To [Minimal Server](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh846317(v=vs.85).aspx)
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To Full GUI
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Back down to [Core](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh846323(v=vs.85).aspx) again.
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A copy of his slide deck is available [here](https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/2012_11_01-PhillyPoSH.zip)
Lido Paglia gave a demonstration on how to bring a fresh Server 2012 Core install to a functional domain member server using PowerShell commands. A copy of his command outline is available here
In my last post I hinted about more news coming soon for the 2013 PowerShell Summit. In addition to the fantastic list of sessions that attendees will be able to attend, we also have a special event lined up for the last day of the event. On Wednesday, April 24th, for the entire afternoon attendees will be able to attend a half-day Windows PowerShell scenario walkthrough, presented by the PowerShell Team.
To cap off the 2013 PowerShell Summit the PowerShell Team is going to host a half day Windows PowerShell scenario walkthrough. This is designed to not only familiarize folks with specific PowerShell features, but also to help the team see how you interact with these features.
The event will take place on April 24 from 1pm - 5pm. Â During this time we will collectively solve a problem from the ground up using many of the new features in Windows PowerShell 3.0 and Windows Server 2012.
Starting from base Windows Server 2012 images, we will walk you through:
[Update: April 19, 2013] Important Note: Due to some last minute schedule changes for some of our speakers, several of the sessions below were replaced with other sessions. Â To see the final list of sessions offered at the 2013 PowerShell Summit, please visit this page:Â https://powershell.org/2013/04/19/powershell-summit-2013-conference-schedule/{.vt-p}
After almost 100 people voted for the sessions they would like to see the most at the 2013 PowerShell Summit{.vt-p}, the results are in! These votes are for the sessions chosen by the community, and additional sessions from the PowerShell Team will be announced at a later date (as soon as I have them).
As we’ve been finalizing our speaker and session collection, we’ve been able to release a small block of Summit tickets into the general admission pool. Also, the end of October saw the expiration of a set-aside block for PowerShell MVPs, releasing that block’s unsold tickets back into the general admission pool as well. As it stands, the G.A. pool now has 57 tickets, of which we’ve sold 24. That leaves 33 tickets left for the April 22-24 event at Microsoft’s corporate headquarters in Redmond, WA. We currently have a total of 57 attendees, including speakers. That doesn’t include Microsoft team members who will be delivering sessions, nor does it include a small batch of tickets reserved for Microsoft staff who will be participating in the sessions for all three days. If you’re thinking of coming to the Summit, **now is the time to register. **We’ll be releasing our session and speaker lineup within the next few days, and that usually triggers a big rush in registration as people get even more exciting about the upcoming event. If you do happen to miss one of these final 33 tickets, you’ll have the opportunity to go on a waitlist, where you’ll be notified if anyone cancels. Don’t miss your chance to be a part of this first-ever community-owned and -operated event!
Idera’s gone and made PowerShell Plus free. Given that it’s been updated to support PowerShell v3, this will probably become many folks’ go-to editor (PowerGUI, the former champ, is more or less out of development and hasn’t been updated for v3). Idera says:
“Idera is dedicated to providing products that help our customers and community members be successful in their jobs,” said Rick Pleczko, CEO of Idera. “PowerShell Plus is a proven and essential productivity tool so we wanted to get it into the hands of IT professionals everywhere. It also complements our sponsorship of the PowerShell.com community, which features forums and resources for novice to advanced PowerShell users.”
One of the ballyhooed new features in PowerShell v3 is the new “simplified” syntax for Where-Object and ForEach-Object. I’m going to focus on the former for this article. In essence, instead of doing this:
Get-Service | Where-Object { $_.Status -eq 'Running' } You can now do this also:
Get-Service | Where Status -eq Running Last week, I had the opportunity to include this new syntax in a class I was teaching - mainly to beginners - and I came away with mixed feelings. Whereas once I’d felt awesome about the new syntax… now I’m conflicted.
For more than 200 weeks now (there’s an episode a week), Jon Walz and Hal Rottenberg have been bringing us the PowerScripting Podcast. It’s become an almost official “voice” of and for the PowerShell community. In it, the two don’t focus much on technical tips or anything like that. Instead, the highlight is a weekly interview with a mover and shaker in the PowerShell community. For me, they put a face on the community. One week you’re talking to the inventor of PowerShell, the next to a local user group leader who’s helping educate folks in his area, and the next an ISV who’s building PowerShell into their products. It’s Larry King Does PowerShell. If you’ve listened to the podcast, you know what I’m talking about here. But, if you’ve only listened to the podcast, you’re missing half the show. Maybe more. You see, on most Thursday nights at 9:30pm (US Eastern), Hal and Jon record the show live. With webcams. And a chat room.
(click for larger) This is where the podcast goes from being a hobby and into being a truly vital piece of community connective tissue. Pop into the chatroom and regulars, like the Scripting Wife, offer a “hello!” It’s a weekly clubhouse of sorts, where the chatroom conversations parallel the webcast, but also diverge onto tangents. It’s where you can offer up questions for the current speaker. It’s where you play drinking games (anytime Snover says “ecosystem,” drink!). And, when I’m the featured speaker, as I’m privileged to be a couple of times a year, it’s where you egg me on in my rant-of-the-season. I’m going to share a little secret that most software developers already know: _Community counts. _It isn’t just a word, or some marketing slogan. The ability to make connections with people in a similar boat - via Twitter, e-mail, forums, or a podcast recording - is important. For many IT pros, IT per se isn’t our personal passion. It’s a job. And so it’s easy, at the end of the workday, to go home and do our real passion - be with family, play Xbox, or whatever. So IT pro communities have traditionally never been as robust as developer communities. But _make the effort. _Community is how you’ll meet the guy (or gal) who has the solution to your next problem, and will share it free for the asking. Community is where your next job will probably come from. Community is, in fact, your _meta-career, _spanning employers and projects and giving you a foundation to really succeed in this business. The colleagues you meet through community will become, over time, more important to your personal success than your direct coworkers. In fact, PowerShell.org itself wouldn’t exist without the strong community connections Kirk Munro and I have made over the years. Giving up an evening with the family to go to a local user group meeting can be tough, if there’s even one in your area. You should do it anyway. But if you can’t, Hal and Jon have created a sort of virtual user group where you can connect with _people, _not just learn about technology. Trust me, the first time someone like Jeffrey Snover recognized me in-person and said “hi,” I got a little thrill - and it was because of opportunities like the PowerScripting Podcast that he got to know me. Much of my success in the IT field has some through community and connectedness, and I heartily recommend it to anyone. Hope to see you in the chatroom!
I’ve written a new, short, totally free eBook that explains how to build multi-sectional HTML reports in Windows PowerShell. This is something I’ll be building on in the future, as I have time, to add additional formatting capabilities, and even interactivity. But what’s there now should be a great start! Check it out and let me know what you think. It’s on the free ebook list at https://powershell.org/ebooks.
I’ve finished updating a new revision of _Secrets of PowerShell Remoting; _you’ll find PDF and EPUB versions attached to this post in a ZIP file. Note that these are “check builds,” meaning I’m putting these out there in the hopes folks can run through them on their computers and e-readers to let me know if anything looks weird. You can just drop a comment right here if you find anything. [The book is now live on http://PowerShellBooks.com.]
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