Bonus Episode – The Missing Interviews

22 03 2009

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

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Today we have a special bonus podcast. We have three interviews for you.

-Justin Braun from Compellent

-PowerShell MVP Max Trinidad (from the MVP Summit)

-PowerShell team member James Brundage with a demo of WPK (from the MVP Summit)

Here’s some additional information from Justin’s interview

 

  • Worked as a TAM for Microsoft for a couple of years
  • Compellent just went public last year
  • SAN device with some unique maangement tools and features
  • Snapin connects via IP to SAN hardware, no middleware required
  • Snapin also connects to VDS service on remote SAN clients (windows servers)
  • rfoust : ## do you have management packs for OpsMgr?
  • glnsize : ## how hard was it sell your team on powershell?
  • rfoust : ## are you actively testing on ctp3?
  • glnsize : ## are you handling the partition offset… when your formatting the drive?
  • rfoust : ## did you say if you have a gui built on the cmdlets? or is your gui separated?
  • glnsize : ## what can’t you do with your cmdlets… what % coverage do you have with your cmdlets
  • rfoust : ## how many cmdlets are in the snapin?
  • glnsize : ## any providers to browes the san 
  • rfoust : ## will the snapin work with any other vendors hardware, or is it proprietary?

Our regular episode for this week should be up tomorrow. Enjoy! 

 

 

 

 


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Up Next: Brandon Shell talks about Active Directory in PowerShell V2

17 03 2009

We’ve had Brandon on the show before, so you know this will be a good one.  This time, Brandon will give us the scoop on what is new from Microsoft on managing Active Directory in PowerShell V2. While Brandon is a PowerShell MVP, Active Directory is his real specialty, so he’ll be able to go as deep into the details as we let him.

We can’t do this interview alone! We need you to attend PowerScripting Live this Thursday, March 19th at 9pm EDT so that we can pepper Brandon with some great AD questions from the audience.


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Episode 62 – Ferdinand Rios and Jeffery Hicks from Sapien

15 03 2009

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

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In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk with Ferdinand Rios and Jeffery Hicks from SAPIEN Technologies.

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.

  • ustreamer-22944 : #Question: Has Jeff mastered Black Hole Sun at Hard level on Rock Band yet?  🙂
  • glnsize : ## where is the module support?
  • glnsize : ## is there suppport for tortisesvn?
  • ustreamer-22944 : ## Does PrimalScript editor support the MSSCCI interface to allow various version control products to plug into it?
  • mwjcomputing : ## How many people can access ChangeVue at the same time?
  • meson : ## What products aren’t included in PrimalScript?
  • gaurhoth : ## Does primal script support -STA?

Resources

This segment is brought to you by Idera:

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Tips

  • Need to create an arbitrary file in PowerShell?
    • fsutil file createnew c:\temp\foo.bar $(1mb)
  • Very cool wh[tab] and fe[tab] console shortcuts in PowerShellPlus

Gotcha

Mailbag

“I’m a big fan of the show.  It has been very helpful to me in my quest
to learn Powershell.

I just finished listening to Episode 61 and wanted to comment on the
discussion regarding disk alignment.  I too had never heard of disk
alignment until LogicsOne told us about it a couple years ago.  Since
then aligning disks has been a part of our VM build process.  You can
find a description here:

http://tinyurl.com/akwxoc
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929491

Thanks again, and keep up the good work.”

Ryan G


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We Love Feedback

9 03 2009

Especially this one! 🙂

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Thanks, John!


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Up Next: PrimalScript 2009 with Alex & Jeff from SAPIEN

9 03 2009

Wow, we are so used to twitter, we just said all that needed saying in under 140 characters. 🙂

On this week’s show we will have Alex Riedel and Jeffrey Hicks from SAPIEN on to talk about PrimalScript 2009 and PrimalTools. Please join us at the usual Bat-Time of 9 Eastern (we’re on summer time now, watch out for that) this Thursday.

And lastly, we want to apologize for no show last week.  A combination of things made production difficult, so we decided we had to bail.


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Episode 61 – Joe Pruitt from F5 and the ABCs of PowerShell

2 03 2009

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

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In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk with developer and blogger Joe Pruitt from F5 Networks.

News

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

 

 

Interview 

Get on the fast track to PowerShell scripting success with PowerGUI


Join PowerShell MVPs Dmitry Sotnikov and Kirk Munro for a live chat at Quest Connect, a free, on-demand virtual tradeshow where you can get the answers you need to solve your toughest PowerShell challenges

Visit www.quest.com/poshchat today to learn more and to register

 

 

 

  • rfoust : ## what do you like the most about powershell?
  • glnsize : ## what’s your opinion of WS-MGMT?
  • glnsize : ## how deep do you plan on going with your cmdlets?  what percentage of your product line do you want to cover?
  • ustreamer-61217 : ## will there be an update for v2?
  • glnsize : ##  doesn’t that invalidate the whole perpose of SSL… not posh related but a pet peeve
  • jonwalz-1 : ## there is a memory improvement technique that uses ABC lists. Is that where you got the idea for your lists?

 

Resources

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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!


 

 

Tips 

 

Mailbag

Author : Vivek K.

“I have been listening to your postcast’s and you guys are doing great job.
Here is something I want to share as a single liner 🙂

I have text file with the name text1.txt, text2.txt and so on..
I have always been renaming these files manually for long time and now with Power (PowerShell) in my hand I do this..

Get-ChildItem *.txt | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.name -replace ‘text(\d+)’, ‘$1.text’}

HTH for all those who come across situations when you want to rename such files.. this is for files with name starting with “text”.. I am working on making this script as general as possible.”


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Up Next: Joe Pruitt from F5 Networks

23 02 2009

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“I started at F5 in 1998 at about 20 employees and am now #3 in tenure mark with roughly 1700.  I started out in Product Development as a Senior Software Engineer for our core BIG-IP product. I later moved into a Senior Software Architect role focusing on integration technologies.  In 2001 I designed and wrote a web service stack (iControl) on our Networking gear to allow management and monitoring of the devices from SOAP enabled languages.  I wrote and published the SDK for our set of web services (~3000 methods on our BIG-IP Application Delivery Platform).

Most recently, I’ve moved to more of an evangelism role as the Senior Strategic Architect focusing on integration technologies and the developer community I helped create (devcentral.f5.com).  DevCentral is closely approaching 40,000 users that are primarily Network IT and Application architects.  I am in charge of the software platform and do most of the development work on it along with video/audio podcasts – it’s fun to be on a small lean team!

We have strong ties with the various departments at Microsoft and a few years back we had Jeffrey Snover over to look at some PowerShell functions I’d written on top of our iControl .NET assembly.  After that meeting I published a set of Cmdlets along with a more formalized interface into our .NET assembly from PowerShell.  I’ve written dozens of tech tips and articles on using PowerShell with iControl to help automate the deployment and management of applications on the network.  Somewhere along the way I came up with the "ABC" concept and have written three series: Networking ABC’s, Social Media ABC’s, and now PowerShell ABC’s.”

If you have questions for Joe for us to ask of Joe on the air, please leave them in the blog comments.

-hal & jon


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Episode 60 – Scripting UI with Joel Bennett and James Brundage

22 02 2009

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

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In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk with Joel Bennett and James Brundage about scriptable user interfaces.

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!

 

  • dougchase : ## What do we need to do to get started with this stuff?
  • jkavanagh58 : ## Is PrimalForms WPF?
  • dougchase : ## Does it work in V1 and how do I implement it in V1?  Seems like I read it worked in both versions but I couldn’t figure out how to start using it in V1.
  • ChadMiller : ##Haven’t looked at WPF. Can you write a web page in WPF like powershellasp?
  • rfoust : ## can you recommend a site to understand the basics of WPF?
  • hal: Will these scriptable UI tools be able to replace HTA?
  • jasonmarcher : ## How easy is it to create data templates and add them to existing tools/controls

 

New-Grid -Rows 5 {    
    New-Label “Please Enter Your Name” 
    New-TextBox -Name YourName -Row 1 
    New-Label “Sex:” -Row 2
    New-StackPanel -Row 3 {
        New-RadioButton -Content “Male” -IsChecked $true 
        New-RadioButton -Content “Female” -Column 1
    }
    New-Button “Done” -Row 4 -On_Click { 
        $yourName = $window | Get-ChildControl YourName 
        $sex = $window | 
            Get-ChildControl | 
            Where-Object {
               $_ -is [Windows.Controls.RadioButton] -and
               $_.IsChecked
            } | 
            Foreach-Object {
                $_.Content
            }
        if (-not $yourName.Text) {
            [Windows.Messagebox]::show(“Who are you?”)
        }
        $global:information = New-Object Object |
            Add-Member NoteProperty Name $yourName.Text -PassThru |
            Add-Member NoteProperty Sex $sex -PassThru        
        $window.Close()
    }
} -show

Resources

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

 

Tips 

Gotcha

  • Kirk Munro has an awesome blog post talking about a quite wicked gotcha involving quoting rules and escape characters.

 


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Episode 59 – Oisin Grehan talks SharePoint

16 02 2009

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

Listen:

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we are joined by PowerShell MVP Oisin Grehan to talk about managing SharePoint with PowerShell.

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!

Interview 

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN TechnologiesOur interview this week is with PowerShell MVP Oishin Grehan and we cover SharePoint

 

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 

  • Pasting PowerShell scripts into blog posts

One-Liner

PS > Get-Module -list | fl name, description



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Up Next: Oisin Grehan Talks about Sharepoint

10 02 2009

We’re pleased as punch to announce that Oisin Grehan, Sharepoint consultant, and PowerShell MVP, will be joining us this Thursday.  Should be a great show for several reasons, not the least of which is his Irish accent.  🙂

If you have questions or topics to cover during the interview, please leave them in the comments.


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