- Episode 48: Lee Holmes (we ran out of time, so we’ll be having him on again for sure)
- Episode 49: Susan Bradley, Small Business Server MVP (PowerScripting Live starts at 8:30 EST @ 11/13)
- Episode 50: The Scripting Guys! (PowerScripting Live will be Wednesday the 19th @ 9pm)
Coming up on the PowerScripting Podcast
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PowerScripting Podcast at TechEd EMEA
5 11 2008This is very cool! Remote correspondent for PowerShellCommunity.org and and fellow PowerShell podcaster Jonathan Medd twittered from TechEd EMEA this morning:
Jeffrey is playing the Powerscripting podcast in the Powershell player made with the admin script editor!
Thanks, Jeffrey! And thanks as well to iTripoli, a long-time sponsor of the show, for making such a cool tool. 🙂
We’ll be highlighting other things from TechEd at our next episode, but while we have you here, be sure not to miss Episode 4 of the Get-Scripting Podcast. They scored a great panel discussion attended by:
- Ben Pearce – Microsoft
- Richard Siddaway – Powershell MVP
- Dmitry Sotnikov – Powershell MVP
- James O’Neill – Microsoft
- Tobias Weltner – Powershell MVP
- Jeffrey Snover – Microsoft and Powershell Creator
- Mow – Powershell MVP
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Episode 47 – MVP Systems JAMS
3 11 2008A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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In This Episode
Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we have MVP Systems in the house to talk about JAMS. And we have a TON of news from PDC to report!
News
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- Wow! Were do we start? How about 574 cmdlets
- Rumor: IBM will be providing cmdlets for hardware management
- Powershell will be installed by default on Windows Server 2008 R2 and W7
- TechEd Barcelona is coming up next week and several MVPs will be there
Interview
The news is brought to you by iTripoli.
What can you really do with PowerShell? With Admin Script Editor the question becomes what can’t you do with PowerShell? Besides all the advanced code generating tools this is the only tool offering a true PowerShell Forms Designer. To illustrate what can be done the guys at iTripoli created a full-featured MP3/Podcast player written entirely in PowerShell and delivered as a single script. Check it out at adminscripteditor.com/player.
Today we are interviewing Scott and John from MVP Systems (http://www.mvpsi.com) to talk about the PowerShell support in JAMS, their flagship batch scheduling product.
Here are a few questions which were asked by our wonderful Ustream audience:
JAMS
- meson : ## What is the cost of the product or what is the customer base small/middle/enterprise/etc?
- http://www.mvpsi.com
- glnsize : ##are these task’s or is there an agent
- trac3r726 : ## Any Reporting with charts for Management?
- glnsize : ## soon to be psremoting/wsman?
- ## any way to send jobs to run on server core, perhaps for speed/reliability?
SAAS
- rfoust : ## how does saasmonitor scale?
- rfoust : ## can it integrate w/ existing monitoring for a central dashboard?
- rfoust : ## can you do user-experience monitoring, like adding a jmeter script or something?
Resources
This segment is brought to you by Quest:
Quest Software is offering Powerscripting Podcast listeners a free copy of Jeffery Hicks new book, Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM from Sapien Press. Visit quest.com/powerscripting to register for your copy, before they run out. While you’re there download their free graphical user interface, script editor and Active Directory commands.
- 10 Cool Things to do with the Powershell (12 min video) – This demo shows some of the neat things you can do with PowerShell with regards to server administration. There are 10 demos you can run through ranging from simple queries for services to enumerating information in Active Directory. Some of the scripts use lists of computers, some prompt for a computername. Each script shows a different thing you can do with PowerShell to quickly create administration scripts.
- Precision Computing – Introduction to PowerShell Presentation
- PowerShell Code Repository – Compare-AD – A set of functions (and sample code using them) to create snapshots of user accounts in the current Active Directory domain save them in an xml file, and then compare live AD environment against that XML
- VMware: VI Toolkit (for Windows): Not Another Suite of Scripts!
- PoshRSS – is a web application for creating RSS feeds from PowerShell. The output of any PowerShell command/script is displayed as an RSS feed. The primary goal of PoshRSS is to provide system administrations the ability to leverage PowerShell + RSS to aggregate system information across many systems.
Challenge
Don’t forget our challenge from last week. If you submit a solution, we’ll feature it on the show and the website, and you’ll get a little something for your trouble. 🙂 Here is the email from Dale which we forgot to put in last week’s show notes:
“While trying to find a solution to a problem that popped up at work, I stumbled upon an open-source dotnet object-oriented database called Db4o. It is intended to be used as an embedded database in programs where some persistent storage is needed, but instead of storing data in related tables, it stores objects.
I’ve tried to access the functions via reflection, but I am just learning Powershell and I don’t know if this is the right technique. I haven’t gotten very far.
I was wondering if you or someone else who listens to the show could take a look at it, and see if it can be useful as an object store in powershell scripts.”
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Win a Copy of Lee Holmes’ Books This Thursday
3 11 2008O’Reilly was kind enough to provide us with several copies of both Windows PowerShell Cookbook, and Windows PowerShell Pocket Reference to give away on the show. We’ll give away one or two during this Thursday’s PowerScripting Live event (at 8pm this week instead of the usual 9pm), and we may save some to give away to those aren’t able to watch the live stream.
So please join us this Thursday and ask questions of Lee Holmes and you may win one of his books!
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Episode 48 / PowerScripting Live at 8pm This Thursday
3 11 2008Note that our normal time has moved back one hour to accommodate our esteemed guest. I just created an event on Facebook which you can add to your profile. Please RSVP that way if you plan on attending, we appreciate the metrics just for our own information, and it helps raise the buzz if you know what we mean.
thanks!
Jon + Hal
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Episode 46 – SQL PSX
28 10 2008A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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In This Episode
Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we interview Chad Miller, author of the SQL PSX project. And of course we’ll throw in our other usual goodies.
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.
- PowerGUI: Now with 100% more Hyper-V! « Poshoholic
- Southeast Management User Group Nov 14th meeting schedule and registration link
- SaaS: Announcing Windows PowerShell Snap-In for GoGrid (and commentary from Jeffrey Snover )
Interview
Admin Script Editor (which recently received Windows IT Pro’s top award) provides a true integrated scripting environment for PowerShell. Advanced features include an integrated PowerShell debugger, advanced code generating tools for Active Directory, Databases, XML files and more. Let’s not forget about the exclusive PowerShell forms designer. Come see for yourself– Admin Script Editor v3.5 is availble for a 45 day trial at AdminScriptEditor.com.
We had a great interview with Chad Miller, the author of the SQL PSX project on Codeplex. Below are some of the questions which were submitted by Ustream viewers.
- glnsize : ## is powershell speading throughout his it dept?
- mwjcomputing : ##How much of his day to day operations are managed using Powershell?
- glnsize : ## have you looked at V2 script cmdlets?
- mwjcomputing : ## When dealing with Auditors, do they have any objection to Powershell being the tool to gather the security information?
- stahler : ## ADO.NET through PowerShell or SQLCMD through PowerShell?
- meson : ## Any comments on a SQL database PSProvider?
- mwjcomputing : ## When gathering security information, does Powershell cause any performance hit on the database?
- glnsize : ##from a DBA perspective what is powershell missing?
Resources
This segment is brought to you by Quest:
Quest Software is offering Powerscripting Podcast listeners a free copy of Jeffery Hicks new book, Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM from Sapien Press. Visit quest.com/powerscripting to register for your copy, before they run out. While you’re there download their free graphical user interface, script editor and Active Directory commands.
- Working with NetApp in PowerShell
- Another Great Don Jones Video Demo
- Dev Resources!
- PowerShell Tunnel – Make your app scriptable using PowerShell
- Creating Subversion Repositories using PowerShell
- Doug Finke – Displaying SVN Info On Your PowerShell Prompt
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What is Your Favorite Podcast Segment?
28 10 2008We’ve put up a poll which you can see on the right side of this page. If you get a second, please vote for your favorite among:
- news
- interviews
- resources
- roundtables
- tips
- gotchas
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Coming Up on the PowerScripting Podcast
28 10 2008Confirmed Guests:
- Episode 47 – Scott McCausland with MVP Systems Software about PowerShell support in JAMS
- Episode 48 – PowerShell team superstar and author, Lee Holmes
- Episode 49 – Windows Small Business Server MVP, Susan Bradley
Willing test subjects who have not yet been scheduled:
- Ed Wilson and Craig Liebendorfer, the new Scripting Guys at Microsoft
- Developer and author Doug Finke
We’ll also be doing more product giveaways as those are arranged, so pay attention to our tweets.
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Next Episode
27 10 2008We have a slight delay in getting show #46 out the door. It will be out soon, probably in the next day or three.
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Book Giveaway: Deploying Windows Vista
17 10 2008
Hi everyone. We just received a copy of Deploying and Administering Windows Vista Bible in the mail and it looks awesome. We’re going to give it away to a lucky listener at next Thursday’s PowerScripting Live event, so be sure to drop by!
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