PowerScripting Podcast – Episode 28 – Jeffrey Snover talks about WinRM

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

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We have a great show for you guys today.  Several weeks back we had Jeffrey Snover on the show.  We had teased at the time that there was a third portion to the interview that deals with WinRM and WS-MGMT.  We’re going to play that today for you.  Also on tap: news, resources, and a bunch of PowerShell tips for you.

News

The news is sponsored by Sapien Technologies.

• BGShell now has a Codeplex page
• Microsoft Forefront 2008 (code-named Stirling) looks to be built on PowerShell. Here’s a blog post.
• PowerShell Plus supports the new CTP2 STA feature
  • This is big because it allows for you to play with all of the new WPF stuff we’ll be talking about later in the show.

Interview

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will offer support for the dynamic installation of cmdlets! Come see for
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We hope you enjoy the Jeffrey Snover clip on Win-RM and WS-MGMT.

Resources

• Very cool (and important) series on PowerShell & WPF from James Brundage on the Powershell Team blog.  Read this one first, he explains the rationale behind focusing on WPF:  PowerShell and WPF: WTF
  • WPF & PowerShell – Part 1 ( Hello World & Welcome to the Week of WPF )
  • WPF & PowerShell – Part 2 (Exploring WPF (and the rest of .NET) with Scripts)
  • WPF & PowerShell — Part 3 (Handling Events)
  • WPF & PowerShell — Part 4 (XAML & Show-Control)
  • WPF & PowerShell – Part 5 ( Using WPF & PowerShell Modules)
  • WPF & PowerShell – Part 6 (Running Functions in the Background)
• Beware the custom console. Kirk Munro does a great job of explaining the problems that can result from custom consoles.
  • Disturbing hint seen on “The Industry Insiders” MSDN blog about a possible SQL Server 2008 “closed console”. Go leave feedback on the blog post and voice your opinions.
• Slides from a presentation that Keith Hill gave to a local user group to which he’s a member.
• Here’s an excellent post from Joel at HuddlesMasses.org in which he goes into great detail about regarding the new Modules feature in CTP2.  He’s figured out a ton of stuff which is not documented anywhere else yet so be sure to check it out.
• Here’s a link to Jaykul’s (whose real name is Joel–not Jaykul!) Select-Grid script.
• Speaking of TechEd earlier, Carter from VMware on the VI PowerShell blog has posted an entry with code and a video of a demo he’ll be showing at TechEd.
• Don Jones has an article in the latest TechNET magazine where he talks about different output types
• Also on VMware, Brandon Shell has put up a few screencast demos in a new “Playing around” series he’s doing on the BSonPosh blog.  The series is not exclusive to VMware, he also talks about Citrix, AD and more.
  • Video 1: Intro to VMWare VI Toolkit for Windows
  • Video 2: Controlling VMWare VMs with VI Toolkit
  • Video 3: Vmotion with VI ToolKit

Tips

• A basic tip on using the backtick character to escape in a string. From Richard Siddaway’s blog
• watch out for strings that look like collections
• From Oisin and his blog Nivot Ink: Manipulating remote SharePoint Lists with PowerShell.  The article is from late February but it came up earlier this week on the #powershell IRC channel (irc.freenode.net).

One-Liner

$a = (get-clipboard).split(“`n”).trim()

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