PowerScripting Podcast

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Parind Shah from Dell about EqualLogic and their new PowerShell module!

News

• Marc van Orsouw will be running the PowerShell Script Club in Zurich Feb 1st
• Don Jones is seeking input on his upcoming advanced-level PowerShell book. Leave your comments on his blog!
• PowerWF celebrates a new release: 2.4 just shipped and includes PowerSE, a “Script Editor, console, intellisense, and powerful debugger”
• Idera ships PowerShell Plus v4 beta!
• New to us, /n Software released PowerShell eXplorer to the iTunes Market for IOS devices

Interview

• http://www.equallogic.com/
• http://virtualisedreality.com/2010/12/17/dell-equallogic-powershell-quick-reference-guide/
• http://delltechcenter.com/

Chatroom Buzz:

Superhero: Software X-Ray Vision aka The Debugger aka BugBuster aka RAID!

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• Windows PowerShell Survival Guide
• Create DNS PTR records from PowerShell
• James Brundage made a cool add-on for PowerGUI to control advanced PowerShell options
• Jaykul writes about using parentheses in PowerShell
• The Scripting Guys have an article on parsing the event log using Get-WinEvent
• Aaron Nelson has been posting PowerShell Week at SQL University info. More about SQL University is at SQLChicken.com
• Don Jones has a bunch of PowerShell videos on his YouTube channel!

Tips

• From Ravi: Use Dropbox to share profiles across multiple systems
• Get your logging on:
  • Oisin’s script logger module
  • Jaykul’s NLog module
  • Doug Finke’s PSLog (also an NLog wrapper)
  • Log4Posh: PowerShell Log4Net wrapper
• What the heck is Finally for? (as in Try..Catch..Finally)
• Clear an AD attribute

One-Liner of the Week!

Get-Service | Add-Member ScriptMethod ToString { $this.Name } -Force -PassThru | Group-Object Status

And here is the PS1XML version

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Adam Driscoll with Quest about their new vWorkspace module

News

• MVP Ravikanth Chaganti will be presenting a Technet Webcast on Jan 28th “Manage your Hyper-V environment with PowerShell”
• There’s a new PowerShell IDE in Beta
• The PowerShell team is looking for your feedback
• PoshWSUS has a new home on Codeplex: http://poshwsus.codeplex.com/
• New project: Excel PowerShell Console: http://excelposh.codeplex.com/
• New version of PowerWF ships very soon. 

Interview

• vWorkspace: http://www.quest.com/vworkspace/
• Quest vWorkspace 7.2 Feature Spotlight – vWorkspace PowerShell Module
• vWorkspace module download
• vWorkspace module wiki
• vWorkspace Community site: http://communities.quest.com/community/vworkspace
• PowerGUI VSX: http://powerguivsx.codeplex.com/

Chatroom Buzz:

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• MVP Jan Egil Ring did an Introduction to PowerGadgets
• MVP and fellow podcaster Jonathan Medd has posted a useful list of recommended PowerShell Books
• Ravi has published an ISE add-on menu generator
• Ravi also has an example of using PowerEvents to perform file monitoring

Tips

• MVP Doug Finke shows how to make your PowerShell For Loops 4X Faster
• Hal talks about deleting stale AD computer objects

One-Liner of the Week!

schtasks /query /fo csv /v | ConvertFrom-Csv

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jim Christopher about his Visual Studio add-on: StudioShell. At the end we have included the interview with did with Andy Tearle back on Ep 79.

News

• Lots of PowerShell content is in the works for Techstravaganza in New York City March 18th
• Tome (who hasn’t been on the show after all) posted a PrimalForms 2011 sneak peek
• Idera is kicking off PowerShell Webcasts with Thomas Lee 1/26/2011
• The Lync PowerShell team has a scripting challenge on their blog

Interview

• Blog: http://www.beefycode.com
• StudioShell announcement: http://www.beefycode.com/post/Announcing-StudioShell.aspx

Chatroom Comments:

<Jaykul> ## so can we add right-click menu items on the projects/files to invoke script?

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to James Brundage about delivering solutions with PowerShell

News

• New MVPs!
  • Jan Egil Ring: http://blog.powershell.no/2011/01/01/microsoft-mvp-award/
  • Tome Tanasovski: http://powertoe.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/mvp-drinks/
  • Shane Hoey: http://powershelldownunder.com/blogs/shane
• Don Jones’ new book project: Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches. Use coupon code wpslunch40 at checkout for a 40% discount! Here’s Don’s announcement.
• Let’s get the Scripting Guy to Australia! Care of @ye110wbeard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAJRN9D5gOY
• Automating vSphere Administration news:
  • New website: http://www.powerclibook.com/
  • PDF with a tentative table of contents
  • Coming this spring!
• New Get-Scripting Podcast with Jeffrey Snover!
• User Group News
  • PowerShell UK User Group with Ed Wilson Jan 11th
  • SE Michigan PowerShell Script Club meeting Jan 11th with Hal Rottenberg
  • Rochester NY user group meets Jan 18th to talk about using PowerShell in C# and Hal’s favorite topic: managing VMware with PowerShell
• HP and Dell are getting into PowerShell!
  • Dell EqualLogic
  • HP Bladesystem

Interview

• PowerShellPack: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerShellPack
• Start-Automating: http://start-automating.com/

Resources

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• Joel shows us how to invoke PowerShell from C#
• Chad frees the OpsMgr Shell with a new module
• Sean (aka Ye110beard) presents this Technet Webcast: Windows PowerShell Basics for IT Professionals (Part 2) (Level 200)
• Ravikanth has updated his Layman’s guide to PowerShell 2.0 remoting 
• Ravi brings us an excellent tutorial series on using WQL (WMI Query Language) from a PowerShell standpoint
• A simple Splatting explanation from Don Jones
• A cool Matrix-Style Console Screen Saver from MVP Oisin Grehan]

Tips

• Technique for selectively formatting data in a PowerShell pipeline and output as HTML
  • Alternate technique from Jeff Hicks
• Set your current directory properly for .NET