PowerScripting Podcast

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Steven Murawski and have another treat, Jeffrey Snover’s Keynote from the PowerShell Deep Dive!

Interview

Guest: Steven Murawski

Links

• Microsoft TAP program

• http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/

• http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/04/19/smb-2-2-is-now-smb-3-0.aspx

• http://www.powershellmagazine.com/

The Question

Mars Mission: Samsung Windows 8 tablet

Bonus: Jeffrey Snover’s keynote from the PowerShell Deep Dive

• audio recording from April 30th 2012 (The Experts Conference 2012)

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Michiel Wories about SQL 2012 & PowerShell!

News

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• Atlanta area folks, save the date! June 1st is the Atlanta Techstravaganza with a full day PowerShell track!

• Karl Prosser has released the Portable PowerShell for v3 Beta

• TechEd will be here soon, and Aaron Nelson will be reprising his “The Dirty Dozen: Windows PowerShell Scripts for the Busy DBA” at the this year’s show

• Darren Mar-Elia has updated the Group Policy Health Cmdlet

Interview

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Links

• Mort, Elvis, and Einstein

• SQL Server 2012 Connect

The Question

Superhero: Superman

Chatroom Banter

SQLvariant: the SMO objects are very hard to work with in Enterprise environments or for anyone that isn’t a C# developer

SQLvariant: more that 90% of the SQL Server community finds the SMO too diificult to work with

Resources

• Josh Atwell blogs about his Start-Countdown script, a visual alternative to Start-Sleep

• Mike Robbinss shows us how to install SQL 2012 on Server Core

• Paul Iddon shows us how to make a PowerShell WinPE ISO

• and an easier way using MDT

• Joel writes on PowerShellMagazine.com about creating user interfaces with ShowUI

Tips

• Tip from Shay Levy on protecting your functions

• PowerTip: Executing PowerShell on computer lock

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to students of Don Jones’ Month of Lunches book

News

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• Sapien has released PowerShell Studio 2012

• reminder about expert commentaries

• Adam Driscoll wrote a module for the PowerShell Deep Dive

• Richard Siddaway’s “PowerShell and WMI” should be out soon

• Brandon Shell’s TEC Europe Deep Dive presentation on Module Design is up

Interview

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Links

• Julie, NC, education IT, treehugger (her own words!)

  • recently installed SCCM

  • new to PowerShell when she picked up the book

• Brian, WV, consulting, virtulization

  • PowerCLI brought him to PowerShell

• Will, Dallas TX, managing document imaging, runs the PS UG

The Question

Chatroom Banter

CrsnDn: ### ask ’em if the month worked or not

JHofferle: ## Did you watch the companion videos while working through the book?

Mike_F_Robbins: Saw a cool tweet today on how to learn a new cmdlet each day: Get-Command | Get-Random | Get-Help -Full

DonJ_: I promote the idea of a Cmdlet A Day instead of the usual Dilbert A Day calendar.

Resources

• http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6D474E721138865A&feature=view_all

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fFEV8xawx0

• http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/powershell-v3-guru-don-jones

• http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2012/04/powercli-webcasts.html

• PowerShell sessions from MMS are available

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Joel Bennett about PowerShell V3 and PoshCode

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• We have a new MVP Michal Gajda!

• The vBrownBag podcast just featured Josh Atwell and Jake Robinson for a “PowerCLI 201” session

• News from the Scripting Games

• Scripting Games quick tips from Boe Prox

• Cisco recently released v0.9.7 of the UCS PowerTool

• New Deep Dive videos:

  • Bartosz Bielawski – Tracing in PowerShell

  • Dmitry Sotnikov – PowerShell Jobs in v2 and v3

  • Shey Levy and Kirk Munro – Leveraging Proxy Functions in PowerShell

  • Richard Siddaway – PowerShell Events

  • Jeffery Hicks – Turn Command-Line Tools into PowerShell Tools

  • Aleksandar Nikolic – Delegation with Remoting

Interview

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Links

• PowerShell v3 – Finally on the DLR

• PowerBot (poshcode link)

The Question

Mission to Mars: beefy laptop

Resources

• Joel Bennett tipped us off to Chocolatey, an application packaging system based on Nuget which runs in PowerShell

• Old (but good) Scripting Guys post: Import INI files

Tips

• V3: Be careful of the magic members and the way they unroll 🙂

• Don Jones says, quit using write-host! (Or puppies will die!)

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Karl Prosser about Portable PowerShell and PowerShell v3

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• April is “Learn More Powershell Month”: Scripting Games, MMS, and PowerShell Deep Drive

• Tome is speaking at the NYC PowerShell User Group April 9th

• Ashley McGlone is presenting at the Central Ohio PowerShell Users Group on April 12th

• PFE Gary Siepser will be speaking at the Dallas/Fort Worth meeting on April 28th

• Daniel Heth has published a new CodePlex project PowerShell for TEM

• Here’s the schedule for the PowerShell Deep Dive in San Diego

Interview

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Links

• Shelltools – Portable PowerShell

The Question

First PC: C-64

Resources

• Scheduling background jobs in PowerShell v3

• JRich posted on the TechNet Wiki about running executable in PowerShell

• How to create Windows 8 WinPE boot image with PowerShell v3

  • And another, this one from TechNet

• Speeding up PowerShell Webcast by Dr. Tobias Weltner

• Getting started with Windows 8 Hyper-V & PowerShell v3

• Trever Sulliven posted a list of PowerShell stars to follow on Twitter

• Lee Holmes posted some good places to look for PowerShell book reviews

Tips

• Passing named parameters to a job