Giveaway and Discount Offer for Don Jones’ New PowerShell Book!

29 12 2010

As you might have heard, longtime author, speaker, trainer, and PowerShell MVP Don Jones is working on a new book project titled “Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches”. The concept is a book to help the non-programmers out there to learn PowerShell in bite-sized chunks. It isn’t due to be released until Summer of 2011, however, if you are in Manning’s Early Access Program (MEAP), then you can take a look at the chapters as they are completed, and even give feedback to Don as he writes.

How does one attain membership in this elite class? All you have to do is pre-order the book (ebook or print edition), and you get immediate access. The full price for the ebook edition is $34.99, and the print edition is $44.99.

Listeners to the podcast are in luck, we’ll be giving out a 40% off discount code in our next episode! And even better, we have five copies to give away! Stay tuned right here to learn how you can win…


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No Show Tonight!

16 12 2010

Sorry folks, Jon and Hal need to take a night off, so no show tonight. We plan to pick up after Christmas with the next live show on the 30th. Our guest will be (provided he can reshcedule) James Brundage, formerly of the PowerShell team at Microsoft (there’s a story there, we’re sure). He’s been doing some really cool things that we know you will enjoy hearing about.

Also, in January, it looks like we’ll have someone on from the System Center team to talk about their PowerShell support, so stay tuned for that.

If you have guest ideas, please let us know!


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Episode 134 – Trevor Sullivan on WMI Events in PowerShell

13 12 2010
A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Trevor Sullivan about working with WMI events in PowerShell

News

Interview

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies, makers of PrimalScript and PrimalForms.

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Chatroom Buzz:

  • <shanehoey> ## so can we set up events on things like usb pen plugged in ?
  • <ravikanthc> Can I use ActiveScript consumer to wrap PowerShell in VBScript? Is that impelemented..?
  • <ravikanthc> can we reuse filters? i mean, can we use the same filter for multiple bindings?
  • <ravikanthc> ## when can we see a functional command-line consumer?
  • <ScriptingWife> ## new subject. ASk him about his guest blog for HSg next week. something about dynamic method invocation
  • <Poshoholic> ## When are you going to integrate the module with PowerGUI?
  • <ravikanthc> ## or may be a nice GUI to list and bind filters/consumers..!
  • <SQLvariant> ##When a mount point suddenly disconnects without warning?
Hero/Ability: Shoot lightning from hands

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From time to time I pick up new small but powerful features in PowerShell, here is a handy one:

Did you know you can use wildcards in combination with tab-completion? Both with verbs and nouns? A few examples:

rec*-j* <tab> resolves to Receive-Job

set-*quick* <tab> resolves to Set-WSManQuickConfig

*-*computer*<tab> resolves to Add-Computer. Cycle through <tab> several times and you can see all cmdlets with “computer” in it`s noun.

Handy when you remember just parts of the cmdlet-name, typing a hard-to-spell cmdlet name…or even just being lazy  

Best Regards

Jan 


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Up Next: PowerEvents with Trevor Sullivan!

6 12 2010

This Thursday at 9:30pm EST, Jonathan and Hal will be interviewing Trevor Sullivan to talk about his recently released PowerEvents Codeplex project. Trevor has put a lot of effort into what looks to be a really interesting project. Do you know what WMI events are? If you want to learn, drop by the live stream!

Trevor Sullivan has 7 years of experience in the Information Technology field, and has worked primarily with Microsoft products such as Active Directory, Group Policy, System Center Configuration Manager 2007, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010, VBscript, Windows PowerShell, and C#/.NET. Trevor is passionate about sharing with community, and is an active community participant in a variety of mailing lists, forums, blogging, Twitter (@pcgeek86), and other social media outlets.

Follow Trevor on Twitter: http://twitter.com/pcgeek86

Trevor’s Blog (Art of Shell): http://powershell.artofshell.com

Trevor’s Blog (WordPress): http://trevorsullivan.net


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Episode 133 – Shane Hoey in Australia is Paging Dr. Scripto

6 12 2010
A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Shane Hoey about building user group communities!

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Hero: Batman

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Paging Dr. Scripto!

2 12 2010

The Path to the Scripter…

 

I’m staring at a screen

I’m needing knowledge, need some wisdom

Look across the waves

I see a man who’s word are calling me

 

I’m wandering to a place

We call TechEd oh way Downunder

But we’re missing you

We walk about and seek you Scripting Guy

 

We’re calling to you from a land Down Under

To TechEd, come on please release your Thunder

Your knowledge, wisdom, ways we seek to bind us

We need you oh Scripting Guy

 

I’m looking in a Shell

Cmdlets, functions roam about me

Please inspire me

We walk about and see the Scripting Guy

 

Seek to automate

Integrate our past and future

Need some guidance now

Mentor us please now oh Scripting Guy

 

oOOOOOOOOOoooooooooOOOOOOOOoooooooo

 

We’re calling to you from a land Down Under

To TechEd, come on please release your Thunder

Your knowledge, wisdom, ways we seek to bind us

We need you oh Scripting Guy

 

We’re watching for a plane

With a man who’s here to guide us

We’ve got a beer for you

and Koalas to keep you warm now

 

We’re calling to you from a land Down Under

To TechEd, come on please release your Thunder

Your knowledge, wisdom, ways we seek to bind us

We need you oh Scripting Guy

 

 


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Episode 132 – Aaron Nelson on the PASS Summit

29 11 2010
A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Aaron Nelson about the PASS Summit with special guests Ed Wilson and Mark Mitchell. 

Interview

Execute commands and scripts from anywhere including the office and remote locations, as well as from a Web browser or smart phone with PowerGUI Pro from Quest Software. With the MobileShell feature, administrators can quickly run commands to troubleshoot problems or make changes, even when away from your desk! This gives teams more flexibility to work remotely while traveling, and to leverage admins from other offices in case of an emergency.

·         Execute queries remotely to determine if services or processes are running

·         Restart services, processes, or entire servers

·         Check mailbox settings

·         Unlock user accounts

·         Reset passwords

·         Run custom scripts

Visit quest.com/powerguipro and see why PowerShell and Quest PowerGUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.

Aaron’s blog: http://sqlvariant.com

Links


Use PowerShell to Collect Server Data and Write to SQL Posted Mon, Nov 1 2010 – Chad Miller
Use PowerShell to obtain SQL Server database sizes Posted Tue, Nov 2 2010 – Aaron Nelson
Use PowerShell to Change SQL Server Service Accounts Posted Wed, Nov 3 2010 – Aaron Nelson
Use PowerShell to Script SQL Database Objects Posted Thu, Nov 4 2010 – Aaron Nelson
Using PowerShell to Add a Group of Users to a SQL Database Posted Fri, Nov 5 2010 – Sean McCown

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Up Next: Aaron Nelson Talks About SQL PASS

17 11 2010

First the good news: Aaron knows a lot about SQL and PowerShell, and he’s very excited to share his knowledge with us. The bad news? We did the interview already! Hal & Jonathan met up with Aaron at the Atlanta PSUG yesterday and had a great chat. We will post the podcast on Sunday as usual, but there won’t be a big live show on Thursday.

Watch this space for the latest show!


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Episode 131 – MVP Sean Kearney on the Mic

14 11 2010
A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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In This Episode

 

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we share the mic with Sean Kearney, Canadian PowerShell Evangelist Extraordinaire!

News

Execute commands and scripts from anywhere including the office and remote locations, as well as from a Web browser or smart phone with PowerGUI Pro from Quest Software. With the MobileShell feature, administrators can quickly run commands to troubleshoot problems or make changes, even when away from your desk! This gives teams more flexibility to work remotely while traveling, and to leverage admins from other offices in case of an emergency.

·         Execute queries remotely to determine if services or processes are running

·         Restart services, processes, or entire servers

·         Check mailbox settings

·         Unlock user accounts

·         Reset passwords

·         Run custom scripts

Visit quest.com/powerguipro and see why PowerShell and Quest PowerGUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.

Interview

Our interview is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies, makers of PrimalScript and PrimalForms.

 

Links:

 

 

Resources

This segment brought to you by ServerFault.com

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Episode 130 – Core Show

1 11 2010
A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we have a “core-show” with plenty of news, tips, and resources!

News

Execute commands and scripts from anywhere including the office and remote locations, as well as from a Web browser or smart phone with PowerGUI Pro from Quest Software. With the MobileShell feature, administrators can quickly run commands to troubleshoot problems or make changes, even when away from your desk! This gives teams more flexibility to work remotely while traveling, and to leverage admins from other offices in case of an emergency.

·         Execute queries remotely to determine if services or processes are running

·         Restart services, processes, or entire servers

·         Check mailbox settings

·         Unlock user accounts

·         Reset passwords

·         Run custom scripts

Visit quest.com/powerguipro and see why PowerShell and Quest PowerGUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.

Resources

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Tips 

 



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