Episode 49 – Susan Bradley the SBS Diva

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Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we interview Susan Bradley, SBS MVP. We also bring you lots of new, tips and resources.

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• Oisin gives us some info on new/changed cmdlets in the PDC build
• Dmitry gives us the full list of AD cmdlets in the PDC build
• Hal’s got a survey up to get everyone’s opinion on PowerShellCommunity.org’s future show plans.

• Nivot Ink – Changes from CTP2 in PowerShell 2.0 in the Windows 7 M3 “PDC” Build

• TechEd EMEA wrap up: noble musings: PowerShell at TechEd EMEA 2008 IT Professionals

Interview

Resources

What can you really do with PowerShell?  With Admin Script Editor the question becomes what can’t you do with PowerShell?  Besides all the advanced code generating tools this is the only tool offering a true PowerShell Forms Designer.  To illustrate what can be done the guys at iTripoli created a full-featured MP3/Podcast player written entirely in PowerShell and delivered as a single script.  Check it out at adminscripteditor.com/player.

• One more video from TechEd, this is Dmitry Sotnikov’s speaker idol video.
• Joel Bennett has been kind enough tolink to all of the videos of the powershell sessions from TechEd EMEA.
• Dmitry posted the Quest connect session he did about PowerShell AdCmdlets and PowerGUI

• Jonathan Medd’s panel discussion at TechEd EMEA was videotaped! PowerShell V2 Tech Talk from TechEd EMEA (video)
  

• PrimalScript Samples | SAPIEN Technologies

• David Mohundro – Simple PowerShell script to generate thumbnails

Tips

• Listener Steven wanted us to highlight how to build functions which can be used in a pipeline. Hal wrote a script a while ago called Select-Alive which serves as a good example.
• Hal’s bud Marcus thought ‘find /i “stuff” *.*’ was easy until he learned more about select-string
• Hal posted a script for creating RSS feeds from PowerShell

Challenge / Book Giveaway

• We still have a couple of books left.  If you’d like to win a copy of one of Lee Holmes books, simply leave us feedback on iTunes, Podcast Alley, or on your own blog. We have four books to giveaway! Send an email to feedback@powerscripting.net letting us know where to see your review.

• Time for the PowerShell Challenge update on db4o.

 

“While trying to find a solution to a problem that popped up at work, I stumbled upon an open-source dotnet object-oriented database called Db4o.  It is intended to be used as an embedded database in programs where some persistent storage is needed, but instead of storing data in related tables, it stores objects.

I’ve tried to access the functions via reflection, but I am just learning Powershell and I don’t know if this is the right technique.  I haven’t gotten very far.

I was wondering if you or someone else who listens to the show could take a look at it, and see if it can be useful as an object store in powershell scripts.”

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We had a great show with Susan Bradley.  Go check her out at sbsdiva.com.