PowerScripting Podcast

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

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A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

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News

Version 2.0 of PowerWF Studio has just been released. PowerWF is a Visual PowerShell development tool allowing users to build PowerShell scripts as workflows, which are similar to a flowchart or Visio diagram.  Once created, workflows can be deployed as applications, run as a scheduled task, or back to PowerShell as a script.  You can even push data to System Center with the click of a button. To get your free 30 day trial go to PowerWF.com.

• Thomas Lee is doing another PowerShell Master Class in Stockholm May 25-28
• New software releases:
  • PowerShell PowerBook beta 1.1 – Facebook module
  • Mark Embling has released Posh-Git
  • PowerConsole is a PowerShell host for Visual Studio

Interview

Links

• SQL PSX

Questions

• Jtruman0917: ## are the SQLServers mostly failover clustered?
• toenuff: ## Did you write the GUI for the ISE config menus in wpk?

Hero/Power – Matt Parkman

Resources

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

• Jeff Hicks has put up his decks from TechMentor
• Thomas Lee blogged about an SCCM module for PowerShell
• John Robbins has created the logical successor to start-demo: Start-PowerShellPoint
• Jonathan Noble did a post explaining -context in Select-String
• TechNet Webcast: Windows Failover Clustering PowerShell Cmdlets: Overview and Examples (Level 400)
• A cool list of PowerShell resources 
• Al Renouf has posted a video intro to VMware Update Manager cmdlets

• Protect objects from accidental deletion with PowerShell
• Convert database records into PS objects

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

Listen:

News

• Doug Finke has a link to video of his PowerShell Deep Dive from NYC Code Camp
• Ed Wilson (Scripting Guy) was on Episode 16 of the Get-Scripting podcast
• SQL PSX version 2.1 has a cool new “SQLISE” visual query feature

Interview

Now a word from our new sponsor, PowerWF.

Version 2.0 of PowerWF Studio has just been released. PowerWF is a Visual PowerShell development tool allowing users to build PowerShell scripts as workflows, which are similar to a flowchart or Visio diagram.  Once created, workflows can be deployed as applications, run as a scheduled task, or back to PowerShell as a script.  You can even push data to System Center with the click of a button. To get your free 30 day trial go to PowerWF.com.

Links

• PSCX Home: http://www.codeplex.com/Pscx
• PSCX user prefs
• Log your suggestions here: http://pscx.codeplex.com/WorkItem/List.aspx

Resources

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

• PowerShell Quickies (a bunch of cool one-liners)
• Unlocking the Deep Dark Secrets in .NET
• Manage VirtualBox with PowerShell

• Launch a PowerShell script outside of the console
• Create a large dummy file

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

Listen:

News

Now a word from our new sponsor, PowerWF.

Version 2.0 of PowerWF Studio has just been released. PowerWF is a Visual PowerShell development tool allowing users to build PowerShell scripts as workflows, which are similar to a flowchart or Visio diagram.  Once created, workflows can be deployed as applications, run as a scheduled task, or back to PowerShell as a script.  You can even push data to System Center with the click of a button. To get your free 30 day trial go to PowerWF.com.

• Want to try PowerShell on a USB key or a system without .NET? Check out Portable PowerShell, now in private beta.
• User Group News!
  • Ed will also be at the SE Michigan PowerShell script club on March 16! Go follow him like a roadie!
  • First meeting of the Indianapolis PowerShell User Group meets April 6th
  • Tampa PSUG – first meeting March 11th!
  • Atlanta PowerShell User Group – first meeting March 16!
  • New York City PSUG: New website and new day for the inaugural meeting – now April 12th. Other news: drinks afterwards and first round is on Tome!
• PowerGUI Pro and MobileShell is on sale for $99 for a limited time
• Doug Finke will be doing a PowerShell deep dive on March 6th at NYC Code Camp
• You can get a 40% discount on the forthcoming PowerShell in Practice
• CodePlex news: PowerShell Remote File Explorer v0.1 just released

Interview

Links

• MS Deployment Toolkit 2010
• Managing INI files from PowerShell
• Keith’s blog

Questions

• stuwee: ## Assuming WinPE is used within MDT, how is powershell used with it?

Hero/Power – Batman

Resources

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

• Joel Bennett has created a Yahoo Pipe that combines PowerShell scripts from several RSS feeds into one Script Pipe.
• Jeffery Hicks published a whitepaper on PowerShell in the Enterprise
• PowerWF can now deploy workflows to SCOM
• Chad Miller did a series on Querying Oracle from PowerShell
• New blog: Captain’s PowerShell Blog (thx @marcoshaw)
• PSTerminalServices – A PowerShell module for Terminal Services
• Tobias and new MVP Aleksandar, and Richard Giles just published their huge 38 pg. Administrator’s Guide to PowerShell Remoting on PowerShell.com

• Need to prompt a user for information with a GUI dialog box? PowerShell InputBox to the rescue!

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

Listen:

News

• User Group News!
  • System Center Virtual UG Live Meetingwith Ed Wilson happens March 5th!
  • Ed will also be at the SE Michigan PowerShell script club on March 16! Go follow him like a roadie!
  • First meeting of the Indianapolis PowerShell User Group meets April 6th
  • UK Virtual PowerShell User Group has a meeting on March 2nd (You can check out the February meeting recording here)
  • Atlanta PowerShell User Group – first meeting March 16!
  • New York City comes online on the same day!
• We are giving away three copies of Hal’s VMware vSphere Pro video. If you’d like to enter to win, go to PowerScripting.net and leave a comment on the blog entry for show 103.
• Just released today: PowerWF Ultimate v2.0!
• SoftwareFX is behind a tech book raffle website that may interest some of you. It’s called 101 Free Tech Books and they have a PowerShell section.

Interview

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

Links

• http://cmdletdesigner.codeplex.com/
  http://psstudio.codeplex.com/
  http://www.nivot.org/Trackback.aspx?guid=21136a8a-636d-4665-8637-e93a24bbd61d

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

Listen:

News

• User Group News!
  • UK Virtual PowerShell User Group has a meeting on March 2nd (You can check out the February meeting recording here)
  • Atlanta PowerShell User Group – first meeting March 16!
  • New York City comes online on the same day!
• Hal’s PowerCLI video training course is now available
• Jonathan and Al recently interviewed Luc Dekens on the Get-Scripting Podcast
• PowerShell V2 training May 17-21 with Don Jones in Seattle, WA

Interview

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

Resources

• Download all our episodes with PowerShell and BITS
• TechNet Virtual Lab: Windows Server 2008 R2: Server Management and PowerShell V2
• Script to download PowerGUI, Primal Forms and Quest AD cmdlets automatically
• The SharePoint Mad Scientist has a cheat sheet with the new SP2010 cmdlets
• Jeffery Hicks has a script for profiling scripts
• Did you know you can connect to a mySQL database from PowerShell?

• Hal tells how to speed up your PowerCLI login
• Out-GridView Dirty Tricks
• Make PowerShell your default shell in Server Core 2008 R2