You Too Can Be a PowerScripter!

9 10 2009

<tongue-in-cheek> 🙂

Hey, we have our own philosphy now! Here is another as-seen-on-Twitter:

Need to write up a blogpost on the Powerscripting approach I am using. Learned a lot about this in the last coupla weeksabout 1 hour ago from Digsby / TheoMoore


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Episode 86 – Jason Shirk from the PowerShell team

4 10 2009

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

Listen:

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to developer Jason Shirk from the PowerShell team.

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

Links

Questions

  • finked: ## what was your first scripting language?
  • palen: ## Did you spend much time on performance in the parser, or was that largely v1 kind of stuff?
  • glnsize: ## as a comment… I don’t write anything without implementing cmdlet bindings
  • glnsize: ## ahhh there’s cut and paste and your not typing this stuff at the console… keeping the parameters the same as c# allows me to easily translate code
  • finked: ## what other areas might get performance boosts in the future?
  • glnsize: ## what happened to runspaces, in ctp2 i could use runspaces… v2 switched to jobs and now I can’t run scriptblocks locally in seperate runspaces.  rather i don’t think i can…
  • palen: ## Wait, an API for the PowerShell tokenizer?

Resources

Tips

Gotcha

  • Watch out for trailing commas in your csv files

One-Liner

  1. function bg { Start-Job -ScriptBlock { $args } }

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Great Feedback via Twitter

2 10 2009

Saw these recently, thought we’d pass them along.  🙂

cybersylum: Listening to Epsiode 85 of PowerScripting podcast (http://bit.ly/mLlzy), If they won’t send me to training, I’ll bring it in on my ipod…
Thursday, October 1st at 17:19:16

 

stimmel: Finge, CSI, Office, Community, powerscripting podcast. #schedulingfail
Friday, October 2nd at 00:02:3

Epic!  Thanks guys!


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Episode 85 – Lee Holmes talks about v2

27 09 2009

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

Listen:

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to author and developer Lee Holmes from the PowerShell team.

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

Links

Questions

  • glnsize: ## what is the provider story?  Where a couple years in now, where do providers work?
  • glnsize: ## wait we can use eventing to handle jobs… i thought this was limited to wmi
  • glnsize: ## what scope does the event scriptblock run in?
  • palen: ## do events get lost when the powershell.exe host is close?
  • aleksandar: ## can we get a blog post in the near future about the eventing in V2. it’s new and very powerful feature, but most of the sysadmins are not very familiar with it
  • glnsize: ## where are these (ISE) extentions?
  • glnsize: ## with providers not your lane, but what do i have to do to get a skydrive provider?
  • spowser: ##Is Powershell ISE considered part of Powershell release cycle or can updates be released off-cycle?
  • glnsize: ##we’re suppose to be migrating to powershell…. did I just hear that I should be using an NT cmd over a powershell core function
  • palen: ## Is it in the roadmap to make .ps1 scripts native logon/logoff scripts?
  • finked: ## What is the easiest way to list the events in the ISE that you can register for
  • glnsize: ##besides the registry where have transactions been implemented?
  • spowser: ##What kind of feedback have you got from other teams within Microsoft about V2?
  • glnsize: ## softball -> favorite feature of V2…hardball->feature you couldn’t get in
  • glnsize: ## I think transactions are awesome, but I barley ever modify the registry
  • glnsize: ##is there a post that shows me how my advanced functions can support transactions?  how involoved is this
  • finked: ## Will transactions be in the new Cook Book? What is new in the vNext Cook Book?
  • glnsize: ## will there be a v 2.1 or will be have to wait till windows 8 for the next posh release… feel free not to answer 😉
  • glnsize: ##isn’t [execution policy] -scope process a security hole?

Resources

Gotcha


One-Liner

  1. Get-Help New-Object -Parameter property
  2. $profile | fl * -Force
  3. (thx Powershell.com):
    Get-Process |
    where-Object {$_.mainWindowTitle} |
    format-table id,name,mainwindowtitle –AutoSize

Contest

Your quest: Create a PowerShell script to generate fractal images. Bonus points for displaying the generated image using a Winform or WPF.  Get started by reading this thread on PowerShellCommunity.org.
Did we forget to mention there are prizes?  You can win an Amazon $25 gift certificate and a book from SAPIEN!

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Categories : Podcast

Episode 84 – Hal and Jonathan talk PowerShell

20 09 2009

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

Listen:

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast Hal and Jon talk about…PowerShell?

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.

Resources

Want to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and master? Checkout Idera’s PowerShellPlus Professional Edition which is now available for download! The new version has vastly improved code completion and a slick interactive Learning Center. Go to www.idera.com/PodcastPeople to get your copy today!

Tips

Gotcha

  • V2 modules cannot be initialized via .PSC files

Contest

Your quest: Create a PowerShell script to generate fractal images. Bonus points for displaying the generated image using a Winform or WPF.  Get started by reading this thread on PowerShellCommunity.org.
Did we forget to mention there are prizes?  You can win an Amazon $25 gift certificate and a book from SAPIEN!

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Episode 83 – with Pragma Systems

13 09 2009

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

Listen:

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we interview Quamrul Mina and David Kulwin from Pragma Systems

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 brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies, makers of PrimalScript.

Links / Info

Questions

  • We kinda forgot to take note of the questions asked by the audience.  🙂
Superheroes: David is Batman, and Quamrul picked Ronald Reagan

Resources

Want to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and master? Checkout Idera’s PowerShellPlus Professional Edition which is now available for download! The new version has vastly improved code completion and a slick interactive Learning Center. Go to www.idera.com/PodcastPeople to get your copy today!

Tips

One-Liner

Connect-WSman …
dir *\service\MaxConnections |si -Value 30

Contest

Your quest: Create a PowerShell script to generate fractal images. Bonus points for displaying the generated image using a Winform or WPF.  Get started by reading this thread on PowerShellCommunity.org.

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No Podcast This Week

3 09 2009

In case you missed it we are not doing a show this week. Hal is at VMworld and from there is taking some vacation. See you next week!


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Episode 82 – MVP Russ Kaufmann on PowerShell and Clustering

30 08 2009

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

Listen:

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we interview Microsoft Cluster MVP Russ Kaufmann

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 brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies, makers of PrimalScript.

Links

Questions

  • EvilEmuofDoom: ## Sorry, did you say CSV was 2008 or 2008 R2?
  • EBGreen: ##Should the difference between HA clusters vs. Load Balancing clusters vs. parallel computing clusters be brought up?
Super power: Superman!

Resources

Want to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and master? Checkout Idera’s PowerShellPlus Professional Edition which is now available for download! The new version has vastly improved code completion and a slick interactive Learning Center. Go to www.idera.com/PodcastPeople to get your copy today!

Tips

Contest

Your quest: Create a PowerShell script to generate fractal images. Bonus points for displaying the generated image using a Winform or WPF.  Get started by reading this thread on PowerShellCommunity.org.

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Episode 81 – David Warburton talks AutoPowerShell

24 08 2009

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

Listen:

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we interview David Warburton, author of AutoPowerShell

News

This segment brought to you by

Interview

Want to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and master? Checkout Idera’s PowerShellPlus Professional Edition which is now available for download! The new version has vastly improved code completion and a slick interactive Learning Center. Go to www.idera.com/PodcastPeople to get your copy today!

Links

Questions

  • EBGreen: ##So is AutoPosh (being lazy with the typing) written in C#?
  • qa_warrior: ## Do I Have Access to $MyInvocation in the script
  • EBGreen: ## What does the SharedRunspace property in the Behavior section of the properties do?
Super power: Astral Projection (Hal’s calling him out as Dr. Strange)

Resources

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.

Tips

SAPIEN Technologies, makers of PrimalScript.
new script gallery!


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Episode 80 – Klaus Graefensteiner

16 08 2009

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

Listen:

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we interview Klaus Graefensteiner, a software tester for Rockwell

News

Want to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and master? Checkout Idera’s PowerShellPlus Professional Edition which is now available for download! The new version has vastly improved code completion and a slick interactive Learning Center. Go to www.idera.com/PodcastPeople to get your copy today!

Interview

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.

Links

Questions

  • lmrobins: ## Can you categorize tests the same way you can with nunit?  When running the tests, can you run only specific categories or exclude specific categories?
  • jasonmarcher: ## Can PSUnit return the test results as objects?  Like TestName, Result, Description
  • lmrobins: ## Your work is a .net shop?  How do you plan to integrate the framework into that?  Create instances of your C# classes inside ps?
  • glnsize: ## i see multiple validatescript blocks on some params… how does that work?

Resources

Tips


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