Episode 26 – Keith Hill

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We’ve got a great show lined up for you today.  I am really pleased to announce our guest: Keith Hill, a well-known developer in the PowerShell Community.  Also, as we hinted during the last show, your participation and support makes advertisers happy, and when they’re happy, they give away stuff.  This one is cool because many will enter–and many will win!  Stay tuned for details.  And as usual, we’ve got a bunch of news, tips, and resources to share.

Episode 25 – CTP 2: The Return of CTP

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• We have a great show lined up for you today.  Don Jones from Sapien is here.  [applause]  He’ll be giving us a taste of the trade show circuit, going into CTP2, and other goings-on in the PowerShell world.  And of course we have tips and resources and whatever else we can throw in.
• We will be announcing the winner of our Vista Ultimate giveaway on Show 26 next week.  If you haven’t entered yet, now is the time!  It’s really easy, just send feedback about the show to and you are in the running.

News

The News today is sponsored by SDM Software.
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Episode 24 – Admin Script Editor

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• Today we’ll be speaking to Steven Behrns from iTripoli, the developers who brought you Admin Script Editor. Also on tap: news, resources, and a bunch of PowerShell tips for you. In addition, we’ve got a product giveaway, the first of many! But you have to listen to find out how to enter. 🙂

News

The News today is sponsored by SDM Software.
Before we go into the spiel, I’d like to mention that we’ve gotten some great feedback from Quest already, so thanks to everyone who has done a clickthrough and filled out the form. You do keep doing that, and we keep the advertisers happy, and that allows US to do more for you. You will start to see the results of that in this very show!
“SDM Software provides innovative solutions that combine PowerShell and Group Policy to help reduce the complexity of managing your Windows systems. Their unique GPExpert Scripting Toolkit for PowerShell, provides the means to automate the management of your Group Policy Objects.
To get more information about these products and download trial copies,
visit sdmsoftware.com/powerscripting.php.”

Episode 23 – IIS7 Special

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• Today we’ve got an interview with a senior program manager from the IIS team at Microsoft.  We’ve also got news, resources, and a bunch of PowerShell tips for you.

News

The News today is sponsored by SDM Software:
“SDM Software provides innovative solutions that combine PowerShell and Group Policy to help reduce the complexity of managing your Windows systems.  Their unique GPExpert Scripting Toolkit for PowerShell, provides the means to automate the management of your Group Policy Objects. To get more information about these products and download trial copies, visit sdmsoftware.com/powerscripting.php.”

Episode 22 – The One About Brandon

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Today we’ll bring you the second half of our interview with Jeffrey Snover. We think this part is even better than the first half. We’ve also got some news, resources, and a bunch of PowerShell tips for you.

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The News today is sponsored by SDM Software:

“SDM Software provides innovative solutions that combine PowerShell and Group Policy to help reduce the complexity of managing your Windows systems. Their unique GPExpert Scripting Toolkit for PowerShell, provides the means to automate the management of your Group Policy Objects. To get more information about these products and download trial copies, visit sdmsoftware.com/powerscripting.php.”

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Episode 21 – One-half of Jeffrey Snover

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This week, our Intrepid Heroes talk about News in the PowerShell world, bring you fresh Resources from the wild Internet, and share their experiences in the Tips section, with you, the Listener. Oh–and we also interview JEFFREY SNOVER! In case you don’t know who he is, he’s basically like the Thomas Edison of scripting.

Interview with Jeffrey Snover

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Episode 20 – Jeffrey Snover is coming

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News

• Don Jones gives us a peek at his PowerShell column in the March Technet Magazine:
  • “March is Progress Reporting - a definitive look at when, why, and how to use Write-Progress to produce
    scripts that run for a long time, but don’t look hung.”
• Sapien will be announcing their PowerShell training plans very soon.  Watch their blog{#xlqg}.  They are also seeking input on a possible PowerShell developer class, you can fill out the survey here{#iu8z}.
• Jeffery Snover will be joining us on a future podcast so send in your questions

Resources

• RunAs Radio{#cyjc} recently featured our very own PowerShell MVP Marco Shaw on their podcast show #46{#rw28} to talk about WMI and IIS7 and several other things.

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Episode 19 – The Scripting Games are on

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News

• Scripting Games now open by the time you hear us!
• Citrix Workflow Studio “Workflow Studio, a member of the Citrix Delivery Center product family, is an IT process automation solution that enables you to compose, integrate and orchestrate rule-based workflows across your application delivery infrastructure. Workflow Studio acts as the glue across the IT infrastructure allowing administrators to easily tie technology components together via workflows that enable the system to truly operate as a dynamic delivery platform.”
• Jeff’s Scripting Blog and More: Practical PowerShell Jeff Hicks is writing a new monthly column for a new eJournal from RealTime Publishers. “The column, Practical PowerShell, will be a regular feature in Windows Administration in Realtime. The eJournal is a free PDF although I think you have to give up an email address.”
• Windows PowerShell : The Semantic Gap There are 2 worlds: 1. The world as we think about it. 2. The world as we can manipulate it. The difference between these two is what is called the semantic gap.

Resources

• New Video Podcast: PowerShell-Basics.com This is created by Steve from the A Couple of Admins Podcast.  He wanted to create a screencast-only video podcast.  His first show should be out by the time you hear this.

Cmdlets

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Export-Clixml ](http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/msh/cmdlets/export-clixml.mspx)

Episode 18 – Win Fabulous Prizes!

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• Lots of news and tips
• We missed Jonathan
• Our first contest–with actual prizes!

News

• The PowerShell team blog brings us the news that “PowerShell continues to win awards with Redmond Magazine”™s 2008 Editor"™s “Slickest Time Saving Tool” co-winner to go along with PS"™s Best of Tech-Ed Attendees award and Best of Tech-Ed Client awards."
• Kirk Munro covers PowerGUI on DNR.tv .NET Rocks! and RunAsRadio.
• Karl Prosser (admin frameworks MVP and PowerShell Analyzer architect) was interviewed on the “A Couple of Admins” podcast Episode 35. The interview lasts for almost an hour and I really enjoyed it.
• Shay@Isreal (The $cript Fanatic blog) put together a cool PowerShell toolbar
• Admin Frameworks MVP Brandon Shell was interviewed on the CS Techcast podcast. Hal listened to it on the way home the other day and he thought it was a really good interview.
• VMware’s VI-Toolkit open beta is expected in March
  • Over 70 new cmdlets
  • This example would create a snapshot of every VM:
    get-vm | new-snapshot
• Dale Lane, author of the IBM Websphere MQ PowerShell snapin is considering writing another tool, this time a PowerShell library for the IBM DB/2 RDBMS.  He is seeking feedback, so if you or someone you know might be interested, please visit this blog post and leave feedback.
• New Video Podcast: PowerShell-Basics.com
  • This is created by Steve from the A Couple of Admins Podcast.  He wanted to create a screencast-only video podcast.  His first show should be out by the time you hear this.

Tips

There’s a ton of Scripting Guys stuff we meant to cover in the interview show last time that we never got around to:

Episode 17 – With "The Scripting Guys!"

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• Greg and Jean “The Scripting Guys” themselves are our special guests. Head over to the Script Center!
• Jonathan was out with back problems.

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