Tonight’s Guest: Clint Huffman

7 01 2010

Clint HuffmanOriginally from Dayton, OH. Clint joined Microsoft in 1999 supporting web technologies, Microsoft load testing tools, and later worked as a Testing Consultant helping people with load testing at the Microsoft Services Labs. There he found a passion for solving Windows performance issues. In 2006, he joined Microsoft Premier Field Engineering (PFE) team to take on BizTalk performance issues only to find that most issues could be diagnosed by analyzing operating system resources. Some may say that performance analysis of Windows is more of an art than a science. Well, Clint strives to make it as much of a science as possible and to bring it to the masses. Clint is probably best known for the Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) tool, which simplifies the analysis of performance monitor logs. He is an author of many of the BizTalk performance guides on MSDN and recently spoke at Tech Ed 2008 on BizTalk performance analysis. He currently lives in Marysville, WA which is about 40 miles north of Seattle.

Note:

We will start recording at 9:30 PM EST as usual (more or less), but Cliff won’t be joining us until around 10:30.


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Episode 96 – Scripting Guy Ed Wilson on PowerShell Best Practices

28 12 2009

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

Listen:

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Ed Wilson, the Scripting Guy 

News 

Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.
Don’t wait – visit quest.com/powershellbook to register for your free copy and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.

 

Interview

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

Links

Questions

  • ye110wbeard: ## Ed, when you got hired by Microsoft did you jump up and down like a madman yelling “yeeha” 
  • rfoust: ## what other scripting languages do you know and how do you think powershell compares?
  • jtruman0917-1: ## With Microsoft promising that all products after Outlook 2007 would have Powershell Support.  Why would a new automation lang even be a discussion?
  • pcgeek86: What happened to Greg and Jean?
  • rfoust: ## what’s the coolest script you’ve seen and whats the coolest one you’ve written     
  • Jaykul: ## So if you don’t exercise best practices when you write scripts … where do these best practices come from?
  • [several asked if he would come to their user group]

Resources


One-Liners

Everybody got silly in the chatroom. So, let’s channel that wild energy here with…beer cmdlets! 🙂 Note: these are not guaranteed to actually DO anything. YMMV, BYOB!

  • pcgeek86: Drink-Beer -Amount Lots 
  • ScottMoss: drink-beer -refill 
  • pcgeek86: Drink-Beer -Type GermanPilsner 
  • ScottMoss: drink-beer -Type Sweetwater Bule 
  • jtruman0917-1: Drink-beer -Type DoesItReallyMatter 
  • rfoust: get-beer | giveto-rfoust 
  • jkavanagh58: drink-beer -brand Yuengling -Type Porter -qty Lots 
  • rfoust: while ($true) { get-beer }

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Episode 95-Josh Jones From the CS Techcast Talks PowerShell and SQL

20 12 2009

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

Listen:

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Josh Jones from the CS Techcast 

News

Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.
Don’t wait – visit quest.com/powershellbook to register for your free copy and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.

 

Interview

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

Links

Questions

  • ##Josh, did you go to school for DB admin, or was it learned on the job?
  • jtruman0917: ## Josh what are your feelings about SSRS?  Do you use it?
  • AaronHoover: ## Josh, is most of your stuff back-end?  Any front-end design?  If so, what tools?
  • jtruman0917: ## so for your reports do you code your own SP’s and attach the report to them?
  • AaronHoover: ## Josh, is most of your stuff back-end?  Any front-end design?  If so, what tools?
  • jtruman0917: ## Have you ever had to support applications that implemented sql queries on the fly
  • jtruman0917: ## is it like Group Policy Manager?

SuperHero/Power – Wizardry (Warlock)

Resources

Tips

Please support our sponsor ServerFault.com, the ultimate Q&A site for system administrators!

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Episode 94- Carter Shanklin from VMware on PowerCLI and Onyx

6 12 2009

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

Listen:

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Carter Shanklin with VMware about his new product release

News

Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.
Don’t wait – visit quest.com/powershellbook to register for your free copy and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.

 

Interview

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

Links

Questions

  • jtruman0917: ## Can you import any VHD ?
  • siebert7625: When is Onyx suppose to GA?
  • jtruman0917: ## Will conveter ever allow for creating a vdsk file from a runnng physical machine?
  • esiebert7625: seems liek there are cmdlets for just about everything, what isn’t there cmdlets for?
  • jasonboche: ## We could use commandlets for Lab Manager. We have 5 deployments and growing, some large. Lack of some automation in Lab Manager hurts.
  • esiebert7625: are there any cmdlets for vshield zones or VDR?
  • esiebert7625: how much code tweaking is needed with Onyx? will the code generated be ready to use or will it need massaging first?

Resources

Tips

Please support our sponsor ServerFault.com, the ultimate Q&A site for system administrators!

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Getting Started with PowerShell

23 11 2009

Reminder, there will be no PowerScripting Live this week due to the US Thanksgiving holiday. Next live show is Dec 1st. This means the next episode won’t be released on the website/iTunes until Dec 7th.

That said, we don’t want to leave you hungry! With that in mind, here’s a couple of resources for the new scripters out there. Even if you aren’t a newbie, you should check out both of these resources as there are plenty of tips within which you may not have come across before.

And here is a massive list of videos available about Powershell from three of Microsoft’s media portal sites:


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Episode 93 – Jeff Atwood tells us Rock Hard Awesome will create teleportation and we talk about ServerFault

22 11 2009

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

Listen:

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Jeff Atwood about technical communities, ServerFault, and StackOverflow

News

 

Interview

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

Links

Questions

  • your background
  • Why come up with a new type of Q&A site?
  • what have you learned so far?
  • tech challenges
  • SO vs SF (and the rest). I expect to spend quite a bit of time here, to be sure that my listeners, the majority of which are admins, understand where PowerShell questions fit, given that it _is_ a computer language.
  • Who is Rock Hard Awesome? 🙂

Resources

Tips

Please support our sponsor ServerFault.com, the ultimate Q&A site for system administrators!

One-Liner

As documented recently on the PowerShell team blog:
gp HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate, HelpLink, UninstallString | ogv

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Recording *Tonight* with Jeff Atwood!

17 11 2009

We are very excited to welcome Jeff Atwood, perhaps better known as @codinghorror on Twitter, to the podcast tonight.

Jeff has an extremely popular blog at CodingHorror.com where he discusses software development best practices. In addition, he is one of the masterminds behind StackOverflow and ServerFault, two very important websites for PowerShell hackers.

It should be a great interview, Jeff is a very dynamic speaker as you already know if you listen to the StackOverflow podcast.

P.S. Sorry for the schedule change, Thursday was blocked out by a higher power.


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Episode 92 – The BSonPosh Module with MVP Brandon Shell

16 11 2009

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

Listen:

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Brandon Shell about virtualization, VDI, and his new BSonPoshPowerShell module.

News

 

Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.
Don’t wait – visit quest.com/powershellbook to register for your free copy and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.

Interview

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

Links

Questions

  • AaronHoover: How does management with Hyper-V compare to that with VMware?
  • jeffculb: ##memory overcomit does ok in vmware… vCPU density is the killer
  • aerodevil: ##does hyperv thin provision?
  • glnsize: ##have you used PCoIP
  • sepeck: ## did I miss the difference between this and the activeroles cmdlets or Microsofts R2 release?
  • aerodevil: ##get-RebootTime. What does that provide specifically.
  • jtruman0917: ## so would this also push toward Mobile PoSH

Resources

Tips

[stackoverflow / serverfault ad]

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Tonight’s guest: Brandon Shell

12 11 2009

We are continuing what is looking like a series where we dig into PowerShell modules. This time, Brandon Shell, PowerShell MVP and blogger at bsonposh.com, joins us once more to talk about his BSonPosh module.

If you’re near a computer at 9:30pm EST, join the live stream where you can chat with other listeners and contribute questions as we interview Brandon.


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What are your favorite episodes?

12 11 2009

Hal here. I just had a friend ask if we had a “best of” list of past episodes. With the possible exception of Episode 89—which was epic and hard to beat—they are all my babies, if you know what I mean.

Why don’t you all chip in on this question? Please let us know in the comments what some of your favorite past episodes are.


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