Episode 87 – Sergei Antonov from Microsoft's IIS team

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to developer Sergei Antonov from the IIS team

News

  *Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge "“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks"™ e-book, "Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell," learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You"™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.*





  *Don"™t wait "“ visit [quest.com/powershellbook](http://www.quest.com/powershellbook) to register for your free copy and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.*







    - 
      The November meeting of the [Central Ohio PowerShell User's Group](http://centralohiopug.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/november-copug-meeting/) will be November 12th


    - 
      Hal will be presenting to the [Atlanta VMware User Group](http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmug/us-southeast/atlanta) along with Scott Herold of Vizioncore on Nov 5th


    - 
      James Brundage [has been doing videos for Channel 9](http://channel9.msdn.com/Search/?Term=James%20Brundage)


    - 
      [SharePoint 2010 brings on the PowerShell](http://consultingblogs.emc.com/michaelciba/archive/2009/07/19/powershell-marches-into-sharepoint-2010.aspx)


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      CodePlex review: 


          [PowerShell Glass](http://powershellglass.codeplex.com/)


        - 
          [SQL Server Community Projects & Samples](http://sqlserversamples.codeplex.com/)


        - 
          [YamlSerializer](http://yamlserializer.codeplex.com/)


        - 
          [Visio Automation](http://visioautomation.codeplex.com/)

    Interview

    Links







      - 
        [http://blogs.iis.net/sergeia/](http://blogs.iis.net/sergeia/)

    Questions

Resources

Episode 86 – Jason Shirk from the PowerShell team

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to developer Jason Shirk from the PowerShell team.

News

  *Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge "“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks"™ e-book, "Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell," learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You"™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.*





  *Don"™t wait "“ visit [quest.com/powershellbook](http://www.quest.com/powershellbook) to register for your free copy and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.*







    - 
      We'd like to congratulate returning PowerShell MVPs and the newest MVP Antoine Habart (author of [PoshBoard](http://www.poshboard.com/))


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      [PoshBoard v2.0 just released](http://www.poshboard.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19:poshboard-20-available&catid=1:poshboard&Itemid=3&lang=en)


    - 
      PowerShell Cookbook [now available on the iPhone](http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/PowerShellCookbookNowAvailableOnIPhone.aspx)


    - 
      The Exchange team blogs about [PowerShell changes coming in E2010](http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/09/10/452423.aspx)

    Interview

    Links







      - 
        Comment-based help: [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd819489.aspx](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd819489.aspx)

    Questions







      - 
        finked: ## what was your first scripting language?


      - 
        palen: ## Did you spend much time on performance in the parser, or was that largely v1 kind of stuff?


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        glnsize: ## as a comment... I don't write anything without implementing cmdlet bindings


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        glnsize: ## ahhh there's cut and paste and your not typing this stuff at the console... keeping the parameters the same as c# allows me to easily translate code


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        finked: ## what other areas might get performance boosts in the future?


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        glnsize: ## what happened to runspaces, in ctp2 i could use runspaces... v2 switched to jobs and now I can't run scriptblocks locally in seperate runspaces.  rather i don't think i can...


      - 
        palen: ## Wait, an API for the PowerShell tokenizer?

Resources

Episode 85 – Lee Holmes talks about v2

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to author and developer Lee Holmes from the PowerShell team.

News

  *Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge "“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks"™ e-book, "Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell," learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You"™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.*





  *Don"™t wait "“ visit [quest.com/powershellbook](http://www.quest.com/powershellbook) to register for your free copy and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.*







    - 
      [You can now use the Microsoft AD Cmdlets](http://blogs.msdn.com/adpowershell/archive/2009/09/18/active-directory-management-gateway-service-released-to-web-manage-your-windows-2003-2008-dcs-using-ad-powershell.aspx) on your Windows Server 2003 domain


    - 
      New from PowerWF: [convert scripts to workflows, v2 support, UAC, PowerCLI support](http://blog.powerwf.com/post/195230863/recent-highlights)


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      PrimalForms 2009 now has an [integrated script editor](http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/2009/09/primalforms-2009-script-editor/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed)


    - 
      Brandon [informs us](http://bsonposh.com/archives/990) of a new AD Codeplex project: [AD Replication Module](http://adreplicationmodule.codeplex.com/)

    Interview

    Links







      - 
        Lee's PowerShell Cookbook [http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528492/](http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528492/)


      - 
        [http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/09/30/powershell-s-security-guiding-principles.aspx](http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/09/30/powershell-s-security-guiding-principles.aspx)


      - 
        [http://leeholmes.com/blog](http://leeholmes.com/blog)

    Questions







      - 
        glnsize: ## what is the provider story?  Where a couple years in now, where do providers work?


      - 
        glnsize: ## wait we can use eventing to handle jobs... i thought this was limited to wmi


      - 
        glnsize: ## what scope does the event scriptblock run in?


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        palen: ## do events get lost when the powershell.exe host is close?


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        aleksandar: ## can we get a blog post in the near future about the eventing in V2. it's new and very powerful feature, but most of the sysadmins are not very familiar with it


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        glnsize: ## where are these (ISE) extentions?


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        glnsize: ## with providers not your lane, but what do i have to do to get a skydrive provider?


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        spowser: ##Is Powershell ISE considered part of Powershell release cycle or can updates be released off-cycle?


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        glnsize: ##we're suppose to be migrating to powershell.... did I just hear that I should be using an NT cmd over a powershell core function


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        palen: ## Is it in the roadmap to make .ps1 scripts native logon/logoff scripts?


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        finked: ## What is the easiest way to list the events in the ISE that you can register for


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        glnsize: ##besides the registry where have transactions been implemented?


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        spowser: ##What kind of feedback have you got from other teams within Microsoft about V2?


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        glnsize: ## softball -> favorite feature of V2...hardball->feature you couldn't get in


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        glnsize: ## I think transactions are awesome, but I barley ever modify the registry


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        glnsize: ##is there a post that shows me how my advanced functions can support transactions?  how involoved is this


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        finked: ## Will transactions be in the new Cook Book? What is new in the vNext Cook Book?


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        glnsize: ## will there be a v 2.1 or will be have to wait till windows 8 for the next posh release... feel free not to answer 😉


      - 
        glnsize: ##isn't [execution policy] -scope process a security hole?

Resources

Episode 84 – Hal and Jonathan talk PowerShell

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast Hal and Jon talk about…PowerShell?

News

  *Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge "“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks"™ e-book, "Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell," learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You"™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.*





  *Don"™t wait "“ visit [quest.com/powershellbook](http://www.quest.com/powershellbook) to register for your free copy and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.*







    - 
      You could have a chance to [influence PowerShell documentation](http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com/2009/09/call-to-action-please-read-if-you-want.html)


    - 
      There is a [Atlanta System Management User Group](http://www.systemcentercentral.com/UserGroups/tabid/120/view/groupdetail/groupid/3/Default.aspx) meeting coming up on October 9th.


    - 
      New CodePlex projects: 


          [Windows7Library](http://windowslibrariespsh.codeplex.com/)


        - 
          [VisioAutomation](http://visioautomation.codeplex.com/)


        - 
          [PowerShell Assistant (PSA) - for Live@Edu](http://psa.codeplex.com/)

Resources

Episode 83 – with Pragma Systems

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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In This Episode

**

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we interview Quamrul Mina and David Kulwin from Pragma Systems

**

News

Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge ““ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks”™ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You"™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.

Episode 82 – MVP Russ Kaufmann on PowerShell and Clustering

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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In This Episode

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we interview Microsoft Cluster MVP Russ Kaufmann

**

News

  *Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge "“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks"™ e-book, "Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell," learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You"™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.*





  *Don"™t wait "“ visit [quest.com/powershellbook](http://www.quest.com/powershellbook) to register for your free copy and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.*







    *

    - 
      Now available for pre-order,

Ed Wilson’s PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices book

Episode 81 – David Warburton talks AutoPowerShell

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we interview David Warburton, author of AutoPowerShell

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*This segment brought to you by *





- 
  The Scripting Center has a


- 
  [VMWorld 2009 PowerShell roundup](http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2009/08/vmworld-2009-powercli-and-powershell-roundup.html)


- 
  Idera just published a [bundle of SQL and AD scripts](http://www.idera.com/Products/Free-Tools/PowerShell-scripts/)

Interview

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Want to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and master? Checkout Idera’s PowerShellPlus Professional Edition which is now available for download! The new version has vastly improved code completion and a slick interactive Learning Center. Go to www.idera.com/PodcastPeople* to get your copy today!

Episode 80 – Klaus Graefensteiner

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we interview Klaus Graefensteiner, a software tester for Rockwell

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  *Want to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and master? Checkout Idera's PowerShellPlus Professional Edition which is now available for download! The new version has vastly improved code completion and a slick interactive Learning Center. Go to **[www.idera.com/PodcastPeople*](http://www.idera.com/PodcastPeople)* to get your copy today!*





    - 
      [Vista and Server 2008 - the wait is almost over for V2!](http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/08/14/powershell-2-0-for-windows-vista-and-windows-server-2008-release-candidate.aspx) The RC is

now available

Episode 79 – Listener Interviews

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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In This Episode {#p13-2}

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we have our first round of listener interviews featuring Rob Dowell, Staci Rottenberg, and Andrew Tearle

News

Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge ““ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks”™ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You"™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.

Episode 78- PowerShell MVP Kirk Munro

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to PowerShell MVP and software developer Kirk Munro from Quest Software.

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*Want to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and master? Checkout Idera’s PowerShellPlus Professional Edition which is now available for download! The new version has vastly improved code completion and a slick interactive Learning Center. Go to www.idera.com/PodcastPeople* to get your copy today!