PowerShell Birds of a Feather sessions at MS TechEd

Post updated with catalog numbers and rooms.

Great news! Both of Hal’s Birds of a Feather session were accepted to the North America TechEd show this year. The details are:

CODE: BOF-ITP04
TITLE: PowerScripting: Windows PowerShell Best Practices from the Field with The Scripting Guy
SPEAKER: E. Wilson, H. Rottenberg
TIMESLOT: 6/3 at 3:00 pm
ROOM: 264

CODE: BOF-ITP05
TITLE: Getting Started with Windows PowerShell
SPEAKER: H. Rottenberg
TIMESLOT: 6/3 at 4:45 pm
ROOM: 263

We don’t have room or catalog numbers yet, but we will update this post when those details are available. Post updated! The first session will be a 100-300 level discussion. The second session will stay in the100-200 level. Funny thing about BOFs though is that the discussion is driven by who is in the room, not the moderator, so all we can say for sure is that PowerShell will be discussed.

Hope to see some of you there! And if you can’t meet up with Hal in one of these sessions, be sure to find him at the Splunk booth where he’ll be doing Splunk things.

Up Next: Mark Russinovich!

This Thursday, April 18, we’re very, very excited to be having Mark Russinovich on the show! (What? I know, right?) For those of you who don’t know who Mark is: you should be ashamed of yourselves! It’s Mark Russinovich! 

• He wrote filemon and regmon and the rest of the NTinternals aka Sysinternals utilities!
• He wrote a ton of books and articles about Windows internals
• He was the guy that found the Sony rootkit
• He’s a two-time novelist of some seriously geeky sci-fi you’d love: Zero Day, and Trojan Horse
• He has his own Wikipedia article.

Of course, he’s been up to a lot of other cool stuff lately for Microsoft, and we’ll get into that on the show, as well as see what he has to say about PowerShell.

 

 

As always, join us live at 9:30 PM EST Thursdays at http://live.powerscripting.net!

Up Next: Microsoft Community Contributor Boe Prox talks about WSUS and more!

This Thursday, April 11,  we’re having Boe Prox, @proxb on the show! Boe is a Microsoft Community Contributor and Honorary Scripting Guy . Here’s his full bio:

Boe Prox is a Senior Windows System Administrator for BAE Systems and has been using PowerShell since 2008.He is also a recipient of the Microsoft Community Contributor Award and is  a moderator on the Hey Scripting Guy forum. He is active both in that forum and in the Windows PowerShell forum as well. He is also a judge for the 2012 Scripting Games. His current projects are PoshPAIG and PoshWSUS, and PoshChat, all available at Codeplex.

He has published a several articles for Microsoft’s Hey Scripting Guy! blog.

As always, join us live at 9:30 PM EST Thursdays at http://live.powerscripting.net!

Up Next: Microsoft PFE Ashley McGlone talks about Managing Active Directory with PowerShell!

This Thursday, April 4,  we’re having Ashley McGlone, @goateePFE on the show! Ashley works as a PFE (Premier Field Engineer) at Microsoft with an emphasis in AD. Ashley has spoken at TechMentor and PowerShell Saturday. Here’s his full bio:

Ashley McGlone is a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (PFE). He started writing code on a Commodore VIC20 back in 1982, and he’s been hooked ever since. As a former MCT Ashley used to teach MCSE classes on NT 4.0 and Windows 2000.  Ashley spent eight years of his IT career administering a large enterprise where he scripted for Active Directory and thousands of workstations.  Today he specializes in Active Directory and PowerShell, helping Microsoft Premier customers reach their full potential through risk assessments and workshops. Ashley’s TechNet blog focuses on real-world solutions for Active Directory using Windows PowerShell.

As always, join us live at 9:30 PM EST Thursdays at http://live.powerscripting.net!

Up Next: Group Policy MVP Jeremy Moskowitz!

This Thursday (at 9:30 EST) we’re pleased to have Jeremy Moskowitz (@jeremymoskowitz) on the show! Jereey is a long-time speaker, author, trainer and expert around group policy, and this week we’ll see what he has to say about PowerShell! We hope you can make it for the live chat which you can find at live.powerscripting.net.

Jeremy Moskowitz, Group Policy MVP is chief Propeller-Head for Moskowitz, Inc and GPanswers.com. He runs GPanswers.com, and WinLinAnswers.com, two community forums to help answer people’s tough questions about Group Policy and Windows/Linux integration. Since becoming one of the world’s first MCSEs, Jeremy has performed Windows NT, Active Directory, Group Policy, and Windows / Linux integration planning, training and implementation for some of the world’s largest organizations. Jeremy is one of only twelve Microsoft Group Policy MVPs in the world, and the only one who teaches full time. He has delivered technical presentations at some of the world’s largest conferences including REDMOND Magazine’s TechMentor, Windiws IT Pro Magazine’s Windows Connections, TechTarget’s Windows Decisions, NetPro’s Directory Experts Conference, and IIR Sweden’s Enterprise Server Summit. He is the noted author of seven books on Windows. His smash hit is entitled Group Policy, Profiles, and IntelliMirror for Windows 2003, Windows 2000 and Windows XP is on desks of administrators around the world and has been updated several times. His hands-on, intensive group policy training has been attended by many of the world’s leading companies. Jeremy is a frequent contributor to TechNet Magazine, REDMOND Magazine and Windows IT Pro Magazine and has additionally written for BackOffice Magazine, Windows PRO Magazine, Online Training Magazine, PC Magazine, Element-K Professional Journals, BYTE.COM and was a columnist for ENT Magazine. Jeremy is a featured expert on the Microsoft Windows XP Expert Zone and is the Featured Group Policy Expert for TechTarget.com.

Up Next: Microsoft Scripting Guy and author Ed Wilson talks about his latest book and more!

We took a week off, but we are back in the saddle today with the Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, to talk about his most recent book, Windows PowerShell 3.0 Step by Step and other things going on in the Hey Scripting Guy world. Join us in the chatroom or just listen in on Thursday Feb 21, 2013 at 9:30PM EST here.

Up Next: Damian Karlson and Jake Robinson talk about managing a VMware Cloud with PowerShell!

This week, Thursday Feb 7th, we will have as our guests Damian Karlson (@sixfootdad) and Jake Robinson (@jakerobinson). Topics to cover on the show include managing VMware vCloud Director with PowerShell, plus whatever ideas YOU ALL come up with during the live show!

As always, join us live at 9:30 PM EST Thursdays at http://live.powerscripting.net!

Up Next: David Davis from TrainSignal

Today we are joined by Virtaulization Evangelist at TrainSignal and VMware vExpert, David Davis! He holds several certifications including VCP5, VCAP-DCA, and CCIE #9369. He has been awarded the VMware vExpert award 3 years running. Additionally, David has spoken at major conferences like VMworld and authored hundreds of articles for websites and print publications, mostly around virtualization, for respected publications like Virtualization Review and ComputerWorld.

As always, join us live at 9:30 PM EST Thursdays at http://live.powerscripting.net!

Up Next: Eli White Makes Mayhem!

Tonight on the podcast, we are talking about MAYHEM! No, it’s not a car insurance commercial, and no, it’s not anything dangerous. Mayhem is a sort of automation engine for Windows that (among very many other things), has the ability to invoke PowerShell scripts when something happens. Join us live in the chatroom tonight at 9:30 PM EST!

Here’s the blurb from the Mayhem website:

mayhemThere are a lot of great applications out there. But what do you do when you need to do something, but there isn’t an app for that? Mayhem is an application that lets you connect trigger events to reactions. Unlike writing a program, you simply select an event and a reaction, and then turn on the connection. Voila! No code or app required.

 

The power of Mayhem is that it lets you trivially connect any device or service to any other device or service. It would be impossible to list all the things you can do with Mayhem, but here are some examples:

• Use your cell phone to control your PowerPoint presentation.
• Receive an email reminder to winterize your house when the temperature drops below freezing.
• Automatically update your Facebook status to “I’m rich!” whenever Microsoft stock hits $50 a share.
• Add an auto-save feature to a program that doesn’t have it.
• Pause a video automatically when you leave the room.

Up Next: Todd Klindt and SharePoint

Join us tonight as we talk with Todd Klindt (@ToddKlindt), a SharePoint Administrator at Rackspace and Microsoft MVP, as we talk about SharePoint 2013! 

Todd has been a professional computer nerd for over 15 years, specializing in SharePoint for the last eight years. His love affair with SharePoint began one slow day at the office when he discovered SharePoint Team Services 1.0 on the Office XP CD that was holding up his coffee cup, and decided to install it. The rest is history. In 2006 he was honored to be awarded the MVP award from Microsoft for Windows SharePoint Services. He has had the pleasure of working with SharePoint farms both large small. He has written several books and magazine articles on SharePoint. Todd has presented sessions on SharePoint at many major conferences both in the United States as well as Europe and Asia and does the user group circuit, SharePoint Saturday events, and the occasional children’s birthday party as well. He chronicles his SharePoint adventures on his blog, http://www.toddklindt.com/blog. His latest book, Professional SharePoint 2010 Administration published by Wrox is now available at fine booksellers everywhere. You can also buy his self published book, Free Advice, from Amazon, or directly from Todd. It’s a page turner. He is currently working his dream job as a SharePoint consultant at Rackspace where he spends his days fixing broken SharePoint environments and bringing new SharePoint environments into the world. If you’re bored you can follow him on Twitter @toddklindt.

Be sure to join us live every Thursday at 9:30 PM EDT at live.powerscripting.net!