Episode 220 – Mark Minasi

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Mark Minasi

News

• The Scripting Games are coming in April

• May 2-3 Jeff Hicks will be at TechDays San Francisco

• PowerShell books are tops over at Manning

• The Windows PowerShell 3.0 SDK Sample Pack has been released

• Please send us your events!

 

Interview

Guests – Mark Minasi

Links

• www.minasi.com

• http://minasiconference.com/

 

Chatroom Buzz

[21:34:28] <MikeFRobbins> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octothorpe

[21:35:41] <MikeFRobbins> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day

[22:41:14] <SQLvariant> Out-GridView -PassThru is my favorite V3 enhancement

[22:43:26] <MikeFRobbins> Check out this uptime on a Hyper-V server (production) that runs 2008R2 Server Core: http://mikefrobbins.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/hyperv-uptime-162.jpg

[22:43:45] <sepeck> get-help get-command -showwindow   <– showwindow is my current favorite

[22:44:10] <MikeFRobbins> iscsicpl runs (iSCSI Control Panel) on server core

[22:44:16] <ScriptingWife> http://www.ciscopress.com/authors/bio.asp?a=523e2313-3b15-4e8e-b051-c71d7fd6528d

[22:44:27] <ScriptingWife> above is Andrew Mason author page

[22:49:22] <sepeck> I was Ed Wilsons lab partner back when we did the COmpaq ASE training

[22:49:27] <droppedagain> i totally think there should be a PowerShell Saturday Antarctica

[22:49:33] <droppedagain> it would be the coolest conference ever

[22:49:41] <sepeck> ./rimshot

[22:51:36] <ericcourville> http://nooooooooooooooo.com/

[22:52:35] <MikeFRobbins> No PowerShell for me tomorrow since I’ll be at the Birmingham Zoo, that is unless some Monkey’s want to learn PowerShell

[22:53:21] <ericcourville> my citrix admin is a Button Monkey

 

The Question -

• Superpower: Omniscience

Resources

 

• Mike Robbins outlines how to add a new domain controller to an existing forest using PowerShell

• We have a new Powershell blogger on the block named Rohn with a great tip on creating ToString methods on custom objects

Here’s a cool tip to use Office online to create a survey and then PowerShell to select an entry from the resulting spreadsheet

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.

Episode 219 – Alan Renouf from VMware on PowerCLI

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Alan Renouf about PowerCLI

News

• The Scripting Games are coming in April
• UAE PowerShell User’s group
• Mississippi PowerShell User group
• March Madness in Rochester
• PowerShell 3.0 Step by Step is out now

 

Interview

Guests – Alan Renouf

Links

 

• https://twitter.com/alanrenouf

• PowerCLI

• The Get-Scripting Podcast

The Question -

• Mars mission – bring nothing, enjoy Parkour in zero gravity

Episode 218 – PowerShell jokes and SQL talk with the MidnightDBAs

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Sean and Jen McCown, the MidnightDBA duo!

 

News

• PowerCLI 5.1 Release 2 is out
• MVP Jeff Hicks will be speaking at SQL Saturday in Omaha, NE on April 6th
• MVP Jeff Hicks has posted his upcoming speaking schedule
• The Atlanta PowerShell user group will be meeting on March 12th

 

Interview

Guests – Sean and Jen McCown

Links

• Website: MidnightDBA.com

• Blog post: Why is adopting PowerShell so hard (for DBAs)?

The Question -

Sean superhero – tactile osmosis

Jen superhero – Firestar

Resources

• T-SQL Tuesday #39 is a PowerShell grab bag

• MVP Joel Bennett teaches how to get help for modules you don’t have installed

The Scripting Guy shows us how to easily find out how long a process has been running

Episode 217 – The Scripting Guy Ed Wilson talks about his new PowerShell books

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Ed Wilson about his new PowerShell books

 

Interview

Guest – Ed Wilson (The Scripting Guy)

Links

 

• PowerShell 3.0 Step by Step

• Windows PowerShell 3.0 First Steps

 

The Question -

favorite book – Snow Crash, The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing

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.

Episode 216 – Jake Robinson and Damian Karlson talk PowerCLI

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Jake Robinson and Damian Karlson about PowerCLI!

 

News

• The Arizona PowerShell user group is meeting March 6th
• The Philadelphia PowerShell user group is meeting March 7th
• SQLSaturday#220 in Atlanta May 18th will have a PowerShell track
• The Events page over at PowerShell.org is a great tool

Interview

Guests – Jake Robinson and Damian Karlson

Links

• http://damiankarlson.com/2012/11/15/aws-glacier-sns-powershell-cmdlets/

• http://damiankarlson.com/

• http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLIforTenants/PowerCLIforTenants51/html/index.html

• http://professionalvmware.com/

• http://www.labguides.com/autolab/

• http://geekafterfive.com/

The Question -

Jake superhero – Link from Legend of Zelda

Damian superhero – Gandalf