PowerScripting Podcast

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to PowerShell MVP Joel Bennett!

News

• The Scripting Games are on

• The 2013 PowerShell Summit videos have been posted!

• The NOVA PowerShell Group is having their first meeting May 8th!

• MVP Don Jones will be speaking May 14th at the Mississippi PowerShell User Group

• The DFW user group is meeting on May 24th

Interview

Guests – Joel Bennett

Links

• http://huddledmasses.org/

• http://splunk-base.splunk.com/apps/82353/splunk-add-on-for-microsoft-powershell

Chatroom Buzz

• <0halr9000> http://webbrain.com/brainpage/brain/4685C1B4-FE68-2D62-3AFA-CE674E67F742#-32

• <4Vern_Anderson> http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2009/11/9/12577589191/Sesame-Street-the-Count-001.jpg

• <11MikeFRobbins> irm -Uri http://feeds.feedburner.com/PowerScripting  | where title -like *bennett* | select title

• <4Vern_Anderson> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splunk

• <0halr9000> http://splunk-base.splunk.com/apps/82353/splunk-add-on-for-microsoft-powershell

• <15JasonMorgan> For the Northern VIrginia PowerShell user group: http://powershellgroup.org/NorthernVirginia

• <11MikeFRobbins> Don Jones is speaking for the MSPSUG on May 14th: http://mspsug.com/2013/04/23/up-next-powershell-mvp-don-jones/

• <14gpduck> vern_anderson, have you seen Adam’s BSOD screen saver implementation in powershell: http://csharpening.net/?p=1513

• <0halr9000> http://huddledmasses.org/

• <9mrrothhcloud__> I  had good luck at work today

• <9mrrothhcloud__> a bird crapped on me 😦

• <0halr9000> where i come from they don’t call that good luck

• <9json_wud> Hi jsnover. An honor to be in the same chatroom.

• <4Vern_Anderson> it’s worth a free drink on the river walk =)

• <9mrrothhcloud__> halr9000:  😦

• <12DougFinke> when a bird craps on me, I sit outside and eat a plate of scrambled eggs just to show them what I’m capable of 🙂

The Question –

• Books: Wheel of Time

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Ben Armstrong, the Virtual PC Guy!

News

• PowerShell version 4.0?

• MVP Don Jones will be speaking May 14th at the Mississippi PowerShell User Group

• Don Jones has released “The Big Book of PowerShell Gotchas” for free

• IT Pro Camp comes to Jacksonville, FL on June 15th

• PowerGUI gets PowerShell 3.0 support

• Presentation downloads from the PowerShell Summit

• PowerShell Summit 2013 Thank you video

Interview

Guests – Ben Armstrong

Links

• Virtual PC Guy Blog

• http://twitter.com/VirtualPCGuy

Chatroom Buzz

<11MikeFRobbins> Don Jones is speaking for the Mississippi PowerShell User Group on May 14th:http://mspsug.com/2013/04/23/up-next-powershell-mvp-don-jones/

<13JasonMArcher> at the summit, the Jason Cabal had its first meeting

<JonWalz> Jason cabal?

<JonWalz> I bet there is a good story behind that one

<5JHofferle> Yeah…if I ever forgot anyone’s name…I just called them Jason and had a 40% chance of being right.

<14gpduck> lol 10% of the attendees were named jason

<11MikeFRobbins> I think it was more like 35% of the attendees were named Jason

<8ericcourville> ## how do I convince my server admins to even look at hyper-v when they are so married to vmware

<4Vern_Anderson> ## has he ever played with Xen or KVM open sourced Hypervisors?

<4Vern_Anderson> 22http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI_RDMA_Protocol

<11MikeFRobbins> Check out the uptime in this screenshot (on this production Hyper-V server): 22http://mikefrobbins.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/hyperv-uptime-162.jpg

The Question –

• Superhero: Daredevil

Resources

• How to use PowerShell to check for SLAT for Windows 8 Hyper-V

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Boe Prox about Windows Software Update Services and PowerShell

News

• http://powershell.org/wp/the-scripting-games/

• Delhi User Group has great PowerShell content on April 20th

• The Philadelphia PowerShell User Group is meeting May 2nd

Interview

Guests – Boe Prox

Links

• http://learn-powershell.net/

• Test-Port

• http://poshwsus.codeplex.com/

• http://poshchat.codeplex.com/

• http://poshpaig.codeplex.com/

• http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/tags/boe+prox/

• http://learn-powershell.net/2012/05/13/using-background-runspaces-instead-of-psjobs-for-better-performance/

• http://learn-powershell.net/2012/10/14/powershell-and-wpf-writing-data-to-a-ui-from-a-different-runspace

• http://powertoe.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/http-post-with-powershell-to-json-rpc-or-how-to-control-xbmc-via-powershell/

• http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Invoke-Async-Allows-you-to-83b0c9f0

Chatroom Buzz

16[2013-04-11 21:32:07] <9mrrothhcloud__> Did you people see that powershell scrip to tweet from powershell

16[2013-04-11 21:32:14] <9mrrothhcloud__> 22http://www.bhargavs.com/index.php/2010/03/16/send-a-tweet-from-powershell/

16[2013-04-11 21:44:27] <11MikeFRobbins> Did everyone see the PowerShell Mini-game? 22http://beefycode.com/post/PowerShell-Mini-game-Equality.aspx

16[2013-04-11 21:51:50] <0halr9000> 22http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp

16[2013-04-11 21:59:33] <10MikeFRobbins_> 22http://manning.com/hicks/

16[2013-04-11 21:59:33] <12PowerSchill> 22http://powershell.org/games/

16[2013-04-11 21:59:53] <14ScriptingWife> FTR, Boe is an Honorary Scripting Guy, He was a past winner of the Scripting Games, He is a Microsoft Community Contributor and moderator for the Official Scripting Guys Forum

16[2013-04-11 22:00:05] <11_Sunny_> Boe wrote a portscanner @ one of the most used

18[2013-04-11 22:00:57] <11_Sunny_> ## Boe, did you write a daemon ?

16[2013-04-11 22:01:17] <11_Sunny_> 22http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/97119ed6-6fb2-446d-98d8-32d823867131

16[2013-04-11 22:02:47] <14ScriptingWife> 22http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/tags/boe+prox/

16[2013-04-11 22:04:58] <10jrich523> 22http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7803.powershell-deep-dive-and-best-practice.aspx

16[2013-04-11 22:10:53] <7JimBirley> Wanted to let folks running Win7 know about a hotfix, that should be removed! 22http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2839011

18[2013-04-11 22:25:36] <12_Sunny> ## Powershell to unfold solarpanel > 22http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/powershell-goes-into-space/

16[2013-04-11 22:41:27] <12_Sunny> did you see tome’s ForEach-Parallel ?

16[2013-04-11 22:42:00] <10jrich523> yeah, i released before his 😛

16[2013-04-11 22:42:00] <12_Sunny> 22http://powertoe.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/foreach-parallel/

16[2013-04-11 22:48:02] <0halr9000> 22http://www.hanselminutes.com/330/zero-day-and-trojan-horse-an-interview-with-mark-russinovich

The Question –

• First Computer – A Gateway 450 running Windows ME

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Ashley McGlone about Active Directory and Premier Field Engineering!

News

• Tampa PowerShell user group is meeting on April 24th

• The Scripting Games schedule is out!

• Here’s the Scripting Games Competitor’s Guide

Interview

Guests – Ashley McGlone

Links

• GoateePFE – Ashley’s blog

• All Technet PFE blogs: http://blogs.technet.com/b/mspfe/

• All MSDN PFE blogs: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mspfe/

• Ask PFE Platforms: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/

• Technet Script Gallery posts from Raimund Andree

• Follow me and learn Server 2012

• Fixing When Your Domain Traveled Back In Time, the Great System Time Rollback to the Year 2000

Chatroom Buzz

[21:43:06] <justpaul> I love my PFE’s

[21:44:21] <justpaul> “PFEs = ninjas jumping out of helicoptors” <- there’s really no other way to describe them

[21:46:24] <justpaul> ##Do you think the ADRAP tool should be released to the general public?

[21:46:48] <MACinTX> Our PFE just did a talk on Powershell to our Wintel group. My manager liked some of the reports I got for him using powershell so he is giving us a chance to train others for the next 10 weeks

[21:47:10] <MikeFRobbins> you don’t jump out of helicopters, you repel (Air Assault). You jump out of airplanes (Airborne).

[21:51:04] <halr9000> “backup? Umm, yeah, we should be doing those.”

[21:51:34] <justpaul> the worst thing ADRAPs see: DC’s that haven’t had a security patch since deployment

[21:53:19] <ericcourville> http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/home/features/identity/

[22:02:47] <justpaul> ##who was the guy who wrote that insane powershell script with forms in the ADRAP? dude’s a true Jedi

[22:05:54] <MikeFRobbins> Here’s a quote from one of his blogs: “Today we’re going to unleash a Chuck Norris round house kick on old SIDs stinking up the ACLs on our file servers”

[22:11:07] <coderaven> The ADWS is a WS-* interface so a properly created web service could interact with AD through it.

[22:27:07] <coderaven> I keep watch on Ned Pyle from the Directory Services blog

[22:31:11] <ScriptingWife> I think the Summit will be awesome for the PS community.  TechEd helps us to spread the love to people who have not started drinking the blue koolaid

[22:35:47] <proxb> Article on the Navy NTP Issue: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2012/11/23/fixing-when-your-domain-traveled-back-in-time-the-great-system-time-rollback-to-the-year-2000.aspx

[22:40:05] <MikeFRobbins> I saw Ashley speak at PowerShell Sat 002 in Charlotte – Awesome Session!

22:42:10] <alexandair1> they plan to release it for PS Summit

[22:42:10] <ScriptingWife> May is the release I think

[22:42:29] <MikeFRobbins> PowerShell Deep Dives is in MEAP: http://manning.com/hicks/

The Question –

• Superhero: Jesus

Resources

• Ashley’s Greatest Hits:

  • How to find AD schema update history using PowerShell

  • Step-by-Step: How to use Active Directory PowerShell cmdlets against 2003 domain controllers

  • How To Remove SID History With PowerShell

  • AD Group History Mystery: PowerShell v3 REPADMIN

  • Free Download: CMD to PowerShell Guide for AD

     

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Don Jones about the 2013 Scripting Games!

News

• The Scripting Games are coming in April

• The Charlotte PowerShell group is meeting April 4th

• The Philadelphia PowerShell group is also meeting on April 4th

• UAE PowerShell group is meeting on April 6th

• The Tampa PowerShell user group is meeting on April 24th

Interview

Guests – MVP Don Jones

Links

• http://powershell.org/

• http://powershell.org/wp/category/announcements/scripting-games/

• http://donjones.com/verified/

• 2013 Competitor Guide

Chatroom Buzz

16[2013-03-28 21:24:56] <14ScriptingWife> Looks like THE Jason Helmick

16[2013-03-28 21:25:04] <11MVP-DonJ> It is THE Jason Helmick!

16[2013-03-28 21:29:56] <5JHofferle> PS is finally taking off at work…I’ve got SQL guys asking me stuff…VMware gurus asking me how to make scripts work better…it’s a good time to be a PowerShell guy.

16[2013-03-28 21:29:56] <2bearstuff> 95023.

16[2013-03-28 21:30:11] <2bearstuff> cat on keyboard

16[2013-03-28 21:30:20] <11MikeFRobbins> 24 days until the PowerShell Summit!

16[2013-03-28 21:30:34] <11MVP-DonJ> God 24 days? I should be nervous.

16[2013-03-28 21:42:14] <14ScriptingWife> I spy Dr Scripto in the background as well as THE Jason Helmick

16[2013-03-28 21:42:31] <8JasonHelmick> You Bet! Love my Dr. Scripto!

16[2013-03-28 21:42:48] <14ScriptingWife> You need to take him a ride on the bike

16[2013-03-28 21:43:03] <8JasonHelmick> I will if I can find him a helmet

16[2013-03-28 21:48:26] <7JimBirley> James Brundage needs to write a book.

16[2013-03-28 21:48:31] <7JimBirley> on Pipeworks

16[2013-03-28 21:48:43] <8JasonHelmick> Agreed..Sir JAmes is Awesome

16[2013-03-28 21:48:51] <7JimBirley> Brilliant

16[2013-03-28 21:49:27] <7JimBirley> saw him at Techstravaganza in NYC on Friday and my head was spinning, in a good way

16[2013-03-28 21:50:44] <8JasonHelmick> Sapien has REALLY cool stuff….

16[2013-03-28 21:51:02] <7JimBirley> 2014 products look really slick

16[2013-03-28 21:51:13] <14PoshJosh> my hashtag will be #ScriptingGamesBaller

18[2013-03-28 21:58:36] <7coderaven> ## can you go into the Verified program just a little plz

18[2013-03-28 22:01:59] <7JimBirley> ## how much is error handling “graded” in the toolmaking process?

16[2013-03-28 22:05:27] <10mjolinor> Give a man a match, he’ll be warm for a minute. Set him on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life…

16[2013-03-28 22:05:37] <5JHofferle> lol

16[2013-03-28 22:06:35] <2brwilkinson> # How are we handling V2 vs V3 for the games?

18[2013-03-28 22:10:02] <8JasonHelmick> ## Jon – ask him about what IT pros can do to better themselves in their jobs…

16[2013-03-28 22:14:01] <11MikeFRobbins> 22http://www.sapien.com/software/powershell_studio

16[2013-03-28 22:16:29] <14ScriptingWife> Alex is awesome

16[2013-03-28 22:16:37] <14ScriptingWife> Ferdinand is too

16[2013-03-28 22:17:35] <7JimBirley> Ferdinand shared some really cool stuff coming from Sapien last Friday.

16[2013-03-28 22:17:37] <8JasonHelmick> Alex and Ferdinand really care about this community…..

16[2013-03-28 22:17:48] <8JasonHelmick> BUT SCRIPTING WIFE IS THE BEST!

16[2013-03-28 22:17:49] <14ScriptingWife> David C is a sweetheart too

16[2013-03-28 22:17:57] <14ScriptingWife> Blushing

16[2013-03-28 22:30:09] <7JimBirley> Great book review: 22http://mikefrobbins.com/2013/03/28/book-review-windows-powershell-cookbook-3rd-edition/

The Question –

• The Reddit AMA question: 100 duck sized horses