PowerScripting Podcast

Episode 75 - PowerScripting Podcast - Oisin Grehan and Joel Bennett talk Poshcode

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Tue, 7 Jul 2009 03:58:00 GMT

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to PowerShell MVPs Joel Bennett and Oisin Grehan

Interview

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Questions:

9:25 ChadMiller: ##Does the new poshcode fix the mulit-version thing

9:30 OsamaSajid: This was discussed a while back.. How many PowerShell MVPs are there? - 35

9:33 ChadMiller: ##Can you see script download stats

9:37 aleksandar: ## when do you plan to remove beta tag from poshcode.org 2.0?
9:51 aleksandar: ## PowerShellPlus and PowerGUI can search for scripts on poshcode.org. Will we have that feature in PowerShell ISE too?

9:56 glnsize-1: ## talk about the upcomming module support... can i use poshcode v2 as an svn for my v2 modules. Could/should poshcode replace codplex as the goto for big powershell projects.

10:14 glnsize-1: ## will v2 have the 1500 line cap that v1 has today.

10:15 ChadMiller: ## Are snapins -- compiled cmdlets supported in new poshcode

Superhero

Oisin - Johnny Alpha
Joel - Zorro

Episode 74 - PowerScripting Podcast - DevFarm talks about PowerWF

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:31:00 GMT

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Devfarm Software about their PowerWF workflow product

News

Joe Pruitt has released a new Codeplex project titled PoshBing.Jeff Hicks has announced that an updated version of PowerShell:TFM 3rd Ed is now available
SAPIEN has announced their ChangeVue product will be getting a set of cmdlets
A new version of the Quest AD Cmdlets has been released 1.2.2
Jeffrey Snover leaked on Twitter a new CTP of PowerShell v2 with XP support is coming soon

Interview

Questions

glnsize: ## define that ... How do you *Create* a cmdlet or snapin...
palen: ## Does it handle conditional statements?
glnsize: ## is this cmdlets avaliable outside of your tool... can i install it elsewhere
lmrobins: ## can I add snapins inside these workflow tasks?
glnsize: ##so is this a host that we work in, or is it an IDE we build our tools with
glnsize: ## so who the target here the developer or the admin?
meson: ## What if you want to develop a plugin from your own set of cmdlets?
cartershanklin: ## Do their cmdlets work on the vanilla PowerShell host or do they need a special PS host?
AndrewTearle: ## Where does FullArmor history come in ? Is it no potential competition ?

Superhero

Ben - Nightcrawler
Brian - Wolverine

Resources

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies

Working with ASP.NET application configuration files in PowerShell
VMware put up a PowerCLI webinar recently
Lee Holmes tells about Get-Help -Online
.NET cheat sheets are great!
Shay shows us how to autolink cmdlets when writing blog posts in Windows Live Writer--from PowerShell of course

Tips

Use "ise" to invoke the editor in PowerShell v2 (thanks Shay)
Set-Alias edit "$pshome\powershell_ise.exe"

How to use PowerShell and Subinacl.exe to permission printers

Osama from the PowerShell team has written two articles (part 1, part 2) on working with event logs in PowerShell V2

Spend time looking at $env:windir\diagnostics. As Jeffrey Snover noted recently, there has been a lot of work put into these scripts and we could all learn something by going over them with a fine-toothed comb.

Episode 73 - PowerScripting Podcast - Exchange MVP Michael Smith

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Tue, 9 Jun 2009 03:29:00 GMT

Tonight we talk to Exchange MVP Michael Smith about Exchange 2010
News
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!

Brandon Shell let us know that the Citrix XenApp cmdlets are available
The new PoshCode is now up in beta: http://beta.poshcode.org/
PowerGui 1.8 is out New features include improved powerpack management
Listener Wes Stahler posted pics of Hal & Steve Murawski taken at TechEd 2009.
Technet Webcast June 10: How to Manage Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 in Large Enterprises (Level 300)

Interview
This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies

25 years experience in IT, 13 years experience w/Exchange
Written two books, Exchange 2003, and Monitoring Exchange 2007 w/Ops Mgr
Company: The Essential Exchange / http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/
writes articles for:
Exchange Messaging & Outlook e-zine
Simpletalk

SuperHero: Green Lantern

Questions

slipsec: ## How do you put load on your labs?
gaurhoth: ## Any ideas that you can share about why Exch2010 CAS isn't going to be able to proxy to Exch2003 Backend (like Exch2007 CAS can now)? gaurhoth: I'm looking at a exch2003 - exch2010 transition end of next year and this seems like it's going to add a hurdle.
gaurhoth: ## Have you played with cross-site DAG and is it as good as the demo's so far make it look?
gaurhoth: ## sDo you have any limitation/concerns that you've observed so far?
gaurhoth: ## Is MS's recommendations that you can replace disk/tape backup with DAG (with at least 3 copies) really that realistic? Seems like you'd be open to database corruption issues since you would...
slipsec: ## How is Public Folder support?
gaurhoth: ## only have 1 (maybe 2) delayed copies if youc an afford that many servers (for lagged replication)
gaurhoth: ## Is all of DAG functionality availble from management console or is powershell required to set it up (as in HA tech in 2007)
slipsec: ## Any tie in with the new Active Directory cmdlets?
gaurhoth: ## Is DAG Failover between sites a manual process? (assuming yes ... dns, etc)... Does failover require updates of AD attributes to point to new server... or is it just a dns change? gaurhoth: (and AD Attribute changes obviously needing replication to complete before failover can be completed)

Resources
When it comes to scripting, youâre a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!

For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Questâs PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShellâs strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever.

Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands â download PowerGUI today.

This video on Channel 9 shows you how to automate MS's Netmon protocol analyzer with PowerShell (50 min running time)
Introduction to Modules w/ Advanced Functions
Another PowerShell script to ping servers, this one will send you an email
PowerShell videos on Bing
Shay has a great method for quickly finding expired x.509 certificates with a new custom formatter (PS1XML)

Tips
Rich Siddaway discusses working with file attributes and hidden files
Steve Murawski talks about focusing your scripts and functions
Jeff Hicks goes into return versus write
Neat thread on securing WinRM on PowerShellCommunity.org
StackOverflow: What are some of the most useful yet little known features in the PowerShell language?

Tonight we talk to Exchange MVP Michael Smith about Exchange 2010

News

Brandon Shell let us know that the Citrix XenApp cmdlets are available
The new PoshCode is now up in beta: http://beta.poshcode.org/
PowerGui 1.8 is out New features include improved powerpack management
Listener Wes Stahler posted pics of Hal & Steve Murawski taken at TechEd 2009.
Technet Webcast June 10: How to Manage Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 in Large Enterprises (Level 300)

Interview

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies

25 years experience in IT, 13 years experience w/Exchange
Written two books, Exchange 2003, and Monitoring Exchange 2007 w/Ops Mgr
Company: The Essential Exchange / http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/
writes articles for:

Exchange Messaging & Outlook e-zine
Simpletalk

SuperHero: Green Lantern

Questions

slipsec: ## How do you put load on your labs?
gaurhoth: ## Any ideas that you can share about why Exch2010 CAS isn't going to be able to proxy to Exch2003 Backend (like Exch2007 CAS can now)? gaurhoth: I'm looking at a exch2003 - exch2010 transition end of next year and this seems like it's going to add a hurdle.
gaurhoth: ## Have you played with cross-site DAG and is it as good as the demo's so far make it look?
gaurhoth: ## sDo you have any limitation/concerns that you've observed so far?
gaurhoth: ## Is MS's recommendations that you can replace disk/tape backup with DAG (with at least 3 copies) really that realistic? Seems like you'd be open to database corruption issues since you would...
slipsec: ## How is Public Folder support?
gaurhoth: ## only have 1 (maybe 2) delayed copies if youc an afford that many servers (for lagged replication)
gaurhoth: ## Is all of DAG functionality availble from management console or is powershell required to set it up (as in HA tech in 2007)
slipsec: ## Any tie in with the new Active Directory cmdlets?
gaurhoth: ## Is DAG Failover between sites a manual process? (assuming yes ... dns, etc)... Does failover require updates of AD attributes to point to new server... or is it just a dns change? gaurhoth: (and AD Attribute changes obviously needing replication to complete before failover can be completed)

Resources

Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands â download PowerGUI today.

This video on Channel 9 shows you how to automate MS's Netmon protocol analyzer with PowerShell (50 min running time)
Introduction to Modules w/ Advanced Functions
Another PowerShell script to ping servers, this one will send you an email
PowerShell videos on Bing
Shay has a great method for quickly finding expired x.509 certificates with a new custom formatter (PS1XML)

Tips

Rich Siddaway discusses working with file attributes and hidden files
Steve Murawski talks about focusing your scripts and functions
Jeff Hicks goes into return versus write
Neat thread on securing WinRM on PowerShellCommunity.org
StackOverflow: What are some of the most useful yet little known features in the PowerShell language?

Episode 72 - PowerScripting Podcast - Alex Riedel talks PrimalForms

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Fri, 5 Jun 2009 13:24:00 GMT

Tonight we talk to Alex Riedel from SAPIEN Technologies about their new PrimalForms product

News

TechNet Virtual Conference is coming June 19th
System Center Service Manager has a Test Drive version available, complete with PowerShell cmdlets
A Twitter client written in PowerShell
A fix for PowerTab is out to make it work with PowerShell V2 CTP3
Shay Levy was interviewed on the Get-Scripting Podcast
Looking for PowerShell training and in the Ohio area? SAPIEN's special forces training is coming to Columbus end of July.
Hal asks you all to post your profile

Interview

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies

Alex Riedel from Sapien is back on the show to tell us about PrimalForms 2009

Questions from the chat room (from people who rock)

9:15 meson: ## Does it support WPF?

9:17 JeffHicks: ##Does this require PrimalScript?

9:22 meson: ## So if you can't see the form code, does that mean you can create dynamic properties?

Resources

Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands â download PowerGUI today.

Jeffery Snover posts a Get-WindowTitle script on the PowerShell team blog
A script for finding Windows machines that are missing patches
Hal wrote a script to detect if a web server is running WebDAV (based on this thread on PoshComm)
Jeff Hicks shows us examples of how to improve a script
Joe Pruitt has a new series of Unix -> PowerShell scripts. So far he's done md5, touch, and fourteen others!
Eric Sloof wrote a cool script a few weeks ago that will grab a screen capture of the virtual machines in your VMware infrastructure and create a HUD to quickly view the system states.

Tips

Brandon Shell talks about the benefits of using LDAP filters when querying Active Directory
Keith Hill posts some neat PSCX tips
Starting a new elevated process from a PowerShell script

Episode 71 - PowerScripting Podcast - Doug Hazelman from Veem

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Wed, 3 Jun 2009 02:14:00 GMT

Tonight we talk to Doug Hazelman from Veeam

News

VMware's VI Toolkit is now called PowerCLI, and they have a Twitter account.
What's new in the VI Toolkit Extensions?
Pscx 1.2 Beta has been released
Listener Matt Johnson is trying to start up a PowerShell Script Club in SE Michigan
Go and register for the upcoming Exchange 2010 webcast frrom TechNet (thanks Shay)
2009 Summer Scripting Games are coming, and they are gonna be great (thanks in part to PoshCode!)
The first Unofficial Online VMUG is June 1st

Interview

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies

Doug Hazelman from Veeam joins us tonight

Doug's blog and Twitter feeds

Questions from the chat room (from people who rock)

9:13 neririn: ## how does this compare to vCenter Data Recovery?

9:16 BrianSt: ## How does Configurator compare to the new Host Profiles?

Superhero: SpaceGhost

Resources

Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands â download PowerGUI today.

The guys at Channel 9 have put up a half-dozen short videos on PowerShell v2 features
Icomasoft has put up a quick reference card that's great for both PowerShell and the VI Toolkit--er, PowerCLI
Hal had a chance to interview Kirk Munro in person at TechEd and they talked a lot about PowerGUI
Dmitry shows us how to do a remote defrag with WMI and PowerGUI

Tips

Shay has written a great article on how to run PowerShell versions 1 and 2 side by side using the new XP Mode feature in Windows 7
Blogger Steven Hystad has written a cool cryptography and compression script along with a nice writeup on some of the background for writing it
An example of using -header with import-csv for looking at Live Mesh logs

Episode 70 - PowerScripting Podcast - Practical PowerShell: Best Practices from the Field

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:25:00 GMT

This show features the Birds of a Feather session "Practical PowerShell: Best Practices from the Field" including discussion about:

Function naming
PowerShell profiles
Execution policies and security
Remoting
Best practices
and more!

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Thanks for listening!

Episode 69 - PowerScripting Podcast - Jason Gallaugher joins us from Rove

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:43:00 GMT

Tonight we talk to Jason Gallaugher from Rove

Please visit us at http://PowerScripting.net
Thanks for listening!

Episode 68 - PowerScripting Podcast - James Brundage from the PowerShell team

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:30:00 GMT

Tonight on we talk to James Brundage from Microsoft.

Please visit us at http://PowerScripting.net

Thanks for listening!

Episode 67 - PowerScripting Podcast - Bob Bobel from Quest Software

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:59:00 GMT

Tonight we talk to Bob Bobel about Quest's Active Directory cmdlets. And stay tuned to the end of the show for a new contest!

News

Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands â download PowerGUI today.

Virtualization EcoShell beta has been released
PowerShell Program Manager Dan Harman has an important post about new V2 cmdlet design guidelines

Interview

Links mentioned in the interview

Active Roles Server
Access Manager
TOAD
PowerGUI
ActiveRoles Management Shell (Quest's AD cmdlets)
BobBobel.com
@rbobel on Twitter

Questions

JeffHicks : ##What can you tell us about what will happen with the free PowerShell cmdlets from Quest once Microsoft fully releases their AD solution.
rfoust : ## how do you see the world changing with the new web interface thingy in R2, what role will adsi continue to play?
ChadMiller : ##Do the cmdlets support local Windows groups
JeffHicks : ##How many developers are working on Powershell cmdlets?
aleksandar : ##How do you explain the popularity of powergui.org forums?
rfoust : ## working on anything for hyper-v?
rfoust : ## or vmware
JeffHicks : ##Who is the target enterprise for ARS?
JeffHicks : ##How do you think PowerShell v2 will change the free PowerShell cmdlets and/or PowerGUI?
JeffHicks : ##Do you define feature sets and requirements or just keep everyone on task?
BrianSt : ##Does Access Manager work with NetApp?
aleksandar : ##do you plan to make cmdlets that will cover AD topology management?
JeffHicks : ##is there a place to submit wish list requests?
meson : ## Does Quest have any plans for creating Activity Libraries for Citrix Workflow Studio for their cmdlets? WIth the WFS SDK you can take cmdlets and convert them to Activity Libraries so they are available in WFS. I am wondering if they are even considering doing that or if they would have an issue with someone in the community doing it.
aleksandar : ##quest has forums and wiki, but can we expect proper bug tracking system?

Resources

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

Here's a security overview for PowerShell V1
PoshCode script: Out-Report: it sends output to Excel, PDF, or image files. Here's a blog post about it.
Dmitry has a great post showing the new AD cmdlets from Quest
Making Disk, Database and Table Graphs with PowerShell

Tips

Configuring PowerShell for Remoting (V2 CTP3)

Part 1: WinRM service config
Part 2: Fan-in

How do I create modules? (v2 CTP3)
How do i reset a network adapter?
Generate new object wrapper functions from an assembly

Contest

Listen to the show to hear details of our "Heroes" contest.

Episode 66 - PowerScripting Podcast - Scott Herold talks VESI and Vizioncore

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:10:00 GMT

Tonight we talk to Scott Herold about Vizioncore and VESI. We're also joined in studio by Scott Moss, VP of the Southeast Management User Group, a local friend, and fan of the show.

News

Andy Schneider, James Brundage and others will be heading up the Script Club in Seattle on Apr 21st
Now announcing: WMI team blog
Going to TechEd next month? Hal has a birds of a feather session on day 3 titled "Practical PowerShell: Best Practices from the Field"

Interview

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

Links mentioned in the interview

Questions

rfoust : ## tell me about vOptimizer Pro. Does it resize C: partitions if a D: is right behind it?
rfoust : ## what do you think about hyper-v - will it ever compete w/ vmware?
rfoust : ## will vOptimizer realign without taking downtime, or i guess it has to reboot, right?
ScottMoss : ## does vfoglight integrate with Microsoft Operations Manager?
rfoust : ## know of any good docs for deploying Exchange in vmware? Vmotioning a CCR cluster really isn't supported, huh? :)
spowser : ## Can the resize work the opposite way? Go from small to large disk?
meson : ## How about XenServer?
rfoust : ## is vmware anywhere close to lpars?
spowser : ## Will Ecoshell be able to extend\shrink disks or is that IP of Vizioncore?
cartershanklin : ## Do you think VESI will focus on an area, reporting for example?
cartershanklin : ## Are you embracing/extending the notion of PowerGUI lockdown?
cartershanklin : Maybe Scott can talk a bit about lockdown and why it matters.
cartershanklin : ## Will VESI support VMware Update Manager?

Resources

Script from the PowerShell team: Set Vista network location to private
The Scripting Guys bring us Learning to Excel
Jeff Hicks has a cool script to create a GUI tree view
Add the ability to use a text balloon to your scripts
Don Jones has released his debugging series in a PDF
Richard Siddaway talks about modules in 2008 R2
Richcopy

Tips

Keith Hill posts: Effective PowerShell #15: Using the Output Field Separator $OFS

Episode 65 - PowerScripting Podcast - Lance Robinson from /N Software

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Sun, 5 Apr 2009 04:15:00 GMT

Tonight we talk to Lance Robinson from /n Software

News

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

Hal's book Managing VMware Infrastructure with PowerShell: TFM is now available for pre-order!
Doug Finke is now a PowerShell MVP!
SAPIEN has released a free editor for quick & dirty stuff on the go called PrimalPad. (download link)
SDM Software has released a new version of their Group Policy Automation Engine
April 23 webcast: Using Windows PowerShell with Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager

Interview

Links mentioned in the interview

Resources

Two from Lance Robinson:

Jeffery Hicks has a script for pulling service account names
Oisin Grehan unleashes a boatload of Module information
New to PowerShell? Check out PowerShell Your Mom

Tips

James Brundage from the PowerShell team shows us how to manipulate images in PowerShell with the WIA COM objects

Gotcha

Strange Select-Object behavior in PowerShell V2 CTP3

Episode 64 - PowerScripting Podcast - Fred Baptiste talks PolyMon and PolyMonRT

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:27:00 GMT

Tonight we talk to Fred Baptiste, author of PolyMon and PolyMonRT

News

When it comes to scripting, youâre a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!
For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Questâs PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShellâs strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever.
Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands â download PowerGUI today.
PowerShell is now available as an optional download on Microsoft Update
Microsoft TechDays live virtual event April 1st. PowerShell MVP and PSVUG leader Marco Shaw is presenting the only PowerShell session. You can find more about it on his blog.
Veeam just released some cmdlets to go with their VMware reporting product. But they flubbed the cmdlet names--and apologized . Listen for the full story.
Quest is about to release version 1.2 of the AD Cmdlets
Hal's book, Managing VMware Infrastructure with PowerShell: TFM is available for pre-order this week!

Interview
This segment is brought to you by Idera:
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!
PolyMon
PolyMonRT
spowser : ## I had a coworker ask me how active the Polymon project is since the last release was May 2008
ChadMiller : ##Is Polymon closer to Spotlight than MOM/SCOM?
StevenMurawski : ##Is the next release of PolyMon going to use the PowerShell runtime as it's engine? (make all monitors cmdlets?)
spowser : ## I saw there was a note about a web interface, is there an ETA on that?
EBGreen : ##I haven't investigated this myself but how extensible is PolymonRT? Specifically adding new display widgets.
EBGreen : ##How does it compare to Power Gadgets (other than price :) )?
glnsize : ## when did you find powershell, and what made you integrate it into polymon
ChadMiller : ##What about alert supression?
glnsize : ## what's the performace of a powershell monitor
glnsize : ## what is the difference of pollymonrt vs pollymon
PolyMon Controls: http://www.codeplex.com/PolyMonControls

Resources
This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

PowerShell 0-60 in One Evening
Sergei Antonov's IIS blog
FatBeard put up a list of snapins, some of which you may not have seen.

Don Jones has put up a new series (5 parts so far) called Practical PowerShell

Tips
Using Get-Member -Static (from Stack Overflow)
Using Unicode function names (from Doug Finke)
"Why is my [vmware powershell toolkit] code so slow?" (from VI PowerShell blog)

One-Liner
PS > Get-ChildItem env:\Use*

Episode 63 - PowerScripting Podcast - MVP Brandon Shell

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:40:00 GMT

Tonight we talk to Brandon Shell about Active Directory support in PowerShell V2

News

This segment is brought to you by Idera:

EBGreen on the PowerShellCommunity is trying to get a St. Louis Script Club together. If you are in his neck of the woods, get in touch!
PowerShell UG meeting on Mar26th
Congrats to Jeffrey Snover: Distinguished Engineer !
SDM Software has released version 1.3 of the GPMC cmdlets. Free download!
You can influence the PowerShell Cookbook V2
PowerShell in Action MEAP news:
- "As with the first edition, the plan for this book is to be a definitive "details" book which means that it will continue to be a bit much for an "absolute beginner" but someone with scripting/programming experience should be fine. (Let me know if I'm getting it wrong.) And again, I will try to include the rationale behind why things are the way they are. I find that this type of elaboration really helps me become comfortable with a topic. Hopefully readers find it likewise helpful.
  
  As to what I'm covering, I expect to do a *lot* on modules as they have turned out to be rather more complex then I'd really like. Remoting is also an area that I expect to cover in depth (though I think our docs should be pretty good in this area as the writers got reasonable lead time on this stuff.) I'm also thinking it might be useful to cover some more advanced programmer-oriented topics like constrained runspaces and the new hosting APIs. I'll cover the new WMI stuff, the BITS cmdlets and WSMAN cmdlets and provider which are part of the core OS. What I don't plan to cover (at least not deeply) are a lot of the new server features that use PowerShell simply because each of these features (AD, IIS, the new Exchange stuff, etc.) will require a book on their own."

Interview

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

glnsize : ## what do you think of the move to web services vs the traditional ADSI
rfoust: ## how flexible are the new cmdlets?
rfoust : ## think we will ever see true dynamic groups in AD? (i dont mean the fake app dynamic groups thing)
glnsize : ##do the official cmdlets fill the gaps that quest left out... forest fismo stuff?
cerobins : ## Is there a way to force AD replication? A quick look in the current stuff and coming AD cmdlets didn't tell me anything
rfoust : ## will quest cmdlets become irrelevant?
glnsize : ## will the new cmdlets work with 2k3?
rfoust : ## are the cmdlets just for querying/setting AD stuff, or is dcdiag, etc being rewritten?
aleksandar : ## what are the requirements for MS AD cmdlets?
rfoust : ## will the ad cmdlets run on 2003/xp?
glnsize : ## in yuor opinion is this exchange or IIS (you know what i mean)
rfoust : ## so you can't override defaults by setting something somewhere
rfoust : ## expected performance of these cmdlets vs. old utilities?
rfoust : ## i guess these cmdlets will work on DC's back to 2000? (hopefully nobody is still running 2000...but...)
mkline : ## 5 years down the road, where do you see those that havne't embraced powershell
rfoust : ## cmdlets will work cross-forest?
mkline : ## hopefully not OT, is the powershell university course from Sapien any good?
cerobins : http://blogs.msdn.com/adpowershell/archive/2009/02/25/ad-powershell-quick-start-guide.aspx
mkline : good quick video over at TechNet Edge on recychle bin http://edge.technet.com/Media/Active-Directory-Recycle-Bin
rfoust : ## are ad cmdlets transactional?

Resources

When it comes to scripting, youâre a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!

Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands â download PowerGUI today.

Alan Renouf posted a VI Toolkit Quick Reference Guide
Keith Hill shows us how to yank lines in the ISE
Jason Shirk from the PowerShell team has posted to their blog a really cool example of how to proxy a command.
There is a PowerShell group on LinkedIn
Hal made a script to work with Gmail filters
Oisin posted a script that extends get-help to cover .NET types and members

Tips

From Keith Hill, How to resize images using the PowerShell Community Extensions
Dmitry writes about consistent naming conventions

One-Liner

On StackOverflow there's a one-liner to list all COM objects on a system. This was sent in by Steve Murawski from Mind of Root.

Bonus Episode - PowerScripting Podcast - The Missing Interviews

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:33:00 GMT

Today we have a special bonus podcast for you. We have three interviews for you.

-Justin Braun from Compellent

-PowerShell MVP Max Trinidad (from the MVP Summit)

-PowerShell team member James Brundage with a demo of WPK (from the MVP Summit)

Here's some additional information from Justin's interview

Worked as a TAM for Microsoft for a couple of years
Compellent just went public last year
SAN device with some unique maangement tools and features
Snapin connects via IP to SAN hardware, no middleware required
Snapin also connects to VDS service on remote SAN clients (windows servers)
rfoust : ## do you have management packs for OpsMgr?
glnsize : ## how hard was it sell your team on powershell?
rfoust : ## are you actively testing on ctp3?
glnsize : ## are you handling the partition offset... when your formatting the drive?
rfoust : ## did you say if you have a gui built on the cmdlets? or is your gui separated?
glnsize : ## what can't you do with your cmdlets... what % coverage do you have with your cmdlets
rfoust : ## how many cmdlets are in the snapin?
glnsize : ## any providers to browes the san
rfoust : ## will the snapin work with any other vendors hardware, or is it proprietary?

website: compellent.com

Episode 62 - PowerScripting Podcast - Ferdinand Rios and Jeffery Hicks from Sapien

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:43:00 GMT

Tonight we talk with Ferdinand Rios and Jeffery Hicks from SAPIEN Technologies.

News

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

PoshCode now Twitters
"I Love PowerShell" song by ye110beard
A PowerShell V2 book is on the way "Windows PowerShell 2.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant"
PowerShellCommunity.org is going to TechEd
Thomas Lee has a link on his blog to a $50 off deal on PowerShell Plus Professional Edition
PowerShellPlus 2.1 beta 2 released
TimeTag time series database has a new blog and isapproaching beta release
PowerGUI VMware PowerPack v2.1.5 released (thx Virtu-Al)

Interview

When it comes to scripting, youâre a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!

Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands â download PowerGUI today.

ustreamer-22944 : #Question: Has Jeff mastered Black Hole Sun at Hard level on Rock Band yet? :-)
glnsize : ## where is the module support?
glnsize : ## is there suppport for tortisesvn?
ustreamer-22944 : ## Does PrimalScript editor support the MSSCCI interface to allow various version control products to plug into it?
mwjcomputing : ## How many people can access ChangeVue at the same time?
meson : ## What products aren't included in PrimalScript?
gaurhoth : ## Does primal script support -STA?

Resources

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Keith Hill has taken his Effective PowerShell blog posts and turned them into an ebook that he has posted for free
Joel Bennett has put up a short guide on how to get started writing Advanced Functions in PowerShell v2.
As Ferdinand mentioned in the interview here is a post about iPowerShell the first iPhone app for PowerShell
Hal put up a neat script (v2 required) that will copy files with the familiar GUI progress window
From the Active Directory PowerShell Blog comes a great overview of the new AD cmdlets in V2
Jeff Hicks recently wrote an article introducing PolyMonRT

Tips

Need to create an arbitrary file in PowerShell?
- fsutil file createnew c:\temp\foo.bar $(1mb)
Very cool wh[tab] and fe[tab] console shortcuts in PowerShellPlus

Gotcha

Hal talks about WMI job status in version 2

Mailbag

"I'm a big fan of the show. It has been very helpful to me in my quest
to learn Powershell.

I just finished listening to Episode 61 and wanted to comment on the
discussion regarding disk alignment. I too had never heard of disk
alignment until LogicsOne told us about it a couple years ago. Since
then aligning disks has been a part of our VM build process. You can
find a description here:

http://tinyurl.com/akwxoc
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929491

Thanks again, and keep up the good work."

Ryan G

Episode 61 - PowerScripting Podcast - Joe Pruitt and the ABCs of PowerShell

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Tue, 3 Mar 2009 03:18:00 GMT

Tonight we talk with developer and blogger Joe Pruitt from F5 Networks.

News

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

PowerGui 1.7 has been released
Quest has put up a survey to help determine the direction of PowerGUI
Don Jones has offered to review submitted scripts
Jeffrey Snover recently weighed in on a StackOverflow question on PowerShell vs Unix Shells
Jeff Hicks posted a reminder that Sapien has a new round of online PowerShell fundamentals classes starting March 10th
SAPIEN has posted a clarification to their blog about the new PrimalScript and PrimalTools software

Interview

Get on the fast track to PowerShell scripting success with PowerGUI

Join PowerShell MVPs Dmitry Sotnikov and Kirk Munro for a live chat at Quest Connect, a free, on-demand virtual tradeshow where you can get the answers you need to solve your toughest PowerShell challenges

Visit www.quest.com/poshchat today to learn more and to register

rfoust : ## what do you like the most about powershell?
glnsize : ## what's your opinion of WS-MGMT?
glnsize : ## how deep do you plan on going with your cmdlets? what percentage of your product line do you want to cover?
ustreamer-61217 : ## will there be an update for v2?
glnsize : ## doesn't that invalidate the whole perpose of SSL... not posh related but a pet peeve
jonwalz-1 : ## there is a memory improvement technique that uses ABC lists. Is that where you got the idea for your lists?

Resources

Better Warcraft gear script
Lee shows us how to move or delete a really locked file
Karl shows us how to search the PoshCode repository directly from Windows 7
Don Jones' Code Review #1: server audit script
A script to tell you if a partition is aligned or not
Doug has published a script to grab data from a Google Docs spreadsheet
Shay shows us how to create a web client request using default net credentials and web proxy
Joel shows us how to cleanly parse NETSH DHCP SERVER output using PowerShell

Tips

"Four for loops and their timings" blog post

Mailbag

Author : Vivek K.

"I have been listening to your postcast's and you guys are doing great job.
Here is something I want to share as a single liner :)

I have text file with the name text1.txt, text2.txt and so on..
I have always been renaming these files manually for long time and now with Power (PowerShell) in my hand I do this..

Get-ChildItem *.txt | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.name -replace 'text(\d+)', '$1.text'}

HTH for all those who come across situations when you want to rename such files.. this is for files with name starting with "text".. I am working on making this script as general as possible."

Episode 60 - PowerScripting Podcast - Scriptable UIs with Joel Bennett and James Brundage

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:02:00 GMT

Tonight we talk with Joel Bennett and James Brundage about scriptable user interfaces.

News

Antoine blogged about v0.4 of PoshBoard and his presentation given at Techdays 2009 France
PrimalScript 2009 released!
Upcoming PowerShell UK UG schedules have been posted
Karl Prosser blogs about the new release of PowerShellPlus 2.1 beta

Interview

This segment is brought to you by Idera:

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dougchase : ## What do we need to do to get started with this stuff?
jkavanagh58 : ## Is PrimalForms WPF?
dougchase : ## Does it work in V1 and how do I implement it in V1? Seems like I read it worked in both versions but I couldn't figure out how to start using it in V1.
ChadMiller : ##Haven't looked at WPF. Can you write a web page in WPF like powershellasp?
rfoust : ## can you recommend a site to understand the basics of WPF?
hal: Will these scriptable UI tools be able to replace HTA?
jasonmarcher : ## How easy is it to create data templates and add them to existing tools/controls

New-Grid -Rows 5 {
   New-Label "Please Enter Your Name"
   New-TextBox -Name YourName -Row 1
   New-Label "Sex:" -Row 2
   New-StackPanel -Row 3 {
   New-RadioButton -Content "Male" -IsChecked $true
   New-RadioButton -Content "Female" -Column 1
   }
   New-Button "Done" -Row 4 -On_Click {
   $yourName = $window | Get-ChildControl YourName
   $sex = $window |
   Get-ChildControl |
   Where-Object {
   $_ -is [Windows.Controls.RadioButton] -and
   $_.IsChecked
   } |
   Foreach-Object {
   $_.Content
   }
   if (-not $yourName.Text) {
   [Windows.Messagebox]::show("Who are you?")
   }
   $global:information = New-Object Object |
   Add-Member NoteProperty Name $yourName.Text -PassThru |
   Add-Member NoteProperty Sex $sex -PassThru
   $window.Close()
   }
} -show

Resources

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

Steve Murawski has a several part series talking about using the .NET framework from PowerShell. (part 1, part 2a, part 2b)
Andy did a blog post that talks about custom objects
PoshCode script: Compare-DatabaseSchema
Lee Holmes posted a fun script to make perfect change
James O'Neill posts some scripts for working with the Vista/W7/Server 2008 firewall
Joel has written a scriptable SSH client in Powershell using an external .NET library

Tips

From StackOverflow.com: How to get the actual size-on-disk of a file from PowerShell?
Shay posted some information about using help in PowerShell ISE

Gotcha

Kirk Munro has an awesome blog post talking about a quite wicked gotcha involving quoting rules and escape characters.

Episode 59 - PowerScripting Podcast - Oisin Grehan talks SharePoint

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:41:00 GMT

Tonight we are joined by PowerShell MVP Oisin Grehan to talk about managing SharePoint with PowerShell.

News

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More information is coming out about PrimalScript 2009 it includes a PowerShell profile manager
Bruce Payette is working on PowerShell In Action 2nd Edition and you can get early access
IIS7 PowerShell provider has reached RC1 stage

Interview

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN TechnologiesOur interview this week is with PowerShell MVP Oishin Grehan and we cover SharePoint
Questions from the audience
glnsize : ## do you use the web services or load the assemblies?
finked : ## Anything new in Excel Services?
glnsize : ## were do you see powershell fitting into sharepoint? dev, admin
glnsize : ## are you using the new webservices cmdlets in v2?
rfoust : ## do you have a sharepoint/powershell blog?
rfoust : ## is there a good âgetting startedâ guide for people new to sharepoint but not new to powershell?
rfoust : ## any idea where sharepoint/poweshell is going in the future?
glnsize : ## what is involved in âwriting a providerâ?
halr9000 : ## what does nivot mean?
halr9000 : ## Can you go into the BITS module blog post?

Links mentioned
http://www.codeplex.com/SPoshMod
http://www.codeplex.com/PSSharePoint
http://mossofall.blogspot.com/2006/09/excel-services-in-moss-2007.html
http://www.nivot.org/ - Oisinâs blog
http://www.nivot.org/2009/02/10/AnatomyOfAPowerShellModuleTheFileTransferBITSModule.aspx

Resources

Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands â download PowerGUI today

Show-Menu function: an easy way to create console-based multiple-choice menus.
Be sure to download the required Scripting module from here first. Thanks to listener Jason Archer for finding it.

What is required to use Invoke-VMScript?
PowerBoots example from Karl Prosser
Brandon Shell gives us info on functions and why they are important
Five simple functions for SharePoint
Richard Siddaway shows us a new way to create hash tables
Robbie Faust posts his PowerShell RegEx quick reference script

Tips

Pasting PowerShell scripts into blog posts

- Lee Holmesâ Set-ClipboardScript script
- Andy Schneider adds to it with the âthinned htmlâ option in MS Live Writer
- Hal points out the Code Snippet plugin for Live Writer
Thomas Lee shows us way to run cmd.exe within PowerShell
V2: Get-Alias -Definition parameter

One-Liner

PS > Get-Module -list | fl name, description

Episode 58 - PowerScripting Podcast - PowerShell ISE panel

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Mon, 9 Feb 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Tonight we have a panel discussion to discuss the PowerShell Integrated Script Editor. And of course we'll bring you news, tips and resources.

News

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies

Idera has released a beta for PowerShell Plus 2.1
Marco has posted the video for the PSUG #8 meeting
Oisin put up a great post talking about the differences between PowerShell 1.0 RTM and V2 CTP3

Interview

When it comes to scripting, youâre a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Questâs PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShellâs strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever.
Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands â download PowerGUI today

Agenda
Open
Introduce old guys
Karl Prosser

Introduce new guys
Andy Schneider
Ibrahim Abdul Rahim

Topics
Close

Topics
The Object Model ($psISE)
Legacy non-support story
PowerShell compatibility (Host, command execution, remoting etc)
Known bugs
Karl's PowerShell ISE-Cream project, and other third-party organized efforts
Questions from the audience
glnsize : ## why do the ISE, what does the ISE provide that the console doesn't besides tabs
halr9000: ## how does ISE handle $profile stuff?
glnsize : ## I'm an admin... explain what the ISE having an object model means. What can i do with it?
klumsykarl : ## what about console input. will that work in ISE going forward?
glnsize : ## will the help return help from advanced functions
JeffHicks : ##Why did you separate the console from the output?
klumsykarl : ## will it have the ability to put panes through $psise
KirkAMunro : ## What will you _not_ be able to do with the object model in v2?
klumsykarl : ## will there be codefolding?
klumsykarl : ## will there be any pulldown intellisense?
glnsize : ## is there an option to just use the ISE as an editor
JeffHicks : ##will we be able to move the panels around or even undock them?
aleksandar : ## could we add more than one Custom menu?
ustreamer-20790 : ## any plans for a runspace browser? something that allows you to snoop around the execution environment?
glnsize : ## is the ISE intended to be a gateway for a none cli admin, or is it to be a day to day replacement for the console?
JeffHicks : ##Is there any usability data on whether people want a GUI vs the console?

Resources

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Karl's post about ISE-Cream
Al from the Get-Scripting Podcast and the Virtu-Al blog has a script called vDiagram he's been working on for a while that will create a Visio diagram of your VMware Virtual Infrastructure
Don Jones has started a series about PowerShell Debugging over at Concentrated Technology
Andy Schneider talked about this on the interview: Using a Color Dialog to Choose Colors for ISE
/\/\ow posted a really cool script which is a GUI to monitor script blocks
Ibrahim posted some information about things to watch out for when useing the ISE
Jeffrey Snover posted his ISE Profile

Tips

Shay posted a CTP3 tip for finding static members of a type

One-Liner

This one is from Jeffrey Snover:

New-PsDrive -Name Mod -PSProvider FileSystem -Root (($env:PSMODULEPATH -split ";")[0])

Mailbag

This was a post to PowerShellCommunity.org forums, but we think it fits well here. :)

One of our clients has a very convoluted file/folder structure on a file share. Due to regulations and practices in place, they need specific permissions on certain folders. This seems simple at first glance, but it gets murky when you notice they have a top level folder, named Insurance, then below that they have one folder for each letter of the alphabet, and below that a name of their client. Below each of the client folders, there is a folder called Financial statements.

That Financial statements folder needed special permissions, and there was close to a thousand individual folders to change.

With a relatively simple powershell script I setup a example folder, which had the permissions I needed. Then using a powershell script I did multiple get-childitem commands, until I found the right folder, then using a variable I populated with the ACL of my test folder, I stamped it on all the Financial statements folders.

In about 1.5 hours, I did the work of one of their summer students for the entire two months(no kidding they had one person doing this manually).

- Darrin

Giveaway

Our book offer is brought to you by SAPIEN Press. You can find information about their books at sapienpress.com.

We're giving away two copies of Hal's upcoming book: Managing VMware Infrastructure with PowerShell: TFM. If you'd like to win a copy, leave us a review on iTunes, or Podcast Alley, or your own blog, or mention us on your Facebook page or whatever. Send a link to feedback@powerscripting.net and let us know what and where to verify and you are entered to win! Be sure to include your mailing address and name.

Episode 57 - PowerScripting Podcast - Carter Shanklin and the VI Toolkit

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Mon, 2 Feb 2009 03:58:00 GMT

Carter Shanklin joins us to talk about the new VI PowerShell toolkit version 1.5

News

VMware announces version 1.5 of their VI PowerShell toolkit is now out! Download -- Release notes -- intro videos -- demo scripts
Don Jones is working on a new OSS project called Cahoots. Please help him test!
According to Marco Shaw the 2009 Scripting Games will be held this summer
The PowerShell team is looking for some feedback
There's some great news from the DB4o team with regards to PowerShell support.
The Micrsofot Clustering & HA team recently announced their upcoming support for PowerShell in 2008 Server R2. Over 30 new cmdlets!

Interview

This segment is brought to you by Idera:

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!
New stuff:
buncha new cmdlets
invoke-vmscript, remoting into VMs

Questions:
meson : ## So what about a XenServer PowerShell book? ;)
rfoust : ## what is the best way to get started with the vi toolkit - is there a "getting started" guide?
jeffculb-1 : ## Why aren't the release notes for the vitoolkit accessible from the download page
palen : ## Is 1.5 developed with PoSh v2 in mind, or is it still largely targetted at v1?
rfoust : ## are there any limitations in this version or is all of the api stuff available through cmdlets?
bsonposh : ## make vmotion easier
jon_medd : ## can Carter tell us about the new command that lets you run powershell code into vm guests?
rfoust : ## does vmware provide an opsmgr mp? if not, why?
meson : ## Does the toolkit allow you to manage DPM?
jeffculb-1 : ## Will there be more videos upcoming demonstrating new commandlets
meson : ## Any chance of allowing V2 remoting through VMWare?
Pasdargent : ## When running one of these scripts into the VM, does it show the shell on the VM server or is it completely "behind the scenes" to anyone on that box?
Pasdargent : This is probably too newbie a question but is the remoting traffic secure?
glnsize : ## does the explosion of powershell in vmworld, and it's presence at the virtual congress surprise you?
glnsize : ## why must i include host credentials the guest i get but if im auth through VC
Pasdargent : ## Will it pass throough your logged on credentials or do you HAVE to send creds?
Jaykul : ## So, is there a way to Invoke-VMScript from, say, 'nix?
Jaykul : ## And, do you get results back? (sync? async?)
meson : ## Is there anything that any PowerShell toolkits can't do?
bmichel7150 : ## Is it possible to pipe in multiple text files as variables, i.e., 1 text file with VM names and 2 text files with username and password, kind of like arrays in PS?
jon_medd : ## what's it like being a product manager for a windows based product in a company that doesn't always have the most friendly relationship with microsoft?
glnsize : ## do you oversee all the toolkits?
Pasdargent : ## Aside from PowerShell installed on your guest OS, what else has to be installed or opened to use invoke command?
A) Needs 3.5 U2 or higher
meson : ## can you interact with the host or VMFS partitions within POwerSHell
meson : ## Can I get rid of the VC Client is a good way to ask the question.
palen : ## Have any of the new cmdlets in v1.5 originate from the VI Toolkit community extensions?
bmichel7150 : ## Can the VI Toolkit talk into the ESX services themselves, I.E, a script to restart mgmt-vmware service?
jon_medd : ## will hal update his book for 1.5? i know he is not very busy :-)
glnsize : ## what corner of the API are you looking at next, or at this point is it all fit and finish
jeffculb-1 : ## is version specific info referenced in the help for the commandlets
glnsize : ## what does the release cycle for the toolkit look like only major revs, or will you release as you go?
aleksandar : ## could carter say something about his experience with running ThinApped PowerShell?
Pasdargent : ## Are there plans to monetize the VI Toolkit or are you determined for this to be free indefinitely?

Resources

eJournal: Windows Administration in Realtime, look for the Practical PowerShell columns
In case you missed it Jeffrey Snover was on the Mind of Root podcast discussing WSMAN
PoshCode #829 New-Task, "Allows for the creation of tasks in Microsoft Outlook from Windows PowerShell. The majority of task options available can be configured with the function."
Cool PowerGUI video tutorials latest video is on how to use debugging.

Tips

How to open a remote powershell tab in ISE (V2 CTP3)

One-Liner

Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "Modules loaded: $(get-module)"

Giveaway

Our book offer is brought to you by SAPIEN Press. You can find information about their books at sapienpress.com.

Episode 56 - PowerScripting Podcast - James Kovacs talks about PSake

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:03:00 GMT

Tonight we talk to developer James Kovacs about his PowerShell build tool, psake.

News

Cool post from the PowerShell team talking about the new Remote Desktop Services provider in 2008 R2
The Group Policy Health cmdlet is now free!
PSVIC is a new project on Google Code. Aims to be a replacement for VMware's VI Console, but done with PowerShell.
PowerShell Virtual User Group meeting Jan 29th at noon EST

Interview

When it comes to scripting, youâre a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Questâs PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShellâs strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever.
Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands â download PowerGUI today

James Kovacs , B.Sc., M.Sc., MCSD, MCT
Primary Profile:

James Kovacs is an independent architect, developer, trainer, and jack-of-all-trades specializing in agile development using the .NET Framework. He is passionate about helping developers create flexible software using test-driven development (TDD), unit testing, object-relational mapping, dependency injection, refactoring, continuous integration, and related techniques. He assists clients in building smart clients, web applications, web services, and even full-fledged servers using the .NET Framework and Microsoft server technologies.

You can listen to him and his fellow plumbers, John and Bil on their podcast, Plumbers at Work - http://www.plumbersatwork.com - which is syndicated by MSDN Canada Community Radio. He is a frequent speaker at user groups and events. He published an article on memory leaks in managed code in MSDN Magazine (http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/01/ManagedLeaks/default.aspx).

James is a Microsoft MVP - Solutions Architect and card-carrying member of ALT.NET - a group of software professionals continually looking for more effective ways to develop applications.. He holds a variety of designations, including MCP, MCAD, MCSD, and MCT. He received his Bachelors degree from the University of Toronto and his Masters degree from Harvard University.

stevenmurawski: ##how does psake differ from tools like Nant and MSBuild?
stevenmurawski: ##Do you think there is an advantage to using psake over Nant and MSBuild?
stevenmurawski: ##MSBuild and Nant have a number of tasks (included and community provided), is there a task library for psake under development, or do we have to start from scratch?
stevenmurawski: ##if you are calling MSBuild from psake, aren't you adding a layer of complexity to your build process?
ebgreen: ##So something like a DSL for builds?
## what in your background makes you concerned with the pains of deploying apps in the enterprise?

Resources

Admin Script Editor (which recently received Windows IT Pro's top award) provides a true integrated scripting environment for PowerShell. Advanced features include an integrated PowerShell debugger, advanced code generating tools for Active Directory, Databases, XML files and more. Let's not forget about the exclusive PowerShell forms designer. Come see for yourself-- Admin Script Editor v3.5 is availble for a 45 day trial at AdminScriptEditor.com.

Exclusive tip from Bruce Payette: Out-Default wrapper / URL launcher
Two part tutorial on the switch statement
Introduction to the new Group Policy cmdlets in Windows 7 - creating a new GPO
Antoine H, the author of PoshBoard and blogger at devinfra-us, has put up a getting started guide for PoshBoard.
/\/\o\/\/ did a blog post a while back about a couple of TechNet webcasts about PowerShell
Don Jones talks about developing an inventory tool in PowerShell in the February issue of Technet Magazine

Tips

Lee Holmes has put up a tutorial for using P/Invokes in PowerShell

Gotcha

This one pops on the forums about once a week...

Get-Content stripping off the line breaks on a text file as it serializes the content into an array of strings.... Anyways you get the idea examples:

http://powershellcommunity.org/Forums/tabid/54/aff/1/afv/topic/aft/3514/Default.aspx
http://powershellcommunity.org/Forums/tabid/54/aff/1/aft/3599/afv/topic/afpgj/1/Default.aspx#4061

Will normally bite you when trying to format something for an external applications, or when parsing logs.

work-around is usually either a here-string or adding the line breaks back in.

~Glenn

Episode 55 - PowerScripting Podcast - James Brundage from Microsoft and Jeff Hicks

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:19:00 GMT

In This Episode

This episode features PowerShell MVP, author, and scripting guru Jeff Hicks as a guest co-host and an excellent, information pack interview with PowerShell Quality Expert James Brundage.

News

When it comes to scripting, youâre a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Questâs PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShellâs strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever.

Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands â download PowerGUI today

Whatâs going on at Sapien?
PowerGui surpasses 200K downloads!
Dmitry is also looking for input on PowerPack directions
Windows 7 beta with new PowerShell bits. There is a blog post on the Group Policy team blog about using the new group policy cmdlets (http://blogs.technet.com/grouppolicy/archive/2009/01/14/introduction-to-windows-powershell-cmdlets-in-windows-7.aspx)

Interview

What can you really do with PowerShell? With Admin Script Editor the question becomes what canât you do with PowerShell? Besides all the advanced code generating tools this is the only tool offering a true PowerShell Forms Desiginer. To illustrate what can be done the guys at iTripoli created a full-featured MP3/Podcast player written entirely in PowerShell and delivered as a single script. Check it out at adminscripteditor.com/player.

James, tell us a bit about yourself, where you come from and how you ended up on the PowerShell team?
What is a typical day like for you?
I see you part of a PowerShell script club. How is that working out? What can you tell us about it?
Being involved with testing and QA there must be times when you get to be a thorn in the sides of Jeffrey Snover, Bruce Payette and the rest. Deep down, secretly, doesnât that feel good? But seriously, what is it like to work with them?
I know youâve developed a lot of testing tools for PowerShell, youâve even shown them to me. Any chance some of them will be released to the community?
Do you have any performance or benchmarking scripts that you can publish?
Jamesâs personal blog

Resources

This segment is brought to you by Idera:

Want to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and master? Checkout Ideraâs 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!

Exclusive tip from Bruce Payette: Out-Default wrapper / URL launcher
Brandon Shell gives us some Regular Expression Info and Tips for PowerShell

Tips

Use PowerShellâs transcript feature to assist in learning PowerShell. Put Start-Transcript into your profile to start recording your entire PowerShell session. A great way to review your work, especially when trying to learn PowerShell from the beginning.
Increase your Powershell history buffer by setting $MaximumHistoryCount to a value higher than 64. You may also want to change the command buffer in the window settings to match.

One-Liner

(dir $env:temp -r | measure-object length -sum).sum /1MB

Here is a PowerShell script to clean up your temp directory

Episode 54 - PowerScripting Podcast

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:37:00 GMT

We've got a ton of news and resources for you as well as a new tip.

News

PowerShell CTP3 was released!
Jeffrey Snover will be on the Mind of Root podcast next Wednesday to talk about WSMAN and WinRM

PowerGui 1.6 has been released and it now has support for CTP3
Karl Prosser has updated PowerShell Analyzer to support CTP3
Not to be outdone, PrimalScript 2009 is just a month away.
Twitter has just taken off for PowerShell since Jeffrey Snover joined up and Steve Murawski started tracking "PowerShell Twitterers".
Joel Bennett has released a new project called PowerBoots. He's also posted a neat video walkthrough.

Resources

Joe Pruitt has been rocking with a great series called PowerShell ABCs. He's already up to N!
[CTP3] Tobias Weltner has made a cool web service script that uses the V2 cmdlet: New-WebServiceProxy
Steve Murawski has made it easy to follow the PowerShell twitterers
James Brundage has posted a CTP2 to CTP3 conversion guide
Play with PowerShell V1 in a TechNet virtual lab
PowerShell ISE can do more than you think

Tips

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PowerShell is not case sensitive, except for when it is
- ADSI (example)
- Get-ChildItem -Filter
- .NET classes

Episode 53 - PowerScripting Podcast - Jeffrey Snover and Bruce Payette

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:38:00 GMT

We have a great âCTP3 showâ lined up for you today. Our special guests are Jeffrey Snover and Bruce Payette from Microsoft.

Sponsor info

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Quest: When it comes to scripting, youâre a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Questâs PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShellâs strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever.
Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands â download PowerGUI today
iTripoli: What can you really do with PowerShell? With Admin Script Editor the question becomes what canât you do with PowerShell? Besides all the advanced code generating tools this is the only tool offering a true PowerShell Forms Designer. To illustrate what can be done the guys at iTripoli created a full-featured MP3/Podcast player written entirely in PowerShell and delivered as a single script. Check it out at adminscripteditor.com/player.

Interview

Questions for Jeffrey and Bruce from USteam

rfoust : ## what is the biggest design problem you see w/ powershell right now
glnsize : ## why was the decision made to wed V2 to w7 w2k8 r2?
xx JeffHicks : ##what can you tell mgmt who is reluctant to embrace PowerShell
xx finked : ## how did you win over the nay sayers?
xx rfoust : ## it has been said that posh wasnt meant to replace cmd. So when is cmd going to go away?
qa_warrior : # will there be a way to copy a runspace?
xx spowser : ## Will a runspace/session ever be able to interact with the desktop on a remote system?
cartershanklin : ## When do we get ArgumentTransformationAttributes in script cmdlets?
xx gaurhoth : ## scvmm 2008 and scom 2007 both require Powershell V1. CTP2 fails the install requirements and fails to install. When V2 is released, whatâs being done to ensure that other product groups donât artificially limit their product to V1?
xx aleksandar : ## how big is the powershell team?
xx rfoust : ## how close does the posh team work w/ the .net team, or are you mostly just a consumer?
Jaykul : ## Is there any plan to support writing CLASSES in PowerSHell?
meson : ## Will PowerShell ever be multithreaded?
Kemis : ## Any plans to expand upon Set-ACL so itâs more on par with CACLS?
xx steve-PSB : ##In Jeffreyâs recent channel 9 interview, he referred to pushing for PowerShell to be the standard shell on various systems, including Linux and hardware devicesâ Are there other major efforts (other than Pash) to get PowerShell on other platforms?
xx Jaykul : ## What about Extension Methods and LINQ?
xx Jaykul : halr9000: .Net 3.5 brought us language integrated queries as an AMAZING way of dealing with collections of all types, and databases â when will PowerShell suport LINQ
xx Jaykul : ## halr9000: AND: in 3.5 there are a lot of âExtensionMethodsâ which show up as .Methods on various objects â is there going to be a way to access those (other than via their STATIC notation) in PowerShell
xx palen : ## What kind of relationship does pash have with the PS team?
xx rfoust : ## jsnover: when ya gonna start using twitter?
xx sepeck : ## do you ever get people who, once exposed to powershell for a week or two, who still donât like it?
xx Jaykul : ## Any chance of an (official) wPowerShell.exe (like wscript.exe) to run scripts which donât need console ui?
xx aleksandar : ## on behalf of Marco Shaw: v2 is pretty much stabilizing. Is COM support going to stay as-is or will be improved at some point (v3)?
aleksandar : ## another Marco Shawâs Q: Anything on possible v3 features? More support for transactions, for example?
jon_medd : ## do they approach third parties and encourage them to make cmdlets or wait for the third parties to ask them stuff?
xx ChadMiller : ## I understand Jeffrery was an architect on wmic. How did his wmic experience influence Powershell
xx jeffhicks: ##can CTP3 be installed on Windows 7 betas?
xx palen : ## Is navigating the registry going to be changing at all? Get-ItemProperty just is not intuitive, I donât think
aleksandar : ## is it possible to assign -whatif output to a variable (or save it in a file) other than with start-transcript
rfoust : ## is the registry ever going away or upgraded? lol probably not a question you can answer, but who knows
xx sepeck : ## will the remoting work on windows 2003?
xx cartershanklin : ## Jeffrey, where do you buy your ties?
xx glnsize : ## what if anything has been done to improve the provider experiance?
xx steve-PSB : #Are there any other books focused at developing for PowerShell (more advanced than the existing Wrox title) that you are aware of?
dmoravec : ## Are you in touch with Script Center to help them to be more PoSh
xx rfoust : ## what problem are you annoyed that you werenât able to address in posh v2
xx spowser : ## Is there any reason why a runspace cannot interact with the desktop? Critical for our Automation
xx aleksandar : ## for bruce: when can we expect powershell in action 2.0?implementation
xx finked : ## What about Add_Type -Language FSharp
finked : ## I work for investment banks in NY.Pushing an msi for PoSh to Traders machines doesnât fly well.How can this be made easier?
foust : ## are you working on posh v3 yet?
palen : ## Did I hear in the Erik Meijer interview that there will be a version of Posh that is deployable via IIS?
xx hal: do you worry about cmdlet-bloat?
JeffHicks : ##is a roadmap or can one be published?
xx JeffHicks : we need netsh cmdlets
xx finked : ## What about PioSh with Live Mesh and Oslo?
xx aleksandar : ## have you ever expected such a passionate response from the community?
xx glnsize : ## will powershell and wsman eventualy be released via windows updateâ i.e. next year or so
DManVid : ## superhero for the ânew guyâ!

Episode 52 - PowerScripting Podcast - CloudBerry Labs

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:39:00 GMT

Today we interview Michael Farnia from CloudBerry Labs. Plus our usual news, resources, and tips.

News

Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands â download PowerGUI today

SAN vendor Compellent has just released a snapin with over 60-cmdlets.
SAPIEN's blog has some details about new features coming in 2009.

object browser
cmdlet tree
embedded console

Dmitry points us to a post on the PowerGUI.org forums with details of version 1.2 of their AD cmdlets.

Due Q1 or early Q2 2009
"Release would add some additional AD management cmdlets (like tombstone enumeration and un-delete), additional filtering when enumerating group memberships, user-friendly filtering by creation and last modification time, etc. More would come for proxy mode, in particular access to ActiveRoles Server change history storage and approval tasks queue. Also, we are going to make another iteration with performance optimization."

Back on Nov 21st, Joel released a new version of his Get-DNS cmdlet which works like dig on Linux.

Interview

CloudBerry Labs: http://www.cloudberrylab.com/
The snapin http://www.cloudberrylab.com/?id=14
JeffHicks : ##I don't know much about Amazon's S3 service. What is it and why would I care as a Windows admin?
rfoust : ## how does authentication work?
rfoust: ## can you be connected to two accounts at once?
rfoust : ## is the powershell support cmdlets or scripts or both?
ustreamer-62178 : ## will your cloudberry stuff support Rackspace's cloud?
rfoust : ## can it auto recover from failed transfers?
cartershanklin : ## Are they looking to do more than storage? Deploy apps to EC2? Or anything else with EC2?
JeffHicks : ##do the powershell cmdlets duplicate everything you can do in the GUI? Or ore are the extra features in the GUI or PowerShell onl?
cartershanklin : ## No extensibility / API I mean
JeffHicks : ##how is their app licensed?
sepeck : ## Is this for v1 or v2 and anything related to the cloud computing tools announced with Azure at the MS PDC?

Resources

Gotcha

foreach ($OU in $myOUs) {

$myUsers = Get-QADobject -SearchRoot $OU -LdapFilter $myFilter -IncludedProperties mailNickName

$myUsers | Format-Table mailnickname

}

out-lineoutput : Object of type "Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.FormatStartData" is not legal or not in the correct sequence. This is likely caused by a user-specified "format-table" command which is conflicting with the default formatting.

One-Liner

This was modified from an idea originally by the PowerShell Jedi. Go check out his new blog.

([wmiclass]"\\$computer\root\cimv2:win32_product").Install($msi)

Episode 51 - PowerScripting Podcast - Doug Finke

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Tue, 9 Dec 2008 04:37:00 GMT

Today we interview Doug Finke, software developer and blogger. Plus our usual news, resources, and tips.

News

What can you really do with PowerShell? With Admin Script Editor the question becomes what can't you do with PowerShell? Besides all the advanced code generating tools this is the only tool offering a true PowerShell Forms Designer. To illustrate what can be done the guys at iTripoli created a full-featured MP3/Podcast player written entirely in PowerShell and delivered as a single script. Check it out at adminscripteditor.com/player.

Version 2 will have inline help for your functions, just like a cmdlet! You can see what the syntax looks like on this post on James Brundage's Media and Microcode blog.
The guys at the Get-Scripting podcast are running a little contest to win a copy of Jeffrey Hicks' Managing AD with PowerShell: TFM book. To win, you just need to make captions for this picture from TechEd EMEA. Should be fun.
PrimalScript 2009 preview (screenshot)
New Codeplex project: SharePoint PowerShell Deploy
There's now a SQL and SharePoint forum on PowerShellCommunity.org
Windows 7's got a troubleshooting tool that's going to be based on PowerShell.

Interview

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Doug has been doing software development for more than 25 years. He started on the Mainframe as a Basic Assembly Language developer. The first scripting languages he encountered were REXX and CLIST. He saw how productive these approaches were and sought them out in each new environment he worked with. He has played with Lua, Tcl/tk, Ruby, Python, Groovy and PowerShell since it was called Monad.

Doug currently works at Lab49 a technology consulting firm that builds advanced solutions for the financial services industry in NY and London.

He has written articles on PowerShell appearing in Dr. Dobb's Journal. You can catch up with Doug at his blog at dougfinke.com/blog.

glnsize : ## What feature of V2 are you the most excited about?
steve-PSB : ##Do you know why NetMap does not seem to be available on Codeplex now?
JeffHicks : ##are there cmdlets for any of this stuff or do I have to code with .NET classes?
glnsize : ## Are the IT shops at your customers familiar with powershell? Or are you having to sell powershell from the ground up.
GrantSteinfeld : ##Dougs showed us how M will be really helpful in creating event driven system, Doug could maybe speak about that?

Resources

Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands â download PowerGUI today.

PoshCode script: elevate-process (sudo)
TurboChargeAD.org has been doing some nice posts on the quest cmdlets. Here are some:
Get-Drivespace script from Sepeck
New video introducing Hyper-V powerpack from Kirk Munro

Tips

- Speed up PowerShell V1 with update-GAC...why?

- The joy of hashtables

Gotcha

A friend of Hal's noticed that the output from these three commands were all different:

repladmin /? # looks as expected
$a = repladmin /? # has double line-feeds
(New-Object system.Net.Mail.MailMessage).Body = repladmin /? # has no linefeeds!

Jin Truher from Microsoft writes in response:

I believe that this is because the application itself is written with printf statements that look like this:

printf(âzazoo\r\r\nâ);

(note the multiple use of â\râ) which confuse PowerShell a bunch - other applications do this too (ipconfig, for one)

He goes further to say that he found this out by using a tool from MS Services for Unix which was funny. :)

You can work around issues like this by using the string.split() method.

Mailbox

This is from listener Dale:

I just wanted to let you know that I have found another option that looks a lot more approachable as an object store via Powershell. It's a database VERY similar to DB4O with Dual Licensing almost the same as well. It's called "Perst", and it is at:

http://www.mcobject.com/perst

I've been playing with it this afternoon, and it seems to be MUCH more accessible than DB4O via PowerShell.

Episode 50 - PowerScripting Podcast - Ed Wilson

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:49:00 GMT

We interview Ed Wilson, author of Windows PowerShell Step-by-Step and new Technet Scripting Guy. And as usual we've also got news, tips, resources and more.

News

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PowerShell boot camp coming up Feb 9-11 in Dallas, TX
SAPIEN's got a Facebook group where they are giving out coupons
Cool blog post about executing PowerShell commands from Linux and the iPhone
Hyper-V PowerPack Updated Â Poshoholic (release notes )

Interview

When it comes to scripting, youâre a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!

For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Questâs PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShellâs strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever.

Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands â download PowerGUI today.

Today's interview is with Ed Wilson, Scripting Guy and author from Microsoft

Written 14 books
His favorites:
- Windows PowerShell Scripting Guide
- Network monitoring & analysis
JeffHicks : ## What is your next book going to be on?
- PowerShell 2.0 step-by-step
glnsize : ## why not all... what wouldn't you do in powershell
- WinPE
JeffHicks : ##How much writing can you get done in a week?
Who is Craig?
- Scripting Guys editor
JeffHicks : ## What's your elevator speech to mgmt about the importance of automation and scripting?
- allows you to be more successful with a smaller number of people
What's coming in the Scripting Center?
- Friday Quick Hits
- Series of Excel automation articles
- "AD week"
- Perf monitoring
## (mow) any plans yet for scripting games 2009 ?
The 3000 email backlog:
- bsonposh : ## Can I help with the emails?
- glnsize : ## so mows the unofficial powershell scripting guy.. any plans to make that officiial
- meson : ## what about calling for guest posts to answer some of the questions?
- sepeck-1 : # what about starting forum topics on the scripting site that more people could try and answer?
Vbscript and PowerShell
- JeffHicks : ##When do you think VBScript will disappear?
- sepeck-1 : ## Have the scripting center examples gotten better?
- meson : ## Has the scripting guys approach gone from a vbscript to powershell mentality to a powershell native mentality?
JeffHicks : ## The script center used to offer script content as a CHM file. Any plans for a new version?
JeffHicks : ## or make it searchable ala PoshCode?
meson : ## What about links to community resources on the technet site.
Are .net forms in Posh the next HTA?
Links:
- PowerShell Step-by-Step
- Technet Script Center Forum

Resources

Admin Script Editor (which recently received Windows IT Pro's top award) provides a true integrated scripting environment for PowerShell. The guys at iTripoli haven't done a great job getting the word out about Admin Script Editor so to make up for it they are offering a 50% competitive discount. Go to adminscripteditor.com to find out if you qualify.

S cript to use for patching
Use Visio to create simple PowerShell scripts
PowerShell and Objects

Tips

Mailbox

"Hi Jonathan & Hal,

I just wanted to drop you a quick note to say how great the Powerscripting Podcast is. I'm a SysAdmin/Engineer and a confident VB scripter, and have been trying to get round to learning PowerShell properly for over a year, but never seem to have time! A colleague told me about your podcast and I've been listening in the car driving to and from work every day. I'm only up to episode 8 so far but it's proving to be a great way to supplement my learning without having to interrupt the day job - keep up the good work!

Also to let you know about a script I wrote today that you may find useful - it adds "Execute in PowerShell" options to .ps1 files' context menu so that it's easy to right-click and run a PowerShell script direct from Windows Explorer. It may be that someone else has already done this but I couldn't find anything with a bit of a Google... You can find the script at http://www.poshcode.org/664.

Thanks again and all the best.

Cheers,
Nigel"

Challenge

DB4O update

Episode 49 - PowerScripting Podcast - Susan Bradley

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:27:00 GMT

Today we interview Susan Bradley, SBS MVP. We also bring you lots of new, tips and resources.

News

This segment is brought to you by Idera:

Oisin gives us some info on new/changed cmdlets in the PDC build
Dmitry gives us the full list of AD cmdlets in the PDC build
Hal's got a survey up to get everyone's opinion on PowerShellCommunity.org's future show plans.
Nivot Ink - Changes from CTP2 in PowerShell 2.0 in the Windows 7 M3 âPDCâ Build
TechEd EMEA wrap up: noble musings: PowerShell at TechEd EMEA 2008 IT Professionals

Interview

This segment is brought to you by Quest Software

When it comes to scripting, youâre a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!

Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands â download PowerGUI today.

We had a great show with Susan Bradley. Go check her out at sbsdiva.com.

Resources

One more video from TechEd, this is Dmitry Sotnikov's speaker idol video.
Joel Bennett has been kind enough tolink to all of the videos of the powershell sessions from TechEd EMEA.
Dmitry posted the Quest connect session he did about PowerShell AdCmdlets and PowerGUI
Jonathan Medd's panel discussion at TechEd EMEA was videotaped! PowerShell V2 Tech Talk from TechEd EMEA (video)
PrimalScript Samples | SAPIEN Technologies
David Mohundro - Simple PowerShell script to generate thumbnails

Tips

Listener Steven wanted us to highlight how to build functions which can be used in a pipeline. Hal wrote a script a while ago called Select-Alive which serves as a good example.
Hal's bud Marcus thought 'find /i "stuff" *.*' was easy until he learned more about select-string
Hal posted a script for creating RSS feeds from PowerShell

Challenge / Book Giveaway

We still have a couple of books left. If you'd like to win a copy of one of Lee Holmes books, simply leave us feedback on iTunes, Podcast Alley, or on your own blog. We have four books to giveaway! Send an email to feedback@powerscripting.net letting us know where to see your review.

Time for the PowerShell Challenge update on db4o.

"While trying to find a solution to a problem that popped up at work, I stumbled upon an open-source dotnet object-oriented database called Db4o. It is intended to be used as an embedded database in programs where some persistent storage is needed, but instead of storing data in related tables, it stores objects.

I've tried to access the functions via reflection, but I am just learning Powershell and I don't know if this is the right technique. I haven't gotten very far.

I was wondering if you or someone else who listens to the show could take a look at it, and see if it can be useful as an object store in powershell scripts."

Episode 48 - PowerScripting Podcast - Lee Holmes

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:22:00 GMT

Today we interview Lee Holmes, author of Windows PowerShell Cookbook and developer on the PowerShell team. And as usual weâve also got news, tips, resources and more.

News

When it comes to scripting, youâre a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!

Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands â download PowerGUI today.

We finally have some release schedule information for PowerShell v2 from Dmitry
Sapien has released PrimalForms
The stakes have risen for our PowerShell Challenge with DB4o! - Community News : db4o Powershell Provider Challenge - with prizes
Marco Shaw is holding a PowerShell Virtual User Group meeting on Nov 13th at 12PM EST

Interview

Admin Script Editor (which recently received Windows IT Proâs top award) provides a true integrated scripting environment for PowerShell. Advanced features include an integrated PowerShell debugger, advanced code generating tools for Active Directory, Databases, XML files and more. Letâs not forget about the exclusive PowerShell forms designer. Come see for yourselfâ Admin Script Editor v3.5 is availble for a 45 day trial at AdminScriptEditor.com.

We had a great interview with Lee Holmes, be sure to listen. You can find his blog at leeholmes.com/blog, and also check out his books!

Resources

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Jonathan Medd posted a cool panel discussion on the Get-Scripting Podcast Ep4
Dr. Tobias Weltner is doing an online powershell book
It looks like Microsoft is starting to do some PowerShell training
/\/\o\/\/ noticed that The Scripting Guys are putting out some new PowerShell content
PowerShell Posters - search for PowerShell
Jeffreyâs talk from PDC: ES24: Using PowerShell To Create Manageable Web Services

Gotcha

Gotcha: MS Data Protection Manager cmdlets donât support -Confirm:$false - Marco Shaw to the rescue! Setting $ConfirmPreference = ânoneâ prevents the prompt when that is desirable.

Challenge / Book Giveaway

If youâd like to win a copy of one of Lee Holmes books, simply leave us feedback on iTunes, Podcast Alley, or on your own blog. We have four books to giveaway! Send an email to feedback@powerscripting.net letting us know where to see your review.

Donât forget our challenge from two shows ago. If you submit a solution, weâll feature it on the show and the website, and youâll get a little something for your trouble. :) Here is the email from Dale which we forgot to put in last weekâs show notes:

âWhile trying to find a solution to a problem that popped up at work, I stumbled upon an open-source dotnet object-oriented database called Db4o. It is intended to be used as an embedded database in programs where some persistent storage is needed, but instead of storing data in related tables, it stores objects.

Iâve tried to access the functions via reflection, but I am just learning Powershell and I donât know if this is the right technique. I havenât gotten very far.

I was wondering if you or someone else who listens to the show could take a look at it, and see if it can be useful as an object store in powershell scripts.â

Episode 47 - PowerScripting Podcast - MVP Systems JAMS

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Tue, 4 Nov 2008 04:07:00 GMT

Today we have MVP Systems in the house to talk about JAMS. And we have a TON of news from PDC to report!

News

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Wow! Were do we start? How about 574 cmdlets
Rumor: IBM will be providing cmdlets for hardware management
Powershell will be installed by default on Windows Server 2008 R2 and W7
TechEd Barcelona is coming up next week and several MVPs will be there

Interview

The news is brought to you by iTripoli.

Today we are interviewing Scott and John from MVP Systems (http://www.mvpsi.com) to talk about the PowerShell support in JAMS, their flagship batch scheduling product.

Here are a few questions which were asked by our wonderful Ustream audience:

JAMS

meson : ## What is the cost of the product or what is the customer base small/middle/enterprise/etc?
http://www.mvpsi.com
glnsize : ##are these task's or is there an agent
trac3r726 : ## Any Reporting with charts for Management?
glnsize : ## soon to be psremoting/wsman?
## any way to send jobs to run on server core, perhaps for speed/reliability?

SAAS

rfoust : ## how does saasmonitor scale?
rfoust : ## can it integrate w/ existing monitoring for a central dashboard?
rfoust : ## can you do user-experience monitoring, like adding a jmeter script or something?

Resources

This segment is brought to you by Quest:

Quest Software is offering Powerscripting Podcast listeners a free copy of Jeffery Hicks new book, Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM from Sapien Press. Visit quest.com/powerscripting to register for your copy, before they run out. While youâre there download their free graphical user interface, script editor and Active Directory commands.

10 Cool Things to do with the Powershell (12 min video) - This demo shows some of the neat things you can do with PowerShell with regards to server administration. There are 10 demos you can run through ranging from simple queries for services to enumerating information in Active Directory. Some of the scripts use lists of computers, some prompt for a computername. Each script shows a different thing you can do with PowerShell to quickly create administration scripts.
Precision Computing - Introduction to PowerShell Presentation
PowerShell Code Repository - Compare-AD - A set of functions (and sample code using them) to create snapshots of user accounts in the current Active Directory domain save them in an xml file, and then compare live AD environment against that XML
VMware: VI Toolkit (for Windows): Not Another Suite of Scripts!
PoshRSS - is a web application for creating RSS feeds from PowerShell. The output of any PowerShell command/script is displayed as an RSS feed. The primary goal of PoshRSS is to provide system administrations the ability to leverage PowerShell + RSS to aggregate system information across many systems.

Challenge

Don't forget our challenge from last week. If you submit a solution, we'll feature it on the show and the website, and you'll get a little something for your trouble. :) Here is the email from Dale which we forgot to put in last week's show notes:

"While trying to find a solution to a problem that popped up at work, I stumbled upon an open-source dotnet object-oriented database called Db4o. It is intended to be used as an embedded database in programs where some persistent storage is needed, but instead of storing data in related tables, it stores objects.

I've tried to access the functions via reflection, but I am just learning Powershell and I don't know if this is the right technique. I haven't gotten very far.

I was wondering if you or someone else who listens to the show could take a look at it, and see if it can be useful as an object store in powershell scripts."

Episode 46 - PowerScripting Podcast - Chad Miller on SQL PSX

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:45:00 GMT

Today we interview Chad Miller, author of the SQL PSX project. And of course we'll throw in our other usual goodies.

News

Interview

We had a great interview with Chad Miller, the author of the SQL PSX project on Codeplex. Below are some of the questions which were submitted by Ustream viewers.

glnsize : ## is powershell speading throughout his it dept?
mwjcomputing : ##How much of his day to day operations are managed using Powershell?
glnsize : ## have you looked at V2 script cmdlets?
mwjcomputing : ## When dealing with Auditors, do they have any objection to Powershell being the tool to gather the security information?
stahler : ## ADO.NET through PowerShell or SQLCMD through PowerShell?
meson : ## Any comments on a SQL database PSProvider?
mwjcomputing : ## When gathering security information, does Powershell cause any performance hit on the database?
glnsize : ##from a DBA perspective what is powershell missing?

Resources

This segment is brought to you by Quest:

Working with NetApp in PowerShell
Another Great Don Jones Video Demo
Dev Resources!
- PowerShell Tunnel - Make your app scriptable using PowerShell
- Creating Subversion Repositories using PowerShell
- Doug Finke - Displaying SVN Info On Your PowerShell Prompt
- Displaying GIT Branch On Your PowerShell Prompt

Tips

Episode 45 - PowerScripting Podcast - Roundtable

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:42:00 GMT

Today we have a rockin' roundtable which includes:

Jeffrey Snover
Don Jones
Alex Reidel
Kirk Munro

And of course we'll throw in our other usual goodies.

News

The news is brought to you by iTripoli.

Sapien has announced a forthcoming forms editor called PrimalForms which will allow you to create forms, save them as XML and create PowerShell code. On top of that they are going to release it for free!
Be sure to catch the UK PowerShell UG: November 20th in Reading
Dmitry will be presenting some PowerShell sessions at Quest Connect on Oct 22nd-23rd.
New software release on IIS.net: Microsoft Web Deployment Tool - Beta 1 Go Live
If you'd like to get an early peek at Richard Siddaway's new book PowerShell in Practice, you can do so on Manning's site.

Roundtable

This segment is brought to you by Quest:

A Thousand Things 1% Better
What's most important for a posh newbie to learn?
JeffHicks : ## What do you see as the biggest obstacles to PowerShell adoption?
"PowerShell isn't complete?"

<Jay> no admin worth his salt is going to go through and update hundreds of servers with yet another thing to patch, another to mantain, another security to worry about, reboots, touching things, etc, just to be able to run a non complete technology that they haven't learned yet because it is a pain in the ass, and oh, it's not complete
cartershanklin : ## Jeffrey, do you think user adoption of PS is faster or slower than you anticipated?

Script vs. Shell
Coolest use of PowerShell that you've seen--and what's to come.
What third-party software is missing?
Is PowerShell useful for <insert concept here>?

e.g. cloud computing

Ustream Questions

rfoust : ## what is the easiest way for non-developers to find .net methods to work with in powershell? searching msdn is a pain
JeffHicks : ## Where will PowerShell be in 3-5 years?
JeffHicks : ## What will MS take responsiblity for in PowerShell and what do they expect 3rd parties to support or add?
rfoust : ## whats a good bridge for scripters wanting to convert scripts into real c# compiled cmdlets
rfoust : ## do you see cmdlet naming conflicts becoming a problem in the future? not the namespace but the actual cmdlet name
rfoust : ## do you see scripts running as a service anytime in the future?
cartershanklin : ## script scheduling, same question.
ye110wbeard : ## Can Powershell be used to email backup logs made in W2K8 Server backup?
rfoust : ## is microsoft helping Pash devlopment any?
JeffHicks : ## Is MS promoting PowerShell at the management level in orgs or letting it bubble up from the admins?
makson : ## is there a cmdlet for powershell that is equivelent to sed in bash?

Resources

From the SAPIEN blog: PrimalScript: Did you know about Snippets?
New PowerGUI PowerPack: PowerShell for WSUS
From Brandon Shell, now writing on TurboChargeAD.org: Bulking Importing User from CSV file using Quest cmdlets

Gotcha

From Stephen Campbell:

Open a cmd prompt on a Win2003 server and type the following:
mkdir c:\test1
net share test1=c:\test1 /grant:everyone,full
Now type the name commands in Powershell
new-item c:\test2 -type directory
net share test2=c:\test2 /grant:everyone,full
When I do the net share command in Powershell, the /Grant returns a syntax error. Until I remembered about the comma!! The following works great.
net share test2=c:\test2 /grant:everyone`,full

Episode 44 - PowerScripting Podcast - with Tobias Weltner

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Mon, 6 Oct 2008 02:15:00 GMT

Today we have an interview with Tobias Weltner the developer of PowerShell Plus as well as tips, resources and news. We also have some winners in our review contest.

News

Quest Software is offering Powerscripting Podcast listeners a free copy of Jeffery Hicks new book, Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM from Sapien Press. Visit quest.com/powerscripting to register for your copy, before they run out. While youâre there download their free graphical user interface, script editor and Active Directory commands.

Hal is an MVP!!!
PowerShellPlus v2 is out of beta and on the shelves. Also, PowerShell Analyzer is now 100% free
Sapien's PowerShell Boot Camp is coming to Dallas in February
StackOverflow by Joel Spolsky & Jeff Atwood

Interview

This segment is brought to you by Idera:

We had a great time interviewing Tobias Weltner about PowerShellPlus. Hope you enjoy!

For listeners of this podcast only, Idera is offering a special price $79 per copy until October 12, 2008. Don't wait! Download your free trial and take advantage of this great offer today!

Resources

Specops Remote Admin CTP - Jonathan Medd does a good review over at Get-Scripting
Brad Rutkowski has a great post about using Invoke-Command to launch a script on a remote computer which connects to network resources
Brad also brings some good info using Set-Acl on a registry key
Hat trick!!! Brad again with a solution to a problem using Get-WMIObject against Windows 2008

Tips

A question from Phactotum (a fellow IBMer with Hal) about how to take data in a CSV and act on it turned into a blog post by Hal.

Stack Overflow questions on PowerShell
- PowerShell functions return behavior

Waiting for user input with a timeout

Get-User function on PoshCode

Contest

We're happy to announce the winners of our SAPIEN book giveaway:

David Travis wrote a great review in iTunes!
David Moravec wrote a review on his blog. I thought it was cool to see that we have at least one listener in the Czech Republic!

Episode 43 - PowerScripting Podcast - with Brandon Shell

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:18:00 GMT

Today we talk to Brandon Shell, PowerShell MVP and great thinker. We've also got news, resources, and tips! Also, we are going to give away two Sapien Press books. Be sure to listen till the end to hear how to win!

News

Quest Software is offering Powerscripting Podcast listeners a free copy of Jeffery Hicks new book, Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM from Sapien Press.

Visit quest.com/powerscripting to register for your copy, before they run out. While youâre there download their free graphical user interface, script editor and Active Directory commands.

VMware's future with PS Providers, "The plan is to have a vi: drive which is created automatically and contains the whole inventory. And when operation is executed within specific location, the operation to be restricted to this location. I hope that this will be valuable in interactive mode where it can provide the confidence that operation won't affect unexpected entities." -- Andrey from VMware
Blain Barton's Blog : Second Life â Windows PowerShell 3-Part Series by Max Trinidad

Session 1: Saturday, September 27th , 2008 â 1:00PM SL Time â PST,4:00pm EST

IronCow for Powershell
Jeff Hick's eagerly awaited "Managing Active Directory with PowerShell TFM" is now available.
PowerShell OnTAP: new codeplex project to manage NetApp services
Quest acquires NetPro, and NetPro has PowerShell news!

Interview

rfoust : ## why don't you hang out in #powershell anymore???
stuwee-3 : ## what about running scripts under different credentials?
Kemis : ## I want to secure AD so my Domain Users can't see other user's names
rfoust : ## still looking for a good "sudo" replacement for windows. Any ideas?
rfoust : ## what's the latest powershell script/project you've worked on?
## not a question but thank's for the replication latency script!
glnsize : ## what permisions are required to conduct these tests?
rfoust : ## how much is posh used where you work? Are other admins catching on?
seaJhawk : ## what tools do you use when you're writing scripts
Kemis : ## As an admin, how would I go about getting started writing my own cmdlets?
rfoust : ## best poweshell book you've read?
glnsize : ## which 3rd party has done the best job integrating powershell
ustreamer-39627 : Sorry for the noob lesson. What exactly is a cmdlet? is that just a customscript which is complied into a "cmdlet" so it can just be called by typing the scriptname?
glnsize : ## my env is small enough to use quest, but I still use ADSI b/c of 3rd party dependancy... Am I an idiot?
rfoust : ## what do the unix admins think about posh
rfoust : ## how would you explain to other admins what "object oriented" means
glnsize : ## what superhero are you
rfoust : ## have you used powershell with web services much?
seaJhawk : ## do you plan to keep writing cmdlets when you can use script cmdlets?
Kemis : ## I work for a college where the CIS dept. chair never heard of PowerShell till I called her to ask if they have any plans to teach it soon. How long do you think it'll take before colleges begin to include Powershell as a course?
ustreamer-7480 : ## How do you organize your scripts?
rfoust : ## what hardware vendor would you like to see powershell support for? cisco? or something else?

Idera is offering a special price $79 per copy through the end of September...BUT for listeners of this podcast only, Idera will extend the offer until October 12, 2008. Don't wait! Download your free trial and take advantage of this great offer today!

Resources

PowerShell Script: How to upload a file via HTTP POST - Thomas R. made this in answer to "how to pass a parameter to XMLHttp" which came up on the PowerShell newsgroup
Carter Shanklin posted the slides and demos from the managing VMWare with PowerShell session at VMWorld
Mow's put up his Robocopy part 4 article, this has the full script.

Contest

Two of you can win your choice of books from SAPIEN Press. To win, you need to write a review of our podcast. The review must be at least a full paragraph, no "<3" entries please :) . We would prefer for you to post the review in iTunes because we get a lot of traffic that way, but if you don't use iTunes, that's ok. You can post your review on PodcastAlley or any other forum or your own blog.

To send in your entries, just let us know how your name appears in iTunes, or the URL of the review you have posted online. We'll give away the books on Episode 44 (next week).

Episode 42 - PowerScripting Podcast - with Greg Shields

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:41:00 GMT

We are interviewing the author, speaker and IT Pro Greg Shields. We've also got news, resources, and tips! Also, we are going to give away two Sapien Press books. Be sure to listen till the end to hear how to win!

News

Do you have what it takes to be the ultimate script warrior? Find out with Questâs PowerPack Challenge â08.Quest Software is sponsoring a PowerShell Scripting contest where you can test your skills and get paid. Just create some cool PowerShell scripts using Questâs PowerGUI and then post them to our site. Youâll get a score and our celebrity judges will weigh in as well.Do you have the muscle to bring home the prize? Check out the details here.

Dmitry has announced the release of PowerGui 1.5.2
RunAs Radio #75 Michiel Wories Uses Powershell with SQL Server!
Jeff Hicks has posted a follow up to a question from our last show called PowerShell Hurdles
PowerPack Challenge Countdown
There is now an installation guide available for PoshBoard
Dmitry has posted a link to a 10 minute video from VMWorld on Managing VMWare with PowerShell
JAMS job scheduling software includes PowerShell snapin

Interview

Our interview is brought to you by iTripoli

Greg Shields joins us from http://concentratedtechnology.com Don Jones was also scheduled to join us but was not able to attend so the interview ended up being more of a Server 2008 and Terminal Services interview than a PowerShell interview but it is great stuff anyway.

Resources

This segment is brought to you by Idera

Whatâs better than getting the new version of PowerShellPlus for $79? ...... Getting it for FREE! ... Dr. Tobias Weltner, well-known PowerShell guru, has partnered with Idera Software to bring you PowerShellPlus Professional Edition. The new version has vastly improved code completion and a slick interactive help center. Idera is offering listeners of this podcast a special deal. Download the beta during the month of September and while supplies last, you will get PowerShellPlus for free! To get this offer, go to www.idera.com/podcastpeople to download the beta.

PowerShell dig (nslookup) Cmdlet!
The PowerShell Guy (/\/\o\/\/) - has started a cool series where he wraps robocopy for PowerShell
Lance Robinson posted the other two entries to the Netcmdlets contest from a few weeks ago:
- PowerShell: ESPN-Download
- PowerShell: tweet-im
Lee Holmes posted a script to provide suggestions while you are using PowerShell
Keep a local copy of the SysInternals tools up to date with this script from Shay Levy

Cmdlet of the Week

Our cmdlet this week is Stop-Process.

Contest

To send in your entries, just let us know how your name appears in iTunes, or the URL of the review you have posted online. We'll give away the books on Episode 44, that's two from now.

PowerScripting Podcast - Episode 41

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:48:00 GMT

In This Episode Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we are interviewing Jeffrey Hicks from SAPIEN Technologies. We've also got news, resources, and tips! News The news is brought to you today by iTripoli What can you really do with PowerShell? With Admin Script Editor the question becomes what can't you do with PowerShell? Besides all the advanced code generating tools this is the only tool offering a true PowerShell Forms Designer. To illustrate what can be done the guys at iTripoli created a full-featured MP3/Podcast player written entirely in PowerShell and delivered as a single script. Check it out at adminscripteditor.com/player. Interactive C# Shell - Miguel de Icaza DevInfra-US: PowerShell and ASP.NET Part 3 VMware: VI Toolkit (for Windows): Announcing the winners of the VI Toolkit Scripting Contest! PowerShell Team Blog : PowerShell vs TSQL & Why Learn PowerShell Interview This segment is brought to you by Idera Whatâs better than getting the new version of PowerShellPlus for $79? ...... Getting it for FREE! ... Dr. Tobias Weltner, well-known PowerShell guru, has partnered with Idera Software to bring you PowerShellPlus Professional Edition. The new version has vastly improved code completion and a slick interactive help center. Idera is offering listeners of this podcast a special deal. Download the beta during the month of September and while supplies last, you will get PowerShellPlus for free! To get this offer, go to www.idera.com/podcastpeople to download the beta. Questions for our guest: Been in IT for 17 yrs, deployment, AD, Exchange. Works for SAPIEN full time as a Scripting Guru PowerShell MVP Columns Mr. Roboto column for Redmond Mag (http://redmondmag.com) "Professor PowerShell" for MCP Mag. Realtime Publishers, "Practical PowerShell" Latest book: Managing Active Directory with PowerShell: TFM ADSI Quest cmdlets, SDM, PSCX glnsize : ##really quest over [adsi], did i hear that right rfoust : ## what's the coolest script you've written Pasdargent : ## What need did PowerShell immediately meet for you that VBScript lacked? gaurhoth : ## Do you personally prefer VBScript or Powershell at this point? glnsize : ##what is your "wish microsoft would do that" cmdlet Get-Beer! Kryten: The Sapien Powershell Online Training. How did he feel it went? Will there be more courses? How does he think it might be improved? Kryten: Will there be any possibility of training in Europe? Tell us more about these 'Boot Camps' they run. Kryten: What can we say to our employers to get them to buy this training? Kryten: Why not issue training certificates Eg Sapien Certified Powershell Scripter(!). Something that we can stick in out resume' trac3r726 : ## How much to they Cost? go to ScriptingOutpost.com or ScriptingTraining.com meson : ## Will they ever come to Atlanta? rfoust : ## is on-site training available? Kryten: Where are ppl going WRONG when they try to learn Powershell? What are the 5 biggest mistakes, or misconceptions that walk into his classroom? aleksandar : ## if jeff can improve something in quest cmdlets what would that be? They need infrastructure cmdlets. The cmdlets there are great, but there's nothing for creating sites, subnets, replication, etc. jpavleck : ## What is the huge difference between x86 and x64 snapins, and why aren't there any available for x64 rfoust : ## whats the best way to handle script revision management in a large environment? subversion? source control PrimalScript does support VSS, SVN and others jpavleck : ## How do you figure out if you should be using a vbscript, posh or a C# app - especially when it comes to going overboard with a posh script JH: very good question, will be future blog post vbscript: end user related, login scripts, configuring user's desktop powershell: managing server, services, resources, disks compiled: run something as a service rfoust : ## how to determine when to write a script or a function? meson : ## Do you have problems with wanting to write scripts for CTP2 but having to write version 1 scripts for the masses? aleksandar : ## name the chapter in the latest book that has given you the hardest time AD permissions are HARD Group Policy chapter was time consuming and tedious DManVid : ## (Get-QADUser ).MemberOf does not list the Primary Group of the user jpavleck : ## Don't suppose the book has anything about System Center Operations Manager in it, hrm? meson : ## what application (ie robocopy) would you like to see as a cmdlet? netsh.exe DNS, DHCP (hal) 2008 new cmds rfoust : ## what blogs and forums do you read on a daily basis? (get his blogroll url) meson : ## So what new Sapien books are being written? When will your book be available? By the time you hear this podcast! Pasdargent : ## What PowerShell cmdlet or script could you not live without (day to day)? Get-Member Get-WMIObject What superhero are you most like? Where to find Jeff: twitter.com/jeffhicks blog.sapien.com scriptinganswers.com forums Resource This segment is brought to you by Quest Do you have what it takes to be the ultimate script warrior? Find out with Questâs PowerPack Challenge. Quest Software is sponsoring a PowerShell Scripting contest where you can test your skills and get paid. Do you have the muscle to bring home the prize? Check out the details at quest.com forward slash powerscript Lance Robinson from /n software:PowerShell: send-gmail Data Visualization with .NetMap Microsoft Research .NetMap and PowerShell James O'Neill's blog : Net maps - PowerShell and Excel Using PowerShell and World Data (now a public API) with Microsoftâs NetMap free graphing libraries Dmitry wrote and article for Windows IT Pro on using the AD cmdlets New-ComplexPassword Hate Add-Member? (PowerShell's Adaptive Type System to the Rescue) One-Liner This one-liner to start a process on a remote PC was submitted by jpavlek (Get-WMIObject Win32_Process -computer $computer).Start("notepad.exe")

PowerScripting Podcast - Episode 40

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Mon, 8 Sep 2008 03:11:00 GMT

In This Episode Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we have an awesome roundtable discussion with guests Jeffrey Snover, Keith Hill, Oisin Grehan, and Joel Bennett. Weâve also got news, tips, and some contest winners to announce. News The news is brought to you by Idera âWhatâs better than getting the new version of PowerShellPlus for $79? ââ Getting it for FREE! â Tobias Weltner, well-known PowerShell guru, has partnered with Idera Software to bring you PowerShellPlus Professional Edition. The new version has vastly improved code completion and a slick interactive help center. Idera is offering listeners of this podcast a special deal. Download the beta during the month of September and you get PowerShellPlus free. Go towww.idera.com/podcastpeople to download the beta. When PowerShellPlus goes GA at the end of September, Idera will automatically send you a license keyâfor free.â VMware has released VMware Infrastructure Toolkit (for Windows) 1.0 Update 1 to address some performance issues that some users had encountered. Marco Shaw blogged about an upcoming V2 book that he co-authored - Windows PowerShell 2.0 Unleashed Jeff Hicks blogged that his Managing Active Directory with PowerShell book is in the last stages of editing and should be available soon Icomasoft has released VI PowerScripter Quest has announced the winners of sprint 1 of the PowerPack contest. You can read about the results on Dmitryâs blog. Roundtable Todayâs roundtable is brought to you by Quest. Do you have what it takes to be the ultimate script warrior? Find out with Questâs PowerPack Challenge. Quest Software is sponsoring a PowerShell Scripting contest where you can test your skills and get paid. Do you have the muscle to bring home the prize? Check out the details at quest.com forward slash powerscript Resource This segment is brought to you by iTripoli! Admin Script Editor (which recently received Windows IT Proâs top award) provides a true integrated scripting environment for PowerShell. Advanced features include an integrated PowerShell debugger, advanced code generating tools for Active Directory, Databases, XML files and more. Letâs not forget about the exclusive PowerShell forms designer. Come see for yourselfâ Admin Script Editor v3.5 is availble for a 45 day trial at AdminScriptEditor.com. Jeffery Snover has updated his Update-Gac script Dmitry blogged that Add-Member is good and Select is bad PowerShell Code Repository - Remove-Trash Tips Determine the Windows - microsoft.public.windows.powershell Richard Siddawayâs Blog: Date Display Mailbag Stuart H. writes: âMy observation is that the show is not really about learning Powershell anymore is it? Itâs more a Powershell magazine now, with the interviews and prizes and all that jazz. When was the last time you reviewed a Powershell book? Holger Switzenbergers Powershell book came out and didnât get a mentionâ Not a complaint though!! I LOVE IT the way it is but Iâd quite like more Powershell instructional stuff too.â Contest Congratulations to Stefan D, he won a copy of PrimalScript Enterprise for guessing Alex Riedelâs country of origin (Germany). Congrats also to Robbie F.

PowerScripting Podcast - Episode 39

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Tue, 2 Sep 2008 01:05:00 GMT

In This Episode

Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we will be speaking Alex Riedel, lead developer for PrimalScript at SAPIEN Technologies. And I think we'll give away a copy of PrimalScript at the end of the show.

News

Today's interview is brought to you by Quest.

Do you have what it takes to be the ultimate script warrior? Find out with Questâs PowerPack Challenge â08.
Quest Software is sponsoring a PowerShell Scripting contest where you can test your skills and get paid. Just create some cool PowerShell scripts using Questâs PowerGUI and then post them to our site. Youâll get a score and our celebrity judges will weigh in as well.
Do you have the muscle to bring home the prize? Check out the details here.

PowerShellizing Facebook Â Dmitryâs PowerBlog: PowerShell and beyond

John Noble blogged about new PowerShell book in the works from Richard Siddaway "PowerShell in Practice"
Richard Siddaway is doing a Powershell talk in Sweden on Sept 16th
The PowerShell Guy : PowerTab V2 Examples - Mow's putting some cool stuff into PowerTab v.next
Change of the Guard at the Scripting Center - New Scripting Guys: Ed Wilson and Craig Liebendorfer
From Keith Hill's blog PowerShell has moved up to #15 on the TIOBE Programming Community Index

Interview

This segment is brought to you by iTripoli!

What can you really do with PowerShell? With Admin Script Editor the question becomes what can't you do with PowerShell? Besides all the advanced code generating tools this is the only tool offering a true PowerShell Forms Designer. To illustrate what can be done the guys at iTripoli created a full-featured MP3/Podcast player written entirely in PowerShell and delivered as a single script. Check it out at adminscripteditor.com/player.

We had a great talk with Alex Riedel, listen to the show to hear it!

Resource

Using conditional operators from BSonPosh "-not(match|like)"
Aleksandar Krunoslav has a blog post on using an LDAP query instead of "Where"
Advanced Microsoft SQL Server PowerShell Tips and Tricks
Pimp your prompt!
- Joel from HuddledMasses.org
- Tomas R at Commonality (Hal's using this one now)
- Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - Introducing PowerShell Prompt Here
- Jeff Hicks from SAPIEN has posted three different ones.
- Here's a "classic" article from 2006 with some more neat prompt tips.

Tips

Jonathan's VDM script goodness
Get PDF version of files > Windows PowerShell Discussion Forums > PowerShellCommunity.org - On this thread from PowerShellCommunity.org, Shay found out how to read the PDF version in a one-liner
script to find local group members (http://poshcode.org/544 )
script wrapper for netstat (http://poshcode.org/560 )

PowerScripting Podcast - Episode 38

PowerScripting@Gmail.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg) — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:37:00 GMT

In This Episode

Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we have a special roundtable with guests Joel Bennett and Mark Schill. We also have the usual cornucopia of of news, tips, and resources. We'll also be announcing the winner of our /n Software contest from show 36.

News

This segment is brought to you by iTripoli!
"Admin Script Editor (which recently received Windows IT Pro's top award) provides a true integrated scripting environment for PowerShell. The guys at iTripoli haven't done a great job getting the word out about Admin Script Editor so to make up for it they are offering a 50% competitive discount. Go to adminscripteditor.com to find out if you qualify."

PowerShell Plus has gone Professional! Check out the 2.0 beta, it's got lots of cool new stuff.
PowerShell Boot Camp Winter 08/09 | SAPIEN Technologies

Community Roundtable

This segment is brought to you by Quest.
Do you have what it takes to be the ultimate script warrior? Find out with Questâs PowerPack Challenge â08.

Quest Software is sponsoring a PowerShell Scripting contest where you can test your skills and get paid. Just create some cool PowerShell scripts using Questâs PowerGUI and then post them to our site. Youâll get a score and our celebrity judges will weigh in as well.

Do you have the muscle to bring home the prize? Check out the details here.

[This segment mostly revolves around a discussion of PoshCode.org, the script repository for PowerShell which aims to match CPAN or PEAR in scope. After an introduction to PoshCode and an update on the site activity, we launch into a discussion of the future of the tool.]

PoshCode Requirements List

The "use" requirements

Host snippets of code
Host scripts with multiple functions (including a way to search on verb/noun which will find all the functions in a script)
Host script modules -- which may contain multiple files (need ui for multiple files, and download for "all at once")
Easy in, easy out. (low barrier to entry to contribute, multiple ways to download, view, browse, sort, filter)
Compiled Modules would require source code to be uploaded and PoshCode online would compile
- I don't think we want to get into compiling things on the server ... let them compile them themselves (we'd have to require *proj files after all) (Joel)
- I'm not actually sure we want to do this at all, it's a deep overlap with every other source control service ...
- This may be v2 stuff (hal)
Users would be able to select from a list of approved licenses to be applied to their scripts.
- License information would be prepended into script upon download
- licenses:
  - CC-By (Attribution)
  - CC-PD (Public Domain)
  - GPL (sucks [says Hal])
  - MS-PL
Repository would have the following fields: Description, Usage, PSVersion, and Version History
- Fields would be inserted as comments into the scripts when retrieved.
- Dependency on other scripts would be controlled by a link to the other script(s).
- Tags would be used to signify requirements on external dependencies. ex. "VMWare ESX 3.5", "AD 2003", etc.
- Well we do need a version field for specifing PS version.
  - We should ask that users be explicit about versions by using the #requires -version n.n header in their scripts/modules. (oisin)
- Comments
Published WCF interface for external use.
Repository would designed so that users can host their own repositories.
RSS fallback

Resources

Installing DotNetNuke with PowerShell - "I started building a series of PowerShell scripts for simplifying the process. Although there are installers available for DotNetNuke, they are often out of date and are fairly rigid in how they perform the install. Using PowerShell provides a lot of advantages over a traditional installation program. I have complete control over the installation in an interactive environment and can change any one of dozens of parameters that control the installation."
PowerShell Team Blog : V2 Interview: Universal Code Execution Model - "At TechEd, I did an interview with Kevin Remde where I discussed the V2 Universal Code Execution model in detail. You can see it at: Universal Code Execution Model (UCEM)âa vision of how PowerShell scripts can run anywhere, anytime in just the right semantics."
Dmitry posted about a SQL Reporting Services PowerPack for PowerGui

Tips

Nivot Ink - Auto mount/unmount new PSDrives for removable drives and network shares in PowerShell v2 - With this module, anytime you add or remove a removable device like an external harddrive or USB key, or map a new network drive in explorer, PowerShell will now automatically add or remove a corresponding PSDrive for you. Sweet!!
[IO.File]::ReadAllLines($file).Length is an order of magnitude faster than (get-content $file).length
PowerShell Email Alerts
Neat script too allow RDP sessions only from white-listed workstations

Contest

Winners for the /n software Netcmdlets contest are:

Steve Hiner - Wrote a wrapper for Send-Email script to send email using Gmail's SMTP server
Mark Schill - Sent in two entries, the one we've chosen to highlight is his Twitter IM client bot thingy. It uses Send-IM and Get-Http
Quintus - A script to download an ESPN podcast using the Get-Rss cmdlet

We will be posting the scripts over the next week, so watch the site for those.

Gotcha

Downgrading from PS v2 to v1 causes the snapins installed from v2 to quit functioning--even if they are compatible with v1. A reinstall of the snapin will fix.

We would like to thank Joel and Mark for coming on the show. Weâd also like to thank Ye11owbeard, JPayleck, and BrandonF for helping us test the UStream channel.

Donât forget to follow us on twitter (halr9000, jonwalz), UStream, and Facebook!