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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to VMware vExpert, consultant and author Edward Haletky about his experiences with PowerShell and securing your virtual infrastructure.
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- The PowerShell team has published the final approved verb list for PowerShell v2
- Poshboard is nearing 1.0 release (blog announcement, download)
- PrimalForms 2009 will become part of PrimalScript 2009 Studio
- Microsoft’s Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit which was announced last week is based on PowerShell
- AutoPowerShell is a hot new app with big potential
Interview
Edward L. Haletky is the author of VMware vSphere(TM) and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environment as well as VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers. Edward owns AstroArch Consulting, Inc., providing virtualization, security, network consulting and development. Edward is also a guru and moderator for the VMware Communities Forums, providing answers to security and configuration questions, prolific blogger, and is working on new books on Virtualization.
- jtroyer: ## Linux user perspective on PowerShell? (Me: old unix guy who likes it.)
- jtroyer: ## for normal Perl-using humans, how hard was the transition?
SuperHero: Green Lantern
Resources
- Chad Miller did in fact blog about the charting script which was mentioned in the last show
- The Scripting Guys tell us how to get data out of a function
- Carter mentions stuff to check out in a recent blog entry
- Dr. Tobias Weltner has released a free eBook “Mastering PowerShell”
- Hal & Joel collaborate to bring you: Get-StringRange (from this tweet)
Tips
- Running a PowerCLI scheduled task by Virtu-Al
- Kirk Munro posted a great article outlining operator and enclosure precedence
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