Episode 93 – Jeff Atwood tells us Rock Hard Awesome will create teleportation and we talk about ServerFault

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Jeff Atwood about technical communities, ServerFault, and StackOverflow

News

 

• Don’t miss the Seattle Script Club this Thursday the 19th. Watch the PowerShell team blog where the slide deck and maybe a video will be posted afterwards. Focus will be building graphs with Visifire and WPK.
• Project Onyx finally has a public alpha (also see Al Renouf’s blog post)
• PowerShell V2 is supported for Exchange 2007 SP2
• TechMentor 2010 is now open for registration, and they have a PowerShell track.
• PowerShell Help 2.0 Community Edition has been released by SAPIEN

Interview

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

Links

• StackOverflow
• ServerFault
• CodingHorror

Questions

• your background
• Why come up with a new type of Q&A site?
• what have you learned so far?
• tech challenges
• SO vs SF (and the rest). I expect to spend quite a bit of time here, to be sure that my listeners, the majority of which are admins, understand where PowerShell questions fit, given that it _is_ a computer language.
• Who is Rock Hard Awesome? 🙂

Resources

• Rich Siddaway has a script that shows you how to create a scheduled task to clear your temp files using the TaskScheduler module from the PowerShellPack. Rich also has a follow-up article where he goes into more depth on the cmdlets included in the TaskScheduler module.
• Klaus Graefensteiner has a script for un-installing products by name
• Creating word clouds with PowerShell and PowerPoint from James O’Neill

Tips

Please support our sponsor ServerFault.com, the ultimate Q&A site for system administrators!

• MVP Joel Bennett tells how to sign PowerShell scripts automatically
• How do I turn windows features on or off using powershell?
• Ed Wilson gives us a great post showing how to use web services from PowerShell
• Steve Murawski posted a script to pull tables out of Crystal Reports
• powershell v2 remoting – How do you enable unecrypted traffic

One-Liner

As documented recently on the PowerShell team blog:

gp HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate, HelpLink, UninstallString | ogv