PowerScripting Podcast

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jeremy Moskowitz about Group Policy!

News

• The Scripting Games are coming in April

• The Dallas/Fort Worth PowerShell user group is meeting Thursday the 28th

• The UK PowerShell User group meeting has been moved to April 9th

• Mike Robbins posted the video from his “PowerShell Fundamentals for Beginners” session

• MVP Adam Driscol brings us PoshExec

Interview

Guests – Jeremy Moskowitz

Links

• GPAnswers.com

• Jeremy’s books

• PolicyPak

• SDM Software from Darren Mar-Elia

• Group Policy Cmdlet info

• [22:43:25] <kobeckman> Group Policy Reporting and Analysis with Windows PowerShell (TechEd 2012): http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/WSV415

• Jeff Hicks’ review of PolicyPak

Chatroom Buzz

[2013-03-21 21:37:26] <11MikeFRobbins> ## No Viking Hat tonight Jeremy?

[2013-03-21 21:37:50] <11kobeckman> I was offered the Viking hat last year at TechEd

[2013-03-21 21:39:01] <0halr9000> 22http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://tiwibzone.tiwib.netdna-cdn.com/images/bearded-viking-beanie.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/bearded-viking-beanie&h=300&w=300&sz=14&tbnid=HVWNvsLiGpRJnM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=90&zoom=1&usg=__Rw5rTHYqArUYrib_J1NNjt6Kvc0=&docid=OD8PmJ1CUET7oM&sa=X&ei=TLZLUcTPHdS04AOs14DoAw&ved=0CGEQ9QEwAQ&dur=1348

[2013-03-21 21:39:45] <3JeffH>http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/TechEd2012-1.jpg

[2013-03-21 21:40:08] <11MikeFRobbins> Jeremy in Viking Hat: 22http://mikefrobbins.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/teched-pointyhaired-boss.jpg

[2013-03-21 21:41:07] <11MikeFRobbins> Yes professor powershell was there too: http://mikefrobbins.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/teched-profpowershell.jpg

[2013-03-21 21:41:38] <0halr9000> nice 🙂

[2013-03-21 21:47:52] <3JeffH> ##How do you think Group Policy will change in the next version of Windows?

[2013-03-21 21:49:25] <9json_wud> ##Many of my co-workers try to blame group policy when they don’t know why something wrong happens. How can I make sure this knee-jerk reaction doesn’t happen as often as it does now? What is the desktop guy’s first step to ‘Is this a group policy problem or not’?

[2013-03-21 21:50:30] <3JeffH> ##Why do you think some organizations *still* aren’t using group policy and what can you tell them to convince them?

16[2013-03-21 22:08:47] <0halr9000> frog?

21[2013-03-21 22:08:51] <JonWalz> octopus

16[2013-03-21 22:08:53] <0halr9000> lilypad?

16[2013-03-21 22:08:58] <11kobeckman> carp

18[2013-03-21 22:08:59] <11MikeFRobbins> ## Is this the website: 22http://www.policypak.com/  ?

16[2013-03-21 22:09:02] <9json_wud> alligator

16[2013-03-21 22:09:04] <0halr9000> are there pond-octopi?

27[2013-03-21 22:09:17] * rodm (603c24e8@gateway/web/freenode/ip.96.60.36.232) has quit IRC (Quit: Page closed)

21[2013-03-21 22:09:18] <JonWalz> no, but there should be

21[2013-03-21 22:09:28] <JonWalz> and they should be huge, with big teeth

16[2013-03-21 22:09:45] <14ScriptingWife> oh carp, here we go

16[2013-03-21 22:09:51] <0halr9000> Octopi have beaks

16[2013-03-21 22:09:57] <0halr9000> no teeth

21[2013-03-21 22:10:04] <JonWalz> razor shap beaks

21[2013-03-21 22:10:08] <JonWalz> with poison!

16[2013-03-21 22:10:10] <0halr9000> yeah

16[2013-03-21 22:10:43] <14ScriptingWife> snakes live in ponds

16[2013-03-21 22:11:01] <14ScriptingWife> and frogs and turtles

[2013-03-21 22:13:33] <14ScriptingWife> Haribo from Germany is the GUMMY king

[2013-03-21 22:25:12] <9json_wud> ##did we cover direct access? Will GPO reach out to those PCs ?

The Question –

• Superpower: Flying & Batman

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Mark Minasi

News

• The Scripting Games are coming in April

• May 2-3 Jeff Hicks will be at TechDays San Francisco

• PowerShell books are tops over at Manning

• The Windows PowerShell 3.0 SDK Sample Pack has been released

• Please send us your events!

Interview

Guests – Mark Minasi

Links

• www.minasi.com

• http://minasiconference.com/

Chatroom Buzz

[21:34:28] <MikeFRobbins> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octothorpe

[21:35:41] <MikeFRobbins> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day

[22:41:14] <SQLvariant> Out-GridView -PassThru is my favorite V3 enhancement

[22:43:26] <MikeFRobbins> Check out this uptime on a Hyper-V server (production) that runs 2008R2 Server Core: http://mikefrobbins.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/hyperv-uptime-162.jpg

[22:43:45] <sepeck> get-help get-command -showwindow   <– showwindow is my current favorite

[22:44:10] <MikeFRobbins> iscsicpl runs (iSCSI Control Panel) on server core

[22:44:16] <ScriptingWife> http://www.ciscopress.com/authors/bio.asp?a=523e2313-3b15-4e8e-b051-c71d7fd6528d

[22:44:27] <ScriptingWife> above is Andrew Mason author page

[22:49:22] <sepeck> I was Ed Wilsons lab partner back when we did the COmpaq ASE training

[22:49:27] <droppedagain> i totally think there should be a PowerShell Saturday Antarctica

[22:49:33] <droppedagain> it would be the coolest conference ever

[22:49:41] <sepeck> ./rimshot

[22:51:36] <ericcourville> http://nooooooooooooooo.com/

[22:52:35] <MikeFRobbins> No PowerShell for me tomorrow since I’ll be at the Birmingham Zoo, that is unless some Monkey’s want to learn PowerShell

[22:53:21] <ericcourville> my citrix admin is a Button Monkey

The Question –

• Superpower: Omniscience

Resources

• Mike Robbins outlines how to add a new domain controller to an existing forest using PowerShell

• We have a new Powershell blogger on the block named Rohn with a great tip on creating ToString methods on custom objects

Here’s a cool tip to use Office online to create a survey and then PowerShell to select an entry from the resulting spreadsheet