In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we have a trio of guests from VMware on to talk about vCenter Orchestrator and its PowerShell plugin capability!

News

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• MVP Jonathan Noble will be presenting “What’s New in PowerShell v3″ January 18th

• SQL Saturday #111 comes to Atlanta, and the PowerScripting Podcast is going to be there!
• Joel Bennett posted about the DLR and PowerShell v3
• Code golf contest is on from PowershellMag! Your task: Find an unused drive letter with PowerShell
• Trevor Sullivan has updated the PowerEvents Module

• Boe Prox has released PoshWSUS 2.0

• Congrats to MCC Rich Prescott for hitting 10,000 downloads on the Technet Script Gallery. He’s done a guest blog post and was interviewed recently on microsoft.com

• Don Jones announces that the Windows Server GUI is coming to an end!

Interview

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Links

• vCO Orchestrator team blog

• Upcoming book by Cody Bunch (blog): Automating vSphere: With VMware vCenter Orchestrator

• vcoportal

• vCO Team

Chatroom Buzz

[21:44:36] <mjl135> Isn’t Orchestrator free?

[21:47:11] <Josh_Atwell> ###talk about difference between install and appliance

[21:47:42] <Poshoholic> ## Windows WF 3.x or 4.0?

[21:49:38] <Josh_Atwell> #### I assume that if you are using the appliance you’ll need some other windows system to use the PowerShell module?

[21:50:01] <JHofferle> ## What directories should be excluded from Virus Scanning? I just started playing with it and McAfee is really beating up orchestrator.

[21:57:42] <Josh_Atwell> ### so the PowerShell plugin is intended to fill in gaps of the other plugins or designed to allow people to reuse their existing work?

[21:58:51] <VERN__> ## is vsphere doing the work or what component does the API connect to?

[22:07:51] <JHofferle> ## Can workflows be configured to run automatically when certain events occur?

[22:07:52] <mjl135> ## Are their built in work flows?

[22:09:08] <vnoob> ##### Is there anything at CES you guys are exciting about?

[22:11:25] <Josh_Atwell> ###is there a repository for people to go out and get workflows?

[22:14:12] <MarkDW> ## Is there any version control for workflows?

[22:15:26] <Josh_Atwell> ### so how do you test your workflows…is there a built in debugger?

[22:15:50] <MarkDW> ## Is there RBAC? Groups that can run workflows, design workflows, etc.

[22:18:33] <Poshoholic> ## Wait, but he didn’t answer the debugging part.

[22:20:51] <JHofferle> ## Are there workflows for managing View? Like Refresh/Recompose operations?

The Question

Thomas: Spider Man

Hemant: He-Man!

Alan: First PC – Commodore 64

Resources

• Generate Exchange Environment Reports with PowerShell – via Jim McBee
• Ravi has a new ISE add-on: Go to cursor

• Jon Noble posted a great list of reference guides and cheat sheets

• Get MSI information from the registry with PowerShell

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jeffery Hicks about managing Windows Server with PowerShell

News

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• The PowerShell Team has gifted us with “Getting Started with PowerShell Workflow”

• The PowerShell ISE Script Explorer is finally out (sort of)

  • Alternate invite code from James

• VMware releases a PowerShell plugin for vCenter Orchestrator

• The Arposh Windows System Administration tool 2.0 has been released

• ATLSMUG meets Jan 19th to talk about System Center 2012 releases

Interview

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Links:

• TrainSignal Videos:

  • PowerShell Fundamentals

  • Managing Windows Server

• Jeff’s Deep Dive: Turning CLI Tools into PowerShell Tools Deep Dive Demos

Chatroom Buzz

[21:53:42] <cmille19> ##Can you explain CIM more

[21:56:00] <vnoob> ####What kind of wine Don?

[21:57:34] <JonWalz> If you are seeing Don Jones you are watching last weeks show and not the live feed

[21:58:12] <ScriptingWife> that goofy little red live button is hard to find sometimes

[21:58:47] <DanielCruz> time travel is not only expensive, but dangerous.

[22:06:19] <Josh_Atwell> ###These are available for Server core right?

[22:12:39] <vnoob> ###What is Jeff drinking? Captain Morgan?

[22:13:20] <JonWalz> [21:02:42] <JeffHicks> back. Tonight’s PowerShell musings brought to you by Fuller’s London Porter

[22:21:22] <StartAutomating> ## what parsing tricks would you recommend people use for legacy applications?  ## any other tips for legacy apps?

The Question

Island: Kindle Fire

Resources

• Jeff Hicks wrote a multipurpose script to convert text output to objects

• From Josh Atwell, “Y U No vMotion?”

  • and his guest post on The Scripting Guy Blog on using PowerCLI

• Playing Music with PowerShell

• MVP Scott Moss is blogging about SCOM 2012 PowerShell

• RDS PowerShell TFM

Tips

• Hal discusses working with large sets of files and break them into manageable groups

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Don Jones about PowerShell v3 and Button Monkeys!

News

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• “PowerShell in Depth” in progress now by Don Jones, Jeff Hicks, Richard Siddaway!

• Bartek posted a CTP2 warning

• January User Group Meetings:

• Jan 4th – virtual – Ed Wilson

• Jan 5th – Charlotte

• Jan 9th – NYC

• Jeffrey Snover confirms Windows 8 beta is coming late February–with PowerShell 3 of course

Interview

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Links:

• International PowerShell User Group Day

• Sale Christmas until supplies run out! http://bit.ly/2011shell

• MoreLunches.com

• Windows PowerShell Scripting and Toolmaking

Chatroom Buzz

[21:42:08] <JeffHicks> ##What will be the big PS 3.0 feature that will drive people crazy to adopt it?

[21:48:28] <mwjcomputing> ## What is the best cmdlet in v3?

[21:48:30] <DanielCruz> ## Have you found yourself wanting to use v3 features at work? everyday?

[21:48:59] <mwjcomputing> ## Actually… WHat is your favorite v3 cmdlet?

[21:58:02] <mjl135> ## What is the restfull api stuff?  (so out of it)

[22:00:49] <JHofferle> PowerShell *was* about being consistent.

[22:06:36] <JeffHicks> I’d be happy if vendors supplied good help documentation with solid examples

[22:09:05] <vmcutlip> How would you do that. Since the beauty of programming is no one single way to do things. How would you possible grade

[22:12:33] <BartekB> ## do you plan to have several “badges” for different technologies?

[22:12:57] <DanielCruz> ## I referred to Advanced Event 8 from 2011 this week because I needed to strip Exif metadata from a jpeg to import into a “very specific” oracle server.

[22:15:16] <mwjcomputing> ## What is don’s favorite powershell feature?

[22:15:36] <mwjcomputing> ## WHat is the user group day all about?

[22:22:10] <JasonMArcher> I think Devs had an advantage… a key part of our culture is to show off what we have done… so user groups grow easily out of that

[22:22:10] <JasonMArcher> I think Devs had an advantage… a key part of our culture is to show off what we have done… so user groups grow easily out of that

[22:22:44] <DanielCruz> Yes! “PowerShell, it’s Xbox for your OS” -Bartek

[22:23:57] <JHofferle> I’m still telling people to try PowerShell…and hear “nah, I think I’ll just stick with AutoIT”

[22:25:05] <AlexMcFarland> I bought Don’s book for the guys that work for me, trying to get them to take the plunge.  I think it’s hard to do when things are busy and doing it the gui way still feels faster.

[22:28:11] <vmcutlip> Had the pleasure of going to a 5 day Vbscript & WMI class with Don. Really great examples and real life situations. I think I will pick up the Powershell book based on that alone

[22:36:13] <RichPrescott> ## At what point does a brand new admin start moving towards PowerShell?  e.g. Say I’ve never run DCPromo and don’t know the available options.  PowerShell has the options, but if you don’t have them presented to you in an ordered fashion, it can be difficult to grasp.

The Question

Island: iPad