Azure PowerShell Module

• Jim Christopher announces SeeShell

• The Charlotte PowerShell User Group is holding a Mini Scripting Game Event July 5th

• The PowerShell team posted a two part high level architecture of PowerShell Workflow

  • Part 1

  • Part 2

Interview

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Guests – Blain Barton, IT Pro Evangelist from Microsoft and Chad Miller, PS MVP and author of SQL-PSX

Links

• Blain Barton’s blog

• TechNet Radio (Video)

• IT Pro Camp

The Question –

Blain (superhero) – Superman

Chad (mars): iPad

Chatroom Banter

Sind0ni: Australia is meh! Canada is cool!

sepeck: building infrastructure is hard

[10:32pm] halr9000: “IT Pro Barbie”?

[10:33pm] Vern_Anderson_: pasty posh barbie

[10:33pm] Vern_Anderson_: never sees the sun

Resources

• Ed Wilson’s Top Ten PowerShell Best Practices for IT Pros

• Installing PowerShell Web Access on Windows 2012 RC Core

• Check out ConEmu, a console emulator that works great with PowerShell (+ blog post from Hanselmann)

• Pulling current user account info

• Replace diskpart with new storage cmdlets

• A great Windows PowerShell Self-Study Guide

• VMware released a vSphere 5.0 security hardening guide with plenty of PowerCLI!

Tips

• Create calculated properties using Select-Object

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Kirk Munro about WMIX

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• The Windows Management Framework (PowerShell V3 included) RC is out

• Jeffrey Snover and Don Jones have the #1 talk at TechEd so far

• UK PowerShell Group meeting July 4th 2012

• Adam Driscoll posted the video from the June MadPosh Meeting

Interview

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Guest: Kirk Munro

Links

• http://poshoholic.com/
• http://wmix.codeplex.com/
• https://twitter.com/#!/Poshoholic
• http://pspx.codeplex.com/

The Question – Favorite Sci-Fi Movie: Lord of the Rings Series

Chatroom Banter

• [22:23:31] <Poshoholic> Fix-It Get-ChildItem ` -Parameter @{ Name = ‘Directory’ PostProcess = { Where-Object {$_.PSIsContainer} } } ` -DefineNow

• [22:30:16] <Vern_Anderson> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWgPYWf1ZaA

• [22:30:25] <Vern_Anderson> jsnover explains proxy functions

• [22:31:15] <JonWalz> Thanks Vern!

• [22:31:24] <Vern_Anderson> Shay Levy explains them on scriptingguy blog

• [22:31:26] <Vern_Anderson> http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/03/01/proxy-functions-spice-up-your-powershell-core-cmdlets.aspx

Resources

• An Insider’s Guide to using WMI Events and PowerShell

• Jan Egil Ring wrote an SC VMM plugin for vCheck

• Intellisense in Windows PowerShell ISE 3.0

• Communicate between PowerShell sessions with UDP

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Brandon Shell about the PowerShell Deep Dive, Splunk, and server-based computing!

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• List of PowerShell sessions at TechEd with great v2 and v3 coverage

• Doug Finke’s new PowerShell for Developers book is in early release

• Bruce Payette will be at the Seattle Script Club on June 13th!

• Tampa’s PowerShell user group is meeting June 21st

• The Boston PowerShell user group is meeting June 27th

Interview

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Guest: Brandon Shell

Links

• Splunk Resource Kit (github source)

• Splunk – get data from TCP ports

• Cloudstack

• Openstack

• Podio

Here’s a screenshot from Brandon’s PowerShell Deep Drive Splunk project:

The Question – Favorite Sci-Fi Movie: The Avengers

Chatroom Banter

ScriptingWife: Brandons music is better

In This Episode

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to the two most important women in PowerShell: Teresa “ScriptingWife” Wilson and Staci “HalsWife” Rottenberg

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• PowerShell v3 Geek Week in Stockholm June 11th to the 15th

• New chapters are up on MEAP for the PowerShell in Depth book

• Doug Finke’s upcoming book PowerShell for Developers is due out in June, pre-release copies available now

• UK PowerShell Group – May 29th

• Central Ohio PowerShell Users Group May 30th

• Atlanta Techstravaganza June 1st!

Interview

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Guest: Teresa “ScriptingWife” Wilson and Staci “halswife” Rottenberg

Links

• Nerd Venn Diagram

• How the Scripting Wife got started

• One of Ed’s upcoming books: Windows PowerShell 3.0: Step by Step

• Robonaut

• Jon’s book recommendation: Daemon by Daniel Suarez

The Question

Teresa – See into the future

Staci – FTL travel

Chatroom Banter

Vern_Anderson: ## Question one how’s it being a Powershell widow? < OUCH! @halr9000

Resources

• Windows Server 2012 Virtual Labs

• Quick ping sweep using WMI jobs

• Download TechNet Edge videos with PowerShell

• The Scripting Guy talks about the six PowerShell Profiles

• Windows Server 2012: IT Pros need WS-Man skills

• Never miss an appointment again with PowerShell

• Finding Logged on User and Writing to Their User Hive

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to the Scripting Games 2012 winners Rohn and Lido, as well as Jeffrey Snover and Ed Wilson from Microsoft!

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• Join the PowerShell Team at TechEd

• Don Jones and Tobias Weltner have release a free ebook on remoting

• The Atlanta Techstravaganza is coming June 1st

• The Boston area PowerShell user group is meeting May 23rd

Interview

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Guest: Jeffrey Snover, Ed Wilson, Rohn Edwards, Lido Paglia

Links

The Question

Lido’s superhero: Superman

Rohn’s superpower: The Force from Star Wars

Ed’s favorite Sci-Fi movie: Star Wars

Jeffrey’s favorite Sci-Fi movie: Aliens 2

Chatroom Banter

RichPrescottWife: ## Ed, Any thought to doing the Scripting Games as an ongoing monthly series to give people more time to play?

FishTender27: ##Are the challenges still available if I wanted to take a crack at them now that I am not as busy?

Matt__: ##how can I get V3?

ToENuFF: I don’t always write scripts, but when I do, I use PowerShell!

JHofferle: “I don’t always use a CLI…but when I do…I prefer PowerShell.”

alexandair1: ## who is an author of the third one?

jsnover: ### Do Lido and Rohn use the script center?

DonJones: Hi, this is Don Jones – I once wrestled an aligator in order to learn his secrets about PowerShell

Schlauge: ## what tool do Rohn and Lido use to code?  ISE?  Powershell Plus? PowerGUI

RichPrescott: ## ScriptCenter Repository rocks the scripting world.

RichPrescott: ## And I rock it.

JHofferle: Script Explorer http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29101

ScriptingWife: You guys should have lots more sympathy for me now. I live with this 24/7 LOL

FishTender27: ## Ed’s got so much energy… how many red bulls a day does he drink?

RichPrescott: ## @Jsnover: Is there any functionality that you wanted added in Windows Server 2012/Win 8, but were unable to see it implemented?  Do you see the community filling the gaps with scripting?

Schlauge: ## why is everyone pushing v3 so much when it’s not even offical

ToENuFF: ## Any plans to finish the ISE host so that it meets all of the host reqs?  Start-Transcript, etc

Schlauge: ## my concern is that so much is said that dont use for PROD becuase it may not work later…

ToENuFF: @halr900 @richprescott fairer question:  What are you looking forward to seeing come from the community?

MarkDW_: Will there be a WOA/WindowsRT version of Powershell?

MarkDW_: ## Do you think developers will do Metro apps for Windows Server 2012?

BartekB: ## any chance to move tiles around in server manager?

MarkDW_: ## Please expose the Powershell commands in the new server manager

RichPrescott: ## Any feedback on the Connect item to expose the PowerShell commands being run in Server Manager?

MAC_: ## It seems like there are 3 versions of 2012 Gui remove the gui and core is that the case?

MarkDW_: ## Since server manager is based on Powershell, why not expose the commands that are being run under the covers?

Jaykul: The workaround for long paths is http://poshcode.org/2488

[10:55pm] Jaykul: aka http://huddledmasses.org/downloads/Experimental.IO.zip

sepeck: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/183.windows-powershell-survival-guide-en-us.aspx

JHofferle: ## Do the winners have blogs?