How to Submit Links to the Show—Quickly!

If you’d like to see us cover a topic discussed on a particular website, there’s several ways to do so.

1. Email the link to feedback@powerscripting.net
2. Use Del.icio.us and add these TWO tags: “todo” and “powerscripting”.  (Two tags so that we can remove the todo tag to track when something’s been covered.)
3. Do you use Google Reader?  Add JonWalz AT gmail as a friend and share the bookmark.

Where did the time go?

First, I go on vacation (this is Hal typing). Then, Jonathan has a big project at work which takes up our next available studio slot. Then, my weekend just totally filled up end to end. I’m afraid we still haven’t gotten Episode 23 out yet, folks! But fear not, this will not become a habit. We were really good about the two-week rotation, we’ll get back to it very soon.

In the meantime, let me tell you what we’re working on in upcoming episodes:

• An Active Directory special which will have not one but TWO MVPs (plus Jonathan who is a pro himself) around to answer your questions.
• A VMware special with a manager for part of their powershell efforts and possibly one of the devs on that team.
• IIS7 has a new PS Provider which will give you a filesystem-style interface to your site’s data and metadata (so I understand so far). We’re trying to line up the MS Program Manager for that tool, he’s volunteered so we just need to make the schedule work out.
• We’ve got the WinRM special. I think we’ll be able to get someone from the Server 2008 team to show up for that.

And there are a ton of other stuff out there. For example, I just realized we should have a Group Policy special, I know who to call upon for that. GPO Guy to the rescue! Oh, and MOM/SC, I know a local MVP for that who I’ll draft for the cause.

What would help us out more than anything from you guys reading is to leave feedback on the blog or send email in to powerscripting@gmail.com and let us know what strikes your fancy the most. Or if you have specific questions about the above technologies relating to how you can use them with PowerShell, send them on please.

We’ll get that next episode out RSN!

Vacation delay

Hi all. Just wanted to let you know that I was out of town on vacation last week, so Jonathan and I were unable to record the show at our usual time. We’re getting together to record again this Thursday with an estimated air date of April 20th.

To make it up for you, we’ll try to do several blog posts this week with pointers to cool PowerShell stuff. I’ll start it off with this one from a very persistent sysadmin Ken who blogged his techniques for displaying some sweet PowerGadgets-powered gauges to monitor the CPU and memory utilization on VMware ESX servers. I say persistent because the solution did require a lot of work to get just right, and he goes into detail about those challenges so it makes a great tutorial for those new to PowerGadgets and the VMware VI Toolkit.

Episode 21 coming soon.

I just wanted to let you know that the new podcast should be posted by Tuesday morning. We had a great interview with Jeffery Snover that you don’t want to miss!

Windows 2008 Server launch event in Atlanta

If you are going, let us know via the event I just created in Facebook.  Details are in the link.

Interviews

We’ve been doing a lot of interview and guest shows lately.  I just wanted to let you all know that with one or two exceptions, we’ve interviewed all the people we really wanted to get on the show, and we’ll definitely getting back to the more meaty shows in the future.

Once we get the last bit of interviews done, I imagine from time to time we’ll still have guests on the show, but it’ll be less of a focus and more of a complement.  And spaced between these, we will have more interviews when the occasion warrants.  For example if a big release of some cool software we like happens, we might have the developer on the show.

Show 17 has already been recorded, so once we (and by we I mean Jonathan) get the editing done that’ll get posted.  It’s an interview show, I think you’ll like it.  We were really pleased that they deigned to talk to us mere mortals. 

Thanks for listening, and don’t forget to send us feedback–we like to hear from you!

PowerShell video posted

 

 

News

I found out today from /\/\o\/\/’s The PowerShell Guy blog (fantastic blog) that there is a new Channel 9 video called: Windows PowerShell: Origin and Future with Bruce Payette and Jeffery Snover.

 I’m hoping to have the next podcast posted on Thursday.

AAArrghhh!!

I had an equipment setback. The USB mixer I bought is going back. It was an Alesis MultiMix USB 8 and I was getting some kind of a ground loop when I tried to use the USB interface and monitor from the mixer. I’m not the only one who has had this problem. I ordered a new mixer today and I should have it early next week.

Podcasting gear is on the way

I’m another step closer today to Episode 1.  I ordered my mixer, mic etc. today.  I should have it in my eager little hands on Friday!

Coming Soon!

This is the blog of the forthcoming PowerScripting Podcast.  This podcast will be about scripting for Windows IT Pros and focus on Windows Powershell.  Stay tuned for updates!