No show tonight!

Jonathan is taking a vacation break and there will be no show tonight. Be sure to save up your PowerShell energy for May 23rd when we’ll be having Jeff Hicks on the show to talk about the PowerShell Deep Dive book!

Call to Action: PowerShell Birds of a Feather sessions at MS TechEd in New Orleans

Hey guys. Hal here. I just wanted to let everyone know that there are TWO Birds of a Feather sessions that I have volunteered to moderate at this year’s North America TechEd event in New Orleans. The sessions are:

• Getting Started with PowerShell – This session will stick to the 100-200 level topics. I will round up some MVPs (PowerShell and otherwise) to help contribute to the conversation.
• PowerScripting: PowerShell Best Practices from the Field with The Scripting Guy – For this session I’ll be joined by Ed Wilson, and we’ll both be taking questions. We did this two years ago in Atlanta and it was standing room only.

Now here’s the part where I need YOU! The BoF sessions are voted upon by attendees. I need everyone who is registered to attend TechEd to login to northamerica.msteched.com/BirdsOfAFeather and go vote for both of these sessions! Voting is open now until May 3rd, so get on it, and share the URL with your friends and co-workers (who may or may not be friends, I’m not judging).

Thanks, and I hope to see you at the show! I’ll be manning the booth for Splunk, so if you can’t make a BoF, no worries, just drop by the booth and say hey.

Up Next: Sean & Jen McCown – the MidnightDBA duo!

This Thursday night please join us as we chat with Sean and Jen McCown from MidnightDBA.com (and @MidnightDBA on Twitter)! Both Sean and Jen have long careers working with Microsoft SQL Server and they both have been awarded MVP for their efforts! We’re happy to be slumming with the T-SQL community once again.

You can read up on the pair’s history at MidnightDBA.com.

Join us in the chatroom or just listen in on Thursday Feb 21, 2013 at 9:30PM EST here.

Up Next: Glenn Sizemore talks about NetApp Storage Basics

 This Thursday we’re having Glenn Sizremore (@glnsize) back on the show! Glenn works at NetApp as a Technical Marketing Engineer and speaks at events like PowerShell Saturday and NetApp Insight. We’ve had Glenn on the show before to talk about their Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit, but this time, we’re going to take a step back and talk more generally about NetApp storage systems and what the company has been doing that’s interesting in Glenn’s area of expertise, which is Microsoft solutions.

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

Up Next: Osama Sajid from Microsoft talks about CIM!

Tonight, we are pleased to have with us Osama Sajid from Microsoft. For over four years, Osama has served on the PowerShell team as a Senior Program Manager responaible for increasing the managability coverage of PowerShell across the spectrum of Windows Server features. A lof of his work has focused around WMI and CIM, and that’s what he’ll be talking to us about tonight!

Don’t forget, you can join us live at live.powerscripting.net. Recording starts around 9:30 PM EST.

Up Next: June Blender talks about finding help in PowerShell!

Be sure to join us live tomorrow night (9/27) at 9:30 PM EDT as we chat with June Blender from Microsoft! June has been with Microsoft on the PowerShell team for many years, working as a Senior Programming Writer. We have a lot to talk about with all of the changes to the PowerShell help subsystem with version 3, and the greatly increased number of cmdlets.

But we can’t do it alone! We need for YOU to come to the chatroom and bring your questions for June, and to hang out with your fellow PowerShellers. You can find us at http://live.powerscripting.net (and #PowerScriptingPodcast on Freenode).

No podcast tonight!

We let Jonathan go on vacation every once in a while, and tonight is that night. New episodes will be posted soon!

Happy Easter – no show this week

Happy Easter to everyone! We are taking the week off, so you have our permission to spend Thursday evening with your family.

This is how we roll in PowerShellLand

ScriptingWife don’t mess around!

Up Next: Jason Helmick talks about PowerShell in the Real World!

From his site:

Jason Helmick has over 20 years in IT as an enterprise consultant and teacher. He works with many domain specific technologies, however has a passion for PowerShell. Since its initial release, Jason has authored courseware, taught and written articles about PowerShell and its affect on the industry.

Jason teaches with a “Real-world” view and is one of the founding designers of Interface’s Hard Hat course series.  The philosophy of the series is learn by solving business problems, not a step-by-step feature crawl. His favorite phrase, “You should be able to do the job on Monday”.

Jason, along with Mike Pfeiffer, are the co-founders and co-leaders of one of the top PowerShell user groups known as AZPOSH.​​

You can follow Jason on Twitter: @thejasonhelmick

Be sure to catch the show LIVE tonight at 9:30 PM EST here at live.powerscripting.net!