We’re excited to have the CEO and CTO of Devfarm Software join us this Tuesday on PoewrScripting Live. Please join us to ask your questions about this cool new PowerShell workflow product.
Up Next: Devfarm Software Talks about PowerWF
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PowerScripting Live will be???
9 06 2009I just wanted to let you know that we are not sure when we will be recording this week. I doubt it will be before Friday but we’ll let you know via the normal channels when we have something planned. Thanks for listening!
Jon
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Episode 73 – MVP Michael Smith talks Exchange
8 06 2009A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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In This Episode
Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Exchange MVP Michael Smith about Exchange 2010
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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!
- Brandon Shell let us know that the Citrix XenApp cmdlets are available
- The new PoshCode is now up in beta: http://beta.poshcode.org/
- PowerGui 1.8 is out New features include improved powerpack management
- Listener Wes Stahler posted pics of Hal & Steve Murawski taken at TechEd 2009.
- Technet Webcast June 10: How to Manage Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 in Large Enterprises (Level 300)
Interview
This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies
- 25 years experience in IT, 13 years experience w/Exchange
- Written two books, Exchange 2003, and Monitoring Exchange 2007 w/Ops Mgr
- Company: The Essential Exchange / http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/
- writes articles for:
- Exchange Messaging & Outlook e-zine
- Simpletalk
- SuperHero: Green Lantern
Questions
- slipsec: ## How do you put load on your labs?
- gaurhoth: ## Any ideas that you can share about why Exch2010 CAS isn’t going to be able to proxy to Exch2003 Backend (like Exch2007 CAS can now)? gaurhoth: I’m looking at a exch2003 – exch2010 transition end of next year and this seems like it’s going to add a hurdle.
- gaurhoth: ## Have you played with cross-site DAG and is it as good as the demo’s so far make it look?
- gaurhoth: ## sDo you have any limitation/concerns that you’ve observed so far?
- gaurhoth: ## Is MS’s recommendations that you can replace disk/tape backup with DAG (with at least 3 copies) really that realistic? Seems like you’d be open to database corruption issues since you would…
- slipsec: ## How is Public Folder support?
- gaurhoth: ## only have 1 (maybe 2) delayed copies if youc an afford that many servers (for lagged replication)
- gaurhoth: ## Is all of DAG functionality availble from management console or is powershell required to set it up (as in HA tech in 2007)
- slipsec: ## Any tie in with the new Active Directory cmdlets?
- gaurhoth: ## Is DAG Failover between sites a manual process? (assuming yes … dns, etc)… Does failover require updates of AD attributes to point to new server… or is it just a dns change? gaurhoth: (and AD Attribute changes obviously needing replication to complete before failover can be completed)
Resources
When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!
For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever.
Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands – download PowerGUI today.
- This video on Channel 9 shows you how to automate MS’s Netmon protocol analyzer with PowerShell (50 min running time)
- Introduction to Modules w/ Advanced Functions
- Another PowerShell script to ping servers, this one will send you an email
- PowerShell videos on Bing
- Shay has a great method for quickly finding expired x.509 certificates with a new custom formatter (PS1XML)
Tips
- Rich Siddaway discusses working with file attributes and hidden files
- Steve Murawski talks about focusing your scripts and functions
- Jeff Hicks goes into return versus write
- Neat thread on securing WinRM on PowerShellCommunity.org
- StackOverflow: What are some of the most useful yet little known features in the PowerShell language?
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Episode 72 – Alex Riedel from SAPIEN talks about PrimalForms
5 06 2009A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Alex Riedel from SAPIEN Technologies about their new PrimalForms product
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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!
- TechNet Virtual Conference is coming June 19th
- System Center Service Manager has a Test Drive version available, complete with PowerShell cmdlets
- A Twitter client written in PowerShell
- A fix for PowerTab is out to make it work with PowerShell V2 CTP3
- Shay Levy was interviewed on the Get-Scripting Podcast
- Looking for PowerShell training and in the Ohio area? SAPIEN’s special forces training is coming to Columbus end of July.
- Hal asks you all to post your profile
Interview
This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies
Alex Riedel from Sapien is back on the show to tell us about PrimalForms 2009
Questions from the chat room (from people who rock)
9:15 meson: ## Does it support WPF?
9:17 JeffHicks: ##Does this require PrimalScript?
9:22 meson: ## So if you can’t see the form code, does that mean you can create dynamic properties?
Resources
When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!
Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands – download PowerGUI today.
For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever.
- Jeffery Snover posts a Get-WindowTitle script on the PowerShell team blog
- A script for finding Windows machines that are missing patches
- Hal wrote a script to detect if a web server is running WebDAV (based on this thread on PoshComm)
- Jeff Hicks shows us examples of how to improve a script
- Joe Pruitt has a new series of Unix -> PowerShell scripts. So far he’s done md5, touch, and fourteen others!
- Eric Sloof wrote a cool script a few weeks ago that will grab a screen capture of the virtual machines in your VMware infrastructure and create a HUD to quickly view the system states.
Tips
- Brandon Shell talks about the benefits of using LDAP filters when querying Active Directory
- Keith Hill posts some neat PSCX tips
- Starting a new elevated process from a PowerShell script
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Episode 71 – Doug Hazelman from Veeam
2 06 2009A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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In This Episode
Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Doug Hazelman from Veeam
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!
- VMware’s VI Toolkit is now called PowerCLI, and they have a Twitter account.
- What’s new in the VI Toolkit Extensions?
- Pscx 1.2 Beta has been released
- Listener Matt Johnson is trying to start up a PowerShell Script Club in SE Michigan
- Go and register for the upcoming Exchange 2010 webcast frrom TechNet (thanks Shay)
- 2009 Summer Scripting Games are coming, and they are gonna be great (thanks in part to PoshCode!)
- The first Unofficial Online VMUG is June 1st
Interview
This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies
Doug Hazelman from Veeam joins us tonight
Questions from the chat room (from people who rock)
9:13 neririn: ## how does this compare to vCenter Data Recovery?
9:16 BrianSt: ## How does Configurator compare to the new Host Profiles?
Superhero: SpaceGhost
Resources
When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!
For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever.
Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands – download PowerGUI today.
- The guys at Channel 9 have put up a half-dozen short videos on PowerShell v2 features
- Icomasoft has put up a quick reference card that’s great for both PowerShell and the VI Toolkit–er, PowerCLI
- Hal had a chance to interview Kirk Munro in person at TechEd and they talked a lot about PowerGUI
- Dmitry shows us how to do a remote defrag with WMI and PowerGUI
Tips
- Shay has written a great article on how to run PowerShell versions 1 and 2 side by side using the new XP Mode feature in Windows 7
- Blogger Steven Hystad has written a cool cryptography and compression script along with a nice writeup on some of the background for writing it
- An example of using -header with import-csv for looking at Live Mesh logs
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New day for PowerScripting Live!
21 05 2009At least for the next 8 weeks or so we are moving our Ustream broadcasts to Tuesday nights at 9:00 EST. Tonight’s broadcast is still on but next week we will be recording on Tuesday.
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Episode 70 – PowerShell BOF Session from TechEd
18 05 2009A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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This show features the Birds of a Feather session “Practical PowerShell: Best Practices from the Field” including discussion about:
- Function naming
- PowerShell profiles
- Execution policies and security
- Remoting
- Best practices
- and more!
Please Visit our Sponsors Quest and Idera
When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!
For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands – download PowerGUI today.
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!
Thanks for listening!
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Episode 69 – Jason Gallaugher from Rove
10 05 2009A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Jason Gallaugher from Rove
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- Hal’s new book has been released and is shipping!
- PowerShell Plus 3.0 has been released
- Here’s a script for tracking down the Conficker worm
- The PowerShell toys we talked about with Lance Robinson are now available
- PowerShell roadshow in Germany
- PowerShell MMS Slides and demos available at the Microsoft PowerShell Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/04/30/se06-whats-new-in-windows-powershell-2-0.aspx and http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/04/30/se05-easy-automation-with-windows-powershell.aspx
Interview
When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever.
Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands – download PowerGUI today.
Questions from the chatroom:
stahler: ## Still not clear on this. Does it sit on top of SCOM, MOM or replace altogether.
glnsize: ## more realistic your log drive is full… service restart wont do. what level of control is there realy?
glnsize: ## by one way… no output is returned
jasonmarcher: ## Can you call a script through that limited interface?
Superhero: SpiderMan
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!
- Jeffery Snover brings us some fun with alerts
- A cool script to create new subnets in AD
- Run a portscan with PowerShell
- A PowerShell packet sniffer
Tips
- Don’t assume that what you see is what you get. Sometimes an apple is an orange .
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Up Next: RoveIT Extends Your IT Reach!
5 05 2009Mobile Admin from RoveIT allows IT administrators to manage their entire IT infrastructure from their handheld devices. Users can reset password, restart servers, restart services, view event logs etc. We can also access Powershell with a Powershell plug-in. For a server equipped with Powershell, you will see a Powershell icon appear when you access that server via Mobile Admin. Clicking on the icon will give you a console interface that can be used for Powershell access.
Ok, enough of the marketing speak—you know we don’t play that way on our show! But this is a two-way street. We need YOU to show up this Thursday at 9pm EDT at our Ustream channel to join in the interview and do the great job that you guys always do with posing interesting questions to our guest.
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No PowerScripting Live Today
30 04 2009Sorry kiddies, Jonathan is in no shape to record today as he is just returning from a family vacation. You know how those are with the sex, drugs, and rock & roll and all that. I’m sure he’s all strung out and wouldn’t look good on camera anyhow.
We’ll probably record this week’s show off-schedule again like we did the last one, so be sure to follow us on Twitter and you might be able to catch us live despite our flakiness. The next show will be next Thursday, and the one after that…well, we’ll just have to see how that will work out as Hal will be at TechEd that week. He has big plans for show content to record while there, so be sure to watch out for that.
Upcoming guests:
- Doug Hazelman from Veeam
- Various surprise guests from TechEd
- RoveIT
Also, we are worknig to book guests from Zimbra, Microsoft Data Protection Manager, and more!
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