This week our guest will be Randy Roffey from Silect Software. Among other things, we’ll talk about how their product MP Studio uses PowerShell to automate the deployment of management packs into Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. Please join us Thursday December 8th at 9:30 pm EDT at our new and permanent live chat location which is live.powerscripting.net!
Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jason Helmick about learning and teaching PowerShell
The first meeting of the Charlotte PowerShell User Group is Jan 5th.
The first meeting of the Pittsburgh PowerShell User Group is Dec 13th.
Ed Wilson is at the Arizona PowerShell User Group Dec 7th.
Sean Kearney will present Dec 7th for the virtual user group Live Lunch
The MTUG in Norway’s topic is Lync Management Shell Dec 15th
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AZPOSH: http://www.azposh.com/
[22:21:10] <Josh_Coen> get-service | stop-process [Hal: doh, doesn’t work!]
[22:22:07] <Zouleous_> he also mentioned Get-AdComputer | Restart-Computer
[22:26:59] <scriptingwife> http://www.manning.com/jones/
[22:30:31] <scriptingwife> Brian, the other thing you need to know is I am very Happily married to Ed but if you mentioned Don JOnes I light up and brag for two weeks on him
[22:31:17] <cruz_daniel> My wife met him at TechEd, I still hear about it…
[22:31:41] <halr9000> my wife thinks he’s hot too…
[22:31:51] <halr9000> “why can’t you dress like don?”
[22:31:55] <halr9000> *sigh*
[22:32:52] <scriptingwife> Don could successfullyplay James Bond
[22:32:58] <halr9000> totally
[22:33:03] <halr9000> he can pick up after Craig
[22:33:18] <scriptingwife> He would run Craig out of the country
[22:33:27] <alexandair> Jones, Don Jones 🙂
[22:39:15] <Josh_Atwell> Get-Cmdlet | Where{$_.Type -eq “Magical Candy”}
Superhero: HELLBOY
From his site:
Jason Helmick has over 20 years in IT as an enterprise consultant and teacher. He works with many domain specific technologies, however has a passion for PowerShell. Since its initial release, Jason has authored courseware, taught and written articles about PowerShell and its affect on the industry.
Jason teaches with a “Real-world” view and is one of the founding designers of Interface’s Hard Hat course series. The philosophy of the series is learn by solving business problems, not a step-by-step feature crawl. His favorite phrase, “You should be able to do the job on Monday”.
Jason, along with Mike Pfeiffer, are the co-founders and co-leaders of one of the top PowerShell user groups known as AZPOSH.
You can follow Jason on Twitter: @thejasonhelmick
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Alan Renouf about PowerCLI!
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[21:53:59] <Josh_Atwell> ### ? for Alan…do you think PowerCLI would be as popular without the strong community it has?
[21:59:15] * BartekB blushing like teenage girl
[22:00:55] <JHofferle> ## How big can an environment get before you just *can’t* manage it without PowerCLI?
[22:03:30] <JHofferle> ## So vcheck is awesome, what are some other “must-have” scripts?
[[22:12:54] <McShauno> Powershell is the original Siri.
22:13:34] <Josh_Atwell> http://www.vtesseract.com/post/8733987058/vbeers-get-vbeers-function-v2
[22:18:14] <JHofferle> ## When is VMTN coming back?
[22:24:47] <Josh_Atwell> Providing Others With Enterprise Ready Scripts Helping Everyone Lighten Loads
[22:29:02] <BartekB> ## Is PowerCLI a module now? Or would it be in nearest future?
[22:38:42] <Josh_Atwell> #### Is Onyx still useful? 🙂
Superhero: Neo
Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Brandon Shell about Splunk and life after system administration
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[21:58:32] <BSonPosh> why do I care about dd-wrt?
[21:59:04] <Meson> You can do all kinds of crap with dd-wrt
[22:16:15] <JasonMArcher> Unit Tests operate on small functional units of code (mostly test cases for individual methods)
[23:04:21] <halr9000> at least you are wearing pants
[23:04:25] <halr9000> I assume
[23:04:28] <BSonPosh> how do you know 🙂
Brandon – Favorite apps: VMware Fusion, Windows 7, Skype
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We are taking this week off, but will be back next week with more PowerShell goodness!
This week our guest will be Don Jones to talk about his latest book Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches and whatever else he wants to talk about. If you’ve heard Don speak, you already know that you don’t want to miss it. If you haven’t heard Don speak, let me assure you, you don’t want to miss it. Please join us Thursday December 15th at 9:30 pm EDT at our new and permanent live chat location live.powerscripting.net! Don is one of our most popular guests so I’m sure the chat room will be a lot of fun. You may want to set a reminder on your phone so you don’t miss out!
This week our guest will be Brandon Shell to tell us about Splunk and their PowerShell Resource Kit. Please join us Thursday November 3rd at 9:30 pm EDT at our new live chat location live.powerscripting.net!
Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jim Hofer and Kirk Munro with Devfarm Software
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[22:01:20] <alexandair> ## how do you see the future of powershell script editors now that powershell ise v3 is becoming very good?
[22:02:19] <ScriptingWife> ##be sure to have them talk about their dialog pop up window on their webpage. IT is so AWESOME
Jim – Superhero: Dark Phoenix
Kirk – Favorite software: Social media
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This week our guest will be Kirk Munro and Jim Hofer from DevFarm Software to talk about PowerSE and PowerWF. Please join us Thursday October 27th at 9:30 pm EDT at our new and permanent live chat location which is live.powerscripting.net!
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