PowerScripting Podcast – Episode 8

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

 

• Introduction

  • Welcome to Hal Rottenberg! Check out his blog

• News

  • Jeffery Snover interview

  • VMWare “gets it”! VI PowerShell blog

    • ex: Get-VM | where { $_.state -eq “poweredOn” } | Stop-VM
  • Post from $hay@Israel’s $cript Fanatic blog about Sapien
• Cmdlet of the week
  • select-object – BSonPoSH’s article on creating custom objects
    • and a follow up article
• Resources
  • /\/\o\/\/’s blog post about the Channel 9 videos
  • PowerShell Newgroup
• Tips
  • Your $Profile – part 1 – here’s a great article that BSonPoSH linked to in the comments
• One-liners
  • $tempfile = [System.IO.Path]::GetTempFileName() #obtains a unique temp file –guaranteed not to clobber!
• Gotchas
  • Subexpressions – “This is some text $($server.name)”
• Our Facebook group

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