Registration for European Summit 2014 is open

Registration for the PowerShell Summit Europe 2014 is now open. Follow the links under Events

PhillyPoSH 07/03/2014 meeting summary and presentation materials

• Ferdinand G. Rios gave a presentation entitled “Building PowerShell GUI Tool Solutions" During his talked Ferdinand demonstrated how to use Sapien PowerShell Studio 2014 to easily build GUI applications on top of PowerShell,
  • A recording of this meeting has been posted to our YouTube channel

European PowerShell Summit

There seems to have been a bit of confusion regarding the European PowerShell Summit as the site will tell you that registration is currently unavailable.
There isn’t a problem and the Summit HAS NOT sold out at this time. WE just haven’t opened registration yet.
Registration will open on 15 July 2014
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Omaha PowerShell User Group is Filling Up Fast!

The first meeting of the Omaha PowerShell User Group is filling up fast!  There are only 16 available seats so make sure you get your spot!
Meeting details and sign up information can be found at omahapsug.eventbrite.com

Charlotte PowerShell User Group No meeting in July, enjoy your holiday!

There will not be a meeting in July in Charlotte, please enjoy the 4th of July holiday. We will be back on schedule in August.

Free Online Access to TechLetter Back Issues

Did you know that PowerShell.org has, for more than a year now, offered a mostly-monthly TechLetter e-mail newsletter? It’s stuffed with community news, announcements (like our free webinar schedule), feature articles on PowerShell, and much more. It’s a great way to learn a little bit at a time, and it’s truly awesome content.
And we keep back issues for your perusal!
You can find the back issues online. We post all but the most recent 2-3 issues, but of course you can subscribe and have them delivered right to your inbox around the middle of most months.
We’re always on the lookout for new content, too - and if you’re thinking, “oh, I have nothing really to share,” you’re wrong! It can be as simple as an article about something you figured out. With more than 5,000 subscribers, someone’s sure to appreciate your perspective! Contact our Editors at PowerShell.org via e-mail to submit your article, or to suggest an article idea.
And please - tell a friend!

PhillyPoSH 06/05/2014 meeting summary and presentation materials

• Jeff Hicks gave a presentation entitled “Getting Started with Desired State Configuration (DSC)”. During his talked Jeff gave an overview of DSC and walked through an example of a push mode configuration. A copy of his presentation materials are available here .
  • A recording of this meeting has been posted to our YouTube channel

Wish List: Better Code Formatting in the Forums (Can You Help?)

I know it’s been a “wish” of many folks for our forums to have better code formatting. Well, if you know some PHP and a little about WordPress, you can make it happen.
What we need is a WordPress plugin that hooks the action for post displays. The plugin needs to take the post body, and look for anything contained within HTML “code” tags or “pre” tags.
Within that content, the plugin needs to strip any further code/pre tags (WordPress has a bit of a glitch where it’ll sometimes nest them). It should then HTML-encode the remaining content to turn any backticks into an HTML entity. Finally, it should color-code the content, or whatever, and hand it back to WordPress for display.
If you think you might be interested, let me know.
There ARE existing code formatters. But they have some weaknesses:

Omaha PowerShell User Group is Open!

The Omaha PowerShell User Group is now open for business!  If you are in the Omaha-Council Bluffs-Lincoln area and are interested in being a part of it, either let myself, Jacob Benson (@vhusker) or Boe Prox (@proxb) know.
We are currently looking for a meeting place and are shooting for having our first meeting the last week in July.  In addition to finding out who might be interested in attending, we would also like to know what days/times work best for you and the kinds of things you would like to get out of the meetings.
You can follow us on Twitter at @OmahaPSUG.  If you wish to contact us through email you can reach us at omahapsug@gmail.com .

Quick Tip: WMI vs. CIM Syntax

# List all classes in a namespace Get-CimClass -Namespace root\CIMv2 Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\CIMv2 -List # list all classes containing “service” in their name
Get-CimClass -Namespace root\CIMv2 | Where CimClassName -like ‘*service*’ | Sort CimClassName
(or)
Get-CimClass -Namespace root\CIMv2 -Classname *service*
Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\CIMv2 -List | Where Name -like ‘*service*’ | Sort Name
# get all class instances
Get-CimInstance -Namespace root\CIMv2 -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem
Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\CIMv2 -Class Win32_OperatingSystem
# filter class instances
Get-CimInstance -Namespace root\CIMv2 -ClassName Win32_LogicalDisk -Filter “DriveType=3”
Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\CIMv2 -Class Win32_LogicalDisk -Filter “DriveType=3”
# show all properties
Get-CimInstance -Namespace root\CIMv2 -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem | Get-Member
Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\CIMv2 -Class Win32_OperatingSystem | Get-Member
# show all properties and values
Get-CimInstance -Namespace root\CIMv2 -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem | fl *
Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\CIMv2 -Class Win32_OperatingSystem | fl *
# remote computer
Get-CimInstance -Namespace root\CIMv2 -ClassName Win32_BIOS -ComputerName dc,win81
Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\CIMv2 -Class Win32_BIOS -ComputerName dc,win81
# use CIM command to talk to non-CIM computer
Get-CimInstance -Namespace root\CIMv2 -ClassName win32_BIOS -CimSession (
New-CimSession -ComputerName OLD-XP-PC -SessionOption (
New-CimSessionOption -Protocol Dcom
)
)