Episode 68 – James Brundage from the PowerShell team

29 04 2009

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

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In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to James Brundage from Microsoft.

News

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.
 

Interview

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.

 

Tips from James

Splatting example:

function foo([switch]$force, [switch]$confirm)

Here are some sample scripts from James:

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

Listen to the show to hear details of our “Heroes” contest.  You can win a $25 Amazon.com gift certificate!

{

    $force

    $confirm

}

 

$parameters = @{

     Force = $true

     Confirm = $true

}

 

 

foo @parameters


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Episode 68 will have James Brundage

24 04 2009

We were lucky to have caught James at a good time and he came on the show for a cool version 2 tips episode.  Jonathan is on vacation, so the show might be posted late next week.  Watch this space!


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No PowerScripting Live This Week

21 04 2009

Jonathan’s going on vacation this Thursday, so we’ve decided to record a short show, sans interview on Wednesday evening. We won’t be making a big fuss about the live show because we don’t want to steal anyone away from any other live shows which might be happening at the same time, but if you follow Hal or Jon on Twitter we’ll let you know when we do start recording if you wanted to come hang out.

Also, Jonathan doesn’t get back into town next week until Thursday, so we’re not sure yet if we’ll be doing a normal show at that time.  We do have guest Doug Hazelman from Veeam lined up for that show, so stay tuned to our website for scheduling news.


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Episode 67 – Bob Bobel from Quest Software

20 04 2009

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

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In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Bob Bobel about Quest’s Active Directory cmdlets. And stay tuned to the end of the show for a new contest!

News

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.

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 mentioned in the interview

Questions
  • JeffHicks : ##What can you tell us about what will happen with the free PowerShell cmdlets from Quest once Microsoft fully releases their AD solution.
  • rfoust : ## how do you see the world changing with the new web interface thingy in R2, what role will adsi continue to play?
  • ChadMiller : ##Do the cmdlets support local Windows groups
  • JeffHicks : ##How many developers are working on Powershell cmdlets?
  • aleksandar : ##How do you explain the popularity of powergui.org forums?
  • rfoust : ## working on anything for hyper-v?
  • rfoust : ## or vmware
  • JeffHicks : ##Who is the target enterprise for ARS?
  • JeffHicks : ##How do you think PowerShell v2 will change the free PowerShell cmdlets and/or PowerGUI?
  • JeffHicks : ##Do you define feature sets and requirements or just keep everyone on task?
  • BrianSt : ##Does Access Manager work with NetApp?
  • aleksandar : ##do you plan to make cmdlets that will cover AD topology management?
  • JeffHicks : ##is there a place to submit wish list requests?
  • meson : ## Does Quest have any plans for creating Activity Libraries for Citrix Workflow Studio for their cmdlets?  WIth the WFS SDK you can take cmdlets and convert them to Activity Libraries so they are available in WFS. I am wondering if they are even considering doing that or if they would have an issue with someone in the community doing it.
  • aleksandar : ##quest has forums and wiki, but can we expect proper bug tracking system?

Resources

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Tips

Contest

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Episode 66 – Scott Herold talks VESI and Vizioncore

13 04 2009

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

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In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Scott Herold about Vizioncore and VESI. We’re also joined in studio by Scott Moss, VP of the Southeast Management User Group, a local friend, and fan of the show.

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

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

Links mentioned in the interview 

Questions
  • rfoust : ## tell me about vOptimizer Pro.  Does it resize C: partitions if a D: is right behind it?
  • rfoust : ## what do you think about hyper-v – will it ever compete w/ vmware?
  • rfoust : ## will vOptimizer realign without taking downtime, or i guess it has to reboot, right?
  • ScottMoss : ## does vfoglight integrate with Microsoft Operations Manager?
  • rfoust : ## know of any good docs for deploying Exchange in vmware? Vmotioning a CCR cluster really isn’t supported, huh? 🙂
  • spowser : ## Can the resize work the opposite way?  Go from small to large disk?
  • meson : ## How about XenServer?
  • rfoust : ## is vmware anywhere close to lpars?
  • spowser : ## Will Ecoshell be able to extend\shrink disks or is that IP of Vizioncore?
  • cartershanklin : ## Do you think VESI will focus on an area, reporting for example?
  • cartershanklin : ## Are you embracing/extending the notion of PowerGUI lockdown?
  • cartershanklin : Maybe Scott can talk a bit about lockdown and why it matters.
  • cartershanklin : ## Will VESI support VMware Update Manager?

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. 

Tips

 

 

 


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Episode 65 – Lance Robinson from /N Software

4 04 2009

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

Listen:

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Lance Robinson from /n Software

News

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

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.

Links mentioned in the interview

Resources

This segment is brought to you by Idera:

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


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Episode 64 – Fred Baptiste brings us PolyMon and PolyMonRT

29 03 2009

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

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In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Fred Baptiste, author of PolyMon and PolyMonRT

News

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.

Interview 

This segment is brought to you by Idera:
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!
PolyMon
PolyMonRT
  • spowser : ## I had a coworker ask me how active the Polymon project is since the last release was May 2008
  • ChadMiller : ##Is Polymon closer to Spotlight than MOM/SCOM?
  • StevenMurawski : ##Is the next release of PolyMon going to use the PowerShell runtime as it’s engine?  (make all monitors cmdlets?)
  •  spowser : ## I saw there was a note about a web interface, is there an ETA on that?
  • EBGreen : ##I haven’t investigated this myself but how extensible is PolymonRT? Specifically adding new display widgets.
  • EBGreen : ##How does it compare to Power Gadgets (other than price 🙂 )?
  • glnsize : ## when did you find powershell, and what made you integrate it into polymon
  • ChadMiller : ##What about alert supression?
  • glnsize : ## what’s the performace of a powershell monitor
  • glnsize : ## what is the difference of pollymonrt vs pollymon
  • PolyMon Controls: http://www.codeplex.com/PolyMonControls

Resources

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Tips 

 

One-Liner

PS > Get-ChildItem env:\Use*

 

 

 


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Up Next: Fred Baptiste Talks about PolyMon & PolyMon RT

25 03 2009

Fred Baptiste is the author of a popular open-source network and server monitoring application: PolyMon and its sans-database little brother, PolyMonRT.

Of course, this is the PowerScripting Podcast so there has to be a PowerShell hook, and there is. For some time now, Fred’s product has had the capability for you to integrate PowerShell scripts into the system monitors.

Head on over to the CodePlex pages linked above and read up on the feature set. Then be sure and join us this Thursday at 9pm EDT when we interview Fred. As always, the audience participation is the best part about doing these interviews and we really like to pack the house.

Hope to see you there!


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Episode 63 – PowerShell MVP Brandon Shell

23 03 2009

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

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In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Brandon Shell about Active Directory support in PowerShell V2

News

This segment is brought to you by Idera:

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!

  • EBGreen on the PowerShellCommunity is trying to get a St. Louis Script Club together. If you are in his neck of the woods, get in touch!
  • PowerShell UG meeting on Mar26th
  • Congrats to Jeffrey Snover: Distinguished Engineer !
  • SDM Software has released version 1.3 of the GPMC cmdlets. Free download!
  • You can influence the PowerShell Cookbook V2
  • PowerShell in Action MEAP news:

    • “As with the first edition, the plan for this book is to be a definitive “details” book which means that it will continue to be a bit much for an “absolute beginner” but someone with scripting/programming experience should be fine. (Let me know if I’m getting it wrong.) And again, I will try to include the rationale behind why things are the way they are. I find that this type of elaboration really helps me become comfortable with a topic. Hopefully readers find it likewise helpful.

      As to what I’m covering, I expect to do a *lot* on modules as they have turned out to be rather more complex then I’d really like. Remoting is also an area that I expect to cover in depth (though I think our docs should be pretty good in this area as the writers got reasonable lead time on this stuff.) I’m also thinking it might be useful to cover some more advanced programmer-oriented topics like constrained runspaces and the new hosting APIs. I’ll cover the new WMI stuff, the BITS cmdlets and WSMAN cmdlets and provider which are part of the core OS. What I don’t plan to cover (at least not deeply) are a lot of the new server features that use PowerShell simply because each of these features (AD, IIS, the new Exchange stuff, etc.) will require a book on their own.”

       

       

Interview 

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  • glnsize : ## what do you think of the move to web services vs the traditional ADSI
  • rfoust: ## how flexible are the new cmdlets?
  • rfoust : ## think we will ever see true dynamic groups in AD? (i dont mean the fake app dynamic groups thing)
  • glnsize : ##do the official cmdlets fill the gaps that quest left out… forest fismo stuff?
  • cerobins : ## Is there a way to force AD replication? A quick look in the current stuff and coming AD cmdlets didn’t tell me anything
  • rfoust : ## will quest cmdlets become irrelevant?
  • glnsize : ## will the new cmdlets work with 2k3?
  • rfoust : ## are the cmdlets just for querying/setting AD stuff, or is dcdiag, etc being rewritten?
  • aleksandar : ## what are the requirements for MS AD cmdlets?
  • rfoust : ## will the ad cmdlets run on 2003/xp?
  • glnsize : ## in yuor opinion is this exchange or IIS (you know what i mean)
  • rfoust : ## so you can’t override defaults by setting something somewhere
  • rfoust : ## expected performance of these cmdlets vs. old utilities?
  • rfoust : ## i guess these cmdlets will work on DC’s back to 2000? (hopefully nobody is still running 2000…but…)
  • mkline : ## 5 years down the road, where do you see those that havne’t embraced powershell
  • rfoust : ## cmdlets will work cross-forest?
  • mkline : ## hopefully not OT, is the powershell university course from Sapien any good?
  • cerobins : http://blogs.msdn.com/adpowershell/archive/2009/02/25/ad-powershell-quick-start-guide.aspx
  • mkline : good quick video over at TechNet Edge on recychle bin http://edge.technet.com/Media/Active-Directory-Recycle-Bin 
  • rfoust : ## are ad cmdlets transactional?

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.

 

Tips 

One-Liner

  • On StackOverflow there’s a one-liner to list all COM objects on a system. This was sent in by Steve Murawski from Mind of Root.

 

 


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Up Next: Lance Robinson from /n software

23 03 2009

We’ve had someone from /n software on the show before, but it was quite some time ago. Lance is also a pretty PowerShell prolific blogger who should have some cool stuff to talk about in addition to what he is working on at /n.

Here is his bio:

“LancerI’ve been with /n software since 2001, when I started as the Developer Support Manager, assisting software developers with the use of our Internet development components using various programming languages. Eventually I moved into my current role as Product Manager, organizing developers and overseeing API design and testing.  Through my blog (www.lancerobinson.net) and twitter (twitter.com/lmrobins), I share a lot of cool things I stumble across as well as information about the wide range of /n software products.”


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