PowerShell Birds of a Feather sessions at MS TechEd

Post updated with catalog numbers and rooms.

Great news! Both of Hal’s Birds of a Feather session were accepted to the North America TechEd show this year. The details are:

CODE: BOF-ITP04
TITLE: PowerScripting: Windows PowerShell Best Practices from the Field with The Scripting Guy
SPEAKER: E. Wilson, H. Rottenberg
TIMESLOT: 6/3 at 3:00 pm
ROOM: 264

CODE: BOF-ITP05
TITLE: Getting Started with Windows PowerShell
SPEAKER: H. Rottenberg
TIMESLOT: 6/3 at 4:45 pm
ROOM: 263

We don’t have room or catalog numbers yet, but we will update this post when those details are available. Post updated! The first session will be a 100-300 level discussion. The second session will stay in the100-200 level. Funny thing about BOFs though is that the discussion is driven by who is in the room, not the moderator, so all we can say for sure is that PowerShell will be discussed.

Hope to see some of you there! And if you can’t meet up with Hal in one of these sessions, be sure to find him at the Splunk booth where he’ll be doing Splunk things.

No show tonight!

Jonathan is taking a vacation break and there will be no show tonight. Be sure to save up your PowerShell energy for May 23rd when we’ll be having Jeff Hicks on the show to talk about the PowerShell Deep Dive book!

Episode 227 – PowerShell MVP Joel Bennett talks about Splunk

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
Listen:

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

Episode 226 – The Virtual PC Guy Ben Armstrong talks virtualization and PowerShell

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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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

Call to Action: PowerShell Birds of a Feather sessions at MS TechEd in New Orleans

Hey guys. Hal here. I just wanted to let everyone know that there are TWO Birds of a Feather sessions that I have volunteered to moderate at this year’s North America TechEd event in New Orleans. The sessions are:

• Getting Started with PowerShell – This session will stick to the 100-200 level topics. I will round up some MVPs (PowerShell and otherwise) to help contribute to the conversation.
• PowerScripting: PowerShell Best Practices from the Field with The Scripting Guy – For this session I’ll be joined by Ed Wilson, and we’ll both be taking questions. We did this two years ago in Atlanta and it was standing room only.

Now here’s the part where I need YOU! The BoF sessions are voted upon by attendees. I need everyone who is registered to attend TechEd to login to northamerica.msteched.com/BirdsOfAFeather and go vote for both of these sessions! Voting is open now until May 3rd, so get on it, and share the URL with your friends and co-workers (who may or may not be friends, I’m not judging).

Thanks, and I hope to see you at the show! I’ll be manning the booth for Splunk, so if you can’t make a BoF, no worries, just drop by the booth and say hey.

Episode 225 – Mark Russinovich talks about Sysinternals, Infosec, and the Cloud

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Mark Russinovich about Sysinternals, Infosec, and the Cloud!

 

News

• The Scripting Games

• Beginner practice

• Advanced practice

• The Tampa PowerShell group is meeting April 25th

• The Philadelphia PowerShell User Group is meeting May 2nd

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

• Microsoft is shutting down Script Explorer

• A free PowerShell 3.0 ebook has been released in Brazilian Portuguese

Interview

Guests – Mark Russinovich

Links

• Yes, sysinternals tools are still being developed by Mark!

• Hal mentioned Cory Doctorow’s “The coming civil war on general purpose computing”

Chatroom Buzz

[21:34:06] <mwjcomputing> ## Can you have Jeff use PowerShell in your next novel?

[21:35:50] <mwjcomputing> ## Have you seen what Adam Driscoll is doing with PowerShell to do the SysInternals Tools?

[21:42:21] <BartekB> ## When can we expect or cli utilitiles from sysinternals to support csv output – perfect for ConvertFrom-Csv in PowerShell to consume and object-izing?

[21:35:42] <Vern_Anderson> ## When can we get a BGInfo that recognizes Windows 2012?

[21:40:37] <Start-Automating> ## Have you learned more about Windows before or after joining Microsoft?

## Will Azure be upgraded to server 2012 at some stage? (not sure if this was dicussed already I had a bad connection here)

[22:02:25] <FreeTheNode> ## how have you seen the development of state sponsored hacking, from israel/usa (stuxnet, duqu, etc) to china and apt1?

[22:03:56] <alexandair> ## has someone contacted you for a movie deal?

[22:07:46] <JimBirley> ## Does Mark ever see a future version of Windows server with no GUI option at all making Powershell essential?

[22:17:20] <FreeTheNode> ## do you feel that computing in the cloud will lean more towards the security and encryption of data, perhaps even to the point where it will become encrypted or invisible to the provider, both at rest, and perhaps even for hot data such as the work Microsoft Research is doing via CryptDB?

The Question -

• Superhero: Time travel

Episode 224 – Boe Prox talks about PoshWSUS and his other projects

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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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