<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Welcome Automaters! on PowerShell.org - Welcome Automaters!</title><link>https://powershell.org/</link><description>Recent content in Welcome Automaters! on PowerShell.org - Welcome Automaters!</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:24:01 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://powershell.org/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Poking Around Until Something Breaks (And Then Reporting It to Microsoft) with Morten Mynster</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-03-30-the-powershell-podcast-poking-around-until-something-breaks-and-then-reporting-it-to-microsoft-with-morten-mynster/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:24:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-03-30-the-powershell-podcast-poking-around-until-something-breaks-and-then-reporting-it-to-microsoft-with-morten-mynster/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Andrew welcomes back Morten Mynster for a follow-up conversation that&amp;rsquo;s essentially a highlight reel of one Morten&amp;rsquo;s public journey over the past year. Morten shares updates on three PowerShell modules he&amp;rsquo;s released, including his standout LeastPrivilegedMSGraph module, and walks through a security issue he discovered and responsibly reported to Microsoft. Along the way, Andrew and Morten reflect on how putting your work out publicly can lead to unexpected career wins, how AI is reshaping the way people learn and write code, and why getting hands-on is still the best way to actually understand anything. Morten is also two weeks into a new job as a cybersecurity consultant, which came directly from his open-source work.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast From School IT Intern to Systems Architect with Chris Thomas</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-03-23-the-powershell-podcast-from-school-it-intern-to-systems-architect-with-chris-thomas/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:51:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-03-23-the-powershell-podcast-from-school-it-intern-to-systems-architect-with-chris-thomas/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;K-12 IT veteran Chris Thomas joins The PowerShell Podcast to share his 26-year journey in educational technology, from a high school IT internship to becoming an Endpoint Cloud Systems Architect supporting multiple school districts in Michigan. Chris discusses how PowerShell helped him automate identity management, investigate network incidents, and streamline large-scale IT operations across complex school environments.&lt;br&gt;
The conversation also dives into mentorship, Don Jones’ influence through Be the Master, the value of community involvement, and the mental health challenges IT professionals face. Chris shares practical lessons on automation, presenting at conferences, overcoming imposter syndrome, and how putting yourself out there can open doors throughout your career.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Start Small and Keep Building in PowerShell with Mason Moser</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-03-16-the-powershell-podcast-start-small-and-keep-building-in-powershell-with-mason-moser/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:28:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-03-16-the-powershell-podcast-start-small-and-keep-building-in-powershell-with-mason-moser/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Security professional Mason Moser joins &lt;em&gt;The PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt; to share his journey from discovering PowerShell through &lt;em&gt;Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches&lt;/em&gt; to building real-world automation tools in a security environment. Mason talks about how starting slowly, returning to PowerShell after a break, and consistently building small tools helped him gain confidence and deepen his skills.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The conversation also explores the value of community involvement, overcoming imposter syndrome, presenting technical topics publicly, and practical workflows for security and scripting. Mason discusses using Git with AI-assisted coding, building internal PowerShell tools for teams, and how small daily automation tasks can steadily build long-term PowerShell expertise.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Zero Trust and PowerShell in K12 with Jim Tyler</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-03-09-the-powershell-podcast-zero-trust-and-powershell-in-k12-with-jim-tyler/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:46:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-03-09-the-powershell-podcast-zero-trust-and-powershell-in-k12-with-jim-tyler/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Returning guest and Microsoft MVP Jim Tyler joins The PowerShell Podcast to talk Zero Trust security, K–12 IT leadership, open-source tooling, and building technology that serves real-world needs. Jim shares how he uses PowerShell to proactively harden school environments, including his Ghost module for endpoint lockdown and his Chrome extension You Shall Not Pass for classroom device management.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Beyond security, the conversation dives into Jim’s assistive technology project TapSpeak, a free AAC communication app designed to help nonverbal students speak without financial barriers. From community leadership and public service to certifications and content creation, this episode explores how technical skills can scale far beyond scripts—and into meaningful impact.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell Tools for PKI and Secure Boot with Richard Hicks</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-03-02-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-tools-for-pki-and-secure-boot-with-richard-hicks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:16:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-03-02-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-tools-for-pki-and-secure-boot-with-richard-hicks/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Long-time Microsoft MVP and consultant Richard Hicks joins &lt;em&gt;The PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt; to talk about ADCS security, PKI misconfigurations, and why PowerShell is a consultant’s ultimate force multiplier. Richard shares real-world stories from auditing enterprise certificate environments, explains how simple template mistakes can lead to full domain compromise, and walks through tools like Locksmith that help administrators quickly identify dangerous configurations.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The conversation also explores Richard’s open-source PowerShell work, including his widely downloaded Get-UEFICertificate script for Secure Boot certificate expiration issues and his new ADPrincipalCertificate module for cleaning up unnecessary certificates published in Active Directory. Along the way, Richard reflects on career growth, publishing, consulting, and why sharing knowledge openly has been one of the biggest drivers of his long-term success.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Escaping Tutorial Hell with Pablo Correchel</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-02-23-the-powershell-podcast-escaping-tutorial-hell-with-pablo-correchel/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:47:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-02-23-the-powershell-podcast-escaping-tutorial-hell-with-pablo-correchel/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of &lt;em&gt;The PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt;, Andrew Pla sits down with Pablo Correchel, an early-career IT professional who is publicly documenting his PowerShell and learning journey. Just one year into his first help desk role while studying cybersecurity, Pablo shares how consistent practice, sharing what you learn, and embracing beginner questions have accelerated his learning.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The conversation explores escaping “tutorial hell,” using AI as a learning tool instead of a shortcut, understanding objects and the pipeline, and why putting yourself out there is one of the fastest ways to grow in tech. This episode is a reminder that you don’t have to be an expert to contribute&amp;hellip; You just have to start.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Learning PowerShell in 2026 with Tara</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-02-16-the-powershell-podcast-learning-powershell-in-2026-with-tara/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:13:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-02-16-the-powershell-podcast-learning-powershell-in-2026-with-tara/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of &lt;em&gt;The PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt;, Andrew Pla is joined by Tara, a longtime IT professional who has officially started her PowerShell learning journey. Tara shares her honest experience transitioning from a GUI-first mindset to learning PowerShell fundamentals, including objects, verb-noun commands, variables, pipelines, and error messages. The conversation captures the real emotions of learning something new later in a career—confusion, frustration, breakthroughs, and growing confidence.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The episode also explores learning strategies like daily practice, flashcards, typing commands instead of copying, and asking “beginner” questions without fear. Andrew and Tara emphasize the importance of community, mentorship, growth mindset, and psychological safety, encouraging listeners that learning PowerShell doesn’t require perfection—just consistency, curiosity, and support.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell Is Fun mkay with Harm Veenstra</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-02-09-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-is-fun-mkay-with-harm-veenstra/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:33:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-02-09-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-is-fun-mkay-with-harm-veenstra/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Microsoft MVP Harm Veenstra, creator of &lt;a href="http://PowerShellIsFun.com"&gt;PowerShellIsFun.com&lt;/a&gt;, joins &lt;em&gt;The PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt; to talk about productivity, consistency, and why PowerShell really is fun. Harm shares how blogging regularly helped accelerate his learning, improve his workflow, and deepen his connection to the community. He also discusses his recent transition to macOS, how he uses PowerShell across Mac, Linux, and Windows, and why modern PowerShell is far more cross-platform than many people realize.&lt;br&gt;
The conversation dives into VS Code extensions, GitHub Codespaces, WSL, Nerdfonts, and practical terminal setups, along with honest thoughts on AI-generated scripts, learning the hard way, and why asking questions publicly is one of the fastest paths to growth.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Owning Your Career and Your Time with Don Jones</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-02-02-the-powershell-podcast-owning-your-career-and-your-time-with-don-jones/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:53:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-02-02-the-powershell-podcast-owning-your-career-and-your-time-with-don-jones/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Recently retired PowerShell icon Don Jones joins &lt;em&gt;The PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt; for a wide-ranging conversation on career ownership, community leadership, and building a life that aligns with what you actually value. Don reflects on the difference between your job and your career, why investing in yourself pays off, and how asking better questions can change the way you influence decisions at work. The episode also dives into Don’s journey as a fiction author, his role in shaping the PowerShell community and Summit culture, and why real success comes from clarity, kindness, and helping others win.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Stop Trying So Hard and Start Automating Smarter with Jake Hildreth</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-01-26-the-powershell-podcast-stop-trying-so-hard-and-start-automating-smarter-with-jake-hildreth/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:16:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-01-26-the-powershell-podcast-stop-trying-so-hard-and-start-automating-smarter-with-jake-hildreth/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Principal Security Consultant and community favorite Jake Hildreth returns to &lt;em&gt;The PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt; to talk about building smarter automation, leveling up through community, and creating tools that solve real problems. Andrew shares his “stop trying so hard” theme for the year, how working smarter applies directly to scripting and security, and why getting involved with others is one of the fastest ways to grow in your career.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The conversation dives into Jake’s recent projects including Deck, a Markdown-to-terminal presentation tool built on Spectre.Console, and Stepper, a resumable scripting framework designed for long-running workflows that can’t be fully automated end-to-end. They also explore presentation skills, avoiding “death by PowerPoint,” and why security work requires constantly re-checking assumptions as threats evolve.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast From SharePoint to Security with David Sass</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-01-19-the-powershell-podcast-from-sharepoint-to-security-with-david-sass/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:47:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-01-19-the-powershell-podcast-from-sharepoint-to-security-with-david-sass/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Newly minted Microsoft MVP David Sass joins &lt;em&gt;The PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt; to talk about PowerShell notebooks, terminal tooling, and making automation approachable for teams that are hesitant to touch the console. David shares how he uses Jupyter/PowerShell notebooks as a practical “click-to-run” interface for colleagues, helping them safely run approved automation while keeping the logic documented, repeatable, and under source control.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The conversation also dives into incident response automation, David’s journey from SharePoint engineering into security, and the surprising ways PowerShell can be used across Windows, cloud, and even Raspberry Pi lab clusters—while still staying focused on knowledge-sharing and building systems that don’t depend on one person.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Reliability Through Planning with Matthew Gill</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-01-12-the-powershell-podcast-reliability-through-planning-with-matthew-gill/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:19:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-01-12-the-powershell-podcast-reliability-through-planning-with-matthew-gill/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Matthew Gill joins &lt;em&gt;The PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt; to talk about what it means to be a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and how SRE thinking changes the way you approach automation, reliability, and problem solving. Matthew and host Andrew Pla break down core concepts like SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs, and why &lt;em&gt;reliability through planning&lt;/em&gt; matters more than rushing straight to the keyboard.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They also dig into why PSFramework is worth the dependency for enterprise-grade logging and configuration, how community mentorship (including Fred Weinmann’s impact) can fast-track growth, and why books like The Phoenix Project are game-changing for understanding DevOps culture and constraints.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell to Distinguished Engineer with Ryan Spletzer</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-01-05-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-to-distinguished-engineer-with-ryan-spletzer/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:56:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2026-01-05-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-to-distinguished-engineer-with-ryan-spletzer/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Distinguished Software Engineer Ryan Spletzer joins &lt;em&gt;The PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt; to talk about building a long-term career in tech through curiosity, continuous learning, and strong community connections. Ryan shares how PowerShell helped shape his path from early work in SharePoint, automation, and identity management to leading AI initiatives at Autodesk, where his team built an internal ChatGPT-style solution using Azure OpenAI before enterprise ChatGPT options existed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They also dig into AI-assisted coding, mentorship, and how foundational software engineering skills still matter more than ever. Ryan offers practical guidance for using AI tools responsibly, overcoming imposter syndrome, and growing by learning adjacent domains like authentication, networking, and data engineering.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Building PowerShell Tools You Wish Existed with Jorge Suarez</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-12-29-the-powershell-podcast-building-powershell-tools-you-wish-existed-with-jorge-suarez/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:22:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-12-29-the-powershell-podcast-building-powershell-tools-you-wish-existed-with-jorge-suarez/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Jorge Suarez joins &lt;em&gt;The PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt; to share his journey into PowerShell, automation, and community contribution. From attending his first MMS conference to building creative and practical PowerShell projects, Jorge talks about how PowerShell became the primary driver of his career growth. The conversation covers his popular Intune Hydration Kit, creative TUI projects inspired by shows like &lt;em&gt;Severance&lt;/em&gt;, and how curiosity and experimentation led him to build tools he wished existed earlier in his career.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Living in PowerShell with Jeff Hicks</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-12-22-the-powershell-podcast-living-in-powershell-with-jeff-hicks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:41:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-12-22-the-powershell-podcast-living-in-powershell-with-jeff-hicks/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;PowerShell legend Jeff Hicks joins &lt;em&gt;The PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt; to talk about what it really means to live in PowerShell every day. From running his entire workflow in the console to building highly polished terminal tools, Jeff shares how PowerShell can be used far beyond infrastructure management—to organize your day, automate personal tasks, and multiply productivity.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The conversation also dives deep into learning PowerShell long-term, embracing small wins, investing in your own career growth, and making yourself “available to luck.” Jeff introduces his newest project, PSIntro, designed to help absolute beginners get started with PowerShell through interactive, localized tutorials and a welcoming splash experience.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Mentorship, Mindset, and Microsoft Ignite with Shannon Eldridge-Kuehn</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-12-15-the-powershell-podcast-mentorship-mindset-and-microsoft-ignite-with-shannon-eldridge-kuehn/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:19:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-12-15-the-powershell-podcast-mentorship-mindset-and-microsoft-ignite-with-shannon-eldridge-kuehn/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of &lt;em&gt;The PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt;, Shannon Eldridge-Kuehn returns to discuss her journey since becoming a Microsoft MVP, her experiences at Microsoft Ignite, and her evolving views on technology, communication, and personal growth. Shannon shares stories from Ignite, including Mark Russinovich’s fascinating demo on optical computing, and offers insight into how AI is reshaping IT work, both in efficiency and responsibility.The conversation expands beyond tech, touching on mentorship, emotional intelligence, and the importance of grace, empathy, and connection in professional and personal life. Shannon and host Andrew Pla explore how better communication, mental health awareness, and authentic collaboration can transform careers and communities alike.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Cryptography, Cracking Codes, and Breaking CBC with Dr. Al Carlson</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-12-08-the-powershell-podcast-cryptography-cracking-codes-and-breaking-cbc-with-dr-al-carlson/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:54:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-12-08-the-powershell-podcast-cryptography-cracking-codes-and-breaking-cbc-with-dr-al-carlson/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of &lt;em&gt;The PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt;, host Andrew Pla welcomes Dr. Al Carlson, a cryptographer, mathematician, and engineer whose career spans more than four decades in military intelligence, embedded systems, and advanced encryption research. Dr. Carlson explains how set theory and mathematical patterns underpin all cryptography, breaking down complex systems like AES into understandable concepts. He discusses his groundbreaking work on isomorphic cipher reduction, polymorphic encryption, and how simplicity, not complexity, is often the key to true security.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Free Security Wins for Sysadmins with Spencer Alessi</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-12-01-the-powershell-podcast-free-security-wins-for-sysadmins-with-spencer-alessi/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:15:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-12-01-the-powershell-podcast-free-security-wins-for-sysadmins-with-spencer-alessi/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Newly minted Microsoft MVP, pentester, and returning guest Spencer Alessi joins &lt;em&gt;The PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt; to talk about growth, giving back, and building security through PowerShell. Spencer shares lessons from his journey from sysadmin to pen tester, including the importance of learning from mistakes, documenting wins, and advocating for yourself in your career. He also introduces his latest open-source project, AppLocker Inspector, and discusses tools like Locksmith, Pink Castle, and Purple Knight that help IT pros secure their environments and build confidence in automation and defense.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Falling, Learning, and Laughing with PowerShell Friends</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-11-24-the-powershell-podcast-falling-learning-and-laughing-with-powershell-friends/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:49:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-11-24-the-powershell-podcast-falling-learning-and-laughing-with-powershell-friends/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Recorded live from SpiceWorld 2025 in Austin, Texas, this special &lt;em&gt;PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt; bar session brings together community members Jeffery Hayes, Stephen Engler, Sean Wheeler, and Steven Judd for a fun and insightful celebration of PowerShell and community. Host Andrew Pla reflects on reaching the 200-episode milestone while sharing stories about growth, learning, and the value of connection. From early PowerShell journeys to the power of conferences, mentorship, and even a few bar-side life lessons, this lively session captures the heart of the PowerShell community.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast The PSADT Framework Explained and What’s New in Version 4.1 with Dan Cunningham</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-11-17-the-powershell-podcast-the-psadt-framework-explained-and-whats-new-in-version-4-1-with-dan-cunningham/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:16:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-11-17-the-powershell-podcast-the-psadt-framework-explained-and-whats-new-in-version-4-1-with-dan-cunningham/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, &lt;em&gt;PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt; host Andrew Pla chats with Dan Cunningham, Strategic Innovation Leader for PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit (PSADT), about the history, architecture, and evolution of the open-source framework used for enterprise software deployment. Dan explains how PSADT simplifies installs, improves logging, enhances user experience with UI dialogs, and provides consistency across environments. He also discusses the latest release, v4.1, which removes the need for Microsoft’s ServiceUI, boosting both security and usability for Intune and SCCM deployments.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast 200 Episodes of Community with Frank Lesniak</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-11-10-the-powershell-podcast-200-episodes-of-community-with-frank-lesniak/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:42:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-11-10-the-powershell-podcast-200-episodes-of-community-with-frank-lesniak/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this milestone 200th episode of &lt;em&gt;The PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt;, Frank Lesniak returns to chat with Andrew Pla about automation, community, and what it means to “bet on yourself.” Frank shares his experiences leading cybersecurity and enterprise architecture projects, using PowerShell for AWS security automation, and developing tools to simplify complex data exports. He also discusses the upcoming PowerShell Summit, his work with DuPage Animal Friends, and the value of giving back through mentorship, community involvement, and open source.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast BurntToast v1.0 and 10 Years of PowerShell Notifications with Josh King</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-11-03-the-powershell-podcast-burnttoast-v1-0-and-10-years-of-powershell-notifications-with-josh-king/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:01:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-11-03-the-powershell-podcast-burnttoast-v1-0-and-10-years-of-powershell-notifications-with-josh-king/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Andrew&amp;rsquo;s longtime friend, mentor, and PowerShell legend Josh King joins &lt;em&gt;The PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt; to celebrate the tenth anniversary and version 1.0 release of his popular open-source module BurntToast, which powers customizable Windows toast notifications. Josh shares the story behind the project’s evolution, the challenges of maintaining an open-source module with millions of downloads, and the balance between community expectations and personal well-being.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In addition to diving into BurntToast’s new actionable notifications and real-world use cases, Josh and host Andrew Pla reflect on their shared history in the PowerShell community, the importance of mentorship, and how taking small steps (like creating a GitHub repo or sharing a script) can lead to huge career growth.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Always Hype About Automation with Hailey Phillips</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-10-27-the-powershell-podcast-always-hype-about-automation-with-hailey-phillips/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:34:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-10-27-the-powershell-podcast-always-hype-about-automation-with-hailey-phillips/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Microsoft MVP Hailey Phillips joins &lt;em&gt;The PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt; to share her journey from systems engineer to automation innovator. She talks about IntuneStack, her new PowerShell-driven CI/CD project for Intune environments, and how it bridges the gap between systems engineering and DevOps. Hailey also reflects on her path to becoming an MVP, her experiences at MMS, and the importance of mentorship, collaboration, and authenticity in the tech community.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Key Takeaways:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Bridging systems and DevOps – Hailey’s &lt;em&gt;IntuneStack&lt;/em&gt; helps IT pros apply DevOps principles like CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code to Intune environments.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Learning, Leading, and Logging with Constantin Hager</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-10-20-the-powershell-podcast-learning-leading-and-logging-with-constantin-hager/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:15:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-10-20-the-powershell-podcast-learning-leading-and-logging-with-constantin-hager/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;PowerShell community leader Constantin Hager joins &lt;em&gt;The PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt; to talk about his favorite tools and journey from discovering PowerShell to organizing user groups and speaking at major conferences. He talks about his early inspiration from PowerShell Conference Europe, his involvement with open-source projects like PSFramework and AutomatedLab, and how mentorship and community involvement shaped his career. Constantin also discusses building a portable VS Code setup for his company, leading a PowerShell team, and mentoring the next generation of IT professionals.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Authenticity, AI, and the Human Side of Tech with Adil Leghari</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-10-13-the-powershell-podcast-authenticity-ai-and-the-human-side-of-tech-with-adil-leghari/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:37:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-10-13-the-powershell-podcast-authenticity-ai-and-the-human-side-of-tech-with-adil-leghari/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Cybersecurity, automation, and PowerShell advocate Adil Leghari returns to &lt;em&gt;The PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt; to kick off Cybersecurity Month. Adil shares insights from his career journey: from PowerShell and automation to identity and now cloud security at Palo Alto Networks. He discusses creating tools like Cyberdle and QR Check, how AI is reshaping cybersecurity, and the importance of empathy, authenticity, and mentorship in tech and community life.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Key Takeaways:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;AI in cybersecurity – Adil explains how organizations can protect sensitive data and combat threats using AI Security Posture Management and why we must “fight AI with AI.”&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast AutomatedLab, GUIs, and automation with Steviecoaster</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-10-06-the-powershell-podcast-automatedlab-guis-and-automation-with-steviecoaster/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:02:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-10-06-the-powershell-podcast-automatedlab-guis-and-automation-with-steviecoaster/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Newly minted Microsoft MVP Stephen Valdinger, known as &lt;em&gt;Steviecoaster&lt;/em&gt;, joins &lt;em&gt;The PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt; to share his journey from IT admin to community mentor and automation advocate. He talks about discovering PowerShell through Exchange, the career-changing power of automation, and his work with AutomatedLab, PowerShell Universal, and WinUI Shell. Stevie also highlights the importance of mentoring, building community, and making PowerShell approachable for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Key Takeaways:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;PowerShell as a gateway: Learning PowerShell can unlock career growth, lead to better automation, and even spark new opportunities like blogging, mentoring, and conference speaking.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast From Sysadmin to Security at Microsoft with Thomas Rayner</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-09-29-the-powershell-podcast-from-sysadmin-to-security-at-microsoft-with-thomas-rayner/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:34:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-09-29-the-powershell-podcast-from-sysadmin-to-security-at-microsoft-with-thomas-rayner/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Thomas Rayner joins &lt;em&gt;The PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt; to share his journey from sysadmin and PowerShell MVP to securing Microsoft 365 as a security professional at Microsoft. He reflects on how PowerShell accelerated his career, the importance of blogging and community involvement, and why clear communication with managers is vital for growth. Thomas also offers advice for beginners, highlighting patience, persistence, and the value of mentorship in tech.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Key Takeaways:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;PowerShell as a force multiplier: Automating repetitive tasks with PowerShell helped Thomas advance his career and opened the door to opportunities at Microsoft.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast From Sysadmin to PowerShell Team: The Story of SeeminglyScience</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-09-22-the-powershell-podcast-from-sysadmin-to-powershell-team-the-story-of-seeminglyscience/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:56:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-09-22-the-powershell-podcast-from-sysadmin-to-powershell-team-the-story-of-seeminglyscience/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Patrick Meinecke, known as &lt;em&gt;SeeminglyScience&lt;/em&gt;, joins host Andrew Pla to share his journey from sysadmin to joining the PowerShell team at Microsoft. He discusses his early community contributions, the inner workings of the PowerShell engine, and powerful but underused features like ETS and type converters. Patrick also highlights helpful modules such as PowerShell Run, ctypes, and Useful Argument Completers, while reflecting on the importance of community engagement and open source collaboration.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Beginnings, Blue Bars, and the Valley of Despair with Steven Judd</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-09-15-the-powershell-podcast-beginnings-blue-bars-and-the-valley-of-despair-with-steven-judd/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:28:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-09-15-the-powershell-podcast-beginnings-blue-bars-and-the-valley-of-despair-with-steven-judd/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, host Andrew Pla welcomes back Steven Judd, Microsoft MVP, teacher, and longtime community contributor. Together, they dive into the theme of _beginnings, _from starting careers in IT, to first encounters with PowerShell, and the importance of resilience while navigating the “valley of despair” in learning. Steven shares his journey from music and business studies into technology, where curiosity, persistence, and a willingness to read the manuals shaped his career.&lt;br&gt;
The conversation also explores how community, conferences, and friendships have been essential to Steven’s growth. From humorous “please clap” moments at Nano Conf to building lasting connections, Steven highlights the power of showing up authentically, persevering through challenges, and helping others along the way.Key Takeaways&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell, OAuth, and Automation in the Cloud with Emanuel Palm</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-09-08-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-oauth-and-automation-in-the-cloud-with-emanuel-palm/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 14:58:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-09-08-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-oauth-and-automation-in-the-cloud-with-emanuel-palm/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Microsoft MVP Emanuel Palm joins &lt;em&gt;The PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt; to share his journey from managing printers in Sweden to being a Microsoft MVP who is automating the cloud with PowerShell and Azure. He talks about building the AZAuth module for OAuth authentication, using GitHub Actions for CI/CD, and the importance of blogging and community involvement. Plus, Emanuel reveals his unique side hobby&amp;hellip; roasting coffee!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Key Takeaways&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;From printers to the cloud: Emanuel’s career shows how PowerShell can open doors, from automating IT tasks to driving cloud automation and DevOps practices.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Turtles All the Way Down: PowerShell and Graphics with James Brundage</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-09-01-the-powershell-podcast-turtles-all-the-way-down-powershell-and-graphics-with-james-brundage/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 14:18:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-09-01-the-powershell-podcast-turtles-all-the-way-down-powershell-and-graphics-with-james-brundage/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;James Brundage returns to &lt;em&gt;The PowerShell Podcast&lt;/em&gt; to talk about his new project, Turtle, which brings the classic concept of Turtle graphics into PowerShell. From simple shapes to fractals, animations, and more, James shows how PowerShell can be a powerful and fun tool for exploring programming concepts. Tune in for insights on the history of Turtle, its modern applications, and how it can inspire both new learners and seasoned pros.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Unlocking Automation with AI Shell and Desired State Configuration with Jason Helmick</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-08-25-the-powershell-podcast-unlocking-automation-with-ai-shell-and-desired-state-configuration-with-jason-helmick/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:47:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-08-25-the-powershell-podcast-unlocking-automation-with-ai-shell-and-desired-state-configuration-with-jason-helmick/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we’re live from TechMentor at the Microsoft campus with two incredible guests: longtime advocate, educator, and PM on the PowerShell team at Microsoft - Jason Helmick and newcomer Troy Brown. This special episode captures the heart of community, innovation, and the transformative power of PowerShell—from seasoned insight to beginner breakthroughs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jason drops serious knowledge on two game-changing technologies:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;AI Shell: Think ChatGPT, but built directly into your terminal. Learn how it enhances shell UX, assists with command building, explains parameters, and keeps you focused without switching contexts.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Live from TechMentor: Profiles, People, and PowerShell Progress with Sean Wheeler and James Petty</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-08-18-the-powershell-podcast-live-from-techmentor-profiles-people-and-powershell-progress-with-sean-wheeler-and-james-petty/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:17:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-08-18-the-powershell-podcast-live-from-techmentor-profiles-people-and-powershell-progress-with-sean-wheeler-and-james-petty/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, Andrew catches up with Sean Wheeler and James Petty live from TechMentor. What starts as casual conversation about conference camaraderie turns into a rich discussion on learning PowerShell, building effective profiles, AI-assisted scripting, module recommendations, and what&amp;rsquo;s next for the PowerShell Summit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Whether you&amp;rsquo;re new to PowerShell or a seasoned scripter, this episode offers insights, laughs, and actionable advice. Plus, we finally settle (sort of) whether the VS Code sidebar belongs on the left or the right. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PSStucco, Accessibility, and the Power of Templating in PowerShell with Gilbert Sanchez &amp; Jake Hildreth</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-08-11-the-powershell-podcast-psstucco-accessibility-and-the-power-of-templating-in-powershell-with-gilbert-sanchez-jake-hildreth/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:48:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-08-11-the-powershell-podcast-psstucco-accessibility-and-the-power-of-templating-in-powershell-with-gilbert-sanchez-jake-hildreth/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this high-energy episode, returning guests Gilbert Sanchez and Jake Hildreth join Andrew for a deep dive into:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Module templating with PSStucco&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Creating open source GitHub orgs like PSInclusive&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;What begins with a conversation about a live demo gone hilariously sideways turns into an insightful exploration of how PowerShell acts as a launchpad into bigger ecosystems like GitHub, YAML, JSON, and continuous integration pipelines.Bios &amp;amp;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast From EntraAuth to PSConfEU with Fred Weinmann</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-08-04-the-powershell-podcast-from-entraauth-to-psconfeu-with-fred-weinmann/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:16:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-08-04-the-powershell-podcast-from-entraauth-to-psconfeu-with-fred-weinmann/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, host Andrew Pla reunites with PowerShell legend Fred, diving deep into productivity with hotkeys and key bindings, EntraAuth, C# integration, and community reflections from PowerShell Conference EU. Fred shares practical advice for improving your daily workflow, how to extend PowerShell with C#, and why participation in the community—whether through conferences or contributing modules—can be a game-changer for your career.&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;How to improve your coding efficiency with advanced hotkeys and key bindings&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Are PowerShell Pros Ready for C# – Ryan Coats</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-07-28-the-powershell-podcast-are-powershell-pros-ready-for-c-ryan-coats/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:41:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-07-28-the-powershell-podcast-are-powershell-pros-ready-for-c-ryan-coats/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this insightful episode of the PowerShell Podcast, host Andrew Pla welcomes longtime friend and seasoned technologist Ryan Coates. Together, they explore the intersection of PowerShell and C#, discuss the natural evolution of tech careers, and examine the role of continuous learning in long-term success. Ryan shares a wealth of perspective from decades in IT—covering everything from early networking to modern cloud architectures and why C# is a practical next step for PowerShell users. Whether you&amp;rsquo;re deep in automation or eyeing your next language leap, this conversation is packed with career wisdom, developer philosophy, and some solid tech nostalgia.&lt;br&gt;
What You’ll Learn:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast The Power of Splatting and Team Empowerment</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-07-21-the-powershell-podcast-the-power-of-splatting-and-team-empowerment/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:05:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-07-21-the-powershell-podcast-the-power-of-splatting-and-team-empowerment/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, Andrew Pla welcomes longtime friend and DevOps Endpoint Engineer David Richmond. Fresh off his PowerShell Wednesday presentation, David shares insights into the power of &lt;em&gt;splatting&lt;/em&gt; in PowerShell, centralizing automations, and driving organizational change through best practices and leadership. The conversation explores the evolution of automation practices, Git adoption in Ops, secrets management using Azure Key Vault, and how empowering others can multiply technical impact. It’s an inspiring blend of deep PowerShell knowledge and practical career development advice.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PSConfEU 2025 Bar Sessions: Community, Code &amp; Connection</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-07-14-the-powershell-podcast-psconfeu-2025-bar-sessions-community-code-connection/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:35:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-07-14-the-powershell-podcast-psconfeu-2025-bar-sessions-community-code-connection/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this special live episode recorded amidst the rain-soaked streets of Malmö duringPSConfEU 2025, host Andrew Pla brings us a vibrant, multi-guest edition of the PowerShell Podcast. From impromptu bar chats to in-depth discussions on PowerShell modules, CI/CD pipelines, career growth, and community culture, this episode captures the heart of the PowerShell community in full force.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hear from speakers, first-time attendees, longtime community contributors, and PowerShell legends as they share their stories, projects, career journeys, favorite sessions, and the human side of tech.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Building Layers of Protection and Purpose – Miriam Wiesner</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-07-07-the-powershell-podcast-building-layers-of-protection-and-purpose-miriam-wiesner/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:56:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-07-07-the-powershell-podcast-building-layers-of-protection-and-purpose-miriam-wiesner/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we catch up with returning guest and security research program manager at Microsoft, Miriam Wiesner. Recorded live at PowerShell Conference EU in Malmö, Sweden, we dive into her fascinating journey from Premier Field Engineer to her current role in security research. Miriam reflects on her early talks about Just Enough Administration (JEA), shares insights into MFA bypass techniques involving browser cookies (with a fun appearance from Cookie Monster), and emphasizes the importance of defense-in-depth and layered security.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Behind the Shell with Microsoft</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-06-30-the-powershell-podcast-behind-the-shell-with-microsoft/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:18:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-06-30-the-powershell-podcast-behind-the-shell-with-microsoft/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, recorded live at PSConfEU, Andrew catches up with some of the PowerShell team from Microsoft to talk all things PowerShell—from AIShell to PSResourceGet to the future of DSC and OpenSSH.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First up is Steven Bucher, Product Manager on the PowerShell team, who discusses the massive scale of PowerShell usage, the state of PowerShell 7, and the team’s focus on security and reliability. He also gives an exciting walkthrough of AIShell and how it’s helping users stay in the terminal while getting AI-driven help, error resolution, and integration with providers like Azure OpenAI and AI Foundry.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast A Conversation from the Heart of PSConfEU</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-06-25-the-powershell-podcast-a-conversation-from-the-heart-of-psconfeu/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 14:03:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-06-25-the-powershell-podcast-a-conversation-from-the-heart-of-psconfeu/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, host Andrew Pla reports live from PowerShell Conference Europe 2025 in Malmö, Sweden. With energy high and community engagement stronger than ever, Andrew chats with key figures shaping the PowerShell ecosystem.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First, we hear from Gael Colas, organizer of PSConfEU and longtime community advocate, who discusses the significance of the conference and its international impact. Gael reflects on the challenges of organizing a multi-country event and the magic that happens when the community comes together in person.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast The Dos and Don’ts of PowerShell with Steven Judd and Gilbert Sanchez</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-06-23-the-powershell-podcast-the-dos-and-donts-of-powershell-with-steven-judd-and-gilbert-sanchez/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 14:32:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-06-23-the-powershell-podcast-the-dos-and-donts-of-powershell-with-steven-judd-and-gilbert-sanchez/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we’re joined by Steven Judd and Gilbert Sanchez, two active contributors and speakers in the PowerShell community. We talk about the Dos and Don&amp;rsquo;ts of PowerShell. We cover topics like documentation, testing, community, how you should view yourself in your growth, and even get some top tips on logging from those who have done PowerShell at the highest levels. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Key Topics Covered:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;How community support leads to career breakthroughs&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast The Life and Code of The PoSh Wolf</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-06-16-the-powershell-podcast-the-life-and-code-of-the-posh-wolf/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:01:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-06-16-the-powershell-podcast-the-life-and-code-of-the-posh-wolf/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This week, we sit down with Anthony Howell, better known as The PoSh Wolf, for an inspiring and entertaining conversation about PowerShell, community, and creativity. From his early days in a two-person IT department to speaking at PowerShell Summit, Anthony shares how passion, persistence, and curiosity have fueled his journey. He dives into his creative use of PowerShell for managing game servers and even building a Discord bot, proving that automation isn&amp;rsquo;t just for enterprise tasks. We explore how side projects can grow into real skills, the value of sharing in the community, and how embracing mistakes makes us all better. Anthony also gives insights into using .NET in PowerShell, learning Go, and building resilient systems for fun and work.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast From DJ Decks to Cloud Architecture – Shannon Eldridge-Kuehn</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-06-09-the-powershell-podcast-from-dj-decks-to-cloud-architecture-shannon-eldridge-kuehn/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:25:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-06-09-the-powershell-podcast-from-dj-decks-to-cloud-architecture-shannon-eldridge-kuehn/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we chat with Shannon Eldridge-Kuehn, a seasoned technologist whose career spans from spinning vinyl as a DJ to leading cloud and FinOps consulting. Shannon shares her unique journey into tech, driven by curiosity and a desire to record her DJ sets, which ultimately led to a successful career in cloud infrastructure, Azure, platform engineering, and FinOps. We explore Shannon’s transition into IT without a traditional tech background, her time at Microsoft, and her current work in FinOps. She discusses the challenges of cloud adoption, navigating imposter syndrome, and why strong communication skills are just as critical as technical ones. This episode is a masterclass in resilience, career evolution, and staying curious. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Hacking Games and Building a Career – Mateus Pimentel</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-06-02-the-powershell-podcast-hacking-games-and-building-a-career-mateus-pimentel/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:50:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-06-02-the-powershell-podcast-hacking-games-and-building-a-career-mateus-pimentel/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we take a detour from our typical PowerShell conversations to explore the fascinating world of game hacking with backend services developer Mateus Pimentel. Mateus shares his journey from crafting bots for MMORPGs to reverse engineering games and ultimately working in online services for a major gaming company.We discuss his early experiences hacking Tibia, how he overcame being hacked himself as a kid, and how those formative experiences shaped his approach to software development and cybersecurity. Mateus also dives into powerful learning experiences from hacking games, participating in Capture the Flag competitions, and avoiding the dark paths that lure many curious technologists. This episode is a compelling exploration of hacking culture, ethics, and personal transformation.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Building Fast Tools and Smarter Workflows with Justin Grote</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-05-26-the-powershell-podcast-building-fast-tools-and-smarter-workflows-with-justin-grote/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 14:09:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-05-26-the-powershell-podcast-building-fast-tools-and-smarter-workflows-with-justin-grote/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we welcome back Justin Grote, a Microsoft MVP and open-source powerhouse, for an in-depth and fast-paced conversation. Fresh off his PowerShell Wednesday presentation, Justin shares the thinking behind his latest innovations, including the creation of the high-performance ExcelFast module and his evangelism for dev containers and modern development workflows.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Key topics in this episode include:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Getting the most from VS Code – Justin shares power-user tips, favorite settings, and the evolution of his 1,000-line configuration file.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Building Confidence and Community with PowerShell with Brock Bingham</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-05-19-the-powershell-podcast-building-confidence-and-community-with-powershell-with-brock-bingham/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 14:32:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-05-19-the-powershell-podcast-building-confidence-and-community-with-powershell-with-brock-bingham/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with Brock Bingham, a longtime PowerShell enthusiast, educator, and community advocate. Recorded live from PDQ Headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, this episode captures the high energy and camaraderie of a PowerShell Wednesday in person. Brock shares his journey from PowerShell beginner to mentor, his passion for community building, and the power of sharing knowledge with others.&lt;br&gt;
Key topics in this episode include:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell, Security, and the Path to Mastery.</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-05-12-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-security-and-the-path-to-mastery/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 14:03:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-05-12-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-security-and-the-path-to-mastery/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we bring you a special double feature! First, we sit down with Lucas Allman live from the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit, where he shares his journey from podcast listener to conference presenter. Then, we chat with Bogdan Calapod live from PDQ HQ, a seasoned security expert and co-founder of Coda, who reflects on his path from hackathon projects to helping organizations secure their environments. Key topics in this episode include:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Growing with PowerShell and Community Support – Joshua Dearing</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-05-05-the-powershell-podcast-growing-with-powershell-and-community-support-joshua-dearing/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 14:34:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-05-05-the-powershell-podcast-growing-with-powershell-and-community-support-joshua-dearing/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with Joshua Dearing, aka _Fortress, _to explore his personal and professional growth through PowerShell, community engagement, and saying yes to new opportunities. Fresh off his first PowerShell Wednesday presentation, Joshua shares the story of how he overcame imposter syndrome, started his blog, and found confidence by getting involved in the PowerShell community. Key topics in this episode include:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Joshua’s journey with PowerShell and the community&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Lessons in Leadership from PowerShell Pioneers Jeffrey Snover and Don Jones</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-04-28-the-powershell-podcast-lessons-in-leadership-from-powershell-pioneers-jeffrey-snover-and-don-jones/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:09:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-04-28-the-powershell-podcast-lessons-in-leadership-from-powershell-pioneers-jeffrey-snover-and-don-jones/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this very special episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with two legends of the PowerShell world: Jeffrey Snover, the inventor of PowerShell, and Don Jones, bestselling author, teacher, and longtime PowerShell community builder. Recorded live at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit, this conversation is packed with personal insights, impactful moments, and the kind of storytelling that only Snover and Jones can deliver. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Key topics in this episode include: &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast The Powershell Podcast Summit sessions with Adam Rivera, Asmar Fontenot, &amp; Luis Orta</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-04-21-the-powershell-podcast-the-powershell-podcast-summit-sessions-with-adam-rivera-asmar-fontenot-luis-orta/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 14:34:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-04-21-the-powershell-podcast-the-powershell-podcast-summit-sessions-with-adam-rivera-asmar-fontenot-luis-orta/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we bring you another Summit Sessions special recorded live at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2025! This episode is a celebration of first-time attendees, newcomers to the PowerShell community, and those discovering their voice in tech. Andrew Pla sits down with passionate IT professionals who share their personal stories of growth, connection, and finding purpose through PowerShell and community.&lt;br&gt;
Whether you&amp;rsquo;re just starting your automation journey or you&amp;rsquo;re looking to reconnect with your &amp;ldquo;why,&amp;rdquo; this episode is packed with inspiration, encouragement, and honest reflections on what it means to grow in public, contribute meaningfully, and be part of something bigger.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast The PowerShell Podcast Summit 2025 – Missy, Leslie, &amp; Hailey</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-04-14-the-powershell-podcast-the-powershell-podcast-summit-2025-missy-leslie-hailey/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:02:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-04-14-the-powershell-podcast-the-powershell-podcast-summit-2025-missy-leslie-hailey/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we bring you a special edition live from the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2025 — the Summit Sessions! This episode is packed with energy, community stories, and career inspiration as Andrew Pla chats with community leaders, organizers, and first-time contributors about what makes this event and the PowerShell community so special.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guests in this episode include:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Missy Januszko – Longtime content director of the Summit reflects on her years of shaping the conference, what makes a great CFP (Call for Papers), and her decision to pass the torch to the next generation of leaders.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Leslie Brendible– Steps up in a big way to help lead this year&amp;rsquo;s Summit, sharing her background in event planning, her love for connecting people, and her thoughts on community and representation.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Haley Phillips – PowerShell MVP and champion of soft skills, vulnerability, and personal development in tech. Haley dives into mentorship, therapy, imposter syndrome, and how modeling behavior can shape the culture of teams and communities.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The PowerShell Podcast on YouTube: &lt;a href="https://youtu.be/87axet9zvyQ"&gt;https://youtu.be/87axet9zvyQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell Summit Bar Sessions 2025 – David R</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-04-10-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-summit-bar-sessions-2025-david-r/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 21:15:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-04-10-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-summit-bar-sessions-2025-david-r/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this casual bar-session chat recorded at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2025, host Andrew Pla sits down with David R, a first-time attendee with a passion for learning PowerShell. David shares how the PowerShell Podcast itself inspired him to attend and helped shape his scripting journey. What began as a work assignment turned into a powerful learning path, community connection, and a personal transformation.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell Summit Bar Sessions 2025 – Frank Lesniak</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-04-09-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-summit-bar-sessions-2025-frank-lesniak/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 22:01:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-04-09-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-summit-bar-sessions-2025-frank-lesniak/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Summit 2025 Bar Sessions, Frank Lesniak makes a triumphant return to the podcast. Frank has taken the reigns In this two-sided interview, Frank flips the script and interviews Andrew, but only after we talk about how his week is going, fine dining, how to grow in your career and capitalize on opportunity, the value of empowering others, and more!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Links:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The PowerShell Podcast: &lt;a href="https://pdq.com/the-powershell-podcast"&gt;https://pdq.com/the-powershell-podcast &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The PowerShell Podcast on YouTube: &lt;a href="https://youtu.be/HoYKzgiJxkk"&gt;https://youtu.be/HoYKzgiJxkk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell Summit Bar Sessions 2025 – Steven Judd</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-04-08-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-summit-bar-sessions-2025-steven-judd/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2025 21:48:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-04-08-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-summit-bar-sessions-2025-steven-judd/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Summit Bar Sessions we talk with Steven Judd. We talk about Summit, Sean Kearney Spirit award, community, career, and more!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Steven Judd is a 25+ year IT Pro&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Links:&lt;br&gt;
Get more updates from Summit from LinkedIn:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewplatech/"&gt;https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewplatech/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://blog.stevenjudd.com/My-Content-List/"&gt;https://blog.stevenjudd.com/My-Content-List/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenjudd/"&gt;https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenjudd/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.powershellsummit.org/"&gt;https://www.powershellsummit.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://mvp.stevenjudd.com"&gt;https://mvp.stevenjudd.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://mydemoswork.com"&gt;https://mydemoswork.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://store.stevenjudd.com"&gt;https://store.stevenjudd.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; all proceeds go towards buying more swag to give away (he has a lot, trust me)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Podcast on YouTube: &lt;a href="https://youtu.be/6WTIsOnT5PU"&gt;https://youtu.be/6WTIsOnT5PU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The PowerShell Podcast: &lt;a href="https://pdq.com/the-powershell-podcast"&gt;https://pdq.com/the-powershell-podcast &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Discovering the Deeper Layers of PowerShell with Jeff Hicks</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-04-07-the-powershell-podcast-discovering-the-deeper-layers-of-powershell-with-jeff-hicks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 14:29:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-04-07-the-powershell-podcast-discovering-the-deeper-layers-of-powershell-with-jeff-hicks/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we’re joined by the legendary Jeff Hicks, PowerShell educator, author, speaker, and community pillar. With decades of experience shaping the PowerShell landscape, Jeff returns to the podcast to share insights from his latest projects, discuss the evolution of the community, and offer wisdom for both new and experienced PowerShell users. From PowerShell Summit to writing foundational books and building up new contributors, Jeff continues to play a critical role in shaping the PowerShell ecosystem.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast From Proper Football to Databases with Jess Pomfret</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-03-31-the-powershell-podcast-from-proper-football-to-databases-with-jess-pomfret/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:43:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-03-31-the-powershell-podcast-from-proper-football-to-databases-with-jess-pomfret/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we reconnect with Jess Pomfret, a PowerShell and SQL Server powerhouse, LinkedIn Learning instructor, and community advocate. From her early days in England to becoming a respected speaker and consultant, Jess shares her journey into tech, her passion for automation, and the importance of mentorship, curiosity, and community.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Key topics in this episode include:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jess’s transition from footballer to DBA – How a soccer scholarship led her to a tech career in the U.S.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast How to Build an IT Career from the Ground Up with Kevin Apolinario (KevTech)</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-03-24-the-powershell-podcast-how-to-build-an-it-career-from-the-ground-up-with-kevin-apolinario-kevtech/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:09:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-03-24-the-powershell-podcast-how-to-build-an-it-career-from-the-ground-up-with-kevin-apolinario-kevtech/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we welcome Kevin of KevTech IT Support, a well-known mentor and educator in the IT community. With a background in fast food and law enforcement, Kevin shares his inspiring journey into IT and how he leveraged mentorship, home labs, and community engagement to build a thriving career. We dive into help desk fundamentals, breaking into IT, career development, and Kevin helps give you a map to career success.Key topics in this episode include:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Exploring PowerShell for Physical Security and Automation with Cody Paternostro</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-03-17-the-powershell-podcast-exploring-powershell-for-physical-security-and-automation-with-cody-paternostro/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:36:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-03-17-the-powershell-podcast-exploring-powershell-for-physical-security-and-automation-with-cody-paternostro/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we welcome Cody Paternostro, a rising star in PowerShell automation, to discuss his unique journey into IT, the power of persistence in learning, and his work on RemotePro, a sophisticated PowerShell-based security camera management tool. Cody shares how he transitioned from food delivery to IT, leveraged PowerShell to streamline operations in physical security, and how asking the right questions helped accelerate his growth.&lt;br&gt;
Key topics in this episode include:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast How PowerShell and the Right Mindset Can Transform Your IT Career with Steven Wight</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-03-10-the-powershell-podcast-how-powershell-and-the-right-mindset-can-transform-your-it-career-with-steven-wight/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:02:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-03-10-the-powershell-podcast-how-powershell-and-the-right-mindset-can-transform-your-it-career-with-steven-wight/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with Steven Wight, known online as PowerShell Young Team, to discuss his journey in PowerShell, automation, and the impact of the PowerShell community. Steven shares how PowerShell transformed his workflow, his approach to solving IT problems, and how he went from lurking in the background to actively contributing and engaging with the community.&lt;br&gt;
Key topics in this episode include:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How PowerShell changed Steven’s IT career – From his early days avoiding manual tasks to building automation solutions.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell as a Defender’s Secret Weapon with Michael Haag</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-03-03-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-as-a-defenders-secret-weapon-with-michael-haag/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:27:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-03-03-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-as-a-defenders-secret-weapon-with-michael-haag/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with Michael Haag, Principal Threat Researcher at Splunk, to dive into PowerShell security, threat detection, and automation. Michael shares his journey from IT support to becoming a security expert, the role of PowerShell in modern cybersecurity, and his work on PowerShell Hunter and Atomic Red Team.&lt;br&gt;
Key topics in this episode include:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Michael’s journey into security – From IT support to system administration and eventually security research.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast MS Graph and Stepping into Public Speaking with Morten Kristensen</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-02-24-the-powershell-podcast-ms-graph-and-stepping-into-public-speaking-with-morten-kristensen/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:46:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-02-24-the-powershell-podcast-ms-graph-and-stepping-into-public-speaking-with-morten-kristensen/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with Morten Kristensen, an automation specialist and PowerShell enthusiast, to discuss his journey with PowerShell, his experience working with the Microsoft Graph API, and his recent leap into public speaking. Morten shares insights from his first-ever technical talk, the challenges of working with Graph API, and how he&amp;rsquo;s navigating his professional growth.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Key topics in this episode include:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Getting started with MS Graph API – Overcoming common challenges, including authentication, filtering, and throttling.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Building a Game in PowerShell from the Ground Up with Greg Martin</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-02-17-the-powershell-podcast-building-a-game-in-powershell-from-the-ground-up-with-greg-martin/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:13:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-02-17-the-powershell-podcast-building-a-game-in-powershell-from-the-ground-up-with-greg-martin/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we welcome Greg Martin, a longtime developer and PowerShell enthusiast, who has taken PowerShell beyond system administration and into the realm of game development. Greg shares his journey of building Eldoria, a terminal adventure game written entirely in PowerShell, and how his experience across multiple programming languages influenced his approach.&lt;br&gt;
Key topics in this episode include:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Building a game in PowerShell – How Greg used PowerShell to create a rich text-based adventure.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Building Secure PowerShell Solutions with Jake Hildreth</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-02-10-the-powershell-podcast-building-secure-powershell-solutions-with-jake-hildreth/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:42:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-02-10-the-powershell-podcast-building-secure-powershell-solutions-with-jake-hildreth/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we welcome back security-focused PowerShell expert Jake Hildreth for an insightful conversation about PowerShell, security tools, and his continued journey in the PowerShell community. Jake shares updates on Locksmith v2, his work with PowerPUG, and his experience learning new PowerShell techniques to refine and improve his tools.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bio: I&amp;rsquo;m a husband, a dad, and a recovering sysadmin. I&amp;rsquo;ve worked in technology since the year 2000, when I got my first tech job as Tier 1 support for cable modem companies. After that, I transitioned into systems &amp;amp; network administration, always with a security focus. In the last three years, I pivoted into security, focusing on Active Directory. When I&amp;rsquo;m not working, I enjoy cooking, drinking whiskey, lifting weights, traveling, reading&amp;hellip; and writing code. Coding is like creating and solving little puzzles for yourself! So soothing.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Exploring the Power of IoT and PowerShell with Mark Go</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-02-03-the-powershell-podcast-exploring-the-power-of-iot-and-powershell-with-mark-go/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 15:59:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-02-03-the-powershell-podcast-exploring-the-power-of-iot-and-powershell-with-mark-go/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with Mark Go, a PowerShell enthusiast and innovator, to discuss his exciting journey from the Navy to becoming a tech-savvy system administrator. Mark shares his experiences using PowerShell to make his work life better.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Key topics in this episode include:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Mark’s journey from a Navy corpsman to a PowerShell expert, including his first breakthrough script for managing IoT medical devices.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Using PowerShell to explore and tinker with IoT devices, Raspberry Pi projects, and microcontrollers.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The power of community connections, networking, and starting a PowerShell user group.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Lessons learned from Lean Six Sigma and how continuous process improvement ties into PowerShell.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Favorite PowerShell modules, including PSReadLine, PSDiscoveryProtocol, and KBUpdate, and how they make daily tasks more efficient.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bio and Links:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Streamlining PowerShell Package Management with Fred Weinmann</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-01-27-the-powershell-podcast-streamlining-powershell-package-management-with-fred-weinmann/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 15:29:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-01-27-the-powershell-podcast-streamlining-powershell-package-management-with-fred-weinmann/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the #PowerShell Podcast, we continue our deep dive with Fred Weinmann, a Microsoftie and PowerShell legend, as he shares more insights and tools that redefine productivity for PowerShell enthusiasts. Picking up where we left off in the last episode, Fred takes us through his journey of mastering PowerShell, collaborating with the community, and optimizing workflows with powerful custom modules.
Key topics in this episode include:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fred’s Learning Journey: The value of collaboration in projects like dbatools and the evolution of his development practices.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast The Art and Science of PowerShell Module Development with Fred Weinmann</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-01-20-the-powershell-podcast-the-art-and-science-of-powershell-module-development-with-fred-weinmann/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 15:58:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-01-20-the-powershell-podcast-the-art-and-science-of-powershell-module-development-with-fred-weinmann/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with Fred Weinmann, a prolific PowerShell module creator, to explore his remarkable contributions, including PSFramework, PSModuleDevelopment, PSUtil, and PSFramework.Nuget. Fred shares insights on developing impactful solutions, such as the KRBTGT module and the evolution of module development in large-scale environments. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We dive into Fred&amp;rsquo;s journey at Microsoft as a Cloud Solution Architect, discussing how he leverages his passion for technology and PowerShell to create scalable and innovative tools. Key topics include: &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell Changed My Life… with Adam Bacon.</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-01-13-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-changed-my-life-with-adam-bacon/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:24:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-01-13-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-changed-my-life-with-adam-bacon/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, Andrew catches up with returning guest Adam Bacon. Adam shares an update on his career and shares how PowerShell has played a huge role in helping him accomplish his dream. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links: &lt;br&gt;
Adam Bacon has over 24 years of IT experience, 13 of which with PowerShell. He can be found writing on one of his blogs, adding code to one of his 80+ projects on GitHub, speaking about PowerShell, and more.  &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Exploring PnP PowerShell Updates with MVP Gautam Sheth</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-01-06-the-powershell-podcast-exploring-pnp-powershell-updates-with-mvp-gautam-sheth/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 15:39:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2025-01-06-the-powershell-podcast-exploring-pnp-powershell-updates-with-mvp-gautam-sheth/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we’re joined by Gautam Sheth, Microsoft MVP and M365 developer extraordinaire, to explore the latest improvements to the PnP PowerShell module and how to get started with it. Gautam shares his unique perspective on automating SharePoint, working with Microsoft 365, and leveraging Microsoft Graph through PowerShell. We discuss practical use cases, best practices, and the significance of PnP PowerShell for modern IT and development workflows. From SharePoint tips to automation strategies, this episode is packed with insights for PowerShell enthusiasts and M365 developers alike. Whether you&amp;rsquo;re just starting or looking for advanced techniques, Gautam provides actionable advice and plenty of inspiration!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Evgenij Smirnov Talks Certs, Security, and PowerShell Adventures</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-12-30-the-powershell-podcast-evgenij-smirnov-talks-certs-security-and-powershell-adventures/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 16:01:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-12-30-the-powershell-podcast-evgenij-smirnov-talks-certs-security-and-powershell-adventures/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with Microsoft MVP Evgenij Smirnov to explore his incredible journey from working as a forklift driver to becoming a PowerShell and security expert. We dive into his insights on certificates, security best practices, and the importance of identity in modern IT. Evgenij also shares his experiences with cross-platform PowerShell, highlights from his recent talks, and the value of community events like PowerShell Saturday. Along the way, we discuss his unique career path, his passion for the PowerShell community, and tips for those looking to grow in IT.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Holiday Special with Gilbert Sanchez: PSScriptAnalyzer, AST, and PowerShell Gifts</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-12-23-the-powershell-podcast-holiday-special-with-gilbert-sanchez-psscriptanalyzer-ast-and-powershell-gifts/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:30:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-12-23-the-powershell-podcast-holiday-special-with-gilbert-sanchez-psscriptanalyzer-ast-and-powershell-gifts/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this special holiday episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we are joined by the incredibly talented Gilbert Sanchez. We dive into the world of PSScriptAnalyzer and use it as a gateway to explore and understand the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) in PowerShell. Gilbert walks us through a live demo and highlights some powerful ways to leverage the AST to analyze and improve our PowerShell code. As a special holiday treat, Gilbert comes bearing gifts—several awesome PowerShell modules that listeners can start using today.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Miriam Wiesner on Identity Hygiene, Security Tools, and Finding Balance</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-12-16-the-powershell-podcast-miriam-wiesner-on-identity-hygiene-security-tools-and-finding-balance/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:59:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-12-16-the-powershell-podcast-miriam-wiesner-on-identity-hygiene-security-tools-and-finding-balance/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with Miriam Wiesner, a Senior Security Research Program Manager at Microsoft, to dive into the fascinating world of security and identity hygiene. Miriam shares her expertise on the GraphAPI and the critical importance of maintaining proper identity hygiene in today&amp;rsquo;s digital landscape.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We explore the day-to-day life of a security researcher and discuss how tools like script block logging can provide invaluable insights. Miriam also highlights the power of Kusto for analyzing data and solving complex challenges in the security space.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell Evolution with Sean Wheeler: What’s new in PS 7.5, AIShell, &amp; More!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-12-09-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-evolution-with-sean-wheeler-whats-new-in-ps-7-5-aishell-more/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 15:24:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-12-09-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-evolution-with-sean-wheeler-whats-new-in-ps-7-5-aishell-more/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we welcome back Sean Wheeler, Lead Documentarian at Microsoft for PowerShell, to catch up on the latest developments in the PowerShell ecosystem. Sean dives into the updates with PSResourceGet, the powerful enhancements in PowerShell 7.5, and the groundbreaking potential of the AI Shell project, designed to transform command-line experiences with artificial intelligence. We also get a recap of Sean’s experience at SpiceWorld, highlighting community insights and key takeaways from the event. Packed with expert tips and exciting news, this episode is a must-listen for PowerShell enthusiasts and IT pros alike!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Turning the tables. An interview with Andrew Pla</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-12-02-the-powershell-podcast-turning-the-tables-an-interview-with-andrew-pla/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 15:44:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-12-02-the-powershell-podcast-turning-the-tables-an-interview-with-andrew-pla/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we turn the tables and interview Andrew Pla. We explore Andrew&amp;rsquo;s back story, find out how he got started in IT, and discover where his love of PowerShell comes from. We also discuss his journey from community member to advocate to PowerShell MVP. Get to know Andrew Pla!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links: Andrew Pla is the host of the PowerShell Podcast, Microsoft Powershell MVP, and Community Manager at PDQ. Andrew has an extensive IT background and expertise in PowerShell. He loves interacting with the community, mentoring, and spreading the good word about PowerShell.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>OnRamp Scholarship Application Now Open</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2024-12-02-onramp-scholarship-application-now-open/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 15:20:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2024-12-02-onramp-scholarship-application-now-open/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="scholarship-applications-now-open-for-the-onramp-program-at-the-powershell--devops-global-summit"&gt;Scholarship Applications Now Open for the OnRamp Program at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit!&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Are you an entry-level IT professional looking for an immersive introduction to PowerShell, DevOps, and the broader tech community? The &lt;strong&gt;OnRamp program&lt;/strong&gt; at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit is designed just for you, and scholarship applications are now open!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is your chance to take part in a transformative experience, where you’ll gain technical skills, learn from industry experts, and connect with a thriving community.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Jordan Returns: A Fun Dive into Life, PowerShell, and Beyond</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-11-25-the-powershell-podcast-jordan-returns-a-fun-dive-into-life-powershell-and-beyond/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2024 15:09:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-11-25-the-powershell-podcast-jordan-returns-a-fun-dive-into-life-powershell-and-beyond/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this special episode, we catch up with our former cohost, Jordan, and hear about his journey since leaving the PowerShell Podcast. Jordan shares an exciting life update, offers invaluable advice on how PowerShell has shaped his career and participates in our fun &amp;ldquo;This or That&amp;rdquo; segment.&lt;br&gt;
We reminisce about our favorite podcast moments, discuss a fantastic new PowerShell module for analyzing DKIM records, and explore how Jordan’s perspective on PowerShell and automation has evolved. This episode is packed with laughs, insights, and a dose of nostalgia for long-time listeners.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Growth, Grit, and Community with Steven Judd &amp; Kevin Laux</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-11-18-the-powershell-podcast-growth-grit-and-community-with-steven-judd-kevin-laux/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 15:26:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-11-18-the-powershell-podcast-growth-grit-and-community-with-steven-judd-kevin-laux/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with Steven Judd and Kevin Laux for insights and inspiration from the PowerShell community. Steven shares his experiences overcoming the hurdles of live demos, recounts the highlights of PowerShell Saturday NC, and reveals the story behind his iconic bling and love for puns. He delves into the importance of &amp;ldquo;practice makes progress,&amp;rdquo; encouraging listeners to embrace growth through consistent effort. Kevin Laux joins the conversation to discuss his journey with PowerShell, his role with the Research Triangle PowerShell User Group (RTPSUG), and the impact of community involvement.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, and MVP Wisdom with Christian Ritter</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-11-11-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-microsoft-graph-and-mvp-wisdom-with-christian-ritter/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 15:47:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-11-11-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-microsoft-graph-and-mvp-wisdom-with-christian-ritter/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join us as we chat with Microsoft MVP Christian Ritter about all things PowerShell and beyond! Christian dives into his journey to becoming an MVP, his insights on Microsoft Graph, and the impact it&amp;rsquo;s having in the PowerShell community. We also explore the growing PowerShell community in Germany and get an exciting preview of the upcoming PowerShell Saturday event. Whether you’re a PowerShell novice or a seasoned pro, this episode has something for everyone&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast The Importance of Community in Tech. Mike Kanakos and Phil Bossman</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-11-04-the-powershell-podcast-the-importance-of-community-in-tech-mike-kanakos-and-phil-bossman/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2024 15:14:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-11-04-the-powershell-podcast-the-importance-of-community-in-tech-mike-kanakos-and-phil-bossman/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we dive into all things community and PowerShell Saturday, from preparation and organization to the impact of community-driven events on career growth. We chat about what led up to the big day, our personal experiences, and why attending conferences, user groups, and community events can be game-changing for anyone in tech. Find your next step and be the community!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mike Kanakos is a three-time Microsoft MVP award recipient and currently manages the Foundational Services and Automation team at Align Technology, the company behind Invisalign braces. He leads a team that develops automation tools for Azure AD, Active Directory, and Single Sign-On, with the goal of automating processes and eliminating tedious tasks for various teams.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Listener Voices: Reflections on PowerShell Saturday NC with Rafael Garcia, Kevin O’Conner, and Ryan Park</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-10-28-the-powershell-podcast-listener-voices-reflections-on-powershell-saturday-nc-with-rafael-garcia-kevin-oconner-and-ryan-park/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 14:40:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-10-28-the-powershell-podcast-listener-voices-reflections-on-powershell-saturday-nc-with-rafael-garcia-kevin-oconner-and-ryan-park/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this special episode of the PowerShell Podcast, recorded at PowerShell Saturday NC, we sit down with Rafael Garcia and Kevin O&amp;rsquo;Conner to discuss their experiences at the conference. They share their key takeaways, favorite sessions, and the excitement of connecting with the PowerShell community in person.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We also chat with Ryan Park, diving into his background, his favorite talks from the event, and tips he has for PowerShell enthusiasts. Along the way, we explore some fun stories and personal insights from each guest, giving listeners a well-rounded view of the event and what makes PowerShell Saturday NC special.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Cross-Platform PowerShell and Sending Emails with Frank Lesniak &amp; Neha Patil</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-10-21-the-powershell-podcast-cross-platform-powershell-and-sending-emails-with-frank-lesniak-neha-patil/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:10:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-10-21-the-powershell-podcast-cross-platform-powershell-and-sending-emails-with-frank-lesniak-neha-patil/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we dive into the world of cross-platform PowerShell with Frank Lesniak, who shares insights from his recent talk at PowerShell Saturday NC. Frank explores some unique use cases for PowerShell across different platforms and opens up about his interests beyond the scripting language.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We also chat with Neha Patil, a first-time speaker with a background in computer science. Neha shares her impressions of PowerShell as someone with experience with many languages, and gives us a glimpse into Mailozaurr, the tool she presented at the event. Learn how Mailozaurr simplifies sending stylish and professional emails directly from PowerShell.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Exploring Redfish Protocol, Data Science, and PowerShell with Blake Cherry &amp; Danny Stutz</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-10-14-the-powershell-podcast-exploring-redfish-protocol-data-science-and-powershell-with-blake-cherry-danny-stutz/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:33:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-10-14-the-powershell-podcast-exploring-redfish-protocol-data-science-and-powershell-with-blake-cherry-danny-stutz/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, I sit down with Blake Cherry to discuss the Redfish Protocol and its impact on simplifying data center hardware management, drawing insights from his talk at PowerShell Saturday, NC. We explore how Redfish is reshaping IT systems at scale. I also speak with Danny Stutz, who dives into the intersection of PowerShell and Data Science, covering topics like AI, data analysis, and K-means clustering, all applied to real-world use cases using PowerShell. Whether you&amp;rsquo;re managing hardware or looking to integrate advanced data science techniques into your scripts, this episode has something for everyone!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Culinary to Command Line: Catching Up with Drew McClellan</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-10-07-the-powershell-podcast-culinary-to-command-line-catching-up-with-drew-mcclellan/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 17:03:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-10-07-the-powershell-podcast-culinary-to-command-line-catching-up-with-drew-mcclellan/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we welcome back the &amp;ldquo;bestsest in the midwestest&amp;rdquo; Drew McClellan, who shares his recent promotion from Jr. Sysadmin to SysAdmin II. Drew talks about how he uses PowerShell in his daily role, tackling new software implementations and projects, and his approach to continuous learning. We also dive into how the OnRamp experience at PowerShell Summit helped prepare him. As a bonus, Drew, a chef for 10 years, dishes out some recipe recommendations to Andrew!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2025: Call for Papers Now Open!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2024-09-30-powershell-devops-global-summit-2025-call-for-papers-now-open/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:36:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2024-09-30-powershell-devops-global-summit-2025-call-for-papers-now-open/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="powershell--devops-global-summit-2025-call-for-papers-now-open"&gt;PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2025: Call for Papers Now Open!&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Calling all innovators, problem-solvers, and thought leaders in the PowerShell and DevOps realm! The stage is set for the most anticipated event of 2025, and we want you to be a part of it. The PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2025 is now accepting session proposals, and this is your moment to shine. From &lt;strong&gt;April 7-10, 2025&lt;/strong&gt;, in Bellevue, WA, the brightest minds in automation and DevOps will converge to share knowledge, challenge the status quo, and push the boundaries of what&amp;rsquo;s possible. Whether you&amp;rsquo;re a seasoned expert or a rising star with fresh perspectives, we invite you to submit your ideas and help shape the future of our industry.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Spectre Console and TUI Magic with Shaun Lawrie</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-09-30-the-powershell-podcast-spectre-console-and-tui-magic-with-shaun-lawrie/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:36:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-09-30-the-powershell-podcast-spectre-console-and-tui-magic-with-shaun-lawrie/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;On this episode of The PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with Shaun Lawrie to discuss terminal user interfaces (TUIs) and his work on the PWSHSpectreConsole project. Shaun shares insights into the world of TUIs, offers valuable career advice, and talks about his journey in tech. Tune in for practical tips and an in-depth look at what it takes to thrive in the PowerShell ecosystem.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Shaun Lawrie is an IT professional from Wellington, New Zealand, with a passion for automating his jobs away. He&amp;rsquo;s worked in QA, development, site reliability, and delivery with some of the largest web platforms in New Zealand over the last ten years. He&amp;rsquo;s currently the Platform Engineering Lead at PartsTrader Markets Limited leading a team responsible for improving delivery processes, maintaining quality, and automating all of the things.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Innovating with PowerShell: Micah Shonyo’s Path to C# Mastery</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-09-23-the-powershell-podcast-innovating-with-powershell-micah-shonyos-path-to-c-mastery/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:56:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-09-23-the-powershell-podcast-innovating-with-powershell-micah-shonyos-path-to-c-mastery/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with Micah Shonyo to explore his inspiring journey into PowerShell, from his early days learning the language to his current projects. We dive into the story behind his Microsoft Cluster Management module, discussing what motivated him to create it and how it helps sysadmins. Micah also shares how learning PowerShell opened the door for him to start using C#, blending scripting with development to elevate his technical skills. We wrap up the conversation with insights into his career goals and aspirations for the future.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Building Modern PowerShell Solutions: Justin Grote on TUIs, .NET, and Module Magic</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-09-16-the-powershell-podcast-building-modern-powershell-solutions-justin-grote-on-tuis-net-and-module-magic/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:25:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-09-16-the-powershell-podcast-building-modern-powershell-solutions-justin-grote-on-tuis-net-and-module-magic/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we chat with Justin Grote about his work with PwshSpectreConsole and the power of TUIs in PowerShell scripting. Justin takes us through his impressive collection of PowerShell modules—ModulePath, GallerySync, and ModuleFast—and how they enhance the PowerShell experience. We also explore the advantages of .NET&amp;rsquo;s Common Language Runtime (CLR) in PowerShell, using Spectre.Console as a prime example. Finally, Justin shares his thoughts on transitioning from Windows PowerShell to PowerShell 7 and the performance and feature benefits that come with the upgrade.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Behind the Code: Adam Driscoll on PowerShell Universal and Work-Life Balance</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-09-09-the-powershell-podcast-behind-the-code-adam-driscoll-on-powershell-universal-and-work-life-balance/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2024 14:49:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-09-09-the-powershell-podcast-behind-the-code-adam-driscoll-on-powershell-universal-and-work-life-balance/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we’re joined by the brilliant Adam Driscoll, the creator of PowerShell Universal. Adam shares exciting insights into the upcoming features and improvements in PowerShell Universal, giving us a sneak peek into what’s on the horizon.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We also discuss work-life balance and how Adam manages to juggle his many projects while staying grounded. He opens up about his approach to tackling new projects, the importance of time management, and maintaining creativity in the ever-evolving world of tech.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Being a Lazy Administrator with Bradley Wyatt</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-09-02-the-powershell-podcast-being-a-lazy-administrator-with-bradley-wyatt/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 14:28:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-09-02-the-powershell-podcast-being-a-lazy-administrator-with-bradley-wyatt/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, I had the pleasure of chatting with Bradley Wyatt, also known as the Lazy Administrator. We explored his inspiring journey from college dropout to becoming a 5x Microsoft MVP and how he transformed his personal knowledge base into a globally recognized blog that serves as a vital resource for IT professionals. Bradley shares the lessons he’s learned along the way, his passion for automation, and the impact of his work on the PowerShell community.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Be the Community: Insights and Event Log Automation with Phil Bossman</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-08-26-the-powershell-podcast-be-the-community-insights-and-event-log-automation-with-phil-bossman/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 19:51:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-08-26-the-powershell-podcast-be-the-community-insights-and-event-log-automation-with-phil-bossman/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with the newly minted Microsoft MVP, Phil Bossman, to dive into the heart of the PowerShell community and what it truly means to &amp;ldquo;be the community.&amp;rdquo; We discuss the excitement building around PowerShell Saturday NC and the invaluable learning opportunities it offers. Phil shares his expertise on exploring event logs and how to harness their power for PowerShell automation, providing practical insights for both beginners and seasoned pros. Join us as we celebrate Phil&amp;rsquo;s journey to becoming an MVP and gain inspiration from his dedication to the PowerShell community.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Kubernetes is Easy with Anthony Nocentino</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-08-19-the-powershell-podcast-kubernetes-is-easy-with-anthony-nocentino/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2024 14:17:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-08-19-the-powershell-podcast-kubernetes-is-easy-with-anthony-nocentino/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with Anthony Nocentino, a Senior Principal Field Solution Architect at Pure Storage, to dive deep into the world of Kubernetes. Anthony breaks down what Kubernetes is and how it fits into the modern IT landscape. We explore his fascinating career journey, from consulting and SQL Server to educating the masses on Kubernetes and Linux. Anthony also shares invaluable insights on becoming a force multiplier in your career and the critical role of mentorship and offers sage advice for anyone looking to elevate their professional path.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast TechMentor Highlights: Greg Altman, Mike Nelson, and James Petty Share PowerShell Wisdom”</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-08-12-the-powershell-podcast-techmentor-highlights-greg-altman-mike-nelson-and-james-petty-share-powershell-wisdom/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:43:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-08-12-the-powershell-podcast-techmentor-highlights-greg-altman-mike-nelson-and-james-petty-share-powershell-wisdom/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In the latest episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we had the pleasure of interviewing Greg Altman, Mike Nelson, and James Petty. We spoke with three speakers at TechMentor in Redmond, including a special birthday guest. We covered topics such as imposter syndrome, details on the guests&amp;rsquo; talks, recommended books for starting and advancing in PowerShell, and a healthy helping of laughs throughout. Tune in for insightful conversations, valuable insights, and a few chuckles along the way!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Exploring Cybersecurity with PowerShell and John Hammond</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-08-05-the-powershell-podcast-exploring-cybersecurity-with-powershell-and-john-hammond/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:09:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-08-05-the-powershell-podcast-exploring-cybersecurity-with-powershell-and-john-hammond/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with renowned security researcher John Hammond. Recorded in person in Utah, we delve into John&amp;rsquo;s unique insights on PowerShell and its role in cybersecurity. John shares his experiences with PowerShell attacks, discussing how it’s used in various malware and the importance of implementing security features like constrained language mode and script block logging. He highlights practical tips for making PowerShell environments more secure and emphasizes the need for continuous learning and experimenting within safe environments. We also explore how to transition into security-focused roles, with John providing valuable advice for those looking to combine their PowerShell skills with a career in cybersecurity.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Unveiling the Power of Generative AI with Chrissy LeMaire</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-07-29-the-powershell-podcast-unveiling-the-power-of-generative-ai-with-chrissy-lemaire/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2024 14:31:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-07-29-the-powershell-podcast-unveiling-the-power-of-generative-ai-with-chrissy-lemaire/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, Chrissy LeMaire discusses AI, her experience at PSConfEU, and her return to in-person speaking after a 5-year break. She provides an update on her book, &amp;ldquo;Generative AI for the IT Professional,&amp;rdquo; and shares insights into leveraging AI beyond just conversing with ChatGPT. Chrissy also showcases a couple of interesting use cases involving AI.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Vaguely French Developer in Europe, PS &amp;amp; SQL MVP, inaugural GitHub Star, got a master&amp;rsquo;s degree in Systems Engineering. She’s also certified in SQL Server, Linux, SharePoint and network security.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Interactive Shell Sessions and Language Models: Steven Bucher on Project Mercury</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-07-22-the-powershell-podcast-interactive-shell-sessions-and-language-models-steven-bucher-on-project-mercury/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:14:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-07-22-the-powershell-podcast-interactive-shell-sessions-and-language-models-steven-bucher-on-project-mercury/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In the latest episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with Microsoft PM Steven Bucher to dive into Project Mercury, a cutting-edge CLI tool designed to provide an interactive shell session for chatting with language models. Steven walks us through the functionalities of Project Mercury and how users can leverage this innovative tool. He also shares his approach to product management, reflecting on his growth in the role over the past couple of years. We explore the importance of empowering others and how it serves as a pivotal goal in Steven’s professional journey. Join us for an enlightening conversation that blends technical knowledge with leadership wisdom.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Emrys MacInally Explores PowerShell Error Handling and Module Versioning Strategies</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-07-15-the-powershell-podcast-emrys-macinally-explores-powershell-error-handling-and-module-versioning-strategies/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:51:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-07-15-the-powershell-podcast-emrys-macinally-explores-powershell-error-handling-and-module-versioning-strategies/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we welcome back Emrys MacInally, following another successful year speaking at PSConf.EU. Emrys shares his experiences and highlights from the conference, shedding light on key discussions and takeaways. We dive deep into the importance of mental health within the PowerShell community, exploring how the community can support each other. Emrys provides insights into best practices for versioning PowerShell modules and delves into the nuances of error handling, explaining why developers should avoid using the &amp;rsquo;throw&amp;rsquo; statement in scripts. Additionally, Emrys introduces his ErrorRecord module, which simplifies the process of creating error records, offering a practical solution for more efficient error management. Tune in for an enlightening conversation packed with valuable tips and expert advice for PowerShell enthusiasts.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Behind the Scenes at PSConf.EU: Harm Veenstra’s Experience and Insights</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-07-08-the-powershell-podcast-behind-the-scenes-at-psconf-eu-harm-veenstras-experience-and-insights/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 14:25:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-07-08-the-powershell-podcast-behind-the-scenes-at-psconf-eu-harm-veenstras-experience-and-insights/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with Microsoft MVP Harm Veenstra to discuss his exciting experiences at PSConf.EU, where he attended for the first time and embarked on a new journey into public speaking. Harm shares his thoughts on receiving the prestigious Microsoft MVP award and delves into his recent projects, including creating a TCP/UDP listener for testing firewall ports and using a Pi-hole to block ads on his home network. We also explore his perspectives on automation in the MSP world, the power of Microsoft Graph, and why he hasn’t yet adopted AI tools. Tune in for an engaging conversation filled with insights, tips, and highlights from PSConf.EU!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Write Code, Write Blogs: Lessons with Brock Bingham</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-07-01-the-powershell-podcast-write-code-write-blogs-lessons-with-brock-bingham/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:04:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-07-01-the-powershell-podcast-write-code-write-blogs-lessons-with-brock-bingham/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In our latest Powershell Podcast episode, we chat with Brock Bingham. We explore his transition from sysadmin to writer and his viewpoint of coding as creative problem-solving. Brock also shares insightful blogging tips and advises against the pitfalls of comparison. A must-listen for aspiring PowerShellers. (plz create a blog and share your learnings for future you)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Born in the &amp;rsquo;80s and raised by his NES, Brock quickly fell in love with everything tech. With over 15 years of IT experience, Brock now enjoys the life of luxury as a renowned tech blogger and receiver of many Dundie Awards. In his free time, Brock enjoys adventuring with his wife, kids, and dogs while dreaming of retirement.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast From NoWayShell to PowerShell: A Coding Transformation</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-06-24-the-powershell-podcast-from-nowayshell-to-powershell-a-coding-transformation/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2024 14:30:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-06-24-the-powershell-podcast-from-nowayshell-to-powershell-a-coding-transformation/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, host Andrew Pla converses with coding enthusiast Josh Hendricks (@joshooaj) about his transformative PowerShell journey - a pathway that led him from avoidance to adoration. The discussion delves into the intricacies of Joshua&amp;rsquo;s PSPushover and MilestonePSTools projects, developing an understanding of their creation process. Additionally, Josh recounts his captivating experience of giving a talk on &amp;ldquo;Docs&amp;rdquo; at the prestigious PowerShell Summit. This riveting dialogue remarkably encapsulates a personal journey blending skepticism, discovery, and innovation at the heart of coding.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Andrew Celebrates &amp; Previews psconf.eu with Christian &amp; Björn</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-06-17-the-powershell-podcast-andrew-celebrates-previews-psconf-eu-with-christian-bjorn/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 14:51:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-06-17-the-powershell-podcast-andrew-celebrates-previews-psconf-eu-with-christian-bjorn/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, Andrew starts things off by celebrating his new Microsoft MVP. Then, we hear about all things psconf.eu and what to expect from Christian Ritter and Björn Sundling at PSConf EU. We hear some of the juicy details and key takeaways from their sessions. Then we get an update on some of their projects like PSClippy, AzDM, PSSecretScanner, and much more!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links: &lt;br&gt;
Christian Ritter - He/Him | Father of two | PowerShell aficionado | Blog author | Speaker&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PipeScript, Formatting, and Docker: An In-Depth Conversation with James Brundage</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-06-10-the-powershell-podcast-pipescript-formatting-and-docker-an-in-depth-conversation-with-james-brundage/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 14:20:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-06-10-the-powershell-podcast-pipescript-formatting-and-docker-an-in-depth-conversation-with-james-brundage/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we are joined by Microsoft MVP, former PowerShell team member, and module maker extraordinaire James Brundage. We hear about his experience at Microsoft Build, learn all docker and kubernetes while discussing his Rocker module, UserGroup updates, implicit interpretation in Pipescript, formatting and types, and so much more. Strap in because we go deep in this one.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;James Brundage is a Microsoft MVP who has been heavily involved in PowerShell for over 17 years. He is a former member of the PowerShell team, working there during v2 and v3. He now works as a consultant with Start-Automating, applying his PowerShell expertise to organizations to help solve large-scale problems all around the world. He also has a lot of great projects on GitHub and regularly shares his knowledge at user groups and conferences.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Breaking Down ModuleFast and More with Justin Grote</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-06-03-the-powershell-podcast-breaking-down-modulefast-and-more-with-justin-grote/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2024 14:42:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-06-03-the-powershell-podcast-breaking-down-modulefast-and-more-with-justin-grote/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, host Andrew Pla interviews Microsoft MVP and PowerShell aficionado Justin Grote. They delve into an issue in the Az.Accounts 3.0.0 module, with Justin offering insights and a workaround (use an earlier version of the module). Justin also discusses his innovative ModuleFast project, explaining its architecture and his approach to writing PowerShell scripts and modules. The conversation highlights Justin&amp;rsquo;s passion for APIs and celebrates his contributions as an official PowerShell project contributor. Listeners get a glimpse into Justin&amp;rsquo;s workflow working at a Managed Service Provider (MSP) and how he writes to much PowerShell. He offers valuable advice for those early in their careers. Additionally, Justin shares updates on his PowerHTML (1.2m downloads) project, which originated from a GitHub pull request, showcasing his continuous contributions to the PowerShell community.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell on Linux and Beyond with Steven Judd</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-05-27-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-on-linux-and-beyond-with-steven-judd/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2024 14:14:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-05-27-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-on-linux-and-beyond-with-steven-judd/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this celebration-themed episode of the PowerShell Podcast, Steven Judd makes his long-awaited return. We announce the first PowerShell Podcast MVP winner. We share tips about regex and URL encoding and dive deep into PowerShell on Linux, CloudShell, and becoming a lifelong learner. All this and more!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Steven Judd is a 25+ year IT Pro and most recently an Infrastructure Engineer at Tenstreet LLC.&lt;br&gt;
His previous recent experience includes Enterprise Email Administrator, Digital Security Analyst, and Cloud and DevOps Advisor for cloud-focused solutions and infrastructure.&lt;br&gt;
He has been using PowerShell since 2010 and co-developed a custom training program for PowerShell. Most recently, he was a Senior Editor for the Modern IT Automation with PowerShell book. He is also a co-author and co-editor of the PowerShell Conference Book 3&lt;br&gt;
He loves to help people learn and recognize the value of automation.&lt;br&gt;
He spends his free time learning more about PowerShell, digital security, and cloud technologies, along with creating and telling Dad jokes. &lt;br&gt;
You can find him hanging out on the PowerShell Discord Server, running marathons, playing the cello, plus a handful of other hobbies he can&amp;rsquo;t seem to quit. Please follow him on Twitter, @stevenjudd, read his blog, and review, use, and improve his code on GitHub.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell on the road at MMS-MOA with Sven De Groote and Chris Thomas</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-05-20-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-on-the-road-at-mms-moa-with-sven-de-groote-and-chris-thomas/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2024 14:44:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-05-20-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-on-the-road-at-mms-moa-with-sven-de-groote-and-chris-thomas/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;On this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, Andrew is back on the road, attending the MMS 2024 at MOA conference. Andrew catches up with Sven De Groote and Chris Thomas. Andrew and Sven take a dive into the PSAppDeployToolkit. Later in the episode, Andrew and Chris chat about PSADT, Chris’ PowerShell journey, his talk at MMS-MOA, and more.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Links:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://x.com/automatemystuff"&gt;https://x.com/automatemystuff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://psadt.training"&gt;http://psadt.training&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Podcast Home page: &lt;a href="https://www.pdq.com/resources/the-powershell-podcast/"&gt;https://www.pdq.com/resources/the-powershell-podcast/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Watch on YouTube: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGBAkXMC4sc"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGBAkXMC4sc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast For the love of PowerShell and Curling with Frank Lesniak</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-05-13-the-powershell-podcast-for-the-love-of-powershell-and-curling-with-frank-lesniak/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2024 14:22:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-05-13-the-powershell-podcast-for-the-love-of-powershell-and-curling-with-frank-lesniak/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this special MMSMOA episode of the PowerShell Podcast, Andrew is joined by Frank Lesniak. We touch base after PowerShell Summit, hear about tracking airplanes with ADS-B and raspberry pi&amp;rsquo;s. Frank talks about classes and how they almost caused him to fall out of love with PowerShell. We also recount what most be the most brutal display of athleticism, curling.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/franklesniak/ads-b-setup"&gt;https://github.com/franklesniak/ads-b-setup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/FrankLesniak"&gt;https://twitter.com/FrankLesniak&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Podcast Home page: &lt;a href="https://www.pdq.com/resources/the-powershell-podcast/"&gt;https://www.pdq.com/resources/the-powershell-podcast/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell Perspectives: Ryan Lancial on Company Culture and Authentic Careers</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-05-06-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-perspectives-ryan-lancial-on-company-culture-and-authentic-careers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 14:54:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-05-06-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-perspectives-ryan-lancial-on-company-culture-and-authentic-careers/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, I&amp;rsquo;m joined by Ryan Lancial - Security Engineer at Red Canary. We talk about our shared history, his journey to security, what makes a good company culture, succeeding with no degree, the value of authenticity, and more!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ryan Lancial hates bios, used to Powershell and admin and now talks about security.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Podcast Home page: &lt;a href="https://www.pdq.com/resources/the-powershell-podcast/"&gt;https://www.pdq.com/resources/the-powershell-podcast/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlancial/"&gt;https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlancial/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Pro Tips - &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K95ovoMh170"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K95ovoMh170&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast The PowerShell &amp; Global DevOps Summit 2024 Bar session 4</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-04-29-the-powershell-podcast-the-powershell-global-devops-summit-2024-bar-session-4/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:38:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-04-29-the-powershell-podcast-the-powershell-global-devops-summit-2024-bar-session-4/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we have 2 interviews: Danny Stutz and Carrie Cargil. We start things off chatting with Danny and hearing about his first time speaking at Summit and how his career has gone. He shares some of his keys to success and he is someone to keep your eye out for.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links: &lt;br&gt;
Danny Stutz is a passionate technologist who helps his clients with AWS, Azure, Microsoft 365/Entra ID, and IAM services. He thrives on learning new technologies to support his clients and loves automating as much as he can, especially with PowerShell.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast The PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit 2024 Bar session 3</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-04-22-the-powershell-podcast-the-powershell-and-devops-global-summit-2024-bar-session-3/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 14:13:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-04-22-the-powershell-podcast-the-powershell-and-devops-global-summit-2024-bar-session-3/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we continue with our &amp;ldquo;bar sessions&amp;rdquo; from the PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit. We gain interesting insights into PowerShell, the Summit, career, and more. Our guests include Chris Masters, Joe Gasper, Rob Derickson, Chris Nguyen, Fred Weinmann, Merill Fernando, Clayton Tyger, Mike F. Robins, Sean Wheeler, Prasidh Arora, and Danny Maertens.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershellsummit.org"&gt;https://powershellsummit.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Powershell Podcast Home page: PowerShell Podcast Home page: &lt;a href="https://www.pdq.com/resources/the-powershell-podcast/"&gt;https://www.pdq.com/resources/the-powershell-podcast/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast The PowerShell &amp; DevOps Global Summit 2024 Bar Session 2</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-04-15-the-powershell-podcast-the-powershell-devops-global-summit-2024-bar-session-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:39:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-04-15-the-powershell-podcast-the-powershell-devops-global-summit-2024-bar-session-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this special episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we chat with people at the PowerShell Summit. It&amp;rsquo;s PowerShell after dark, the bar sessions. We talk about the OnRamp program, its scholarship program, and more. Then, we chat with Ambre Herron, Austin Hollett, Cory Knox, Ryan Richter, Vanda Paladino, and Tyson O&amp;rsquo;keefe.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Links:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Podcast Home page: &lt;a href="https://www.pdq.com/resources/the-powershell-podcast/"&gt;https://www.pdq.com/resources/the-powershell-podcast/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The PowerShell Podcast YouTube: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVG6Xhry_yM"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVG6Xhry_yM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershellsummit.org"&gt;https://powershellsummit.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast The PowerShell &amp; DevOps Global Summit 2024 Bar Session 1</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-04-11-the-powershell-podcast-the-powershell-devops-global-summit-2024-bar-session-1/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 20:49:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-04-11-the-powershell-podcast-the-powershell-devops-global-summit-2024-bar-session-1/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this special episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we chat with people at the PowerShell Summit. James Petty gives us a preview of the week ahead at PowerShell Summit. We also talk about the OnRamp program, its scholarship program, and more. Then, we chat with Ben Reader, Frank Lesniack, James Ruskin, Kevin Cefalu, and Steve Bucher.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Links: &lt;a href="https://powershellsummit.org"&gt;https://powershellsummit.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Watch The PowerShell Podcast: &lt;a href="https://www.pdq.com/resources/the-powershell-podcast/"&gt;https://www.pdq.com/resources/the-powershell-podcast/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;YouTube: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwOp92XpkkQ"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwOp92XpkkQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast From Blogging to DevOps with Jeff Brown Tech</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-04-08-the-powershell-podcast-from-blogging-to-devops-with-jeff-brown-tech/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2024 14:02:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-04-08-the-powershell-podcast-from-blogging-to-devops-with-jeff-brown-tech/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we are thrilled to host Jeff Brown, a seasoned educator and PowerShell enthusiast. Jeff takes us on a journey spanning nearly two decades of his prolific blog writing, revealing how it shaped his career trajectory. Delving into the importance of certifications, Jeff emphasizes their role as a structured pathway for acquiring new skills and advancing in the tech industry. We explore Jeff&amp;rsquo;s transition from Azure Engineer to the dynamic realm of DevOps, uncovering valuable insights along the way. Join us as Jeff shares his wealth of experience, offering invaluable advice and perspectives for aspiring IT professionals and seasoned experts alike.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Unveiling PowerShell’s Past: An Interview with Jeffrey Snover</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-04-01-the-powershell-podcast-unveiling-powershells-past-an-interview-with-jeffrey-snover/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2024 14:31:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-04-01-the-powershell-podcast-unveiling-powershells-past-an-interview-with-jeffrey-snover/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this highly anticipated episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with the legendary Jeffrey Snover, the creator of PowerShell. With his departure from Microsoft, Jeffrey opens up about his insights, experiences, and candid opinions. From the inception of PowerShell to its current state, he shares the challenges he faced and the triumphs he celebrated. Jeffrey delves into the controversial topic of using aliases in scripts, shedding light on the pros and cons. Additionally, he offers thought-provoking perspectives on the evolving landscape of AI and his experience in AI ethics. Reflecting on his tenure at Microsoft, Jeffrey discusses the intricacies of navigating a large corporation and making a substantial impact. We also explore the concept of the &amp;ldquo;PowerShell sacred vow&amp;rdquo; and its significance. Join us for an illuminating conversation with Jeffrey Snover.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast MVP Spotlight: Clayton Tyger’s Story</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-03-25-the-powershell-podcast-mvp-spotlight-clayton-tygers-story/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:08:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-03-25-the-powershell-podcast-mvp-spotlight-clayton-tygers-story/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join us for an inspiring episode of the PowerShell Podcast as we sit down with newly crowned Microsoft MVP, Clayton Tyger. Clayton shares his remarkable journey from being a PowerShell novice to achieving MVP status, highlighting the importance of a growth mindset and perseverance along the way. We delve into recent developments to his 365AutomatedLab module, exploring how it streamlines lab creation processes for PowerShell users. Additionally, Clayton discusses his adventures with ProxMox and PowerShell, offering valuable insights and practical tips. Tune in for an engaging conversation filled with personal anecdotes, professional insights, and a deep dive into the world of PowerShell with Clayton Tyger.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Cloud Chronicles: Mark Wragg’s Journey in DevOps</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-03-18-the-powershell-podcast-cloud-chronicles-mark-wraggs-journey-in-devops/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:29:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-03-18-the-powershell-podcast-cloud-chronicles-mark-wraggs-journey-in-devops/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this engaging episode of the PowerShell Podcast, host Andrew Pla kicks things off by sharing some tab completion insights and more on the preshow. Andrew is joined by special guest Mark Wragg to delve into the world of DevOps and PowerShell. Mark, a longtime user of the cloud, and shares his observations of how things have changed over the years. The discussion covers common tasks and responsibilities in DevOps, along with Mark&amp;rsquo;s innovative AzCostTools module, which provides a comprehensive solution for monitoring and managing cloud costs using PowerShell, complete with visually appealing graphs. Additionally, Mark shares his passion for Pester testing, infrastructure testing, and Infrastructure as Code, offering valuable advice and expertise to listeners. Tune in for a captivating conversation filled with practical tips and expert insights!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast IAM in Focus: Insights from Adil Leghari</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-03-11-the-powershell-podcast-iam-in-focus-insights-from-adil-leghari/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2024 14:49:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-03-11-the-powershell-podcast-iam-in-focus-insights-from-adil-leghari/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this enlightening episode of the PowerShell Podcast, host Andrew Pla is joined by special guest Adil Leghari to delve into the intricacies of IAM (Identity and Access Management). Together, they explore the fundamentals of IAM and its significance in the broader realm of IT. Additionally, Andrew announces the PowerShell Podcast MVP awards, celebrating community excellence. Adil shares invaluable insights on career transitions, the anatomy of a login box, and common cyber attacks. He also sheds light on the flaws of passwords and emphasizes the importance of empathy and honest postmortems in the IT landscape. Tune in for a captivating discussion filled with wisdom and expertise!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Summit 2024 Speaker Spotlight: Steven Judd</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2024-03-08-summit2024-spotlight-steven-judd/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2024 18:11:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2024-03-08-summit2024-spotlight-steven-judd/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hey there, PowerShell enthusiasts! Today marks the start of a series of interviews featuring select Summit 2024 presenters. I plan to sit and chat briefly with a mix of familiar and unfamiliar community presenters. Through these interviews, my aim is to provide you with an opportunity to get to know our presenters and generate some anticipation for their upcoming talks at the PowerShell Summit in Bellevue, Washington next month.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Joining me as my first guest is my good friend and active community member, &lt;strong&gt;Steven Judd&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>How to Toggle Logon Restrictions for AD Accounts</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2024-03-05-how-to-toggle-logon-restrictions-for-ad-accounts/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2024 17:00:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2024-03-05-how-to-toggle-logon-restrictions-for-ad-accounts/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Written by Tino JR&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This script will allow an administrator to enable or disable logon restrictions for an Active Directory (AD) user account. I received a unique requirement, in which several account must remain enabled, but restricted from logging into AD, so I wrote this script.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As you may know, you can specify logon hours to restrict AD users’ ability to logon during certain hours of the day . This is fine if the exact same time of logon restrictions will not change over time, however there might be a need to block logon access on an as-needed basis. The script can target an individual account, or target all members of a security group.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Crafting a Fulfilling Career: Wisdom from Industry Leaders Jeff Hicks and Mike F. Robbins</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-03-04-the-powershell-podcast-crafting-a-fulfilling-career-wisdom-from-industry-leaders-jeff-hicks-and-mike-f-robbins/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:07:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-03-04-the-powershell-podcast-crafting-a-fulfilling-career-wisdom-from-industry-leaders-jeff-hicks-and-mike-f-robbins/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Episode Summary:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, Andrew Pla is joined by esteemed guests Jeff Hicks, Microsoft MVP, and Mike F. Robbins, renowned Azure PowerShell writer. Together, they delve into the essential non-PowerShell skills necessary for a thriving career in IT. The conversation extends to the invaluable experiences gained from the OnRamp program at PowerShell Summit, highlighting the significance of passing on knowledge to the next generation. They also explore various community projects, recommend insightful books that capture the essence of the Summit experience, and stress the importance of fostering curiosity in one&amp;rsquo;s journey. Tune in for a wealth of wisdom and inspiration from these industry experts!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast From Admin to Defender: Jake Hildreth’s Security Evolution</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-02-26-the-powershell-podcast-from-admin-to-defender-jake-hildreths-security-evolution/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:42:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-02-26-the-powershell-podcast-from-admin-to-defender-jake-hildreths-security-evolution/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, Andrew sits down with the knowledgeable Jake Hildreth for an enlightening conversation covering a wide array of security-related topics. Jake shares insights from his journey transitioning into security from a background in operations and administration. The discussion delves into OpSec practices, approaches to toolmaking, and the critical importance of Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) security. Jake also sheds light on tabletop exercises for security, the fallacy of security through obscurity, and the dangers of clicking on phishing emails. Tune in for a deep dive into the world of security and PowerShell with Jake Hildreth!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Reaching the Summit: Graham’s OnRamp Journey</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-02-19-the-powershell-podcast-reaching-the-summit-grahams-onramp-journey/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:27:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-02-19-the-powershell-podcast-reaching-the-summit-grahams-onramp-journey/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Episode Summary:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this engaging episode, host Andrew sits down with Graham Stringfellow for an insightful discussion filled with personal anecdotes and professional insights. The conversation kicks off with a reflection on Andrew and Graham&amp;rsquo;s shared history, followed by Graham&amp;rsquo;s experience with the PowerShell Summit OnRamp scholarship. Graham sheds light on the infamous mountain disaster involving Phil Bossman, settling the score once and for all. They delve into the importance of building tools that endure and share anecdotes about Andrew handing off some of his PowerShell expertise to Graham. Tune in for a captivating conversation that spans friendship, professional growth, and the enduring legacy of PowerShell.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Roadmapping your PowerShell Journey with Sean Wheeler</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-02-12-the-powershell-podcast-roadmapping-your-powershell-journey-with-sean-wheeler/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 15:57:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-02-12-the-powershell-podcast-roadmapping-your-powershell-journey-with-sean-wheeler/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, host Andrew Pla is joined by the insightful Sean Wheeler for an enlightening discussion on all things PowerShell. Andrew starts off the episode by sharing a community tip and delving into the topic of hosting internal PowerShell meetups. The conversation then shifts to Sean, who sheds light on the process of getting started with learning PowerShell, emphasizing the invaluable resources available on learn.microsoft.com/powershell. Together, they explore the different steps involved in a PowerShell journey and offer guidance on mapping out a personalized learning path. Additionally, they discuss the significance of Git and GitHub in the PowerShell ecosystem and extend an invitation to the community for contributions to the PowerShell Community blog. Tune in for a wealth of knowledge and practical advice to enhance your PowerShell experience.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell and Pentesting: Hacker Insights with Spencer Alessi</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-02-05-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-and-pentesting-hacker-insights-with-spencer-alessi/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:22:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-02-05-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-and-pentesting-hacker-insights-with-spencer-alessi/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this action-packed episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we kick off with a loaded preshow featuring an exciting announcement of PowerShelldle, a community tip, and a deep dive into my own PowerShell journey in response to a viewer question. The main segment is a fascinating conversation with Spencer Alessi, where we delve into the world of PowerShell and pentesting. Spencer generously shares the tools he would use as a sysadmin pentesting his own environment, including PowerSploit, PingCastle, Bloodhound, LockSmith, and ADeleg. He provides invaluable tips for PowerShell enthusiasts looking to transition into security and pentesting, shedding light on the current and emerging trends in the security landscape. Spencer also gives us insights into the role that PowerShell plays in his role as a pentester. Get ready for a riveting episode filled with tips, tools, and trends in the world of PowerShell and security.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell and Education: A Deep Dive with Jim Tyler, Director of Technology</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-01-29-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-and-education-a-deep-dive-with-jim-tyler-director-of-technology/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2024 15:41:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-01-29-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-and-education-a-deep-dive-with-jim-tyler-director-of-technology/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we have the pleasure of hosting Jim Tyler (@PowerShellEngineer). In this episode, Jim shares insights into PowerShell in K-12 education, his book and YouTube channel, &lt;a href="http://miscripts.org/"&gt;Miscripts.org&lt;/a&gt;, and his various projects and passions. Join us as we delve into Jim&amp;rsquo;s background, his journey into PowerShell, and the unique challenges and rewards of working in the K-12 sector. We discuss the impact of AI on education, the birth of &lt;a href="http://miscripts.org/"&gt;Miscripts.org&lt;/a&gt;, and Jim&amp;rsquo;s creative ventures, from YouTube tutorials to self-publishing a PowerShell book. Get ready for a conversation packed with valuable insights, practical advice, and a touch of Disney magic.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast From Python to PowerShell: A Developer’s Perspective with Jordan Borean</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-01-22-the-powershell-podcast-from-python-to-powershell-a-developers-perspective-with-jordan-borean/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2024 15:01:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-01-22-the-powershell-podcast-from-python-to-powershell-a-developers-perspective-with-jordan-borean/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we are joined by the talented Jordan Borean. Join us as we delve into the world of PowerShell development with Jordan, exploring some of his exceptional modules that have made waves in the community. Jordan shares his unique perspective as a Python developer using PowerShell and highlights the benefits of binary modules. Dive into the details of Jordan&amp;rsquo;s experience within the PowerShell community Discord, and gain insights into his journey to Red Hat, where Open Source played a pivotal role. As a bonus, discover the surprising answer to the question: If PowerShell was a song, what would it be? This episode is packed with coding wisdom, community adventures, and a touch of musical revelation.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast From Listener to Speaker: Daniel Schroeder’s PowerShell Summit Success</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-01-15-the-powershell-podcast-from-listener-to-speaker-daniel-schroeders-powershell-summit-success/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2024 15:23:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-01-15-the-powershell-podcast-from-listener-to-speaker-daniel-schroeders-powershell-summit-success/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Episode Summary:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the latest episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we&amp;rsquo;re joined by the dynamic Daniel Schroeder. Dive into the world of PowerShell tips and contributions as Daniel shares insights into his tiPS module and how listeners can get involved. Daniel also reflects on his experience as a podcast listener, detailing how the show inspired him to take significant steps in his professional journey, such as applying to speak at PowerShell Summit—a journey that culminated in being accepted. The episode takes a technical turn as we glean advice on GitOps, explore techniques for visualizing large-scale systems, and gain valuable insights into the current statistics of DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering. Join us for a conversation packed with practical tips, personal reflections, and expert advice from Daniel Schroeder.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell PM Roundtable: 2024 Areas of Excitement</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-01-08-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-pm-roundtable-2024-areas-of-excitement/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2024 15:47:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-01-08-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-pm-roundtable-2024-areas-of-excitement/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we bring you a special treat—an exclusive roundtable discussion with the PMs behind PowerShell and its related projects. Hear about how the team&amp;rsquo;s goal of improving the lives of people working in operations and on operations tasks. Join us as we meet the PM team: Danny Maertens, Sydney Smith, Michael Greene, Damien Caro, Jason Helmick, and Steven Bucher. Each PM takes a turn sharing their areas of interest and excitement for the coming year, giving listeners a sneak peek into the future of PowerShell. Whether it&amp;rsquo;s advancements in automation, SSH improvements, or upcoming projects, this episode offers a unique behind-the-scenes look at the vision and passion driving PowerShell forward. Don&amp;rsquo;t miss this insightful conversation with the PMs who make it all happen!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast From Engineer to Manager: Mike Kanakos on Transition, Lessons, and Community</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-01-01-the-powershell-podcast-from-engineer-to-manager-mike-kanakos-on-transition-lessons-and-community/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2024 16:00:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2024-01-01-the-powershell-podcast-from-engineer-to-manager-mike-kanakos-on-transition-lessons-and-community/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with Microsoft MVP Mike Kanakos to explore his journey transitioning from an engineer to a manager. Mike candidly shares the valuable lessons learned, from navigating newfound responsibilities to embracing a mentoring role. We delve into the pivotal role community involvement played in his managerial growth, touching on how insights from successful teams and best practices informed his approach. The discussion also unveils exciting changes ahead for the Research Triangle PowerShell User Group, which Mike leads. As a bonus, we get an insider&amp;rsquo;s look into Mike&amp;rsquo;s favorite PowerShell modules. Join us for an insightful conversation packed with lessons, community impact, and a sneak peek into the evolving PowerShell landscape.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Farewell to Jordan: MVP Chrissy LeMaire Unleashes AI Wisdom</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-12-25-the-powershell-podcast-farewell-to-jordan-mvp-chrissy-lemaire-unleashes-ai-wisdom/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Dec 2023 15:27:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-12-25-the-powershell-podcast-farewell-to-jordan-mvp-chrissy-lemaire-unleashes-ai-wisdom/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this special episode of the PowerShell Podcast, the hosts are joined by the esteemed Chrissy LeMaire, a double Microsoft MVP and GitHub star as we bid a fond farewell to Jordan. Chrissy&amp;rsquo;s wealth of expertise in the PowerShell, GitHub, and AI realms adds a unique perspective to the discussion. We talk about creating personalized chatbots with ChatGPT, uses for AI. Chrissy shares news about her upcoming AI book and the life-changing moment that got her to embrace AI. All that, and more! Don&amp;rsquo;t miss this insightful conversation with a true powerhouse in the tech community.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Unlocking Secrets: Sam Erde on Open-Source Contributions and the Locksmith Module</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-12-18-the-powershell-podcast-unlocking-secrets-sam-erde-on-open-source-contributions-and-the-locksmith-module/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2023 15:52:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-12-18-the-powershell-podcast-unlocking-secrets-sam-erde-on-open-source-contributions-and-the-locksmith-module/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, featuring guest Sam Erde, we delve into a myriad of topics starting with Andrew&amp;rsquo;s successful acceptance of his talk at PowerShell Summit. The episode unfolds with a spotlight on community resources. Sam Erde, our esteemed guest, shares insights into his blogging journey and his contributions to open-source projects, with a particular focus on the Locksmith module designed to uncover misconfigurations in ADCS Certificate Services. Sam also provides his unique perspective on leveraging PowerShell for various tasks. The hosts engage in a discussion about the community ethos, underscoring the importance of creating more value than capturing, and Sam shares personal experiences that have shaped his approach to community involvement. Tune in for an episode packed with valuable insights, community highlights, and the power of PowerShell in action.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Code in Action: Embracing Hands-On Learning with Jeff Hicks</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-12-11-the-powershell-podcast-code-in-action-embracing-hands-on-learning-with-jeff-hicks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2023 15:27:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-12-11-the-powershell-podcast-code-in-action-embracing-hands-on-learning-with-jeff-hicks/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, guest Jeff Hicks leads a dynamic discussion on the power of hands-on learning with PowerShell and the numerous benefits of learning by doing. Jeff challenges the community with a scripting challenge, encouraging active participation. The episode also features a showcase of some outstanding community blogs, including topics like PowerShell performance testing, web scraping, and module development. Jeff shares insights into his own remarkable modules, and the hosts delve into noteworthy community projects. Don&amp;rsquo;t miss Jeff&amp;rsquo;s scripting challenge and be sure to check out the community blogs and links discussed in this episode!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Breaking Down Barriers in PowerShell and Management with Kevin Cefalu</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-12-04-the-powershell-podcast-breaking-down-barriers-in-powershell-and-management-with-kevin-cefalu/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2023 15:55:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-12-04-the-powershell-podcast-breaking-down-barriers-in-powershell-and-management-with-kevin-cefalu/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we engage in a dynamic discussion with Kevin Cefalu. Kevin shares managerial insights, valuable lessons from the Summit, and the workings of Azure Durable Functions. The conversation shifts to the power of Pair Programming and Call for Presentations (CFP) and how this involved Andrew. We explore the usage of the .vscode folder and Plaster for workspace customization and conclude with Kevin&amp;rsquo;s intriguing thoughts on AI applications. A powerful blend of knowledge, experience, and technology.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>OnRamp2024 Program Unveiled</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2023-11-29-onramp2024-program-unveiled/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2023 15:03:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2023-11-29-onramp2024-program-unveiled/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="navigating-the-path-to-proficiency-powershell--devops-onramp2024-program-unveiled"&gt;Navigating the Path to Proficiency: PowerShell + DevOps OnRamp2024 Program Unveiled&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;h2 id="introduction"&gt;Introduction&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit proudly announces the OnRamp Program for 2024 to foster inclusivity and provide opportunities for aspiring IT professionals. This initiative is designed to be a bridge for those looking to enter the PowerShell and DevOps arena, offering a guided onboarding experience that aims to empower individuals with the skills and knowledge needed to thrive in this dynamic industry. As a testament to their commitment to diversity and accessibility, the PowerShell Summit offers scholarships, ensuring financial constraints do not hinder passionate learners from participating.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell Summit &amp; More: A Chat with James Petty</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-11-27-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-summit-more-a-chat-with-james-petty/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2023 15:20:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-11-27-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-summit-more-a-chat-with-james-petty/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we were joined by Microsoft MVP and PowerShell.org CEO James Petty. We dove into the core of what PowerShell.org brings to the community and James&amp;rsquo; instrumental role in driving this platform forward. James shared insightful details about the future of the eagerly awaited PowerShell Summit, highlighting the significant and welcome changes in store for next year. The conversation also hailed his latest literary creation, &amp;lsquo;Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches,&amp;rsquo; as we explored the evolution in content and approach compared to its predecessor. Adding to this rich mix were James&amp;rsquo; anecdotes from his time as a professor teaching PowerShell at a college, providing a truly riveting podcast that celebrates the wide-reaching influence of PowerShell.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Early Bird Tickets Now on Sale</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2023-11-20-earlybirdnowopen/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2023 21:32:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2023-11-20-earlybirdnowopen/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unlock Your PowerShell Potential: PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit Tickets Now on Sale!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Are you ready to elevate your PowerShell and DevOps skills to new heights? The wait is over! Tickets for the highly anticipated &lt;a href="https://www.powershellsummit.org/" title="PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit are now on sale"&gt;PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit are now on sale&lt;/a&gt;, and you won&amp;rsquo;t want to miss out on the early bird pricing of &lt;strong&gt;$1799 USD&lt;/strong&gt; (originally $1999 USD). Seize the opportunity to enhance your expertise and join the global community at this must-attend event.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast In Code We Trust: Being Thankful for PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-11-20-the-powershell-podcast-in-code-we-trust-being-thankful-for-powershell/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2023 15:36:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-11-20-the-powershell-podcast-in-code-we-trust-being-thankful-for-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this special gratitude-filled episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we take time to appreciate the wonderful world of PowerShell - where tech and community coalesce. We highlight some splendid community projects, highlighting their large impacts and innovative approaches. As we recall our podcast journey, we revel in a nostalgic look back while also envisioning a powerful future. From personal anecdotes revealing how PowerShell has shaped our tech lives to a thought-provoking expose on error handling, the episode is a wholesome tableau of learning, reflection, and connection. It&amp;rsquo;s a delightful mix of the cerebral and the personal - with plenty to be thankful for!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Emil Larsson: Creating Communal Tech Waves with PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-11-13-the-powershell-podcast-emil-larsson-creating-communal-tech-waves-with-powershell/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2023 15:49:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-11-13-the-powershell-podcast-emil-larsson-creating-communal-tech-waves-with-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we had Emil Larsson join us! We had a healthy amount of community blogs in this episode, with lots of great conversation all throughout. We discussed how helpful contributing to PowerShell docs can be. We learned about Emil&amp;rsquo;s evolution with PowerShell and how the industry has changed in his 10+ years of experience. Emil and Andrew revisited their early IT days of grappling with upgrades from Windows XP to Windows 7, making all of us a bit nostalgic. We also had a fair bit of discussion around what the PowerShell community is all about.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Entra Insights and Merrill Fernando’s Toolbox: Powering the Community</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-11-06-the-powershell-podcast-entra-insights-and-merrill-fernandos-toolbox-powering-the-community/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2023 15:12:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-11-06-the-powershell-podcast-entra-insights-and-merrill-fernandos-toolbox-powering-the-community/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we had an enlightening conversation with Merrill Fernando, a Principal Product Manager on Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s Entra team. Our discussion unveiled an in-depth look at Microsoft Entra, providing listeners with tips and tricks. Merrill generously shared his journey in becoming a PM, emphasizing the pivotal role of learning and sharing knowledge within our tech community. We also delved into the emerging importance of transitioning from the AzureAD module towards a more streamlined approach using Graph. Not to miss, Merrill spotlighted his widely acclaimed tools such as &lt;a href="%5Bhttp://akasearch.net%5D(http://akasearch.net)"&gt;akasearch.net&lt;/a&gt;, idPowerToys, and entra. news, and more, opening up an array of exciting possibilities for our listeners. Join us as we explore these topics and a whole lot more in yet another riveting session of the PowerShell Podcast.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast DSC, Community, and PowerShell: A conversation with Michael Greene</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-10-30-the-powershell-podcast-dsc-community-and-powershell-a-conversation-with-michael-greene/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 14:45:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-10-30-the-powershell-podcast-dsc-community-and-powershell-a-conversation-with-michael-greene/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we were joined by Michael Greene, a prominent figure from the PowerShell team at Microsoft. Our enlightening discussion revolved around his instrumental role in the progression from DSC 2.0 to 3.0, largely influenced by invaluable customer feedback. Greene&amp;rsquo;s key involvement in co-authoring the Infrastructure Release Pipeline whitepaper with Steven Murawksi was another topic of conversation. Catapulting to being a Product Manager, he shared his journey, highlighting the importance of being accessible, empathetic, and staying focused on the community. Furthermore, the conversation took an intriguing turn toward the future, debating the possibilities of AI and terminal experiences in the future.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast The eye of the Tyger: Clayton Tyger, A PowerShell Rising Star</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-10-23-the-powershell-podcast-the-eye-of-the-tyger-clayton-tyger-a-powershell-rising-star/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:05:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-10-23-the-powershell-podcast-the-eye-of-the-tyger-clayton-tyger-a-powershell-rising-star/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In the latest episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we dove deep into the world of guest Clayton Tyger, a rising figure in the PowerShell community. Clayton shared his intriguing journey into the world of PowerShell, shedding light on his first steps and his continuous involvement in the community. Of particular significance was our discussion about his experience developing the impactful 365AutomatedLab module. Also, Clayton&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;Getting Started with 365AutomatedLab module&amp;rdquo; blog received special attention, serving as a fantastic resource for fellow developers. The episode provided remarkable insights, demonstrating Clayton&amp;rsquo;s expertise and his dedication to sharing knowledge with the community.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Joe Houghes; Soft Skills, Community, and Professional Growth</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-10-16-the-powershell-podcast-joe-houghes-soft-skills-community-and-professional-growth/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2023 14:36:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-10-16-the-powershell-podcast-joe-houghes-soft-skills-community-and-professional-growth/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we were thrilled to sit virtually with none other than Joe Houghes, engaging him in an insightful discussion about his dynamic journey and participation in community activity. Woven throughout with humor and knowledge, our ponderings with Joe centered around the significance of building relationships within the community. We ventured further into the dialogue surrounding the emphasis on soft skills and their interaction with professional growth. The conversation pivoted towards effective communication as an investment into one&amp;rsquo;s self, bringing about palpable value in the workplace. Walk away with a newfound reflective insight and tangible advice for involvement in the community, all courtesy of Joe&amp;rsquo;s enlightening experiences.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast From Console to GitOps: Gilbert Sanchez Breaks It Down</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-10-09-the-powershell-podcast-from-console-to-gitops-gilbert-sanchez-breaks-it-down/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2023 14:02:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-10-09-the-powershell-podcast-from-console-to-gitops-gilbert-sanchez-breaks-it-down/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;On the latest engrossing edition of The PowerShell Podcast, we had the unique pleasure of discussing the intricate world of cross-platform terminal setups with none other than Gilbert Sanchez. Providing some much-needed clarification and sparking a few laughs, Gilbert unveiled the legitimate pronunciation of the &amp;lsquo;mdgrs.&amp;rsquo; As we delved further, we explored the distinctions between console and terminal, unraveling their complexities and feature sets. We also dove into the trending concept of GitOps, breaking down its structure, benefits, and its growing influence in our operations. Hold on tight, as this episode is stocked with fascinating discourse, enriching knowledge, and an added element of Gilbert&amp;rsquo;s quirky and amusing style.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Navigating the IT Landscape: A Conversation with Joel ’Jaykul’ Bennett</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-10-02-the-powershell-podcast-navigating-the-it-landscape-a-conversation-with-joel-jaykul-bennett/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:26:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-10-02-the-powershell-podcast-navigating-the-it-landscape-a-conversation-with-joel-jaykul-bennett/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In the latest episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we delve deep into the world of IT with our distinguished guest, Joel &amp;ldquo;Jaykul&amp;rdquo; Bennett. From plumbing the depths of GitOps basics to demystifying the role of Kubernetes, Joel leaves no stone unturned. By sharing his journey of self-discovery in finding empowering employers and honing his IT skills, he offers invaluable insights for professionals in the tech sector. Joel also speaks about his all-time favorite conference talks, revealing the nuggets of wisdom he&amp;rsquo;s gained from his prolific career. But what&amp;rsquo;s a PowerShell Podcast without diving into the nitty-gritty? Joel also shares about knowing one&amp;rsquo;s worth in the IT field and gives us a peek into his favorite modules.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit CFP is OPEN</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2023-10-01-the-powershell-devops-global-summit-cfp-is-open/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2023 13:00:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2023-10-01-the-powershell-devops-global-summit-cfp-is-open/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="call-for-papers-now-open-join-the-powershell--devops-global-summit-2024"&gt;Call for Papers Now Open: Join the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2024!&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Are you a PowerShell enthusiast or a DevOps aficionado with a wealth of knowledge to share? Do you have insights, tips, or innovative solutions that can empower others in the field? If so, we have fantastic news for you! The Call for Papers is now officially open for the 2024 PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="why-you-should-submit-your-proposal"&gt;Why You Should Submit Your Proposal&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit is the premier event for IT professionals, sysadmins, and DevOps practitioners who want to deepen their understanding of PowerShell and DevOps practices. Whether you&amp;rsquo;re an experienced speaker or new to presenting, this is your opportunity to showcase your expertise, engage with a passionate community, and contribute to the growth of PowerShell and DevOps knowledge worldwide.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell Pioneer: A Deep Dive with Microsoft PM Jason Helmick</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-09-25-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-pioneer-a-deep-dive-with-microsoft-pm-jason-helmick/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2023 14:58:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-09-25-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-pioneer-a-deep-dive-with-microsoft-pm-jason-helmick/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;On the latest episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s very own Jason Helmick, a celebrated PM on the PowerShell team. Jason takes us on a nostalgic journey through the early days of PowerShell while also recounting his critically acclaimed MVA series with Jeffrey Snover. We hear about his major career shift transitioning to Microsoft and delve into his active involvement in the PowerShell community. Unearthing more PowerShell gems, Jason introduces us to the rising star, Crescendo, and enlightens us about the PSCommunity Call. Not to be missed, we also get clued into the game-changing Azure Cloud Shell. Buckle up for a deep dive into the universe of PowerShell with one of its pioneers, Jason Helmick, on the PowerShell Podcast!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast The Matrix of PowerShell: Security and Automation with Researcher Miriam Wiesner</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-09-18-the-powershell-podcast-the-matrix-of-powershell-security-and-automation-with-researcher-miriam-wiesner/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2023 14:29:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-09-18-the-powershell-podcast-the-matrix-of-powershell-security-and-automation-with-researcher-miriam-wiesner/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In our latest PowerShell Podcast, we had an insightful discussion with Miriam Wiesner, a renowned Senior Security Researcher at Microsoft and the author of &amp;ldquo;PowerShell Automation and Scripting for Cybersecurity.&amp;rdquo; Miriam, who is juggling her roles as a security expert, an author, and a mom, shed light on her journey at Microsoft, talking about the ups and downs she faced. She extended the conversation to her book-writing experience, wherein she balanced work-life pressures to deliver this authoritative guide on PowerShell Automation and Scripting. The discourse was particularly intriguing when it delved into PowerShell security - an area Miriam is so passionate and knowledgeable about. There was certainly so much to learn from our discussion with her!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Escape Room</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2023-09-15-powershell-escape-room/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 16:42:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2023-09-15-powershell-escape-room/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="powershell-escape-room-by-michiel-hamers"&gt;PowerShell Escape Room by Michiel Hamers&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Michiel Hamers&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://about.me/michielhamers/"&gt;https://about.me/michielhamers/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="why-on-earth-you-want-to-create-an-escape-room-with-powershell-as-backend"&gt;Why on earth you want to create an Escape Room with PowerShell as backend?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve always been a fan of escape rooms, so I decided to create my own for my kids. I wanted to make it something that would be challenging and fun for them, but also educational. I decided to use PowerShell as the backend for the escape room, as I&amp;rsquo;m a PowerShell developer and I thought it would be a great way to learn more about the language.&lt;br&gt;
The first step was to design the rooms. I wanted to make sure that there were a variety of puzzles and challenges that my kids would have to solve. I also wanted to make sure that the rooms were visually appealing and engaging. Once I had the rooms designed, I started building them.&lt;br&gt;
I used a variety of materials to build the rooms, including wood, cardboard, and fabric. I also used a few electronic components, such as a USB extension cable with a switch and a 3-button keyboard. The USB extension cable with a switch was used to create a physical button that my kids could press to solve one of the puzzles. The 3-button keyboard was used to enter the code that my kids had to find to solve another puzzle.&lt;br&gt;
I also used a few websites to create rebus puzzles that my kids had to solve. I printed out the rebus puzzles and placed them around the rooms. Once my kids had solved all of the puzzles, they were able to enter the code on a single screen to escape the room.&lt;br&gt;
In this blog post, we&amp;rsquo;ll delve into the process of creating an engaging PowerShell escape room for the global PowerShell community. We&amp;rsquo;ll emphasize the significance of storytelling and provide a detailed breakdown of the PowerShell structure used for the escape room.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Microsoft Graph PowerShell Module: Getting Started Guide</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2023-09-15-microsoft-graph-powershell-module-getting-started-guide/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 16:21:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2023-09-15-microsoft-graph-powershell-module-getting-started-guide/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="microsoft-graph-powershell-module-getting-started-guide"&gt;Microsoft Graph PowerShell Module: Getting Started Guide&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Jeff Brown&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Microsoft is retiring the Azure AD Graph API sometime after June 30, 2023 (&lt;a href="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-entra-azure-ad-blog/azure-ad-change-management-simplified/ba-p/2967456"&gt;announcement&lt;/a&gt;). This retirement includes the Azure AD PowerShell module. In its place, Microsoft has released the Microsoft Graph PowerShell module. The Microsoft Graph PowerShell module is the next-generation way of managing Microsoft cloud services using PowerShell. If you have used MSOnline or Azure AD PowerShell in the past, you&amp;rsquo;ll need to read on to learn about this new module.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Exploring PowerShell, Braid, and beyond with Bruce Payette</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-09-11-the-powershell-podcast-exploring-powershell-braid-and-beyond-with-bruce-payette/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 14:55:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-09-11-the-powershell-podcast-exploring-powershell-braid-and-beyond-with-bruce-payette/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this riveting episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sat down with one of PowerShell&amp;rsquo;s creators, Bruce Payette. Bruce enlightened us on various topics, from the key design principles that spurred PowerShell&amp;rsquo;s success to captivating anecdotes from its inception. We dove into parts of PowerShell that Bruce prides himself on, underlining its growth and capabilities. Bruce&amp;rsquo;s influential book, &amp;ldquo;PowerShell in Action,&amp;rdquo; was also a subject of our discussion. Lastly, stepping beyond PowerShell, Bruce introduced us to &amp;lsquo;Braid,&amp;rsquo; his intriguing new programming language.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Educational Odyssey: From Classroom to Cloud with Michael Bender</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-09-04-the-powershell-podcast-educational-odyssey-from-classroom-to-cloud-with-michael-bender/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2023 14:22:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-09-04-the-powershell-podcast-educational-odyssey-from-classroom-to-cloud-with-michael-bender/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we have a vibrant conversation with Michael Bender who shares his fervor for teaching. We take a deep dive into his educational journey, from academia to course creation at Pluralsight, eventually leading him to his role as a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft. We delve into the significant role of positive feedback, and contemplate how the process of teaching can reveal profound self-insights. Lastly, we discover the origin story of his podcast, &amp;lsquo;Wired for Hybrid&amp;rsquo;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Unveiling Posh: Exploring James Brundage’s Latest Project</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-08-28-the-powershell-podcast-unveiling-posh-exploring-james-brundages-latest-project/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2023 14:48:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-08-28-the-powershell-podcast-unveiling-posh-exploring-james-brundages-latest-project/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In our much-anticipated second interview with James Brundage, marking a year since his last appearance, we delved into a dynamic array of topics. The episode commenced with a rundown of PowerShell Gallery security, addressing listener feedback and concerns. We also spotlighted a curated selection of beneficial modules as suggested by our listeners. The spotlight then shifted to James&amp;rsquo; latest brainchild, Posh, unraveling its intricacies and potential. The conversation further unfurled to encompass enlightening discussions on EzOut, the nuances of battling typosquatting, the emergence of a new PowerShell user group, and we learned what dynamic polymorphism is and why that matters.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Shell-Shocked: PowerShell Gallery Security, Reddit Questions, and more</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-08-21-the-powershell-podcast-shell-shocked-powershell-gallery-security-reddit-questions-and-more/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:19:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-08-21-the-powershell-podcast-shell-shocked-powershell-gallery-security-reddit-questions-and-more/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we thank our listeners on reaching 60k downloads, discuss Fred&amp;rsquo;s upcoming security deep dive on Discord, and answer some of Reddit’s biggest questions. We&amp;rsquo;ll delve into the benefits of PowerShell on macOS and Linux, evaluate PowerShell Gallery security flaws, and examine Christian Ritter and Evotec&amp;rsquo;s perspectives on creating PSCustomObjects. We also dip into PowerShell Crescendo with Andrew and Jordan. Stay tuned for an exciting mix of insights and best practices.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Shaun Lawrie: Procrastination, Pixels and PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-08-14-the-powershell-podcast-shaun-lawrie-procrastination-pixels-and-powershell/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2023 14:40:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-08-14-the-powershell-podcast-shaun-lawrie-procrastination-pixels-and-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we dive deep into conversation with Shaun Lawrie, an enthusiast who&amp;rsquo;s made waves in the PowerShell community. We discover Shaun&amp;rsquo;s love for defaults, and this makes Jordan’s day. He also gives us a sneak peek into his PwshPaint project, illustrating the versatility of PowerShell beyond conventional uses. From making his first GitHub PR to earning recognition from Jeffrey Snover, Shaun&amp;rsquo;s journey is all about growth, persistence, and innovation. We also explore the unconventional topic of &amp;lsquo;weaponizing procrastination&amp;rsquo; where Shaun spills his strategies of turning downtime into productive outputs. Wrapping up with some exciting insights into the PwshSpectreConsole project, this episode is packed with intelligence, creativity, and awesome PowerShell projects!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast From Cloud to Console: Harm Veenstra’s PowerShell Perspectives</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-08-07-the-powershell-podcast-from-cloud-to-console-harm-veenstras-powershell-perspectives/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2023 14:10:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-08-07-the-powershell-podcast-from-cloud-to-console-harm-veenstras-powershell-perspectives/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We had a cool chat with Harm Veenstra, the guy behind &lt;a href="http://powershellisfun.com/"&gt;powershellisfun.com&lt;/a&gt;. We got into some neat PowerShell stuff like Out-ConsoleGridView and the -PassThru parameter. Harm also gave us the lowdown on when to quit the cloud and spilled the beans on running his blog. Plus, he shared how he keeps up with the quick mojo of the tech world. Tune in for a fun and laid-back tech talk!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Harm Veenstra is a seasoned Microsoft Consultant with an affinity for everything tech. Since beginning his career in 1996 at a Helpdesk, he&amp;rsquo;s traversed through various specialties, including Citrix, VMware, Storage, and Networking, eventually finding his passion in PowerShell and Microsoft Intune. An ardent tech enthusiast, his hardware and software knowledge spectrum saw an expansion as he navigated from batch to cmd to being a proponent of PowerShell since its second version. Alongside his impressive professional journey, Veenstra is a proud father of two teenagers, a soccer fan, and a high BPM house music aficionado. His keenness for all things Microsoft led him to start a blog site last year, which became quickly popular among tech devotees.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Björn Sundling. From PowerShell Developer to MVP: An Unfiltered Journey</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-07-31-the-powershell-podcast-bjorn-sundling-from-powershell-developer-to-mvp-an-unfiltered-journey/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:38:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-07-31-the-powershell-podcast-bjorn-sundling-from-powershell-developer-to-mvp-an-unfiltered-journey/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In our latest PowerShell Podcast, we invited Microsoft MVP Björn Sundling,  on a riveting journey from being a PowerShell developer to securing Azure DevOps repositories. With a passion for speaking seeded from his first year at PSConfEU 2015, his road to the podium wasn’t easy. The podcast was peppered with a detailed discussion on the automated scanner project PSSecretScanner. Offering insights into development technologies, this episode is a whirlwind tour of community involvement and encompasses his love of sharing knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Culture, Mentoring, and Tech: A Talk with Glen Sarti</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-07-24-the-powershell-podcast-culture-mentoring-and-tech-a-talk-with-glen-sarti/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 15:00:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-07-24-the-powershell-podcast-culture-mentoring-and-tech-a-talk-with-glen-sarti/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, Glen leads us on the journey of his wide-ranging career, sharing stories about his beginnings in the Powershell world and addressing his brave decision to move across the globe for his dreams. He unravels the complex world of DevOps, recounts experiences from his first talk on “DevOps, Desktop, and Odd Socks,” and offers valuable insights into building effective mentoring relationships. At the heart of the episode is his take on driving cultural change within organizations and his compelling comparison of technical versus social skills in the tech industry. This episode encapsulates numerous nuggets of wisdom from Glen, adding value and insights for listeners at all stages of their tech career.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast The Lowdown on PSResourceGet: An Exclusive with Sydney Smith</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-07-17-the-powershell-podcast-the-lowdown-on-psresourceget-an-exclusive-with-sydney-smith/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2023 14:32:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-07-17-the-powershell-podcast-the-lowdown-on-psresourceget-an-exclusive-with-sydney-smith/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In our latest PowerShell Podcast episode, guest Sydney Smith shared her unique journey to the PowerShell team and her insights on open-source work. The episode also uncovers exciting updates about PSResourceGet and upcoming events like a bug bash and the community call. Plus, for those wondering about the correct pronunciation of &amp;rsquo;nupkg&amp;rsquo;, we&amp;rsquo;ve got you covered. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sydney Smith is a PM on the PowerShell team and an active member of the community.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Delving into Pester, Profiler, and PSConfEU with Jakub Jareš</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-07-10-the-powershell-podcast-delving-into-pester-profiler-and-psconfeu-with-jakub-jares/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2023 14:08:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-07-10-the-powershell-podcast-delving-into-pester-profiler-and-psconfeu-with-jakub-jares/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In the latest episode of the PowerShell podcast, we had an insightful chat with Jakub Jareš, the lead maintainer of Pester and a software engineer at Microsoft. The talk circled around the history, growth, and importance of Pester, Jakub&amp;rsquo;s role in the organization and delivery of PSConfEU this year, as well as Profiler, a beneficial PowerShell project for unraveling performance hurdles. The episode concluded on a personal note, discussing Jakub&amp;rsquo;s journey within the PowerShell community and his ascension to his current position at Microsoft.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Speaking, Mentorship, and Growth with Emrys MacInally</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-07-03-the-powershell-podcast-speaking-mentorship-and-growth-with-emrys-macinally/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2023 14:36:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-07-03-the-powershell-podcast-speaking-mentorship-and-growth-with-emrys-macinally/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;On our latest PowerShell podcast, we chatted with first-time PSConfEU speaker and all-around cool guy Emrys MacInally. He filled us in on his conference experience and mentorship program insights. We dove into the techie stuff – getting the 411 on Windows Docker containers and using Chocolatey in offline deployments. We even picked Emrys&amp;rsquo;s brain on the journey that led him to where he is today and his approach to brewing beer. We look forward to seeing what Emrys does next! Emrys has been having fun with PowerShell since 2007 and loves to deploy software.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast NTLM to Cloud Security: Insights from National MSP Director Mike Soule</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-06-26-the-powershell-podcast-ntlm-to-cloud-security-insights-from-national-msp-director-mike-soule/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2023 14:58:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-06-26-the-powershell-podcast-ntlm-to-cloud-security-insights-from-national-msp-director-mike-soule/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we delve into a range of topics with Mike Soule, National Director for a Managed Services Provider (MSP). From exploring the pitfalls of NTLM and discussing alternatives to learning the ins and outs of Jupyter and .NET interactive notebooks, we cover it all. We also compare major cloud providers and uncover untapped security features in Office 365 that you could be leveraging right now. Join us for an insightful conversation packed with valuable information and actionable advice for IT professionals navigating the ever-changing landscape of the industry.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell Unplugged: A Symphony of Tech and Music with Jim Truher</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-06-19-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-unplugged-a-symphony-of-tech-and-music-with-jim-truher/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2023 14:22:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-06-19-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-unplugged-a-symphony-of-tech-and-music-with-jim-truher/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we welcome special guest Jim Truher, one of the founding fathers of PowerShell. We discuss his fascinating journey from being a professional musician to transitioning into a career in technology, the origins of PowerShell, and how he became involved in its creation. Jim shares insights into the new PowerShell Crescendo module, its benefits for developers and IT professionals, as well as the early challenges faced in bringing PowerShell to market, overcoming skepticism, and promoting its user base. We also explore the unique relationship between PowerShell and Microsoft Exchange and discuss Jim&amp;rsquo;s most significant successes while working on PowerShell. Throughout the conversation, we learn more about the ongoing evolution of PowerShell and its potential future direction. Don&amp;rsquo;t miss this insightful and engaging episode as we dive deep into the melodious journey of Jim Truher and the world of PowerShell.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell Exposed: Security, Remoting, and More with Fred Weinmann</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-06-12-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-exposed-security-remoting-and-more-with-fred-weinmann/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:46:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-06-12-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-exposed-security-remoting-and-more-with-fred-weinmann/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this exciting episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we dive deep into the realm of PowerShell with our esteemed guest, Fred Weinmann. We explore the strengths and weaknesses of VS Code and the ISE, as well as discuss crucial topics like script block logging, Windows Event Forwarding, and the importance of code signing. Fred also gives us a sneak peek of his PSConfEU topics, highlighting JEA and parameter binding while providing valuable insights on the dos and don’ts of PS Remoting. Security aficionados won&amp;rsquo;t want to miss our discussion on the biggest threats to PowerShell security and PowerShell profiles. Lastly, we catch up with Fred on his latest projects and developments in the PowerShell world. Don&amp;rsquo;t miss this opportunity to learn and laugh with us!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Blogging secrets with Christian Ritter</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-06-05-the-powershell-podcast-blogging-secrets-with-christian-ritter/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2023 14:08:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-06-05-the-powershell-podcast-blogging-secrets-with-christian-ritter/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we are joined by community member Christian Ritter. We talk about PSConfEU and the importance of community. Christian shares his blogging secrets and insights into his growth in PowerShell over the years. From using Microsoft Graph to teaching PowerShell at work, this episode has all that and more!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Links and Bio:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See the PowerShell Podcast on YouTube: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocdYDOqO2aU"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocdYDOqO2aU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/HCRitter"&gt;https://github.com/HCRitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/blackboxcoder"&gt;https://twitter.com/blackboxcoder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hcritter.devdojo.com/"&gt;https://hcritter.devdojo.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://devdojo.com/hcritter/powershell-technique-switching"&gt;https://devdojo.com/hcritter/powershell-technique-switching&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hcritter.devdojo.com/powershell-technique-update-typedata"&gt;https://hcritter.devdojo.com/powershell-technique-update-typedata&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hcritter.devdojo.com/powershell-performance-test-file-reading"&gt;https://hcritter.devdojo.com/powershell-performance-test-file-reading&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Hickory Dickory Docs</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-05-29-the-powershell-podcast-hickory-dickory-docs/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2023 14:41:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-05-29-the-powershell-podcast-hickory-dickory-docs/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we talk to the Microsoft docs team (Sean Wheeler, Mike Lombardi, and Mike F. Robbins) about the success of docathon at Summit. We then talk about the value of contributing to docs, and all of the ways the barriers are being lowered for contributing. Last, we find out that Mikey will spend his weekends creating documentation on unrelated products, so he can come in fresh writing documentation for his job…..true dedication. A lot of links in this one. We encourage you to click away. In an unsurprising twist, the experts of docs have relevant docs for everything we talked about.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2024</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2023-05-23-powershell-devops-global-summit-2024/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2023 21:52:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2023-05-23-powershell-devops-global-summit-2024/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have had a lot of questions regarding the dates and location for the 2024 edition of the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit. The team has been working hard to ensure we deliver the best possible experience for our attendees. We are pleased to return to Bellevue, WA, April 8-11, 2024, to the beautiful &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meydenbauer Center&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and our new partner hotel, the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Courtyard by Marriott.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some of you may remember the Courtyard from previous years. The hotel has undergone extensive renovations since our last visit and is a short 5 min walk to the Meydenbauer Center. Visit the event &lt;a href="https://powershellsummit.org"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; and follow us on &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/pshsummit"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-devops-collective"&gt;LinkedIn&lt;/a&gt; for the most up-to-date information.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Episode 66 – Help me PowerShell. You’re my only hope.</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-05-22-the-powershell-podcast-episode-66-help-me-powershell-youre-my-only-hope/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2023 14:08:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-05-22-the-powershell-podcast-episode-66-help-me-powershell-youre-my-only-hope/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we are joined by Brock for an enlightening discussion filled with insights and practical tips for PowerShell enthusiasts. In this episode, they reflect on their first PowerShell for beginners class they ran and the significance of establishing a strong foundation. They delve into the world of learning through blogging, emphasizing its benefits and sharing tips for aspiring bloggers. We also address the challenges of comparing oneself to others and offer strategies for maintaining focus on personal growth. Additionally, join in celebrating Andrew&amp;rsquo;s birthday and learn about the power of pair programming as a means to learn new things. Tune in and empower your PowerShell journey with this enriching episode!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit – Steve Judd, Poshwolf (Anthony Howell), Phil Bossman, Dan Hill, and Geoff Schram</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-05-15-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-and-devops-global-summit-steve-judd-poshwolf-anthony-howell-phil-bossman-dan-hill-and-geoff-schram/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 14:24:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-05-15-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-and-devops-global-summit-steve-judd-poshwolf-anthony-howell-phil-bossman-dan-hill-and-geoff-schram/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;It is the last of the bar sessions from the PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit. We talk about everyone&amp;rsquo;s experiences at Summit with Steve Judd, Poshwolf(Anthony Howell), Phil Bossman, Dan Hill, and Geoff Schram. Catch our final interviews from Summit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/psreadline-2-3-1-beta1-release/"&gt;https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/psreadline-2-3-1-beta1-release/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/completion-predictor-version-0-1-1-release/"&gt;https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/completion-predictor-version-0-1-1-release/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://discord.gg/PwmdK8S9?event=1096186535667302443"&gt;https://discord.gg/PwmdK8S9?event=1096186535667302443&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/stevenjudd"&gt;https://twitter.com/stevenjudd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ThePoShWolf"&gt;https://twitter.com/ThePoShWolf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Schlauge"&gt;https://twitter.com/Schlauge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/gschram83"&gt;https://twitter.com/gschram83&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit – Jon Junell, Clayton and Nick, Gordon and Sammie, and Scott</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-05-08-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-and-devops-global-summit-jon-junell-clayton-and-nick-gordon-and-sammie-and-scott/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2023 13:58:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-05-08-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-and-devops-global-summit-jon-junell-clayton-and-nick-gordon-and-sammie-and-scott/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We are back with another set of PowerShell after dark interviews at the PowerShell &amp;amp; DevOps Global Summit. We discuss the major takeaways from Summit with Jon Junell, Clayton and Nick, Gordon and Sammie, and we finish it off with Scott. Catch the vibe from Summit in this interview-filled episode!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Links&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/GraphicalTools"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/GraphicalTools&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/OaNkHnWWpCs?feature=share"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/live/OaNkHnWWpCs?feature=share&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans"&gt;https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Microsoft.PowerShell.ConsoleGuiTools/0.7.2"&gt;https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Microsoft.PowerShell.ConsoleGuiTools/0.7.2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit – Josh King and Steven Bucher</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-05-01-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-and-devops-global-summit-josh-king-and-steven-bucher/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2023 14:14:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-05-01-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-and-devops-global-summit-josh-king-and-steven-bucher/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this special episode, we bring you two exciting interviews. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First up, we talk with Josh King, who needs no introduction. In this interview, we dive into Josh&amp;rsquo;s background, his travels from New Zealand, and his contributions to the PowerShell community, including his popular module, BurntToast. He also gives pro tips on giving a successful talk. We also get to know the man behind the keyboard and learn about his favorite tools and hobbies. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit – The bar sessions</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-04-27-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-and-devops-global-summit-the-bar-sessions/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2023 14:23:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-04-27-the-powershell-podcast-powershell-and-devops-global-summit-the-bar-sessions/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;What happens after dark at the PowerShell &amp;amp; DevOps Summit? Find out as Andrew and Jordan chat with Summit attendees and organizers during the PowerShell Podcast bar sessions. Jordan and Andrew discuss the major takeaways from Summit with Josh Hendricks, James Petty, Ryan Spletzer, and Kevin and Reese. Enjoy this mid-week edition of the PowerShell Podcast.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See additional updates from the Summit on our blog: &lt;a href="https://www.pdq.com/blog/powershell-summit-2023-recap/"&gt;https://www.pdq.com/blog/powershell-summit-2023-recap/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Talking PowerShell on Ramp with Drew McClellan</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-04-24-the-powershell-podcast-talking-powershell-on-ramp-with-drew-mcclellan/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2023 14:37:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-04-24-the-powershell-podcast-talking-powershell-on-ramp-with-drew-mcclellan/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast Drew talks about how he got into IT, his experience with the PowerShell community, and his plans for the future. Last we talk about winning a scholarship for the PowerShell Summit on ramp. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Drew was a chef for over a decade and then Covid happened. Now he has been in IT for just over 3 years Windows systems, hardware, and software. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Maximizing Community Engagement with sqldbawithabeard</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-04-17-the-powershell-podcast-maximizing-community-engagement-with-sqldbawithabeard/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2023 14:56:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-04-17-the-powershell-podcast-maximizing-community-engagement-with-sqldbawithabeard/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Today, we had the pleasure of interviewing Rob “sqldbawithabeard” Sewell, who shared insights on changes to dbachecks, maximizing community involvement, mentorship, and dbatools. We also discussed the exciting upcoming events, including psconfeu and data Saturdays, where enthusiasts can come together to learn, share ideas, and connect with like-minded individuals. In addition, Rob shared his innovative approach to automating the process of finding speakers for events, streamlining the planning and organization of future gatherings. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Securing the Cloud with David das Neves</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-04-10-the-powershell-podcast-securing-the-cloud-with-david-das-neves/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2023 14:19:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-04-10-the-powershell-podcast-securing-the-cloud-with-david-das-neves/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;After what may be the worst intro in the history of the podcast, we explore PowerShell, Security, and the cloud with David das Neves. From his beginnings as a developer to starting his own company, Shift Avenue, David shares the importance of addressing security misconfigurations, integrating security policies in the cloud, and the true meaning of DevOps. Additionally, we discuss tackling tech debt, embracing digital transformation, and David&amp;rsquo;s commitment to sharing knowledge and fostering community growth. Join us for an inspiring chat packed with valuable insights. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast The Just Us League With Andrew and Jordan</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-04-03-the-powershell-podcast-the-just-us-league-with-andrew-and-jordan/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2023 14:52:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-04-03-the-powershell-podcast-the-just-us-league-with-andrew-and-jordan/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Episode Summary:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this episode of The PowerShell Podcast, Jordan Hammond and Andrew Pla discussed the importance of collaboration and how helping others can lead to more wins. They also talked about customizing their PowerShell prompts, finding projects to contribute to, and their shiny new logo (ooh, ahh). They also discussed the upcoming PowerShell Summit and the PowerShell Community call. So, if you&amp;rsquo;re looking for ways to collaborate, customize your prompt, or just want to hear some great banter, this episode is for you! &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Transitioning to DevOps with Dave Carroll</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-03-27-the-powershell-podcast-transitioning-to-devops-with-dave-carroll/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2023 14:13:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-03-27-the-powershell-podcast-transitioning-to-devops-with-dave-carroll/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We had the pleasure of speaking with Dave Carroll, a DevOps engineer and former sandwich artist. We discussed the importance of psychological safety in the workplace, transitioning to DevOps, and learning Python as a PowerShell user. Dave also shared some great advice from Jeffrey Snover: “Do things in small patches and don’t be a jerk.” Tune in to hear all the great advice and tips from Dave! &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Using PowerCLI with Dale Hassinger</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-03-20-the-powershell-podcast-using-powercli-with-dale-hassinger/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:33:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-03-20-the-powershell-podcast-using-powercli-with-dale-hassinger/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we had the pleasure of speaking with Dale Hassinger, a VMware Technical Account Manager and PowerShell enthusiast. Dale shared his journey from CNC Programmer to VMware TAM, and discussed his involvement in the VMUG vCommunity and other user groups. He also shared his favorite PowerShell Module, PowerCLI, and other modules he likes to use. Tune in to hear Dale&amp;rsquo;s inspiring story and get some great PowerShell tips!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Modern Automation with PowerShell Michael</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-03-13-the-powershell-podcast-modern-automation-with-powershell-michael/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:01:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-03-13-the-powershell-podcast-modern-automation-with-powershell-michael/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we are joined by Microsoft MVP Michael Zanatta to discuss the new PowerShell community book, &amp;ldquo;Modern IT Automation with PowerShell.&amp;rdquo; We start off by talking about Constrained Language Mode, which Michael knows a lot about. We then move on to the four pillars of PowerShell Security, followed by a brief break from the technical talk to chat about food, as we like to do. We then move on to talking about how Michael became a Microsoft MVP. We also learned about the origins of this book, the journey to get it published, and how this is a textbook by the community for the community. All this, and more, on this episode of the PowerShell Podcast!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Reaching New Users with Jeff Hicks</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-03-06-the-powershell-podcast-reaching-new-users-with-jeff-hicks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2023 15:30:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-03-06-the-powershell-podcast-reaching-new-users-with-jeff-hicks/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We are joined by Jeff Hicks, who shares his expertise as a longtime PowerShell educator. We get things started by in the most logical way: talking about the Teletubbies and the biggest secret in content creation. Jeff discusses how to get more people into PowerShell. He emphasizes the importance of regular use in order to become fluent in the language. Jeff also provides some great advice on learning new things: if it&amp;rsquo;s too much to take in all at once, bookmark it and come back later. Tune in to learn more! &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Using PowerShell on Linux with Avri from Posh4Linux</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-02-27-the-powershell-podcast-using-powershell-on-linux-with-avri-from-posh4linux/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2023 15:52:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-02-27-the-powershell-podcast-using-powershell-on-linux-with-avri-from-posh4linux/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Episode Summary:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the PowerShell podcast, Avri from Posh4Linux shares his experience using PowerShell on Linux. He also details Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s open source efforts, the obstacles he&amp;rsquo;s encountered, and how he overcame them - such as with his PSSudo project. Additionally, we discuss the Windows Subsystem for Linux, Pode, Raspberry Pi&amp;rsquo;s, SSH, and more!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Posh4Linux is @the_mentor &amp;rsquo;s alter ego. Everything PowerShell and Linux related. Open-source Modules etc&amp;hellip; If it&amp;rsquo;s PoSH and runs on Linux let us know! #PoSH #Linux&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast Learning by Doing with Don Jones</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-02-20-the-powershell-podcast-learning-by-doing-with-don-jones/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2023 15:16:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-02-20-the-powershell-podcast-learning-by-doing-with-don-jones/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this special episode of The PowerShell Podcast, we celebrate the show&amp;rsquo;s 1 year anniversary with a very special guest, Don Jones! Don is the founder of the DevOps Summit and has been a leader in the PowerShell community for many years. We chat about the origins of the DevOps Summit, the transition of leadership to James Petty and others, and the importance of learning by doing. Don also shares his tips for responding to recruiters, and Jordan gives himself a well-deserved pat on the back. Tune in to hear all this and more! &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit! Then and Now</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2023-02-17-powershell-summit-then-now/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2023 20:44:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2023-02-17-powershell-summit-then-now/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&amp;ldquo;March 1, 2023 11am Pacific Standard Time&amp;rdquo; link=&amp;ldquo;url:https%3A%2F%2Ftwitch.tv%2Fdevopsorg|title:Join%20Us|target:_blank&amp;rdquo;][vc_empty_space height=&amp;ldquo;15px&amp;rdquo;][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&amp;ldquo;1/2&amp;rdquo;][vc_single_image image=&amp;ldquo;294120&amp;rdquo; alignment=&amp;ldquo;center&amp;rdquo;][/vc_column][vc_column width=&amp;ldquo;1/2&amp;rdquo;][vc_single_image image=&amp;ldquo;295606&amp;rdquo; alignment=&amp;ldquo;center&amp;rdquo;][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join Don Jones and James Petty as they discuss the history of the PowerShell Summit. How it started and why it almost didn&amp;rsquo;t happen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How has the summit evolved over the years?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;James will then talk about the 2023 PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit (which by the way is taking place April 24-27 in case you haven&amp;rsquo;t heard). And James will give a few sprinkles of information about the 2024 show!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell for Developers: Doug Finke’s Story</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-02-13-powershell-for-developers-doug-finkes-story/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-02-13-powershell-for-developers-doug-finkes-story/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we are joined by the creator of the popular PowerShell module ImportExcel, Doug Finke. Doug shares the story of how he got into PowerShell, the Monad Manifesto, and the PowerShell AI module. He also dives into the details of how ImportExcel works and provides plenty of tips on how to make the most of it. Tune in to learn more about the power of PowerShell, ImportExcel, and PowerShellAI! &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Dex Knows – With Dan Franciscus</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-02-06-dex-knows-with-dan-franciscus/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2023 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-02-06-dex-knows-with-dan-franciscus/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Dan has been working with PowerShell since his early days in IT, where he was tasked with moving 500 mailboxes a night. He took the time to learn PowerShell and developed a process to do this efficiently. In 2017, he attended a 5-day PowerShell training course taught by Jason Helmick, which he considers to be the best experience of his career. Dan believes that all departments should care about digital experience and that PowerShell is the most important tool for this. He is also interested in the potential of AI and how it could be integrated into Microsoft products. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Bringing Home the Bacon with Adam…Bacon</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-01-30-bringing-home-the-bacon-with-adam-bacon/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2023 20:09:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-01-30-bringing-home-the-bacon-with-adam-bacon/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we are joined by returning guest and friend of the podcast Adam Bacon. Adam shares his inspiring journey from being jobless to landing his dream job. He describes how he planted seeds through his public work and the role that played in his job search. Along the way, Adam shares his experience with working from home. We also hear his thoughts on the future of PowerShell and how it can be used to automate more tasks. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Asking the Right Questions: A Conversation with Guy Leech</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-01-23-asking-the-right-questions-a-conversation-with-guy-leech/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2023 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-01-23-asking-the-right-questions-a-conversation-with-guy-leech/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this interview with Guy Leech, he shared his passion for the coding community and how it has helped him in his career. He revealed that he uses his Twitter account as a personal knowledge base, and shared his story on how he got started in coding. He also provided valuable insights on how to ask good questions, the importance of helping others in the community, and how doing so can lead to better career opportunities. Additionally, he discussed error handling in PowerShell and the importance of not getting bogged down by small details.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Can we do this while exhausted with Andrew, Jordan, and JJ</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-01-16-can-we-do-this-while-exhausted-with-andrew-jordan-and-jj/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2023 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-01-16-can-we-do-this-while-exhausted-with-andrew-jordan-and-jj/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, JJ joins Jordan and Andrew as they attempt an episode while being rundown and exhausted. We cover many subjects but veer off course several times. Not to worry, Jordan finds a way to talk food again. We also find time to talk about some PowerShell, including making music with system beeps, ChatGPT, and what we think the best way to dive into making modules the first time is. Join us to see how weird it gets when we are only semi-coherent. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>MVPs and Stars with Barbara 4rbes</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-01-09-mvps-and-stars-with-barbara-4rbes/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2023 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-01-09-mvps-and-stars-with-barbara-4rbes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we are joined by GitHub star Barbara Forbes. She tells us what her experience has been like as a GitHub star and presents a session at GitHub Universe. We got to learn about GitHub Codespaces as well as GitHub CoPilot and the future of AI. She discussed the value of mentorship and how helpful getting a 2nd opinion can be when dealing with doubts. We also got to hear how she got her awesome plushies.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Building Communities with Chrissy LeMaire</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-01-02-building-communities-with-chrissy-lemaire/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2023 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2023-01-02-building-communities-with-chrissy-lemaire/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, Chriss LeMaire chats with us and shares her perspective as a PowerSheller, DBA, Github star, community-builder, and more. We explore imposter syndrome and where Chrissy gets her confidence from. We talked about creating DBATools, becoming an author, how awesome Lee Holmes is, and even the fediverse. We also get to hear the legendary story of Big Perms. Last, Jordan derails the conversation to talk about food and has no regrets. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Context is Key with Gael Colas</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-12-26-context-is-key-with-gael-colas/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2022 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-12-26-context-is-key-with-gael-colas/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, Gael Colas takes us on a DevOps journey. He shared some of his experience working with companies and some of the non-coding skills that are critical for successful automation to take place in an organization. We talk about the value stream of a business and how important context is. We talk about thinking in systems and Gael updates us on what to expect from PSConfEU. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Developing Sustainable Systems with Skatterbrainzz</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-12-19-developing-sustainable-systems-with-skatterbrainzz/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2022 21:34:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-12-19-developing-sustainable-systems-with-skatterbrainzz/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, Skatterbrainzz shares his perspective as a PowerShell user and a consultant. Skatterbrainzz shares his approach to problem-solving and how communication is key. We talk about tips for dealing with consultants, the benefits of pair programming, mentorship, and more.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skatterbrainzz works for Quisitive, A major Microsoft solutions partner. He works on automation services that typically involve PowerShell, Azure, graph, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;See the podcast on YouTube: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyqNOCWFVsQ"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyqNOCWFVsQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell, Microsoft, Management, and more with Steve Lee</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-12-12-powershell-microsoft-management-and-more-with-steve-lee/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2022 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-12-12-powershell-microsoft-management-and-more-with-steve-lee/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we get to hear the perspective of an insider. Steve Lee shares a bit about his background and how he came to find himself managing the PowerShell team. He talks about the double-edged sword of working on a product that is so widely distributed. Steve talks about how and why PowerShell uses telemetry and some of the challenges that come along with such a large amount of data. We learn about the differences between OpenSSH and WinRM, doing visible work, interacting with the community, AI, and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Return of James Petty with James Petty</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-12-05-the-return-of-james-petty-with-james-petty/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2022 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-12-05-the-return-of-james-petty-with-james-petty/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we got to speak to James Petty, who is a little busy at the moment. Running Summit has become so easy for him that he added both a new kid and a new job into the mix this year. We talk all about Summit, PowerShell, how many first-time speakers submitted to speak, and the future of OnRamp. Finally, we learn about new books to help you along your PowerShell journey. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2023</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2022-11-30-powershell-devops-global-summit-2023/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 14:38:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2022-11-30-powershell-devops-global-summit-2023/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&amp;ldquo;Summit Information&amp;rdquo;][vc_column_text]&lt;strong&gt;What:&lt;/strong&gt; 2023 PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where:&lt;/strong&gt; Marriott Downtown Bellevue WA&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When:&lt;/strong&gt; April 24-27, 2023[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&amp;ldquo;Dates to Remember&amp;rdquo;][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&amp;ldquo;20px&amp;rdquo;][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&amp;ldquo;1/3&amp;rdquo;][vc_cta h2=&amp;ldquo;1 - Jan&amp;rdquo; txt_align=&amp;ldquo;center&amp;rdquo; style=&amp;ldquo;custom&amp;rdquo; custom_background=&amp;quot;#000000&amp;quot; custom_text=&amp;quot;#ffffff&amp;quot;][/vc_cta][vc_column_text]Early Bird sales will end[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=&amp;ldquo;1/3&amp;rdquo;][vc_cta h2=&amp;ldquo;15 - Dec&amp;rdquo; txt_align=&amp;ldquo;center&amp;rdquo; style=&amp;ldquo;custom&amp;rdquo; custom_background=&amp;quot;#000000&amp;quot; custom_text=&amp;quot;#ffffff&amp;quot;][/vc_cta][vc_column_text]The content committee will notify speakers no later than 15-December on if their sessions were selected.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=&amp;ldquo;1/3&amp;rdquo;][vc_cta h2=&amp;ldquo;2 - Jan&amp;rdquo; txt_align=&amp;ldquo;center&amp;rdquo; style=&amp;ldquo;custom&amp;rdquo; custom_background=&amp;quot;#000000&amp;quot; custom_text=&amp;quot;#ffffff&amp;quot;][/vc_cta][vc_column_text]Fill Schedule will go live 2-January[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]There is more information available at the event website &lt;a href="https://powershellsummit.org"&gt;https://powershellsummit.org&lt;/a&gt; including&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Podcast at 40; Reflections, Ruminations, and Ramblings</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-11-28-the-powershell-podcast-at-40-reflections-ruminations-and-ramblings/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2022 20:08:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-11-28-the-powershell-podcast-at-40-reflections-ruminations-and-ramblings/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this laid-back episode, Jordan and Andrew take the opportunity to catch up on their PowerShell going-ons. Jordan tells us how he saved dozens of hours on a script and the benefits of helping out your friends. Andrew chats about terminal GUIs, his new OMG USB, PowerShell Summit, and being careful not to information overload people when teaching them PowerShell. All this, our usual charming banter, and more! &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See the PowerShell Podcast on YouTube: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45yfjT1eHe4"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45yfjT1eHe4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>RTFM with Steven Judd</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-11-21-rtfm-with-steven-judd/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:12:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-11-21-rtfm-with-steven-judd/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Episode Summary:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we have our first returning guest, Steven Judd! Steven gets things started off right by talking about the process of turning a command into a function and how PowerShell provides value each step of the way. Steven convinces Jordan that RegEx is powerful and shares some tips for using it more. We learn about living off the land, how solving a problem can help you understand the technology that you are creating a solution for, and the three most important PowerShell commands. All this, and more, in this wisdom-infused episode. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Nightmare Fuel with I am Jakoby</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-11-14-nightmare-fuel-with-i-am-jakoby/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2022 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-11-14-nightmare-fuel-with-i-am-jakoby/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we talk with ethical hacker I am Jakoby who gives us insights into the many ways someone can get access to your systems. We talked about how he started his journey into ethical hacking, and the support he got when he submitted for hak5.   &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am Jakoby is a hacker, an artist, and a veteran. He is the #1 most published hacker on Hak5, and loves finding new ways to get into systems. When he is not scaring podcast hosts, he spends time with his girlfriend and their many cats. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Got Trees? With Mathias Jessen</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-11-07-got-trees-with-mathias-jessen/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2022 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-11-07-got-trees-with-mathias-jessen/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In today&amp;rsquo;s episode, Mathias tells us how he ended up with the name IISResetme. We then get a great explanation of the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST). Jordan learns he needs to do much more reading on this subject but appreciates this awesome head start to learning. We then talk about how PSProfiler injects code into the AST to measure your scripts to help you find ways to speed up the runtimes. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Practical Automation With Matthew Dowst</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-10-31-practical-automation-with-matthew-dowst/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2022 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-10-31-practical-automation-with-matthew-dowst/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Episode Summary:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we learn about taking the next step from being able to run and write PowerShell to implementing automation solutions in your environment. Matthew shares advice on how to approach automating tasks and shares what he’s learned in his career as an automation consultant, leveraging PowerShell to automate tasks large and small. This episode is all about taking your PowerShell to the next level. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Loving the Community with Phil Bossman</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-10-24-loving-the-community-with-phil-bossman/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2022 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-10-24-loving-the-community-with-phil-bossman/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Episode Summary:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this episode, Phil shares his favorite thing about PowerShell: the community. As a leader of the RTPSUG, Phil encourages Andrew and Jordan to submit for Summit while not committing himself fully. Phil loves the PowerShell community and troubleshooting. He doesn’t define Yak Shaving but says other stuff worth listening to. &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Phil is a Systems Architect with less than 75 years of experience. He has been helping run and organize the RTPSUG for over 6 years and can be heard asking questions during RTPSUG meetings. Phil is an author, speaker, community leader, and more!  &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Podcast in 1 day of Lunch with Claudio Silva</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-10-17-powershell-podcast-in-1-day-of-lunch-with-claudio-silva/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2022 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-10-17-powershell-podcast-in-1-day-of-lunch-with-claudio-silva/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this podcast, Cláudio shares his journey as a DBA and the massive role of PowerShell in that journey. He shares advice for DBAs who are just getting started with PowerShell and automation as well as some of the easiest ways to start taking advantage of dbatools. We learned about different methods for learning and how the book Learn dbatools in a Month of Lunches can be a great fit for those trying to get started with dbatools. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Cross-Platform PowerShell with Daniel Silva</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-10-10-cross-platform-powershell-with-daniel-silva/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2022 18:03:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-10-10-cross-platform-powershell-with-daniel-silva/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, Daniel shares his experience with PowerShell. We discussed his experiences with Raspberry Pi’s, IOT, and how that played a role with his getting involved in the PowerShell community. Daniel shares his thoughts on learning, teaching, and accidentally defines Yak Shaving for us. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Daniel Silva is a DevOps Engineer with a passion for automation and helping others. He loves automating processes and advocating for PowerShell, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes. From time to time, he also spends time inventing new projects to work on. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Capitalizing on Opportunity with Mikey Lombardi</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-10-03-capitalizing-on-opportunity-with-mikey-lombardi/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2022 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-10-03-capitalizing-on-opportunity-with-mikey-lombardi/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In the episode, Mikey Lombardi explains how his involvement in the PowerShell community has opened opportunities throughout his career. We discuss how imposter syndrome can prevent you from even trying for a fantastic opportunity and how much growth can come from being brave in those moments. We learned the reasons behind his PowerShell course, pwshop, and why he has made it free. We also cover, cross-domain learning, documentation, biggest mistakes, and more. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Patterns and Projects in PowerShell with Chris Bergmeister</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-09-26-patterns-and-projects-in-powershell-with-chris-bergmeister/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2022 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-09-26-patterns-and-projects-in-powershell-with-chris-bergmeister/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we learn more about how Christopher, a traditionally trained .NET developer, approaches PowerShell patterns and projects. He shares with us a wealth of wisdom that he’s learned throughout his career. From discussing the learning opportunities that a Pull Request gives, all the way to getting started with open source and the role it played in getting his Microsoft MVP status. Chris also shared with us the meaning and importance of KISS. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Shy Bairns Get Nowt with Brett Miller</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-09-19-shy-bairns-get-nowt-with-brett-miller/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2022 18:12:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-09-19-shy-bairns-get-nowt-with-brett-miller/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we discuss Brett’s unusual path to IT. He discusses how his contributions to the community have changed over the years. We discuss the similarities in problem-solving between daily tasks and coding. Jordan learns that listing yak shaving in Twitter bios is not a secret language between the PowerShell community but is a common expression. Last, we discussed his trip to South Hampton to attend a PowerShell user group, where he was able to catch up with several people from the PowerShell community. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Exploring AutomatedLab and DSC with Raimund Andrée</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-09-12-exploring-automatedlab-and-dsc-with-raimund-andree/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2022 18:21:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-09-12-exploring-automatedlab-and-dsc-with-raimund-andree/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we revisit AutomatedLab with the other primary maintainer, Raimund Andrée. Raimund teaches us about DSC and shares details of the DSCWorkshop project, which is a great way to go about learning more about DSC in a hands-on manner. We also learned about Cattle vs. Pets and how that applies to your servers. You can hear all of this, plus more in this companion episode to our first AutomatedLab episode. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Introducing AutomatedLab with Jan</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-09-05-introducing-automatedlab-with-jan/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2022 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-09-05-introducing-automatedlab-with-jan/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Episode Summary:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we get an initial introduction to AutomatedLab by one of the primary maintainers, Jan-Hendrik Peters. We learned about what AutomatedLab is used for and how you can benefit from it. We also got to hear about his observations from teaching PowerShell over the years. All this, plus our usual foolishness, is included. We also talk about how tech is always changing. See it on YouTube here &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sPqoxqFgaY"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sPqoxqFgaY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Toasting Git with Cory Knox</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-08-29-toasting-git-with-cory-knox/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2022 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-08-29-toasting-git-with-cory-knox/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we chat with Cory Knox. We talked all about the PowerShell discord and how it’s grown over the years and is a great resource to connect with the community and have your questions answered. Cory and Jordan find common ground in their experiences with Toastmasters. Cory also talks to us about Git, how to get started using Git for PowerShell projects, an awesome PowerShell module to enhance your Git console experience, and more. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Make More Modules with Adam Bacon</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-08-22-make-more-modules-with-adam-bacon/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2022 17:54:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-08-22-make-more-modules-with-adam-bacon/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we hear from someone whose career has grown alongside PowerShell’s. Adam shares some of the challenges that he’s experienced when automating business processes with PowerShell. Starting in the early days of PowerShell, Adam talks about that first experience where he saw the potential of PowerShell. We also spent some time talking about creating GUI applications in PowerShell. We talk about all this, and much more, in this episode.  &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Pushing PowerShell’s Perceived Purpose with James Brundage</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-08-15-pushing-powershells-perceived-purpose-with-james-brundage/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2022 18:00:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-08-15-pushing-powershells-perceived-purpose-with-james-brundage/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we explore different ways that the upper-bound limits of PowerShell have been pushed. We get to hear from one of the most advanced PowerShellers that we’ve met yet. He shares insight into what it was like working on the PowerShell team and how PowerShell has grown massively over time. James has been advocating for PowerShell for a long time, and he shares some details about leading the first internal PowerShell group at Microsoft and some things that came from it. We also learn about some of the awesome projects James has worked on, from RegeX, UIs, formatting, Git, and markdown. James shares details about his latest project, an extensible transpiler, PipeScript.  &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Passion + PowerShell = Profit with David Hall</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-08-08-passion-powershell-profit-with-david-hall/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2022 17:21:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-08-08-passion-powershell-profit-with-david-hall/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we cover a lot of ground. We cover how PowerShell has helped our careers, from the beginning roots to the current day. David covers how he got his start, the challenges he faced along the way, and how each opportunity to teach came up. We explore the origins of PSAffirmations and the role that affirmations had when dealing with Imposter Syndrome. Security is David’s specialty, so we spent some time picking David’s brain about the current state of security and where attention is needed. We discuss whether passion can be taught or if it already must be there. Last, Jordan lets slip that he hates Christmas.  &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Oh the Places you will go… with PowerShell – Mike F. Robbins</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-08-01-oh-the-places-you-will-go-with-powershell-mike-f-robbins/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2022 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-08-01-oh-the-places-you-will-go-with-powershell-mike-f-robbins/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we get to hear the journey of someone who was a Microsoft MVP that ended up turning in their MVP and joining the mothership. Mike details his journey and shares some of the secrets to his success, including the importance of blogging, having a personal brand, and more. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mike F. Robbins is the Lead writer for Azure PowerShell at Microsoft. He is a regular speaker at PowerShell conferences and has an active blog, which is successful enough to make him a 6 time MVP. He is an Author, Editor of the PowerShell Conference Book: Volume 1, and an overall swell guy. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Learn Powershell in 5 Painless Steps – Decisions (If/Else, Switch, Function) – Step 5</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2022-07-28-learn-powershell-in-5-painless-steps-decisions-if-else-switch-function-step-5/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:45:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2022-07-28-learn-powershell-in-5-painless-steps-decisions-if-else-switch-function-step-5/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;DevOps = Developers + Operations.  What if you&amp;rsquo;re in Operations and don&amp;rsquo;t have a developer at your disposal?  That should never stop you from making your job easier and more efficient.  Powershell is a scripting language from Microsoft that is already on your Windows PC and Servers and more recently, &lt;a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powershell-is-open-sourced-and-is-available-on-linux/"&gt;open sourced to the OSX and Linux communities&lt;/a&gt;.  It ships with a great minimalist development environment (Powershell ISE).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The problem I had is that all of the tutorials out there either assume a background in scripting and programming, or act as nothing more than command references.  I&amp;rsquo;m hoping to enable you to automate your own workflows even if you&amp;rsquo;ve never programmed before.  You only need to learn 5 things: Storage, Input, Output, Decisions, Loops.  Everything you do manually is made up of these 5 things.  Every programming language is made up of these 5 things.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Learn Powershell in 5 Painless Steps – Loops (Foreach, For, While) – Step 4</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2022-07-28-learn-powershell-in-5-painless-steps-loops-foreach-for-while-step-4/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:45:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2022-07-28-learn-powershell-in-5-painless-steps-loops-foreach-for-while-step-4/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;DevOps = Developers + Operations.  What if you&amp;rsquo;re in Operations and don&amp;rsquo;t have a developer at your disposal?  That should never stop you from making your job easier and more efficient.  Powershell is a scripting language from Microsoft that is already on your Windows PC and Servers and more recently, &lt;a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powershell-is-open-sourced-and-is-available-on-linux/"&gt;open sourced to the OSX and Linux communities&lt;/a&gt;.  It ships with a great minimalist development environment (Powershell ISE).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The problem I had is that all of the tutorials out there either assume a background in scripting and programming, or act as nothing more than command references.  I&amp;rsquo;m hoping to enable you to automate your own workflows even if you&amp;rsquo;ve never programmed before.  You only need to learn 5 things: Storage, Input, Output, Decisions, Loops.  Everything you do manually is made up of these 5 things.  Every programming language is made up of these 5 things.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Learn Powershell in 5 Painless Steps – Input (Console, File, Applications) – Step 3</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2022-07-28-learn-powershell-in-5-painless-steps-input-console-file-applications-step-3/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:45:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2022-07-28-learn-powershell-in-5-painless-steps-input-console-file-applications-step-3/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;DevOps = Developers + Operations.  What if you&amp;rsquo;re in Operations and don&amp;rsquo;t have a developer at your disposal?  That should never stop you from making your job easier and more efficient.  Powershell is a scripting language from Microsoft that is already on your Windows PC and Servers and more recently, &lt;a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powershell-is-open-sourced-and-is-available-on-linux/"&gt;open sourced to the OSX and Linux communities&lt;/a&gt;.  It ships with a great minimalist development environment (Powershell ISE).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The problem I had is that all of the tutorials out there either assume a background in scripting and programming, or act as nothing more than command references.  I&amp;rsquo;m hoping to enable you to automate your own workflows even if you&amp;rsquo;ve never programmed before.  You only need to learn 5 things: Storage, Input, Output, Decisions, Loops.  Everything you do manually is made up of these 5 things.  Every programming language is made up of these 5 things.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Learn Powershell in 5 Painless Steps – Output (Console, File, XML/CSV) – Step 2</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2022-07-28-learn-powershell-in-5-painless-steps-output-console-file-xml-csv-step-2/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:45:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2022-07-28-learn-powershell-in-5-painless-steps-output-console-file-xml-csv-step-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;DevOps = Developers + Operations.  What if you&amp;rsquo;re in Operations and don&amp;rsquo;t have a developer at your disposal?  That should never stop you from making your job easier and more efficient.  Powershell is a scripting language from Microsoft that is already on your Windows PC and Servers and more recently, &lt;a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powershell-is-open-sourced-and-is-available-on-linux/"&gt;open sourced to the OSX and Linux communities&lt;/a&gt;.  It ships with a great minimalist development environment (Powershell ISE).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The problem I had is that all of the tutorials out there either assume a background in scripting and programming, or act as nothing more than command references.  I&amp;rsquo;m hoping to enable you to automate your own workflows even if you&amp;rsquo;ve never programmed before.  You only need to learn 5 things: Storage, Input, Output, Decisions, Loops.  Everything you do manually is made up of these 5 things.  Every programming language is made up of these 5 things.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Learn Powershell in 5 Painless Steps – Storage (Variables, Arrays, Hashtables) – Step 1</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2022-07-28-learn-powershell-in-5-painless-steps-storage-variables-arrays-hashtables-step-1/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:45:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2022-07-28-learn-powershell-in-5-painless-steps-storage-variables-arrays-hashtables-step-1/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;DevOps = Developers + Operations.  What if you&amp;rsquo;re in Operations and don&amp;rsquo;t have a developer at your disposal?  That should never stop you from making your job easier and more efficient.  Powershell is a scripting language from Microsoft that is already on your Windows PC and Servers and more recently, &lt;a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powershell-is-open-sourced-and-is-available-on-linux/"&gt;open sourced to the OSX and Linux communities&lt;/a&gt;.  It ships with a great minimalist development environment (Powershell ISE).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The problem I had is that all of the tutorials out there either assume a background in scripting and programming, or act as nothing more than command references.  I&amp;rsquo;m hoping to enable you to automate your own workflows even if you&amp;rsquo;ve never programmed before.  You only need to learn 5 things: Storage, Input, Output, Decisions, Loops.  Everything you do manually is made up of these 5 things.  Every programming language is made up of these 5 things.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>On to the Future with Powershell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2022-07-28-on-to-the-future-with-powershell/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:44:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2022-07-28-on-to-the-future-with-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;When I started my 5 Painless Steps Powershell learning series. It was a smashing success. I was hoping a few dozen people would find it useful. It was viewed by over 2500 people in the first month. Yikes!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The point of the series was specifically to bring more Ops to devops. Learning to program can be daunting and takes a dedication of time. The thing to realize, in my opinion, is that the 5 steps I presented can be applied and learned in any language. Most of the commands are just slight variations from one to the other as well. For instance, some languages use elseif, others else if. There are 2 trains of thought for the for loop, the (init, test, increment) model Powershell uses and the for/next model ($x = 1 to 100) used in basic.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Developing PowerShell Tools with Adam Driscoll</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-07-25-developing-powershell-tools-with-adam-driscoll/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-07-25-developing-powershell-tools-with-adam-driscoll/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We talked about Adam’s journey into PowerShell, how he started creating tools for PowerShell, and how his experience as a developer. He shared insights into the challenges of growing a business while developing new features and how he manages all the tasks on his plate. We also learn more about his personal life, including his numerous travel mishaps, Iron Man competitions, and even building your own cryptocurrency. We covered all that and much, much more. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Using PowerShell for Incident Response with Fernando Tomlinson</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-07-18-using-powershell-for-incident-response-with-fernando-tomlinson/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2022 17:59:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-07-18-using-powershell-for-incident-response-with-fernando-tomlinson/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we get to hear the perspective of someone who has been in the trenches of Incident Response. Fernando shared his experiences and methods for leveraging PowerShell during incidents. We talk about how the general perception of PowerShell Security has changed over the years and how PowerShell is now being publicly embraced by security organizations. Fernando told us about dealing with obfuscation and some of the most annoying techniques that he’s encountered.  All this and more is covered in this episode jam-packed with security goodness. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A conversation that will !slap you with Jaap Brasser</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-07-11-a-conversation-that-will-slap-you-with-jaap-brasser/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2022 18:40:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-07-11-a-conversation-that-will-slap-you-with-jaap-brasser/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, Jaap tells us how he got into speaking at conferences. We talk about examples of how his support has helped people on their own speaking journey. We discuss a few of the recent talks he has given, from abstracting code to bettering your home automation. We get to discuss his Microsoft MVP being renewed a few hours before we recorded. Last, and probably most important, we learned that he submitted the slap with a fish function into Poshbot. A function that gets extensive use in our office. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Streamlining Learning with Josh Duffney</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-07-04-streamlining-learning-with-josh-duffney/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2022 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-07-04-streamlining-learning-with-josh-duffney/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we talk about how unique your career path can be, how common it is to end up doing things you never imagined, and how PowerShell plays a role in getting you there. Josh talks about streamlining his day-to-day life to maximize his ability to learn new things. We talk about leaving your work on a high note and how leaving linkage can help you get to a cleaner start when you return to a project.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Repositories with Adil Leghari: Do not take orally</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-06-27-repositories-with-adil-leghari-do-not-take-orally/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2022 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-06-27-repositories-with-adil-leghari-do-not-take-orally/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Episode Summary:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we learned all about repositories and how to use them in a PowerShell context. We briefly discussed the challenges of working from Home. We learned how Adil got started in the PowerShell community including getting involved in the PowerShell Slack/Discord, attending PowerShell Summit, and even stepping up and helping put on an event: BridgeConf. Adil convinces Jordan to submit to speak at Summit 2023, and Jordan agrees. The crowd goes wild! We tried to capture the code that we ran on this episode in a transcript file, which can be found below. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Securing and Setting up Microsoft Sentinel with Sabrina Kay</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-06-20-securing-and-setting-up-microsoft-sentinel-with-sabrina-kay/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2022 18:05:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-06-20-securing-and-setting-up-microsoft-sentinel-with-sabrina-kay/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This episode taught us about Microsoft Sentinel, a SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and SOAR (Security, Orchestration, Automation, and Response) product. Security is a constantly changing landscape, and Sabrina gives some tips on a successful test/deployment of Microsoft Sentinel to that you can get robots (AI) to help you think! Then we discuss Sabrina’s journey through IT, and how she ended up as a consultant standing up security AI, we learn that Jordan does speak a second language after all. Not to spoil it, but it is food.  &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Just The Two of Us</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-06-13-just-the-two-of-us/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2022 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-06-13-just-the-two-of-us/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;After 5,000 downloads, Andrew and Jordan stop to say thank you for all of the support from the community. We also cover some of the very nice messages we have received and have a special community highlight for Drew McClellan. Then we cover some file system management information and discover that one of us is a little too attached to default settings. Finally, Jordan gets downright giddy to learn something new about PowerShell providers.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Template Podcast Title with Gilbert Sanchez</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-06-06-template-podcast-title-with-gilbert-sanchez/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2022 18:24:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-06-06-template-podcast-title-with-gilbert-sanchez/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Episode Summary:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we cover the value of templating and how Stucco can be used to improve our module development, both inside an organization and for personal projects. Gilbert shares his experience using Stucco on a personal project, a dice rolling module, and Jordan gets lost in the nerdery as the conversation moves to Tabletop RPG games. Once he is back on track we discuss the value of PowerShell meetups, and Gilbert &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/HeyItsGilbertS/status/1532806696753500160"&gt;gets the ball rolling&lt;/a&gt; for a bay area meetup. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell &amp; Global DevOps Summit. The Bar Sessions.</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-05-30-powershell-global-devops-summit-the-bar-sessions/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2022 18:02:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-05-30-powershell-global-devops-summit-the-bar-sessions/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This episode features several conversations we captured while at the Global Summit. Ryan Richter talked to us about his experiences attending the OnRamp. Steven Judd talked about helping to run the remote summit, dad jokes, and music. Lastly, we talk with Harjit and Mick from the PowerShell news podcast, where we talk about how our podcasts came about and things we have learned and improved on since we started.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Drinking From The Firehose Of Knowledge With Justin Grote</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-05-23-drinking-from-the-firehose-of-knowledge-with-justin-grote/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2022 19:05:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-05-23-drinking-from-the-firehose-of-knowledge-with-justin-grote/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Episode Summary:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we got to become familiar with a couple of Justin&amp;rsquo;s favorite things: deep dives into subjects and axioms. Justin has a lot of experience and insight into the &amp;ldquo;why&amp;rdquo; behind things, and he doesn&amp;rsquo;t hold back from sharing his wisdom with others. We covered human topics, like how Justin has dealt with imposter syndrome and developed his social skills over the years. We also covered technical topics like VS Code, the latest PowerShell extension release, PowerShell&amp;rsquo;s sacred promise, and more. For each subject, he has a surprising depth of knowledge. This is an episode worth taking notes on.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Talking Crescendo and Documentation with Stevie Coaster</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-05-16-talking-crescendo-and-documentation-with-stevie-coaster/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2022 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-05-16-talking-crescendo-and-documentation-with-stevie-coaster/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Episode Summary:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this episode, we talk about Crescendo, a development accelerator that can help rapidly build PowerShell cmdlets around existing command-line tools. We also discuss coding on twitch, writing with the customer in mind, and proper documentation practices.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Steve Valdinger is a Support Manager at Chocolatey Software with a passion for PowerShell and automation. He has given several talks at User Groups and The PowerShell Summit that have helped people elevate their scripts. His &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XnBFpdYcX8"&gt;talk&lt;/a&gt; about writing for user experience is a must-watch. You can also catch him coding live on twitch at &lt;a href="https://www.twitch.tv/steviecoaster"&gt;https://www.twitch.tv/steviecoaster&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Value of Mentorship with Jeff Hicks</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-05-09-the-value-of-mentorship-with-jeff-hicks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2022 16:57:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-05-09-the-value-of-mentorship-with-jeff-hicks/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Episode Summary:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We caught up with Jeff Hicks at the PowerShell and Global DevOps summit. He talks about how he always wanted to be a teacher and how PowerShell has helped him achieve that. We also discuss the holy trinity of PowerShell Cmdlet: Get-Help, Get-Command, and Get-Member, which will help you find the command you need, learn how to use it, and give you everything you would want to know about the objects it returns. Those commands can help you move through almost any roadblock while learning PowerShell. We end with a general discussion about PowerShell, and what we love most about it.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Contributing to PowerShell Made Easy with Sean Wheeler</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-05-02-contributing-to-powershell-made-easy-with-sean-wheeler/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2022 18:05:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-05-02-contributing-to-powershell-made-easy-with-sean-wheeler/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We caught up with Sean Wheeler at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit to discuss all things documentation. We discuss why open source is an open discussion and how documentation moving to open source makes for a lot of opportunities to help contribute to the PowerShell community. We discuss the value of the PowerShell blog, and how contributing to the blog can help you practice and improve your writing skills, get your blogs published, and provides an opportunity to plug your own site at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell &amp; DevOps Global Summit (PowerShell After Dark)</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-04-27-powershell-devops-global-summit-powershell-after-dark/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2022 21:00:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-04-27-powershell-devops-global-summit-powershell-after-dark/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Jordan and Andrew are attending the PowerShell &amp;amp; Global DevOps Summit in Bellevue, Washington. This summit brings together some of the most influential names in PowerShell and is a gathering place for the PowerShell community. In this episode, Jordan and Andrew give a behind-the-scenes look at the summit after hours. They chat with summit attendees Nick and Chris, who share their insights and experiences with the summit, PowerShell, and the PowerShell community. It&amp;rsquo;s PowerShell after dark.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Securing PowerShell with Fred Weinmann</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-04-25-securing-powershell-with-fred-weinmann/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2022 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-04-25-securing-powershell-with-fred-weinmann/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I hope you are ready to learn because Fred hits the ground running with information and never lets up. We cover a lot of ground on security and PowerShell, covering topics like: Constrained Language Mode (CLM), script block logging, Anti-Malware Scan Interface (AMSI) and why you should be using it, and more. We finish things up with one of Fred&amp;rsquo;s favorite topics: his amazing PowerShell modules like PSFramework, PSUtil, and PSAzureMigrationAdvisor.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>This title is not psremotely clever</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-04-18-this-title-is-not-psremotely-clever/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2022 17:05:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-04-18-this-title-is-not-psremotely-clever/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This episode highlights Matthew Dowst and his excellent PowerShell Weekly blogs on Dowst.dev. Then we talk about running PowerShell on remote machines and using Invoke-Command vs. Enter-PsSession. We spend a small amount of time on Just Enough Administration, allowing you to move some of your tasks to be handled by others. I finally make an error so bad that when I say, &amp;ldquo;Kelly can Edit that out,&amp;rdquo; he is not able to! Not seen in the podcast was Kelly yelling at me in my office.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>DBATools with Jess Pomfret</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-04-11-dbatools-with-jess-pomfret/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2022 17:15:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-04-11-dbatools-with-jess-pomfret/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Episode Summary:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jess Pomfret joins us to discuss how PowerShell was the perfect tool to help her automate DBA tasks. She gives some great insight into joining the community for the first time and talks about how helpful Chrissy LeMaire was in submitting her first submission to the dbatools module. Last, we cover the importance of writing code to test your code with Pester.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jess Pomfret is a Microsoft MVP who is passionate about databases and automation, and PowerShell is the tool that lets her combine those loves. She is heavily involved with the DBATools module for PowerShell, the go-to tool for database administrators using PowerShell. Jess is also the Co-Author of DBATools in a Month of Lunches, estimated to be published in June of 2022. All of that and still finds time to speak at PowerShell and DBA events.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Nobody Keeps a Secret Like PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-04-04-nobody-keeps-a-secret-like-powershell/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:15:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-04-04-nobody-keeps-a-secret-like-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Andrew loses his coffee. We highlight Justin Grote who has a knack for breaking down the why not just the how of PowerShell. We discuss secure ways to use credentials with PowerShell. Lastly, we talk about security with PowerShell, and how it is often used as an attack vector. We end up realizing securing your environment should be its own episode soon.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Links to the episode on podcast directories:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Justin Grote Twitter - &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/JustinWGrote/status/1502374413596909568"&gt;https://twitter.com/JustinWGrote/status/1502374413596909568&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Chatting about Chatbots with Mike Kanakos, Microsoft MVP</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-03-25-chatting-about-chatbots-with-mike-kanakos-microsoft-mvp/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2022 20:55:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-03-25-chatting-about-chatbots-with-mike-kanakos-microsoft-mvp/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Mike Kanakos is extremely active in the PowerShell community, so getting the opportunity to highlight all his contributions was pretty awesome for us. We got to talk about all of the ways we can contribute to PowerShell to keep it the best version of itself. We also did a quick dive into ChatBots and highlighted PoshBot, which can connect to several chat backends like Slack or Teams.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>James ”Friggen” Petty! Microsoft MVP</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-03-25-james-friggen-petty-microsoft-mvp/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2022 20:49:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-03-25-james-friggen-petty-microsoft-mvp/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;James Petty is crazy busy with all things PowerShell. He is running the upcoming PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit. James runs &lt;a href="https://PowerShell.org"&gt;PowerShell.org&lt;/a&gt;, Co-Authoring PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, and in mid-May will be running The PowerShell &amp;ldquo;Firehose Class&amp;rdquo; with Don Jones where they do a DEEP dive into PowerShell. Finally, we talk about the value of the importexcel module and using PowerShell to wow the boss.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Bio and links:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Stop Typing So Much</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-03-25-stop-typing-so-much/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2022 20:44:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-03-25-stop-typing-so-much/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We are all about psreadline! The latest psreadline just hit General Availability as of February 23rd. We highlight John Savill and his awesome YouTube channel. We cover how to get psreadline up and running in VsCode. Lastly, we talk about some of our favorite features. Jordan likes the command prediction that uses your command history. Andrew loved CTRL + R which allows him to do a quick search to find an old command so he can reuse them.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Power of Shell Compels You</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-03-23-the-power-of-shell-compels-you/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2022 20:27:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2022-03-23-the-power-of-shell-compels-you/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In the first-ever episode, we break down who the hosts are and why we started this podcast. Getting that crap out of the way, we get to talk about PowerShell! We cover Kevin Marquette&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;Everything you want to know about&amp;rdquo; series, focusing on psobjects that we both have used to help our writing. We take a look at the module PsWordle and discover Jordan accidentally learned something. Josh King announced he has done a preview release of Burnt Toast and is looking for people to help him test, as well as join in the discussion on what could be next. Finally, we talk about why $null should be on the left side for comparisons in your scripts.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>2022 PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit Covid Survey</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-12-28-2022-powershell-devops-global-summit-covid-survey/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2021 21:46:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-12-28-2022-powershell-devops-global-summit-covid-survey/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Greetings PowerShell Folks –&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As we approach a new year and a new Summit, we wanted to include you, the community, to help us understand what steps we can take to make our event a safe, including, welcoming, and enjoyable environment for all Summitteers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please know that we will adhere to all state and local mandates in place at the time of the event, whatever this may encompass.  What we are asking is what *additional* steps you would like to see us take over and above those mandates.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>2022 IT OnRamp Scholarship Information &amp; Application</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-12-17-2022-it-onramp-scholarship-information-application/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2021 17:03:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-12-17-2022-it-onramp-scholarship-information-application/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The OnRamp Scholarship returns in 2022!&lt;/strong&gt; We are currently looking for applicants for the PowerShell + DevOps Summit 2022 &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/summit/onramp/"&gt;OnRamp&lt;/a&gt; Track Scholarship.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR:&lt;/strong&gt; you can apply for the OnRamp Scholarship &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/summit/onramp/scholarship"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;OnRamp is an educational track geared towards entry-level IT Pros. It offers a great opportunity to jump-start your PowerShell career while being taught by the best in the industry. It&amp;rsquo;s structured as a hands-on class, so your skills are put into practice right away. However, attendees will still spend time outside the classroom to attend keynotes, general sessions, and other social gatherings. You get the best of both; a chance to learn, and the opportunity to network and build connections!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 22-October-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-10-22-icymi-powershell-week-of-22-october-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2021 19:03:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-10-22-icymi-powershell-week-of-22-october-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Microsoft Graph, PowerShell remoting and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>What makes a great submission for summit</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-10-12-what-makes-a-great-submission-for-summit/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2021 14:26:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-10-12-what-makes-a-great-submission-for-summit/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The Call for Proposals(CFP) for the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2022 opens in a few weeks (1-November).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We’ve heard a lot of questions – &lt;em&gt;What topics are you looking for?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;I don’t know what to propose!&lt;/em&gt; and so on. Let’s cover some ways to find topics and hopefully spark some ideas!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="add-some-spice"&gt;Add some spice&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First things first: We’re not going to come up with your topic! &lt;a href="https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-get-a-technical-talk-accepted-at-a-conference-or-event-8ba291d11c62/"&gt;This bit&lt;/a&gt; has some solid advice on mixing things up:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 08-October-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-10-08-icymi-powershell-week-of-08-october-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2021 18:16:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-10-08-icymi-powershell-week-of-08-october-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include VMWare, Windows 11, Web Reports and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Special thanks to Robin Dadswell, Prasoon Karunan V, Kiran Patnayakuni and Kevin Laux&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h6 id="how-to-gather-your-vcenter-inventory-data-with-this-vmware-powershell-script"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20211008-functiondraft.md#how-to-gather-your-vcenter-inventory-data-with-this-vmware-powershell-script"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-gather-your-vcenter-inventory-data-with-this-vmware-powershell-script/#ftag=RSS56d97e7/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;How to gather your vCenter inventory data with this VMware PowerShell script&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Scott Matteson on 7th October&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Inventory reports are a common request when administering a VMware vCenter environment. Learn how this VMware PowerShell script can make such requests quick and easy&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h6 id="building-a-web-report-in-powershell-use-the--force-luke"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20211008-functiondraft.md#building-a-web-report-in-powershell-use-the--force-luke"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://dev.to/azure/building-a-web-report-in-powershell-use-the-force-luke-58aj"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Building a Web Report in PowerShell, use the -Force Luke&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Chris Noring on 8th October&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2022 Update</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-10-02-powershell-devops-global-summit-2022-update/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2021 15:45:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-10-02-powershell-devops-global-summit-2022-update/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&amp;ldquo;Join us April 25-28, 2022 in Bellevue WA&amp;rdquo;][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=&amp;ldquo;294674&amp;rdquo; img_size=&amp;ldquo;medium&amp;rdquo; alignment=&amp;ldquo;center&amp;rdquo;][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are pleased to announce the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit April 25-29, 2022, at the Marriott in Bellevue, WA.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That&amp;rsquo;s right!! The Marriott will be the official hotel, and Summit will take place in the hotel conference center.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are a few dates to keep in mind&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CFP Opens &lt;strong&gt;November 15, 2021&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CFP Closes &lt;strong&gt;January 15, 2022&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Selection and Notification &lt;strong&gt;January 15-20, 2022&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Automation Summit Going Virtual and New Date</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-09-20-automation-summit-going-virtual-and-new-date/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2021 14:00:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-09-20-automation-summit-going-virtual-and-new-date/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&amp;ldquo;We are Going Virtual&amp;rdquo;][vc_column_text]We want to let everyone know the Automation + DevOps Summit team has decided that it is in the best interest for everyone to move the event to a 100% virtual platform. We were planning on a hybrid event, but with the rising Covid19 cases across the US, and especially TN, we felt this was the best decision for everyone.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&amp;ldquo;15px&amp;rdquo;][vc_custom_heading text=&amp;ldquo;New Dates&amp;rdquo;][vc_column_text]The content team has also decided to move the event back two weeks. The new dates are November 15-17. There are two reasons for this&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 03-September-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-09-03-icymi-powershell-week-of-03-september-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2021 17:03:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-09-03-icymi-powershell-week-of-03-september-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include O365, SQL, Code Formatting and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Special thanks to Robin Dadswell, Prasoon Karunan V, Kiran Patnayakuni and Kevin Laux&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h6 id="automating-with-powershell-setting-up-application-consent"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20210903-functiondraft.md#automating-with-powershell-setting-up-application-consent"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.cyberdrain.com/automating-with-powershell-setting-up-application-consent/?utm_source=rss&amp;amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;amp;utm_campaign=automating-with-powershell-setting-up-application-consent"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Automating with PowerShell: Setting up application consent&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Kelvin Tegelaar on 29th August&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this post you will learn two things about 0365 application consent: how to setup the OAuth consent workflow and how to monitor for application requests.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h6 id="easy-way-to-connect-to-ftps-and-sftp-using-powershell"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20210903-functiondraft.md#easy-way-to-connect-to-ftps-and-sftp-using-powershell"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://evotec.xyz/easy-way-to-connect-to-ftps-and-sftp-using-powershell/#utm_source=rss&amp;amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;amp;utm_campaign=easy-way-to-connect-to-ftps-and-sftp-using-powershell"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Easy way to connect to FTPS and SFTP using PowerShell&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Przemyslaw Klys on 29th August&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>new-calendar</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2026-03-24-ask-me-anything-ai-agents-workflows-the-future-no-question-off-limits/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:09:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2026-03-24-ask-me-anything-ai-agents-workflows-the-future-no-question-off-limits/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;`[&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2 id="february-26--130-pm"&gt;February 26 @ 1:30 pm&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2:00 pm&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 16-July-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-07-16-icymi-powershell-week-of-16-july-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2021 16:55:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-07-16-icymi-powershell-week-of-16-july-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Azure Devops, Microsoft Defender, Azure and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 09-July-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-07-09-icymi-powershell-week-of-09-july-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2021 20:00:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-07-09-icymi-powershell-week-of-09-july-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Exchange Migrations, APIs, PrintNightmare and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>So you want to start a User Group</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-07-08-so-you-want-to-start-a-user-group/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2021 15:57:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-07-08-so-you-want-to-start-a-user-group/</guid><description>&lt;h4 id="but-where-do-you-begin"&gt;But where do you begin?&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I’ve blogged about this from the reversed perspective on my own blog about finding user groups with a small section about what you can do if your thinking about getting one off the ground which you can read at &lt;a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20200811154303/http://blog.kilasuit.org/2016/04/17/how-to-find-local-user-groups-events-my-experience/"&gt;http://blog.kilasuit.org/2016/04/17/how-to-find-local-user-groups-events-my-experience/&lt;/a&gt; and it was only natural to eventually blog from the other side too although this has come up a bit earlier than I had planned to but alas it gets it done &lt;img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20200811154303im_/https://cdn-powershell.pressidium.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/wlEmoticon-smile.png" alt="Smile"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 02-July-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-07-02-icymi-powershell-week-of-02-july-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2021 18:06:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-07-02-icymi-powershell-week-of-02-july-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Monitoring Azure, Filtering objects, Generating SQL reports and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Special thanks to Robin Dadswell, Prasoon Karunan V, Kiran Patnayakuni and Kevin Laux&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h6 id="from-sql-to-excel-with-powershell"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20210702-functiondraft.md#from-sql-to-excel-with-powershell"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://sqladm.in/posts/from-sql-to-excel-with-powershell/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;From SQL to Excel with PowerShell&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Jeff Hill on 30th June&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Learn to pull data from SQL and generate reports for your manager using PowerShell.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h6 id="heading"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20210702-functiondraft.md#error-0x800700c1-when-launching-cprogram-filespowershell7pwshexe"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://blog.darrenjrobinson.com/error-0x800700c1-when-launching-cprogram-filespowershell7pwsh-exe/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;[error 0x800700c1 when launching `C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\pwsh.exe’]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Darren Robinson on 30th June&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How to fix an issue after updating Windows Teminal.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 18-June-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-06-18-icymi-powershell-week-of-18-june-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2021 15:15:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-06-18-icymi-powershell-week-of-18-june-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Password Auditing, PowerShell 7.2, WiFi Password Recovery and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 11-June-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-06-11-icymi-powershell-week-of-11-june-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2021 16:34:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-06-11-icymi-powershell-week-of-11-june-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include BluebirdPS, Scripting Challenge, Wifi and WMI&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 04-June-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-06-04-icymi-powershell-week-of-04-june-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2021 20:21:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-06-04-icymi-powershell-week-of-04-june-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include AD, Azure AD,  Debugging and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 28-May-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-05-28-icymi-powershell-week-of-28-may-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2021 18:20:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-05-28-icymi-powershell-week-of-28-may-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include PowerBI SQL, Exchange online and more&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 21-May-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-05-21-icymi-powershell-week-of-21-may-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2021 20:33:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-05-21-icymi-powershell-week-of-21-may-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Pester, AD, Chrome and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Meet the Automation Summit team</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-05-05-automation-summit/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2021 07:00:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-05-05-automation-summit/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We would like to introduce you to the core team for the Automation + DevOps Summit which will be held November 1-3 at the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Nashville TN.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Brad&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wyatt&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Andrew&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pla&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Brandon&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Olin&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Bonnie&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Runimas&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;James&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Petty&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are always looking for dedicated volunteers to help make our events run as smoothly as possible. If you are interested in joining the team fill out the form below and we will get in touch with you.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&amp;ldquo;2/3&amp;rdquo;]&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 30-April-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-04-30-icymi-powershell-week-of-30-april-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2021 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-04-30-icymi-powershell-week-of-30-april-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include SendAs, Intune, Hyper-V, Secrets Management and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Special thanks to Robin Dadswell, Prasoon Karunan V, Kiran Patnayakuni and Kevin Laux.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Live Shows – PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-04-26-live-shows-powershell-devops-global-summit/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2021 19:11:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-04-26-live-shows-powershell-devops-global-summit/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="we-will-be-producing-live-shows-twice-a-day-during-summit-the-first-show-will-be-at-620-am-pdtand-the-second-show-will-be-at-300-pm-pdt-the-links-will-be-available-in-the-theater-tab-of-the-event-make-sure-to-add-them-to-your-agenda-as-well"&gt;We will be producing live shows twice a day during Summit. The first show will be at 6:20 AM PDTand the second show will be at 3:00 PM PDT. The links will be available in the theater tab of the event. Make sure to add them to your agenda as well!&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Did we mention there will be giveaways during each of these live shows?[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="april-27---620-am-pdt--920-am-edt"&gt;April 27 -  6:20 AM PDT / 9:20 AM EDT&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Join the DevOps collective as we kick off the start of the PowerShell summit. We&amp;rsquo;ll then discuss the Iron Scripter challenge built for PowerShell Summit.  &lt;strong&gt;Our guests will be Missy Janusko, Warren Frame, James Petty, and Jeff Hicks&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 23-April-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-04-23-icymi-powershell-week-of-23-april-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2021 19:57:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-04-23-icymi-powershell-week-of-23-april-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Script signing, Item Insights Security via Graph, Microsoft Learn and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 16-April-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-04-17-icymi-powershell-week-of-16-april-2021/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2021 09:21:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-04-17-icymi-powershell-week-of-16-april-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Azure Functions, Default Parameters, AWS, Text to Speech and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 09-April-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-04-09-icymi-powershell-week-of-09-april-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-04-09-icymi-powershell-week-of-09-april-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include PowerShell profiles, Parameter defaults, ARM and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 02-April-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-04-02-icymi-powershell-week-of-02-april-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2021 15:06:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-04-02-icymi-powershell-week-of-02-april-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include help sections, Approved Verbs, Identity Management and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 26-March-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-03-26-icymi-powershell-week-of-26-march-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-03-26-icymi-powershell-week-of-26-march-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include PoshGUI, Foreach-Parallel, Azure CLI and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 19-March-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-03-19-icymi-powershell-week-of-19-march-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2021 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-03-19-icymi-powershell-week-of-19-march-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include DSC, Active Directory, Compare-Object and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Last Call for Summit Lightning Demos</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-03-15-last-call-for-summit-lightning-demos/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2021 17:36:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-03-15-last-call-for-summit-lightning-demos/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The CFP for Lightning demos will be closing 15 march at 11:59 Pacific Daylight Time&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This year, the PowerShell + DevOps Summit will be a virtual event. Submissions to present a Lightning Demo are still open? The PowerShell community is looking for you! You Can Do It!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lightning Demos are rapid-fire demonstrations of some sort of PowerShell use-case. They are geared towards speakers that aren’t prepared to give a full-length conference presentation but that have something they want to geek out about. Some details that were provided for the 2019 Summit can be found here.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 12-March-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-03-12-icymi-powershell-week-of-12-march-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-03-12-icymi-powershell-week-of-12-march-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include logging, converting PowerShell scripts to executables, PSJobs with VMWare and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Call for Authors and Editors</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-03-11-call-for-authors-and-editors/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:50:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-03-11-call-for-authors-and-editors/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;I&amp;rsquo;m pleased to announce the Call for Editors and Call for Authors for the &amp;ldquo;Modern IT Automation with PowerShell&amp;rdquo; book.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This project is a new initiative to develop a textbook resource to connect the PowerShell community with Students and IT Professionals alike. While the previous projects (PowerShell Conference Book) rely on people to submit their own material, this project will depend on set course material to archive this book&amp;rsquo;s goal. Authors / Editors will be required to select which chapters you would be interested in writing/editing. Topics Include security, git, Regex, DevOps, and more! Contributors will have their names included in the book!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 05-March-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-03-05-icymi-powershell-week-of-05-march-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2021 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-03-05-icymi-powershell-week-of-05-march-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include REST APIs, PSRemoting, Azure AD reporting and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Summit Lightning Demos</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-03-02-summit-lightning-demos/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2021 22:23:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-03-02-summit-lightning-demos/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This year, the PowerShell + DevOps Summit will be a virtual event. Submissions to present a Lightning Demo are still open? The PowerShell community is looking for you! You Can Do It!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lightning Demos are rapid-fire demonstrations of some sort of PowerShell use-case. They are geared towards speakers that aren’t prepared to give a full-length conference presentation but that have something they want to geek out about. Some details that were provided for the 2019 Summit can be found here.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Website &amp; Forum Updates</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-03-02-website-forum-updates/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2021 22:20:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-03-02-website-forum-updates/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The migration is completed and we are happy to announce that the new forums are live and ready to go. If you had an existing powershell.org account you will need to reset your password. Once you have done that you can configure your logging with Twitter, Discord, GitHub, Microsoft 365, and Linkedin SSO options.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The new link is &lt;a href="https://forums.powershell.org"&gt;https://forums.powershell.org&lt;/a&gt; but we will put in a redirect for powershell.org/forums as well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For instructions on how to do this, you can follow this post. &lt;a href="https://forums.powershell.org/t/welcome-to-the-new-powershell-forums/7"&gt;https://forums.powershell.org/t/welcome-to-the-new-powershell-forums/7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 26-February-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-03-01-icymi-powershell-week-of-26-february-2021/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2021 19:28:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-03-01-icymi-powershell-week-of-26-february-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include DNS, VMWare, Exchange and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 12-February-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-02-12-icymi-powershell-week-of-12-february-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:00:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-02-12-icymi-powershell-week-of-12-february-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Microsoft Cloud Services, Dynamic parameters, PSRemoting, jobs and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 29-January-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-01-29-icymi-powershell-week-of-29-january-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2021 15:58:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-01-29-icymi-powershell-week-of-29-january-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include PSRemoting, Active Directory, string manipulation and more..&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 22-January-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-01-22-icymi-powershell-week-of-22-january-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 21:00:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-01-22-icymi-powershell-week-of-22-january-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include GitHub Actions, Linux, SharePoint and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 15-January-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-01-15-icymi-powershell-week-of-15-january-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:18:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-01-15-icymi-powershell-week-of-15-january-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include PowerShell 7.1, SharePoint Online, WPF and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 08-January-2021</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-01-08-icymi-powershell-week-of-08-january-2021/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2021 19:37:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2021-01-08-icymi-powershell-week-of-08-january-2021/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Phishing, DSC, Regex and more&amp;hellip;&lt;br&gt;
Special thanks to Robin Dadswell, Prasoon Karunan V, Kiran Patnayakuni and Kevin Laux&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h6 id="set-windows-timezone-via-location-services"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20210108-functiondraft.md#set-windows-timezone-via-location-services"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://tseknet.com/blog/timezone"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Set Windows Timezone via Location Services&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Dan Tsekahnskiy on 4th January&lt;br&gt;
This post aims to help those of you trying to set the Windows time zone without relying on DHCP options or similar solutions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h6 id="getting-started-with-powershell-and-regex"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20210108-functiondraft.md#getting-started-with-powershell-and-regex"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://adamtheautomator.com/powershell-regex/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Getting Started with PowerShell and Regex&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Christopher Bisset on 5th January&lt;br&gt;
In this article, you’re going to learn the basics of working with regex and PowerShell.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2021: Calling All Speakers!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-12-20-pshsummit2021-call-for-speakers/</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2020 16:00:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-12-20-pshsummit2021-call-for-speakers/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hello PowerShell and Automation family!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I hope you’re getting excited for the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2021! I can’t wait to get back to seeing fantastic demos, exploring new topics and learning from others. I have written in the past about how the Summit 2021 event will be a little different because of it being a virtual event. But even though we won’t be together in person, there is one thing about Summit you expect over the years: AWESOME DEMOS!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 18-December-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-12-18-icymi-powershell-week-of-18-december-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2020 15:00:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-12-18-icymi-powershell-week-of-18-december-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include NuGet feeds, Azure, OpenSSH, PowerShell 7.2 and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Media Sync: Organize Your Photos and Videos with PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-12-16-media-sync-organize-your-photos-and-videos-with-powershell/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2020 22:34:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-12-16-media-sync-organize-your-photos-and-videos-with-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Do you have photos and videos that you have taken over the years that are scattered all over the place? Do you want to have all your photos and videos organized? Do you want all your photos and videos to have a standardized naming scheme? If you answered YES to these questions, then this is the post for you. In this post, I will provide you with the PowerShell code and examples for how to use the Media Sync script. The Media Sync script utilizes the Shell.Application COM object to gather file metadata. Only files that have a picture or video metadata type will be processed. The script uses the date taken for pictures and the media created metadata fields to organize the photos and videos. If there is no date taken or media created available for a given file, the script will use the modify date instead. The script also ensures that you won&amp;rsquo;t have any duplicate files by checking the file hashes of the two files in question. If the script detects duplicate files, it will only keep one copy of the file. There are also tools included to help you cleanup unwanted files or folders, delete empty directories and find duplicate files. The script has a simple menu driven PowerShell GUI similar to what I did in a previous &lt;a href="https://spiderzebra.com/2020/05/21/how-to-create-a-simple-powershell-gui/"&gt;
post
&lt;/a&gt;. The Media Sync PowerShell script provides the following features:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 11-December-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-12-11-icymi-powershell-week-of-11-december-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2020 15:00:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-12-11-icymi-powershell-week-of-11-december-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Graph, DateTimes, JSON, Crescendo and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 27-November-2020 &amp; 04-December-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-12-04-icymi-powershell-week-of-27-november-2020-04-december-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2020 19:09:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-12-04-icymi-powershell-week-of-27-november-2020-04-december-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Secret Santa, Microsoft Graph, NAS devices and more..&lt;br&gt;
Special thanks to Robin Dadswell, Prasoon Karunan V, Kiran Patnayakuni and Kevin Laux.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h6 id="powershell-secret-santa-sent-via-android-sms"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20201204-functiondraft.md#powershell-secret-santa-sent-via-android-sms"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://jackmallender.com/2020/11/25/powershell-secret-santa-sent-via-android-sms/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Powershell Secret Santa, sent via Android SMS&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Jack Mallender on 25th November&lt;br&gt;
Sending SMS via Android using Powershell.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h6 id="microsoft-graph-api-powershell-azuread-app"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20201204-functiondraft.md#microsoft-graph-api-powershell-azuread-app"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://itfordummies.net/2020/11/29/microsoft-graph-api-powershell-azuread-app/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Microsoft Graph API PowerShell AzureAD App&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by edemilliere on 29th November&lt;br&gt;
Today we’ll talk about the Microsoft Graph API, PowerShell &amp;amp; AzureAD application. As you may know, the Microsoft Graph API is the data source where you can find everything about Office 365 and everything that’s interacting with it.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Update: 2021 PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-11-29-update-2021-powershell-devops-global-summit/</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2020 18:00:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-11-29-update-2021-powershell-devops-global-summit/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hello PowerShell and Automation family!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It’s time to get excited for the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit, which is 
returning April 27-29, 2021
as a virtual event&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;. I’m here to share with you some details we have planned for this year’s event. The upcoming summit will differ from years past, since
this event will be 100% virtual
. You may wonder what a virtual event would be like, and is it worth it to attend?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 20-November-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-11-20-icymi-powershell-week-of-20-november-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2020 20:00:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-11-20-icymi-powershell-week-of-20-november-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Splatting, Print Servers, Active Directory and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 13-November-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-11-13-icymi-powershell-week-of-13-november-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2020 15:00:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-11-13-icymi-powershell-week-of-13-november-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Teams, Azure, Tic-Tac-Toe and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 06-November-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-11-06-icymi-powershell-week-of-06-november-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2020 15:00:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-11-06-icymi-powershell-week-of-06-november-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Containers, Microsoft Teams, AMSI and more&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Writing Your Own PowerShell Functions / Cmdlets</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-11-05-writing-your-own-powershell-functions-cmdlets/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2020 18:53:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-11-05-writing-your-own-powershell-functions-cmdlets/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This article is an attempt at describing some of my thought process when building functions. By functions I mean a command that you can execute after importing a module. I am not referring to running a script that accepts parameters and input. Having a task to complete for a function is of course the first objective. Once an idea is in mind I like to write as much as the Help section first as possible as this helps me outline and plan what I am going to do.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Return of the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-11-03-the-return-of-the-powershell-devops-global-summit/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2020 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-11-03-the-return-of-the-powershell-devops-global-summit/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
The DevOps Collective INC is pleased to announce the return of the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit in April of 2021.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The 2021 event will be a little bit different than those in years past, as this event will be all virtual, hosted in late April 2021. We assure you that this will not be another multi-day webinar! We will do our best to make sure you have the best experience possible.&lt;br&gt;
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What does that mean for attendees?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 30-October-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-10-30-icymi-powershell-week-of-30-october-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2020 21:30:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-10-30-icymi-powershell-week-of-30-october-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include SQL, Teams Webhooks, Zombie Files and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 23-October-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-10-23-icymi-powershell-week-of-23-october-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2020 14:01:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-10-23-icymi-powershell-week-of-23-october-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include web forms, converting to PDF, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 16-October-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-10-16-icymi-powershell-week-of-16-october-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:13:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-10-16-icymi-powershell-week-of-16-october-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include DSC, AD Recycle Bin, Pester and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 09-October-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-10-09-icymi-powershell-week-of-09-october-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2020 12:19:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-10-09-icymi-powershell-week-of-09-october-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include GitHub actions, Azure Functions, WVD, Pentesting and more!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Special thanks to Robin Dadswell, Prasoon Karunan V, Kiran Patnayakuni and Kevin Laux.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://robstr.dev/using-github-actions-run-automatic-pester-tests/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Using GitHub actions to run automatic Pester tests&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Roberth Strand on 4th October&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But as soon as I started creating PowerShell modules that was more than just small time projects, I had to step up the production quality. As soon as I had written some tests, I wanted to have those tests run every time I did a pull request. This helps me catch bugs before publishing the new version of my module, and saves me from a ton of stress.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 02-October-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-10-02-icymi-powershell-week-of-02-october-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2020 14:43:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-10-02-icymi-powershell-week-of-02-october-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include WPF, Azure, Secrets and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 18-September-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-09-18-icymi-powershell-week-of-18-september-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2020 14:00:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-09-18-icymi-powershell-week-of-18-september-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Nested AD groups, Logging, documentation and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 11-September-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-09-11-icymi-powershell-week-of-11-september-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2020 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-09-11-icymi-powershell-week-of-11-september-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include filtering speed increase, PoshBot, error handling and more!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 04-September-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-09-04-icymi-powershell-week-of-04-september-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2020 14:53:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-09-04-icymi-powershell-week-of-04-september-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Machine Learning, Network Monitoring, Active Directory and More&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>NetNeighbor Watch: The PowerShell Alternative To Arpwatch</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-08-31-netneighbor-watch-the-powershell-alternative-to-arpwatch/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2020 22:12:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-08-31-netneighbor-watch-the-powershell-alternative-to-arpwatch/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this post, we are going to setup NetNeighbor Watch on a Raspberry Pi. NetNeighbor Watch can keep an eye on your network and send you an email when a new host is discovered. NetNeighbor Watch is done completely in PowerShell. The results are very similar to those of arpwatch. NetNeighbor Watch is for anyone that wants more visibility into the wireless or wired devices on their network. We will also setup a weekly email report with all of the known hosts on your network. In this post, I will walk you through the entire process of setting this up from scratch on a Raspberry Pi, lets get started!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 28-August-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-08-28-icymi-powershell-week-of-28-august-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2020 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-08-28-icymi-powershell-week-of-28-august-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Data type accelerators, Directory sizes, Monitoring UniFi devices and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The PowerShell Conference Book volume 3 is here!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-08-27-psconfbook-vol3/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2020 12:59:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-08-27-psconfbook-vol3/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The third edition of the &lt;strong&gt;PowerShell Conference Book&lt;/strong&gt; is now available and &lt;a href="https://leanpub.com/psconfbook3"&gt;on sale&lt;/a&gt; at the discounted price of $19.99. But you need to hurry because the &lt;strong&gt;discounted price is only available until Friday evening!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="what-is-the-powershell-conference-book"&gt;What is the PowerShell Conference Book?&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The book is designed to be a representation of what it&amp;rsquo;s like when you attend a conference. Traditional books have a singular topic, such as &lt;em&gt;&amp;ldquo;Windows Server 2019&amp;rdquo;&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;&amp;ldquo;Mastering Ansible&amp;rdquo;&lt;/em&gt;. But this book is not geared towards a single topic. Instead, much like a conference, it&amp;rsquo;s a collection of ideas all focused around a general theme.  All the chapters are related in some way to PowerShell and DevOps.&lt;br&gt;
The book contains over 20 different chapters, each written by a different author. The authors of the book are community members and subject matter experts who have graciously donated their time and knowledge for a good cause. Each chapter is similar in length and focus to what it would be like if you attended a conference and listened to the author present their topic to a live audience, except now it&amp;rsquo;s in written form. Imagine if you were able to capture those sessions and lock them into a format that you could refer to over and over again. It&amp;rsquo;s a conference in a book format!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 21-August-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-08-21-icymi-powershell-week-of-21-august-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2020 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-08-21-icymi-powershell-week-of-21-august-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Microsoft 365, PowerShell 7.1, Managing Cloud with Powershell and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 14-August-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-08-14-icymi-powershell-week-of-14-august-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2020 19:53:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-08-14-icymi-powershell-week-of-14-august-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Selenium, VS Code, Microsoft 365 and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 07-August-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-08-07-icymi-powershell-week-of-07-august-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2020 14:00:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-08-07-icymi-powershell-week-of-07-august-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Azure VMs, PSReadline, Terraform and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 31-July-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-07-31-icymi-powershell-week-of-31-july-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2020 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-07-31-icymi-powershell-week-of-31-july-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Windows Sandbox, Pausing scripts, PowerCLI, SendGrid and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Creating a PowerShell Module to Improve Your Code</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-07-27-creating-a-powershell-module-to-improve-your-code/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2020 18:24:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-07-27-creating-a-powershell-module-to-improve-your-code/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Do you have PowerShell code that you reuse in your scripts over and over? Do you have server names hard coded in variables? Are you using a text file or CSV file to import server names? Do you find yourself only utilizing one server out of a cluster of servers to make your PowerShell commands? These are the questions I asked myself and the answer used to be YES. In this post, I will go over how you can store your infrastructure server information in a SQL database and call that data from a custom PowerShell module. By utilizing this method, you can expect the below benefits:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 24-July-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-07-24-icymi-powershell-week-of-24-july-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2020 14:00:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-07-24-icymi-powershell-week-of-24-july-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include SSH Remoting without SSH, VS Code, SQL Server and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 17-July-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-07-17-icymi-powershell-week-of-17-july-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2020 16:00:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-07-17-icymi-powershell-week-of-17-july-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include OneDrive client, HTML reports, Beautiful code and more&amp;hellip;&lt;br&gt;
Special thanks to Robin Dadswell, Prasoon Karunan V, Kiran Patnayakuni and Kevin Laux&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h6 id="automate-azure-update-management-scheduling-with-powershell"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20200717-functiondraft.md#automate-azure-update-management-scheduling-with-powershell"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://4bes.nl/2020/07/12/automate-azure-update-management-scheduling-with-powershell/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Automate Azure update management scheduling with PowerShell&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Barbara Forbes on 12th July&lt;br&gt;
Barbara is explaining about how to automate Azure update management and scheduling updates using PowerShell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h6 id="active-directory-dhcp-report-to-html-or-email-with-zero-html-knowledge"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20200717-functiondraft.md#active-directory-dhcp-report-to-html-or-email-with-zero-html-knowledge"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://evotec.xyz/active-directory-dhcp-report-to-html-or-email-with-zero-html-knowledge/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Active Directory DHCP Report to HTML or EMAIL with zero HTML knowledge&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Przemyslaw Klys on 12th July&lt;br&gt;
Przemyslaw is using PSWriteHTML module and and demonstrating how to generate html reports seamlessly.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 337 – PowerScripting Podcast – Stephen Valdinger</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2020-07-10-episode-337-powerscripting-podcast-stephen-valdingerf/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2020 01:27:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2020-07-10-episode-337-powerscripting-podcast-stephen-valdingerf/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;  [/vc_column_text][vc_video link=&amp;ldquo;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq_UQgSNS-E&amp;rdquo; title=&amp;ldquo;Watch:&amp;rdquo;][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To Subscribe:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Search for PowerScriping in your podcast app of choice or click here: 
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting"&gt;
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest: Stephen Valdinger&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recorded: June 17th 2020&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Show links:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nljm_lIKink"&gt;TheShow:20:E4-Native Command Experience with Jim Truher&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/native-commands-in-powershell-a-new-approach/"&gt;https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/native-commands-in-powershell-a-new-approach/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell May update:
&lt;a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/powershell-team-may-2020-update/"&gt;https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/powershell-team-may-2020-update/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Stephen&amp;rsquo;s blog: &lt;a href="https://steviecoaster.dev/"&gt;https://steviecoaster.dev/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 10-July-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-07-10-icymi-powershell-week-of-10-july-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2020 16:08:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-07-10-icymi-powershell-week-of-10-july-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Hyper-V, Windows Terminal, VMWare and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 03-July-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-07-03-icymi-powershell-week-of-03-july-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2020 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-07-03-icymi-powershell-week-of-03-july-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include PSRemoting, Loops, C# and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Manage Citrix Tags with PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-06-30-manage-citrix-tags-with-powershell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2020 15:58:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-06-30-manage-citrix-tags-with-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Managing Citrix tags can be a long painful process if done the traditional way through Citrix Studio, that is what drove me to PowerShell for this task.  Citrix Studio is a great tool, but it can be very time consuming especially if you have to do bulk tag actions. Citrix tags can be used in several methods, but I have focused on desktop tagging. This post will cover the following scenarios:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 26-June-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-06-26-icymi-powershell-week-of-26-june-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2020 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-06-26-icymi-powershell-week-of-26-june-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Native PowerShell Commands, Splatting Program Parameters, Windows Terminal and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 19-June-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-06-19-icymi-powershell-week-of-19-june-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2020 14:00:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-06-19-icymi-powershell-week-of-19-june-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include PSReadLine, Active Directory Monitoring, PowerShell Inventory and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Simple PowerShell GUI</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-06-17-simple-powershell-gui/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2020 21:57:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-06-17-simple-powershell-gui/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Over the years, I have supported and created multiple types of GUIs.  I finally decided a few years ago to create a very simple menu driven PowerShell GUI.  I wanted something that was very powerful yet very simple to maintain.  I really enjoy automating manual administrative tasks, so that is what drove this project in the first place.  Before I created the menu driven PowerShell GUI, I had directories and directories of very specific scripts to do specific tasks.  I decided to standardize and consolidate all of those scripts into one menu driven PowerShell GUI.  By doing this, I took the guess work out of determining which PowerShell script to run for a given task.  This has greatly helped my colleagues know exactly what to run and how.&lt;br&gt;
Feel free to check it out for yourself at my site:
&lt;a href="https://spiderzebra.com/2020/05/21/how-to-create-a-simple-powershell-gui/"&gt;SpiderZebra.com&lt;/a&gt;
.  While you&amp;rsquo;re there, you can take a look at a few of my other related posts:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A New Home for Plaster</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-06-16-a-new-home-for-plaster/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2020 21:17:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-06-16-a-new-home-for-plaster/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/scaffold-thumb.jpg" alt=""&gt;Some of you may be familiar with the Plaster PowerShell module. This slick tool lets you build out a new module in seconds. Actually, Plaster can be used to scaffold a framework for any type of project. You can install the &lt;a href="https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Plaster/1.1.3"&gt;current version from the PowerShell Gallery.&lt;/a&gt; However, the project has been in limbo for a while with no updates or progress. After discussions with the PowerShell Team about the module, a decision was made to transfer ownership to the PowerShell community. We&amp;rsquo;re happy to report that the Plaster repository is now under the auspices of PowerShell.org. The GitHub repo, including pull requests and issues, can now be found at &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/Plaster"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/Plaster&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
It will take some time to get re-organized and work through the backlog of issues and pull requests. Although it is possible that we&amp;rsquo;ll simply zero out things like pull requests and start with a fresh slate. The basic functionality of the module should work just fine in its current state. Enough members of the PowerShell community recognize the value in the Plaster module which is why this transfer was made.&lt;br&gt;
And frankly, this is one of PowerShell.org&amp;rsquo;s primary purposes: to serve the community. In this case, Microsoft had a languishing asset that needed more attention than what they could provide. Which is exactly where PowerShell.org fits in. We can step in providing the resources and in the end contribute back to the community. A big thank you to Steve Lee at Microsoft for making this possible.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 12-June-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-06-12-icymi-powershell-week-of-12-june-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2020 15:33:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-06-12-icymi-powershell-week-of-12-june-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Jekyll, Documentation, Scripting Challenges and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Iron Scripter: Learn PowerShell through code challenges</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-06-07-iron-scripter-learn-powershell-through-code-challenges/</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2020 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-06-07-iron-scripter-learn-powershell-through-code-challenges/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hello, friends! Today I want to talk about the Iron Scripter code challenges and the accompanying website. The challenges are excellent for practicing challenging concepts. What’s that you say? Not familiar with Iron Scripter? Let’s get you up to speed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="iron-scripter-a-brief-history-lesson"&gt;Iron Scripter: A brief history lesson&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="https://ironscripter.us/"&gt;Iron Scripter&lt;/a&gt; website is part of the PowerShell.org family and provides material for the Iron Scripter challenge that takes place at PowerShell Summit each year. For those unfamiliar with the Iron Scripter event at PowerShell summit, let me give you a brief introduction.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 336 – PowerScripting Podcast – Don Jones – A Shell of an Idea</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2020-06-02-episode-336-don-jones/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2020 03:56:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2020-06-02-episode-336-don-jones/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[/vc_column_text][vc_video link=&amp;ldquo;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHmx64IJe3o&amp;rdquo; title=&amp;ldquo;Watch:&amp;rdquo;][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To Subscribe:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Search for PowerScriping in your podcast app of choice or click here: 
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting"&gt;
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest: Don Jones&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recorded: May 20th 2020&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Show links:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell May update:
&lt;a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/powershell-team-may-2020-update/"&gt;https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/powershell-team-may-2020-update/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don Jones: A Shell of an Idea:
&lt;a href="https://leanpub.com/shell-of-an-idea"&gt;https://leanpub.com/shell-of-an-idea&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don on LeanPub: &lt;a href="https://leanpub.com/bookstore/book?search=Don%20Jones"&gt;https://leanpub.com/bookstore/book?search=Don%20Jones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don on Amazon: &lt;a href="https://www.amazon.com/Don-Jones/e/B001ILKEJW?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3&amp;amp;qid=1590028170&amp;amp;sr=8-3"&gt;https://www.amazon.com/Don-Jones/e/B001ILKEJW?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3&amp;amp;qid=1590028170&amp;amp;sr=8-3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PSConfBook2 :&lt;a href="https://leanpub.com/psconfbook2"&gt;https://leanpub.com/psconfbook2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell - DevOps Summit 2019 recordings: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Cocir1-TuSN3mOnj3qzyRShA"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Cocir1-TuSN3mOnj3qzyRShA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Core: &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;YouTube: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=PK6uII7nskS5mrcf2ClWyYljzjy4NN1JgWSZCWOiImRURVhNMEw2MVJUUkVDU1FMQ0VZUDVHUDlCQS4u"&gt;Guest Request Form&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Learn PowerShell:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3"&gt;https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/"&gt;https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans"&gt;https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org/"&gt;http://slack.poshcode.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hosts:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/jonwalz"&gt;https://twitter.com/jonwalz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/halr9000"&gt;https://twitter.com/halr9000&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ryanyates1990"&gt;https://twitter.com/ryanyates1990&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 29-May-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-05-29-icymi-powershell-week-of-29-may-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2020 21:35:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-05-29-icymi-powershell-week-of-29-may-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Performance Counters, Out-buffer, Pester and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 22-May-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-05-22-icymi-powershell-week-of-22-may-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2020 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-05-22-icymi-powershell-week-of-22-may-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Sophos temp files, Database restoration, ARM templates and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 15-May-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-05-15-icymi-powershell-week-of-15-may-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2020 15:00:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-05-15-icymi-powershell-week-of-15-may-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Github Actions, PS7, Network Monitoring and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 08-May-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-05-08-icymi-powershell-week-of-08-may-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2020 16:26:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-05-08-icymi-powershell-week-of-08-may-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Mother&amp;rsquo;s day scripts, securing credentials, new PS7 behaviors and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 01-May-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-05-01-icymi-powershell-week-of-01-may-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2020 17:58:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-05-01-icymi-powershell-week-of-01-may-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Ansible, Documentation, Windows Terminal and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 03-April-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-05-01-icymi-powershell-week-of-03-april-2020-2/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2020 15:00:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-05-01-icymi-powershell-week-of-03-april-2020-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Windows Terminal, Event Logs, String Basics and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 24-April-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-04-24-icymi-powershell-week-of-24-april-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:32:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-04-24-icymi-powershell-week-of-24-april-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Azure functions, Windows Performance, O365 and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 335 – PowerScripting Podcast – Mike Kanakos and Guest Host Adil Leghari</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2020-04-24-episode-335-powerscripting-podcast-mike-kanakos-and-guest-host-adil-leghari/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2020 01:02:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2020-04-24-episode-335-powerscripting-podcast-mike-kanakos-and-guest-host-adil-leghari/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[/vc_column_text][vc_video link=&amp;ldquo;https://youtu.be/8q9C5rlST8c&amp;rdquo; title=&amp;ldquo;Watch:&amp;rdquo;][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To Subscribe:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Search for PowerScriping in your podcast app of choice or click here: 
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting"&gt;
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest:
Mike Kanakos&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recorded: April 15th 2020&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Show links:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell 7.1.0 preview2:
&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/tag/v7.1.0-preview.2"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/tag/v7.1.0-preview.2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don Jones: A Shell of an Idea:
&lt;a href="https://leanpub.com/shell-of-an-idea"&gt;https://leanpub.com/shell-of-an-idea&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://4sysops.com/archives/monitoring-active-directory-with-the-powershell-module-psadhealth/"&gt;https://4sysops.com/archives/monitoring-active-directory-with-the-powershell-module-psadhealth/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mike&amp;rsquo;s Summit talk&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href="https://youtu.be/NA7-n2l-b8k"&gt;Automating Active Directory Health Checks by Mike Kanakos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BridgeConf&lt;/strong&gt;:
&lt;a href="https://www.twitch.tv/bridgeconf"&gt;
https://www.twitch.tv/bridgeconf
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Research Triangle PowerShell User Group&lt;/strong&gt;:
&lt;a href="https://rtpsug.com/"&gt;
https://rtpsug.com/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lee Holmes book mentioned&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href="https://www.amazon.com/N%C3%BCrburgring-Nordschleife-Cornering-Guide-Holmes-ebook/dp/B083WNSNP8/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1"&gt;Nürburgring Nordschleife Cornering Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thomas Rayner&amp;rsquo;s talk on risk&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEReCcjNqQo"&gt;Thomas Rayner - How To Take Risks Without Getting Clawed In The Face - Nano Conf 2019, Redmond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 17-April-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-04-17-icymi-powershell-week-of-17-april-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2020 16:21:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-04-17-icymi-powershell-week-of-17-april-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Windows Terminal, LAPS, HTML and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 10-April-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-04-10-icymi-powershell-week-of-10-april-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2020 17:35:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-04-10-icymi-powershell-week-of-10-april-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Azure, GPOs, Bits and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 03-April-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-04-03-icymi-powershell-week-of-03-april-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2020 15:12:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-04-03-icymi-powershell-week-of-03-april-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Windows Terminal, Event Logs, String Basics and more.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Special thanks to Robin Dadswell, Prasoon Karunan V, Kiran Patnayakuni and Kevin Laux&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://itluke.online/2020/03/29/dynamic-powershell-and-ssh-remoting-tabs-for-windows-terminal/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dynamic PowerShell and SSH remoting tabs for Windows Terminal&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Luke on 29th March&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am a SysAdmin and have to connect to dozen of different computers every day, I needed to bring this a little further and make it more “dynamic”: every time I open a remoting tab, it should ask for the computer name and the username if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 27-March-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-03-27-icymi-powershell-week-of-27-march-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 15:00:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-03-27-icymi-powershell-week-of-27-march-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Switch Statements, Try Catch, Python and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Special thanks to Robin Dadswell, Prasoon Karunan V, Kiran Patnayakuni and Kevin Laux&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://itluke.online/2020/03/22/use-cases-for-the-new-null-coalescing-operator-in-powershell-7/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Use cases for the new null coalescing operator in PowerShell 7&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Luc on 22nd March&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tips and use cases for the new null coalescing operator in PowerShell 7.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://nocolumnname.blog/2020/03/23/getting-into-python-by-referencing-powershell/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Getting into Python by Referencing PowerShell&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by @SOZDBA on 23rd March&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Trying to break his PowerShell dependency Shane shares an example for a script he wrote in both Python and PowerShell.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 334 – PowerScripting Podcast – Glenn Sarti &amp; Michael Lombardi</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2020-03-26-episode-334-powerscripting-podcast-glenn-sarti-michael-lombardi/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2020 04:03:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2020-03-26-episode-334-powerscripting-podcast-glenn-sarti-michael-lombardi/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[/vc_column_text][vc_video link=&amp;ldquo;https://youtu.be/Xirv6WQFmSs&amp;rdquo; title=&amp;ldquo;Watch:&amp;rdquo;][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To Subscribe:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Search for PowerScriping in your podcast app of choice or click here: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting"&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Guest:&lt;/strong&gt; Glenn Sarti &amp;amp; Michael Lombardi&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/GlennSarti/"&gt;https://twitter.com/GlennSarti/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/TrebuchetOps/"&gt;https://twitter.com/TrebuchetOps/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recorded: March 18th 2020&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Show links:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**NOTE:** The original author of the DSC module for Puppet was Marc Sutter, who can be found on twitter &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/marcsutter/"&gt;@
marcsutter
&lt;/a&gt;and github &lt;a href="https://t.co/UJYXYRVu7D"&gt;github.com/msutter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/secret-management-preview-2-release/"&gt;https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/secret-management-preview-2-release/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://glennsarti.github.io/"&gt;https://glennsarti.github.io/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://puppet.com/blog/combining-powershell-bolt-and-puppet-tasks-part-1/"&gt;https://puppet.com/blog/combining-powershell-bolt-and-puppet-tasks-part-1/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://puppet.com/blog/combining-powershell-bolt-and-puppet-tasks-part-2/"&gt;https://puppet.com/blog/combining-powershell-bolt-and-puppet-tasks-part-2/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://puppet.com/blog/running-puppet-agent-under-localsystem-vs-service-account/"&gt;https://puppet.com/blog/running-puppet-agent-under-localsystem-vs-service-account/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://puppetlabs.github.io/iac/powershell/development/2020/02/05/powershell-type-and-provider-i.html"&gt;https://puppetlabs.github.io/iac/powershell/development/2020/02/05/powershell-type-and-provider-i.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://forge.puppet.com/collections/windows"&gt;https://forge.puppet.com/collections/windows&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://puppetlabs.github.io/iac/"&gt;https://puppetlabs.github.io/iac/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://puppetlabs.github.io/iac/tools/"&gt;https://puppetlabs.github.io/iac/tools/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/puppetlabs/ruby-pwsh#ruby-pwsh"&gt;https://github.com/puppetlabs/ruby-pwsh#ruby-pwsh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PSConfBook2 :&lt;a href="https://leanpub.com/psconfbook2"&gt;https://leanpub.com/psconfbook2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell - DevOps Summit 2019 recordings: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Cocir1-TuSN3mOnj3qzyRShA"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Cocir1-TuSN3mOnj3qzyRShA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Conference Book Volume 3 Call For Authors</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-03-21-powershell-conference-book-volume-3-call-for-authors/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2020 13:00:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-03-21-powershell-conference-book-volume-3-call-for-authors/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: We have extended the CFA to May 25th!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The 
_
PowerShell Conference Book Volume 3
_
 Call for Authors (CFA) is now open!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/PSConfBook3CFA"&gt;
http://bit.ly/PSConfBook3CFA
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The timeline for this process should be as follows:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Close submissions on Monday, May 4th, at 11:00 PM PDT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Notify everyone by May 25th&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Final drafts will be due by June 1st&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Finalize publication by September 30th&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We are looking for one chapter per author on the topics of PowerShell, DevOps, WinOps, Open Source, or IT Careers. Topic depths can range from novice to expert. Chapters can be technical or cover cultural aspects. Authors can be new or well established. The book will be written in American English, but non-native speakers are welcome (our editorial team will support you)!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 20-March-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-03-20-icymi-powershell-week-of-20-march-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 18:38:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-03-20-icymi-powershell-week-of-20-march-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Select-String, Should Process, PowerShell Summit and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 333 – PowerScripting Podcast – Mark Kraus</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2020-03-16-episode-333-powerscripting-podcast-markkraus-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2020 02:12:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2020-03-16-episode-333-powerscripting-podcast-markkraus-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;  [/vc_column_text][vc_video link=&amp;ldquo;https://youtu.be/AbBb1bY4nXY&amp;rdquo; title=&amp;ldquo;Watch:&amp;rdquo;][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To Subscribe:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Search for PowerScriping in your podcast app of choice or click here: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting"&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Guest: Mark Kraus&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/markekraus/"&gt;https://twitter.com/markekraus/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recorded: February 19th 2020&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Show links:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://get-powershellblog.blogspot.com/"&gt;https://get-powershellblog.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/markekraus"&gt;https://github.com/markekraus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PSConfBook2 :&lt;a href="https://leanpub.com/psconfbook2"&gt;https://leanpub.com/psconfbook2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell - DevOps Summit 2019 recordings: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Cocir1-TuSN3mOnj3qzyRShA"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Cocir1-TuSN3mOnj3qzyRShA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Core: &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;YouTube: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=PK6uII7nskS5mrcf2ClWyYljzjy4NN1JgWSZCWOiImRURVhNMEw2MVJUUkVDU1FMQ0VZUDVHUDlCQS4u"&gt;Guest Request Form&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Learn PowerShell:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3"&gt;https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/"&gt;https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans"&gt;https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org/"&gt;http://slack.poshcode.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hosts:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/jonwalz"&gt;https://twitter.com/jonwalz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/halr9000"&gt;https://twitter.com/halr9000&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ryanyates1990"&gt;https://twitter.com/ryanyates1990&lt;/a&gt; [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 13-March-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-03-13-icymi-powershell-week-of-13-march-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:21:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-03-13-icymi-powershell-week-of-13-march-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Splatting, PS7 Experimental features, VSCode and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Not So Intutive PowerShell Behavior</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-03-11-not-so-intutive-powershell-behavior/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2020 21:36:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-03-11-not-so-intutive-powershell-behavior/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The below link leads to the module I am writing about in this blog post.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/tobor88/PowerShell/blob/master/Set-LockScreenImage.psm1"&gt;
LINK TO POWERSHELL MODULE
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
At my place of work a task needed to be completed that would allow us IT administrators to set the default lock screen image for our devices. Group Policy was my first thought however it was to broad of a solution. The rules basically became, set the default lock screen on some of the newer laptops and if a default lock screen has been manually chosen by a user; don&amp;rsquo;t change it.&lt;br&gt;
I figured great that is an easy module to write. I wanted to add the option to execute the command on remote computers as well which is what brought up a couple great unexpected behaviors.&lt;br&gt;
The cmdlets these include are New-PsDrive being executed on a remote machine and Copy-Item from a network location to a local location.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 06-March-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-03-06-icymi-powershell-week-of-06-march-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2020 17:25:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-03-06-icymi-powershell-week-of-06-march-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include PowerShell 7 GA, SCCM, Group Policy and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>10 Tips for PowerShell Summit Presenters</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-03-05-10-tips-for-powershell-summit-presenters/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 21:55:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-03-05-10-tips-for-powershell-summit-presenters/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Summit 2020 is less than 60 days away! The list of presenters is final, and those presenters are putting finishing touches on their presentations. PowerShell Summit is a unique opportunity for presenters to show off their work to the community. For some, it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity, but it&amp;rsquo;s also a nerve-wracking experience for many.
I have been lucky enough to be a presenter at Summit 2019. Now, I am on the team helping run the event. I am one of the few individuals who can say they were an attendee, a presenter and event planner for the summit. I thought I would offer some tips and advice for first-time presenters who are not sure what their first Summit presentation experience may be like.
I&amp;rsquo;ve come up with a handful of tips that presenters can use to help prepare for PowerShell summit. The list reads like a top 10 list, but there&amp;rsquo;s no real order here. Rather, it is a list of useful things for presenters to consider as they prepare their work.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 332 – PowerScripting Podcast – Dr. Tobias Weltner</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2020-03-04-episode-332-powerscripting-podcast-dr-tobias-weltner/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2020 18:02:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2020-03-04-episode-332-powerscripting-podcast-dr-tobias-weltner/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; [/vc_column_text][vc_video link=&amp;ldquo;https://youtu.be/EKgZmKC_hwU&amp;rdquo; title=&amp;ldquo;Watch:&amp;rdquo;][vc_column_text]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To Subscribe:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Search for PowerScriping in your podcast app of choice or click here: 
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http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest: Tobias Weltner&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/TobiasPSP"&gt;https://twitter.com/TobiasPSP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recorded: February 5th 2020&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Show links:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.powertheshell.com/"&gt;http://www.powertheshell.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://psconf.eu/"&gt;https://psconf.eu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PSConfBook2 :&lt;a href="https://leanpub.com/psconfbook2"&gt;https://leanpub.com/psconfbook2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell - DevOps Summit 2019 recordings: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Cocir1-TuSN3mOnj3qzyRShA"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Cocir1-TuSN3mOnj3qzyRShA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Core: &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;YouTube: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=PK6uII7nskS5mrcf2ClWyYljzjy4NN1JgWSZCWOiImRURVhNMEw2MVJUUkVDU1FMQ0VZUDVHUDlCQS4u"&gt;Guest Request Form&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Learn PowerShell:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3"&gt;https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/"&gt;https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans"&gt;https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org/"&gt;http://slack.poshcode.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hosts:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/jonwalz"&gt;https://twitter.com/jonwalz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/halr9000"&gt;https://twitter.com/halr9000&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ryanyates1990"&gt;https://twitter.com/ryanyates1990&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 331 – PowerScripting Podcast – Josh Duffney</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2020-02-29-episode-331-powerscripting-podcast-josh-duffney/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Feb 2020 19:55:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2020-02-29-episode-331-powerscripting-podcast-josh-duffney/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Listen: &lt;em&gt;Listen&lt;/em&gt; [/vc_column_text][vc_video link=&amp;ldquo;https://youtu.be/7EVJ6FYrndQ&amp;rdquo; title=&amp;ldquo;Watch:&amp;rdquo;][vc_column_text]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To Subscribe:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Search for PowerScriping in your podcast app of choice or click here: 
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting"&gt;
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Guest: Josh Duffney&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/joshduffney"&gt;https://twitter.com/joshduffney&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recorded: January 16th 2020&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Show links:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://duffney.io/"&gt;http://duffney.io/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/duffney"&gt;https://github.com/duffney&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PSConfBook2 CFP: &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/PSConfBook2CFP"&gt;http://bit.ly/PSConfBook2CFP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell - DevOps Summit 2019 recordings: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Cocir1-TuSN3mOnj3qzyRShA"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Cocir1-TuSN3mOnj3qzyRShA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Core: &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;YouTube: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Learn PowerShell:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3"&gt;https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/"&gt;https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans"&gt;https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org/"&gt;http://slack.poshcode.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hosts:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/jonwalz"&gt;https://twitter.com/jonwalz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/halr9000"&gt;https://twitter.com/halr9000&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ryanyates1990"&gt;https://twitter.com/ryanyates1990&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 28-February-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-02-28-icymi-powershell-week-of-28-february-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:05:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-02-28-icymi-powershell-week-of-28-february-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Subexpression, For Loops, Hyper-V and more&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 330 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVP Adam Driscoll</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2020-02-26-episode-330-powerscripting-podcast-mvp-adam-driscoll/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2020 04:08:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2020-02-26-episode-330-powerscripting-podcast-mvp-adam-driscoll/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Listen: &lt;em&gt;Listen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; [/vc_column_text][vc_video link=&amp;ldquo;https://youtu.be/Q2v4_vtIs8c&amp;rdquo;][vc_column_text]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To Subscribe:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Search for PowerScriping in your podcast app of choice or click here: 
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting"&gt;
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Guest: Adam Driscoll&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/adamdriscoll"&gt;https://twitter.com/adamdriscoll&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://ironmansoftware.com/"&gt;https://ironmansoftware.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Core version: 7 - preview 6&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recorded: November 20th 2019&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Show links:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://donjones.com/2020/02/25/shall-we-start-a-powershell-hall-of-fame/"&gt;https://donjones.com/2020/02/25/shall-we-start-a-powershell-hall-of-fame/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://poshud.com/Home"&gt;https://poshud.com/Home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://ironmansoftware.com/powershell-pro-tools/"&gt;https://ironmansoftware.com/powershell-pro-tools/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/ironmansoftware/psavalonia"&gt;https://github.com/ironmansoftware/psavalonia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/ironmansoftware"&gt;https://github.com/ironmansoftware&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/adamdriscoll"&gt;https://github.com/adamdriscoll&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PSConfBook2 CFP: &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/PSConfBook2CFP"&gt;http://bit.ly/PSConfBook2CFP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell - DevOps Summit 2019 recordings: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Cocir1-TuSN3mOnj3qzyRShA"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Cocir1-TuSN3mOnj3qzyRShA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Core: &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;YouTube: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Learn PowerShell:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3"&gt;https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/"&gt;https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans"&gt;https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org/"&gt;http://slack.poshcode.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hosts:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/jonwalz"&gt;https://twitter.com/jonwalz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/halr9000"&gt;https://twitter.com/halr9000&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ryanyates1990"&gt;https://twitter.com/ryanyates1990&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 21-February-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-02-21-icymi-powershell-week-of-21-february-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:17:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-02-21-icymi-powershell-week-of-21-february-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include PowerShell Arrays, Monitoring your bandwidth, Azure Pipelines and more&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 14-February-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-02-14-icymi-powershell-week-of-14-february-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 15:12:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-02-14-icymi-powershell-week-of-14-february-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Windows Terminal, Pesterv5, Monitoring and More.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 07-February-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-02-07-icymi-powershell-week-of-07-february-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 16:24:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-02-07-icymi-powershell-week-of-07-february-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include PowerShell Secrets Management, Regex, DBA Tools and More.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 31-January-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-01-31-icymi-powershell-week-of-31-january-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 15:00:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-01-31-icymi-powershell-week-of-31-january-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Azure service updates, Publishing to the PowerShell Gallery, Office 365, Clusters and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 24-January-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-01-24-icymi-powershell-week-of-24-january-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:00:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-01-24-icymi-powershell-week-of-24-january-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include PSboundparamters, Email with SendGrid, Universal Automation and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 329 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jason Helmick from Microsoft</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2020-01-23-episode-329-powerscripting-podcast-jason-helmick-from-microsoft/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2020 02:43:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2020-01-23-episode-329-powerscripting-podcast-jason-helmick-from-microsoft/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Listen: &lt;em&gt;Listen&lt;/em&gt; [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=&amp;ldquo;https://youtu.be/9DmLbsts8cs&amp;rdquo; title=&amp;ldquo;Watch:&amp;rdquo;][vc_column_text]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To Subscribe:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Search for PowerScriping in your podcast app of choice or click here: 
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting"&gt;
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Guest: Jason Helmick&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/theJasonHelmick"&gt;https://twitter.com/theJasonHelmick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/PowerShell_Team"&gt;https://twitter.com/PowerShell_Team&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Core version: 7 - preview 4&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recorded: October 16th 2019&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Show links:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;The Show&amp;rdquo; : &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZMETffvDtauZf34VnVuwQQ"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZMETffvDtauZf34VnVuwQQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches&amp;rdquo; &lt;a href="https://www.manning.com/books/learn-powershell-in-a-month-of-lunches-linux-and-macos-edition?query=Lean%20PowerShell"&gt;https://www.manning.com/books/learn-powershell-in-a-month-of-lunches-linux-and-macos-edition?query=Lean%20PowerShell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/GoateePFE/PowerShellSummit2019"&gt;https://github.com/GoateePFE/PowerShellSummit2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PSConfBook2 CFP: &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/PSConfBook2CFP"&gt;http://bit.ly/PSConfBook2CFP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell - DevOps Summit 2019 recordings: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Cocir1-TuSN3mOnj3qzyRShA"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Cocir1-TuSN3mOnj3qzyRShA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Core: &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;YouTube: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Learn PowerShell:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3"&gt;https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/"&gt;https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans"&gt;https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org/"&gt;http://slack.poshcode.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hosts:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/jonwalz"&gt;https://twitter.com/jonwalz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/halr9000"&gt;https://twitter.com/halr9000&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ryanyates1990"&gt;https://twitter.com/ryanyates1990&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Book: "Shell of an Idea," the Untold History of PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-01-22-book-shell-of-an-idea-the-untold-history-of-powershell/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:42:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-01-22-book-shell-of-an-idea-the-untold-history-of-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve launched a new book project, which I&amp;rsquo;m hoping you&amp;rsquo;ll support: &lt;a href="https://leanpub.com/shell-of-an-idea/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shell of an Idea, the Untold History of PowerShell&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is now available for pre-purchase at a $10 discount on Leanpub. You&amp;rsquo;ll get the initial introductory chapters right now, and when I start pumping out the main manuscript in April-May 2020, you&amp;rsquo;ll get that too. The price will rise to the final $30 after the first 100 preorders, so don&amp;rsquo;t delay too much if you want in on the deal.&lt;br&gt;
This is a big project, and it&amp;rsquo;s involving a few flights up to Redmond for sit-down interviews with key folks - hence the pre-order, to help fund those trips. I&amp;rsquo;m going &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the way back in time to the earliest days of PowerShell Monad Babylon Kermit, yeah it went through a lot of names and concepts! I plan to fill this not only with interesting facts, but also personal anecdotes from the folks who were there, and some back-of-house stories about the inevitable politics and challenges the shell saw on its path to life.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;m also &lt;a href="https://donjones.com/2020/01/17/be-a-part-of-powershell-history-please/"&gt;collecting personal anecdotes&lt;/a&gt; from people who&amp;rsquo;ve been impacted by PowerShell. I&amp;rsquo;d love to hear about life before PowerShell (how easy was automation back then, and how important was it to you?), how PowerShell changed your job or career, or anything like that. I&amp;rsquo;ll weave all of that into the book too, because the story of PowerShell is &lt;em&gt;mainly&lt;/em&gt; the story of the people who made it and the people who adopted it.&lt;br&gt;
Thanks for your support, and tell a friend!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 16-January-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-01-17-icymi-powershell-week-of-16-january-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 15:00:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-01-17-icymi-powershell-week-of-16-january-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Azure Monitor Logs, Office 365 Mailbox sizes, Brackets and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 10-January-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-01-10-icymi-powershell-week-of-10-january-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 15:00:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-01-10-icymi-powershell-week-of-10-january-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include reinstalling Windows Store Apps, Auditing Computers, PowerShell 7 and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Keeping Your Secrets Secure</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-01-03-196307-2/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 19:47:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-01-03-196307-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Azure Key Vault: Keeping your Secrets Secure&lt;br&gt;
I was tasked with creating a PowerShell script that would connect to a SFTP server and place a file. I immediately jumped at the opportunity and started thinking about what all I would need to accomplish this task. I knew I needed the script to be as secure as possible, but also knew I needed the username, password, and a key file so I could connect securely to the SFTP site. This brought up a number of security concerns. How could I be fully automated and not put that sensitive information in plain text in my script. Immediately I went to Powershell.org and started searching for ideas. I found there were a couple of really good ideas for securing this kind of data using built in encryption ( Protect-CMSMessage) and an extension that Dave Wyatt created, ProtectedData ( &lt;a href="https://github.com/dlwyatt/ProtectedData)"&gt;https://github.com/dlwyatt/ProtectedData)&lt;/a&gt;. I spent numerous hours scraping through documentation from both sources. At the end of my quest through the wonderful world encryption, I ended up with the same problem. The decryption key and the data were still on the server and I had no way of monitoring its use. I started looking at third party key vaults. They would allow me to secure my data, log when it was accessed, and provide me the data easily when called through a REST API. The only thing was I was on a budget and very short timeline so I couldn’t write the PowerShell connector to the API. What a bust!&lt;br&gt;
Alas! I found a Key Vault that not only had a REST API but had native PowerShell commandlets. Thanks, Microsoft! I started asking, what can I put in the vault and call from my script? I quickly discovered everything!&lt;br&gt;
I created a key vault and started populating the data I wanted to secure. I chose to use Secrets to hold my username, password, SFTP server IP address, and Private Key. I connected to my Azure RM Account using my username / password. Using the built in commandlets, I would be able to pull the data I wanted. Obviously, I would need the server address:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 03-January-2020</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-01-03-icymi-powershell-week-of-03-january-2020/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 16:10:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2020-01-03-icymi-powershell-week-of-03-january-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In the first ICYMI of 2020 the topics include: working with PDFs, AD Users, Remote Computers and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 28-December-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-12-27-icymi-powershell-week-of-28-december-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2019 18:06:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-12-27-icymi-powershell-week-of-28-december-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include: Automating Excel, Customizing your profile, a New Year&amp;rsquo;s module and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 20-December-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-12-20-icymi-powershell-week-of-20-december-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2019 16:09:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-12-20-icymi-powershell-week-of-20-december-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include New PowerShell in the old ISE, Azure DevOps, Automating Twitter, and Searching Bing with PowerShell to creat a Word Cloud.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 328 – PowerScripting Podcast – Ashely McGlone</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2019-12-15-episode-328-powerscripting-podcast-ashely-mcglone/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2019 21:13:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2019-12-15-episode-328-powerscripting-podcast-ashely-mcglone/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Listen: &lt;em&gt;Listen&lt;/em&gt; [/vc_column_text][vc_video link=&amp;ldquo;https://youtu.be/iJXhZ5_D3VM&amp;rdquo; title=&amp;ldquo;Watch:&amp;rdquo;][vc_column_text]
To Subscribe:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Search for PowerScriping in your podcast app of choice or click here: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting"&gt;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest: Asley McGlone
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/GoateePFE"&gt;
https://twitter.com/GoateePFE
&lt;/a&gt;
PowerShell Core version: 7 - preview 7&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recorded: September 25th 2019&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Show links:
&lt;a href="https://github.com/GoateePFE/PowerShellSummit2019"&gt;
https://github.com/GoateePFE/PowerShellSummit2019
&lt;/a&gt;
Securing PowerShell: Hands-On Lab by Ashley McGlone&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PSConfBook2 CFP: &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/PSConfBook2CFP"&gt;http://bit.ly/PSConfBook2CFP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell - DevOps Summit 2019 recordings: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Cocir1-TuSN3mOnj3qzyRShA"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Cocir1-TuSN3mOnj3qzyRShA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Core: &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;YouTube: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Learn PowerShell:
&lt;a href="https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3"&gt;
https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3
&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/"&gt;
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/
&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell"&gt;
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell
&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans"&gt;
https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans
&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org/"&gt;
http://slack.poshcode.org/
&lt;/a&gt;
Hosts:
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/jonwalz"&gt;
https://twitter.com/jonwalz
&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/halr9000"&gt;
https://twitter.com/halr9000
&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ryanyates1990"&gt;
https://twitter.com/ryanyates1990
&lt;/a&gt;[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 13-December-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-12-13-icymi-powershell-week-of-13-december-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2019 15:00:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-12-13-icymi-powershell-week-of-13-december-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Functions, String, Certificate Management and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>“The DSC Book” now Open Source!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-12-10-the-dsc-book-now-open-source/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2019 21:20:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-12-10-the-dsc-book-now-open-source/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;“The DSC Book” is now open source! It remains available at Leanpub, but the source is now at &lt;a href="https://github.com/dsccommunity/TheDSCBook"&gt;https://github.com/dsccommunity/TheDSCBook&lt;/a&gt;. Everyone is invited to contribute corrections and expansions, and the results will publish roughly monthly on Leanpub. In addition, the book is now $0 on Leanpub, although you may choose to pay whatever you like, with all proceeds going to The DevOps Collective’s scholarship programs.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 06-December-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-12-06-icymi-powershell-week-of-06-december-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2019 16:07:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-12-06-icymi-powershell-week-of-06-december-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Hyper-V, IIS, Ternary Operators and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 29-November-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-11-29-icymi-powershell-week-of-29-november-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2019 16:15:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-11-29-icymi-powershell-week-of-29-november-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Invoke-Command, Objects, Introspection and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 327 – PowerScripting Podcast – Tim Warner</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2019-11-28-episode-327-powerscripting-podcast-tim-warner/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2019 21:01:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2019-11-28-episode-327-powerscripting-podcast-tim-warner/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Listen&lt;/em&gt; [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=&amp;ldquo;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GXhVEBsnvI&amp;rdquo; title=&amp;ldquo;Watch&amp;rdquo;][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To Subscribe:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Search for PowerScriping in your podcast app of choice or click here: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting"&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Guest: Timothy Warner&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/TechTrainerTim"&gt;https://twitter.com/TechTrainerTim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Core version: 7 - preview&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recorded: August  21th 2019&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Show links:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://techtrainertim.com/"&gt;https://techtrainertim.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://donjones.com/2019/11/11/raffle-free-e-books-autographed-print-books/"&gt;https://donjones.com/2019/11/11/raffle-free-e-books-autographed-print-books/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PSConfBook2 CFP: &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/PSConfBook2CFP"&gt;http://bit.ly/PSConfBook2CFP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell - DevOps Summit 2019 recordings: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Cocir1-TuSN3mOnj3qzyRShA"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Cocir1-TuSN3mOnj3qzyRShA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Core: &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;YouTube: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other podcasts:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershellnews.podbean.com/"&gt;https://powershellnews.podbean.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://cloudskills.fm/"&gt;https://cloudskills.fm/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/category/podcast/"&gt;https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/category/podcast/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/behind-the-tech"&gt;https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/behind-the-tech&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Learn PowerShell:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3"&gt;https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/"&gt;https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans"&gt;https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org/"&gt;http://slack.poshcode.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hosts:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/jonwalz"&gt;https://twitter.com/jonwalz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/halr9000"&gt;https://twitter.com/halr9000&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ryanyates1990"&gt;https://twitter.com/ryanyates1990&lt;/a&gt; [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 22-November-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-11-22-icymi-powershell-week-of-22-november-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2019 15:10:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-11-22-icymi-powershell-week-of-22-november-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Group-Object, Power Platform, Preview 6 and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 326 – PowerScripting Podcast – Adam Bertram</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2019-11-21-episode-326-powerscripting-podcast-adam-bertram/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2019 03:59:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2019-11-21-episode-326-powerscripting-podcast-adam-bertram/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Watch:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPXFn_qYfN0"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPXFn_qYfN0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To Subscribe:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Search for PowerScriping in your podcast app of choice or click here: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting"&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest: Adam Bertram&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/adbertram"&gt;https://twitter.com/adbertram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Core version: 7 - preview 1&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recorded: June  26th 2019&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Show links:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.adamtheautomator.com/"&gt;https://www.adamtheautomator.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://techsnips.io/"&gt;https://techsnips.io/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://zapier.com/"&gt;https://zapier.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://trello.com/"&gt;https://trello.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://nodered.org/"&gt;https://nodered.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.pmg.net/"&gt;https://www.pmg.net/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PSConfBook2 CFP: &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/PSConfBook2CFP"&gt;http://bit.ly/PSConfBook2CFP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell - DevOps Summit 2019 recordings: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Cocir1-TuSN3mOnj3qzyRShA"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Cocir1-TuSN3mOnj3qzyRShA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Core: &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;YouTube: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Learn PowerShell:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3"&gt;https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/"&gt;https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans"&gt;https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org/"&gt;http://slack.poshcode.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hosts:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/jonwalz"&gt;https://twitter.com/jonwalz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/halr9000"&gt;https://twitter.com/halr9000&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ryanyates1990"&gt;https://twitter.com/ryanyates1990&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 15-November-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-11-15-icymi-powershell-week-of-15-november-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2019 15:09:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-11-15-icymi-powershell-week-of-15-november-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include string manipulation, bash, Python and Slack applications.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 8-November-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-11-08-icymi-powershell-week-of-8-november-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2019 15:00:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-11-08-icymi-powershell-week-of-8-november-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include speeding up the pipeline, while/until loops, why you shouldn&amp;rsquo;t use += and more!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 1-November-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-11-01-icymi-powershell-week-of-1-november-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2019 15:00:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-11-01-icymi-powershell-week-of-1-november-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Teams, Scheduled Jobs, Halloween fun and more&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 25-October-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-10-25-icymi-powershell-week-of-25-october-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2019 15:00:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-10-25-icymi-powershell-week-of-25-october-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include RepAdmin, Certificates and Testing Teams connections.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 18-October-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-10-18-icymi-powershell-week-of-18-october-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2019 15:00:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-10-18-icymi-powershell-week-of-18-october-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include idempotency, Jenkins, PowerShell for beginners and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>2020 Conference Recording Changes</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-10-15-2020-conference-recording-changes/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:14:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-10-15-2020-conference-recording-changes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi all!&lt;br&gt;
So!  You might have seen that the way the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit records and distributes sessions will be changing.  Long story short:  The presenter will maintain all rights to the material and intellectual property, and Pluralsight will own distribution rights to the recording.&lt;br&gt;
There are many valid reasons to be upset about this.  Let&amp;rsquo;s walk through (1) what we gain from this, and (2) how we can work around some of the valid concerns&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 11-October-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-10-11-icymi-powershell-week-of-11-october-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:00:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-10-11-icymi-powershell-week-of-11-october-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include PowerShell GUIs, New PS 7 features and more&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 4-October-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-10-04-icymi-powershell-week-of-4-october-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2019 15:00:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-10-04-icymi-powershell-week-of-4-october-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include PowerShell GUIs, Azure, Exchange and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 27-September-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-09-27-icymi-powershell-week-of-27-september-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2019 15:00:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-09-27-icymi-powershell-week-of-27-september-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include emojis, orchestration, 365 storage, ternary operators, bash and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Last Call for Summit 2020 CFP</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-09-21-last-call-for-summit-2020-cfp/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2019 01:37:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-09-21-last-call-for-summit-2020-cfp/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;So! &lt;a href="https://www.papercall.io/summit2020"&gt;Proposals&lt;/a&gt; for the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2020 are due in less than two weeks, on October 1st. We have some solid talks lined up, but we&amp;rsquo;re still behind where we were last year, and need more proposals!&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;ve heard a lot of questions - &lt;em&gt;What topics are you looking for?&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;I don&amp;rsquo;t know what to propose!&lt;/em&gt; and so on. Let&amp;rsquo;s cover some ways to find topics and hopefully spark some ideas!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 20-September-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-09-20-icymi-powershell-week-of-20-september-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2019 15:00:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-09-20-icymi-powershell-week-of-20-september-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Active Directory, Azure Labs, Ansible, PowerShell 7 Preview 4 and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 13-September-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-09-13-icymi-powershell-week-of-13-september-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2019 15:00:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-09-13-icymi-powershell-week-of-13-september-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Active Directory, SCCM, Security and More.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Ternary Cometh</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-09-12-the-ternary-cometh/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2019 21:35:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-09-12-the-ternary-cometh/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Developers are likely to be familiar with ternary conditional operators as they&amp;rsquo;re legal in many languages (Ruby, Python, C++, etc).  They&amp;rsquo;re also often used in coding interviews to test an applicant as they can be a familiar source of code errors.  While some developers couldn&amp;rsquo;t care less about ternary operators, there&amp;rsquo;s been a cult following waiting for them to show up in Powershell.  That day is &lt;a href="https://powershell.visualstudio.com/PowerShell/_build/results?buildId=31915"&gt;almost upon us.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Any Powershell developer can easily be forgiven for scratching their heads and wondering what a ternary is.  In the most basic sense a ternary evaluates an expression to a binary result and carries out one of two possible outcomes.  Lets start by looking at some code examples:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 6-September-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-09-06-icymi-powershell-week-of-6-september-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:00:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-09-06-icymi-powershell-week-of-6-september-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include PowerShell meetups, Network Connections, PowerShell on Android, Regex and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Be a Speaker at PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit 2020!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-09-03-be-a-speaker-at-powershell-and-devops-global-summit-2020/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2019 17:42:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-09-03-be-a-speaker-at-powershell-and-devops-global-summit-2020/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We are so excited for the 2020 PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit! We’re about halfway through the CFP season and are still looking for your awesome submissions. If you are hesitating, please don’t&amp;hellip; think seriously about submitting a topic or two. To help you, we’d like to give you some ideas about what makes a submission stand out (and what doesn’t).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Something Unique…&lt;/strong&gt; We’re looking for a new spin or twist on an old (or new) topic. If something similar has been done at a previous Summit, think about how you’re doing something different from what’s previously been presented. DevOps topics are always popular, but what new thing are you doing with your source control, your testing, or your build pipeline?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Failures&amp;hellip;&lt;/strong&gt; Alternatively, is there something you started out to do and at some point, figured out that you it wasn’t going to work the way it was planned? If you’ve had some good lessons learned that you think would benefit others, we’d love to hear about it.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Broad scope vs. deep scope&amp;hellip;&lt;/strong&gt; If you’ve done a snack “bake-off” and could talk about chips, cookies, and crackers, this session would be attended by folks who prefer chips or cookies or crackers. However, a session that is only about cookies might only be of interest to Rambling Cookie Monsters. If you’re a subject matter expert on chips, though, and can show how to use chips to build a house, that would have that uniqueness factor we’re also looking for.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Multiple submissions&amp;hellip;&lt;/strong&gt; Multiple submissions on different topics help us select a wide variety of topics. It’s hard to say from year to year what topics will be popular. For example, we had a lot of Git and Pester submissions last year&amp;hellip; not so many this year. We’re looking for variety so submit as many ideas as you have.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Something that wasn’t selected last year&amp;hellip;&lt;/strong&gt; We may have really liked your submission last year and it may have simply been on the bubble. You’re only up against the submissions that we’ve seen for this year, so if you had a submission from last year that you feel passionate about and is still a hot topic, please submit it!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“Post OnRamp” submissions are welcome&amp;hellip;&lt;/strong&gt; We have a graduated class of OnRamp students from last year who we want to continue learning. Therefore, we’ll be looking for a small number of sessions at this level.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some additional things we’d like to add:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A Better Way To Search Events</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-08-30-a-better-way-to-search-events/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2019 17:09:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-08-30-a-better-way-to-search-events/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I have put together a security script to use as an alerting system. Using a CSV file containing information on which users are assigned which computer, the event logs are searched to discover when a user signs into a device outside their normal assignments. The final result of that script can be viewed &lt;a href="https://github.com/tobor88/BTPS-SecPack/blob/master/Event%20Alerts/UnusualUserSignInAlert.ps1"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; if interested. I will do my best to provide unique real world search queries for my examples.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 30-August-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-08-30-icymi-powershell-week-of-30-august-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2019 15:21:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-08-30-icymi-powershell-week-of-30-august-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include DNS, GUI&amp;rsquo;s, automation of legacy tools, Azure test environment setups and more!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 23-August-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-08-23-icymi-powershell-week-of-23-august-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:00:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-08-23-icymi-powershell-week-of-23-august-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include PowerShell 7 Preview 3, Universal Dashboard, URI Data Types and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A Peculiar Parse</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-08-20-a-peculiar-parse/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2019 19:40:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-08-20-a-peculiar-parse/</guid><description>&lt;h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="heading"&gt; &lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One of the best enhancements to Powershell was the inclusion of custom classes in v5. We originally wrote scripts, then we wrote cmdlets, followed by modules, and now we&amp;rsquo;ve graduated, with Class.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I recently decided I wanted to write some code that would build a website. What better way to do that than by creating a class just for me? That&amp;rsquo;s rhetorical by the way. My early class code looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 16-August-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-08-16-icymi-powershell-week-of-16-august-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2019 15:00:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-08-16-icymi-powershell-week-of-16-august-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Azure setups, AD reporting, IF statements Out-GridView and other new features coming in PowerShell 7.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Special thanks to James Petty, Mark Rollof, Prasoon Karunan V and Robin Dadswell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pragmatic-powershell-scripting-chris-sharp/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pragmatic PowerShell Scripting - Reporting on AD Groups&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Chris Sharp on 11th August&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Learn how Chris approached a requirement to pull various reports from AD using PowerShell and a useful Excel module.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershellexplained.com/2019-08-11-Powershell-if-then-else-equals-operator/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Powershell: Everything you wanted to know about the IF statement&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 9-August-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-08-09-icymi-powershell-week-of-9-august-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2019 23:00:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-08-09-icymi-powershell-week-of-9-august-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include SharePoint, AD trust relationships, Azure File Sync, working with variables and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 2-August-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-08-02-icymi-powershell-week-of-2-august-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2019 15:00:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-08-02-icymi-powershell-week-of-2-august-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include data aggregation, file permission migrations, checking reboots in the registry, credential management, default parameters and setting up for PowerShell Development.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 26-July-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-07-26-icymi-powershell-week-of-26-july-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2019 15:00:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-07-26-icymi-powershell-week-of-26-july-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include an in-depth tutorial, extending PS with Rust, mail archives, and Pester reports.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 17-July-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-07-19-icymi-powershell-week-of-17-july-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:22:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-07-19-icymi-powershell-week-of-17-july-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include PowerShell 7, Ubiquiti APIs, Chocolatey, and DSC.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 12-July-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-07-12-icymi-powershell-week-of-12-july-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2019 15:00:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-07-12-icymi-powershell-week-of-12-july-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include WPF GUIs, BitLocker and LAPS reporting, more APIs, and tips from a consultant.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Quick ProTip: Negotiate TLS Connections In Powershell With A Minimum TLS Version Requirement</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-07-08-quick-protip-negotiate-tls-connections-in-powershell-with-a-minimum-tls-version-requirement/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2019 21:28:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-07-08-quick-protip-negotiate-tls-connections-in-powershell-with-a-minimum-tls-version-requirement/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="synopsis.wp-block-heading"&gt;Synopsis&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is a quick post to highlight the nuances of Powershell and protocol management in regard to TLS connections. If you&amp;rsquo;ve ever attempted to make a secure connection (for example, an API request) to a service with certain net security requirements, you might have run into this problem.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While TLS is negotiated at the highest level existing on both the server and the client, the minimum protocols defined by Powershell may include ones that you explicitly do not want. While explicitly declaring an enumerated protocol list is easy enough, what happens when Tls13 becomes more common, and we want to start utilizing it when it&amp;rsquo;s available? Then Tls14, and beyond?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 5-July-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-07-05-icymi-powershell-week-of-5-july-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2019 15:00:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-07-05-icymi-powershell-week-of-5-july-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include pop-ups, dbatools, unit testing galore, and chatops.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A Farewell, and a Bunch of Hellos</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-07-01-a-farewell-and-a-bunch-of-hellos/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2019 13:55:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-07-01-a-farewell-and-a-bunch-of-hellos/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As many of you know, The DevOps Collective recently concluded its 7th US event, PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2019 in Bellevue, WA. Head to the &lt;a href="http://youtube.com/powershellorg"&gt;organization&amp;rsquo;s YouTube page&lt;/a&gt; for the breakout session recordings, which are live.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I mentioned going into it that this Summit would be bittersweet for me, as it&amp;rsquo;s the last one I&amp;rsquo;ll be directly involved with. My career&amp;rsquo;s simply taking me in a new direction, and it&amp;rsquo;s much less connected to the day-to-day of technology and more connected with business leadership and strategy. I&amp;rsquo;ll also be stepping back from my involvement with PowerShell.org, and I will not receive a Microsoft MVP Award for this cycle (I&amp;rsquo;m proud to be one of the few who earned 15 consecutive awards, so I&amp;rsquo;ve zero complaints, and this is entirely in line with my expectations). I&amp;rsquo;m stepping back from the &amp;ldquo;Month of Lunches&amp;rdquo; and other technical books as well, although I&amp;rsquo;ve still got plenty of writing in me (many of my &lt;a href="http://leanpub.com/u/donjones"&gt;Leanpub books&lt;/a&gt; are &amp;ldquo;pay what you think they&amp;rsquo;re worth and remember I&amp;rsquo;ve got a mortgage&amp;rdquo;). I&amp;rsquo;m going to remain titular President for the DevOps Collective for a year or so while we get all the legal stuff lined up, but I won&amp;rsquo;t be involved in day-to-day activities. I’ll drop a note later this week on &lt;a href="http://donjones.com"&gt;DonJones.com&lt;/a&gt; about what’s happening with all “my” stuff.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 28-June-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-06-28-icymi-powershell-week-of-28-june-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2019 17:29:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-06-28-icymi-powershell-week-of-28-june-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include working with ARM templates, shells, shells, shells, and DSC.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 21-June-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-06-21-icymi-powershell-week-of-21-june-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2019 14:00:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-06-21-icymi-powershell-week-of-21-june-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include security tools, security fixes, operation validation and module updates and open source UI creation.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Universal Dashboard Templates – Scaffolding a New UD Project with Powershell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-06-14-universal-dashboard-templates-scaffolding-a-new-ud-project-with-powershell/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2019 15:28:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-06-14-universal-dashboard-templates-scaffolding-a-new-ud-project-with-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;All code from this article is freely available on Github as a template repository. Just click &amp;ldquo;Use this template&amp;rdquo; on the repository page here:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/ArtisanByteCrafter/ud-template"&gt;https://github.com/ArtisanByteCrafter/ud-template&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="index"&gt;Index&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="the-why"&gt;What are the advantages of project scaffolding&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="the-how"&gt;How does ud-template work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="the-why"&gt;The Why&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why should you consider scaffolding a new project? While we&amp;rsquo;re here, what exactly is scaffolding? Much like the term&amp;rsquo;s origin a project scaffold is meant to build a consistent framework and design that you can use to build your projects with.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 14-June-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-06-14-icymi-powershell-week-of-14-june-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2019 15:00:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-06-14-icymi-powershell-week-of-14-june-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Pester goodness, auto cleanup of Azure resources, PSPowerHour, and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 7-June-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-06-07-icymi-powershell-week-of-7-june-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2019 15:30:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-06-07-icymi-powershell-week-of-7-june-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include checking patch status, About help docs, variable scoping, and proposed changes to PowerShellGet.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 31-May-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-05-31-icymi-powershell-week-of-31-may-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2019 15:00:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-05-31-icymi-powershell-week-of-31-may-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include the PowerShell 7 preview, exporting SCCM task sequences, integration testing, and cloud automation.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit: A First Time Experience</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-05-30-__trashed/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2019 05:13:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-05-30-__trashed/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s been a few weeks since Summit and I feel like my mind has finally started to settle from all of the ideas that I came back with. Plus, being away from home for a week means I had a lot of domestic work and daddy time to catch up on. When Will asked for volunteers to write about their first time experience, I decided to see if I could offer my take on the matter considering gulf between what I expected to get and what I ended up getting.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 24-May-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-05-24-icymi-powershell-week-of-24-may-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2019 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-05-24-icymi-powershell-week-of-24-may-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include unit testing your NetApp, logging, Office templates, and *DRUM ROLL* recordings from Summit!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 325 – PowerScripting Podcast – Todd Klindt</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2019-05-22-episode-325-powerscripting-podcast-todd-klindt/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2019 02:28:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2019-05-22-episode-325-powerscripting-podcast-todd-klindt/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Watch:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://youtu.be/FIb9lNckg_Y"&gt;https://youtu.be/FIb9lNckg_Y&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Show notes:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To Subscribe:
Search for PowerScriping in your podcast app of choice or click here: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting"&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest: Todd Klindt
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ToddKlindt"&gt;https://twitter.com/ToddKlindt&lt;/a&gt;
PowerShell Core version: 6.2.1&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recorded: May 15th 2019&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Show links:
&lt;a href="https://www.toddklindt.com/"&gt;https://www.toddklindt.com&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.toddklindt.com/netcast/default.aspx"&gt;https://www.toddklindt.com/netcast/default.aspx&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/ToddKlindtNetcast"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/user/ToddKlindtNetcast&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP-PowerShell"&gt;https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP-PowerShell&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=826"&gt;https://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=826&lt;/a&gt;
PnP Overview: &lt;a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/sharepoint/sharepoint-pnp/sharepoint-pnp-cmdlets?view=sharepoint-ps"&gt;https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/sharepoint/sharepoint-pnp/sharepoint-pnp-cmdlets?view=sharepoint-ps&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer"&gt;https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PSConfBook2 CFP: &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/PSConfBook2CFP"&gt;http://bit.ly/PSConfBook2CFP&lt;/a&gt;
PowerShell - DevOps Summit 2019 recordings: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Cocir1-TuSN3mOnj3qzyRShA"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Cocir1-TuSN3mOnj3qzyRShA&lt;/a&gt;
PowerShell Core: &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases&lt;/a&gt;
PS7.Preview1 on track for next week: &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Steve_MSFT/status/1130957909334974466"&gt;https://twitter.com/Steve_MSFT/status/1130957909334974466&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;YouTube: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Learn PowerShell:
&lt;a href="https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3"&gt;https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/"&gt;https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans"&gt;https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org/"&gt;http://slack.poshcode.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hosts:
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/jonwalz"&gt;https://twitter.com/jonwalz&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/halr9000"&gt;https://twitter.com/halr9000&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ryanyates1990"&gt;https://twitter.com/ryanyates1990&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 324 – PowerScripting Podcast – Don Jones</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2019-05-22-episode-324-powerscripting-podcast-don-jones/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2019 02:12:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2019-05-22-episode-324-powerscripting-podcast-don-jones/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen: &lt;em&gt;Listen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Watch:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://youtu.be/XQvB-6WXFac"&gt;https://youtu.be/XQvB-6WXFac&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Show notes:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To Subscribe:
Search for PowerScriping in your podcast app of choice or click here: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting"&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest: Don Jones
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/concentrateddon"&gt;https://twitter.com/concentrateddon&lt;/a&gt;
PowerShell Core version: 6.1.3&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recorded: April 24th 2019&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Show links:
&lt;a href="https://leanpub.com/u/donjones"&gt;https://leanpub.com/u/donjones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Other podcasts:
&lt;a href="https://powershellnews.podbean.com/"&gt;https://powershellnews.podbean.com/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://cloudskills.fm/"&gt;https://cloudskills.fm/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/category/podcast/"&gt;https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/category/podcast/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/behind-the-tech"&gt;https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/behind-the-tech&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;YouTube: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Learn PowerShell:
&lt;a href="https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3"&gt;https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/"&gt;https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans"&gt;https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org/"&gt;http://slack.poshcode.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hosts:
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/jonwalz"&gt;https://twitter.com/jonwalz&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/halr9000"&gt;https://twitter.com/halr9000&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ryanyates1990"&gt;https://twitter.com/ryanyates1990&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 17-May-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-05-17-icymi-powershell-week-of-17-may-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2019 15:00:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-05-17-icymi-powershell-week-of-17-may-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include working with the Graph API, Chocolatey, jazzing up your functions with pipeline support, and shrinking VMDKs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Special thanks to Robin Dadswell, Prasoon Karunan V, and Mark Roloff.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h6 class="wp-block-heading" id="how-to-shrink-vmdk-with-a-couple-of-powershell-scripts"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20190517.md#how-to-shrink-vmdk-with-a-couple-of-powershell-scripts"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.vmwareblog.org/shrink-vmdk-couple-powershell-scripts/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;How to shrink VMDK with a couple of PowerShell scripts?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Kevin Soltow on May 8th&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Not just a set of useful scripts for anyone still working in a space-constrained environment, but a great bit of interesting detail has also gone into this.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 10-May-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-05-10-icymi-powershell-week-of-10-may-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2019 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-05-10-icymi-powershell-week-of-10-may-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include PowerShell Summit, finding account lockouts, certs, and learning PS via Pester.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Content curated by Robin Dadswell, Prasoon Karunan, and Mark Roloff.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h6 class="wp-block-heading" id="takeaways-from-the-powershell--devops-global-summit-2019"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20190510.md#takeaways-from-the-powershell--devops-global-summit-2019"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://mattbobke.com/2019/05/02/takeaways-from-the-powershell-+-devops-global-summit-2019/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Takeaways from the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2019&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Matt Bobke on May 2nd&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you couldn&amp;rsquo;t make it to Summit, fret not! While waiting for videos you can read about it from attendees, like Matt, whom participated in the OnRamp track.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h6 class="wp-block-heading" id="execute-a-script-block-accepting-pipeline-input-and-show-your-progress"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20190510.md#execute-a-script-block-accepting-pipeline-input-and-show-your-progress"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://yvez.be/2019/05/05/execute-a-script-block-accepting-pipeline-input-and-show-your-progress/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Execute a script block accepting pipeline input and show your progress&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Yves Rosius on May 5th&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Summit 2020 – A New Addition</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-05-06-summit-2020-a-new-addition/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2019 16:00:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-05-06-summit-2020-a-new-addition/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Last week at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit, we announced the dates for next year&amp;rsquo;s summit. The event will again be held at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington on April 27th to April 30th.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DevOps + Automation Summit - Nashville&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We are also proud to announce that our flagship summit event would be getting a new addition to the family in the form of the DevOps + Automation Summit being held on October 21st to October 23rd, 2020 at the Renaissance Hotel in Downtown Nashville!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 3-May-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-05-03-icymi-powershell-week-of-3-may-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2019 14:20:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-05-03-icymi-powershell-week-of-3-may-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include GUI development, Azure Cloud Shell, Live streaming, Azure functions and more!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Find-Module, Find-Script – Don't Recreate the Wheel</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-04-29-find-module-find-script-dont-recreate-the-wheel/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:52:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-04-29-find-module-find-script-dont-recreate-the-wheel/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The PowerShell Gallery is a collection of modules and scripts that is community driven to help us automate everyday tasks. Sometimes, we have an idea that could written into a function or script, however, most of the time, someone else had the same idea and published their work to the PowerShell Gallery. There is no need to recreate the wheel and re-write it, use the community to our advantage. We&amp;rsquo;ll take a look at multiple Cmdlets,&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Phenomenal number of ACLs, itty-bitty living space</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-04-26-phenomenal-number-of-acls-itty-bitty-living-space/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2019 16:19:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-04-26-phenomenal-number-of-acls-itty-bitty-living-space/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I recently had a need to backup file and folder ACLs for a client that would then need to restore them to their original objects following a hardware upgrade that would wipe them out. Easy enough, but the catch was that there was 1.5 million of them. Fortunately, getting ACLs in PowerShell is easy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;`PS &amp;gt; Get-Acl -Path somefile.txt
Directory: C:&lt;br&gt;
Path Owner Access&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;p&gt;somefile.txt BUILTIN\Administrators BUILTIN\Administrators Allow&amp;hellip;
`See?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now, if you needed multiple ACLs, say, all 1.5 million of them on a file share, you could use &lt;strong&gt;Get-ChildItem&lt;/strong&gt; to feed files and folders to &lt;strong&gt;Get-Acl&lt;/strong&gt;. But then what? &lt;strong&gt;Export-Clixml&lt;/strong&gt; is a generally great way to convert a PowerShell object to XML and save it to file.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 26-April-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-04-26-icymi-powershell-week-of-26-april-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:00:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-04-26-icymi-powershell-week-of-26-april-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include building functions for cleaning your $PATH, xplat GUIs with Core, and the EXO module makes its way to the Cloud Shell.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Azure DevOps – Enable "Allow scripts to access the OAuth token" using PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-04-20-azure-devops-enable-allow-scripts-to-access-the-oauth-token-using-powershell/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2019 23:20:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-04-20-azure-devops-enable-allow-scripts-to-access-the-oauth-token-using-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Azure DevOps allows us to run custom scripts to help our software and infrastructure get delivered quickly. There are times that the scripts run without an issue, however, sometimes there is a need to invoke the Azure DevOps Rest API in the release pipeline to get our scripts running. Sure, you can create a script invoking the API, authenticating with Azure DevOps with your personal access token and should work, but there is a better solution.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Get-Command – One of the best Cmdlets besides Get-Help</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-04-19-get-command-one-of-the-best-cmdlets-besides-get-help/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2019 16:59:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-04-19-get-command-one-of-the-best-cmdlets-besides-get-help/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;So laying on the sofa, sick, bored out of my mind, what better way to spend my time then writing a blog post about&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Get-Command &lt;/code&gt;. The&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Get-Command &lt;/code&gt;Cmdlet is apart of the Microsoft.PowerShell.Core module, it was introduced in PowerShell version 1.0 and is one of the most useful Cmdlets to find a command you are looking for. It has a variety of parameters that allow you to search for a command by using a combination of parameters or just using&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 19-April-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-04-19-icymi-powershell-week-of-19-april-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2019 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-04-19-icymi-powershell-week-of-19-april-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include DSC, Pester, validation attributes, and Azure AD.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Learn To Use Verbose Output Streams In Your Pester Tests</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-04-18-learn-to-use-verbose-output-streams-in-your-pester-tests/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2019 19:51:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-04-18-learn-to-use-verbose-output-streams-in-your-pester-tests/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m going to file this under &amp;ldquo;Either I&amp;rsquo;m a genius, or there&amp;rsquo;s a much better way and everyone knows it except for me.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I recently began adding a suite of Pester tests to one of my projects and I found myself needing to mock some unit tests against a particular function that would modify a variable based on the parameter specified. Since all the functions I write nowadays are considered advanced functions (and yours should be too, they&amp;rsquo;re free!), I discovered a nice way to test the function&amp;rsquo;s actions using the&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 12-April-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-04-12-icymi-powershell-week-of-12-april-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2019 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-04-12-icymi-powershell-week-of-12-april-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include splatting, PSRemoting to Azure VMs, and honey users.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Hear, Hear for Here-Strings</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-04-09-hear-hear-for-here-strings/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2019 01:40:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-04-09-hear-hear-for-here-strings/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Running commands in PowerShell that require a format that will not run natively in PowerShell could be a difficult task, or can it? PowerShell provides a way to store, for example, a JSON as a string, enter here-string. A here-string is a single or double quoted string in which the quotation marks are interpreted literally. An example would be invoking a Rest API that requires a JSON body. Lets take a look at an example and see how here-strings work.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 5-April-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-04-05-icymi-powershell-week-of-5-april-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2019 15:00:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-04-05-icymi-powershell-week-of-5-april-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include remoting with SSH, sending SMS alerts, some live stream coding, and keybinds that you may not have known about.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 29-March-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-03-29-icymi-powershell-week-of-29-march-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2019 15:00:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-03-29-icymi-powershell-week-of-29-march-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include an update to PSScriptAnalyzer, Pester, and customizing SharePoint menus.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Secure Your Powershell Session with JEA and Constrained Endpoints</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-03-28-secure-your-powershell-session-with-jea-and-constrained-endpoints/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2019 20:57:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-03-28-secure-your-powershell-session-with-jea-and-constrained-endpoints/</guid><description>&lt;h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="index"&gt;Index&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="#what-is-a-constrained-endpoint-and-why-would-i-need-one"&gt;What is a Constrained Endpoint and Why Would I Need One?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="#setup-and-configuration"&gt;Setup and Configuration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="#using-our-endpoint"&gt;Using our Endpoint&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="what-is-a-constrained-endpoint-and-why-would-i-need-one"&gt;What is a constrained endpoint and why would I need one?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Powershell constrained endpoints are a means of interacting with powershell in a manner consistent with the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege"&gt;principal of least privilege&lt;/a&gt;. In Powershell terms, this is referred to as Just-Enough-Administration, or JEA.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;JEA is very well documented, so this won&amp;rsquo;t simply be repeating everything those references detail. Instead, we&amp;rsquo;ll go through a simple, real-world use-case of when and why you might need to deploy one.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>2019 Community Lightning Demos</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-03-26-2019-community-lightning-demos/</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2019 12:59:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-03-26-2019-community-lightning-demos/</guid><description>&lt;h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="rambling"&gt;Rambling&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m a huge fan of lightning demos. From the community and PowerShell Team lightning demos we get at &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/summit/"&gt;the summit&lt;/a&gt;, to &lt;a href="https://github.com/PSPowerHour/PSPowerHour"&gt;PSPowerHour&lt;/a&gt;, to various local groups and conferences using the format.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At the 2019 PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit, we&amp;rsquo;ll have about 90 minutes for these demos - now we just need proposals from you!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So! Why might you be interested in lightning demos?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="why-lightning-demos"&gt;Why Lightning Demos&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lightning demos are great for the audience and speakers alike.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 22-March-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-03-22-icymi-powershell-week-of-22-march-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 15:00:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-03-22-icymi-powershell-week-of-22-march-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include PowerShell IoT, Nmap in PS, and some livestreamed contributions to PSHTML.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Running Universal Dashboard with Ubuntu and Nginx (With HTTPS!)</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-03-22-running-universal-dashboard-with-ubuntu-and-nginx-with-https/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 14:37:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-03-22-running-universal-dashboard-with-ubuntu-and-nginx-with-https/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://i.imgur.com/Rqj22dX.png" alt="Imgur"&gt;&lt;em&gt;A basic UniversalDashboard running on nginx&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="index"&gt;Index&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="#prerequisites"&gt;Prerequisites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="#configuration"&gt;Configuration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="#configuring-https"&gt;HTTPS (Optional)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="prerequisites"&gt;Prerequisites&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For this writeup, I&amp;rsquo;m using Ubuntu 18.04. Software packages are geared toward using that version.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First, we&amp;rsquo;ll need to install our dependencies&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are several ways to install Powershell core on Ubuntu. I recommend &lt;a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/installing-powershell-core-on-linux?view=powershell-6#ubuntu-1804"&gt;Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s documentation for ubuntu 18.04 here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Once installed, enter Powershell and install the &lt;a href="https://www.poshud.com"&gt;UniversalDashboard&lt;/a&gt; module. This will use the community edition.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;pwsh PS&amp;gt; Install-Module UniversalDashboard.Community -Scope CurrentUser &lt;/code&gt;Confirm it is installed:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 323 – PowerScripting Podcast – Joel Sallow</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2019-03-22-episode-323-powerscripting-podcast-joel-sallow/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 03:56:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2019-03-22-episode-323-powerscripting-podcast-joel-sallow/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Watch:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Show notes:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To Subscribe:
Search for PowerScriping in your podcast app of choice or click here: &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting"&gt;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest: Joel Sallow
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/vexx32"&gt;https://twitter.com/vexx32&lt;/a&gt;
PowerShell Core version: 6.1.3&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recorded: March 20th 2019&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Show links:
&lt;a href="https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans"&gt;https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/vexx32/PSWordCloud"&gt;https://github.com/vexx32/PSWordCloud&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://vexx32.github.io/blog/"&gt;https://vexx32.github.io/blog/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;YouTube: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Learn PowerShell:
&lt;a href="https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3"&gt;https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/"&gt;https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans"&gt;https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org/"&gt;http://slack.poshcode.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hosts:
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/jonwalz"&gt;https://twitter.com/jonwalz&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/halr9000"&gt;https://twitter.com/halr9000&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ryanyates1990"&gt;https://twitter.com/ryanyates1990&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Next Live Show:
April 17th 9PM EST
Don Jones&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 15-March-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-03-15-icymi-powershell-week-of-15-march-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2019 15:00:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-03-15-icymi-powershell-week-of-15-march-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include goodies for your prompt, more xplatform support for the SqlServer module, and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Who's Your 2019 PowerShell Community Hero?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-03-11-whos-your-2019-powershell-community-hero/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:18:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-03-11-whos-your-2019-powershell-community-hero/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Today we&amp;rsquo;re opening nominations for the 2019 PowerShell Community Heroes! We want to know about those in the community that are doing a wealth of good. Have they written a fantastic script, or posted a blog series that has been exceptionally helpful? Are they doing a mad amount of pull requests in a module or in PowerShell Core? Here is your opportunity to make sure they get the recognition they deserve!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 8-March-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-03-08-icymi-powershell-week-of-8-march-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2019 16:00:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-03-08-icymi-powershell-week-of-8-march-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include the Graph API, status pages, test-driven development, getting your Google 2FA in the shell, and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 1-March-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-03-01-icymi-powershell-week-of-1-march-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:00:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-03-01-icymi-powershell-week-of-1-march-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include more Iron Scripter, a trove of AD and O365 scripts, tons of REST API goodness, and some fundamental lessons from Brisbane.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 22-February-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-02-22-icymi-powershell-week-of-22-february-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:00:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-02-22-icymi-powershell-week-of-22-february-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include PoshBot, JeaDsc, Azure Pipelines, Arrays and Hashtables, and Pester testing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Content curated by Brett Bunker, Robin Dadswell, and Mark Roloff.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="writing-a-poshbot-plugin-to-display-topdesk-tickets-and-assets"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20190222.md#writing-a-poshbot-plugin-to-display-topdesk-tickets-and-assets"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://andrewpla.github.io/Writing-a-PoshBot-Plugin/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Writing a PoshBot Plugin to Display TOPdesk Tickets and Assets&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Andrew Pla on February 16th&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Creating bots for Teams or Slack can make you more productive and save time by not having to swtich between applications. Come let Andrew show you how to create a bot for Teams using PoshBot.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 15-February-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-02-15-icymi-powershell-week-of-15-february-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:00:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-02-15-icymi-powershell-week-of-15-february-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Iron Scripter, monitoring your filesystem, VSCode goodness, and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tips for Writing Cross-Platform PowerShell Code</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-02-14-tips-for-writing-cross-platform-powershell-code/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2019 18:17:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-02-14-tips-for-writing-cross-platform-powershell-code/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I just spent a month updating &lt;a href="https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Whiskey/"&gt;one of our PowerShell modules&lt;/a&gt; to support Linux and MacOS. I learned a lot that I wanted to share with the community as cross-platform support becomes more and more important.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="use-environment-class-properties-instead-of-env-drive"&gt;Use &amp;ldquo;Environment&amp;rdquo; Class Properties Instead of &amp;ldquo;env:&amp;rdquo; Drive&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Environment variables are different between the different operating systems. All of them have&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;PATH &lt;/code&gt;, but not much else. Windows and MacOS both have variables for the temp directory, but they have different names.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>IRON SCRIPTER 2019 BEGINS!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-02-13-iron-scripter-2019-begins/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2019 22:32:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-02-13-iron-scripter-2019-begins/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Go to &lt;a href="https://ironscripter.us/iron-scripter-2019-is-coming/"&gt;https://ironscripter.us/iron-scripter-2019-is-coming/&lt;/a&gt; right away!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Even if you&amp;rsquo;re not attending Summit, these challenges are a great thing to jump into. They&amp;rsquo;re a fun chance to flex your PowerShell sk1llz, and the official Iron Scripter competition permits remote assistance to each of our three factions - so you can get in on the action from afar!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We suggest using tags #battlefaction, #daybreakfaction, and #flawlessfaction, and #ironscripter2019 to hook up with fellow coders on social media. Visit the main &lt;a href="http://ironscripter.us"&gt;Iron Scripter&lt;/a&gt; website to learn more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 8-February-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-02-08-icymi-powershell-week-of-8-february-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2019 16:00:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-02-08-icymi-powershell-week-of-8-february-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include adrenaline for your AKS deployments, Azure Pipelines, Universal Dashboard, and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Summit Expansion – Seeking Feedback</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-02-07-summit-expansion-seeking-feedback/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2019 16:00:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-02-07-summit-expansion-seeking-feedback/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Tickets for the 2019 PowerShell + DevOps Summit sold out faster this year than its predecessors by almost exactly a full month. We are all so very excited to see everyone this year at the Meydenbauer in Bellevue, Washington! But as we continue to outpace each year, we also understand that this means that the demand for the content we deliver at Summit is also growing .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One of the early goals of the Summit was to keep the event relatively small to provide a more intimate feel. In doing so, it allows attendees a chance to see familiar faces as they come back every year, and have a chance to interact with the speakers, staff, and members of the PowerShell team. As the event has grown, we&amp;rsquo;ve been very careful to not lose that feel. So the question then is, what do we do in order to meet the demands of the community, and maintain that small event feel?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 1-February-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-02-01-icymi-powershell-week-of-1-february-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2019 16:00:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-02-01-icymi-powershell-week-of-1-february-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Active Directory FSMO Roles, text parsing, error handling, and much more.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Content pulled together by Robin Dadswell, Mark Roloff , and Brett Bunker.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="finding-active-directory-fsmo-role-holders-with-powershell"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20190201.md#finding-active-directory-fsmo-role-holders-with-powershell"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://mcpmag.com/articles/2019/01/25/finding-ad-fsmo-role-holders.aspx?m=1"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Finding Active Directory FSMO Role Holders with PowerShell&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Adam Bertram January 25&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Need to find which DCs hold your FSMO roles? Adam demonstrates a quick way to find their location using PowerShell.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="parsing-text-with-powershell-33"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20190201.md#parsing-text-with-powershell-33"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2019/01/28/parsing-text-with-powershell-3-3/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Parsing Text with PowerShell (3/3)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Steve Lee [MSFT] January 28&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Part 3 in the series on parsing text with PowerShell. A nice wrap up to the series with some example uses.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 25-January-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-01-25-icymi-powershell-week-of-25-january-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2019 16:39:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-01-25-icymi-powershell-week-of-25-january-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include SCCM, DSC, an intro for people in infosec, sweet dashboards, and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: Week of 18-January-2018</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-01-18-icymi-week-of-18-january-2018/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2019 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-01-18-icymi-week-of-18-january-2018/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="icymi-powershell-week-of-18-january-2019"&gt;ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 18-January-2019&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Topics include SQL Server Errors, Out Verbs, Out-Grid in PS Core, Puzzles, Drawing with PowerShell and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit Cancellation and Waitlist Procedure</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-01-17-powershell-devops-global-summit-cancellation-and-waitlist-procedure/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2019 14:18:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-01-17-powershell-devops-global-summit-cancellation-and-waitlist-procedure/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As Summit nears a record sellout (there are 30 tickets remaining as I write this) I want to review our cancellation and waitlist policies and procedures.&lt;br&gt;
After we formally sell out, Eventbrite will start accepting waitlist entries. Use a personal email address that you check regularly; corporate email systems tend to eat the waitlist notifications as spam. If we&amp;rsquo;re able to offer a spot to the waitlist, it&amp;rsquo;ll happen during the week, usually in the morning (US time), and you&amp;rsquo;ll have 24 hours to respond by purchasing a ticket.&lt;br&gt;
Anyone with a ticket can transfer it to someone else. Whoever did the registration needs to simply return to Eventbrite and edit the attendee information. So if you can&amp;rsquo;t go, but someone else in your company can, that&amp;rsquo;s how you do that. You can also email summit@ for assistance. We let this happen until roughly mid-April, at which point we need to order name badges and we stop all transfers. We don&amp;rsquo;t do anything with hotel rooms; that&amp;rsquo;s all on you.&lt;br&gt;
If you need to cancel, e-mail summit@ with your name, email address, and Eventbrite order number. We will release a ticket to the waitlist. They will have 24 hours to complete the purchase of their ticket. If they don&amp;rsquo;t, we&amp;rsquo;ll release the next waitlist entry, and so on. If someone eventually buys a ticket, we&amp;rsquo;ll refund yours. Again, we don&amp;rsquo;t do anything with hotel rooms.&lt;br&gt;
Sometime in mid-April, all of this stops, as we have to start ordering stuff based on current registrations.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 11-January-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-01-11-icymi-powershell-week-of-11-january-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2019 16:00:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-01-11-icymi-powershell-week-of-11-january-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include posting to Teams, creating bootable USBs, fun with paths, and a new module for Dyn managed DNS.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Weeks of X-mas &amp; 4-January-2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-01-04-icymi-powershell-weeks-of-x-mas-4-january-2019/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:00:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2019-01-04-icymi-powershell-weeks-of-x-mas-4-january-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include checking SCCM patch compliance, a little regex, some more AoC, a deep dive into $null, and PowerShell&amp;hellip;streaming?&amp;hellip; You betcha!&lt;br&gt;
Content pulled together by Brett Bunker, Robin Dadswell, and Mark Roloff&lt;br&gt;
From all of us, we hope you enjoyed your holidays! Our sabbatical is over and things have been understandably quiet the last couple of weeks, so we&amp;rsquo;re adding a little more this week to help make it up to you.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 21-December-2018</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-12-21-icymi-powershell-week-of-21-december-2018/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2018 15:45:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-12-21-icymi-powershell-week-of-21-december-2018/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Group-Object, the Azure Module, Windows Forms and Teams membership.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 14-December-2018</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-12-14-icymi-powershell-week-of-14-december-2018/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 16:00:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-12-14-icymi-powershell-week-of-14-december-2018/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Advent of Code, talking to Teams with the Graph API, AWS tools in PowerShell, and more&amp;hellip;&lt;br&gt;
Content pulled together by Brett Bunker, Robin Dadswell, and Mark Roloff&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h6 id="speed-tweaking-advent-of-code-day-8"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181214.md#speed-tweaking-advent-of-code-day-8"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://humanequivalentunit.github.io/Speed-Tweaks-AoC-Day-8/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Speed tweaking Advent of Code Day 8&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by HumanEquivalentUnit on December 8th&lt;br&gt;
Advent of Code spoilers ahead! This is a fun walk through the thought process of solving some of these code puzzles. Useful if you&amp;rsquo;re stuck on day 8, and still something to learn here if you&amp;rsquo;re just curious.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Welcome, New and Returning @PSHSummit Summiteers!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-12-12-welcome-new-and-returning-pshsummit-summiteers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 15:40:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-12-12-welcome-new-and-returning-pshsummit-summiteers/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The following was recently posted in the Slack team for PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2018. Yesterday, we invited all current registered Summiteers into the Slack team; if you missed your invitation, please email summit@ (this website&amp;rsquo;s domain name) with your email address (ideally a personal one, not work) and your Eventbrite order number. We&amp;rsquo;ll be happy to re-send the invite.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Another reminder for all @here - please go to &lt;a href="http://leanpub.com/summiteermanual/"&gt;http://leanpub.com/summiteermanual/&lt;/a&gt; and &amp;ldquo;buy&amp;rdquo; the book (for $0, of course), and enable the option to have Leanpub notify you via email of updates. That&amp;rsquo;s The Summiteer Manual, and it&amp;rsquo;s our best way to provide a consolidated view of everything that happens at Summit. From understanding how we handle special dietary requests, to understanding what &amp;ldquo;Iron Scripter&amp;rdquo; is all about, it&amp;rsquo;s the best way to take advantage of all that goes on. Summit is a **lot** more than just great breakout sessions, but it&amp;rsquo;s very easy to &amp;ldquo;miss out&amp;rdquo; on things if you don&amp;rsquo;t know they&amp;rsquo;re available. We update this a lot as we get closer, and will even be including information (and possible discounts) on stuff around the Puget Sound area for early/late arrivals who want to see some sights. A week or two out, it&amp;rsquo;s not even a bad idea to make sure your phone/tablet/laptop has a copy to refer to (Leanpub offers PDF/MOBI/EPUB formats), and some folks even print a copy to bring along.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 07-December-2018</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-12-07-icymi-powershell-week-of-07-december-2018/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2018 16:00:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-12-07-icymi-powershell-week-of-07-december-2018/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include watching Bitcoin plummet in the shell, getting maintenance plan info out of SQL, setting up automated access to AWS, and more&amp;hellip;&lt;br&gt;
Content curated by Brett Bunker, Robin Dadswell, and Mark Roloff&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h6 id="friday-fun-with-timely-powershell-prompts"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181207.md#friday-fun-with-timely-powershell-prompts"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/powershell/6240/friday-fun-with-timely-powershell-prompts/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Friday Fun With Timely PowerShell Prompts&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Jeff Hicks on Novermber 30th&lt;br&gt;
Like furnishing a home, decorating your work desk, or building a wardrobe, customizing your shell experience is as much a matter of utility as it is aesthetics. Jeff brings has a nice introduction to changing the default prompt, which will help you open the doors to all manner of fun.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Ticket Sales Update for PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2019</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-12-01-ticket-sales-update-for-powershell-devops-global-summit-2019/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2018 16:22:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-12-01-ticket-sales-update-for-powershell-devops-global-summit-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Wanted to offer a brief update on ticket sales for those who may not have purchased already - I know a lot of folks have to wait until 2019.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 30-November-2018</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-11-30-icymi-powershell-week-of-30-november-2018/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2018 16:00:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-11-30-icymi-powershell-week-of-30-november-2018/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Of note this week&amp;hellip; Managing credentials in your scripts, PowerShell&amp;rsquo;s constrained language mode, why you should absolutely reinvent the wheel, and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 22-November-2018</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-11-23-icymi-powershell-week-of-22-november-2018/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:00:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-11-23-icymi-powershell-week-of-22-november-2018/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include pizza and wildcards, getting involved with the community, a new PowerHour, making your scripts pipeline friendly, and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 16-November-2018</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-11-16-icymi-powershell-week-of-16-november-2018/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2018 16:00:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-11-16-icymi-powershell-week-of-16-november-2018/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include pie charts, flattening your modules, selecting unique items, the WindowsCompatibility module goes GA, and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 9-November-2018</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-11-09-icymi-powershell-week-of-9-november-2018/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2018 15:00:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-11-09-icymi-powershell-week-of-9-november-2018/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="icymi-powershell-week-of-9-november-2018"&gt;ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 9-November-2018&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Topics include replacing the MDT final summary, Azure Functions, dumping wifi passwords from your computer, code golf, and more&amp;hellip;&lt;br&gt;
Curated by Brett Bunker, Robin Dadswell, and Mark Roloff.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h6 id="transferring-functions-with-psremoting"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20181109.md#transferring-functions-with-psremoting"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://vexx32.github.io/2018/11/02/Transferring-Functions"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Transferring Functions with PSRemoting&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Joel Francis on November 2nd&lt;br&gt;
What do you do when you&amp;rsquo;re in a remote session and you need to bring a custom function over? You could write it up on the remote side but that sounds a lot like work. What about passing it through as an object? Joel shows us how we can earn some street cred at the water cooler with these cool tricks.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 2-November-2018</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-11-02-icymi-powershell-week-of-2-november-2018/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2018 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-11-02-icymi-powershell-week-of-2-november-2018/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include analyzing your scripts for code injection, configuring DSC with SQL, presentations from PSConfAsia, and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The New PowerShell.org Logo (and eBooks! and Swag!)</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-10-29-the-new-powershell-org-logo-and-ebooks-and-swag/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2018 14:37:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-10-29-the-new-powershell-org-logo-and-ebooks-and-swag/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you check out our free eBook, &lt;a href="https://leanpub.com/powershellorghistoryofacommunity"&gt;&lt;em&gt;PowerShell.org: History of a Community&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, you&amp;rsquo;ll see both the original PowerShell.org logo and our second, &amp;ldquo;Metro-fied&amp;rdquo; take on it. The first one is probably easy to make sense of, with the PowerShell logo superimposed over the Earth, suggesting a global community. The &amp;ldquo;Metro&amp;rdquo; version go a bit abstract, since the Earth became just a simple round circle.&lt;br&gt;
What both logos lacked was a clear commitment to a diverse community of _people. _Part of the recent re-launch of PowerShell.org included our &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/members"&gt;Community Member Directory&lt;/a&gt;, with &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/members/our-verified-profile-program/"&gt;specific rules of inclusion&lt;/a&gt; that are designed to emphasize the &lt;em&gt;people&lt;/em&gt; in our community, and to highlight their contributions and accomplishments.&lt;br&gt;
With that in mind, today we&amp;rsquo;re launching a new logo for PowerShell.org. It&amp;rsquo;s designed to clearly communicate &amp;ldquo;people working together around PowerShell,&amp;rdquo; and it stands as a more unique identifier for this website and the community it supports. We&amp;rsquo;re also launching a page to help people understand how they can &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/contributing/"&gt;contribute to the broader community&lt;/a&gt;, using PowerShell.org as a platform for their efforts.&lt;br&gt;
In celebration of our new logo, we&amp;rsquo;re offering an exclusive, &lt;strong&gt;limited-time&lt;/strong&gt; selection of cool merchandise. All proceeds benefit our nonprofit programs, and be aware that these items will only be available for a few months. You can &lt;a href="https://www.zazzle.com/powershellorg/products"&gt;visit our Zazzle Store now&lt;/a&gt; to start selecting your items. Pay close attention, because many of them offer customization options for style, color, size, and so on. We&amp;rsquo;re aware that a few of the prices are a bit on the higher side, but that&amp;rsquo;s the nature of these one-of-a-kind, print-on-demand items, as we can&amp;rsquo;t financially or logistically bulk-order, warehouse, and fulfill items ourselves. Keep in mind that Zazzle routinely offers significant discount codes, too - watch their site for those. And yes, some of the items &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; a little silly, but we couldn&amp;rsquo;t resist putting the logo on stuff like Oreo cookies, cake pops, and wrapping paper.&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;re also re-branding &lt;a href="https://leanpub.com/u/devopscollective"&gt;our library of free eBooks&lt;/a&gt; with all-new covers featuring the new logo. If you&amp;rsquo;ve not checked them out, this is a great time to download the entire collection (any money you choose to pay supports our nonprofit programs, and you&amp;rsquo;re welcome to pay nothing). If you&amp;rsquo;ve already got them, go ahead and re-download these great new covers. Don&amp;rsquo;t forget to let Leanpub notify you via email of updates, as these are &amp;ldquo;living books,&amp;rdquo; open-source hosted in GitHub, and we do periodically make corrections and updates.&lt;br&gt;
We hope you&amp;rsquo;ll join us in spreading the word, and welcome to the new PowerShell.org!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 26-October-2018</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-10-26-icymi-powershell-week-of-26-october-2018/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2018 15:00:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-10-26-icymi-powershell-week-of-26-october-2018/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include plenty of AST, using the WindowsCompatibility module, Azure Cloud Shell updates, and many more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell.org Site Status Update</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-10-24-powershell-org-site-status-update/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2018 17:45:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-10-24-powershell-org-site-status-update/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This post will be periodically updated as needed, so feel free to check back.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Our site upgrade and re-theme is going well, and I wanted to outline some of the major changes and current issues. If you&amp;rsquo;re encountering any lingering issues, please drop a comment; rather than replying, I&amp;rsquo;ll update the main article.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit 2019 – Post-CFP Thoughts</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-10-22-powershell-and-devops-global-summit-2019-post-cfp-thoughts/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2018 08:00:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-10-22-powershell-and-devops-global-summit-2019-post-cfp-thoughts/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Now that Warren Frame and I have finally come up for air after reviewing all the submissions for the 2019 PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit, we wanted to send a great big THANK YOU!!! to all who submitted.  You all definitely made our job challenging and we think we have a fabulous lineup for this year’s show!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many of you have asked for feedback regarding your submissions, and while we would love to send everyone individualized feedback - with the sheer number of submissions, that just isn’t feasible. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 19-October-2018</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-10-19-icymi-powershell-week-of-19-october-2018/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2018 15:00:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-10-19-icymi-powershell-week-of-19-october-2018/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include creating PSObjects, a deep dive on arrays, controlling your Raspberry Pi with the IoT module, and more&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell.org Site Maintenance Today</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-10-19-powershell-org-site-maintenance-today/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2018 14:27:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-10-19-powershell-org-site-maintenance-today/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;PowerShell.org will be undergoing upgrading and maintenance on Friday and Saturday. We&amp;rsquo;ll leave the site open, as Articles and Forums should remain accessible, but the site may look a little rough around the edges at times.&lt;br&gt;
The site does use some pretty aggressive caching, so if you&amp;rsquo;re visiting throughout the day, use a force-reload (Shift+Refresh or whatever in your browser) to pull a fresh set of pages as we work.&lt;br&gt;
We hope to have everything done by Sunday morning.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 12-October-2018</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-10-12-icymi-powershell-week-of-12-october-2018/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2018 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-10-12-icymi-powershell-week-of-12-october-2018/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include the Switch statement, Chocolatey Fest, Graph API, HTML disk reports, auditing Office 365 document sharing and Teams usage.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell + DevOps Summit 2019 Update – Agenda Online!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-10-12-powershell-devops-summit-2019-update-agenda-online/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2018 10:01:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-10-12-powershell-devops-summit-2019-update-agenda-online/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Missy Januszko and Warren Frame, our Co-Directors of Summit Content for 2019, have finally completed the arduous task of combing through the dozens of topic submissions from all of you in the community! The Official Agenda is now online, and is linked &lt;a href="http://powershellsummit.org"&gt;from the main Summit page&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 5-October-2018</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-10-05-icymi-powershell-week-of-5-october-2018/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2018 15:00:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-10-05-icymi-powershell-week-of-5-october-2018/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include the &lt;strong&gt;Az&lt;/strong&gt; module, PowerShell module design, PowerShell &amp;amp; Puppet, Hacktoberfest, SQL Server backups, and a PowerShell session from Ignite.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Free (beta) eBook: PowerShell.org, History of a Community</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-10-04-free-beta-ebook-powershell-org-history-of-a-community/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2018 14:45:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-10-04-free-beta-ebook-powershell-org-history-of-a-community/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Now available in &amp;ldquo;preview&amp;rdquo; is a new ebook, &lt;em&gt;**PowerShell.org: History of a Community. **&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
There&amp;rsquo;s still a bit left to write, but this short (under 30 pages at the moment) ebook is designed to share some of what went into the building of PowerShell.org, the PowerShell Summit, and so on. The goal is to help those who may become involved with the organization in the future understand some of the decisions that have been made to this point. It&amp;rsquo;s also intended as a collection of &amp;ldquo;lessons learned&amp;rdquo; about building and nurturing a technology community in general, for anyone who might be interested. It digs a bit into the organization&amp;rsquo;s path to being a nonprofit, as well.&lt;br&gt;
Grab the book now from &lt;a href="https://leanpub.com/powershellorghistoryofacommunity"&gt;https://leanpub.com/powershellorghistoryofacommunity&lt;/a&gt;. I suggest allowing Leanpub to email you when it&amp;rsquo;s updated, as it assuredly will be.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;d very much like &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; feedback. Ask questions - what about the organization and its past or future isn&amp;rsquo;t currently covered? What questions does the book leave you with after you read it? What could make it more helpful, or clearer? Feel free to drop comments right here on this post, or use the book&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;Email the author(s)&amp;rdquo; link on Leanpub to send an email.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 28-September-18</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-09-28-icymi-powershell-week-of-28-september-18/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2018 15:00:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-09-28-icymi-powershell-week-of-28-september-18/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include PowerShell Rest API on AWS Lamda, web applications in PowerShell, using PowerBI to show DB restores, input validation in functions, PowerShell command history, and the Unplugged session at Ignite with Jeffrey Snover and Jason Helmick.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 21-September-18</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-09-21-icymi-powershell-week-of-21-september-18/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2018 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-09-21-icymi-powershell-week-of-21-september-18/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics Azure Pipelines, PowerShell Core 6.1, PowerShell on Arch Linux, and the PSPowerHour.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 14-September-18</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-09-14-icymi-powershell-week-of-14-september-18/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2018 15:00:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-09-14-icymi-powershell-week-of-14-september-18/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include log file notifications, checking uptime, AWS Lamda support for PowerShell Core, organizing code, and episode 3 of PowerHour!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 7-September-18</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-09-07-icymi-powershell-week-of-7-september-18/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2018 15:00:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-09-07-icymi-powershell-week-of-7-september-18/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Azure Stack Infrastructure Backup, SharePoint Online Module Availability in PSGallery, Script for Updating Sysinternals Tools, Understanding While Loops, and the PowerShell Explorer module.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Getting Feedback on PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit Proposals</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-09-01-getting-feedback-on-powershell-devops-global-summit-proposals/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2018 13:46:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-09-01-getting-feedback-on-powershell-devops-global-summit-proposals/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi all!&lt;br&gt;
August is over, and we&amp;rsquo;re about a month out from the close of the &lt;a href="https://www.papercall.io/summit2019"&gt;PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit CFP&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br&gt;
We have some seriously awesome sessions coming, but we still need more proposals! I&amp;rsquo;ve had a number of questions like &lt;em&gt;what makes a good CFP?&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;would this topic work?&lt;/em&gt;. We&amp;rsquo;re going to try something new to see if we can help with this!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Do you want feedback on your proposal? Are you curious to see if your peers are interested in a topic? Join the #conferences channel in &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/psslack"&gt;powershell.slack.com&lt;/a&gt; and ask away!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Do you want to help other folks with their proposals? To help encourage folks and different topics? Join the #conferences channel in &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/psslack"&gt;powershell.slack.com&lt;/a&gt; and help out!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are two main ways you might get feedback here:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 31-August-18</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-08-31-icymi-week-of-31-august-18/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2018 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-08-31-icymi-week-of-31-august-18/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include automating ACLs for O365 public IPs, the Scour module, Module Design w/ Plaster, the ConvertToMarkdown module, and PSPowerHour.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit – Initial OnRamp Scholarship Recipients</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-08-25-powershell-devops-global-summit-initial-onramp-scholarship-recipients/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2018 15:05:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-08-25-powershell-devops-global-summit-initial-onramp-scholarship-recipients/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Based upon generous donations to this point, including from the Campers of DSC/DevOps Camp 2018 and the readers of &lt;a href="https://leanpub.com/powershell-conference-book"&gt;The PowerShell Conference Book&lt;/a&gt;, we will be able to offer a greater number of &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/summit/summit-onramp/onramp-scholarship/"&gt;scholarships&lt;/a&gt; that originally anticipated. As a result, we will be awarding some of those immediately.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 24-August-18</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-08-24-icymi-powershell-week-of-24-august-18/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:00:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-08-24-icymi-powershell-week-of-24-august-18/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include script module design, PowerShell exploitation, PowerShell Remoting, PowerShell AST, the O365 Data Retriever tool, and the inaugural PSPowerHour.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Use PnP PowerShell to add ContentType for your SharePoint site</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-08-21-use-pnp-powershell-to-add-contenttype-for-your-sharepoint-site/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2018 18:16:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-08-21-use-pnp-powershell-to-add-contenttype-for-your-sharepoint-site/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;You can achieve the task by using SharePoint GUI. However, if your sites collection has tens of hundreds sites and each site has more than one document library, it will become a nightmare for a SharePoint administrator to do the task by using GUI.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Luckily, there is PnP Powershell which can help us achieve the goal.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The steps will be like below:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;#Step1: export your login credential to a secure file on your local machine&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 17-August-2018</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-08-17-icymi-powershell-week-of-17-august-2018/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2018 15:00:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-08-17-icymi-powershell-week-of-17-august-2018/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include PowerBI cmdlets, auditing group changes, exporting module functions, and PowerShell phishing.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Help us Run PowerShell.org!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-08-15-help-us-run-powershell-org/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2018 14:54:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-08-15-help-us-run-powershell-org/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re looking for a few good PowerShellers to help us keep the community on track!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Summit 2019 Call for Topics: Some Ideas</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-08-14-the-summit-2019-call-for-topics-some-ideas/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2018 16:16:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-08-14-the-summit-2019-call-for-topics-some-ideas/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As you hopefully know, we&amp;rsquo;ve opened the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2018/08/01/powershell-devops-summit-2019-call-for-speakers/"&gt;Call for Topics for PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2019&lt;/a&gt;. I know sometimes people struggle with ideas, and so I wanted to offer a few.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>What You Missed This Week in PowerShell! – August 10th, 2018</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-08-10-what-you-missed-this-week-in-powershell-5/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:00:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-08-10-what-you-missed-this-week-in-powershell-5/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topics include Module Worst Practices, InjectionHunter, and The PowerShell Standard Library.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Thank You, Richard, and Fare Well!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-08-08-thank-you-richard-and-fare-well/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2018 15:35:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-08-08-thank-you-richard-and-fare-well/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Richard Siddaway has decided to step away from PowerShell.org and The DevOps Collective. Most recently, Richard has been known for his management of content at PowerShell Summit North America, PowerShell Summit Europe, and later, PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit. Before that, however, Richard was one of the founders of PowerShell.org way back in 2011-2012, along with myself, Jason Helmick, Kirk Munro, and Jeffrey Hicks. It&amp;rsquo;s quite fair to say that we all needed one another&amp;rsquo;s support and expertise very much in those early days, and Richard was particularly key in helping us put together the two European Summit events. Richard&amp;rsquo;s very much entitled to one of our Community Hero Challenge Coins, which have been awarded to only a small handful of people who have made sustained, long-term community contributions: Jeffrey Snover, Jason Helmick, Angel Calvo, and Kenneth Hansen. Richard&amp;rsquo;s definitely in rarified company, and it&amp;rsquo;s well-earned.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Welcome to the new PowerShell.org</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-08-07-welcome-to-the-new-powershell-org/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2018 11:26:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-08-07-welcome-to-the-new-powershell-org/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I want to introduce you to the new PowerShell.org!&lt;br&gt;
While we&amp;rsquo;re still doing a little test-and-adjust work, I&amp;rsquo;m pretty confident that everything in the new theme is working. I&amp;rsquo;d also like to point out some hopefully useful new things we&amp;rsquo;ve done with the site.&lt;br&gt;
First, we&amp;rsquo;ve still got pretty much everything you&amp;rsquo;ve been used to - our friendly and helpful Q&amp;amp;A forums, our community-authored articles, and more. Incidentally, if you&amp;rsquo;d like to be a writer here at PowerShell.org, we welcome you. Let us help you get some eyes on whatever it is you&amp;rsquo;re creating, whether it&amp;rsquo;s a short tutorial, an article about an open source project you contribute to, or whatever. Drop a line to our webmaster@ email alias and we&amp;rsquo;ll hook you up with authoring rights.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;ll note that our Events Calendar is currently offline; the old plugin was antiquated, and we need to find something more suitable. That&amp;rsquo;s ongoing.&lt;br&gt;
We do have some new stuff, though. You&amp;rsquo;ll find **Groups **right at the top of every page, and that takes you into our new discussion groups. These are designed to foster open-ended, freeform discussion threads, unlike our more problem/solution, issue-oriented Q&amp;amp;A forums.&lt;br&gt;
Click on your avatar at the top of the page, and you&amp;rsquo;ll switch into your new profile (incidentally, if you don&amp;rsquo;t like your avatar, you&amp;rsquo;ll need to register your email address with Gravatar.com - that&amp;rsquo;s who we pull images from). You can leave a quick Twitter- or Facebook-style status update, letting everyone know what you&amp;rsquo;ve been up to in the PowerShell world. We hope it&amp;rsquo;ll be a great way for you to update the community on your activities. Along those lines, you can specifically follow whomever you like in the community, so that their updates will bubble up to your feed. Again, your profile page is the key to accessing all that new functionality.&lt;br&gt;
Once you&amp;rsquo;ve friended someone, we also now have private direct messages. From your profile, click Messages and then Compose to start creating a new message.&lt;br&gt;
It&amp;rsquo;s worth spending some time poking around and see what else is available - there&amp;rsquo;s quite a bit of functionality. For example, from your profile page, choose Settings and then Email - there are quite a few email notification options that you can opt into, if you want to keep up without having to visit the site continually.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;ll note that photo uploading from your profile page is a little touch-and-go - that&amp;rsquo;s one of the things we&amp;rsquo;re still figuring out.&lt;br&gt;
**Let me give you a reason to really populate your profile: **We&amp;rsquo;re working to make this a central location for you to showcase everything you&amp;rsquo;ve accomplished in the community. Kind of like a very specialized LinkedIn profile, your PowerShell.org profile will eventually include recognitions for contributions, achievements, and more. It&amp;rsquo;ll be something you can show to colleagues, hiring managers, and peers to help show the positive impact you&amp;rsquo;re making and the milestones you&amp;rsquo;re reaching. Now&amp;rsquo;s the time to start!&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;re working hard to bring more functionality to PowerShell.org that can help you keep up with our fast-moving world, and we hope you&amp;rsquo;ll find it all useful. There&amp;rsquo;s still more to come, and we always welcome your suggestions in the Web Site Feedback forum!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>What You Missed This Week in PowerShell!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-08-03-what-you-missed-this-week-in-powershell-4/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2018 15:00:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-08-03-what-you-missed-this-week-in-powershell-4/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="blogs"&gt;Blogs&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h3 id="using-vsts-for-your-company"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180803.md#using-vsts-for-your-companys-private-powershell-library"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://medium.com/@jsrice7391/using-vsts-for-your-companys-private-powershell-library-e333b15d58c8"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Using VSTS for Your Company&amp;rsquo;s Private PowerShell Library&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Justin Rice on July 28th&lt;br&gt;
Interested in sharing your collection of PowerShell tools for your team to use? First-time blogger Justin Rice walks you through publishing a PowerShell module to an internal PSRepository using VSTS.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="creating-a-function-or-script-with-powershell-dynamic-parameters"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180803.md#creating-a-function-or-script-with-powershell-dynamic-parameters"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/undocumentedfeatures/2018/07/30/creating-a-function-or-script-with-powershell-dynamic-parameters/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Creating a Function or Script with PowerShell Dynamic Parameters&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By Aaron Guilmette on July 30th&lt;br&gt;
Learn how to create parameters with validation data that you can tab-complete prior to runtime. In this example Aaron uses a set of Skype numbers as potential values for a parameter to his function.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell + DevOps Summit 2019 – Call for Speakers</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-08-01-powershell-devops-summit-2019-call-for-speakers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2018 15:08:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-08-01-powershell-devops-summit-2019-call-for-speakers/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit 2019 will be returning to the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, WA from Monday, April 29 to Thursday, May 2, 2019.
Since 2013, PowerShell and DevOps experts from around the world , will once again collaborate and learn how to maximize PowerShell in the workplace through fast-paced, knowledge-packed presentations. The Global Summit is the place for innovators to explore and further their knowledge of DevOps principles and practices in a Windows environment, make new connections, learn new techniques, and offer something to your peers and colleagues back at the office.
Ready to share your PowerShell or DevOps know-how? This is your official call to submit presentation ideas for selection!
&lt;strong&gt;What we are looking for?&lt;/strong&gt;
The majority of our sessions will now follow a traditional 45-minute format. These sessions cover a wide variety of PowerShell and DevOps expertise. &lt;em&gt;We have &lt;strong&gt;a number of&lt;/strong&gt; agenda slots available for double length sessions&lt;/em&gt;. These sessions delve into the depths of a topic covering areas that need more than 45 minutes.
Your proposed session should fit into one of the following areas:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerHour: Community Lightning Demos!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-07-31-powerhour-community-lightning-demos/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2018 15:58:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-07-31-powerhour-community-lightning-demos/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;One of my favorite events at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit is the community lightning demos. It&amp;rsquo;s a fun format:&lt;br&gt;
For the audience:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fast paced (max 10 minutes)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Many speakers&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Topic or speaker not what you&amp;rsquo;re looking for? They&amp;rsquo;ll change in a few minutes&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Demos offer enough material to give you ideas and point out where to learn more&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Content is more likely to have a high signal-to-noise ratio given the time constraints&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For the speakers:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>What You Missed This Week in PowerShell!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-07-27-what-you-missed-this-week-in-powershell-3/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2018 15:00:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-07-27-what-you-missed-this-week-in-powershell-3/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="blogs"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180726.md#blogs"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Blogs&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h3 id="powershell-core-now-available-as-a-snap-package"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180726.md#powershell-core-now-available-as-a-snap-package"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2018/07/20/powershell-core-now-available-as-a-snap-package/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;PowerShell Core Now Available as a Snap Package&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by The PowerShell Team on July 20th&lt;br&gt;
Oh, Snap! Core&amp;rsquo;s support matrix on Linux grows broader with the inclusion of a Snap Package to the line-up. Check out the PS team&amp;rsquo;s blog for details on what this means and how you can try it out.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="powershell-modules-in-azure-functions"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180726.md#powershell-modules-in-azure-functions"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://agazoth.github.io/blogpost/2018/07/22/Powershell-Modules-in-Azure-Fuctions.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;PowerShell Modules in Azure Functions&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Axel Bøg Andersen on July 22nd&lt;br&gt;
Hit a snag taking your modules to Azure Functions? Eliminate the hassle of using extra tools and learn how to load your modules directly to Azure Functions.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>What You Missed This Week in PowerShell!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-07-20-what-you-missed-this-week-in-powershell-2/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2018 15:00:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-07-20-what-you-missed-this-week-in-powershell-2/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="blogs"&gt;Blogs&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h3 id="keeping-powershell-modules-up-to-date"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180720.md#keeping-powershell-modules-up-to-date"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://tfl09.blogspot.com/2018/07/keeping-powershell-modules-up-to-date.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Keeping PowerShell Modules Up To Date&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Thomas Lee on Saturday July 14th, 2018&lt;br&gt;
Learn a simple technique for checking which of your modules from the PowerShell Gallery have an update.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="when-tls-12-breaks-invoke-webrequest"&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/WhatYouMissedThisWeek/blob/master/20180720.md#when-tls-12-breaks-invoke-webrequest"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://poshsea.blogspot.com/2018/07/when-tls-12-break-invoke-webrequest.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;When TLS 1.2 Breaks Invoke-WebRequest&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;by Lawrence Hwang on July 15th, 2018&lt;br&gt;
In Windows PowerShell, there&amp;rsquo;s a limitation with Invoke-WebRequest and sites that only use TLS 1.2. This article covers a workaround for this problem. This issue is not present with Invoke-WebRequest in PowerShell Core.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>What You Missed This Week in PowerShell!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-07-13-what-you-missed-this-week-in-powershell/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:00:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-07-13-what-you-missed-this-week-in-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This week we&amp;rsquo;re starting a new series of blog posts called (obviously) &amp;lsquo;What You Missed This Week in PowerShell!&amp;rsquo;.  Our team of volunteers is scouring the web to find interesting articles, and forum posts related to our favourite topic!  In the meantime, I want to give a &amp;rsquo;thank you&amp;rsquo; to everyone that pulled together to make this possible.  Many thanks to Greg Tate, Evgeny Fedorov, Patrick Singletary, Brett Bunker, Mark Roloff, and Robin Dadswell for your hard work on getting this started!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;-Will&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Help Us Improve our Ebooks – Your Chance to Contribute!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-07-11-help-us-improve-our-ebooks-your-chance-to-contribute/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2018 14:33:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-07-11-help-us-improve-our-ebooks-your-chance-to-contribute/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We recently re-launched all of our free ebooks at &lt;a href="https://leanpub.com/u/devopscollective"&gt;https://leanpub.com/u/devopscollective&lt;/a&gt;. These books have all been authored by a variety of people, myself included, and most were originally authors in Word. As we translated them into Markdown (which is what Leanpub uses for its source), a few snafus tend to come up here and there.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Re-Launch of the PowerShell.org Free eBooks (now in Spanish, too!)</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-07-04-the-re-launch-of-the-powershell-org-free-ebooks-now-in-spanish-too/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2018 18:31:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-07-04-the-re-launch-of-the-powershell-org-free-ebooks-now-in-spanish-too/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re pleased to announce the re-launch of our &lt;a href="https://leanpub.com/u/devopscollective"&gt;Free eBook Store&lt;/a&gt;, now hosted exclusively on Leanpub. This re-launch includes 7 titles translated into Spanish by community contributor Alvaro Torres.&lt;br&gt;
All eBooks are free, although you can also choose to pay any amount of $5 or more, which becomes a donation to The DevOps Collective, Inc. Leanpub offers a web-based reader and, if you &amp;ldquo;buy&amp;rdquo; the book, options to download in EPUB, MOBI, and PDF formats.&lt;br&gt;
We used to dual-publish on Leanpub and GitBook; GitBook no longer supports ebook downloading (they&amp;rsquo;re online-only, now) and Leanpub now offers a free online reader mode, so we&amp;rsquo;re moving exclusively to Leanpub. Leanpub does offer a smartphone app as well, which you can use to manage your entire Leanpub library.&lt;br&gt;
Don&amp;rsquo;t forget that all of the books&amp;rsquo; &amp;ldquo;source&amp;rdquo; is &lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc"&gt;hosted at GitHub&lt;/a&gt; in public open-source repositories. You&amp;rsquo;re welcome to fork the repos, submit pull requests, and so on. Note that we don&amp;rsquo;t provide technical support for the books at GitHub; please use the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/forums"&gt;Forums&lt;/a&gt; for that. Further, while everyone appreciates suggestions for improving the books, what we &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; appreciate are community members who can fork the repo, implement their suggestions, and submit a pull request!&lt;br&gt;
Please help us spread the word so more people can use these great, entirely-free resources!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>OnRamp Scholarship open to non-US Applicants</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-06-27-onramp-scholarship-open-to-non-us-applicants/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2018 19:41:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-06-27-onramp-scholarship-open-to-non-us-applicants/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I have managed to clear the regulatory hurdles and our &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/summit/summit-onramp/onramp-scholarship/"&gt;OnRamp Scholarship&lt;/a&gt; is now open to applicants from outside the US. We will update the application materials and web pages as soon as possible, but there’s no need to wait to submit an application.&lt;br&gt;
There are two caveats:&lt;br&gt;
first, the option to request a laptop as part of your application is not applicable to international applicants at this time.&lt;br&gt;
Second, our airfare limit is $600 USD. We cannot directly book airfare costing more. Unfortunately, we also cannot provide a partial cash reimbursement at this time. That means your air must be under $600 total (which I realize is difficult), or you need to be responsible for the entire airfare yourself. This is a bit of accounting oddness that we should be able to address in the future.&lt;br&gt;
Full information and applications are at the link above.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Looking for a PowerShell.org Contributor</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-06-22-looking-for-a-powershell-org-contributor/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:24:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-06-22-looking-for-a-powershell-org-contributor/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re looking for someone who can publish a regular &amp;ldquo;What You Missed This Week&amp;rdquo; blog post on PowerShell.org each Friday (excepting the odd week off for vacations, of course).&lt;br&gt;
This is meant just as a roundup of interesting posts from around the web; we know tons of people are blogging in their own spaces, and we&amp;rsquo;d like to call attention to some of the more noteworthy ones.&lt;br&gt;
This isn&amp;rsquo;t any more complex than a brief blurb for each:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>How PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit Began</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-06-21-how-powershell-devops-global-summit-began/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2018 23:37:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-06-21-how-powershell-devops-global-summit-began/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Back in&amp;hellip; gosh, 2009, 2010 or so, an Arizona company named NetPro hosted PowerShell Deep Dive, part of their The Experts Conference event (the first was held in Las Vegas for just 50 people). After hosting two years (I think) though, NetPro was purchased by Quest Software, which moved to close down TEC. I may have those years slightly off, but that&amp;rsquo;s the general sequence.&lt;br&gt;
In 2012, myself, Jeff Hicks, Richard Siddaway, Jason Helmick, and Kirk Munro had formed PowerShell.org, attempting to make good on the basically-defunct PowerShellCommunity.org that I&amp;rsquo;d started and that Quest now basically owned (and was shutting down).&lt;br&gt;
In August 2012 Jason and I were out in Redmond for a TechMentor conference, and&amp;hellip;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/IMG_0465.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/IMG_0465-225x300.jpg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Erin Chapple and Kenneth Hansen, who were running the PowerShell team at the time, asked us over to building 43 for lunch one day. They told us that community engagement was huge for them&amp;ndash;they needed to know how people were using their product, and what they needed to focus on. They got plenty of engagement at TechEd events, they said, but it was largely beginners; they needed the Deep Dive, or something like it, to stay in touch with hardcore users.&lt;br&gt;
In April 2013, the first PowerShell Summit was held.&lt;br&gt;
&amp;ldquo;We can&amp;rsquo;t give you any money, though,&amp;rdquo; Kenneth said. And for good reason: they wanted an event that could sustain itself, so that when Microsoft inevitably reorganized and got distracted, the event wouldn&amp;rsquo;t die. To help, they volunteered to get us space on-campus, so our first event was in conference rooms, and they helped guarantee the food deposits. That helped give us a tiny financial pad and some experience, so in 2014 when we moved to Meydenbauer Center, we weren&amp;rsquo;t a brand-new event with an inexperienced team.&lt;br&gt;
Today, Summit is formally owned by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and venue and food deposits no longer have to go on my personal Amex ;). We&amp;rsquo;ve built enough operating margin that Summit can pay its own deposits until registrations start rolling in, and the event is essentially self-sustaining&amp;ndash;we don&amp;rsquo;t even rely on corporate sponsors, although we&amp;rsquo;re very happy to have them when we can. We&amp;rsquo;ve held six events in the US, and two in Europe, which led to the launch of PSConf.eu a few years back.&lt;br&gt;
Jason ran across this page in his journal last night and sent the photo, and with his permission I thought it would be a fun piece of community history to share.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>We Need Your Help.</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-06-03-we-need-your-help/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2018 19:23:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-06-03-we-need-your-help/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We need your help.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As you may have heard, we’re launching a new “OnRamp” track at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2019. Limited to 40 students, this will be a hands-on class designed to bootstrap someone into the technology and our community.
 &lt;a href="https://indd.adobe.com/view/7c87735a-8914-4536-b668-857242085785"&gt;There&amp;rsquo;s a whole brochure about it!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We’re also offering a number of free-ride scholarships designed to cover admission, air, and hotel, to help increase the diversity of our field and community right at the top of the funnel. Half of our scholarships will be awarded to individuals from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in IT, and that’s where we need your help.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We need to get the word out to potential applicants so that they know to apply!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Executing LINQ Queries in PowerShell – Part 2</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-05-28-executing-linq-queries-in-powershell-part-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2018 12:31:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-05-28-executing-linq-queries-in-powershell-part-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;And we&amp;rsquo;re back!&lt;br&gt;
Ok, so in the last blog we began a conversation about delegates and using LINQ in PowerShell. In today&amp;rsquo;s post, I&amp;rsquo;m going to give an example of how it can be incredibly useful. Let&amp;rsquo;s talk about Joins.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="joins"&gt;Joins&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In my line of work, I&amp;rsquo;m constantly running into the need to combine datasets from multiple sources that relate to each other and pull out some specific properties. Say you have two internal services, one which is used to track production status and another which is used to monitor whether machines are online. To demonstrate this, let&amp;rsquo;s initialize some mock data once again.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Executing LINQ Queries in PowerShell – Part 1</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-05-19-100887-2/</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2018 16:10:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-05-19-100887-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Greetings PowerShellers!&lt;br&gt;
Lately, I&amp;rsquo;ve been itching to write something up on Microsoft’s Language-Integrated Query (LINQ). You&amp;rsquo;ve likely encountered it if you&amp;rsquo;ve done any development in C#. LINQ is an incredibly powerful querying tool for performing look-ups, joins, ordering, and other common tasks on large data sets. We have a few similar cmdlets built into PowerShell, but other than the &amp;lsquo;.Where()&amp;rsquo; method on collection objects nothing that comes close to the speed at which LINQ operates.&lt;br&gt;
To dig into this topic, we&amp;rsquo;re going to have to do a quick high level overview of a couple of other .NET staples often encountered in the C# world. You see, unlike most .NET methods which accept object types like integers, strings, and the like, LINQ uses static extension methods which only accept delegate object types.&lt;br&gt;
What are delegates? In application development, there is an occasional need for objects within memory to communicate with each other for things such as &amp;ldquo;button click events.&amp;rdquo; To address this, the Windows API uses function pointers to create callback functions which then report back to other functions in your applications. Within the .Net Framework, these are called delegates.&lt;br&gt;
Delegates are objects that point to another method, or possibly many methods, by storing three key pieces of information: the address of the method on which it makes calls, the parameters (if any) of this method, and the return type (if any) of this method. With this information, a delegate object is able to invoke these methods dynamically at runtime, either synchronously or asynchronously. With this information, a delegate object is able to invoke these methods dynamically at runtime, either synchronously or asynchronously.&lt;br&gt;
A simple example of this in C# looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A Summit 2018 Post-Mortem</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-04-16-a-summit-2018-post-mortem/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:36:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-04-16-a-summit-2018-post-mortem/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve been conducting a survey of Summit 2018, now that it&amp;rsquo;s in the past, and wanted to share some of our immediate take-aways. The survey is still open for Summiteers until end of April 2018; you should have the URL in a follow-up email and can inquire in the Slack team if you need it.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A Changing of the Guard</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-04-11-a-changing-of-the-guard/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2018 20:04:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-04-11-a-changing-of-the-guard/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This week at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2018, we announced a change in leadership for The DevOps Collective, the nonprofit organization that runs Summit, PowerShell.org, and other programs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Stepping in as CEO will be former Director of Online Services Will Anderson (@gamerlivingwill on Twitter). As CEO, Will takes on day to day responsibility for running Summit, managing the website, and keeping our other programs on track. He will be assembling a team, including our new CFO James Petty, to help him with those tasks. Many of our current crew, including Richard Siddaway and Jeff Hicks, will continue their major contributions to Summit and other activities, and Will is already speaking with other community members who will be joining our team for the first time. Jeffrey Bernt will take on additional responsibilities for Summit logistics, backed by our long-time logistics expert Christopher Gannon. This is all part of what has always been our plan to involve more community members in the organization’s operation, and to help to ensure the long term success and survival of all our programs.&lt;br&gt;
I will remain the organization’s President. This enables me to stay on the advise Will and his team, help document how we do things, and focus on the organization’s future. Will’s move to CEO will free up space for me to work on new projects that further the organization’s mission, and to grow the organization to better serve our community. I’ve some fun things in mind that you’ll hopefully get to see someday soon.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Iron Scripter prequels: Puzzle 10 – A commentary</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-04-01-iron-scripter-prequels-puzzle-10-a-commentary/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:01:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-04-01-iron-scripter-prequels-puzzle-10-a-commentary/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This is the commentary on the last Iron Scripter prequel puzzle: &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Iron-Scripter-Prequel-Puzzle-10-A-commentary.pdf"&gt;Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 10 - A commentary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Next weekend will mark the start of summit and you can work on the Iron Scripter preludes - 4 daily puzzles as a lead in to the main event on Thursday 12 April 2018. If you haven&amp;rsquo;t chosen your faction yet you need to hurry&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Iron Scripter Prequels: Puzzle 9 – A commentary</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-03-28-iron-scripter-prequels-puzzle-9-a-commentary/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:07:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-03-28-iron-scripter-prequels-puzzle-9-a-commentary/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s my commentary for puzzle 9: &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Iron-Scripter-Prequel-Puzzle-9-A-commentary.pdf"&gt;Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 9 - A commentary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
In this puzzle you were cleaning up the TEMP folder and the recycle bin plus working with scheduled tasks and/or scheduled jobs.&lt;br&gt;
One more commentary to come - probably early next week rather than Sunday and then we&amp;rsquo;re into the Summit and the main event.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Iron Scripter Preludes and Main Event: Rules and Info</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-03-18-iron-scripter-preludes-and-main-event-rules-and-info/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2018 20:00:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-03-18-iron-scripter-preludes-and-main-event-rules-and-info/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Information is &lt;a href="http://ironscripter.us/iron-scripter-us-2018/"&gt;now available at IronScripter.us&lt;/a&gt; for the at-Summit events, and participants are advised to refresh themselves on the &lt;a href="http://ironscripter.us/rules/"&gt;Rules&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
Participants attending Summit should begin choosing their faction and getting to know their teammates in the faction-specific channels of the DevOps-Summit Slack team (open only to attendees and alumni).&lt;br&gt;
Participants hoping to participate remotely may wish to start choosing a faction and finding a way to get in touch with them. The &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/forums/forum/iron-scripter/faction-discussion/"&gt;Faction Discussion&lt;/a&gt; may be a good way to do that.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Iron Scripter prequel: Puzzle 10</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-03-18-iron-scripter-prequel-puzzle-10/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2018 00:01:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-03-18-iron-scripter-prequel-puzzle-10/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Activity on the Iron Scripter forum and Slack channels has reduced for the last few puzzles leading me to believe that I&amp;rsquo;ve been giving out too many challenges. I&amp;rsquo;ve decided that this will be the last prequel puzzle: &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Iron-Scripter-Prequel-Puzzle-10.pdf"&gt;Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 10&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
There won&amp;rsquo;t be a puzzle 11.&lt;br&gt;
Next week I&amp;rsquo;ll publish the commentary for puzzle 9 and the week after that for puzzle 10 meaning you get 2 weeks for these last 2 puzzles.&lt;br&gt;
Next year, if we repeat Iron Scripter and the prequels, we&amp;rsquo;ll space the prequels out a bit more so that we don&amp;rsquo;t overload you.&lt;br&gt;
Details on the iron Scripter challenge itself will be published soon - until then enjoy this last prequel puzzle.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Iron Scripter prequel: Puzzle 8 – A commentary</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-03-11-iron-scripter-prequel-puzzle-8-a-commentary/</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2018 00:03:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-03-11-iron-scripter-prequel-puzzle-8-a-commentary/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In puzzle 8 you&amp;rsquo;re asked to create some local users, folders and a file. Then set permissions on the file. I&amp;rsquo;ve provided a commentary on the puzzle: &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Iron-Scripter-Prequel-Puzzle-8-A-commentary.pdf"&gt;Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 8 - A commentary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;ve not presented full faction specific solutions as usual - view the forums and Slack channels to see how the factions are solving this puzzle.&lt;br&gt;
Puzzle 9 will be available around the time you read this.&lt;br&gt;
Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Iron Scripter prequel: Puzzle 9</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-03-11-iron-scripter-prequel-puzzle-9/</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2018 00:01:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-03-11-iron-scripter-prequel-puzzle-9/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;You&amp;rsquo;re approaching the end of the prequels - soon it will be time for Iron Scripter. This week&amp;rsquo;s challenge involves the file system and the scheduling system - &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Iron-Scripter-Prequel-Puzzle-9.pdf"&gt;Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In all things remember the goals of your faction.&lt;br&gt;
Please remember that we&amp;rsquo;re NOT grading the submissions for these puzzles. You can comment, and discuss the puzzle on the Iron Scripter prequel forums or on the Summit Slack channel.&lt;br&gt;
If anyone is really stuck or doesn&amp;rsquo;t understand something in the puzzle leave a comment here or on the Slack channel. I&amp;rsquo;ll try and answer but can&amp;rsquo;t guarantee timeframes.&lt;br&gt;
If there is sufficient interest I&amp;rsquo;ll run a Q&amp;amp;A side session on the prequel puzzles at Summit. Let me know either here or on the Slack channel if you&amp;rsquo;re interested.&lt;br&gt;
Good luck&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>2018 Community Lightning Demos – Sign Up Now!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-03-10-2018-community-lightning-demos-sign-up-now/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2018 02:41:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-03-10-2018-community-lightning-demos-sign-up-now/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;ve been to a PowerShell Summit, chances are you&amp;rsquo;ve seen the awesome lightning demos put on by the PowerShell team members. It&amp;rsquo;s a fun format - each team member gives a quick 5-10 minute demo of something they&amp;rsquo;re working on, one after the other.&lt;br&gt;
In a few weeks, the PowerShell + Devops Global Summit will kick off, with a Community Lightning Demo session scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. We&amp;rsquo;re looking for community members like you to &lt;a href="https://www.papercall.io/cfps/988/submissions/new"&gt;sign up&lt;/a&gt; and present! Demo something cool that you&amp;rsquo;ve written or used - a module, function, tip, trick, etc. - just keep it under 10 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Iron Scripter Prequel: Puzzle 7 – A commentary</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-03-04-iron-scripter-prequel-puzzle-7-a-commentary/</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2018 00:03:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-03-04-iron-scripter-prequel-puzzle-7-a-commentary/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Puzzle 7 introduces a touch of class - PowerShell classes to be precise. The way I approached the puzzle is available: &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Iron-Scripter-Prequel-Puzzle-7-A-commentary.pdf"&gt;Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 7 - A commentary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;ve not presented full faction specific solutions as usual - view the forums and Slack channels to see how the factions are solving this puzzle.&lt;br&gt;
Puzzle 8 will be available around the time you read this.&lt;br&gt;
Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Iron Scripter Prequel: Puzzle 8</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-03-04-iron-scripter-prequel-puzzle-8/</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2018 00:01:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-03-04-iron-scripter-prequel-puzzle-8/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Iron Scripter is rapidly approaching. This is one of your last few training opportunities.&lt;br&gt;
This challenge &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Iron-Scripter-Prequel-Puzzle-8.pdf"&gt;Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 8&lt;/a&gt; revolves around setting permissions on files.&lt;br&gt;
In all things remember the goals of your faction.&lt;br&gt;
Please remember that we&amp;rsquo;re NOT grading the submissions for these puzzles. You can comment, and discuss the puzzle on the Iron Scripter prequel forums or on the Summit Slack channel.&lt;br&gt;
If anyone is really stuck or doesn&amp;rsquo;t understand something in the puzzle leave a comment here or on the Slack channel. I&amp;rsquo;ll try and answer but can&amp;rsquo;t guarantee timeframes.&lt;br&gt;
If there is sufficient interest I&amp;rsquo;ll run a Q&amp;amp;A side session on the prequel puzzles at Summit. Let me know either here or on the Slack channel if you&amp;rsquo;re interested.&lt;br&gt;
Good luck&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Iron Scripter Prequel: Puzzle 6 commentary</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-25-iron-scripter-prequel-puzzle-6-commentary/</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2018 00:03:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-25-iron-scripter-prequel-puzzle-6-commentary/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Puzzle 6 has some interesting aspects when you dig into determining system up time: &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Iron-Scripter-Prequel-Puzzle-6-A-commentary.pdf"&gt;Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 6 - A commentary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;ve not presented full faction specific solutions as usual - view the forums and Slack channels to see how the factions are solving this puzzle.&lt;br&gt;
Puzzle 7 will be available around the time you read this.&lt;br&gt;
Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Iron Scripter Prequels: puzzle 7</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-25-iron-scripter-prequels-puzzle-7/</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2018 00:01:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-25-iron-scripter-prequels-puzzle-7/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;You&amp;rsquo;re past half way on journey to iron Scripter. Only a few more training opportunities will be available to you before the ultimate competition.&lt;br&gt;
In this week&amp;rsquo;s challenge  &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Iron-Scripter-Prequel-Puzzle-7.pdf"&gt;Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 7&lt;/a&gt; you&amp;rsquo;ll be working with PowerShell classes.&lt;br&gt;
In all things remember the goals of  your faction.&lt;br&gt;
Please remember that we&amp;rsquo;re NOT grading the submissions for these puzzles. You can comment, and discuss the puzzle on the Iron Scripter prequel forums or on the Summit Slack channel.&lt;br&gt;
If anyone is really stuck or doesn&amp;rsquo;t understand something in the puzzle leave a comment here or on the Slack channel. I&amp;rsquo;ll try and answer but can&amp;rsquo;t guarantee timeframes.&lt;br&gt;
If there is sufficient interest I&amp;rsquo;ll run a Q&amp;amp;A side session on the prequel puzzles at Summit. Let me know either here or on the Slack channel if you&amp;rsquo;re interested.&lt;br&gt;
Good luck&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Iron Scripter 2018 prequel: Puzzle 5 – a commentary</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-18-iron-scripter-2018-prequel-puzzle-5-a-commentary/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:03:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-18-iron-scripter-2018-prequel-puzzle-5-a-commentary/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Puzzle 5 involves working with performance counters. My notes and commentary are available: &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Iron-Scripter-Prequel-Puzzle-5-A-commentary.pdf"&gt;Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 5 - A commentary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
As with previous commentaries I&amp;rsquo;ve not presented the faction specific solutions - view the forums and Slack channels to see what the factions are doing and join with your faction.&lt;br&gt;
Puzzle 6 will be available around the time you read this.&lt;br&gt;
Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Iron Scripter Prequels: Puzzle 6</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-18-iron-scripter-prequels-puzzle-6/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:01:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-18-iron-scripter-prequels-puzzle-6/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This is your half way challenge. This week your challenge involves discovering the time a system has been running - &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Iron-Scripter-Prequel-Puzzle-6.pdf"&gt;Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In all things remember the goals of your faction.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please remember that we&amp;rsquo;re NOT grading submissions for these puzzles. You can comment, and discuss the puzzle on the Iron Scripter Prequel forums or on the Summit Slack channel.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If anyone is really stuck or doesn&amp;rsquo;t understand something in the puzzle leave a comment here or on the Slack channel. I&amp;rsquo;ll try to answer but no guarantees about timeframe as I&amp;rsquo;m finishing off work on Summit 2018 and starting Summit 2019!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Iron Scripter 2018 prequel: Puzzle 4 – a commentary</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-11-iron-scripter-2018-prequel-puzzle-4-a-commentary/</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2018 00:03:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-11-iron-scripter-2018-prequel-puzzle-4-a-commentary/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Puzzle 4 is all about working with legacy utilities. My notes and commentary are now available: &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Iron-Scripter-Prequel-Puzzle-4-A-commentary.pdf"&gt;Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 4 - A commentary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
As with previous commentaries I&amp;rsquo;ve not presented the faction specific solutions - view the forums and Slack channels to see what the factions are doing and join with your faction.&lt;br&gt;
Puzzle 5 will be available around the time you read this.&lt;br&gt;
Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Iron Scripter 2018 prequel: Puzzle 5</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-11-iron-scripter-2018-prequel-puzzle-5/</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2018 00:01:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-11-iron-scripter-2018-prequel-puzzle-5/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;You&amp;rsquo;re approaching the half way point on your journey to Iron Scripter. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, involves performance counters and multiple ways of presenting data. The details are here: &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Iron-Scripter-Prequel-Puzzle-5.pdf"&gt;Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
In all things remember the goals of your faction.&lt;br&gt;
Please remember that we&amp;rsquo;re NOT grading submissions for these puzzles. You can comment, and discuss the puzzle on the Iron Scripter Prequel forums or on the Summit Slack channel&lt;br&gt;
If anyone is really stuck or doesn&amp;rsquo;t understand something in the puzzle leave a comment here or on the Slack channel. I&amp;rsquo;ll try to answer but no guarantees about timeframe as I&amp;rsquo;m finishing off work on Summit 2018 and starting Summit 2019!&lt;br&gt;
Good luck.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Updated Summit Pre-Arrival InfoDump</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-08-updated-summit-pre-arrival-infodump/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2018 19:26:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-08-updated-summit-pre-arrival-infodump/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We sent out a big email blast to everyone this morning (noon Eastern time), and if you didn&amp;rsquo;t get it it&amp;rsquo;s because (probably) your corporate email is block-block-blocking us. You&amp;rsquo;re welcome to sign up a personal email address at &lt;a href="http://eepurl.com/cEcNlT"&gt;http://eepurl.com/cEcNlT&lt;/a&gt;, if you&amp;rsquo;d like. We&amp;rsquo;ll also continue to post communications in the #summit-events channel in the Slack team. A PDF of this morning&amp;rsquo;s email is here, although this&amp;rsquo;ll be the last one we post publicly.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Important-Pre-Summit-Information.pdf"&gt;Important Pre-Summit Information&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
That mailing list and our Slack team are going to be our best way to communicate with Summiteers, so make sure one of them is working for you.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2018 Registration Status</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-06-powershell-devops-global-summit-2018-registration-status/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2018 22:21:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-06-powershell-devops-global-summit-2018-registration-status/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As I write this, we’ve sold out. Here’s what happens next:&lt;br&gt;
We need to finish reconciling our speaker slots and PowerShell team seats, which will take about a week. That may result in a free seat or two, which we will place on sale. Watch @PSHSummit on Twitter for that announcement.&lt;br&gt;
A WAITLIST IS AVAILABLE ON THE REGISTRATION PAGE. Sign up if you’d like first notice of released inventory and a 24h window to claim a seat&lt;br&gt;
Beyond that, monitor the Summit discussion forum here. We often have last minute cancellations, and while we don’t permit refunds, we do permit ticket holders to transfer their tickets. We will advise them to post in the forum to solicit transferees. Financial arrangements for such transfers are private; we cannot facilitate those&lt;br&gt;
That will do it for registration - aside from a possible small handful of seats coming out of our final reconciliation, and the opportunity of purchasing a ticket from a cancellation, there won’t be additional inventory. We’re not looking to increase attendance for 2019, either; we will be sticking at the current attendee count for the foreseeable future.&lt;br&gt;
Big thanks to our returning and new Summiteers! We are looking forward to seeing you in April!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit Pre-Arrival Information Dump</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-05-powershell-summit-pre-arrival-information-dump/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:49:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-05-powershell-summit-pre-arrival-information-dump/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This is a bit of a long post, but we promise - it&amp;rsquo;s important, and it&amp;rsquo;s worth it.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Refunds &amp;amp; Transfers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Because this is the time of year when it starts to come up, remember that we don&amp;rsquo;t offer registration refunds. You&amp;rsquo;re welcome to transfer your membership, however, at no fee. Just log into EventBrite (if someone else registered you, they&amp;rsquo;ll need to do this) and change the attendee information. Voila!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Pre-Arrival&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
For the love of all that is good and just in the world, make sure you have your EventBrite ticket. That can be printed, in the EventBrite phone app, in an email on your phone, or whatever - we just need the barcode. If you don&amp;rsquo;t have this, there will be a Sad Summiteer line for you to stand in, where we can look you up by name or order number.&lt;br&gt;
Speakers! You&amp;rsquo;re not in EventBrite yet, but you will be. Right before Summit, we&amp;rsquo;ll be registering you, so be sure to watch your email. If you haven&amp;rsquo;t provided Richard with a good email address (we STRONGLY suggest a personal one to avoid corporate spam-traps), please do so NOW.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Registration Process&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
When you get to the Meydenbauer Center, go DOWNSTAIRS to Center Hall A and B. This is not where we&amp;rsquo;ve been in the past. Do not go upstairs.&lt;br&gt;
Step 1 will be to get your EventBrite ticket scanned. Don&amp;rsquo;t have yours? Sad panda, you&amp;rsquo;ll need to stand in Sad Summiteer line for a manual name lookup. Then&amp;hellip;&lt;br&gt;
Step 2, find your badge (organized by last name), and insert it into a badge holder. Then, on to&amp;hellip;&lt;br&gt;
Step 3 is T-Shirt pickup. This must be done right then - we won&amp;rsquo;t have this set up later, and leftovers will be donated to a local charity. If you&amp;rsquo;re skipping Monday for some reason, you will not get your shirt. We will have tables set up for each shirt size. Go to the table corresponding to your pre-selected choice in EventBrite, where your name will be checked against a list. You shirt size is also printed on your name badge for your convenience.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;This is a good time to double-check your EventBrite shirt size selection&lt;/em&gt;. You can change it until March 5th or so (if someone else registered you, they will need to make the change for you as well). You cannot change your mind later because we&amp;rsquo;re ordering the exact quantities indicated in EventBrite. Speakers! We collected your shirt size during the Call for Topics; check with Richard Siddaway on your shirt size, if you need to. Do this RIGHT NOW if you&amp;rsquo;re not certain.&lt;br&gt;
Step 4 is breakfast. Enjoy. And wear your badge at all times, please.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Venue Layout&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Monday, we&amp;rsquo;ll be downstairs in Center Hall A and B all day. All day! Tuesday-Thursday, we&amp;rsquo;re back in our traditional space upstairs (rooms 401-409) for all sessions; meals will remain downstairs in Center Hall. During meal times, all escalators will run in the direction of food; about halfway through meal breaks, we&amp;rsquo;ll run them all back int he direction of sessions. If you want to go the opposite direction for some weird reason, take the elevators. Do not run wrong-ways on the escalators.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;GET THE SCHEDULE APP!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
If you hustle to the schedule website (linked from PowerShellSummit.org), we suggest you bookmark it. Then, get our iPhone or Android app for your phones. If you need a Windows Phone app, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. The app is where ALL schedule changes will be reflected. Install it. Examine it. Love it.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;CHOOSE YOUR FACTION!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
If you haven&amp;rsquo;t already been participating in Iron Scripter Prequel on PowerShell.org, jump in. And use the #faction- channels in our Slack team to find the faction whose style fits you best. Locate members of your faction all week, and get to be friends - because you&amp;rsquo;ll need each other for the epic, annual IRON SCRIPTER tournament Thursday afternoon! (And we may have some faction-logo rubber stamps wandering around, if you&amp;rsquo;d like to indicate your faction loyalty on your name badge!)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Open Spaces / Side Sessions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Tuesday-Thursday, rooms 407 and 408 will be available for ad-hoc &amp;ldquo;Side Sessions.&amp;rdquo; We do not provide A/V in these rooms, but you can suggest a session anytime you like. Email your suggestions to &lt;a href="mailto:sidesessions@powershell.org"&gt;sidesessions@powershell.org&lt;/a&gt;. If you have a time slot request, or a time you don&amp;rsquo;t want your session to be, just mention it. We&amp;rsquo;ll do our best to accommodate, reply to you, and add you to the schedule. We&amp;rsquo;ll announce sessions each morning, so try to schedule at least by the day before.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Session Reviews&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
THESE ARE IMPORTANT. DO THEM. You can do so right from within our app, or the Sched.com website. Reviews end on Thursday afternoon, so you can&amp;rsquo;t save these up and do them a week later, sorry.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Power Cord Policy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Do not under any circumstances WHATSOEVER drag a power cord across any walkway. Do not leave your electronics leaning against the wall in an attempt to avoid running a cord across the walkway. This is serious, Fire Marshal business. Do not poke the Fire Marshall - his office is literally across the street.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Slack&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
People often use the Slack team to coordinate dinners and more; we recommend getting their mobile app and logging into the DevOps-Summit workspace.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Hug Jason&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Hugs are an important part of Jason Helmick&amp;rsquo;s personal economy, and as this is his last year serving as our CFO, please take a moment to thank the big bald goofball for his service.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Spouse / Guest Passes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Please bear in mind that only paid attendees are permitted to any and all Summit activities - this is as much about insurance requirements as it is our costs. We did offer Spouse/Guest passes on the main registration site - those provide access to our Monday and Wednesday evening events only. Please ensure your guest brings their EventBrite ticket (barcode) with them to each event. We cannot accommodate early admission for guests.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>2018 Community Lightning Demos</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-04-2018-community-lightning-demos/</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2018 02:45:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-04-2018-community-lightning-demos/</guid><description>&lt;h4 id="rambling"&gt;Rambling&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Last year&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/summit/"&gt;PowerShell + Devops Global Summit&lt;/a&gt; was a roller coaster.&lt;br&gt;
On one hand, I spoke for the first time - it was terrifying. Getting up in front of a local user group had helped, but it&amp;rsquo;s not quite the same as a room full of PowerShell-ers, including MVPs and PowerShell team members - eek!&lt;br&gt;
On the other hand, I was lucky enough to host the Community Lightning Demos. We managed to give 22 folks the chance to get up in front of the PowerShell community and give a quick, low-pressure ~10 minute demo.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Iron Scripter 2018 Prequel: Puzzle 3 – a commentary</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-04-iron-scripter-2018-prequel-puzzle-3-a-commentary/</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2018 00:05:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-04-iron-scripter-2018-prequel-puzzle-3-a-commentary/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;My notes and commentary on puzzle 3 - working with a web feed - are now available: &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Iron-Scripter-Prequel-Puzzle-3-A-commentary.pdf"&gt;Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 3 - A commentary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
As with previous commentaries I&amp;rsquo;ve not presented the faction specific solutions - view the forums and Slack channel to see what your faction and maybe more importantly what other factions have done.&lt;br&gt;
Puzzle 4 will be available around the time you read this.&lt;br&gt;
Enjoy&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Iron Scripter 2018 prequel: Puzzle 4</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-04-iron-scripter-2018-prequel-puzzle-4/</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2018 00:02:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-04-iron-scripter-2018-prequel-puzzle-4/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;You&amp;rsquo;re a quarter of the way to Iron Scripter. In this challenge - &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Iron-Scripter-Prequel-Puzzle-4.pdf"&gt;Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 4&lt;/a&gt; - 
you&amp;rsquo;ll be asked to find a way to make legacy command line tools work with the PowerShell pipeline
.&lt;br&gt;
In all things remember the goal of your faction.&lt;br&gt;
Please remember that we&amp;rsquo;re not grading submissions for these puzzles. You can comment, and discuss the puzzle on the Iron Scripter Prequel forum.&lt;br&gt;
If anyone is really stuck or doesn&amp;rsquo;t understand something in the puzzle leave a comment here and I&amp;rsquo;ll try to answer. No guarantees on timeframe though.&lt;br&gt;
Good luck&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Summit 2018 registration status</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-03-summit-2018-registration-status/</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2018 10:07:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-03-summit-2018-registration-status/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The speed at which places at Summit are being purchased has been amazing. We&amp;rsquo;re down to our LAST 25 places.&lt;br&gt;
At present rates I expect those to be gone by this time next week.&lt;br&gt;
If you want a place at Summit 2018 - BUY NOW.&lt;br&gt;
If you know of anyone who wants a place at Summit 2018 - tell them to BUY NOW&lt;br&gt;
Last year we managed to add about 30 places after selling our initial number. We&amp;rsquo;ll NOT be able to do that this year. We&amp;rsquo;re getting much better at working out how many places are, and can be, available.&lt;br&gt;
This is the LAST CALL for registrations for Summit 2018.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Help us Recognize Amazing PowerShell Contributors!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-01-help-us-recognize-amazing-powershell-contributors/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2018 16:36:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-02-01-help-us-recognize-amazing-powershell-contributors/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;First: Please share this as widely as possible in your social media channels, so we can get the most number of suggestions possible!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;re working with the PowerShell team at Microsoft to identify individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the PowerShell community. Perhaps they&amp;rsquo;ve written blog posts that really helped you conquer a PowerShell challenge, or maybe they&amp;rsquo;ve contributed code (on GitHub or elsewhere) that you rely on. Maybe they&amp;rsquo;re an amazing teacher, or perhaps they&amp;rsquo;re an awesome coder. Whatever their contribution, if it&amp;rsquo;s been notable and helpful to you, we&amp;rsquo;d like to hear from you.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Distilling Microsoft's DSC Update (Jan 2018)</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-01-29-distilling-microsofts-dsc-update-jan-2018/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:11:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-01-29-distilling-microsofts-dsc-update-jan-2018/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This past Friday, Microsoft &lt;a href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2018/01/26/dsc-planning-update-january-2018/"&gt;posted a DSC Update&lt;/a&gt; that&amp;rsquo;s worth your attention - and some commentary.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Story Continued Becoming a Craftsman</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-01-28-powershell-story-continued-becoming-a-craftsman/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2018 10:46:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-01-28-powershell-story-continued-becoming-a-craftsman/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;My journey started off by figuring out how to automate a daily disk space report on the mailserver, which ran most of the company, and emailing the report to my boss at the time. After PowerShell sent that first email, something clicked. I sat back in my chair and thought to myself, “Wow, I don’t have to do this anymore”. I can still feel how exciting and relieving that thought was. Fast forward a few years and I had made automation about 80% of my job. I had moved into a few new roles - Tier 2 Support to Systems Engineer, to Senior Systems Engineer. My last post left off when I left my role as a Senior Systems Engineer and landed a gig as a DevOps Engineer. At the time I thought this was the end of the road. I thought, “I’ll pick up a few new tricks and further improve my PowerShell skills”. I couldn’t have been more wrong. This post picks up at the beginning of my transition into the world of DevOps, where I learned no matter how much you know, you know nothing. Continue reading to hear the rest of the story…&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://duffney.io/PowerShell-Story-Continued-BecomingACraftsman"&gt;http://duffney.io/PowerShell-Story-Continued-BecomingACraftsman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Iron Scripter Prequel: Puzzle 2 – a commentary</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-01-28-iron-scripter-prequel-puzzle-2-a-commentary/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2018 00:02:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-01-28-iron-scripter-prequel-puzzle-2-a-commentary/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A discussion and possible solution to puzzle 1 is now available at  &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Iron-Scripter-Prequel-Puzzle-2-A-commentary.pdf"&gt;Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 2 - A commentary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Remember this isn&amp;rsquo;t presented as a definitive solution. It&amp;rsquo;s my view of the solution.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;ve not provided faction specific code but rather a list of points the factions need to consider to be truly worthy of their faction.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Iron Scripter 2018 Prequel: Puzzle 3</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-01-28-iron-scripter-2018-prequel-puzzle-3/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2018 00:01:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-01-28-iron-scripter-2018-prequel-puzzle-3/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;You have overcome 2 challenges so far both involving code from the archives. In this challenge you&amp;rsquo;ll be called upon to create your own code. You&amp;rsquo;ll be presented with a task to perform in &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Iron-Scripter-Prequel-Puzzle-3.pdf"&gt;Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
How you approach this challenge is up to you but remember the goals of your faction.&lt;br&gt;
Please remember that we&amp;rsquo;re not grading submissions for these puzzles. You can comment, and discuss the puzzle on the Iron Scripter Prequel forum&lt;br&gt;
Good luck&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Summit 2018 registration update</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-01-26-summit-2018-registration-update/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2018 16:55:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-01-26-summit-2018-registration-update/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As an update to the registrations for Summit 2018 - we&amp;rsquo;ve sold 75% of the available places.&lt;br&gt;
As Don explained we won&amp;rsquo;t be able to add further places like we did last year.&lt;br&gt;
This is our biggest (and hopefully best) Summit yet with more sessions and nearly double the number of speakers.&lt;br&gt;
If you want a place I recommend not waiting. Last year we sold our last place on 24 February. If sales carry on as they currently are we&amp;rsquo;ll sell out for 2018 well before then.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit Registration Status</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-01-23-powershell-summit-registration-status/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:30:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-01-23-powershell-summit-registration-status/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A quick update - all numbers as of 23-January-2018, 12:23pm Pacific time.&lt;br&gt;
91 seats remaining. We are on track to sell out in approximately 45 days. Unlike previous years where we&amp;rsquo;ve scrounged some spare seats at the last minute, **please don&amp;rsquo;t expect that this year, **as I think I&amp;rsquo;ve gotten better at math and have not been rounding as much.&lt;br&gt;
Hotel situation:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Marriott, we have 6 rooms left. This is our &amp;ldquo;official&amp;rdquo; hotel, with the largest number of Summiteers on site.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Courtyard, we have 9 rooms left. This is a quick walk to the Meydenbauer, with about half as many Summiteers as the Marriott.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hotel 116, we have 34 rooms left. This also has about half as many Summiteers as the Marriott, and is our lowest price point hotel. This is still a quick walk to the Meydenbauer.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After the rooms above are exhausted, you&amp;rsquo;re on to &amp;ldquo;rack rate,&amp;rdquo; which, sadly, can be ridonkulous as it&amp;rsquo;s a popular time of year to be in Bellevue and they&amp;rsquo;ve gotten used to our crowd coming in. &lt;strong&gt;We do ask that you choose one of the above hotels if humanly possible&lt;/strong&gt; so that we&amp;rsquo;re not stuck paying for this reserved space regardless. If we have to do so, prices for Summit will assuredly rise in 2019.&lt;br&gt;
Can&amp;rsquo;t make it? We&amp;rsquo;re often asked about session recordings. We&amp;rsquo;re not prepared to commit to anything for 2018, although we&amp;rsquo;re working hard with a partner to try and make something happen. There&amp;rsquo;s no need whatsoever to &amp;ldquo;+1&amp;rdquo; this; we&amp;rsquo;re well aware that everyone asks for recordings (despite fairly low actual view numbers for them), and we&amp;rsquo;re working on it. Last year&amp;rsquo;s attempt was massively disruptful and unsuccessful, so we can&amp;rsquo;t have &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; again.&lt;br&gt;
That&amp;rsquo;s it! Hit us up on Twitter @PSHSummit if you have questions!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Iron Scripter Prequel: Puzzle 1 – a solution</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-01-21-iron-scripter-prequel-puzzle-1-a-solution/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2018 00:05:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-01-21-iron-scripter-prequel-puzzle-1-a-solution/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A discussion and possible solution to puzzle 1 is now available at &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Iron-Scripter-Prequel-Puzzle-1-A-solution.pdf"&gt;Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 1 - A solution&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Remember this isn&amp;rsquo;t presented as a definitive solution. It&amp;rsquo;s my view of the solution. Please also note that the faction specific parts are indicative and not prescriptive - they are my view of how the different factions would approach solving the puzzle.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Iron Scripter 2018 Prequel: Puzzle 2</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-01-21-iron-scripter-2018-prequel-puzzle-2/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2018 00:01:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-01-21-iron-scripter-2018-prequel-puzzle-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;You&amp;rsquo;ve survived the first challenge. A new challenge in the shape of &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Iron-Scripter-Prequel-Puzzle-2.pdf"&gt;Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 2&lt;/a&gt; is now available.&lt;br&gt;
Take note of the faction based instructions.&lt;br&gt;
Please remember that we&amp;rsquo;re not grading submissions for these puzzles.&lt;br&gt;
You can comment, and discuss the puzzle on the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/forums/forum/iron-scripter/iron-scripter-prequel/"&gt;Iron Scripter Prequel forum &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Stay true to your faction and victory will be yours.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Can We Talk About PowerShell Core 6.0?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-01-15-can-we-talk-about-powershell-core-6-0/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2018 16:36:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-01-15-can-we-talk-about-powershell-core-6-0/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Microsoft recently &lt;a href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2018/01/10/powershell-core-6-0-generally-available-ga-and-supported/"&gt;announced the General Availability&lt;/a&gt; (that is, a non-beta release) of PowerShell Core 6.0. A &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/docs/BREAKINGCHANGES.md"&gt;companion document detailing breaking changes&lt;/a&gt;, along with some of the language in the announcement, has led to more than a few inquiries in my mailbox. Most take the tone of, &amp;ldquo;have I been wasting my time learning PowerShell?!?!?&amp;rdquo; because, at first glance, PowerShell Core looks deeply less functional than its predecessor. Let me tell you what I think.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Iron Scripter 2018 Prequel: Puzzle 1</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-01-14-iron-scripter-2018-prequel-puzzle-1/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2018 00:01:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-01-14-iron-scripter-2018-prequel-puzzle-1/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Greetings Iron Scripters&lt;br&gt;
The first puzzle in the Iron Scripter 2018 Prequel series is available:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Iron-Scripter-Prequel-Puzzle-1.pdf"&gt;Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Take note of the faction based instructions.&lt;br&gt;
Please remember that we&amp;rsquo;re not grading submissions for these puzzles.&lt;br&gt;
You can comment, and discuss the puzzle on the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/forums/forum/iron-scripter/iron-scripter-prequel/"&gt;Iron Scripter Prequel forum &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Stay true to your faction and victory will be yours.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PSCore 6 – Jeffrey Snover and the PowerShell Team hosting AMA on 11th Jan 9am PT</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-01-09-pscore-6-jeffrey-snover-and-the-powershell-team-hosting-ama-on-11th-jan-9am-pt/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2018 13:20:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-01-09-pscore-6-jeffrey-snover-and-the-powershell-team-hosting-ama-on-11th-jan-9am-pt/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Core 6 is scheduled for General Availability release tomorrow (10th January). As such Jeffrey Snover and the PowerShell Team are hosting an AMA (Ask Me Anything) event on the 11th January from 9am - 10am PT.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;This is going to be a historical week for PowerShell Core 6 🙂 &amp;hellip;Join the PowerShell team and &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/jsnover"&gt;@&lt;strong&gt;jsnover&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;{.twitter-atreply.pretty-link.js-nav} this Thursday for the PowerShell AMA&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/PowerShell-AMA-300x160.jpg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Add it to your calendar &lt;a href="https://aka.ms/PowerShellAMA/invite"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
Due to the timing I expect that the team are mostly hoping for questions related to the release of PS Core, although in the spirit of an AMA anything goes :).&lt;br&gt;
If you haven&amp;rsquo;t yet checked out PowerShell Core 6, you can &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell"&gt;grab the RC release today&lt;/a&gt; and install it side-by-side with Windows PowerShell.&lt;br&gt;
I have also written &lt;a href="http://wragg.io/powershell-core/"&gt;a blog post that explains what PowerShell Core is, why it exists and how it compares&lt;/a&gt; which I hope you find informative.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Iron Scripter prequel</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-01-04-iron-scripter-prequel/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2018 18:00:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2018-01-04-iron-scripter-prequel/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Registrations are going very quickly. We&amp;rsquo;ve sold nearly half the available places. Historically, registrations accelerate in the first half of January so don&amp;rsquo;t wait too long before booking or you may be disappointed.&lt;br&gt;
Another tranche of alumni discount places were made available at the beginning of January but there are only 25 of them so if you want one book your place very soon.&lt;br&gt;
One new feature of Summit for 2018 is Iron Scripter - &lt;a href="http://ironscripter.us/"&gt;http://ironscripter.us/&lt;/a&gt;. Three factions will battle it out on Thursday 12 April 2018 for the title of Iron Scripter. If you haven&amp;rsquo;t chosen your faction it&amp;rsquo;s time to start thinking about it:&lt;br&gt;
Daybreak Faction - beautiful code&lt;br&gt;
Flawless Faction - flawless code&lt;br&gt;
Battle Faction - good enough to get the job done&lt;br&gt;
Choose your faction based on your approach to coding.&lt;br&gt;
The run up to Iron Scripter starts soon.&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;ll be running a series of prequel events - think of them as the successor to the &amp;ldquo;Scripting Games&amp;rdquo; of the past. We&amp;rsquo;ll publish a puzzle on powershell.org every week on this schedule:&lt;br&gt;
January 14 puzzle 1&lt;br&gt;
January 21 puzzle 2&lt;br&gt;
January 28 puzzle 3&lt;br&gt;
February 4 puzzle 4&lt;br&gt;
February 11 puzzle 5&lt;br&gt;
February 18 puzzle 6&lt;br&gt;
February 25 puzzle 7&lt;br&gt;
March 4 puzzle 8&lt;br&gt;
March 11 puzzle 9&lt;br&gt;
March 18 puzzle 10&lt;br&gt;
March 25 puzzle 11&lt;br&gt;
A solution will be published the following week. The puzzle for March 25 will have a solution posted on 1 April.&lt;br&gt;
Notice we say &amp;ldquo;a solution&amp;rdquo;. Depending on your faction you may have a different view of how the puzzle should be solved. A forum will be available on PowerShell.org - &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/forums/forum/iron-scripter/iron-scripter-prequel/"&gt;https://powershell.org/forums/forum/iron-scripter/iron-scripter-prequel/&lt;/a&gt; - for you to present and discuss possible solutions. Give your faction&amp;rsquo;s view of how to solve the puzzle. Use the forums and the answers posted there to identify potential members of your faction. You can use non-attendees during the main Iron Scripter event so this is your chance to identify potential remote collaborators.&lt;br&gt;
We &lt;strong&gt;MUST&lt;/strong&gt; stress a couple of things:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Dealing with redundancy in an IT world</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-11-19-dealing-with-redundancy-in-a-it-world/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2017 21:22:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-11-19-dealing-with-redundancy-in-a-it-world/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;So you’re working for a company that’s going well (or not) and you start to hear rumours of parts of the business being sold off, the project you’re working on is being pulled or worse the business is closing down. Before you know it your x amount of years at said company have come to an end and you’re now redundant. The following &lt;a href="http://dilbert.com/strip/1996-05-14"&gt;Dilbert comic&lt;/a&gt; is a possible scenario you may have to deal with.&lt;br&gt;
How you deal with this new found freedom is completely up to you? You can go on a big holiday, have some time off doing things around the house, buy that 2 seater car you’ve always dreamed of owning or go straight back into the workforce using the redundancy (if you got any) to pay off a chunk of your mortgage. Whatever you decide to do, at some point (unless you are retiring) you will need to go job hunting again.&lt;br&gt;
In my situation I was being made redundant and leaving a company I had worked for, for the last 7 ½ years as a senior system engineer. I have a wife and 2 children so I really just wanted to get back in the workforce as soon as I could. The mortgage was not going to pay itself off.&lt;br&gt;
As soon as I heard that I had a month left of work I took out my CV and had to try to remember each position I had occupied over the last 7 ½ years and what my achievements were. And you know what, that is not an easy task. When you’re working and you complete an achievement, you always think to yourself “If ever I have to update my CV ill add this to it”. Problem is 5 years down the line you won’t remember that “good piece of work” and you’ll struggle to put some of the great achievements down on paper for your future employer.&lt;br&gt;
After several attempts at updating my CV, it was ready. Now time to start looking for work. My main skills are in Citrix technologies, PowerShell, Windows Server Operating Systems and my company’s proprietary cloud offering. In my job, I spent nearly every day learning something new and applying it to my job but I didn’t bother with getting certified. When job hunting, the first hurdle I came across was my lack of skills that the market place wanted. For nearly every senior engineer role out there, every man and his dog wanted Azure with 0365 and/or AWS. So any roles that looked good to me were out of my reach because I didn’t have those skills/qualifications.&lt;br&gt;
I found a couple of roles I really liked the look of and naively sent off my CV to those 2 roles only. There were a few other jobs that looked good but I really wanted one of these 2 roles so didn’t apply for anymore. 2 weeks passed and nothing back so I chased them up and still nothing. Oh well guess they didn’t like my CV so I’ll start looking again. And again I repeated the same process. And again the same outcome. I then started do some reading on recruitment sites and how recruiters get so many CVs that on average they will look at yours for 6 second before choosing to read more or toss it.&lt;br&gt;
By now I had finished work and a new job was not in sight, slightly panicking now. I revamped my CV a little, moving my core technical skills to the top of the front page (they were originally at the bottom of the back page) and applied for every job under the sun I liked the look of. I hit every job advertising site I could find and also sent my CV to every tech job agency I could find. If I really liked the look of a job I would follow the online application 30 minutes later with a phone call to get that connection with the job poster and to sell myself (which I hate doing). I updated my LinkedIn page and applied via LinkedIn to jobs on there. I started to use LinkedIn to make contact and catch up with people I knew to see if they had any positions in their companies. I actually found this to be the most successful way to get in to see companies.&lt;br&gt;
Through my contacts I had some interviews and even had a job offer with one tech firm. Problem was they had come in with an offer that was 20% below my previous wage. Do I take it to tie me over the Christmas period and get the money coming in again or do I wait for a possible better job that might show up tomorrow? If I took the job and something better came along would I then rescind that offer and my name would then be mud at that company for anything in the future. I decided not to take the job as it would have meant a major financial shuffle for the family and big cutbacks.&lt;br&gt;
That same afternoon I contacted another friend, as his company had quite a few positions open due to expansion. He put me in contact with their Talent Manger. The following day I had an interview and that evening I had a job offer which I took.&lt;br&gt;
The main take away I hope you get from this is, if this ever happens is to ensure your CV is always up to date. Make sure if and when people leave your present company that you keep some sort of contact with them because you never know when you might need to call on them or you might be able to help them out one day. Keep an eye on the job market and what the market is looking for and get skilled up and/or certified in those areas. If you’re not on LinkedIn get a presence on there, those contacts can be invaluable too. When Job hunting don’t just apply for that one dream job (especially if you’re out of work) hit any one of them that takes your fancy, you are better off having 2 or 3 offers on the table than nothing at all. Last thing to only take the offer if you really want the job, listen to your gut instinct.&lt;br&gt;
As it happens the new company I now work at is going to be one of the 1st in Australia to roll out Azure Stack. So I will be learning and get certified in Azure which better place me for my future.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2018 Scholarship Recipient</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-11-10-powershell-devops-global-summit-2018-scholarship-recipient/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2017 15:45:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-11-10-powershell-devops-global-summit-2018-scholarship-recipient/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Congratulations to Andrew Pla, winner of our PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2018 scholarship. Andrew submitted a stellar application to our review panel, and perfectly fit our profile for someone who’s just peeking out of the “beginner” realm, and who’s demonstrably used PowerShell to help bootstrap their IT career. If you’re attending Summit, be sure to keep an eye out for Andrew and say hi!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Registration is open</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-11-01-registration-is-open/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2017 08:54:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-11-01-registration-is-open/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Registration for the 2018 PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit is open.&lt;br&gt;
These are the important links you&amp;rsquo;ll need:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/summit/"&gt;Summit information &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/powershell-devops-global-summit-2018-registration-32452427083"&gt;Registration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershelldevopsglobalsummit2018.sched.com/"&gt;Agenda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Putting it all out there</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-10-26-putting-it-all-out-there/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2017 11:11:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-10-26-putting-it-all-out-there/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I pushed my first real project to a public repository on GitHub. It&amp;rsquo;s small right now though I hope to flesh it out over time, and it is very niche, but I hope it helps others who come across it. Regardless I&amp;rsquo;m proud of it. If you like, you can check it out &lt;a href="https://github.com/liampkemp/Enabler"&gt;here,&lt;/a&gt; I&amp;rsquo;d love your feedback, but that&amp;rsquo;s not the reason I&amp;rsquo;m writing this.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;m here to tell you &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; I did it.&lt;br&gt;
You see, I&amp;rsquo;m a private kind of person. I don&amp;rsquo;t often put myself out there for fear of embarrassing myself. I have always been worried that I might end up looking silly. That someone who knows more than I do, or knows something differently than I do would catch me out -  and if that happened, I couldn&amp;rsquo;t put the genie back in the bottle. Back in school, I wouldn&amp;rsquo;t put my hand up even if I knew the right answer, just in case. I was ensnared by Impostor Syndrome, it was crippling, and it had to change.&lt;br&gt;
So, what did I do? I started a &lt;a href="https://itcloudpro.net"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;, and in almost a year I&amp;rsquo;ve managed to get around 10-12 posts up. It isn&amp;rsquo;t much nor is it pretty, and sometimes I worry too much about the time in between posts, and rush to put something up which is not always perfect. But I&amp;rsquo;m happy to be doing it all the same. Mostly, I try to post about topics and problems that I haven&amp;rsquo;t been able to find complete information around elsewhere.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;ve started spending more time sharing and interacting on Twitter and LinkedIn, rather than just reading and clicking links. I&amp;rsquo;ve  even been followed and liked a few times. Lastly, I&amp;rsquo;ve been spending more time on these forums and elsewhere, helping out where I can.&lt;br&gt;
Overall, I feel better in myself, and have a greater level of confidence in my skills, knowledge, and what I can bring to the table. In the end, that is what led me to feeling good enough to publish my project. I can&amp;rsquo;t say that I&amp;rsquo;m completely over Impostor Syndrome and I don&amp;rsquo;t think I ever will be. I can say that I don&amp;rsquo;t feel it as often as I used to, and I can use it to drive myself to be better.&lt;br&gt;
When we are presented with a problem, we often go looking for answers from others. Flip that around and it means that if you have solved a problem, there is probably someone else looking for the answer and would really appreciate your experience. So why not put it out there?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell + DevOps Summit 2018 schedule</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-10-24-powershell-devops-summit-2018-schedule/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2017 20:15:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-10-24-powershell-devops-summit-2018-schedule/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The schedule for the 2018 Summit still needs a little bit of polishing to finish it but it&amp;rsquo;s taking shape. I&amp;rsquo;ve started releasing information on sched.com that we&amp;rsquo;re using for all our scheduling needs for the Summit. The one and only truth regarding the sessions and their times can be found at &lt;a href="https://powershelldevopsglobalsummit2018.sched.com/"&gt;https://powershelldevopsglobalsummit2018.sched.com/ &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;ll be adding sessions over the next few days so keep checking.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;m really excited about the schedule for the 2018 Summit. We&amp;rsquo;ll have 4 rooms for sessions with many of your favourite speakers returning and many new speakers which is really good to see. The Community Lightning Demos return by popular acclaim and we&amp;rsquo;ll be running an Iron Scripter competition as well. The PowerShell Team will be presenting all day Monday and at other sessions through out the Summit.&lt;br&gt;
Registration opens 1 November and once you&amp;rsquo;re registered through eventbrite your information will be sync&amp;rsquo;d to sched.com so that you can access the schedule and use the scheduling app.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Using Azure Desired State Configuration – Part IV</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-10-10-using-azure-desired-state-configuration-part-iv/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-10-10-using-azure-desired-state-configuration-part-iv/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;So we&amp;rsquo;ve talked about Azure Automation DSC and the extensive reporting we can get from it.  With the pricing as it is, it would be hard to argue as to why you would want to use anything else.  But I&amp;rsquo;m a completionist, and there may be some edge cases that might come up where you wouldn&amp;rsquo;t be able to use the pull method for configurations.  So let&amp;rsquo;s talk about how you can use Azure DSC to push a configuration to a virtual machine.&lt;br&gt;
So let&amp;rsquo;s get started!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Publish the Configuration&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
In order to push a configuration, we need to publish it to a blob store.  When you use Publish-AzureRmVmDscConfiguration, the command bundles all of the required modules along with the configuration into a .zip file. It does this by pulling the modules from your local machine that you&amp;rsquo;re running the command from, so you&amp;rsquo;ll need to make sure that you have the appropriate modules installed on your system.&lt;br&gt;
First, we&amp;rsquo;ll go ahead and grab a storage account where these binaries can be published.  In the storage account, we have a blob store for our configurations.  This blob store is a private store.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Using Azure Desired State Configuration – Part III</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-10-03-using-azure-desired-state-configuration-part-iii/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2017 14:00:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-10-03-using-azure-desired-state-configuration-part-iii/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Last week we talked about modifying and uploading our configurations to Azure Automation DSC.  We were able to import credentials from Azure&amp;rsquo;s Automation Account Credential store, and then compile the .mof files in the automation account for deployment.  This week, we&amp;rsquo;ll be looking at how we apply those configurations to existing systems via PowerShell.  Then we&amp;rsquo;ll take a look at some of the reporting available via Azure Automation DSC and send those reports over to Operations Management Suite for dashboarding.&lt;br&gt;
So when we left off.  We successfully published our configurations in Automation DSC.  If we run Get-AzureRmAutomationDscNodeConfiguration against the configuration I published, we get the following:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Call for topics closing 1 October</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-09-30-call-for-topics-closing-1-october/</link><pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2017 15:22:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-09-30-call-for-topics-closing-1-october/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The call for topics is closing 1 October at 23:59 GMT. We’ve had a fantastic set of submissions. Creating an agenda for the 2018 Summit is going to be very difficult because we’ve had so many fantastic sessions submitted and I don’t have enough slots to take them all.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The call for topics is hosted by papercall.io – highly recommended – and the cut off is automatic.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY SESSIONS SUBMITTED AFTER THE CUT OFF DATE.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Using Azure Desired State Configuration – Part II</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-09-26-using-azure-desired-state-configuration-part-ii/</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:00:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-09-26-using-azure-desired-state-configuration-part-ii/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Today we&amp;rsquo;re going to be talking about adding configurations to your Azure Automation Account.  In this article, we&amp;rsquo;ll be discussing special considerations that we need to take into account when uploading our configurations.  Then we&amp;rsquo;ll talk about compiling the configurations into Managed Object Format (.mof) files, which we&amp;rsquo;ll be able to use to assign to our systems.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Things to Consider&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
When building configurations for Azure DSC (or anything where we are pulling pre-created .mof files from), there are some things that we need to keep in mind.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t embed PowerShell scripts in your configurations.&lt;/em&gt; - I spent a lot of time cleaning up my own configurations when learning Azure Automation DSC.  When configurations are compiled, they&amp;rsquo;re done so on a virtual machine hidden under the covers and can cause some unexpected behaviours.  Some of the issues that I ran into were:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Using Azure Desired State Configuration – Part I</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-09-25-using-azure-desired-state-configuration-part-i/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:00:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-09-25-using-azure-desired-state-configuration-part-i/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve been wanting to do this series for a while, and with some of the recent changes in Azure Automation DSC, I feel like we can now do a truly complete series.  So let&amp;rsquo;s get started!&lt;br&gt;
Compliance is hard as it is.  And as companies start moving more workloads into the cloud, they struggle with compliance even more so.  Many organizations are moving to Infrastructure-as-a-Service for a multitude of reasons (both good and bad).  As these workloads become more numerous, IT departments are struggling with keeping up with auditing and management needs.  Desired State Configuration, as we all know, can provide a path to not only configuring your environments as they deploy as new workloads, but can maintain compliancy, and give you rich reporting.&lt;br&gt;
Yes.  Rich reporting from Desired State Configuration, out of the box.  You read it right.  You can get rich graphical reporting out of Azure Automation Desired State Configuration out of the box.  And you can even use it on-prem!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Compliance-300x200.jpg" alt=""&gt;&lt;br&gt;
In this series, we&amp;rsquo;re going to be discussing the push and pull methods for Desired State Configuration in Azure.  We&amp;rsquo;ll be going over some of the &amp;lsquo;gotchas&amp;rsquo; that you have to keep in mind while deploying your configurations in the Azure environment.  And we&amp;rsquo;ll be talking about how we can use hybrid workers to manage systems on-prem using the same tools.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Push vs. Pull&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Desired State Configuration, like a datacenter implementation, can be handled via push or pull method.  Push method in Azure does not give you reporting, but allows you to deploy your configurations to a new or existing environment.  These configurations, and the modules necessary to perform the configuration, are stored in a private blob that you create, and then the Azure Desired State Configuration extension can be assigned that package.  It is then downloaded to the target machine, decompressed, modules installed, and the configuration .mof file generated locally on the system.&lt;br&gt;
Pull method fully uses the capabilities of the Azure Automation Account for storing modules, configurations, and .mof compilations to deploy to systems.  The target DSC nodes are registered and monitored through the Azure Automation Account and reporting is generated and made available through the UI.  This reporting can also be forwarded to &lt;a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/automation-dsc-diagnostics"&gt;OMS Log Analytics&lt;/a&gt; for dashboarding and alerting purposes (which, as we discussed in &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2017/07/25/using-powershell-azure-automation-and-oms-part-i/"&gt;my previous series&lt;/a&gt;, can be used with Azure Automation Runbooks for auto-remediation).&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Pros and Cons to Each&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
So let&amp;rsquo;s talk about some of the upsides and downsides to each method.  These may affect your decisions as you architect your DSC solution.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Future of PowerShell's Desired State Configuration</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-09-13-the-future-of-powershells-desired-state-configuration/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:28:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-09-13-the-future-of-powershells-desired-state-configuration/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Microsoft &lt;a href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2017/09/12/dsc-future-direction-update/"&gt;recently published a &amp;ldquo;Future of DSC&amp;rdquo; post&lt;/a&gt; that I thought deserved some independent commentary.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell and DevOps Summit 2018 – session acceptance</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-09-02-powershell-and-devops-summit-2018-session-acceptance/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2017 11:21:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-09-02-powershell-and-devops-summit-2018-session-acceptance/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We have started the acceptance process for the sessions to be presented at the 2018 Summit. Those currently accepted sessions are listed in the &lt;a href="https://cdn-powershell.pressidium.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2018-Brochure.pdf"&gt;brochure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
The deadline for submissions still remains as 2 October 2017&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;ll probably be formally accepting a number of other sessions during September BUT the bulk of the agenda won&amp;rsquo;t be finalised until after the deadline closes.&lt;br&gt;
You still have plenty of time to get your submissions into the system. The earlier you do so the more time we have to help you refine the submission.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell 2.0 deprecation</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-08-25-powershell-2-0-deprecation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2017 10:29:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-08-25-powershell-2-0-deprecation/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;PowerShell 2.0 is being deprecated - see the PowerShell Team &lt;a href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2017/08/24/windows-powershell-2-0-deprecation/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; for full details&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>#PSBlogWeek is Back!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-08-23-psblogweek-is-back/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2017 17:49:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-08-23-psblogweek-is-back/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve decided to bring #PSBlogWeek back! Brush off those PowerShell blogs and grease up those typing fingers&amp;hellip;.wait..don&amp;rsquo;t do that but at least stretch a little bit. If you&amp;rsquo;d like to write a great article on PowerShell on your blog to help contribute great content and get yourself some notoriety, #PSBlogWeek is how it&amp;rsquo;s done.&lt;br&gt;
For full details, head over to &lt;a href="http://www.adamtheautomator.com/psblogweek-powershell-blogging-entire-week/"&gt;my blog&lt;/a&gt; where I&amp;rsquo;ve outlined everything or head directly over to &lt;a href="http://www.psblogweek.com"&gt;psblogweek.com&lt;/a&gt; for full details!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Using PowerShell, Azure Automation, and OMS – Part III</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-08-08-using-powershell-azure-automation-and-oms-part-iii/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2017 14:00:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-08-08-using-powershell-azure-automation-and-oms-part-iii/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s been a long road, but we&amp;rsquo;re almost there!  A couple of weeks ago we looked at how we can create an Azure Automation Account and add our own custom modules to the solution to be used in Azure Automation.  Last week, we took a deeper dive into configuring a runbook to take in webhook data from an alert using Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s Operations Management Suite.  Then we looked into the data itself to see how we can leverage it against our runbook to fix problems for us on the fly.&lt;br&gt;
This week, we&amp;rsquo;re going to modify an existing function to use that webhook data directly.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Building on Webhook Data&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
We could actually build our logic directly into the runbook to parse the webhook data and then pass the formatted information to our function that we&amp;rsquo;ve made available in Azure.  But I prefer to keep my runbooks as simple as possible and do the heavy lifting in my function.  This makes the runbook look a little bit cleaner, and allows me to minimize my code management a little more.  Also, Azure Automation Runbooks, as of this writing, don&amp;rsquo;t play nicely with parameter sets in them, so I might as well pass my data along to a command that does.&lt;br&gt;
Originally, I had built a one-liner that allowed me to create an NSG rule on the fly to block and incoming traffic from a specific IPAddress.  It was a fairly simple command.  But today, we&amp;rsquo;re going to make it a little more robust, and give it the ability to use webhook data.  Here&amp;rsquo;s my original code:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Summit agenda process</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-08-08-summit-agenda-process/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2017 11:31:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-08-08-summit-agenda-process/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;There’s been a lot of discussion on the Summit Slack channel around people proposing sessions for the 2018 Summit. I thought an explanation of how we put the agenda together would be useful for anyone thinking about submitting sessions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off though – if you’re thinking about submitting a session for the 2018 Summit then JUST DO IT! We are reserving a number of sessions for new speakers, as we always do. One of our goals for the Summit is to nurture the next generation of speakers. What better way to learn to speak about PowerShell than in front of the world’s greatest PowerShell audience. There is a balancing act between nurturing new speakers and having “big name” established speakers that we know will help draw an audience to the Summit.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Using PowerShell, Azure Automation, and OMS – Part II</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-08-01-using-powershell-azure-automation-and-oms-part-ii/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:00:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-08-01-using-powershell-azure-automation-and-oms-part-ii/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;So last time we learned how to upload our custom modules into Azure Automation so we can start using them in Azure Automation Runbooks.  This week we&amp;rsquo;re going to take a look at configuring a runbook to see what kind of data we can ingest from OMS Webhook data, and how we can leverage that data to pass into our functions.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Creating the Runbook Script&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
So first off, let&amp;rsquo;s talk about basic runbooks and running them against objects in Azure.  As previously discussed, when your automation account is created, it creates with it an AzureRunAsAccount.  This account is configured to act on behalf of the user that has access to the automation account and the runbooks in order to perform the runbook task.  In order to leverage this account, you need to invoke it in the runbook itself.  You can actually find an example of this snippet in the AzureAutomationTutorialScript runbook in your automation account.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit 2018 – Call for Topics</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-08-01-76318-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2017 09:49:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-08-01-76318-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit 2018 will be returning to the Meydenbauer center, Bellevue WA on 9-12 April 2018. PowerShell, and DevOps, experts from all over the world, including PowerShell team members, will once again join together to discuss and learn about maximizing PowerShell in the workplace in fast-paced, knowledge packed presentations. The Summit&amp;rsquo;s also the place to explore and further your knowledge of DevOps principles and practices in a Windows environment, make new connections, learn new techniques, and offer something to your peers and colleagues. If you want to share your PowerShell or DevOps expertise, then this is your official call to submit presentations for selection!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit Scholarship Program</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-08-01-powershell-devops-global-summit-scholarship-program/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2017 00:00:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-08-01-powershell-devops-global-summit-scholarship-program/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Automation and scripting has become a major part of IT in recent years.  And PowerShell has played a giant role in the progression of that.  Every year, the wonderful people at PowerShell.org put on the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit, that always produces outstanding results from amazing speakers and attendees.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As many of you in IT know, convincing your manager to attend conferences usually depends on a few key factors: Cost and budget, content, and sometimes, experience or seniority in the company.  And unfortunately, that last one may be a deciding factor far too often.  This year, PowerShell.org is making it a priority to help extend, not only the content and knowledge that comes with attending the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit, but also the experience that comes along with it.  &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Using PowerShell, Azure Automation, and OMS – Part I</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-07-25-using-powershell-azure-automation-and-oms-part-i/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2017 14:00:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-07-25-using-powershell-azure-automation-and-oms-part-i/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s Operations Management Suite provides some exceptional tools for monitoring and maintaining your environments in both the cloud and in your datacenter.  One of it&amp;rsquo;s best features, however, is its ability to leverage the tools that you&amp;rsquo;ve already developed to perform tasks and remediate issues using PowerShell, Azure Automation Runbooks, and OMS Alert triggers.  In this series, we&amp;rsquo;ll be discussing how you can configure these tools to take care of problems in your own environment.  Today, we&amp;rsquo;ll be talking about how you can take your own PowerShell Modules and upload them to Azure Automation.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Creating The Azure Automation Account&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
In order to create the Azure Automation Account, you&amp;rsquo;ll need to have create the automation account object in the target resource group, and the ability to create an AzureRunAs account in AzureAD.  It&amp;rsquo;s also important to be mindful that not every Azure region has the Microsoft.Automation resource provider registered to it, so you&amp;rsquo;ll want the resource group to exist in the appropriate locale.  You can check this with the Get-AzureRmResourceProvider cmdlet:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Topics for PowerShell Summit 2018</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-07-03-topics-for-powershell-summit-2018/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2017 18:54:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-07-03-topics-for-powershell-summit-2018/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The planning for Summit 2018 has started – to be honest it started before Summit 2017 opened. We’ve reached the stage where we need to start thinking about the broad topics for PowerShell Summit 2018.&lt;br&gt;
What do you want to hear about? Not the session titles, content and speakers but the broad areas of content you want us to include. We can’t actually promise to cover everything requested because we’re dependent on whats submitted when we open our call for topics towards the end of the month.&lt;br&gt;
Looking at the agenda for Summit 2017 we had these very broad groups&lt;br&gt;
PowerShell tool making&lt;br&gt;
DSC and DSC resources&lt;br&gt;
PowerShell Github repository&lt;br&gt;
PowerShell v6&lt;br&gt;
Remoting&lt;br&gt;
Testing - Pester&lt;br&gt;
Azure&lt;br&gt;
PowerShell Functions&lt;br&gt;
JEA&lt;br&gt;
PowerShell v6&lt;br&gt;
PowerShell on Linux&lt;br&gt;
PowerShell modules&lt;br&gt;
Regular Expessions&lt;br&gt;
MSDeploy&lt;br&gt;
PKI&lt;br&gt;
Powershell Jobs, Workflows and runspaces&lt;br&gt;
Nano server&lt;br&gt;
PowerShell cmdlets - compiled and script&lt;br&gt;
Are there any we should drop? Is there a topic we should include – this far out we can commission a specific expert speaker to cover a topic if required. This is your opportunity to help shape Summit 2018. Let us know what you think&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Taking Powershell to the next level</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-06-22-taking-powershell-to-the-next-level/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2017 13:30:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-06-22-taking-powershell-to-the-next-level/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I recently decided to &amp;lsquo;up my game&amp;rsquo; with powershell and go beyond the simple scripts I&amp;rsquo;ve rolled out in the past.&lt;br&gt;
So I simply want to share with you, the path I took to enhance my skills (inc. alot of practice)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Books:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.manning.com/books/learn-windows-powershell-in-a-month-of-lunches-second-edition"&gt;Learn Powershell In A Month of Lunches&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.manning.com/books/learn-powershell-toolmaking-in-a-month-of-lunches"&gt;Learn Powershell Toolmaking in a month of Lunches&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.manning.com/books/windows-powershell-in-action-third-edition"&gt;Windows Powershell In Action 3rd Edition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Online:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/advanced-tools-scripting-with-powershell-30-jump-start-8277?l=WOWaGUWy_8604984382"&gt;Advanced Tools And Scripting with Powershell 3.0 Jump Start&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/events/Ignite/2015/BRK4452"&gt;Writing Powershell Powershell DSC Resources And Configuration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/nDemos_BRK4452/1.0"&gt;Demo Code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 320 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVP Tim Warner</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2017-05-17-episode-320-powerscripting-podcast-mvp-tim-warner/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2017 00:39:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2017-05-17-episode-320-powerscripting-podcast-mvp-tim-warner/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Cloud and Datacenter MVP Tim Warner&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Slack Chatroom&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org/"&gt;
We are the live-podcast channel
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;News&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://youtu.be/myQkHM_je70"&gt;
Jeffrey Snover’s 2017 State of the Union
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7CoeQRT1xwtH-I3cfDvm8rNlk"&gt;
2017 PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDCEho7foSooHYGxYqUj2Q6C7usp4aKIQ"&gt;
PSConf.EU 2017
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://timwarnertech.com/"&gt;
http://timwarnertech.com/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/techtrainertim?lang=en"&gt;https://twitter.com/techtrainertim?lang=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Superhero - Flight&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>About Us</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2024-04-26-the-team/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2017 13:28:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2024-04-26-the-team/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;PowerShell.org is an activity of &lt;a href="http://devopscollective.org"&gt;The DevOps Collective, Inc.&lt;/a&gt;, a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity. We have no legal owners; by definition, we are owned by the US public. As a charity, it is a violation of US law for any individual or entity to gain a financial benefit (e.g., a profit) from the organization. Thus, we do not have shareholders or other owners.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="our-mission"&gt;Our Mission&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have two broad goals within the PowerShell and DevOps community:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Team Day at IT Transformation Event</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-05-09-powershell-team-day-at-it-transformation-event/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2017 15:39:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-05-09-powershell-team-day-at-it-transformation-event/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;At the upcoming &lt;a href="https://www.devintersection.com/#!/Sharepoint-Office365-Conference"&gt;&amp;ldquo;IT Transformation&amp;rdquo; event in Orlando&lt;/a&gt; this month (still time left to register!), members of the PowerShell team will be leading a full-day workshop that&amp;rsquo;s pretty much a don&amp;rsquo;t-miss (and no, it isn&amp;rsquo;t being recorded). Here&amp;rsquo;s the schedule:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Time



 Speaker



 Title





 09:00am-10:00am



 Jeffrey Snover



 Observations on Modern IT Practices and Organization Culture





 10:00am-10:15am



 break





 10:15am-12:00pm



 Michael Greene



 The Release Pipeline Model





 12:00pm-01:00pm



 lunch





 01:00pm-02:45pm



 Michael Greene



 Instructor Led Hands-On Lab: Constructing a pipeline for PowerShell Modules using Visual Studio Team Services.





 03:00pm-04:00pm



 Timothy Warner



 Introduction to Azure Automation DSC





 04:00pm-05:00pm



 Jeffrey Snover



 Closing thoughts and AMA
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Personally, I&amp;rsquo;m super-excited. I&amp;rsquo;ll be presenting a full-day workshop myself (the day before), along with a couple of breakout sessions and a keynote with Jeffrey Snover.&lt;br&gt;
Hope to see you there!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Announcing the PowerShell Saturday Booster Program</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-05-04-announcing-the-powershell-saturday-booster-program/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2017 15:53:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-05-04-announcing-the-powershell-saturday-booster-program/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re pleased to announce general availability of our PowerShell Saturday Booster Program, as announced at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2017. The goal of this program is to help enthusiasts build sustainable one-day, small-format technical events worldwide. We can provide organizing advice and assistance, help managing finances, and so on.&lt;br&gt;
Full details at &lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/powershell-saturday/wiki"&gt;https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/powershell-saturday/wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit Recap</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-04-21-powershell-and-devops-global-summit-recap/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2017 19:57:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-04-21-powershell-and-devops-global-summit-recap/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Now that I’m recovered from the 2017 PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit, I just wanted to take a moment and talk about my experiences at the conference. It was my first time attending this conference and it was also my first time speaking. Both “firsts” contributed to a range of emotions throughout the long and exhausting week.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I came in to Seattle late Friday night and expected to go straight to the hotel and to bed. Being from Eastern Daylight Time makes for a long day and late night when your expected hotel arrival time is 10pm local time (or 1AM your time). However, PowerShell friends and community members, some of whom I knew from previous conferences and some of whom I was just meeting for the first time, greeted me. Some stayed up and waited for me to arrive – even with an already-closed hotel bar and many respective time zone differences. They greeted me with an overwhelming sense of community and friendship, and that was a defining moment that I’ll never forget. Even though I was exhausted, I found myself staying up for a couple more hours chatting with folks who were already there.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Colecting Certificates form an Enterprise CA for use with DSC</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-04-21-colecting-certificates-form-an-enterprise-ca-for-use-with-dsc/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2017 16:29:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-04-21-colecting-certificates-form-an-enterprise-ca-for-use-with-dsc/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In a domain environment auto enrollment can be used to get create unique certificates for each node that can be used with DSC.  The problem is getting the public cert to the machine that creates the DSC MOF files. I wrote a module last year to collect them directly form the Enterprise CA. If it interests you take a look &lt;a href="https://blog.bladefirelight.com/nuggets/collecting-ca-certificates-for-dsc-configuration/"&gt;https://blog.bladefirelight.com/nuggets/collecting-ca-certificates-for-dsc-configuration/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Serve on the Board of PowerShell.org!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-04-17-serve-on-the-board-of-powershell-org/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2017 13:59:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-04-17-serve-on-the-board-of-powershell-org/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The DevOps Collective (the nonprofit that owns PowerShell.org) is organized into two main governing bodies. Our Directors - myself, Christopher Gannon, Jason Helmick, Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, and Will Anderson - run the organization on a day-to-day. On Board, which we&amp;rsquo;re now forming, consists of stakeholders who help advise us on directions, priorities, and so on. We want our Board to be diverse, and include representation from industry as well as community. This is a fairly convention nonprofit governance setup; you&amp;rsquo;ll find, for example, many Chambers of Commerce organized this way.&lt;br&gt;
&amp;ldquo;Community&amp;rdquo; has been the bit we&amp;rsquo;ve struggled with, and so we&amp;rsquo;ve decided to simply put it &lt;em&gt;to&lt;/em&gt; the community to help come up with an answer. We&amp;rsquo;d like two &amp;ldquo;at-large&amp;rdquo; seats, filled by community members on a rotating (annual) basis. The responsibilities are not huge: mainly, we&amp;rsquo;ll have a virtual meeting once or twice a year to cover our current activities and discuss priorities. On an ongoing basis, the Board is also a way for outside concerns to have a voice within the organization.&lt;br&gt;
For our community seats, we want people who are actively &lt;em&gt;engaged&lt;/em&gt; with the community on a daily basis. We want to know what&amp;rsquo;s happening out there with the people who actually use PowerShell, and who are participating in DevOps. We want to be aware of what&amp;rsquo;s going on in the OSS world, and where we, as an organization, might be able to assist.&lt;br&gt;
So if that&amp;rsquo;s you, reach out to me. Drop an email to DonJ (and the domain is listed right in the address bar of your browser right now). If you know of someone, please reach out to &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt; and have them send me an email. I&amp;rsquo;d like to know a bit about you, how you&amp;rsquo;re present in the community on an ongoing basis, and some ideas you have for what The DevOps Collective should be focusing its time and funding on (especially educationally, as that&amp;rsquo;s our main mission).&lt;br&gt;
I look forward to hearing from you!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Saturday Booster Program</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-04-14-powershell-saturday-booster-program/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2017 16:23:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-04-14-powershell-saturday-booster-program/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As announced at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2017, we&amp;rsquo;re preparing a &amp;ldquo;PowerShell Saturday Booster Program&amp;rdquo; to help launch and support local one-day events. Please visit &lt;a href="https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/powershell-saturday/wiki"&gt;https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/powershell-saturday/wiki&lt;/a&gt; to take a look at our draft materials, and use GitHub&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;Issues&amp;rdquo; feature to submit questions, suggestions for additional content, requests for clarification, and so on. We&amp;rsquo;ll continue to build this out, but want to make sure we&amp;rsquo;re doing so in a way that makes sense to the community. Thanks for your input! Our goal is to have this up and running by the end of June, 2017.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Post-Summit Note</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-04-13-post-summit-note/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2017 21:30:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-04-13-post-summit-note/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A quick note: We experienced some massive equipment failures this year, almost to the point where we were starting to seriously question our life choices. The end result is that we don&amp;rsquo;t have as many session recordings as we&amp;rsquo;d hoped. Jason will be going through what we &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; have over the next week, splicing together what we can, and posting it to the YouTube channel. We appreciate everyone&amp;rsquo;s patience and understanding.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Do Anything in One Line of PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-04-06-do-anything-in-one-line-of-powershell/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2017 21:30:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-04-06-do-anything-in-one-line-of-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;PowerShell provides a tremendous boon to productivity for computer professionals of all types. But, you have to admit: it can be a bit daunting to get up to speed! Indeed, as someone who has a fair amount of experience using it, I still find myself having to look up how to do things&amp;ndash;frequently. So I started keeping track of the recipes I was using the most. And came up with a list of 400 or so, published in 4 parts.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Final agenda</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-04-05-final-agenda/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2017 10:14:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-04-05-final-agenda/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve had to move a few sessions around for various reasons.&lt;br&gt;
The online agenda at &lt;a href="https://eventloom.com/event/home/summit2017"&gt;https://eventloom.com/event/home/summit2017&lt;/a&gt; shows the current final agenda.&lt;br&gt;
Please check the agenda carefully to ensure you don&amp;rsquo;t miss any sessions&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Submit Questions for "Ask Me Anything" with Jeffrey Snover</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-04-01-submit-questions-for-ask-me-anything-with-jeffrey-snover/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2017 11:47:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-04-01-submit-questions-for-ask-me-anything-with-jeffrey-snover/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In just a week, we&amp;rsquo;ll be holding a live &amp;ldquo;Ask Me Anything&amp;rdquo; with Jeffrey Snover at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2017. Now&amp;rsquo;s a great time to Help us queue up questions - drop yours in the comments below!&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;ll be doing our level best to record the session, although it will not be live-streamed. We&amp;rsquo;ll post the recording and let everyone know where it is a week or so after the event.&lt;br&gt;
**UPDATE: **We&amp;rsquo;re no longer taking new questions. Thanks to everyone who submitted, and we&amp;rsquo;ll see you at Summit (where we&amp;rsquo;ll be taking more questions live).&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit 2017 – Last-Minute Updates</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-03-27-powershell-summit-2017-last-minute-updates/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2017 15:50:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-03-27-powershell-summit-2017-last-minute-updates/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Some quick updates as we prepare for Summit in a couple of weeks&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Community Lightning Demos – Call for Proposals</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-03-22-community-lightning-demos-call-for-proposals/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:06:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-03-22-community-lightning-demos-call-for-proposals/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;ve been to a PowerShell Summit, chances are you&amp;rsquo;ve seen the awesome lightning demos put on by the PowerShell team members. It&amp;rsquo;s a fun format - each team member gives a quick 5-10 minute demo of something they&amp;rsquo;re working on, one after the other.&lt;br&gt;
In a few weeks, the PowerShell + Devops Global Summit will kick off, with a Community Lightning Demo session scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. We&amp;rsquo;re looking for community members like you to sign up and present! Demo something cool that you&amp;rsquo;ve written or used - a module, function, tip, trick, etc. - just keep it under 10 minutes.&lt;br&gt;
If it helps, &lt;a href="http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/Summit-Lightning-Demos/"&gt;here&amp;rsquo;s a longer bit&lt;/a&gt; on the community lightning demos, including an &lt;a href="https://youtu.be/50Z6vEHVgDg"&gt;example demo recording&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
Sound interesting? Want to jump on stage for a few minutes and show us something fun? &lt;a href="https://goo.gl/forms/Q8C3hBXTANL9oR433"&gt;Sign up now&lt;/a&gt;! Not attending the summit? We&amp;rsquo;ll have recordings for presenters who want to be recorded, and ideally, demo content from everyone.&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;ll be looking forward to some awesome demos; hope to see you there!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Three seats left</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-02-23-three-seats-left/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2017 10:28:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-02-23-three-seats-left/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;There are currently three (3) seats left for the 2017 PowerShell and DevOps Summit. First come first served - when they gone that&amp;rsquo;s definitely it as we&amp;rsquo;re at capacity. Registration at - &lt;a href="https://eventloom.com/event/home/summit2017"&gt;https://eventloom.com/event/home/summit2017&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Join Us in Thanking Ed &amp; Teresa Wilson at Summit 2017</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-02-16-join-us-in-thanking-ed-teresa-wilson-at-summit-2017/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2017 18:35:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-02-16-join-us-in-thanking-ed-teresa-wilson-at-summit-2017/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re pleased and proud to announce that Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;The Scripting Guy,&amp;rdquo; Ed Wilson, and the wonderful Scripting Wife, Teresa Wilson, have agreed to join us at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2017 (which as of this writing is almost sold out). They recently announced their retirement, so we wanted to bring them out for one last Summit so we could all wish them a comfortable and relaxed time! This&amp;rsquo;ll likely be one of our last chances to grab a photo and a hug, so be sure to do so!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>You an still get into PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2017!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-02-09-you-an-still-get-into-powershell-devops-global-summit-2017/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2017 16:04:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-02-09-you-an-still-get-into-powershell-devops-global-summit-2017/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;After selling out in record time, we&amp;rsquo;ve worked with our event venue to rearrange how we&amp;rsquo;re using the space - and, as a result, we&amp;rsquo;ve been able to open additional seats for attendees! YAY! Hop on over to the &lt;a href="https://eventloom.com/event/home/summit2017"&gt;registration website&lt;/a&gt; soon, because these puppies won&amp;rsquo;t last.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit 2017 – sold out</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-02-09-powershell-summit-2017-sold-out/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2017 11:41:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-02-09-powershell-summit-2017-sold-out/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We sold the last seat for the 2017 Summit - &lt;a href="https://eventloom.com/event/home/summit2017"&gt;https://eventloom.com/event/home/summit2017&lt;/a&gt; yesterday.&lt;br&gt;
If, and its a very big if, more seats become available we&amp;rsquo;ll notify you though the event web site and here on powershell.org&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Summit 2017 Agenda &amp; Program Guide Online</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-02-08-summit-2017-agenda-program-guide-online/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2017 19:09:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-02-08-summit-2017-agenda-program-guide-online/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve posted the first draft of the Program Guide, including the Agenda, for PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2017. You&amp;rsquo;ll find it linked near the top of the &lt;a href="https://eventloom.com/event/home/summit2017"&gt;Registration Page&lt;/a&gt;. If you&amp;rsquo;re attending Summit, please check back a few days before the event to download the final version. We&amp;rsquo;ll have some hardcopies on site, but you&amp;rsquo;ll want to have the PDF downloaded to your pocket computer for easy reference.&lt;br&gt;
The Guide includes a bunch of tips and information beyond the Agenda, so we heartily recommend that everyone take the time to peruse its 12 pages of goodness.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Summit 2017 – Badge Question</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-02-01-summit-2017-badge-question/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2017 15:16:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-02-01-summit-2017-badge-question/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re brainstorming ideas to have more professional, collectible attendee badges for Summit, while also reducing time at check-in on-site. If you&amp;rsquo;re attending or have thought about it, please take a moment to answer &lt;a href="http://674004.polldaddy.com/s/powershell-summit-badges"&gt;this one-question survey&lt;/a&gt;. Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Summit 2017–seats going fast</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-01-28-summit-2017-seats-going-fast/</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2017 20:19:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-01-28-summit-2017-seats-going-fast/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Seats a the PowerShell Summit -  &lt;a href="https://eventloom.com/event/home/summit2017" title="https://eventloom.com/event/home/summit2017"&gt;https://eventloom.com/event/home/summit2017&lt;/a&gt; – are going fast.&lt;br&gt;
We’ve sold over 70% of the seats – they’re current 55 seats left split between 4-day and 3-day passes. The 3-day passes don’t go on sale until 12 February and we’ll be moving 3-day to 4-day as sales happen between now and then. We have a number of sales in the pipeline that will reduce the number of available seats as well.&lt;br&gt;
We are at maximum capacity for the venue – and probably for the event in its present format.&lt;br&gt;
We are expecting a rapid sell off of the remaining seats when open registration of 3-day passes. We don’t maintain any sort of waiting list and when the seats are gone – they’re gone.&lt;br&gt;
If you are thinking of attending the 2017 Summit I’d advise you to get your seat booked quickly – I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we’d sold out by the end of February.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Community Lightning Demos</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-01-24-community-lightning-demos/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2017 21:07:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-01-24-community-lightning-demos/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We are continually evolving the content we present at the PowerShell Summit. This year we&amp;rsquo;re bringing back something that was a feature of the early PowerShell Deep Dives and Summits - the Community Lightning Demos. We have a session set aside on Wednesday afternoon for this. Timescales will depend on the number of people wanting to show something.&lt;br&gt;
In the words of PowerShell MVP Warren Frame who&amp;rsquo;s organising this for us:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 319 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVPs Don Jones and Adam Bertram on Pester</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2017-01-24-episode-319-powerscripting-podcast-mvps-don-jones-and-adam-bertram-on-pester/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2017 02:59:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2017-01-24-episode-319-powerscripting-podcast-mvps-don-jones-and-adam-bertram-on-pester/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, MVPs Don Jones and Adam Bertram on Pester&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Slack Chatroom&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org/"&gt;
We are the live-podcast channel
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://donjones.com/2016/11/29/the-pester-book-with-adbertram/"&gt;
https://donjones.com/2016/11/29/the-pester-book-with-adbertram/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://leanpub.com/pesterbook"&gt;https://leanpub.com/pesterbook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://leanpub.com/the-dsc-book"&gt;
https://leanpub.com/the-dsc-book
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="adam-what-sort-of-pipeline-do-you-use-for-your-deploys-is-it-strictly-code-or-handles-the-entire-infrastructure-stack"&gt;Adam, what sort of pipeline do you use for your deploys? Is it strictly code or handles the entire infrastructure stack?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;don&amp;rsquo;t forget to ## in front of questions&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="is-pester-scheduled-as-in-scheduled-task-or-user-driven"&gt;Is Pester scheduled? As in scheduled task or user driven?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="when-using-it-to-test-infrastructure-could-i-use-it-to-ensure-that-the-deployment-team-deployed-their-iis-web-app-properly-as-well-as-the-db-is-connecting-and-such-or-am-i-just-looking-at-the-wrong-tool"&gt;when using it to test infrastructure, could I use it to ensure that the deployment team deployed their IIS web app properly as well as the DB is connecting and such? Or am I just looking at the wrong tool?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="could-you-expand-on-what-mocking-is-and-why-id-wanna-do-it"&gt;could you expand on what mocking is and why I&amp;rsquo;d wanna do it?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="don-any-big-plans-for-the-it-ops-news--talk-podcast-i-see-the-first-episode-launched-a-few-weeks-back"&gt;Don: any big plans for the IT Ops news &amp;amp; talk podcast? I see the first episode launched a few weeks back.&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="mocking-is-similar-to-simulating"&gt;mocking is similar to simulating?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZuU3aKlWKM"&gt;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZuU3aKlWKM
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>DevOps: A Career Changer</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-01-13-devops-a-career-changer/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2017 16:02:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-01-13-devops-a-career-changer/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Once upon a time, there was this woman at a TechMentor conference a few years ago, sitting in the front of the room during the “Don and Jason&amp;quot; show, a not-quite-scripted discussion on various “lightning” topics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The topic at that moment was DevOps, and this woman was asking for advice on being an advocate for DevOps in her company.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Her company had just been acquired, she explained, which meant that the atmosphere was ripe for change, but the culture of the company they had been acquired from was very change-resistant.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Pester – Parameters and Hashtable Fun!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-01-06-pester-parameters-and-hashtable-fun/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2017 07:45:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2017-01-06-pester-parameters-and-hashtable-fun/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I have written a short excerpt on how to pass parameters from an object to a Pester test. I have turned this into a function: Invoke-POVTest.&lt;br&gt;
The function is primarily for operational validation tests, where you might have a single operational test but you need to test multiple cases. (Sorry, I am not quite sure if I described it properly).&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;ll be interested in any feedback.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Link to blog post &lt;a href="https://weiyentanitjournal.com/index.php/2017/01/04/pester-parameters-and-hashtable-fun/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 318 – PowerScripting Podcast – Alan Renouf from VMware on PowerCLI</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2017-01-03-episode-318-powerscripting-podcast-alan-renouf-from-vmware-on-powercli/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2017 02:53:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2017-01-03-episode-318-powerscripting-podcast-alan-renouf-from-vmware-on-powercli/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Alan Renouf from VMware about PowerCLI&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Slack Chatroom&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org/"&gt;
We are the live-podcast channel
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/automationtools/powercli"&gt;
https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/automationtools/powercli
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLI/"&gt;
https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLI/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://code.vmware.com/slack/"&gt;
https://code.vmware.com/slack/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;
live.powerscripting.net http://live.powerscripting.net
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I like to suggest this
&lt;a href="https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3"&gt;
https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/GetStartedPowerShell3
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;live.powerscripting.net
&lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;
http://live.powerscripting.net
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;humm. sorta? running off the droppages.com
&lt;a href="http://droppages.com"&gt;
http://droppages.com
&lt;/a&gt;
page&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;for all of you Google Cloud people listen to this episode
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2016/11/14/episode-317-powerscripting-podcast-chris-smith-on-the-google-cloud-tools-for-powershell/"&gt;
https://powershell.org/2016/11/14/episode-317-powerscripting-podcast-chris-smith-on-the-google-cloud-tools-for-powershell/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lucd.info/2016/06/04/vspheredsc-intro/"&gt;
http://www.lucd.info/2016/06/04/vspheredsc-intro/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://code.vmware.com/slack/"&gt;
https://code.vmware.com/slack/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Favorite Vacation destination - Around the U.S.A.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>UPDATE / Tug: The Open-Source DSC Pull Server</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-12-19-update-tug-the-open-source-dsc-pull-server/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2016 17:25:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-12-19-update-tug-the-open-source-dsc-pull-server/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you haven&amp;rsquo;t taken a look at &lt;a href="https://github.com/powershellorg/tug"&gt;Tug&lt;/a&gt;, now&amp;rsquo;s a great time. Eugene Bekker has been doing a ton of heavy lifting, taking my .NET Core proof-of-concept code and turning it into a formal ASP.NET MVC project.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Key to Understanding PowerShell – on Windows or Linux</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-12-15-the-key-to-understanding-powershell-on-windows-or-linux/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:22:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-12-15-the-key-to-understanding-powershell-on-windows-or-linux/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve listened to a few of my Windows-friendly compatriots attempting to explain PowerShell to their Linux colleagues, and it hasn&amp;rsquo;t always gone well. The problem, I think, is that a lot of Windows folks don&amp;rsquo;t actually know why PowerShell exists in the first place. Let me explain.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Live Podcast on Wednesday 12/7/2016 with Alan Renouf from VMware</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2016-12-06-live-podcast-on-wednesday-1272016-with-alan-renouf-from-vmware/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2016 23:34:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2016-12-06-live-podcast-on-wednesday-1272016-with-alan-renouf-from-vmware/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-1e4nUhrkIN4/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/ljGun7Tgmb8/s128-c-k/photo.jpg" alt=""&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Long time friend Alan Renouf from VMware will be back with us on Wednesday to bring us up to date with the latest PowerCLI news!&lt;br&gt;
Join us live at 9:30 PM EDT / 6:30 PM PDT, streaming live on &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive"&gt;the PowerScripting YouTube channel&lt;/a&gt; with live chat in the &lt;a href="https://powershell.slack.com/archives/live-podcast"&gt;#live-podcast room&lt;/a&gt; in the Slack PowerShell team (&lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org/"&gt;join here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/215391162241751/"&gt;Facebook event&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Gotchas</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-12-05-powershell-gotchas/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2016 00:28:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-12-05-powershell-gotchas/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;You can certainly find a number of articles around that present PowerShell pitfalls that can easily trip you up if you are not careful. I took a different approach in my three-part series, &lt;em&gt;A Plethora of PowerShell Pitfalls&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
The first two parts are presented in quiz format, together covering the top 10 &amp;ldquo;gotchas&amp;rdquo;. They will help you test your awareness to see if you even realized the danger and did not know you&amp;rsquo;ve been skirting those traps for awhile. After you&amp;rsquo;ve had an opportunity to consider the conundrums presented, I then go into detailed explanations for why they happen and how to fix them.&lt;br&gt;
The third and final part is a compendium of all the common &amp;ldquo;gotchas&amp;rdquo; that I put together after reviewing all the other lists out there. The more than 35 entries in the list cover, I believe, a good 98% of the issues you would likely encounter. Yes, there are more esoteric pitfalls as well, but I ran out of web page&amp;hellip; 🙂&lt;br&gt;
Part 1: &lt;a href="https://www.simple-talk.com/sysadmin/powershell/a-plethora-of-powershell-pitfalls/"&gt;Pesky Parameter Problems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Part 2: &lt;a href="https://www.simple-talk.com/sysadmin/powershell/a-plethora-of-powershell-pitfalls-part-2/"&gt;A Portion of Potential Puzzles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Part 3: &lt;a href="https://www.simple-talk.com/sysadmin/powershell/the-poster-of-the-plethora-of-powershell-pitfalls/"&gt;The Compendium&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 317 – PowerScripting Podcast – Chris Smith on the Google Cloud Tools for PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2016-11-14-episode-317-powerscripting-podcast-chris-smith-on-the-google-cloud-tools-for-powershell/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2016 03:11:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2016-11-14-episode-317-powerscripting-podcast-chris-smith-on-the-google-cloud-tools-for-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Chris Smith from Google on Cloud Tools For PowerShell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Slack Chatroom&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org/"&gt;
We are the live-podcast channel
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;News&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/PowerShell-Team/PowerShell-10-Year-Anniversary"&gt;
PowerShell 10th Anniversary
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://cloud.google.com/powershell/"&gt;
Cloud Tools for PowerShell
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-powershell"&gt;
GitHub repo
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=xmszGXTfwD8"&gt;
https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=xmszGXTfwD8
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;laquo;@URTMM|gerane&amp;raquo; gerane uploaded a file: Slack for Android Upload
&lt;a href="https://powershell.slack.com/files/gerane/F2NN2S2KX/screenshot_20161012-204036.png"&gt;
https://powershell.slack.com/files/gerane/F2NN2S2KX/screenshot_20161012-204036.png
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;jonwalz
&lt;a href="https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK4451"&gt;
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK4451
&lt;/a&gt;
?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;here we go
&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab46gHXNm8Q"&gt;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab46gHXNm8Q
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;jonwalz did you update live.powerscripting.net &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;http://live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-powershell"&gt;
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-powershell
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;cloud.google.com/powershell
&lt;a href="http://cloud.google.com/powershell"&gt;
http://cloud.google.com/powershell
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Flavors of Windows Containers</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-11-01-the-flavors-of-windows-containers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2016 16:59:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-11-01-the-flavors-of-windows-containers/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I had a wonderful conversation with some team members around Windows Containers generally, and they had some very cool analogies that I don&amp;rsquo;t think have been publicized enough. There&amp;rsquo;s some good technical detail, too, which I think is worth understanding as we move into this brave new world of containerization.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Registration is now open</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-11-01-registration-is-now-open/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2016 11:30:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-11-01-registration-is-now-open/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Registration for the 2017 PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit is now open.  Click on Summit and follow the links to register&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell &amp; DevOps Global Summit 2017 agenda</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-10-25-powershell-devops-global-summit-2017-agenda/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:00:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-10-25-powershell-devops-global-summit-2017-agenda/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The agenda for next year&amp;rsquo;s Summit is almost complete - we&amp;rsquo;ve notified all speakers as to whether their sessions have been accepted or not. If you haven&amp;rsquo;t received your notification please check your spam/junk mail.&lt;br&gt;
We have a small number of sessions yet to publish - mainly around possible focus groups on the Wednesday afternoon.&lt;br&gt;
To view the agenda go to the Summit event site - from &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/summit/"&gt;https://powershell.org/summit/&lt;/a&gt; click on the Brochure and registration link.&lt;br&gt;
Registration opens 1 November 2016.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re-Subscribe to New Forums Topic Notifications</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-10-20-re-subscribe-to-new-forums-topic-notifications/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2016 23:00:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-10-20-re-subscribe-to-new-forums-topic-notifications/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hello, PowerShellers!&lt;br&gt;
During our migration and some of the inevitable database resets involved, many of you who were receiving notifications for new forums topics no longer are. You&amp;rsquo;ll need to re-subscribe.&lt;br&gt;
To do so, simply visit the Forums page, click through to the forum(s) of your choice, and poke the &amp;ldquo;Subscribe&amp;rdquo; link that&amp;rsquo;s towards the upper-left-ish of the page. If all you see is an &amp;ldquo;Unsubscribe&amp;rdquo; link, then you&amp;rsquo;re already good to go.&lt;br&gt;
Thanks again for everyone who routinely jumps in to offer friendly, helpful advice in the forums!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Pitfalls of the Pipeline</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-10-18-pitfalls-of-the-pipeline/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2016 21:43:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-10-18-pitfalls-of-the-pipeline/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Pipelining is an important concept in PowerShell. Though the idea did not originate with PowerShell (you can find it used decades earlier in Unix, for example), PowerShell does provide the unique advantage of being able to pipeline not just text, but first-class .NET objects.&lt;br&gt;
Pipelining has several advantages:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;It helps to conserve memory resources. Say you want to modify text in a huge file. Without a pipeline you might read the huge file into memory, modify the appropriate lines, and write the file back out to disk. If it is large enough you might not even have enough memory to read the whole thing.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;It can substantially improve &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; performance. Commands in a pipeline are run concurrently-even if you have only a single processor, because when one process blocks, for example, while reading a large chunk of your file, then another process in the pipeline can do a unit of work in the meantime.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;It can have a significant effect on your end-user experience, enhancing the &lt;em&gt;perceived&lt;/em&gt; performance dramatically. If your end-user executes a sequence of commands that takes 60 seconds, then until 60 seconds has elapsed he/she would see nothing without pipelining, whereas output could start appearing almost immediately with pipelining.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell provides a variety of techniques for using pipelining but it is all to easy to do it wrong, so you think you are pipelining but in fact you are not. In my article &lt;a href="https://www.simple-talk.com/sysadmin/powershell/ins-and-outs-of-the-powershell-pipeline/"&gt;Ins and Outs of the PowerShell Pipeline&lt;/a&gt;, I discuss the most common things that can trip you up with implementing pipelining and how to avoid them.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2017: Session Acceptance</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-10-18-powershell-devops-global-summit-2017-session-acceptance/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2016 17:53:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-10-18-powershell-devops-global-summit-2017-session-acceptance/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re in the process of emailing speaker invitations to those whose sessions were accepted for the 2017 agenda. **Please check your email and promptly follow the instructions to complete registration. **&lt;br&gt;
In the event that a speaker is unable to confirm their invitation in time, we will move on to other speakers and sessions - that&amp;rsquo;s why, if you haven&amp;rsquo;t presently received an invitation, you still might. Once we&amp;rsquo;ve confirmed everyone, we&amp;rsquo;ll send out notices to any speakers who were not selected, so that you&amp;rsquo;re in the loop. We do appreciate your patience as we work through this process.&lt;br&gt;
Registration will open November 1st, and a &lt;strong&gt;draft&lt;/strong&gt; brochure is available at &lt;a href="http://PowerShellSummit.org"&gt;http://PowerShellSummit.org&lt;/a&gt;. This brochure does include session highlights that may not have been confirmed, so they&amp;rsquo;re still subject to change. The Registration link at PowerShellSummit.org will show you the current confirmed agenda.&lt;br&gt;
For speakers who were regretfully declined, you&amp;rsquo;ll be able to register on November 1st. In the event we have a late speaker dropout - which happens - we may contact you about jumping in as a speaker after all, at which time we&amp;rsquo;ll sort out the finances if you&amp;rsquo;ve paid for your registration, typically offering a full refund of your registration fee.&lt;br&gt;
You&amp;rsquo;ll notice that Summit has become a full 4-day event - we&amp;rsquo;re unsure, at this point, if 3-day passes will be offered or not. We won&amp;rsquo;t make that decision until February 2017, assuming any space remains by that point. So we hope you&amp;rsquo;ll consider joining us for the full 4-day event, including new hands-on experiences on Sunday, a wider variety of deep-dive half-day sessions on Sunday, attendee-driven &amp;ldquo;Side Sessions&amp;rdquo; on Tuesday and Wednesday, and an amazing lineup for Monday.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Be an Azure Consultant for PowerShell.org!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-10-14-be-an-azure-consultant-for-powershell-org/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2016 22:14:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-10-14-be-an-azure-consultant-for-powershell-org/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;So, after our nearly-2-day outage, which was due to a still-not-fully-explained Apache fail, we&amp;rsquo;re looking to make some changes. We need to migrate PowerShell.org to a different Azure subscription anyway, so this is a good time to change the kind of service we&amp;rsquo;re using.&lt;br&gt;
First, using Azure is non-negotiable. If your expert opinion is to use something else, please just don&amp;rsquo;t ;). **Update: **This might be changing. AWS could be an option.&lt;br&gt;
Second, our current environment is a classic VM running CentOS 6 (yeah, it&amp;rsquo;s old), WordPress, and MySQL. WordPress and MySQL are also non-negotiable, this isn&amp;rsquo;t about switching CMSs or anything. We use VaultPress for to-the-minute backups, but their restore process is a beast and has never been easy or reliable.&lt;br&gt;
What we WANT is the ability to more or less push a button and re-deploy the entire site from backup, ideally automated through some OMS trigger that senses when the site has crashed.&lt;br&gt;
Now, some caveats.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Apologies for the delay</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-10-13-apologies-for-the-delay/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2016 12:35:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-10-13-apologies-for-the-delay/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Due to unforeseen circumstances we&amp;rsquo;re a bit late getting out notifications of the sessions accepted for the 2017 Summit.&lt;br&gt;
Apologies to everyone who submitted sessions.&lt;br&gt;
We hope to have the notifications out in the next few days&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>No "Easy" Button for Configuration Management</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-10-12-no-easy-button-for-configuration-management/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2016 00:18:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-10-12-no-easy-button-for-configuration-management/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A discussion in one of my Slack channels caught my eye today around someone’s reflections in a github repo regarding DSC. The posted comment that introduced the link was titled “DSC from a newbie perspective”, and I thought “Oh? I’m a newbie too, I wonder if we’re thinking the same things.”&lt;br&gt;
A little history is probably needed on my “newbie” status with DSC. I went to the Tech Mentor conference in March, where I spent most of my time in sessions learning DSC. I was hooked, but knew I needed much more in-depth training to make it something that would be useful to me in the real world. So I set a goal of learning DSC in depth about 4 months, so that I could attend DevOps Camp in August, and be able to converse intelligently about DSC, Configuration Management, and DevOps in general. And with some help from friend and mentor Jason Helmick along with blood, sweat, tears, and 10-15 extra hours a week spent on just DSC, I made it to DevOps Camp and managed to follow along and join in the discussions.&lt;br&gt;
I’ve got about 6 months of DSC experience under my belt at this point, but I still consider myself a “newbie” in the grand scheme, so I fell hook, line, and sinker to go check out the comments here:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/18F/azure-sandbox/blob/master/dsc/README-dsc.md"&gt;https://github.com/18F/azure-sandbox/blob/master/dsc/README-dsc.md&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
I’m not an expert in Chef, so I won’t comment on the comparisons between the two. But while two weeks may be long enough to do a quick comparison between a product you know something about (in his case, Chef) and a product you are vetting against it (DSC), it isn’t nearly enough time to come to a conclusion like “DSC is too immature to even consider as a stopgap”.&lt;br&gt;
Reading on, the reasons for liking/hating DSC seem to be the reasons for hating/liking Chef. Not wanting others to need to deal with learning Ruby was mentioned as a plus for DSC.  But it also seems like the poster wanted or expected DSC to be easy so that folks didn’t have to learn Chef, and was disappointed that it wasn’t.&lt;br&gt;
There’s no “easy” button - if there really were an easy button for automation and configuration management, we’d have all the resources ever wanted neatly packaged and consumable, but the building of the platform and the tooling surrounding the platform takes time, people, and effort. So build and submit a High Quality Resource Module, or fork and fix some of the “awful error tracking”.  Some of these comments and feedback are really quite legit – but the points that need to be made and worked on are lost under the lamenting that DSC doesn’t have an Easy button.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>DSC ConfigurationData Blocks in a World of Cattle</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-10-11-dsc-configurationdata-blocks-in-a-world-of-cattle/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2016 21:01:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-10-11-dsc-configurationdata-blocks-in-a-world-of-cattle/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As you may know, Jeffrey Snover and I have, for some time, been on a &amp;ldquo;servers are cattle, not pets&amp;rdquo; kick. Meaning, servers shouldn&amp;rsquo;t be special, individualized snowflakes. They should be, in many regards, appliances. One dies, you eat it and make another. They don&amp;rsquo;t have names - that you know of. They don&amp;rsquo;t have IP addresses - that you know of. Oh, I mean, they &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; them, but you don&amp;rsquo;t know them and don&amp;rsquo;t care.&lt;br&gt;
Anyway, one thing that came up in a recent conversation related to DSC&amp;rsquo;s ConfigurationData blocks. Have a &lt;a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/dsc/configdata"&gt;look at the MSDN documentation&lt;/a&gt; and tell me what you see.&lt;br&gt;
Go on, I&amp;rsquo;ll wait.&lt;br&gt;
You see **NodeName. **But damnit, if servers are cattle and cattle don&amp;rsquo;t have (known) names, what the dude is NodeName all about?&lt;br&gt;
Well, for one, it was a poor choice on the team&amp;rsquo;s part. I&amp;rsquo;d have called it - and this is giving away the punchline - **NodeRole. **Imagine that your &amp;ldquo;NodeName&amp;rdquo; was &amp;ldquo;SalesAppWebServerRole.&amp;rdquo; When you run your configuration script, you get a MOF named SalesAppWebServerRole.mof, right? Which you then checksum and load onto a pull server. And when you&amp;rsquo;re spinning up a new server to host that role, you tell its LCM to grab the ConfigurationName &amp;ldquo;SalesAppWebServerRole.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;
The server, when spinning up, makes up a name for itself. Charming, right? Cows think they have names. Sweet. Don&amp;rsquo;t care. It gets an IP address for itself, partially from DHCP of course, and partially by making up the other necessary IPv6 stuff (oh, and IPv6 is a thing now, so get on board).&lt;br&gt;
Then, presumably, it runs to the pull server, grabs the MOF, and starts a consistency check. During which, presumably, _it registers some known name with DNS or load balancer or something. _Now you know it&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;name!&amp;rdquo; Or the name you want to call it by, at least. Also presumably, your load balancer knows to remove or suspend the entry if the host stops responding, and to periodically scavenge stale records (remember, the node&amp;rsquo;s own LCM will make sure its entry gets put back, on the next consistency check run). So if the node dies and you spin up a new one, the rest of the affected infrastructure - DNS, load balancers, what have you - clean themselves up automatically (and DSC could be involved in that process, too).&lt;br&gt;
Anyway&amp;hellip; the point is that ConfigurationData blocks can absolutely be used for cattle farms, not just for pet shops. &amp;ldquo;NodeName&amp;rdquo; is a misleading setting, but if you think of it as a role, which could be applied to multiple actual machines, then it makes a lot more sense that way.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A Practical Guide for Using Regex in PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-10-04-a-practical-guide-for-using-regex-in-powershell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2016 00:49:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-10-04-a-practical-guide-for-using-regex-in-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Regular Expressions is often referred to as wizardry or magic and for that reason I stayed away from it for most of my career. I used it only when I had to and most of the time just reused examples that I found online. There&amp;rsquo;s nothing wrong with that of course, but I never took the time to learn it. I thought it was reserved for the elite. Turns out that it&amp;rsquo;s not that complicated and that I had been using it for years without knowing it.&lt;br&gt;
In an effort to shorten the learning curve for others and to show you the value of learning regular expression I&amp;rsquo;ve written a blog post titled &lt;a href="http://duffney.io/APracticalGuideforUsingRegexinPowerShell"&gt;A Practical Guide for Using Regex in PowerShell&lt;/a&gt;. It will walk you through how to use regular expression in PowerShell and gives you a glimpse into how powerful regular expression is.&lt;br&gt;
Below is an example of how to use regular expression to extract a user&amp;rsquo;s name from their distinguished name in Active Directory. To learn more check out this &lt;a href="http://duffney.io/APracticalGuideforUsingRegexinPowerShell"&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/matches-1.png" alt="matches"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Topics Covered&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Call for topics – Summit closed but European conference open</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-10-03-call-for-topics-summit-closed-but-european-conference-open/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2016 08:57:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-10-03-call-for-topics-summit-closed-but-european-conference-open/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The deadline for the submission of proposals for the 2017 has passed. We are NOT taking any new submissions. if you’ve been in communication regarding a submission thats fine its still under consideration and I’ll be in touch.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On the positive side the call for speakers for the European PowerShell conference has opened - &lt;a href="http://www.powertheshell.com/psconfeu/"&gt;http://www.powertheshell.com/psconfeu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Recap of DuPSUG PowerShell Saturday 2016</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-09-27-recap-of-dupsug-powershell-saturday-2016/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2016 07:28:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-09-27-recap-of-dupsug-powershell-saturday-2016/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Last weekend we hosted our second PowerShell Saturday, this time the event was hosted by IPsoft in Amsterdam. During this event members of the Dutch PowerShell User Group gathered together to view a number of presentations and to engage in lively discussions on the various new developments in the PowerShell world.&lt;br&gt;
For more information about PowerShell Saturday, the Dutch PowerShell User Group or the slides and code used in the presentations please head over to the recap blog post here:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.jaapbrasser.com/recap-of-dutch-powershell-saturday-september-2016/"&gt;Recap of Dutch PowerShell Saturday September 2016&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Happenings at Ignite 2016</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-09-22-powershell-happenings-at-ignite-2016/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2016 15:27:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-09-22-powershell-happenings-at-ignite-2016/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;With Ignite fast-approaching, here&amp;rsquo;s what&amp;rsquo;s up - and this is intended to be a &amp;ldquo;community post,&amp;rdquo; meaning I&amp;rsquo;d love it if you could add your own PowerShell At Ignite notes in the comments, including sessions you&amp;rsquo;re looking forward to!&lt;br&gt;
On **Sunday evening, **while not officially a PowerShell event, a lot of PowerShell glitterati will be at &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/thekrewe?lang=en"&gt;The Krewe&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/a&gt; annual gathering from 8pm.&lt;br&gt;
On **Monday evening, **the Atlanta PowerShell User Group is kindly hosting a &lt;a href="https://www.meetup.com/Atlanta-PowerShell-Users-Group/events/233394410/"&gt;meet-and-greet&lt;/a&gt; with myself, Jeff Hicks, and Jason Helmick. We promise to be educational; registration required (but free).&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Tuesday evening&lt;/strong&gt; is the PowerShell Community Happy Hour (from 4-7; &lt;a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/powershell-community-happy-hour-2016-tickets-26667369821"&gt;tickets required)&lt;/a&gt;, including many of the in-attendance team members, most of the PowerShell.org Board, and a bunch of super Shell enthusiasts. We&amp;rsquo;ll have PowerShell.org and The DevOps Collective laptop stickers!&lt;br&gt;
**Wednesday, **I&amp;rsquo;m looking forward to &lt;a href="https://myignite.microsoft.com/sessions/3112"&gt;PowerShell Unplugged&lt;/a&gt; with Jeffrey Snover and I, from 9 to 9:45am. This is nearly always hilarious and fun. Then, from 10-10:30, Jeffrey, Jason Helmick, and I will be signing books and handing out laptop stickers at the Ignite Bookstore. Finally, from 11-11:30, I&amp;rsquo;ll be signing FREE! books at the &lt;a href="http://conversationalgeek.com/"&gt;Conversational Geek&lt;/a&gt; booth (#571) (who have some &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/convgeek"&gt;amazing scavenger hunt prizes&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br&gt;
And of course, please stop by the &lt;a href="http://pluralsight.com"&gt;Pluralsight&lt;/a&gt; booth to say hi, pick up some swag, register your company for a free pilot subscription, and whatnot.&lt;br&gt;
So&amp;hellip; what&amp;rsquo;re YOU looking forward to next week?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Changing of the Guard at PowerShell.org</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-09-22-changing-of-the-guard-at-powershell-org/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2016 14:47:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-09-22-changing-of-the-guard-at-powershell-org/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s a bit of a sad day at The DevOps Collective, which is the nonprofit that runs PowerShell.org. One of our Board of Directors members, Dave Wyatt, will be stepping down from his Director position this week. He wants to focus on his personal life a bit more, although he&amp;rsquo;s still going to be responsible for our public Build Service, and he&amp;rsquo;s going to continue contributing to the Pester project, so the community isn&amp;rsquo;t losing him entirely. Dave&amp;rsquo;s been a huge help, and a huge inspiration, at PowerShell.org, and he&amp;rsquo;ll be greatly missed.&lt;br&gt;
But our sadness is balanced by some happy news, too, as PowerShell.org Webmaster Will Anderson has agreed to fill Dave&amp;rsquo;s seat. Will has brought a great enthusiasm to our team of volunteers, is also a PowerShell MVP, and also resides in Canada. Will&amp;rsquo;s responsible for most of the photography you&amp;rsquo;ll see in the upcoming PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2017 brochure, and he&amp;rsquo;s been a great help in keeping PowerShell.org&amp;rsquo;s website up and running.&lt;br&gt;
So please join me in wishing our outgoing Director all the best, and in welcoming Will to the Board!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2017 Preview</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-09-19-powershell-devops-global-summit-2017-preview/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:55:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-09-19-powershell-devops-global-summit-2017-preview/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As a quick reminder, our &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2016/09/06/nearing-last-call-for-powershell-summit-topic-proposals-topic-ideas/"&gt;Call for Topics is still open&lt;/a&gt; for a few more days! Summ. Summit is very much intended to be a kind of mega-user group, not a &amp;ldquo;conference,&amp;rdquo; so don&amp;rsquo;t assume all the &amp;ldquo;professional&amp;rdquo; speakers have taken up all the speaking slots. We want &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; to participate!&lt;br&gt;
In the meantime, while we&amp;rsquo;re waiting on the content committee to select topics and before registration opens in early November, I wanted to offer a peek at what we&amp;rsquo;re planning.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Nearing Last Call for PowerShell Summit Topic Proposals (+ Topic Ideas!)</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-09-06-nearing-last-call-for-powershell-summit-topic-proposals-topic-ideas/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2016 14:04:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-09-06-nearing-last-call-for-powershell-summit-topic-proposals-topic-ideas/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Remember that our &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2016/08/01/powershell-and-devops-global-summit-2017-call-for-topics/"&gt;Call for Topics is still open&lt;/a&gt; until the end of September, if you&amp;rsquo;d like to submit. And, from our Summit Alumni Slack channel, here are a few things people said they&amp;rsquo;d like to see&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I would love to see a session on what it takes to build a PKI infrastructure in support of PowerShell operations ( stuff liked passing creds with DSC ) - this is something glossed over all the time as if it is not a big deal but I think it can be quite challenging for a lot of people to implement.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Writing for Performance: Tips and Tricks to Write Faster Code&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Compiled cmdlets - how to create them and why you might want to (this got a &lt;strong&gt;lot&lt;/strong&gt; of thumbs-up)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Open source PowerShell hackathon.  Either one multi-hour (2, 3, 4?) window where people can break into groups and work on some open source PowerShell extension, or two sessions, one at the beginning of the event and one at the end.  The one at the beginning the presenters/organizers provide a set of possible project ideas to work on, and people interested can sign up/vote for projects which creates groups.  The one at the end gives groups an opportunity to share/demo what they produced.  Having a room where people can gather to work on it would be cool.  These don&amp;rsquo;t have to be big projects.  They could be small things, like knocking off one or more issues for an open source project.  The end goal is to have a pull request submitted or a new project posted in GitHub or a new module submitted in the Gallery. _Now, to be clear, this isn&amp;rsquo;t a session - but you can definitely propose it. We have some longer time slots on Wednesday for panels, and this might be something you could do then. _&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;examples of real world DSC usage - that was a comment I heard from a number of folks this year&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Practical Pipelines. ( Illustrate that release pipelines aren&amp;rsquo;t just for DevOps-practicing shops, or public-facing software )&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Build plans (and tools, like psake)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Module design best practices (lots of thumbs-up on this one)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Working with Open Source Projects (as a Contributor)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Working with Open Source Projects (as a Maintainer)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Applying Agile Software Development Methodologies to PowerShell&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Using for . (assumption: someone writes the equivalent of inspec wrapped around Pester)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And if you read the above carefully, you&amp;rsquo;ll notice that **we do also have some space for afternoon panels on Wednesday - so if there&amp;rsquo;s a group discussion you&amp;rsquo;d like to lead, propose it! **Just be clear in the description you submit that you&amp;rsquo;re proposing a panel. It&amp;rsquo;ll be up to you to recruit panel members, which you can do on-site. We&amp;rsquo;ll announce panels in need of panelists and direct them to you.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Unit Testing is “Pestering” the Hell Out Of Me</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-09-02-unit-testing-is-pestering-the-hell-out-of-me/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2016 17:31:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-09-02-unit-testing-is-pestering-the-hell-out-of-me/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;About a week or two before Devops Camp, the attendees were asked how much experience they had using Pester, because another attendee was preparing a discussion on Pester and wanted to gauge the other attendees’ comfort level. Learning Pester had been on my to-do list for a while, but I had procrastinated on it for far longer than I intended. I answered “Beginner” - although “complete and utter newbie” would have been more accurate - and I vowed to spend some quality time looking at Pester before arriving at camp.&lt;br&gt;
There are some really great resources out there devoted to Pester, from beginner to intermediate to way-over-my-head. I read articles and watched videos. And I understood, in a conceptual kind of way, how to use Pester. Describe, Context, It, Mock, Assert-MockCalled – I understood what these things were used for. The examples made sense. I was ready to move on to trying it myself. But here is where I stumbled and recovered, and I would like your feedback and opinions on my discoveries.&lt;br&gt;
I took a piece of code I was currently working on and decided that a small function in that code was the perfect function to attempt my first unit test on. I mean, it was the tiniest little function - 7 lines of code! What could possibly be easier? Right?&lt;br&gt;
Boy, was I wrong. The struggle IS real.&lt;br&gt;
In a nutshell, my function really is 7 lines – an If/Else statement and a For-loop – and inside each is an external call to an Active Directory cmdlet. Those would definitely need to be mocked. After all, we know or assume that Set-ADAccountControl and Set-ADObject do what they are supposed to. I was stumped at where to even start because after mocking these external calls – there isn’t actually anything left to the code!&lt;br&gt;
Even after a wise person told me that “This probably isn’t a great example of a “Pester 101” example”, I was still determined to figure out how to write a Pester test to test this function, but I needed to set aside my thoughts of “I can’t figure out how to write a Pester test for this” and instead, start with “Figure out how to write a unit test for this.” My brain freeze wasn’t about Pester – it was about unit testing. What do I need to test? My next step was to do some reading up on general unit testing concepts.&lt;br&gt;
I’m not opposed to buying a book on testing concepts, but I wanted some quick answers and not a research project just to get me started. I turned to “Dr. Google” and I found some useful definitions, both formal and informal, on what unit testing really is. But it wasn’t until I found a comment buried deep in a StackExchange forum post that I realized what my next steps were.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Ultimate PowerShell Prompt Customization and Git Setup Guide</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-08-26-ultimate-powershell-prompt-customization-and-git-setup-guide/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2016 05:25:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-08-26-ultimate-powershell-prompt-customization-and-git-setup-guide/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Do you spend hours a day in PowerShell? Switching back and forth between PowerShell windows getting you down? Have you ever wanted &amp;ldquo;Quake&amp;rdquo; mode for your terminal?&lt;br&gt;
If we are going to spend so much time in PowerShell, we may as well make it pretty.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="https://hodgkins.io/images/posts/windows_git/sexy_powershell_prompt.png" alt=""&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Check out the &lt;a href="https://hodgkins.io/ultimate-powershell-prompt-and-git-setup"&gt;Ultimate PowerShell Prompt Customization and Git Setup Guide&lt;/a&gt; for how to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Install and customize ConEmu&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Enable Quake Mode for your terminal&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Setup your PowerShell Profile&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Install and use Posh-Git&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Generate and use SSH Keys with GitHub&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Squash Git commits&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>Here's Another Reason to Contribute</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-08-24-heres-another-reason-to-contribute/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2016 11:30:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-08-24-heres-another-reason-to-contribute/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://Http://twitter.com/thejasonhelmick"&gt;Jason Helmick&lt;/a&gt; and I were talking last night, and we got onto the topic of expertise and respect. Kind of, &amp;ldquo;once someone really gets to that expert level, and they surpass their teacher in knowledge, you really respect them.&amp;rdquo; I disagreed, and said, &amp;ldquo;no, I respect them the minute they start contributing to the world, and helping others.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;
We all, at some stage, get &amp;ldquo;outsider syndrome,&amp;rdquo; where we think everyone else is so much smarter than us, that we&amp;rsquo;ve nothing of value to contribute. But that&amp;rsquo;s never true. First of all, there&amp;rsquo;s this thing called a &amp;ldquo;birth rate,&amp;rdquo; meaning there&amp;rsquo;s always new people coming into the field. Second, no matter what your level of expertise, you&amp;rsquo;re &lt;em&gt;in it, right then.&lt;/em&gt; &amp;ldquo;Experts&amp;rdquo; too often forget what it was like to be a beginner; a beginner &lt;em&gt;knows,&lt;/em&gt; and can often relate things that another beginner can understand more readily.&lt;br&gt;
Take this &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2016/08/23/microsoft-did-what/"&gt;wonderful post by Missy&lt;/a&gt; Januszco. Missy probably doesn&amp;rsquo;t consider herself an expert, although she certainly held her own at my recent DevOps Camp. And she certainly wasn&amp;rsquo;t the only one writing about open-source, cross-platform PowerShell Core that week. But she did it from a unique perspective, one that a lot of her readers can probably take a lot from. And she &lt;em&gt;did it -&lt;/em&gt; instead of just talking vaguely about giving back someday, she just did, and did it well.&lt;br&gt;
PowerShell.org isn&amp;rsquo;t a curated newsfeed for a select few; its &lt;em&gt;yours&lt;/em&gt;. So if you don&amp;rsquo;t have your own place to publish and share, email webmaster@ and let us set you up to write. Whenever you solve some problem, conquer some gotcha, or have a perspective on the latest PowerShell news, share. You &lt;strong&gt;definitely&lt;/strong&gt; have something to offer.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Microsoft did WHAT?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-08-23-microsoft-did-what/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2016 01:51:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-08-23-microsoft-did-what/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last couple of days, you already know that Microsoft announced last Thursday that the shell/scripting language formerly known as “Windows Powershell” is now supported on Linux and MacOS and that Powershell has been open-sourced. And for days, thoughts of “how can I use this?” or “I wonder if ‘x’ will be supported” have been flying through the minds of every system architect as we internally grapple with the possibilities of what could be, while at the same time trying to understand Microsoft’s motivation for this radical change.&lt;br&gt;
Only the change isn’t so surprising if you think about the changes that Microsoft has been making leading up to this announcement. Separating Powershell Desktop Edition and Core Edition in WMF 5.1. Announcing SQL Server on Linux – after all, IT professionals are going to need a way to administer that SQL instance and it isn’t going to be through a GUI. Supporting Powershell on Linux seemed like a logical next step.&lt;br&gt;
But it is likely just a step along the road to heterogeneous system management. Microsoft Technical Fellow and Powershell inventor Jeffrey Snover isn’t at all secretive over the fact that the vision is built upon Microsoft’s Operations Management Suite (OMS), a suite of automation and management tools that needs to be able to configure, control, manage, monitor, and self-heal a workload that runs anywhere and on any operating system.&lt;br&gt;
From the perspective of a system architect that isn’t typically on the bleeding edge of technology, I am still extremely excited over this announcement. Why? The possibilities seem endless. For one, applications that run on either Windows or Linux or a combination of the two can now be configured by the same language, or maybe even the same set of well-designed scripts. Second, the possibility of using Desired State Configuration (DSC), or third-party tooling such as Chef or Puppet in conjunction with DSC, means I can keep *all* servers in compliance with their configurations using the same tooling. Third, what Devops engineer wouldn’t love having spent a few years learning a scripting language like Powershell only to have its reach extended to other platforms? This change invariably makes us more valuable to the company by being able to take on additional management responsibilities by using the skills we already have. It can then lead to even more cross-platform learnings and opportunities. I definitely plan to learn more about Linux and how I can help build cross-platform tools. If you have similar interests, here are some great resources to get you started!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/essential-tools-red-hat-enterprise-linux"&gt;https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/essential-tools-red-hat-enterprise-linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/linux-networking-advanced-lfce"&gt;https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/linux-networking-advanced-lfce&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
I haven’t even scratched the surface of thinking about all of the ways I want to take advantage of Powershell on Linux, and I have lots of exploring to do to find out what can or can’t be done – but the energy of the entire Powershell community over these changes certainly carries over to me as well. I’m excited to find out what is possible, to build what may not have been possible, and to contribute back to the Powershell community. So kudos to you, “new Microsoft”, for energizing the entire community of Powershell enthusiasts. I can’t wait to see what’s next.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Why "Objects," Remoting, and Consistency are Such a Big Deal in PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-08-22-why-objects-remoting-and-consistency-are-such-a-big-deal-in-powershell/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2016 20:39:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-08-22-why-objects-remoting-and-consistency-are-such-a-big-deal-in-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As PowerShell begins to move into a cross-platform world, it&amp;rsquo;s important to really understand &amp;ldquo;why PowerShell.&amp;rdquo; What is it, exactly, that sets PowerShell apart? Notice that I do not mean, &amp;ldquo;what makes it better,&amp;rdquo; because &amp;ldquo;better&amp;rdquo; is something you&amp;rsquo;ll have to decide on your own. I just want to look at what makes it _different. _&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Create Custom Monitors with PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-08-21-create-custom-monitors-with-powershell/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2016 23:44:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-08-21-create-custom-monitors-with-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, as a developer, you want to be be able to keep track of free space on a drive, the size of a log, the load on your CPU, the number of users logged in, etc. With PowerShell, it is typically just a matter of finding the right cmdlet amidst the large (and rapidly growing) pool of cmdlets provided by Microsoft and by third parties. Then you just run &lt;em&gt;Get-Foo&lt;/em&gt; to check details about the &lt;em&gt;foo&lt;/em&gt; resource. And then you come back 5 minutes later and run it again because you want to see how it changes over time.&lt;br&gt;
But wouldn&amp;rsquo;t it be nice if you could just have it run automatically at regular intervals in a separate window that you could just keep in the corner of your screen? Well, I found the barebones of just such a utility sometime ago (authored by Marc van Orsouw,  aka ‘thePowerShellGuy’). His original post is no longer available, but I expanded upon his code and, over time, added features, bug fixes, and enhancements, making it more useful and more user-friendly. Here are a few screenshots of the Monitor Factory in action.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Monitor the size of a database&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 316 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeffrey Snover from Microsoft on Open Sourced PowerShell v6</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2016-08-19-episode-316-powerscripting-podcast-jeffrey-snover-from-microsoft-on-open-sourced-powershell-v6/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2016 21:54:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2016-08-19-episode-316-powerscripting-podcast-jeffrey-snover-from-microsoft-on-open-sourced-powershell-v6/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeffrey Snover from Microsoft on open source PowerShell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Slack Chatroom&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org/"&gt;
We are the live-podcast channel
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powershell-is-open-sourced-and-is-available-on-linux/"&gt;
The announcement
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WZwv7TxqZ0"&gt;
YouTube video with PowerShell on Linux demos
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell"&gt;
The PowerShell Repository
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell"&gt;
New PowerShell learning info
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="what-about-arm"&gt;What about ARM?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;is ## for questions?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="halr9000-did-you-find-a-goat-to-come-on-the-show-as-a-special-guest"&gt;@halr9000 did you find a goat to come on the show as a special guest?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="jsnover-needs-more-edge-in-his-life"&gt;jsnover needs more edge in his life&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="powershell-is-dating-bikers"&gt;PowerShell is dating bikers.&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;##Jeffrey, where were y&amp;rsquo;all hiding Ken Van Hyning all these years?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Why PowerShell on Linux is Such an Accomplishment</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-08-19-why-powershell-on-linux-is-such-an-accomplishment/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2016 15:36:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-08-19-why-powershell-on-linux-is-such-an-accomplishment/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, Microsoft &lt;a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powershell-is-open-sourced-and-is-available-on-linux/"&gt;announced&lt;/a&gt; that Windows PowerShell - which I suppose we&amp;rsquo;ll just call &amp;ldquo;PowerShell,&amp;rdquo; now - has been open-sourced, with PowerShell Core builds being made available for various Linux distros as well as macOS.&lt;br&gt;
This is a big deal, but not exactly for the reasons you might think.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>FAQ: PowerShell on Linux/Mac</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-08-18-faq-powershell-on-linuxmac/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2016 21:02:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-08-18-faq-powershell-on-linuxmac/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Be sure to check back often, as we&amp;rsquo;ll add to this.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="so-does-this-mean-ill-be-able-to-run-add-your-favorite-module-name-here-on-linuxmac"&gt;So does this mean I&amp;rsquo;ll be able to run [add your favorite module name here] on Linux/Mac?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Likely not. PowerShell on Linux/Mac is, at present, &amp;ldquo;PowerShell Core,&amp;rdquo; which is a subset of the total &lt;em&gt;Windows&lt;/em&gt; PowerShell product. Similar situation to PowerShell on Nano. So any module that requires something outside Core, won&amp;rsquo;t run.&lt;br&gt;
And further, most modules have dependencies on underlying technologies in Windows. The SMBShare module, for example, depends on CIM classes that only exist on Windows.&lt;br&gt;
So many add-in modules _won&amp;rsquo;t, _in fact work on Linux - because they&amp;rsquo;re designed to manage Windows machines. Over time, I&amp;rsquo;m sure we&amp;rsquo;ll see modules that only run on Linux and/or Mac, because they&amp;rsquo;re tied to dependencies on those operating systems.&lt;br&gt;
Ideally, of course, you can always remote to the OS of your choice and run whatever commands it has. And from &lt;a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/18/microsoft_brings_powershell_to_linux_and_mac_publishes_as_open_source/"&gt;The Register&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell is Open Sourced</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-08-18-powershell-is-open-sourced/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:05:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-08-18-powershell-is-open-sourced/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;For those of you that have been at PowerShell Summits over the last few years you’ll have heard Jeffrey Snover state that he wanted to take PowerShell to other platforms.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now its happened&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeffrey has announced that an ALPHA release of PowerShell is now available for Linux and Mac.  Currently available for Ubuntu, Centos, Red Hat and Mac OS X with more to come&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The announcement is at&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powershell-is-open-sourced-and-is-available-on-linux/"&gt;https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powershell-is-open-sourced-and-is-available-on-linux/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also see PowerShell blog&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 315 – PowerScripting Podcast – Michael Greene (Microsoft) and Steven Murawski (Chef) on the Release Pipeline Model</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2016-08-15-episode-315-powerscripting-podcast-michael-greene-microsoft-and-steven-murawski-chef-on-the-release-pipeline-model/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2016 00:25:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2016-08-15-episode-315-powerscripting-podcast-michael-greene-microsoft-and-steven-murawski-chef-on-the-release-pipeline-model/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Michael Greene (Microsoft)  and Steven Murawski (Chef) on the Release Pipeline Model&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/4/A/C4A14099-FEA4-4CB3-8A8F-A0C2BE5A1219/The%20Release%20Pipeline%20Model.pdf"&gt;
The Release Pipeline Model
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://stevenmurawski.com/devops-reading-list/"&gt;
http://stevenmurawski.com/devops-reading-list/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/ChrisAWalker/cSecurityOptions"&gt;
https://github.com/ChrisAWalker/cSecurityOptions
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/ChrisAWalker/cSecurityOptions_cookbook"&gt;
https://github.com/ChrisAWalker/cSecurityOptions_cookbook
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;splunk cluster example:
&lt;a href="https://github.com/outcoldman/docker-splunk-cluster"&gt;
https://github.com/outcoldman/docker-splunk-cluster
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;stevenmurawski: this one?
&lt;a href="https://github.com/chef/inspec"&gt;
https://github.com/chef/inspec
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;we need some inspec goodness added to pester : ) not convinced it can be augmented outside of pester itself(
&lt;a href="https://github.com/pester/Pester/issues/5330"&gt;
https://github.com/pester/Pester/issues/5330
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.chef.io/compliance/"&gt;
https://www.chef.io/compliance/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/Operation-Validation-Framework"&gt;
https://github.com/PowerShell/Operation-Validation-Framework
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/test-kitchen/kitchen-dsc"&gt;
https://github.com/test-kitchen/kitchen-dsc
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A date with PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-08-11-a-date-with-powershell/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2016 20:42:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-08-11-a-date-with-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of July, we welcomed our 3rd son into the world. As days past my wife and I would say, &amp;ldquo;wow, he&amp;rsquo;s 11 days old. Can you believe it?!&amp;rdquo;. I&amp;rsquo;m sure parents out there are relating to this!&lt;br&gt;
This gave me an idea for a fun script that would get your age in years, months and days, tell you how many days until your birthday and your star sign.&lt;br&gt;
I wanted date of birth passed to the function as &amp;lsquo;dd/MM/yy&amp;rsquo;. To keep to this format, I’m using the &amp;lsquo;ValidatePattern&amp;rsquo; Advanced Parameter with a Regular Expression (Regex). The regular expression, &amp;ldquo;^(0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])/(0[1-9]|1[0-2])/(\d{2})$&amp;rdquo;, will only allow a date in the format of 01/01/16, for example.&lt;br&gt;
Briefly, here is regex syntax I used in some of the expression:&lt;br&gt;
^ Start of string&lt;br&gt;
( .. ) Capturing group&lt;br&gt;
(0[1-9] Match two digits that make up the day. This accepts numbers from 01 to 09&lt;br&gt;
| Acts like a Boolean OR.&lt;br&gt;
/d match any digital character&lt;br&gt;
[12] match any character in the set&lt;br&gt;
/ used to divide the date numbers&lt;br&gt;
{2} Exactly two times&lt;br&gt;
$ End of string&lt;br&gt;
Now that my function parameter variable $Bday has a date, its passed to get-date to be converted from a string to a date. The date in variable $cDate will look like this, &amp;lsquo;01 January 2016 00:00:00&amp;rsquo;. The next line in the code will use todays date and subtract the date passed in $cDate variable. The $diff variable will contain the following data which we will use to get our age in years, months and days:&lt;br&gt;
Days : 212&lt;br&gt;
Hours : 12&lt;br&gt;
Minutes : 40&lt;br&gt;
Seconds : 20&lt;br&gt;
Milliseconds : 533&lt;br&gt;
Ticks : 183624205335135&lt;br&gt;
TotalDays : 212.528015434184&lt;br&gt;
TotalHours : 5100.67237042042&lt;br&gt;
TotalMinutes : 306040.342225225&lt;br&gt;
TotalSeconds : 18362420.5335135&lt;br&gt;
TotalMilliseconds : 18362420533.5135&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;ve contained this first part in our Begin block. The Process block does the main code.&lt;br&gt;
Now I need to get my age in Years, Months and Days. This is where the [math] data type is used. I&amp;rsquo;m using the &amp;lsquo;Truncate&amp;rsquo; property as I don&amp;rsquo;t want to do anything fancy like round up my numbers. Adding the .typename of Days to my $diff variable and dividing by $daysInYear variable I can get my age in years.&lt;br&gt;
The next two, months and days required a tweak to the algorithm.&lt;br&gt;
I ended up using a maths term called a &amp;lsquo;Mod&amp;rsquo;. Now I’m not talking about youth culture and style in the sixties (Mods and rockers anyone ??), but the Modulus Math Operator. Basically the Modulus Operator returns the remainder when the first number is divided by the second. So for example:&lt;br&gt;
1 mod 3 = 1 (or 1 % 3 = 1)&lt;br&gt;
2 mod 3 = 2&lt;br&gt;
3 mod 3 = 0&lt;br&gt;
4 mod 3 = 1&lt;br&gt;
The operator sign used is % for Modulus. Not to be confused for the alias of foreach in PowerShell. For days in a month, I used the average of 30.&lt;br&gt;
I thought it would be fun to add the star sign as well. I was after something that could tell me, &amp;ldquo;is this date in this date range?&amp;rdquo;. One of the properties of &amp;lsquo;get-date&amp;rsquo; is DayOfYear.&lt;br&gt;
Finding if a number is in a range is pretty straight forward, For example:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>What are your "known problems" (solved) in DSC?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-08-08-what-are-your-known-problems-solved-in-dsc/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2016 19:32:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-08-08-what-are-your-known-problems-solved-in-dsc/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m collecting a list of known problems in DSC v5 _that have been solved. _Like the infamous &amp;ldquo;MI RESULT 12&amp;rdquo; error that could happen if you upgraded from prerelease v5 to production preview. I&amp;rsquo;m going to document these in &amp;ldquo;The DSC Book,&amp;rdquo; including in its free sample version, to help preserve these things in one place.&lt;br&gt;
Again - these need to be &lt;em&gt;solved&lt;/em&gt; problems. Just drop as much description as you can into a comment here, and feel free to link to the fix, or to a discussion thread on the problem.&lt;br&gt;
And please - pass this around. If you&amp;rsquo;ve never had a chance to contribute to &amp;ldquo;the community&amp;rdquo; before, now&amp;rsquo;s a great time. Even if it&amp;rsquo;s a problem that you know doesn&amp;rsquo;t exist in the &lt;em&gt;current&lt;/em&gt; v5 release, let&amp;rsquo;s please just document its former existence.&lt;br&gt;
Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 314 – PowerScripting Podcast – Matt Davis from Red Hat on Ansible</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2016-08-03-episode-314-powerscripting-podcast-matt-davis-from-red-hat-on-ansible/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2016 03:26:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2016-08-03-episode-314-powerscripting-podcast-matt-davis-from-red-hat-on-ansible/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Matt Davis from Red Hat about Ansible&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/ansible"&gt;
https://github.com/ansible
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://irc.freenode.net/#PowerShell"&gt;
irc.freenode.net/#PowerShell http://irc.freenode.net/#PowerShell
&lt;/a&gt;
&amp;ndash; Registered : May 10 22:43:39 2006&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/jaykul/slack-irc-plugin"&gt;
https://github.com/jaykul/slack-irc-plugin
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Can y&amp;rsquo;all mention some great news from the SQL world?  
&lt;a href="http://sqlps.io/future"&gt;
http://sqlps.io/future
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Not a question but news of the day:
&lt;a href="https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsserver/2016/04/27/ten-reasons-youll-love-windows-server-2016-10-nano-server/"&gt;
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsserver/2016/04/27/ten-reasons-youll-love-windows-server-2016-10-nano-server/
&lt;/a&gt;
 TP5 with a Snover post from today&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;@jonwalz: We&amp;rsquo;d love it if ya&amp;rsquo;ll could mention that we need more Up-Votes for a couple items.  
&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/GetSQLAgent"&gt;
http://bit.ly/GetSQLAgent  http://bit.ly/GetLogin
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit 2017: Call for Topics</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-08-01-powershell-and-devops-global-summit-2017-call-for-topics/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2016 11:09:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-08-01-powershell-and-devops-global-summit-2017-call-for-topics/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit is the number one conference where PowerShell enthusiasts gather and learn from each other in fast-paced, knowledge packed presentations. PowerShell, and DevOps, experts from all over the world including MVP’s, community leaders and PowerShell team members, will once again join together for a few days in Bellevue, WA. to discuss and learn about maximizing PowerShell in the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s also the place to explore and further your knowledge of DevOps principles and practices in a Windows environment. It&amp;rsquo;s a place to make new connections, learn new techniques, and offer something to your peers and colleagues. If you want to share your PowerShell or DevOps expertise, then this is your official call to submit presentations for selection!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Deploying Modules to the PowerShell Gallery</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-07-27-deploying-modules-to-the-powershell-gallery/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2016 00:38:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-07-27-deploying-modules-to-the-powershell-gallery/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;So! We&amp;rsquo;ve talked about &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/continuous-integration-continuous-delivery-and-psdeploy/"&gt;continuous integration and deployment with PSDeploy&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/abstraction-and-configuration-data/"&gt;importance of abstraction&lt;/a&gt;, and a bit on &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/writing-and-publishing-powershell-modules/"&gt;how and why to write and publish PowerShell modules&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
It&amp;rsquo;s time to combine these ingredients with a quick, real-world walk through on &lt;em&gt;automatically publishing your PowerShell modules to the PowerShell Gallery&lt;/em&gt;.  If you want a full run-down showing how to deploy PSDeploy with PSDeploy, &lt;a href="http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/PSDeploy-Inception/"&gt;hit the link&lt;/a&gt;; otherwise, we&amp;rsquo;ll pick up the &lt;a href="https://github.com/RamblingCookieMonster/PSStackExchange/tree/db1277453374cb16684b35cf93a8f5c97288c41f/PSStackExchange"&gt;PSStackExchange module&lt;/a&gt; where we left off, and drop in some continuous integration and deployment goodness!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Every pithy witticism begins with quotation marks</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-07-23-every-pithy-witticism-begins-with-quotation-marks/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2016 22:56:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-07-23-every-pithy-witticism-begins-with-quotation-marks/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;ldquo;To be or not to be&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/strong&gt; Without getting into a debate over whether Shakespeare was musing about being a logician, suffice to say that in writing prose, the rules of &lt;em&gt;when&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to use quotation marks are relatively clear. In PowerShell, not so much. Sure, there is an &lt;a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh847740.aspx"&gt;about_Quoting_Rules&lt;/a&gt; documentation page, and that is a good place to start, but that barely covers half the topic. It assumes you need quotes and then helps you appreciate some of the factors to consider when choosing single quotes or double quotes.&lt;br&gt;
But do you &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; quotes? Remember PowerShell is a shell/command language so &amp;ldquo;obviously&amp;rdquo; you can do things like this:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>MSPSUG July 12th Virtual Meeting: Exploring SQLPS, the SQL Server PowerShell Module</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-07-11-mspsug-july-12th-virtual-meeting-exploring-sqlps-the-sql-server-powershell-module/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2016 18:21:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-07-11-mspsug-july-12th-virtual-meeting-exploring-sqlps-the-sql-server-powershell-module/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join the Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtually on Tuesday, July 12th 2016 at 8:30pm Central Time when &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Mike_Fal"&gt;Mike Fal&lt;/a&gt; will be presenting “&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Exploring SQLPS, the SQL Server PowerShell Module&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;”.&lt;br&gt;
A big hurdle for using PowerShell and SQL Server together is the SQLPS module. Both old and new users of PowerShell don’t completely understand its capabilities. In this session, we’ll talk about the cmdlets you may not know about, tricks to save time using the provider, and even a few gotchas on how the provider works that can save you some time and energy. When we’re finished, you will have a deeper understanding of how you can use SQL Server and PowerShell together.&lt;br&gt;
Visit the &lt;a href="http://mspsug.com/2016/07/11/mspsug-july-2016-virtual-meeting-exploring-sqlps-the-sql-server-powershell-module/"&gt;Mississippi PowerShell User Group&lt;/a&gt; website to learn more about Mike and to find out more details about this month’s meeting.&lt;br&gt;
The Mississippi PowerShell User Group Meetings are held online (via Skype for Business) on the second Tuesday of each month at 8:30pm Central Time and are free to attend. The system requirements to attend these online meetings can be found on the MSPSUG website under the “&lt;a href="http://mspsug.com/attendee-info/"&gt;Attendee Info&lt;/a&gt;” section.&lt;br&gt;
Register via &lt;a href="http://mspsug.eventbrite.com/"&gt;EventBrite&lt;/a&gt; to receive the URL for this meeting.&lt;br&gt;
Note: It is not necessary to live in Mississippi or join our user group to attend our meetings or present a session for our user group.&lt;br&gt;
µ&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Finding PowerShell Sessions At Conferences and Events</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-07-01-finding-powershell-sessions-at-conferences-and-events/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2016 13:20:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-07-01-finding-powershell-sessions-at-conferences-and-events/</guid><description>&lt;h3 id="the-current-state"&gt;The Current State&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So! If you visit the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/events/"&gt;PowerShell.org events&lt;/a&gt; page, you&amp;rsquo;ll find a bevy of PowerShell-focused events, from local PowerShell user groups to global PowerShell conferences.&lt;br&gt;
What you won&amp;rsquo;t find, yet, is a list of PowerShell related sessions at the many other conferences and user groups you might consider attending.&lt;br&gt;
Maybe you&amp;rsquo;d like to find PowerShell oriented sessions at non-PowerShell user groups and mini conferences like SQL Saturdays, VMUGs, Azure User Groups, Security BSides, DevOpsDays, etc.  These are great small events that can build your knowledge, help you meet local folks in a particular field, and often provide provide you with some free food.&lt;br&gt;
Beyond these, there are plenty of summits and conferences that have a strong PowerShell track, or even just a handful of awesome PowerShell sessions, that might be worth knowing about. LISA, DerbyCon, MMS, WinOps, TechMentor, and many more.&lt;br&gt;
How do you find these events?  There isn&amp;rsquo;t a solid option today, but hopefully we can change that.  Before we go further though, why is this even helpful?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>To ping or not to ping..The PowerShell way</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-06-27-to-ping-or-not-to-ping-the-powershell-way/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2016 20:29:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-06-27-to-ping-or-not-to-ping-the-powershell-way/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As this is my first blog here, here’s a bit about me. I’m a current lead SCCM Admin in the UK, and have found this great enjoyment for PowerShell in the last 18 months. I’ve started my own blog, &lt;a href="http://www.get-configmgr-content.co.uk/"&gt;http://www.get-configmgr-content.co.uk/&lt;/a&gt;, to share my passion. The chance to blog on Powershell.org was too exciting not to do!&lt;br&gt;
The inspiration for this blog came from a forum post on Powershell.org that I helped contributed on. The question asked was, how to display the name of failed ping, i.e. $computer is offline.&lt;br&gt;
There were some great responses, the one I most liked which I slightly amended into a function was:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Here's What You've Missed at PowerShell.org (and what's coming)</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-06-24-heres-what-youve-missed-at-powershell-org-and-whats-coming/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2016 17:19:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-06-24-heres-what-youve-missed-at-powershell-org-and-whats-coming/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve been making a ton of improvements at PowerShell.org&amp;hellip; if you haven&amp;rsquo;t visited in a while, it might be worth a stop by.&lt;br&gt;
**First, **if you&amp;rsquo;re hitting any of the links below and getting a 404, the most common culprit seems to be an over-zealous corporate proxy cache. Try clearing it, or doing a Shift+Reload in your browser. Confirm by visiting from a non-proxied network, like at home.&lt;br&gt;
Our &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/ebooks/"&gt;eBooks&lt;/a&gt; page has a bunch of new content, and our books are now available in PDF, MOBI, and EPUB from two providers (LeanPub and GitBook). You can also read books online in HTML.&lt;br&gt;
Site members now have an extensive profile that you can complete, and doing so is one step on our short &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/mission/welcome-aboard/"&gt;Welcome Aboard! mission&lt;/a&gt; that will earn you a new &amp;ldquo;Welcome!&amp;rdquo; badge on the site. It&amp;rsquo;s one of many new &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/achievements/"&gt;achievements you can earn&lt;/a&gt; for participating in the community in a variety of ways.&lt;br&gt;
And have you seen our new &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/videos/"&gt;videos&lt;/a&gt;? In addition to tons of YouTube videos that include workshops, tutorials, and Summit recordings, we also have started new short-subject, structured learning series - entire courses that even award a certificate of completion when you&amp;rsquo;re done!&lt;br&gt;
But there&amp;rsquo;s much more we can do to help you connect with community, so we&amp;rsquo;re taking a quick survey. Here&amp;rsquo;s some of what we can enable:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>High-Level: Designing Your PowerShell Command Set</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-06-20-high-level-designing-your-powershell-command-set/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:27:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-06-20-high-level-designing-your-powershell-command-set/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;So you&amp;rsquo;ve decided to write a bunch of commands to help automate the administration of ____. Awesome! Let&amp;rsquo;s try and make sure you get off on the right path, with this high-level overview of command design.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="start-with-an-inventory"&gt;Start with an inventory&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You&amp;rsquo;ll need to start by deciding _what commands to write, _and an inventory is often the best way to begin. Start by inventorying your nouns. For example, suppose you&amp;rsquo;re writing a command set for some internal order-management system. You probably have nouns like Customer, Employee, Order, OrderItem, CustomerAddress, and so on. Write &amp;rsquo;em all down in an Excel spreadsheet, one noun per row.&lt;br&gt;
Then inventory your verbs. For each noun, what can you do with it? For example, you can probably create orders, so a New-Order command will be needed. Make a &amp;ldquo;New&amp;rdquo; column in your spreadsheet, and put an &amp;ldquo;X&amp;rdquo; in the row next to the Order noun. However, you probably can&amp;rsquo;t &lt;em&gt;remove&lt;/em&gt; an order from the system, so although your spreadsheet might have a &amp;ldquo;Remove&amp;rdquo; column to cover things like Remove-Employee, that column won&amp;rsquo;t get an &amp;ldquo;X&amp;rdquo; in the Order row. Orders might be voidable, though, so what&amp;rsquo;s a good verb for that? &lt;a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms714428(v=vs.85).aspx"&gt;https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms714428(v=vs.85).aspx&lt;/a&gt; has the official verb list, but there&amp;rsquo;s no &amp;ldquo;Void&amp;rdquo; or &amp;ldquo;Cancel&amp;rdquo; that seems appropriate. Don&amp;rsquo;t go making up new verbs!!! Instead, it might be that Set-Order could be the answer, enabling approved changes to orders, including cancelling them (but retaining the record).&lt;br&gt;
Finally, pick a prefix for your nouns. If your order system is named &amp;ldquo;Order Awesomeness,&amp;rdquo; then maybe OAwe is a good noun prefix, as in Set-OAweOrder. The prefix will help keep your command names from bumping up against other people&amp;rsquo;s, so making sure that noun prefix is pretty unique&amp;hellip; is pretty important.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Help Me Test SSL on PowerShell.org</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-06-13-help-me-test-ssl-on-powershell-org/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:02:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-06-13-help-me-test-ssl-on-powershell-org/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;d appreciate your help in testing HTTPS/SSL here on PowerShell.org. Right now, it&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;voluntary,&amp;rdquo; meaning you have to explicitly ask for &lt;a href="https://powershell.org"&gt;https://powershell.org&lt;/a&gt;. If you have any problems, please note them in a comment on this article.&lt;br&gt;
Some notes and known problems:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Most pages will not show the &amp;ldquo;lock&amp;rdquo; address bar icon in your browser, because we&amp;rsquo;re delivering mixed content. For example, the site logo is being hardcoded as http:// by some Javascript in our theme, which I need to sort out.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Your&lt;/em&gt; connection will be to CloudFlare, which is who issued the certificate you&amp;rsquo;ll see. We&amp;rsquo;ve also SSL&amp;rsquo;d the traffic between them and our server using a DigiCert SSL certificate. We&amp;rsquo;re also going to enable client certificate authentication, so our server will only deliver content to CloudFlare, which then delivers it to you. That&amp;rsquo;s ahead.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; we can solve the mixed-content problem by forcing HTTPS, which is easy, but I want to make sure it&amp;rsquo;s otherwise working before taking that step. We already have a WordPress plugin in place that&amp;rsquo;s rewriting http:// or https:// with just // in URLs, but there&amp;rsquo;re a couple of places where that plugin isn&amp;rsquo;t able to help, and that&amp;rsquo;s why we&amp;rsquo;re delivering mixed content still.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;ll point out that this is &lt;em&gt;mainly&lt;/em&gt; a bonus-points project; because almost everyone logs into the site using an external account, we don&amp;rsquo;t store many passwords (and thus don&amp;rsquo;t transmit them in the clear or otherwise). We don&amp;rsquo;t store or transmit any other personally identifiable information. Still, SSL has some other benefits, and it shouldn&amp;rsquo;t &lt;em&gt;hurt&lt;/em&gt; to have it on, so we&amp;rsquo;re giving it a shot.&lt;br&gt;
Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Complete Guide to PowerShell Punctuation</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-06-11-complete-guide-to-powershell-punctuation/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2016 22:57:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-06-11-complete-guide-to-powershell-punctuation/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Quick as you can, can you explain what each of these different parentheses-, brace-, and bracket-laden expressions does?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;${save-items} ${C:tmp.txt} $($x=1;$y=2;$x;$y) (1,2,3 -join '*') (8 + 4)/2 $hashTable.ContainsKey($x) @(1) @{abc='hello'} {param($color=&amp;quot;red&amp;quot;); &amp;quot;color=$color&amp;quot;} $hash['blue'] [Regex]::Escape($x) [int]&amp;quot;5.2&amp;quot; &lt;/code&gt;When you&amp;rsquo;re reading someone else&amp;rsquo;s PowerShell code, you will come across many of these constructs, and more. And you know how challenging it can be to search for punctuation on the web (symbolhound.com not withstanding) !&lt;br&gt;
That is why I put together a reference chart containing all of PowerShell&amp;rsquo;s symbology on one page. making it much easier when you need to look up a PowerShell symbol as you read code&amp;ndash;or to browse for the right construct when you are writing code.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/punctuation_thumbnail-300x152.png" alt="PowerShell Punctuation wall chart"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Download the &lt;strong&gt;Complete Guide to PowerShell Punctuation&lt;/strong&gt; wallchart from &lt;a href="https://www.simple-talk.com/sysadmin/powershell/the-complete-guide-to-powershell-punctuation/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>MSPSUG June 14th Virtual Meeting: Pester the Tester PowerShell Bugs Beware!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-06-10-mspsug-june-14th-virtual-meeting-pester-the-tester-powershell-bugs-beware/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2016 15:47:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-06-10-mspsug-june-14th-virtual-meeting-pester-the-tester-powershell-bugs-beware/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join the Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtually on Tuesday, June 14th 2016 at 8:30pm Central Time when Microsoft MVP &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/arcanecode"&gt;Robert Cain&lt;/a&gt; will be presenting “&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pester the Tester: PowerShell Bugs Beware!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;”.&lt;br&gt;
So you’ve been developing PowerShell for a while, or perhaps you’re taking over maintenance of an existing set of scripts. It would be great to get extra confidence in your scripts through testing, but how? You’re in luck, there’s a new module in town, Pester!&lt;br&gt;
Pester is a friendly testing framework designed for testing your PowerShell scripts and modules. In this session you’ll be introduced to Pester. You’ll see how to use Pester to uncover bugs, as well as using it for test driven development. Make your own PowerShell more robust through the use of Pester. Kill those PowerShell bugs, dead!&lt;br&gt;
Visit the &lt;a href="http://mspsug.com/2016/05/31/mspsug-june-2016-virtual-meeting-pester-the-tester-powershell-bugs-beware/"&gt;Mississippi PowerShell User Group&lt;/a&gt; website to learn more about Robert and to find out more details about this month’s meeting.&lt;br&gt;
The Mississippi PowerShell User Group Meetings are held online (via Skype for Business) on the second Tuesday of each month at 8:30pm Central Time and are free to attend. The system requirements to attend these online meetings can be found on the MSPSUG website under the “&lt;a href="http://mspsug.com/attendee-info/"&gt;Attendee Info&lt;/a&gt;” section.&lt;br&gt;
Register via &lt;a href="http://mspsug.eventbrite.com/"&gt;EventBrite&lt;/a&gt; to receive the URL for this meeting.&lt;br&gt;
Note: It is not necessary to live in Mississippi or join our user group to attend our meetings or present a session for our user group.&lt;br&gt;
µ&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>5 Tips for Writing DSC Resources in PowerShell 5</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-06-09-5-tips-for-writing-dsc-resources-in-powershell-5/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2016 18:44:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-06-09-5-tips-for-writing-dsc-resources-in-powershell-5/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;PowerShell 5 brought class based DSC Resources, which majorly simplifies the process of writing custom DSC resources.&lt;br&gt;
During my time working on some custom resources, I developed some tips a long the way which should save you some time and pain during your DSC journey.&lt;br&gt;
The tips cover:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Structuring your class based DSC Resources&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Making it easier to get IntelliSense based on your DSC resources without constantly copying them into the module path&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Using PowerShell ISE IntelliSense when writing DSC configuration&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Troubleshooting resources which aren&amp;rsquo;t being exposed correctly from your DSC Module&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Testing classed based resources with Pester&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Head over to &lt;a href="https://hodgkins.io/five-tips-for-writing-dsc-resources-in-powershell-version-5"&gt;https://hodgkins.io/five-tips-for-writing-dsc-resources-in-powershell-version-5&lt;/a&gt; to take a look at the tips.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>My DevOps (DSC) Camp Detailed Agenda</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-06-06-my-devops-dsc-camp-detailed-agenda/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2016 19:59:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-06-06-my-devops-dsc-camp-detailed-agenda/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;re deep into DSC and delving into DevOps, then my summer &amp;ldquo;Camp&amp;rdquo; event is probably meant for you - and now there&amp;rsquo;s a detailed agenda, overall agenda, and full event brochure. This is a really limited event - under 20, including product team participants, and we&amp;rsquo;re down to just a few seats left.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://donjones.com/2016/06/06/devops-and-dsc-camp-detailed-agenda/"&gt;DevOps and DSC Camp Detailed Agenda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description></item><item><title>Request for Topics</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-06-06-request-for-topics/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2016 09:33:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-06-06-request-for-topics/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Putting on an event like the PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit involves a lot of planning. We started the planning process for the 2017 Summit BEFORE the 2016 Summit started!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have to work so far in advance that we’re taking guesses at the topics that will be of high interest next April – remember that we fix the agenda 6 months before the actual Summit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Part of the process of creating the agenda is that we publish a ‘Call for Proposals’ where we ask potential speakers to submit session proposals. We then use those proposals as the basis of the agenda. Session proposals can be taken as they are or we may suggest changes to the speaker to ensure a more cohesive agenda.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Slack and PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-05-24-slack-and-powershell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2016 12:51:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-05-24-slack-and-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Having a platform that enables &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8Vfoz7GeHw"&gt;ChatOps&lt;/a&gt; can be a game changer.  You can quickly see changes, alerts, build status, discussions, emergency chats, and more, all in a single, searchable interface.  If you can sift through the gifs.&lt;br&gt;
Bots are a hot topic these days, and and it&amp;rsquo;s well worth checking out Matt Hodgkins bit &lt;a href="https://hodgkins.io/chatops-on-windows-with-hubot-and-powershell"&gt;on integrating PowerShell with Hubot&lt;/a&gt;.  Bots are a great alternative to trying to spin up a web front end for PowerShell.&lt;br&gt;
On top of bots, systems like Slack often offer a &lt;a href="https://slack.com/apps"&gt;wealth of integrations&lt;/a&gt;, allowing you to hook into systems like Nagios, PagerDuty, GitHub, Trello, and many others.&lt;br&gt;
Occasionally, you might have something that doesn&amp;rsquo;t integrate natively.  Maybe you want to integrate Slack messages into your SCOM command notification channel, your CI/CD build process, orchestration system, configuration management systems, or even ad hoc scripts.&lt;br&gt;
If you&amp;rsquo;re using Slack, check out the &lt;a href="https://api.slack.com/methods"&gt;Slack API methods&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href="https://api.slack.com/incoming-webhooks"&gt;an incoming webhook&lt;/a&gt;.  With the API in particular, you can do some handy stuff!&lt;br&gt;
If you like the idea of re-usable tools and abstraction, check out &lt;a href="http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/PSSlack/"&gt;PSSlack&lt;/a&gt;, a PowerShell module that we&amp;rsquo;re starting to build out, which can simplify sending messages, searching messages, and more.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/PSSlack/"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/pslack.png" alt="pslack"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Practical PowerShell Unit-Testing</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-05-22-practical-powershell-unit-testing/</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2016 20:44:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-05-22-practical-powershell-unit-testing/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;By the time you are using PowerShell to automate an increasing amount of your system administration, database maintenance, or application-lifecycle work, you will likely come to the realization that PowerShell is indeed a first-class programming language and, as such, you need to treat it as such. That is, you need to do development in PowerShell just as you would with other languages, and in particular to increase robustness and decrease maintenance cost with &lt;strong&gt;unit tests&lt;/strong&gt; and&amp;ndash;dare I say&amp;ndash;&lt;strong&gt;test-driven development&lt;/strong&gt; (TDD). I put together several articles on getting started with unit tests and TDD in PowerShell using &lt;a href="https://github.com/pester/Pester"&gt;Pester&lt;/a&gt;, the leading test framework for PowerShell. This series introduces you to Pester and provides what I like to call &amp;ldquo;tips from the trenches&amp;rdquo; on using it most effectively, along with a gentle prodding towards a TDD style.&lt;br&gt;
Part 1: &lt;a href="http://www.simple-talk.com/sysadmin/powershell/practical-powershell-unit-testing-getting-started/"&gt;Getting Started with the Pester Framework&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Starting with the ubiquitous &amp;ldquo;Hello, World&amp;rdquo;, this introduces Pester, showing how to execute tests, how to start writing tests, and the anatomy of a test.&lt;br&gt;
Part 2: &lt;a href="http://www.simple-talk.com/sysadmin/powershell/practical-powershell-unit-testing-mock-objects/"&gt;Mock Objects and Parameterized Test Cases&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
To be able to create true unit tests, you need to be able to isolate your functions and modules to be able to focus on the component under test; mocks provide great support for doing that. Another topic of &amp;ldquo;power&amp;rdquo; unit tests is making them parameterizable, i.e. being able to run several scenarios through a single test simply by providing different inputs.&lt;br&gt;
Part 3: &lt;a href="http://www.simple-talk.com/sysadmin/powershell/practical-powershell-unit-testing-checking-program-flow/"&gt;Validating Data and Call History&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
The final part of this series provides a &amp;ldquo;how-to&amp;rdquo; for several other key parts of Pester: how to validate data, how to determine if something was called appropriately, and how to address a particular challenge with Pester, validating arrays. I&amp;rsquo;ve included a library for array validation to supplement Pester.&lt;br&gt;
For a more general treatment of unit tests, I refer you to Roy Osherove&amp;rsquo;s canonical text on the subject, &lt;a href="http://artofunittesting.com/"&gt;The Art of Unit Testing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcoding-in.net%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2FArtOf%C2%B5UnitTesting.jpg&amp;amp;f=1" alt="&amp;hellip; you wanted to know about Unit Testing in .NET | Coding in .NET"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Getting complex – More line breaks in Powershell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-05-21-getting-complex-more-line-breaks-in-powershell/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2016 20:09:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-05-21-getting-complex-more-line-breaks-in-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This is a follow up to Jacob Moran&amp;rsquo;s article &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2016/04/20/keeping-it-simple-line-breaks-in-powershell/"&gt;Keeping it simple - Line breaks in PowerShell&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
I am strongly in the pro backtick camp, but I won&amp;rsquo;t get into that debate here. Instead, I&amp;rsquo;ll cover more of the common ground between the two camps.&lt;br&gt;
In addition to after a pipe, there are many, many more places where you can put in a line break without a backtick and without breaking your code.&lt;br&gt;
As a rule of thumb, any spot where the syntax unambiguously must be followed by something more, you can break the line.&lt;br&gt;
As an extreme example, this:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Boston PSUG Kick Off Meeting Tomorrow</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-05-19-boston-psug-kick-off-meeting-tomorrow/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2016 23:05:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-05-19-boston-psug-kick-off-meeting-tomorrow/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hello fellow PowerShell enthusiasts. I have been missing for a few months with a new child that has occupied most of my extra time! I look forward to get back in the blogging gear soon.&lt;br&gt;
I just wanted to send out a note that we are hosting our first kick off meeting for the Boston PowerShell User Group at the Microsoft MTC in Kendall Square Cambridge, MA.  Here are the two topics that will be delivered via &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/enigma0x3"&gt;Matt Nelson&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/harmj0y"&gt;Will Schroeder&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Offensive Active Directory With PowerShell&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Active Directory has been covered from a system administration aspect for as long as it has existed. However, much less information exists on how adversaries abuse and backdoor AD, leaving many defenders blind to the attacks being executed in their own environment. We&amp;rsquo;ll cover Active Directory from an offensive perspective, illustrating ways that attackers move through Windows networks with ease. PowerView (the PowerShell domain enumeration tool) will be highlighted, including how to use it for local administrator enumeration, domain trust hopping, user hunting, ACL auditing, and more.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Building an Empire With PowerShell&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Over the past few years, attackers have started to realize that the same aspects of PowerShell that make it an excellent Windows automation solution also make it an ideal attack platform. The Empire project aims to bring together various offensive projects into a fully-functional malware agent (written purely in PowerShell) that can be used offensively by red teams and used to train blue teams to defend against these types of attacks.&lt;br&gt;
Hope anyone local can make it. Sign up is live over at Meetup.com: &lt;a href="http://www.meetup.com/Boston-PowerShell-User-Group/events/230856302/"&gt;http://www.meetup.com/Boston-PowerShell-User-Group/events/230856302/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Making Awesome Dashboards from Windows Performance Counters</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-05-19-making-awesome-dashboards-from-windows-performance-counters/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2016 18:25:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-05-19-making-awesome-dashboards-from-windows-performance-counters/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Having an understanding of your systems performance is a crucial part of running IT infrastructure.&lt;br&gt;
If a user comes to us and says &lt;em&gt;&amp;ldquo;why is my application running slowly?&amp;rdquo;&lt;/em&gt;, where do we start? Is it their machine? Is it the database server? Is it the file server?&lt;br&gt;
The first thing we usually do is open up perfmon.exe and take a look at some performance counters. You then see the CPU on the database server is 100% and think _ &amp;ldquo;was the CPU always at 100% or did this issue just start today? Was it something I changed? If only I could see what was happening at this time yesterday when the application was running fine!&amp;quot;. _It might take you a few hours to find the performance issue on your infrastructure, and you are probably going to need to open up perfmon.exe on a couple of other systems. There is a better way!&lt;br&gt;
What if you could turn your Windows performance counters into dashboards that look like this? How much time would you save?&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="https://hodgkins.io/images/posts/influxdb_grafana_windows/fulldashboard.png" alt="Full Hyper-V Dashboard"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Using a combination of the open source tools &lt;strong&gt;InfluxDB&lt;/strong&gt; to store the performance counter data, **Grafana **to graph the data and the &lt;strong&gt;Telegraf&lt;/strong&gt; agent to collect Windows performance counters, you will be a master of your metrics in no time!&lt;br&gt;
Read the detailed walk through over at &lt;a href="https://hodgkins.io/windows-metric-dashboards-with-influxdb-and-grafana"&gt;hodgkins.io&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Dutch PowerShell User Group opens its doors on Slack</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-05-16-dutch-powershell-user-group-opens-its-doors-on-slack/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2016 13:07:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-05-16-dutch-powershell-user-group-opens-its-doors-on-slack/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In the past few weeks there has been a flurry of activity in the &lt;a href="http://www.dupsug.com"&gt;DuPSUG&lt;/a&gt; organization. We have been working on organizing the first PowerShell Saturday in the Netherlands and we recently also opened our doors on Slack, with our &lt;a href="https://dupsug.slack.com/"&gt;DuPSUG slack&lt;/a&gt; initiative.&lt;br&gt;
On Slack we will provide a platform on which we will share our content and provide another platform for our members and PowerShell enthusiasts worldwide to interact with the Dutch scripting community. If you are interested in participating in our events, either as a participant or perhaps at future events as a speaker, fill please out the following form:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://goo.gl/forms/6La00HMeK7"&gt;DuPSUG Slack Registration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 313 – PowerScripting Podcast – Rob Reynolds on Chocolatey</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2016-05-11-episode-313-powerscripting-podcast-rob-reynolds-on-chocolatey/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2016 03:15:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2016-05-11-episode-313-powerscripting-podcast-rob-reynolds-on-chocolatey/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-313.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to R&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ob Reynolds about Chocolatey&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://chocolatey.org/"&gt;
https://chocolatey.org/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ferventcoder/chocolatey-the-alternative-windows-store-like-yum"&gt;
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ferventcoder/chocolatey-the-alternative-windows-store-like-yum
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ferventcoder/chocolatey-the-alternative-windows-store-like-yum"&gt;
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ferventcoder/chocolatey-the-alternative-windows-store-like-yum
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://chocolatey.org/packages/chocolatey.server"&gt;
https://chocolatey.org/packages/chocolatey.server
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://inedo.com/proget/pricing/features-by-edition"&gt;
http://inedo.com/proget/pricing/features-by-edition
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2015/01/04/episode-291-powerscripting-podcast-garrett-serack-from-microsoft-on-oneget/"&gt;
https://powershell.org/2015/01/04/episode-291-powerscripting-podcast-garrett-serack-from-microsoft-on-oneget/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Not chocolatey.org &lt;a href="http://chocolatey.org"&gt;http://chocolatey.org&lt;/a&gt;, we host our own repo&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/cChoco"&gt;
https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/cChoco
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.virustotal.com/"&gt;
https://www.virustotal.com/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Or what about MeetUp.com
&lt;a href="http://MeetUp.com"&gt;
http://MeetUp.com
&lt;/a&gt;
.  Don&amp;rsquo;t know if that has a cost to it or not.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;@stuwee: have you seen this?
&lt;a href="https://chocolatey.org/packages"&gt;
https://chocolatey.org/packages
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/wiki/CommandsInstall"&gt;
https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/wiki/CommandsInstall
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/eeroh0oat4mtzgz/new_icon.png?dl=0"&gt;
https://www.dropbox.com/s/eeroh0oat4mtzgz/new_icon.png?dl=0
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Your feedback wanted! New eBook Hosting for PowerShell.org</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-05-09-your-feedback-wanted-new-ebook-hosting-for-powershell-org/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2016 13:28:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-05-09-your-feedback-wanted-new-ebook-hosting-for-powershell-org/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;After dealing with numerous problems from PenFlip (where our free ebooks are currently located), we&amp;rsquo;ve decided to try two new hosting providers: GitBook and LeanPub.&lt;br&gt;
Both of these are, or can be, based on Git/GitHub, which means the Markdown text of the book will always be open-sourced and available. Both offer conversion into PDF, MOBI, and EPUB formats, so you can download whichever you want. Both enable us to update the books at any time. Both are relatively easy to use; GitBook provides a moderately better writing experience since they provide a native app that kind of hides the Git-i-ness, but it&amp;rsquo;s not a huge deal. More or less the same thing could be assembled for LeanPub if we wanted.&lt;br&gt;
They do their formatting slightly differently, so it&amp;rsquo;s worth looking at each to see which you like better. We don&amp;rsquo;t have a ton of control over their formatting, so what you see in these tests is what you get.&lt;br&gt;
LeanPub offers two key differences:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>MSPSUG May 10th Virtual Meeting: Acceptance Testing PowerShell DSC with Test-Kitchen</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-05-08-mspsug-may-10th-virtual-meeting-acceptance-testing-powershell-dsc-with-test-kitchen/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2016 01:06:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-05-08-mspsug-may-10th-virtual-meeting-acceptance-testing-powershell-dsc-with-test-kitchen/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join the Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtually on Tuesday, May 10th 2016 at 8:30pm Central Time when Microsoft MVP &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/StevenMurawski"&gt;Steven Murawski&lt;/a&gt; will be presenting &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Acceptance Testing Desired State Configuration with Test-Kitchen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br&gt;
DSC is awesome, but only if the resources and configurations do what you want them to do.  How do you know? If you are relying on DSC to tell you when it didn’t do the right thing, you are in for a world of hurt.  Configuration management is the world of “trust but verify” and Test-Kitchen gives you a common framework for testing your resources and configurations and use Pester to validate that your servers end up in the state you expect.&lt;br&gt;
Visit the &lt;a href="http://mspsug.com/2016/04/29/mspsug-may-2016-virtual-meeting-acceptance-testing-dsc-with-test-kitchen/"&gt;Mississippi PowerShell User Group&lt;/a&gt; website to learn more about Steven and to find out more details about this month’s meeting.&lt;br&gt;
The Mississippi PowerShell User Group Meetings are held online (via Skype for Business) on the second Tuesday of each month at 8:30pm Central Time and are free to attend. The system requirements to attend these online meetings can be found on the MSPSUG website under the “&lt;a href="http://mspsug.com/attendee-info/"&gt;Attendee Info&lt;/a&gt;” section.&lt;br&gt;
Register via &lt;a href="http://mspsug.eventbrite.com/"&gt;EventBrite&lt;/a&gt; to receive the URL for this meeting.&lt;br&gt;
Note: It is not necessary to live in Mississippi or join our user group to attend our meetings or present a session for our user group.&lt;br&gt;
µ&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>GET YOUR STICKERS!!! (AND WALLPAPERS!!!) (AND INTERNATIONAL STICKERS!!!)</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-05-04-get-your-stickers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2016 21:02:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-05-04-get-your-stickers/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/IMG_2867.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/IMG_2867-628x471.jpg" alt="STICKERS!"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
OK, we finally have a huge batch of PowerShell.org and DevOpsCollective.org laptop stickers! These are great, heavy-duty, &lt;em&gt;removable&lt;/em&gt; stickers for laptop and every day use. Here&amp;rsquo;s how you can get yours - &lt;strong&gt;follow these instructions carefully!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="united-states"&gt;United States&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First, this offer is only valid until July 1st, 2016. After that, you&amp;rsquo;ll have to attend PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit, our Ignite &amp;ldquo;PowerShell Community Happy Hour&amp;rdquo; event, or someplace else where we&amp;rsquo;re in-person to get a sticker. Sorry for the deadline - I&amp;rsquo;m just not in the full-time sticker distribution business.&lt;br&gt;
To get your sticker, send a &lt;strong&gt;business-sized Self-Addressed, Stamped Envelope&lt;/strong&gt; to Don Jones, 7582 Las Vegas Blvd S, Suite 503, Las Vegas NV 89123. The return envelope should include your address in both the &amp;ldquo;main&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;return address&amp;rdquo; positions.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Documenting your PowerShell API–solved!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-04-29-documenting-your-powershell-api-solved/</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2016 22:01:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-04-29-documenting-your-powershell-api-solved/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Long has it been known how to easily document your PowerShell source code simply by embedding properly formatted documentation comments right along side your code, making maintenance relatively painless&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/ps-doc-comment-sample.png" alt="Sample Doc-Comments for PowerShell source"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
But if you advanced to writing your PowerShell cmdlets in C#, you have largely been on your own, either hand-crafting MAML files or using targeted MAML editors far removed from your source code. &lt;strong&gt;But not anymore.&lt;/strong&gt; With the advent of Chris Lambrou&amp;rsquo;s open-source &lt;strong&gt;XmlDoc2CmdletDoc&lt;/strong&gt;, the world has been righted upon its axis once more: it allows instrumenting your C# source with doc-comments just like any other C# source:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/csharp-doc-comment-sample-628x422.png" alt="csharp doc-comment sample"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
All of the above provides fuel for Get-Help, i.e. providing help one cmdlet at a time. But we are a civilized people; we also need a web-based version of our full custom PowerShell API. That is, a hierarchical and indexed set of Get-Help pages for all the cmdlets in our module. For this task, my own open-source effort, &lt;strong&gt;DocTreeGenerator&lt;/strong&gt;, nicely fills the gap, requiring very little beyond the doc-comments described above to do the complete job.&lt;br&gt;
I have written extensively on using both XmlDoc2CmdletDoc and DocTreeGenerator, and just this week, released a one-page wallchart that shows how all the pieces work together:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/doc-wallchart-thumbnail-628x409.png" alt="doc wallchart thumbnail"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Here&amp;rsquo;s the link to get you started on this fun journey:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.simple-talk.com/sysadmin/powershell/unified-approach-to-generating-documentation-for-powershell-cmdlets/"&gt;Unified Approach to Generating Documentation for PowerShell Cmdlets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games May 2016 AD Puzzle</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-04-26-scripting-games-may-2016-ad-puzzle/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2016 02:32:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-04-26-scripting-games-may-2016-ad-puzzle/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I love working in AD (Active Directory) with PowerShell. I find that I have had to really dig in to learn some of the syntax nuances that you need to understand to really mine data and change configurations within Active Directory. This puzzle reflects the kind of situation that people have to deal with in PowerShell everyday. I am interested to see what kinds of approaches each of you will take, this is a real chance to learn more of the diversity of methods that can be used in Active Directory with PowerShell.&lt;br&gt;
This month Bartek Bielawski has submitted two puzzles, I am going to post the beginner to medium one first and then the advanced one next month. This is going to be a real learning opportunity. Keep the puzzles coming in, Mike F. Robbinson has submitted one recently too, so you can look forward to that in a couple of months.&lt;br&gt;
Here we go:&lt;br&gt;
During an internal IT audit of rights on your file server it was discovered that certain group had rights to the share used by finance and HR with sensitive data and the main question is: who was able to access these files because of that. When it happens you are attending a conference (surprise, surprise) and can’t really do anything remotely. That doesn’t stop your boss from calling you and asking for help. All she wants is a list of all users that are members of that group. The problem is that this group suffers from snow-ball effect and has multiple nested groups, that contain nested groups, that contain nested…&lt;br&gt;
You respond with “use Get-ADGroupMember -Recursive” but your boss complains, that when she tried to use it, she just got some red text on her screen with information, that common delete is not recognized. You roll your eyes and eventually decide to write a short script and send it over e-mail. Luckily, you have sandbox domain controller running on your laptop, so testing your code is not that difficult. As you are in the middle of an interesting talk, you try to make it as simple and minimalistic as possible. You also decide not to try any other tools that require something to be installed on a computer running the code. One call from the boss is enough.&lt;br&gt;
Design goals:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Verified Effective Exam Results</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-04-22-verified-effective-exam-results/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2016 16:14:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-04-22-verified-effective-exam-results/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve uploaded the results of the Verified Effective: PowerShell Toolmaker exam, which was administered at the recent PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2016. Note that this exam has, for a couple of years now, been available only as an on-site, in-person, proctored experience - we do not offer online delivery.&lt;br&gt;
We had our best pass rate ever - about 20%. That said, nobody hit 100%. I had actually done a pre-con, full-day session on the very topic being tested - writing advanced functions - and had more than a few folks tell me that the session wasn&amp;rsquo;t as &amp;ldquo;advanced&amp;rdquo; as they wanted. Notwithstanding, 80% of the people who took the test didn&amp;rsquo;t pass (and I wasn&amp;rsquo;t the one grading the tests, either, so it&amp;rsquo;s not just spite!). Unfortunately, a lot of us &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; we&amp;rsquo;re &amp;ldquo;advanced,&amp;rdquo; but in fact are missing a lot of details. In some cases, having reviewed the graded tests, folks are missing some of the basics.&lt;br&gt;
If you took the test, head over to &lt;a href="http://verifiedeffective.org"&gt;VerifiedEffective.org&lt;/a&gt; and enter your candidate ID to see if you passed. I want to stress that I personally don&amp;rsquo;t have access to the graded tests with names attached - I only have anonymized copies.&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;re not going to offer the exam again at Summit 2017. We&amp;rsquo;re considering making some schedule changes that won&amp;rsquo;t accommodate the time and space and personnel needed to administer the exam and - to be frank - I think &lt;em&gt;education&lt;/em&gt; would benefit a lot of people more than a test. Whether we offer the test again in future years hasn&amp;rsquo;t yet been decided, although I&amp;rsquo;ll share our general feelings at the end of this article.&lt;br&gt;
In fact, with that &amp;ldquo;education&amp;rdquo; in mind, I&amp;rsquo;m going to break a rule. I&amp;rsquo;m going to post the entire exam packet, exactly as it was given to the attendees who took the exam. I did something similar after PowerShell Summit Europe 2015, but this is the &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; exam packet. Go ahead - give yourself an hour to finish the test, and then check back here. I&amp;rsquo;ll wait.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Exam.docx"&gt;Exam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Keeping it simple – Line breaks in PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-04-20-keeping-it-simple-line-breaks-in-powershell/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2016 23:18:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-04-20-keeping-it-simple-line-breaks-in-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Trying to get your code to look good when reading it later can be tricky&lt;br&gt;
For line breaks in function scripts, there are two out-of-the-box options:&lt;br&gt;
First, you can break a line &lt;em&gt;after the pipe key&lt;/em&gt;, which is an elegant and easy-to-read approach.&lt;br&gt;
Second, you can arbitrarily break a line with a &lt;em&gt;back tick&lt;/em&gt; mark, which you will find left of the number 1 on a standard US keyboard.&lt;br&gt;
**It looks like this: &lt;code&gt; ** But did you know that the back tick is a hack? The back tick &lt;/code&gt; means, “literally interpret the next character,” or also said, escape the following character.”&lt;br&gt;
For example, you might want to literally reference a quotation mark “ in a path name, but because it’s inside “” for strings, you need to literally interpret it: “&lt;code&gt;”PATH&lt;/code&gt;”” – it’s hard to see, but squint.&lt;br&gt;
But here’s another takeaway: if you use the back tick to create a line break, make sure there’s no space after it; otherwise, the space – not the carriage return – will be the escaped, literal character!&lt;br&gt;
So here&amp;rsquo;s are some examples of what works and what doesn&amp;rsquo;t:&lt;br&gt;
First, no line breaks - works like a charm, but if we add a few more pipes and parameters this could get ugly.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Help Get the Word Out on the 'GetGoing' Program &amp; Scholarship</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-04-20-help-get-the-word-out-on-the-getgoing-program-scholarship/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2016 16:00:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-04-20-help-get-the-word-out-on-the-getgoing-program-scholarship/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/PowerShellPodcast.png" alt="PowerShellPodcast"&gt;A couple of weeks ago, DevOps Collective (PowerShell.org&amp;rsquo;s parent non-profit organization) &lt;a href="https://devopscollective.org/2016/04/04/announcing-the-getgoing-it-ops-education-program-scholarship/"&gt;announced the availability&lt;/a&gt; of the &amp;lsquo;GetGoing&amp;rsquo; IT Ops Education Program and Scholarship.&lt;br&gt;
For those of you who may not have yet heard, DevOps Collective and Pluralsight have partnered together to create a modern &amp;rsquo;turnkey&amp;rsquo; curriculum that brings together mapped courses, recommended hands-on experiences, and live mentoring to prepare people for the real-world of IT Operations.  With this initiative, they&amp;rsquo;ve offered up to full-ride scholarships for 2016.  Applications for the scholarship have opened, and applications will be taken in until May 15th.&lt;br&gt;
Now that the way has been paved, it&amp;rsquo;s our turn as members of the community to get the word out; and doing so might be easier than you think!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contact Your Local School Districts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
I recently reached out to my hometown public school district, and was immediately met with enthusiasm from the local superintendent and their Science, Guidance, and Counseling departments.  It only takes a quick email with some bullet points on the program to get the conversation initiated.  I&amp;rsquo;ve included the text of my initial correspondence for you to use as a guide to help you on your way.&lt;br&gt;
Contacting your school district is
&lt;em&gt;easy&lt;/em&gt;
.  A quick search online for your district can get your to their website with contact info, often including the email addresses for the district superintendent and other office officials that can help!  Send them a &lt;a href="https://devopscollective.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/getgoing-program-guide.pdf"&gt;copy of the brochure&lt;/a&gt; to help them get informed of the initiative.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use Your Social Media Skills&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Get the conversation going on social media!  Talk to your followers; speak out to local educational organizations; and make them aware of this awesome new program!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Inform Your User Groups&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Get your user groups in on the action.  Enlist the greater community to get the word out faster!  Together we can canvas an even larger area and get more people interested!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Get Involved&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Offer to become a mentor.  We all know that the best way to learn is from real world experiences.  We, as a community, have this vast repository of practical knowledge that no book can effectively provide.  We, as a collective resource, can help to bring a new generation of administrators, engineers, and architects into this world already prepared to take on DevOps, Agile IT, and more!&lt;br&gt;
If you need a hand getting started, feel free to contact me at &lt;strong&gt;webmaster at powershell.org&lt;/strong&gt;.  Now let&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#GetGoing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; ourselves, and make this happen!&lt;br&gt;
Here&amp;rsquo;s my initial contact email that you can use to fit your own story:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Greetings [Contact Name],&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 312 – PowerScripting Podcast – SQL MVP Chrissy LeMaire</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2016-04-19-episode-312-powerscripting-podcast-sql-mvp-chrissy-lemaire/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2016 01:30:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2016-04-19-episode-312-powerscripting-podcast-sql-mvp-chrissy-lemaire/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-312.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SQL MVP Chrissy LeMaire&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;News&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Coc1Jn5hC4e_XgbFUaS5jY2i"&gt;
The videos from the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit have been released!
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/dsc/whitepapers#the-release-pipeline-model"&gt;
The Release Pipeline Model Whitepaper
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://blog.netnerds.net/2016/03/can-we-get-these-3-sqlps-issues-fixed-before-sql-server-2016-rtms/"&gt;
https://blog.netnerds.net/2016/03/can-we-get-these-3-sqlps-issues-fixed-before-sql-server-2016-rtms/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://blog.netnerds.net/author/chrissy/"&gt;https://blog.netnerds.net/author/chrissy/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive/live"&gt;
http://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive/live
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;laquo;@UPLLB|halr9000&amp;raquo; halr9000 uploaded a file: Chrissy LeMaire is here!
&lt;a href="https://powershell.slack.com/files/halr9000/F0TE5448G/pasted_image_at_2016_03_17_11_55_am.png"&gt;
https://powershell.slack.com/files/halr9000/F0TE5448G/pasted_image_at_2016_03_17_11_55_am.png
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.gliffy.com/"&gt;
https://www.gliffy.com/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2016/03/14/up-next-chrissy-lemaire-talks-about-powershell-sql-and-sql-on-linux/"&gt;
https://powershell.org/2016/03/14/up-next-chrissy-lemaire-talks-about-powershell-sql-and-sql-on-linux/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;@jonwalz: @halr9000 down the line -
&lt;a href="https://api.slack.com/methods/channels.history"&gt;
https://api.slack.com/methods/channels.history
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun_English"&gt;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun_English
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;laquo;@UPLLB|halr9000&amp;raquo; halr9000 uploaded a file: Pasted image at 2016-03-17, 12:21 PM
&lt;a href="https://powershell.slack.com/files/halr9000/F0TCVH1EF/pasted_image_at_2016_03_17_12_21_pm.png"&gt;
https://powershell.slack.com/files/halr9000/F0TCVH1EF/pasted_image_at_2016_03_17_12_21_pm.png
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A study in Powershell scripting – A beginners guide Part 3</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-04-18-a-study-in-powershell-scripting-a-beginners-guide-part-3/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2016 12:28:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-04-18-a-study-in-powershell-scripting-a-beginners-guide-part-3/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Here is the long awaited post of my third installment of where I revisit my script and provide some explanation as to why I did the things I did in regards to synchronizing Active directory groups.&lt;br&gt;
As always feedback is welcome.&lt;br&gt;
Link is &lt;a href="http://weiyentanitjournal.com/index.php/2016/04/18/a-study-in-powershell-scripting-part-3/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Unicode PowerShell module</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-04-15-the-unicode-powershell-module/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:25:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-04-15-the-unicode-powershell-module/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;After authoring last month scripting games puzzle, which involved some scripting around the Unicode standard, I decided to have some fun and write a &lt;strong&gt;PowerShell module&lt;/strong&gt; which interacts directly with the online &lt;strong&gt;Unicode Database&lt;/strong&gt; (UCD) to retrieve the main properties of characters.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/poshunicode-628x453.png" alt="poshunicode"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Using this module you will be able to retrieve the following information for a single char or for every char in a given string:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Glyph name&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;General category&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Unicode script&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Unicode block&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Unicode version (or age)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Decimal value&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hex value&lt;br&gt;
Here&amp;rsquo;s a few sample outputs you can get from using the functions in the UnicodeInfo module:&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Get-Unicodeinfo '$' Glyph : $ Decimal value : 36 Hexadecimal value : U+0024 General Category : CurrencySymbol Unicode name : DOLLAR SIGN Unicode script : Common Unicode block : BasicLatin Unicode version : 1.1&lt;/code&gt;Get-Unicodeinfo &amp;lsquo;Powershell!&amp;rsquo; | Format-Table
Glyph Decimal value Hexadecimal value General Category Unicode name Unicode script Unicode block Unicode
version&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit Videos Online</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-04-13-powershell-devops-global-summit-videos-online/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2016 22:04:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-04-13-powershell-devops-global-summit-videos-online/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The session recordings are &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Coc1Jn5hC4e_XgbFUaS5jY2i"&gt;now online&lt;/a&gt;! We did miss a few of the videos. The few 2-hour sessions scheduled in Room 406 were not recorded (and weren&amp;rsquo;t planned to be; we only have two sets of recording equipment, although for 2017 we&amp;rsquo;re adding a third set). And, we had a couple that had video problems on-site and weren&amp;rsquo;t recordable. We hope you&amp;rsquo;ll appreciate that our priority on-site is to provide a great experience for the people who were there, and stopping everything to make sure we get a recording isn&amp;rsquo;t always practical. As always, recordings are on a best-effort basis. As far as we know, we missed one of Matt Graeber&amp;rsquo;s sessions, Lee Holmes&amp;rsquo; session, and the Microsoft general session from Kenneth Hansen and Angel Cavelo.&lt;br&gt;
A new experiment this year should come online by July 2016. Pluralsight showed up with two film crews, and captured live HD video, and audio right from the speakers&amp;rsquo; mic, in rooms 404 and 405, which were our main session rooms. Those recordings, which will combine the live video with our screen captures, will be available in the Pluralsight library for all Pluralsight subscribers. Registered attendees of the event will receive free access to those as well, by means of a &amp;ldquo;slice&amp;rdquo; of the Pluralsight library.&lt;br&gt;
Note that last-minute registration transferees will &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be automatically included in that, as we&amp;rsquo;ll be sending the library information to the originally registered person. In addition, for attendees who did not provide complete contact information (like, if someone else registered you), the notification will go to the contact information we &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; have. We don&amp;rsquo;t have the ability to update that list at this point, sorry.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>2016-March Scripting Games Wrap-Up</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-04-02-2016-march-scripting-games-wrap-up/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2016 15:04:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-04-02-2016-march-scripting-games-wrap-up/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Carlo really put a brain-twister out for our &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2016/03/05/2016-march-scripting-games-puzzle/"&gt;March 2016 Puzzle&lt;/a&gt;. Also, as a note, we&amp;rsquo;re eagerly awaiting submissions of next month&amp;rsquo;s puzzle, so don&amp;rsquo;t delay in handing that in. &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2016/02/06/2016-february-scripting-games-puzzle/"&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s how you can contribute to the community&amp;rsquo;s favorite scripting game&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="official-solution"&gt;Official Solution&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s probably easiest just to share his solutions as actual script files, so here&amp;rsquo;s both the Beginner and Advanced versions that he provided, as a ZIP:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Solutions.zip"&gt;Solutions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Carlo also provided some notes on his thinking:&lt;br&gt;
Just a precision concerning the regex: the idea I had was to &amp;lsquo;force&amp;rsquo; competitors to think in terms of Unicode categories and block ranges (unknown concept to most I bet).&lt;br&gt;
Without digging, some people could come up with an expression like this, which is NOT what we want:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Calling all Scripting Games Puzzles!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-03-07-calling-all-scripting-games-puzzles/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:25:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-03-07-calling-all-scripting-games-puzzles/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Have you been enjoying our monthly Scripting Games puzzles? Want to keep them going?&lt;br&gt;
Then it&amp;rsquo;s time to &lt;strong&gt;jump in and contribute!&lt;/strong&gt; PowerShell.org is a community site, which means it only works when community makes it work! So come up with your Scripting Games puzzles (you&amp;rsquo;ve &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/category/announcements/scripting-games/"&gt;seen the different kinds&lt;/a&gt; we&amp;rsquo;ve done)! Your submission should include:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The puzzle itself. This can include a narrative, example output you want people to achieve, etc.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The solution (in code form, and it&amp;rsquo;s fine if you put this on GitHub or in a Gist too), along with a narrative of how and why the solution achieves the goal(s).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ideally, we&amp;rsquo;d love it if you could also review some of the entries for your puzzle and provide some commentary on ones that you found noteworthy.&lt;br&gt;
Submit your puzzle to Dan Iverson, our newly minted GamesMaster, via email to gamesmaster@ (and you should be able to figure out our domain name, as you&amp;rsquo;re on our site, right?). We&amp;rsquo;re looking for an April puzzle and beyond! For months where we have no entry, we&amp;rsquo;ll post a &amp;ldquo;taking a break&amp;rdquo; at the top of the month, just so you know.&lt;br&gt;
Don&amp;rsquo;t let us down! Personally, I&amp;rsquo;d love for this to become enough of a thing that we can start awarding not only top entrants (I &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; been tracking entries each month), but top &lt;em&gt;puzzle authors&lt;/em&gt; - and maybe invite them to a PowerShell Summit where we&amp;rsquo;ll do a live Scripting Games event one evening! But it only happens if &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; help make it happen!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>2016-March Scripting Games Puzzle</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-03-05-2016-march-scripting-games-puzzle/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2016 14:55:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-03-05-2016-march-scripting-games-puzzle/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Our March 2016 puzzle comes from Carlo Mancini. We&amp;rsquo;re actively interested in receiving Scripting Games puzzles from members of the community - submit yours, along with an official solution, to us at admin@ via email!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Microsoft automation platforms – Twin Cities March meeting</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-03-03-microsoft-automation-platforms-twin-cities-march-meeting/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:02:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-03-03-microsoft-automation-platforms-twin-cities-march-meeting/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.meetup.com/Twin-Cities-PowerShell-User-Group/"&gt;Twin Cities PowerShell Automation Group&lt;/a&gt; meeting Tuesday, March 8, 2016, at the &lt;a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;q=3601+76th+St+W%3B+Suite+600%2C+Edina%2C+MN%2C+us"&gt;Microsoft Technology Center&lt;/a&gt; in Edina, MN.&lt;br&gt;
Come and learn about the road map for Microsoft’s automation platforms, System Center Orchestrator, Service Management Automation and Azure Automation. Ryan Andorfer will cover the road map for these three products and then dive into how to utilize Azure Automation in the cloud and on premises for both process and configuration automation in an enterprise setting, including strategies around code management, PowerShell Module development and PowerShell DSC management.&lt;br&gt;
Ryan ran the IT-Automation team for General Mills for 6 years, was a Cloud and Datacenter MVP for 3 years and is now a Microsoft Technology Solutions Professional.&lt;br&gt;
This is a secure facility. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.meetup.com/Twin-Cities-PowerShell-User-Group/events/229312191/"&gt;RSVP&lt;/a&gt; with full name is required.&lt;/strong&gt; If you do not use your full name on meetup, please email us your full name. &lt;a href="http://www.meetup.com/Twin-Cities-PowerShell-User-Group/events/229312191/"&gt;Please RSVP at&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.meetup.com/Twin-Cities-PowerShell-User-Group/events/229312191/"&gt;http://www.meetup.com/Twin-Cities-PowerShell-User-Group/events/229312191/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Food and networking starts at 4:30. The presentations will start at 5 PM. We&amp;rsquo;ll keeping talking until 7 PM.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Official PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2016 Agenda Now Available</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-03-02-official-powershell-devops-global-summit-2016-agenda-now-available/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2016 22:17:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-03-02-official-powershell-devops-global-summit-2016-agenda-now-available/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The agenda is available on the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/summit/"&gt;official event page&lt;/a&gt;! Please note that this is subject to change, but we&amp;rsquo;ll update that same copy so you can just refer to it. We&amp;rsquo;ll have handouts on site, but we recommend having an &lt;strong&gt;offline copy&lt;/strong&gt; of the PDF, or your own printout, as a backup. It&amp;rsquo;s worth reviewing this in advance, so you can start planning your own personal agenda. Don&amp;rsquo;t forget that the registration site (&lt;a href="https://eventloom.com/event/home/PSNA16"&gt;https://eventloom.com/event/home/PSNA16&lt;/a&gt;) allows you to set your own personal agenda (after logging in), and provides a mobile-friendly view at the event.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShellSummit.org Registration Status &amp; Extension</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-03-01-powershellsummit-org-registration-status-extension/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2016 21:09:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-03-01-powershellsummit-org-registration-status-extension/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;So, we have 3 seats left, which isn&amp;rsquo;t much - and we contacted our venue, and they said they they&amp;rsquo;d let us bring in those people more last-minute (in terms of us setting food and space requirements), but there&amp;rsquo;s a small uncharge of $100 per person. So those last three seats are on sale at PowerShellSummit.org, through the morning of March 11th, and the new pricing should go into effect sometime tonight. In the meantime, if you happen to show up and the lower price is still there, go for it. But&amp;hellip; only three seats. Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A study in Powershell scripting – A beginners guide Part 2</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-02-26-a-study-in-powershell-scripting-part-2/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2016 21:54:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-02-26-a-study-in-powershell-scripting-part-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this post I elaborate the steps that I went through to build the function to extract users into alphabetical order. I talk about the problems I face and how I resolved them.&lt;br&gt;
I also post snippets of my code that I used so that new people can see how I wrote it.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;m hoping that this help the new people that are out there.&lt;br&gt;
Biggest tip in the post is what the secret sauce is on how to pass results from one cmdlet to another. As always always pleased to know people&amp;rsquo;s thoughts.&lt;br&gt;
Link &lt;a href="http://weiyentanitjournal.com/index.php/2016/02/26/a-study-in-learning-powershell-part-2/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A study in Powershell Scripting – A beginners Guide Part I</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-02-25-a-study-in-powershell-scripting-a-beginners-guide-part-i/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:27:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-02-25-a-study-in-powershell-scripting-a-beginners-guide-part-i/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I thought I would post my learning experiences as a person that has very little programming background. Don did say in one of the TechEd&amp;rsquo;s a few  years ago that even a beginner could share their experiences with others. So I thought that I should contribute with the approach that I use to write my scripts so that other people starting to begin their Powershell adventure could benefit.&lt;br&gt;
The scenario in this case is to do with three Active Directory security groups and synchronizing with a master Active Directory security group.&lt;br&gt;
Link to blog post &lt;a href="http://weiyentanitjournal.com/index.php/2016/01/31/a-study-in-learning-powershell-part-1/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>I'm Not A Developer</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-02-19-im-not-a-developer/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2016 12:57:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-02-19-im-not-a-developer/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Are you intimidated by scripting? Does PowerShell seem too much like programming to you? You aren&amp;rsquo;t a developer, why should you learn this mumbo jumbo?&lt;br&gt;
It turns out, PowerShell is quite easy to get started with. Can you run ipconfig? Do you know how to give someone instructions? You could probably pick up the PowerShell basics in a month of lunches or so.&lt;br&gt;
Don&amp;rsquo;t believe me? &lt;a href="http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/PowerShell-Is-Too-Hard/"&gt;I spent a few minutes to compare a simple task in four languages&lt;/a&gt;. PowerShell is a single, easy to understand command. Python is two lines and starts to include some syntax like .().&lt;br&gt;
We won&amp;rsquo;t even look at the C example here, but check out this C# code that simply reads and prints out the content of a file:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Last Chance for PowerShellSummit.org Registration</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-02-18-last-chance-for-powershellsummit-org-registration/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2016 18:52:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-02-18-last-chance-for-powershellsummit-org-registration/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s a sort of last call: Registration ends on March 1st, 2016, giving you just about ten days from today (Feb 18th). Additionally, we&amp;rsquo;ve got just around 24 seats remaining. About 5 of those are available as 3-day seats, and about 19 as 4-day seats. We&amp;rsquo;ll try and slide that availability around so you&amp;rsquo;re not forced into one or the other, but this is basically last call for attendees either way. Hope we&amp;rsquo;ll see you there!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Convert VBA Macros To PowerShell for Microsoft Office Automation</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-02-18-convert-vba-macros-to-powershell-for-microsoft-office-automation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2016 14:46:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-02-18-convert-vba-macros-to-powershell-for-microsoft-office-automation/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;There is a lot of documentation out there for interacting with Microsoft Office including Outlook, Excel, Word, etc with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). A lot of time you may only be able to find VBA examples. VBA&amp;rsquo;s require template files to be sent to the desktop and are a real hassle when trying to automate across multiple machines.&lt;br&gt;
There are not many A to B examples of translating VBA to PowerShell so I took a problem I had solved in the past and presented the before and after. Hopefully it will provide enough information to allow others to convert VBA code into PowerShell for their scenarios.&lt;br&gt;
You can check out the full article on &lt;a href="http://wp.me/p7al1Q-5f"&gt;PowerShellBlogger.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 311 – PowerScripting Podcast – David Wilson From The PowerShell Team</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2016-02-17-episode-311-powerscripting-podcast-david-wilson-from-the-powershell-team/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2016 04:03:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2016-02-17-episode-311-powerscripting-podcast-david-wilson-from-the-powershell-team/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-311.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;David Wilson from the PowerShell team&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://daviwil.com/"&gt;
David’s Blog
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/daviwil"&gt;
David’s Twitter
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2016/01/20/introducing-the-windows-powershell-ise-preview/"&gt;
Introducing ISE Preview
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/vscode-powershell"&gt;
https://github.com/PowerShell/vscode-powershell
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2015/11/16/announcing-powershell-language-support-for-visual-studio-code-and-more/"&gt;
PowerShell language support for VS Code
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2015/12/14/improving-the-powershell-feedback-experience-with-uservoice/"&gt;PowerShell feedback moving to Uservoice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2016/01/20/introducing-the-windows-powershell-ise-preview/"&gt;
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2016/01/20/introducing-the-windows-powershell-ise-preview/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/powerscripting/photos_stream"&gt;
https://www.facebook.com/powerscripting/photos_stream
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://code.visualstudio.com/"&gt;
https://code.visualstudio.com/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2015/11/16/announcing-powershell-language-support-for-visual-studio-code-and-more/"&gt;
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2015/11/16/announcing-powershell-language-support-for-visual-studio-code-and-more/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;
live.powerscripting.net http://live.powerscripting.net
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2015/12/14/improving-the-powershell-feedback-experience-with-uservoice/"&gt;
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2015/12/14/improving-the-powershell-feedback-experience-with-uservoice/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;laquo;@UPLLB|halr9000&amp;raquo; halr9000 uploaded a file: David Wilson 2016-02-10_21-52-48.jpg
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&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Superhero - slow down time&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Planning for PowerShell+DevOps Global Summit 2017… Need Your Opinion</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-02-16-planning-for-powershelldevops-global-summit-2017-need-your-opinion/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:35:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-02-16-planning-for-powershelldevops-global-summit-2017-need-your-opinion/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;So, we&amp;rsquo;re already doing some planning for the 2017, 2018, and 2019 events. Because, you know. We do that around here ;).&lt;br&gt;
One thing we&amp;rsquo;re considering is an option to lock-in venue pricing for that three-year period, helping to ensure we can keep our pricing at around $950 for a 3-day event. Doing so requires a hotel room block lock-in as well. On the plus side, that&amp;rsquo;ll lock in hotel pricing for 3 years too, which is great in terms of affordability and predictability. It&amp;rsquo;s scary, because we&amp;rsquo;re committing to paying for those rooms whether people sleep in &amp;rsquo;em or not. Another upside is bringing all or most attendees together into one hotel, along with our speakers.&lt;br&gt;
So what we&amp;rsquo;re considering is opening 2017 registration by only offering packages of either 3 or 4 days (it&amp;rsquo;ll be your pick) which are _inclusive of your hotel room. _This would be at a Marriott property, and we could provide receipts/invoices that showed the conference/travel expense breakout, if you needed. So up front, you&amp;rsquo;d only be able to buy that complete package. The package would also likely include something like a Sunday night meet &amp;rsquo;n&amp;rsquo; greet at the hotel - again, only open to people staying there.&lt;br&gt;
Closer to the event, say in the 60 days before, we&amp;rsquo;d open registration to ticket-only sales, for however many seats we had remaining.&lt;br&gt;
This is obviously an unabashed attempt to reduce risk by &amp;ldquo;forcing&amp;rdquo; people into the hotel package. Realizing that some people might not be able to book &amp;ldquo;inclusive&amp;rdquo; packages due to company policies, we&amp;rsquo;d try to also offer an option where you could buy just a ticket early-on, but were required to book your room in our block. Honestly, this is all about making sure we fill the block.&lt;br&gt;
Our feeling is that a 3-day package would be around $1500 including hotel (3 nights), and you&amp;rsquo;d have the option of booking on additional nights if you wanted to. it&amp;rsquo;d be about $2300 for a 4-day/4-night package, if we do the pre-con day again (which is likely as it&amp;rsquo;s been our most popular option for 2016).&lt;br&gt;
Another advantage of having our rates and dates locked in so far out is that we could let attendees put down a (refundable) deposit for 2017, 2018, and/or 2019 - locking in your seat before registration even opens, so you don&amp;rsquo;t have to worry about hitting the website at midnight sharp the day sales open ;). Now that we&amp;rsquo;re a nonprofit, collecting that in advance is much more do-able.&lt;br&gt;
Anyway&amp;hellip; we&amp;rsquo;d like some input from the community. Take &lt;a href="http://polldaddy.com/poll/9312274/"&gt;a quick, one-question poll&lt;/a&gt; to tell us what you think.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>2016-February Scripting Games Puzzle</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-02-06-2016-february-scripting-games-puzzle/</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2016 15:07:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-02-06-2016-february-scripting-games-puzzle/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Although we have a couple of puzzles queued up, we&amp;rsquo;ll be taking a brief break for the month of February 2016. So, no puzzle this month!&lt;br&gt;
However, **we are in need of puzzles, including sample solutions and explanations. **This is a community effort, so if you&amp;rsquo;ve never contributed - now&amp;rsquo;s a great time to start! Drop an email to admin@ this domain. Include a ZIP file with your puzzle, solution, and explanation - all in plain-text files, please. You can include screen shots, as needed, as PNG files.&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;re also in need of a Games Master, who can collect monthly puzzles, queue them up for publishing, and scan reader submissions for noteworthy entries. Drop an e-mail if you&amp;rsquo;re interested.&lt;br&gt;
Belong to a user group? Why not spend some time in your next meeting coming up with a puzzle or two that your group can submit? Make them easy or tricky, fun or devilish - it&amp;rsquo;s up to you. A user group could also collectively take on the Games Master role, giving you an important activity (reviewing entries and queuing them for publishing) at each monthly group meeting.&lt;br&gt;
Become a contributor, and help keep this highly visible part of the PowerShell community up and running!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>MSPSUG Feb 9th Virtual Meeting: Intro into the #PowerShell ISE, #Git, #PSPester &amp; #OneDrive</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-02-05-mspsug-feb-9th-virtual-meeting-intro-into-the-powershell-ise-git-pspester-onedrive/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2016 15:01:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-02-05-mspsug-feb-9th-virtual-meeting-intro-into-the-powershell-ise-git-pspester-onedrive/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join the Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtually on Tuesday, February 9th 2016 at 8:30pm Central Time when &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/ryanyates1990"&gt;Ryan Yates&lt;/a&gt; will be presenting an “&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Intro session to Teaching the IT Pro how to Dev with ISE, Git, Pester &amp;amp; OneDrive&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;”.&lt;br&gt;
With the amount of additional technologies needed to optimise the efficency of writing PowerShell this can seem very overwelming to someone new to PowerShell and could even put them completely off following an efficency optimised script creation workflow. So in this session I will be Demoing a way of working that can help users progress into Test Driven Development with the Help of a module that adds additional functionality to PowerShell ISE to make this easier to work with.&lt;br&gt;
Visit the &lt;a href="http://mspsug.com/2016/01/26/mspsug-february-2016-virtual-meeting-intro-into-the-powershell-ise-git-pester-onedrive/"&gt;Mississippi PowerShell User Group&lt;/a&gt; website to learn more about Ryan and to find out more details about this month’s meeting.&lt;br&gt;
The Mississippi PowerShell User Group Meetings are held online (via Skype for Business) on the second Tuesday of each month at 8:30pm Central Time and are free to attend. The system requirements to attend these online meetings can be found on the MSPSUG website under the “&lt;a href="http://mspsug.com/attendee-info/"&gt;Attendee Info&lt;/a&gt;” section.&lt;br&gt;
Register via &lt;a href="http://mspsug.eventbrite.com/"&gt;EventBrite&lt;/a&gt; to receive the URL for this meeting.&lt;br&gt;
Note: It is not necessary to live in Mississippi or join our user group to attend our meetings or present a session for our user group.&lt;br&gt;
µ&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Using PowerShell to make Azure Automation Graphical Runbooks – Part 2</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-02-03-using-powershell-to-make-azure-automation-graphical-runbooks-part-2/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2016 07:08:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-02-03-using-powershell-to-make-azure-automation-graphical-runbooks-part-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.powershell.amsterdam/2016/01/29/using-powershell-to-make-azure-automation-graphical-runbooks-part-1/"&gt;previous article&lt;/a&gt; in this series covered the release of the Microsoft Azure Automation Graphical Authoring SDK, and began to outline some of the classes used and, where possible, the visible elements they relate to in the Azure portal itself.&lt;br&gt;
This second part of the series focuses on probably the most time consuming and challenging part of scripting these runbooks, those to do with Activities.&lt;br&gt;
You can read the full article at &lt;a href="http://www.powershell.amsterdam/2016/02/03/using-powershell-to-make-azure-automation-graphical-runbooks-part-2/"&gt;www.powershell.amsterdam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Microsoft PowerShell team panel – Twin Cities February meeting</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-02-03-microsoft-powershell-team-panel-twin-cities-february-meeting/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2016 00:21:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-02-03-microsoft-powershell-team-panel-twin-cities-february-meeting/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Ever wonder just what the heck the Microsoft PowerShell team was thinking? Come find out!&lt;br&gt;
Keith Bankston is the senior program manager for PowerShell. Mark Gray is the senior program manager for DSC. Michael Greene is the program manager responsible for understanding customer feedback and getting it into PowerShell.&lt;br&gt;
Join us for a panel discussion where they will answer all of our questions about PowerShell and we in turn will answer their questions about how we use PowerShell and how we would like to use it in the future.&lt;br&gt;
Target North Campus&lt;br&gt;
7300 Oak Grove Parkway&lt;br&gt;
Brooklyn Park, MN&lt;br&gt;
This is a secure facility. &lt;a href="http://www.meetup.com/Twin-Cities-PowerShell-User-Group/events/228593479/"&gt;RSVP&lt;/a&gt; with full name is required. If you do not use your full name on meetup, please email us your full name. Park in the guest lot to the west of the complex. Check in with security with photo ID. You will be escorted to the meeting room.&lt;br&gt;
Food and networking begin at 4:30. The main meeting will run from 5 to 7.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Connect to all Office 365 Services with PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-02-02-connect-to-all-office-365-services-with-powershell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:50:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-02-02-connect-to-all-office-365-services-with-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you are not on Office 365 or have a tenant set up with Microsoft yet, now is the time to reserve your tenant name! With utilizing Office 365, a lot of administration is only available from a PowerShell session. There is a mix of outdated information on what you actually need to install and execute in order to connect to all of the Office 365 services. As a result, I accumulated and wrote up the current download requirements and commands to connect and administer every Office 365 service from one PowerShell session. I hope this saves everyone a lot of time and effort!&lt;br&gt;
Head over to &lt;a href="http://wp.me/p7al1Q-53"&gt;PowerShellBlogger.com&lt;/a&gt; to read the full article &lt;a href="http://wp.me/p7al1Q-53"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShellSummit.org Registration Status for 2-Feb-2016 (also, recordings)</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-02-02-powershellsummit-org-registration-status-for-2-feb-2016-also-recordings/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2016 14:43:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-02-02-powershellsummit-org-registration-status-for-2-feb-2016-also-recordings/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;OK, here&amp;rsquo;s a quick update of where we&amp;rsquo;re at with registration for &lt;a href="http://powershellsummit.org"&gt;PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2016&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;d originally scheduled 150 seats for the April event, inclusive of speakers. Yesterday (1st Feb) we opened 3-day sales (previously, only 4-day seats had been available), and are now at 126 total attendees. So we&amp;rsquo;ve got 24 seats of our original space remaining.&lt;br&gt;
The venue assures us that we can accommodate at least another 25 people, possible as many as 50 more. So we&amp;rsquo;re working with them to make that happen - in the meantime, &lt;strong&gt;I strongly recommend you register soon&lt;/strong&gt; if you plan to attend. It looks like, no matter what, we&amp;rsquo;ll be in a sellout situation again this year.&lt;br&gt;
Now, keep in mind that we&amp;rsquo;ve greatly expanded the event this year. We&amp;rsquo;re running three full-day pre-conference workshops (that&amp;rsquo;s what you get for the extra day in the 4-day pass). We&amp;rsquo;re having an informal gathering on Sunday evening (after the pre-cons) at the Courtyard Downtown Bellevue, a bar crawl Monday night, and a reception with the WMF team on Tuesday evening. In addition to two tracks of content, we have a third track which will run some extra-long sessions (although not all day). We&amp;rsquo;re also welcoming the WMF team on Tuesday after lunch for a &amp;ldquo;State of the Shell&amp;rdquo; address by two of the main team leaders, followed by &amp;ldquo;Lightning Demos&amp;rdquo; from a variety of team members. It&amp;rsquo;s a lot of content.&lt;br&gt;
As always, we&amp;rsquo;ll be recording &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; of the sessions. Basically, the pre-con sessions won&amp;rsquo;t be recorded, nor will the extra-long &amp;ldquo;bonus&amp;rdquo; sessions in the third track (we only have two sets of recording gear). All of what we do record will go on YouTube as usual. However, this year, &lt;a href="http://pluralsight.com"&gt;Pluralsight&lt;/a&gt; will be on-hand with camera crews in our two main rooms, and they&amp;rsquo;ll be producing recordings that include screen capture as well as live video of the speakers. Those &amp;ldquo;better&amp;rdquo; recordings will go into the Pluralsight library, and everyone attending in person will receive free access to those even if you don&amp;rsquo;t have a subscription. For anyone not attending, you can either access our screen-caps on YouTube for free, or use a Pluralsight subscription to access the nicer videos. This is an experiment with Pluralsight and we appreciate their support!&lt;br&gt;
Oh, and we&amp;rsquo;ll also be offering Verified Effective exams (no computer required!) on Wednesday, to anyone who&amp;rsquo;s interested (no advance registration required).&lt;br&gt;
Anyway, as you can see, it&amp;rsquo;s going to be a busy-busy-busy Summit, and it&amp;rsquo;s looking firmly to be a sellout, even if we&amp;rsquo;re able to secure the extra space at the venue. So &lt;strong&gt;register right the heck now&lt;/strong&gt; if you plan to attend. If you&amp;rsquo;re just now getting around to talking the boss into it - well, honestly, you shoulda started back in November ;). At $950 for the 3-day pass, though, this is probably the best educational deal you or your company will ever find, and more than a few people see enough value to pay their own way every year.&lt;br&gt;
So I hope we&amp;rsquo;ll see you there!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Using PowerShell to make Azure Automation Graphical Runbooks – Part 1</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-01-29-using-powershell-to-make-azure-automation-graphical-runbooks-part-1/</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2016 15:52:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-01-29-using-powershell-to-make-azure-automation-graphical-runbooks-part-1/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Microsoft recently released another extension for Azure Automation developers, this time in the form of the Microsoft Azure Automation Graphical Authoring SDK.&lt;br&gt;
This SDK allows developers to make and edit graphic runbooks for using in Azure Automation. Although the examples given are in C#, it&amp;rsquo;s possible to apply the same methodologies to develop them in PowerShell with the accompanying SDK mentioned above.&lt;br&gt;
You can read the first article of this series on creating these Graphical Runbooks at &lt;a href="http://www.powershell.amsterdam/2016/01/29/using-powershell-to-make-azure-automation-graphical-runbooks-part-1/"&gt;powershell.amsterdam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 310 – PowerScripting Podcast – Ed Wilson The Scripting Guy from Microsoft</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2016-01-28-episode-310-powerscripting-podcast-ed-wilson-the-scripting-guy-from-microsoft/</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2016 03:21:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2016-01-28-episode-310-powerscripting-podcast-ed-wilson-the-scripting-guy-from-microsoft/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-310.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest –&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ed Wilson&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;News&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://powershellsaturday.com/010/conference/powershell-saturday-010-tampa-florida-march-19th-2016/"&gt;
PowerShell Saturday 10
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2016/01/19/windows-management-framework-wmf-4-0-update-now-available-for-windows-server-2012-windows-server-2008-r2-sp1-and-windows-7-sp1.aspx"&gt;WMF 4.0 Update&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2016/01/20/introducing-the-windows-powershell-ise-preview.aspx"&gt;
PowerShell ISE Preview
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ed%20Wilson/e/B001ILFMZ8/ref=la_B001ILFMZ8_st?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_82%3AB001ILFMZ8&amp;amp;qid=1447259328&amp;amp;sort=date-desc-rank"&gt;
Ed’s books
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msoms/"&gt;OMS Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;hey @channel we are recording with Ed Wilson RIGHT NOW! live.powerscripting.net
&lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;
http://live.powerscripting.net
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ed%20Wilson/e/B001ILFMZ8/ref=la_B001ILFMZ8_st?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_82%3AB001ILFMZ8&amp;amp;qid=1447259328&amp;amp;sort=date-desc-rank"&gt;
http://www.amazon.com/Ed%20Wilson/e/B001ILFMZ8/ref=la_B001ILFMZ8_st?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_82%3AB001ILFMZ8&amp;amp;qid=1447259328&amp;amp;sort=date-desc-rank
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2015/10/15/now-available-windows-powershell-step-by-step-third-edition.aspx"&gt;
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2015/10/15/now-available-windows-powershell-step-by-step-third-edition.aspx
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2015/08/27/working-with-enums-in-powershell-5.aspx"&gt;
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2015/08/27/working-with-enums-in-powershell-5.aspx
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/PoshCode/CodeFlow"&gt;
https://github.com/PoshCode/CodeFlow
&lt;/a&gt;
&amp;lt;&amp;ndash; Expand-Alias YourScript.ps1&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;e.g.
&lt;a href="http://poshcode.org/549"&gt;
http://poshcode.org/549
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://poshcode.org/?lang=&amp;amp;q=get-parameter"&gt;
http://poshcode.org/?lang=&amp;amp;q=get-parameter
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.powershellgallery.com/"&gt;
https://www.powershellgallery.com/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No worries, my Expand-Alias is something I wrote over 7 years ago 😉
&lt;a href="http://poshcode.org/452"&gt;
http://poshcode.org/452
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2016 Registration Status</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-01-28-powershell-devops-global-summit-2016-registration-status/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2016 18:09:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-01-28-powershell-devops-global-summit-2016-registration-status/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A quick status update on Summit:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re currently past our 50% registration point. Right now, only 4-day registrations are available. Register at https://eventloom.com/event/home/PSNA16.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;In just a few days, on February 1st, we&amp;rsquo;ll open all remaining seats for both 3- and 4-day registrations (same registration URL).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Registration ends during the first week of March. At that time, we&amp;rsquo;ll review the situation, and may be able to open additional seats. However, the price will go up a bit. Our absolute final date for registrations will be March 20th.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So you&amp;rsquo;ve got about 3 days before 3-day registration opens, and from there about a month to sign up. After that, if we have additional space or can make additional space, we&amp;rsquo;ll open more seats - but the price &lt;strong&gt;will&lt;/strong&gt; be higher.&lt;br&gt;
If you&amp;rsquo;re attending, don&amp;rsquo;t forget to head over to http://www.zazzle.com/collections/powershell_devops_global_summit_2016-119347973985746667 to pick up an official conference t-shirt, hat, coffee mug, or notebook to bring with you! We also have commemorative tiles available, and will offer a new one each year for you to collect.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Using PowerShell to enable ChatOps on Windows</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-01-28-using-powershell-to-enable-chatops-on-windows/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:31:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-01-28-using-powershell-to-enable-chatops-on-windows/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;ChatOps is a term used to describe bringing development or operations work that is already happening in the background into a common chat room. It involves having everyone in the team in a single chat room, then bringing tools into the room so everyone can automate, collaborate and see how automation is used to solve problems. In doing so, you are unifying the communication about what work gets done and have a history of it happening.&lt;br&gt;
ChatOps can be supplemented with the use of tools or scripts exposed using a chat bot. Users in the chat room can talk to the bot and have it take actions on their behalf, some examples of this may be:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Create Windows Shortcuts or Favorites With PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-01-22-create-windows-shortcuts-or-favorites-with-powershell/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2016 16:37:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-01-22-create-windows-shortcuts-or-favorites-with-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Creating windows shortcuts are usually done through the New Shortcut Wizard, MSI files, Group Policy Objects, or even a simple file copy. Shortcut files are .lnk files that Microsoft Windows uses for shortcuts to local files while .url is used for destinations such as web sites. As we all are aware, the .lnk filename extension is hidden in Windows Explorer even when &amp;ldquo;Hide extensions for known file types&amp;rdquo; is unchecked in File Type options. The reason for this is the NeverShowExt string value in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile. Shortcuts are also displayed with a curled arrow overlay icon. The IsShortcut string value causes the arrow to be displayed.&lt;br&gt;
For a full run down on creating shortcuts and favorites with PowerShell head over to &lt;a href="http://powershellblogger.com/?p=301"&gt;PowerShellBlogger.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Using Local Functions in a Scriptblock with Existing Code</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-01-18-using-local-functions-remotely-in-an-existing-scriptblock/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2016 15:14:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-01-18-using-local-functions-remotely-in-an-existing-scriptblock/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;When you are wanting to run code remotely, it&amp;rsquo;s common to do this via the use of &lt;strong&gt;Invoke-Command&lt;/strong&gt; (though other options exist, such as through &lt;strong&gt;Start-Job&lt;/strong&gt; for example). The biggest downfall to date i&amp;rsquo;ve found with remoting is the lack of an option to combine the use of your local functions within a &lt;em&gt;ScriptBlock&lt;/em&gt; that has other code in it. As an example, the following is not possible:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;function Add ($param1, $param2) { $param1 + $param2 } function Multiply($param1,$param2) { $param1 * $param2 } Invoke-Command -ComputerName $env:COMPUTERNAME -ScriptBlock { $addResult = Add $args[0] $args[1] $multiplyResult = Multiply $args[0] $args[1] Write-Output &amp;quot;The result of the addition was : $addResult&amp;quot; Write-Output &amp;quot;The result of the multiplication was : $multiplyResult&amp;quot; } -ArgumentList 3, 2 &lt;/code&gt;However, there is a way to achieve this type of operation, and make as many local functions as you want available to be used and combined with other code in your &lt;em&gt;ScriptBlock&lt;/em&gt;. You can find the full article at &lt;a href="http://www.powershell.amsterdam/2015/11/09/using-local-functions-on-remote-computers/"&gt;powershell.amsterdam&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Improve Delivery of PowerShell Tools or Version Controlled Files</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-01-14-improve-delivery-of-powershell-tools-or-version-controlled-files/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2016 17:04:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-01-14-improve-delivery-of-powershell-tools-or-version-controlled-files/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I am back this week with a quick how-to article on delivering, installing, or launching version controlled files. In the past I ran into problems when having administrators launch my PowerShell tools from a network share. The performance was slow when launching it across the WAN, and the file would often be locked when I tried to replace it with a newer version. I came up with a solution to the problem by using none other than PowerShell.&lt;br&gt;
The solution dips into all kinds of PowerShell techniques including local environment variables, getting text file contents, file version checking and even shortcut (.lnk) creation. If you are also a user of Sapien&amp;rsquo;s PowerShell Studio, then definitely give this one a read. Check out the solution over on &lt;a href="http://powershellblogger.com/?p=275"&gt;PowerShellBlogger.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Atlanta PowerShell User's Group Meeting – January 19th 'Let's win the scripting games!'</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-01-11-atlpug-01-19-2016/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2016 18:25:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-01-11-atlpug-01-19-2016/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Kicking off in our new venue, we&amp;rsquo;ll be tackling this month&amp;rsquo;s PowerShell.org monthly scripting games challenge! Prizes are given to the group with the best answers over the year, so let&amp;rsquo;s try our best! Have an idea or want to cover a topic? Let us know my messaging Mark Schill or myself (Stephen Owen)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2016/01/02/january-2016-scripting-games-puzzle/"&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s the link to the puzzle for this month&lt;/a&gt;. I would recommend that you look it over, and begin thinking of how you might approach it. However, let&amp;rsquo;s let everyone have a chance to answer the puzzle and work through it as a team 🙂&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.meetup.com/Atlanta-PowerShell-Users-Group/events/227807680/"&gt;Register now on Meetup!&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/MeetUp.png" alt="MeetUp"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>New Boston PowerShell User Group</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-01-11-new-boston-powershell-user-group/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:39:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-01-11-new-boston-powershell-user-group/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Its a new year with new goals and I hope to provide even more assistance and value to the PowerShell community in 2016. I have created a new Boston based PowerShell user group and will be working hard on creating sessions as frequently and regularly as possible. If you are in the greater Boston or New England area please join the user group. If we have any Microsoft employees or PowerShell MVPs visiting the Boston area in the future, we would love to have you deliver a session. I have arranged booking of a room in the Microsoft Technology Center located at Kendall Square, 255 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142 when required. I will also look into offering the meetings over Skype for Business if possible.&lt;br&gt;
Check out and join the Boston PowerShell User Group here: &lt;a href="http://www.meetup.com/Boston-PowerShell-User-Group"&gt;http://www.meetup.com/Boston-PowerShell-User-Group&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>MSPSUG Virtual Meeting: Avoiding Version Chaos in a Multi-Version #PowerShell World – Jan 12th</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-01-08-mspsug-virtual-meeting-avoiding-version-chaos-in-a-multi-version-powershell-world-jan-12th/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2016 14:39:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-01-08-mspsug-virtual-meeting-avoiding-version-chaos-in-a-multi-version-powershell-world-jan-12th/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join the Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtually on Tuesday, January 12th 2016 at 8:30pm Central Time when PowerShell MVP &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/juneb_get_help"&gt;June Blender&lt;/a&gt; will present “&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PowersHELL: Avoiding Version Chaos in a Multi-Version PowerShell World&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;”.&lt;br&gt;
Beginning in Windows PowerShell 5.0, you can install multiple versions of the same module on the same computer; even in the same directory. Open source and PowerShellGet have revolutionized the availability of modules and Windows PowerShell 5.0+ will be continuously updated with Windows. The result is a myriad of interlocking parts with far more potential for conflicts in name, version, and functionality. Are we fated for the old &amp;ldquo;DLL Hell?&amp;rdquo; In this talk, I&amp;rsquo;ll present the problem, describe some mitigating strategies, warn about their limitations, and provide a roadmap for version sanity.&lt;br&gt;
Visit the &lt;a href="http://mspsug.com/2016/01/05/mspsug-january-2016-meeting-powershell-avoiding-version-chaos-in-a-multi-version-world/"&gt;Mississippi PowerShell User Group&lt;/a&gt; website to learn more about June and to find out more details about this month’s meeting.&lt;br&gt;
The Mississippi PowerShell User Group Meetings are held online (via Skype for Business) on the second Tuesday of each month at 8:30pm Central Time and are free to attend. The system requirements to attend these online meetings can be found on the MSPSUG website under the “&lt;a href="http://mspsug.com/attendee-info/"&gt;Attendee Info&lt;/a&gt;” section.&lt;br&gt;
Register via &lt;a href="http://mspsug.eventbrite.com/"&gt;EventBrite&lt;/a&gt; to receive the URL for this meeting.&lt;br&gt;
Note: It is not necessary to live in Mississippi or join our user group to attend our meetings or present a session for our user group.&lt;br&gt;
µ&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Get Last Reboot or Computer Up Time With PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-01-07-get-last-reboot-or-computer-up-time-with-powershell/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2016 14:20:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-01-07-get-last-reboot-or-computer-up-time-with-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hey everyone, hope you had a great 2015 and I am back with I hope to be weekly updates for everyone at PowerShell.org. I wrote up a quick article on how to retrieve the last reboot time or the current up time for any local or remote computer. I also include a function that can be used to query remote computers as well. There may be a situation where you want to determine whether you take action depending on the last reboot time, or you may simply want it to be displayed for debugging or logging purposes.&lt;br&gt;
You can check out the full article over on &lt;a href="http://powershellblogger.com/?p=248"&gt;PowerShellBlogger.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 309 – PowerScripting Podcast – Matt Wrock on Vagrant and Packer</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2016-01-06-episode-309-powerscripting-podcast-matt-wrock-on-vagrant-and-packer/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2016 04:08:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2016-01-06-episode-309-powerscripting-podcast-matt-wrock-on-vagrant-and-packer/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-309.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest –&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Matt Wrock from Chef talking about Vagrant and Packer&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.packer.io/"&gt;
Packer
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.vagrantup.com/"&gt;Vagrant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://5dcced1cd0caf88a61b2bd21edcde61ad16c14ab.googledrive.com/host/0B-5toLgmn9xAZDdUeFhXNXRjdGc/Live.html"&gt;
https://5dcced1cd0caf88a61b2bd21edcde61ad16c14ab.googledrive.com/host/0B-5toLgmn9xAZDdUeFhXNXRjdGc/Live.html
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;or
&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive"&gt;
https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hurryupandwait.io/blog/a-packer-template-for-windows-nano-server-weighing-300mb"&gt;
http://www.hurryupandwait.io/blog/a-packer-template-for-windows-nano-server-weighing-300mb
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Vagrant: &lt;a href="https://www.vagrantup.com"&gt;www.vagrantup.com&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.vagrantup.com"&gt;
http://www.vagrantup.com
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://youtu.be/aUew6WauUsI?list=PL6TwUbrFsOuOKwGdoAOv1MHOrKwELMdyL"&gt;
https://youtu.be/aUew6WauUsI?list=PL6TwUbrFsOuOKwGdoAOv1MHOrKwELMdyL
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7y4dg0vFnM&amp;amp;list=PLfeA8kIs7CodimM6hjMqE13xHTPQUB8Pf&amp;amp;index=31"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7y4dg0vFnM&amp;amp;list=PLfeA8kIs7CodimM6hjMqE13xHTPQUB8Pf&amp;amp;index=31&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/2987441/devops/hashicorp-meet-otto-the-new-vagrant.html"&gt;
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2987441/devops/hashicorp-meet-otto-the-new-vagrant.html
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://nomadproject.io/"&gt;
https://nomadproject.io/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;it&amp;rsquo;s never too soon to recycle this:
&lt;a href="http://blog.circleci.com/its-the-future/"&gt;
http://blog.circleci.com/its-the-future/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;this might be it:
&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2015/09/08/running-hyper-v-on-nano-in-windows-server-2016-tp3.aspx"&gt;
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2015/09/08/running-hyper-v-on-nano-in-windows-server-2016-tp3.aspx
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This has more detail @migreene  -
&lt;a href="http://www.hurryupandwait.io/blog/a-packer-template-for-windows-nano-server-weighing-300mb"&gt;
http://www.hurryupandwait.io/blog/a-packer-template-for-windows-nano-server-weighing-300mb
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/dotnet"&gt;
https://github.com/dotnet
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;maybe somewhere here?
&lt;a href="https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/tree/master/Documentation"&gt;
https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/tree/master/Documentation
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First Computer - Original IBM PC/Atari 800&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>2016-January Scripting Games Puzzle</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-01-02-january-2016-scripting-games-puzzle/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2016 15:00:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2016-01-02-january-2016-scripting-games-puzzle/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Our January 2016 puzzle comes from MVP Adam Bertram. We&amp;rsquo;re actively interested in receiving Scripting Games puzzles from members of the community - submit yours, along with an official solution, to us at admin@ via email!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell.org's Nonprofit Status</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-12-29-powershell-orgs-nonprofit-status/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2015 15:11:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-12-29-powershell-orgs-nonprofit-status/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We learned today that The DevOps Collective, Inc., (the company that officially owns and runs PowerShell.org, the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit, etc.) was accepted by the US Treasury as a 501(c)(3) public charity.&lt;br&gt;
That means that the company is quite literally owned by the American public now, and run by its Board of Directors. No human or business entity owns the company and its assets, which is exactly our intent. Further, no human or business entity can profit from the company, which is also our exact intent. Regardless of who&amp;rsquo;s running it, it&amp;rsquo;s now big-time illegal for any Director (for example) to just partake of the organization&amp;rsquo;s money. Previously, it was merely unethical, but completely legal, as the company was technically for-profit. So we&amp;rsquo;re right where we want to be.&lt;br&gt;
Donations to the corporation are now tax-deductible, charitable contributions. However, a &lt;em&gt;donation&lt;/em&gt; is when you get nothing of value in return; unfortunately, Summit registration fees - since Summit itself is of considerable material value - are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; charitable contributions. Your registration is likely still deductible as a business expense (namely, education, along with your travel expenses), something you or your organization&amp;rsquo;s accountants should determine. Sponsorships - given that sponsors don&amp;rsquo;t receive anything of material value from us - are considered deductible contributions in most cases.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;m very proud to have brought the organization to this point, and I want to point out that it&amp;rsquo;s due in part to Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s own recent activities, such as bringing Core CLR, the WS-MAN stack, DSC client, and other bits to non-Windows operating systems, as well as their progress in open sourcing so many critical pieces. Those activities - and our expanding focus on DevOps in general - have taken us away from being an organization that supports a commercial product (MS Windows) to a much broader organization that was qualified for this beneficial status. I also want to offer a big shout-out to my fellow Directors, and especially Jason Helmick, who put in a lot of work with our own accountants to get this all in order for the IRS.&lt;br&gt;
For the organization itself, it means our main revenue activity - Summit - is now nontaxable for us. That means we get to keep all of our money to spend on organizational operating expenses, instead of losing some of it to taxes. That gives us a 15-25% boost in being able to operate our TeamCity public build server, this very website, our TechSession webinars, and other activities. This new status also, I believe, places us firmly on a path toward long-term existence. PowerShell.org is now, in a very binding legal way, something _we all own, _and something it&amp;rsquo;s on all of us to continue growing and supporting.&lt;br&gt;
Thank you for that support, and Happy New Year!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>My Favorite DSC Feature Suggestions on UserVoice (upvote!)</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-12-28-my-favorite-dsc-feature-suggestions-on-uservoice-upvote/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2015 19:35:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-12-28-my-favorite-dsc-feature-suggestions-on-uservoice-upvote/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, you&amp;rsquo;re aware that Microsoft is moving to UserVoice for accepting feature requests and bugs. &lt;a href="https://windowsserver.uservoice.com/forums/301869-powershell/category/148047-desired-state-configuration-dsc"&gt;DSC in particular has 30-odd suggestions at present&lt;/a&gt;, and I thought I&amp;rsquo;d run through some of my fav&amp;rsquo;s. Log in and up-vote the ones you like, or add comments to expand the discussion!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://windowsserver.uservoice.com/forums/301869-powershell/suggestions/11088780-add-maintenance-window-awareness-to-dsc-lcm"&gt;Add Maintenance Windows Awareness to DSC/LCM&lt;/a&gt;. This is one of mine, but it came from several customer suggestions.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://windowsserver.uservoice.com/forums/301869-powershell/suggestions/11088516-change-from-edb-file-to-sql-server-database-for-de"&gt;Change the Pull Server database to SQL Server&lt;/a&gt;. Broadly, this is a great idea. In theory, you should be able to modify the web.config file and direct it to a SQL Server already, but nobody knows the database schema that the pull server expects.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://windowsserver.uservoice.com/forums/301869-powershell/suggestions/11088813-enable-proactive-validation-of-partial-configurati"&gt;Refactor the LCM&amp;rsquo;s validation logic&lt;/a&gt;. This is another of mine, and it&amp;rsquo;s crucial. Right now, only the LCM can validate multiple partial configs and tell you if there&amp;rsquo;s a validation problem like a duplicate key. This means our only possible point of failure is the target node, which is the worst possible place for that to be. Factoring the logic out would let us built a pull server that could combine multiple configurations _server-side, _and spit out a combined, pre-validated MOF for the target to consume. We could also use the configuration logic to manually combine and validate MOFs in a test or RSoP mode, perhaps with a cmdlet.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There&amp;rsquo;s plenty more - have a look, vote for ones you like, and add your own suggestions! And there&amp;rsquo;s a lot more besides DSC in there - see anything that you think is important?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Microsoft's Brave New World Needs Version Numbers</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-12-28-microsofts-brave-new-world-needs-version-numbers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2015 19:21:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-12-28-microsofts-brave-new-world-needs-version-numbers/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s brave new world of agile, more-frequent software releases, including numerous pre-release cycles&amp;hellip; Microsoft needs to rethink the way it communicates versioning.&lt;br&gt;
Windows Management Framework (WMF) v5 has, for me, been pretty much the perfect example of what &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to do, and the perfect example of Microsoft still shoehorning itself into old nomenclature that no longer fills the bill. I know a bunch of folks on the PowerShell team are probably still trying to figure out what works, too, so this isn&amp;rsquo;t meant to be a hammer-on-&amp;rsquo;em post, but WMF5&amp;rsquo;s lifecycle was, from a versioning perspective, pretty hellish.&lt;br&gt;
We had several &amp;ldquo;technology preview&amp;rdquo; releases, which were simply named after their month of release. April 2015. November. Whatever. It was really difficult from within the product - e.g., via $PSVersionTable - to tell which one you were running, which made helping people difficult. None of these were supported in production until the &amp;ldquo;WMF5 Production Preview&amp;rdquo; released in late 2015, and in December we got &amp;ldquo;RTM&amp;rdquo; code. RTM means &amp;ldquo;Released to Manufacturing,&amp;rdquo; which is kind of absurd as a milestone, because there&amp;rsquo;s literally zero actual manufacturing going on. It&amp;rsquo;s just a word Microsoft is used to using. Windows 10 shipped with a production-supported version of WMF5, but it still wasn&amp;rsquo;t &amp;ldquo;final,&amp;rdquo; meaning RTM WMF is better than what shipped with the RTM OS. God willing, what ships in Windows Server 2016 will be v5.1 or something, because if we get yet another 5.0 release folks are going to start throwing up their hands and quitting.&lt;br&gt;
Now that Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s all lovey-huggy with open source and Linux and stuff, can we just copy what those guys do?&lt;br&gt;
Every time you release code, increment the version number. It&amp;rsquo;s that simple. There&amp;rsquo;s no &amp;ldquo;production preview,&amp;rdquo; there&amp;rsquo;s just &amp;ldquo;5.3.&amp;rdquo; And you maintain a list of what&amp;rsquo;s supported in production. If 5.3 isn&amp;rsquo;t a production milestone, fine - say so. But it&amp;rsquo;s still a real version, because it was released unto the world. The next release is 5.4. Then 5.5. And maybe 5.6 is supported in production, but once 5.7 is out, 5.6 remains supported for only 90 days. Or whatever. Just have a list of what&amp;rsquo;s supported, and increment the version number every time you release it. 5.8 might only last a week before someone finds some heinous bug and releases 5.9 - that&amp;rsquo;s fine. After that comes 5.10, and then 5.11, and so on.&lt;br&gt;
6.0 is the first release of a major new evolution in the product, and it&amp;rsquo;s probably a &amp;ldquo;preview&amp;rdquo; release. 6.1 will be a bit better, with fewer bugs and more features nailed down, but it won&amp;rsquo;t be until maybe 6.5 that we get a &amp;ldquo;supported in production&amp;rdquo; release.&lt;br&gt;
All of this is a &lt;strong&gt;lot easier to keep track of&lt;/strong&gt; than vague &amp;ldquo;version&amp;rdquo; numbers like &amp;ldquo;April 2016 Production Preview.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;
And while we&amp;rsquo;re at it, let&amp;rsquo;s have a Get-PSVersionInfo cmdlet. It can wrap around the existing $PSVersionTable variable, of course, but it can also ping a web service on Microsoft.com to tell you what the &lt;em&gt;latest&lt;/em&gt; version is, what the &lt;em&gt;latest supported&lt;/em&gt; version is, and whether or not your current version is supported in production. OMG, that would be _wonderful. _&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell News Roundup (There's Been a Lot of it)</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-12-21-powershell-news-roundup-theres-been-a-lot-of-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2015 18:37:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-12-21-powershell-news-roundup-theres-been-a-lot-of-it/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;There&amp;rsquo;ve been so many under-the-radar announcements and news bits about PowerShell, that I thought it&amp;rsquo;d be worth a quick start-of-the-week, pre-holiday roundup.&lt;br&gt;
First off, the big news is that **&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2015/12/16/windows-management-framework-wmf-5-0-rtm-is-now-available.aspx"&gt;Windows Management Framework v5 has been released to manufacturing (RTM)&lt;/a&gt;. **Not that there&amp;rsquo;s any real &amp;ldquo;manufacturing&amp;rdquo; anymore, but this means we&amp;rsquo;ve hit the milestone where it&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;done.&amp;rdquo; Now, if Microsoft is smart, whatever WMF ships with Win2016 will be &amp;ldquo;5.1&amp;rdquo; or something, so we can all keep track of what&amp;rsquo;s what. Fingers crossed on that.&lt;br&gt;
Next, and you may have missed this, &lt;strong&gt;Microsoft is moving away from Connect and over to UserVoice&lt;/strong&gt; for many products, and &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2015/12/14/improving-the-powershell-feedback-experience-with-uservoice.aspx"&gt;PowerShell is now amongst them&lt;/a&gt;. Spread the word on this, because feedback is super-important, the team _actually does listen, _and UserVoice is now where it&amp;rsquo;ll happen.&lt;br&gt;
In the continuing move to open source, the PowerShell team **&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2015/12/07/powershell-tests-released-on-github.aspx"&gt;released a bunch of their tests on GitHub&lt;/a&gt;. **These are some of the tests they use to test PowerShell itself, and the ability for everyone to now contribute to those means the team can produce more error free code for us. This is a big deal, and proves this isn&amp;rsquo;t your grandfather&amp;rsquo;s Microsoft anymore.&lt;br&gt;
The **&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2015/11/03/the-new-home-of-dsc-documentation.aspx"&gt;DSC Documentation has also been open sourced&lt;/a&gt;, **meaning we can all finally contribute to that. Yeah, we all know Microsoft should be producing their own docs - and they are - but this lets us correct errors, add examples and expansions, and fill in the gaps Microsoft may have to leave. They&amp;rsquo;re not a bundle of infinite resources, after all, and this finally lets us help each other in a more effective way.&lt;br&gt;
The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://powershellsummit.org"&gt;PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2016&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is about 1/3 sold-out. Currently, only 4-day registration is available. In February, we&amp;rsquo;ll begin offering any remaining seats for 3-day attendance as well as 4-day. We don&amp;rsquo;t recommend waiting much longer, because when we hit most people&amp;rsquo;s new fiscal year next month, it&amp;rsquo;ll be downhill to &amp;ldquo;sold out&amp;rdquo; again. Remember that registration cuts off at the beginning of March 2016, too.&lt;br&gt;
Finally, &lt;strong&gt;the Scripting Games puzzles&lt;/strong&gt; continue to be posted at the start of each month (usually the first Saturday). We&amp;rsquo;re actively looking for a moderator to take over the process of collecting puzzle submissions from the community, coordinating puzzle and solution posting, and reviewing community submissions for noteworthy ones to call out. If you&amp;rsquo;re interested, drop an e-mail to admin here at PowerShell.org. We already have content for January and February 2016, and are also looking for puzzle submissions. Drop an e-mail if you&amp;rsquo;d like to contribute a puzzle and a solution.&lt;br&gt;
Happy Holidays from everyone here at PowerShell.org, and we wish you all the best in the coming new year!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Recap of the Dec 2015 PowerShell Editor Services Hack Week</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-12-15-recap-of-the-dec-2015-powershell-editor-services-hack-week/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2015 01:30:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-12-15-recap-of-the-dec-2015-powershell-editor-services-hack-week/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks to all those who participated in the PowerShell Editor Services Hack Week last week!  Much progress was made on fixing bugs and adding new features to both &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices"&gt;PowerShell Editor Services&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/vscode-powershell"&gt;PowerShell extension for Visual Studio Code&lt;/a&gt;.  Here&amp;rsquo;s a quick summary of the contributions that were made during the week:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Variable Display Improvements in the Debugger&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/r_keith_hill"&gt;Keith Hill&lt;/a&gt; made many great improvements to how we display variable contents in the Visual Studio Code debugger.  First of all, he added support for variable scopes other than just &amp;ldquo;Local&amp;rdquo; as we had before.  You can now inspect variables from both the Global and Script scopes.  You will also see a special &amp;ldquo;Auto&amp;rdquo; section which filters the set of variables down to those that were defined in the current scope.  This is really helpful for quickly checking the state of the variables in your functions!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/keith_auto.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/keith_auto.png" alt="keith_auto"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
He also added greatly improved the variable value display for collections such as arrays and dictionaries and also objects which implement the ToString() method in .NET.  You will now see much greater detail for these variables in the debugger:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/keith_vars.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/keith_vars.png" alt="keith_vars"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;New Expand Aliases Command&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/dfinke"&gt;Doug Finke&lt;/a&gt; contributed a new &amp;ldquo;Expand Aliases&amp;rdquo; command which searches your script file or selection for the use of cmdlet aliases.  For any alias it finds, it replaces the text with the full command name.  This is helpful for developers who want to quickly write out scripts using aliases but resolve them to their command names before committing to source control.&lt;br&gt;
Here&amp;rsquo;s a GIF of the feature in action (click to play!):&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/vscodeExpandAlias2.gif"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/vscodeExpandAlias2-628x360.gif" alt="Demo of Expand Alias in VS Code"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Sublime Text Editor Integration&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Work on the integration of PowerShell Editor Services in Sublime Text has progressed quite well this week.  The basic protocol implementation is now working, enabling language features to be integrated over time.  I&amp;rsquo;ve also implemented basic file management support so that opened files are sent to Editor Services for syntax checking and semantic analysis.  From this point it&amp;rsquo;s just a matter of integrating the language features of PowerShell Editor Services into Sublime&amp;rsquo;s UI using its &lt;a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/api_reference.html"&gt;plugin API&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
Check out the current code in the &lt;a href="https://github.com/daviwil/SublimePowerShell/tree/editor-services"&gt;editor-services branch of my fork&lt;/a&gt; of the PowerShell Sublime Text package.  Once this effort is stable enough for an initial release, I&amp;rsquo;ll be submitting a PR back to the &lt;a href="https://github.com/SublimeText/PowerShell"&gt;original PowerShell Sublime Text package repo&lt;/a&gt; and future work will continue there.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Atom Editor Integration&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Some work was started on an integration with the Atom editor but it was quickly determine that Atom&amp;rsquo;s APIs for language features were to sparse to make quick progress.  However, with the experience gained from the Sublime Text integration, future work on the Atom integration should be much easier.  Expect to see more effort in this area in the first half of 2016.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Miscellaneous Improvements&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>2015-December Scripting Games Puzzle</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-12-05-december-2015-scripting-games-puzzle/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2015 16:33:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-12-05-december-2015-scripting-games-puzzle/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Our December 2015 puzzle comes from PowerShell.org board member Jeff Hicks, who wanted to share a little holiday fun for the season.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A Real-World DevOps Implementation – and Food for Thought</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-12-03-a-real-world-devops-implementation-and-food-for-thought/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2015 21:02:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-12-03-a-real-world-devops-implementation-and-food-for-thought/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Want to see what a real-world, functional, production-grade DevOps environment looks like?&lt;br&gt;
Look no further than Amazon Web Services&amp;rsquo; Elastic Beanstalk (EBS). EBS is a neat combination of their EC2 IaaS product, S3 storage, and some DevOps magic. From a working perspective, it goes something like this:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Developer checks code into Git. A portion of this code is actually a set of EBS directives, outlining changes that need to be made to the base operating environment. This can include things like setting environment variables, installing packages, and so on.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Someone indicates that what&amp;rsquo;s in GitHub is ready for release. You can do this by pushing a button in your AWS console, or by making a call to AWS&amp;rsquo; REST APIs. It&amp;rsquo;s pretty easy to automat this step.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;AWS spins up virtual machines, and reads the EBS directives to get that environment configured the way it&amp;rsquo;s supposed to be. The code is loaded from Git into the VMs. The VMs are registered with AWS&amp;rsquo; load balancer, and whatever old VMs were running are de-registered and destroyed. Poof, your app is up and running.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This model accomplishes the basic goal of DevOps, which is to shorten the path between developers and users. So where&amp;rsquo;s the &amp;ldquo;Ops&amp;rdquo; role in all this? Amazon did it. Their contribution to ops was to create all the automation necessary to make these steps happen. And the beauty of this model is that it supports tiered environments. For example, the above three steps might serve to spin up a testing environment, where you then run automated tests to validate the code. If the code validates, it&amp;rsquo;s pushed into a production tier - all automatically - running on a separate EBS application. So from check-in to in-production is entirely automated, and the process can be performed consistently every single time.&lt;br&gt;
Now&amp;hellip; what would this look like in a Windows world?&lt;br&gt;
In Step 1, imagine that instead of a set of EBS configuration directives - which are just text files - your developers create DSC configurations. Yes, the developers. After all, they&amp;rsquo;re the ones who are coding for the environment, so that DSC configuration documents what they need the environment to look like. You might have a second DSC configuration that documents corporate standards for security, manageability, and so on. Whatever.&lt;br&gt;
Step 3 might be Microsoft Azure Pack or System Center Virtual Machine Manager, told - perhaps via an SMA automation script - to spin up the new VMs from a base OS image. The DSC configurations are run to produce a MOF, which is injected into the new VM. The developer&amp;rsquo;s code is deployed to the VM. The VM is registered with DNS and perhaps a load balancer, which provide access to it.&lt;br&gt;
There are a couple of important details that I&amp;rsquo;ve glossed over a bit. Jeffrey Snover is fond saying, &amp;ldquo;treat servers like cattle, not pets.&amp;rdquo; But servers by their nature have to have a few unique pieces of information, right? Well&amp;hellip; yes and no. For all I know, cows make up names for themselves. I just don&amp;rsquo;t care. Take IP addresses, for example. You shouldn&amp;rsquo;t be assigning static IP addresses to servers; your DHCP system should be highly available, fault tolerant, and set up to handle servers. As you spin up a new VM, you can obviously have it register itself with DNS, so the IP address is mapped to a hostname. And speaking of that hostname - you as a human never need to know it. Or you shouldn&amp;rsquo;t. Windows will make up a host name for itself as the VM spins up, and you can - through your automation scripts - capture that host name. That lets you set up DNS CNAME records, a load balancer, or whatever else. The point is that while the server may have made up a name for itself, you don&amp;rsquo;t care. Nobody will ever address that server by its host name - they&amp;rsquo;ll use an abstraction, like a load-balanced name, or a CNAME, or something else. Your automation scripts handle the mapping for you. When a VM is spun down, automation de-registers the dying host&amp;rsquo;s name from whatever, closing the lifecycle loop.&lt;br&gt;
Interestingly, you could probably do this exact model, today, with a huge number of applications in your environment. Why bother? I mean, this model makes sense in web apps where you&amp;rsquo;re constantly spinning up and destroying VMs, but what about the majority of your apps that just run all the time without change? Well, this same model could spin them up in a disaster recovery scenario. Or in testing environments, which are constantly re-created to provide &amp;ldquo;clean&amp;rdquo; tests. Yes, it&amp;rsquo;s a lot of &lt;em&gt;investment&lt;/em&gt; up front to make it all work, but once it&amp;rsquo;s set up it just runs itself.&lt;br&gt;
And that&amp;rsquo;s what DevOps looks like.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Join us for the PowerShell Editor Services Hack Week, Dec 6-13!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-12-03-powershell-editor-services-hack-week-dec-6-13/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2015 15:59:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-12-03-powershell-editor-services-hack-week-dec-6-13/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Do you wish your favorite editor had better PowerShell editing support?  Do you have a great idea for a new feature for the PowerShell extension in Visual Studio Code?  We’re dedicating next week, &lt;strong&gt;December 6th through 13th&lt;/strong&gt; (Sunday through next Sunday), to hacking together on new features to enable better PowerShell support in any editor!&lt;br&gt;
Here’s the plan:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;On Sunday, December 6th at 11AM-12PM PST (7-8PM GMT)&lt;/strong&gt; I’ll host a &lt;a href="https://www.crowdcast.io/e/pseditorhackweek1215"&gt;Crowdcast event&lt;/a&gt; to give an overview of PowerShell Editor Services, the PowerShell extension for VS Code, and other general ideas for contributions that people can make.  Participants can join to ask questions and discuss potential ideas so that we can get the ball rolling.&lt;br&gt;
Once hacking has started, we’ll hang out together in the #editors channel of the &lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org/"&gt;PowerShell Slack Community&lt;/a&gt; so that everyone can get help on their contributions.  We’ll be using these discussions to help flesh out documentation about these projects using the &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices/wiki"&gt;GitHub Wiki&lt;/a&gt;.  Every question asked will be helpful so don’t be shy!&lt;br&gt;
On the week following our hacktivities, I’ll release new builds of PowerShell Editor Services and the Visual Studio Code extension containing our collective efforts.  I’ll also post a follow-up report here on PowerShell.org with details about all the contributions that were made in this time.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Popular Week of PowerShell Blogging is back! #PSBlogWeek</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-11-30-the-popular-week-of-powershell-blogging-is-back-psblogweek/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2015 14:00:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-11-30-the-popular-week-of-powershell-blogging-is-back-psblogweek/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Back by popular demand is the week-long coordination of blog posts on a single PowerShell topic known as &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PSBlogWeek?src=hash"&gt;#PSBlogWeek&lt;/a&gt;! This week, 5 hand-picked bloggers will be writing informative content around the topic of logging.&lt;br&gt;
The daily schedule for this week is as follows:&lt;br&gt;
Monday (Jason Wasser &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/wasserja"&gt;@wasserja&lt;/a&gt;) - &lt;a href="http://mrautomaton.com/2015/11/30/psblogweek-building-readable-text-log-files/"&gt;Building Readable Text Log Files&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Tuesay (Thom Schumacher &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/driberif"&gt;@driberif&lt;/a&gt;) - &lt;a href="https://crshnbrn66.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/slicing-and-dicing-log-files/"&gt;Slicing and Dicing Text Log Files&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Wednesday (Jaap Brasser &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/jaap_brasser"&gt;@jaap_brasser&lt;/a&gt;) - &lt;a href="http://www.jaapbrasser.com/psblogweek-powershell-logging-in-the-windows-event-log"&gt;PowerShell Logging in the Windows Event Log&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Thursday (Adam Platt &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/platta"&gt;@platta&lt;/a&gt;) - &lt;a href="http://www.plattsoft.net/2015/12/03/reading-the-event-log-with-windows-powershell"&gt;Reading Events from Event Logs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Friday - (Adam Bertram &lt;a href="https://www.twitter.com/adbertram"&gt;@adbertram&lt;/a&gt;) - &lt;a href="http://www.adamtheautomator.com/building-logs-for-cmtrace-powershell/"&gt;Building Logs for CMTrace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
A big thanks to June Blender (&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/juneb_get_help"&gt;@juneb_get_help&lt;/a&gt;) for her help in editing these posts.&lt;br&gt;
If you&amp;rsquo;d like to download an eBook containing a nicely laid out compilation of all the content provided this week, head over to &lt;a href="http://www.adamtheautomator.com/psblogweek-ebook"&gt;adamtheautomator.com&lt;/a&gt; to snag a copy. Feel free to share it wherever you&amp;rsquo;d like. Consider it public domain.&lt;br&gt;
If you missed our last #PSBlogWeek, download the eBook to bone up on &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/PowerShell-Blog-Week-Advanced-Functions-Bertram-Blender-Cat-Hicks-Prox1.pdf"&gt;everything you need to know about PowerShell advanced functions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 308 – PowerScripting Podcast – Bryan Matthew from Microsoft on Storage Spaces</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-11-26-episode-308-powerscripting-podcast-bryan-matthew-from-microsoft-on-storage-spaces/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2015 17:35:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-11-26-episode-308-powerscripting-podcast-bryan-matthew-from-microsoft-on-storage-spaces/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-308.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest – Bryan Matthew from Microsoft&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/%5Clibrary/Hh848705(v=WPS.630).aspx"&gt;
Storage cmdlets
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/31664.storage-spaces-deployment-guide-for-automation-scripts.aspx"&gt;
Storage Spaces Automation Guide
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Hh831739.aspx"&gt;
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Hh831739.aspx
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2013/12/02/10473247.aspx"&gt;
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2013/12/02/10473247.aspx
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/Hh848060(v=VS.85).aspx"&gt;
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/Hh848060(v=VS.85).aspx
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/01/02/windows-server-2012-does-refs-replace-ntfs-when-should-i-use-it.aspx"&gt;
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/01/02/windows-server-2012-does-refs-replace-ntfs-when-should-i-use-it.aspx
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/%5Clibrary/Hh848705(v=WPS.630).aspx"&gt;
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/%5Clibrary/Hh848705(v=WPS.630).aspx
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/%5Clibrary/Hh848705(v=WPS.630).aspx"&gt;
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/%5Clibrary/Hh848705(v=WPS.630).aspx
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://aka.ms/spacesautomationguide"&gt;
http://aka.ms/spacesautomationguide
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/01/02/windows-server-2012-does-refs-replace-ntfs-when-should-i-use-it.aspx"&gt;
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/01/02/windows-server-2012-does-refs-replace-ntfs-when-should-i-use-it.aspx
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Dn387076.aspx"&gt;
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Dn387076.aspx
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="what-is-not-covered-by-the-primitives"&gt;What is not covered by the primitives?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h3 id="and-what-does-refs-stand-for-again"&gt;And what does REFS stand for again?&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2 id="so-what-about-replacing-large-exchange--sql-drives-with-refs-that-a-use-case"&gt;So what about replacing large Exchange / SQL drives with REFS? That a use case?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h3 id="what-does-refrs-lack-if-any-compared-to-ntfs-today"&gt;What does REFRS lack  (if any) compared to NTFS today?&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h3 id="are-there-any-special-hardware-requirements-for-refs"&gt;are there any special hardware requirements for REFS?&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2 id="what-is-the-expected-ship-date-of-2016"&gt;what is the expected ship date of 2016&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Keeping Windows PowerShell Help Up To Date</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-11-24-keeping-windows-powershell-help-up-to-date/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2015 19:21:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-11-24-keeping-windows-powershell-help-up-to-date/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;After a two week hiatus I am back this week with a quick write up on how to automate the updating of PowerShell help. Update-Help should be one of the first things typed in PowerShell on a new workstation build. I jump into the topic and demonstrate how to automate the updating of the help files from the Internet or from a local network share. You can view the full article over at &lt;a href="http://powershellblogger.com/?p=237"&gt;PowerShellBlogger.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
I look forward to getting another article out to everyone next week and I hope everyone in the US enjoys their long weekend!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Atlanta PowerShell User's Group Meeting – December 8th with June Blender</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-11-19-atlanta-powershell-users-group-meeting-december-8th-with-june-blender/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:03:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-11-19-atlanta-powershell-users-group-meeting-december-8th-with-june-blender/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.meetup.com/Atlanta-PowerShell-Users-Group/"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/PUG-wide-text-968x142.png" alt="PUG wide text"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE: The new venue will not be ready until next months&amp;rsquo; meeting, so please meet us instead at the Microsoft office in Alpharetta, Microsoft Corporation&lt;br&gt;
1125 Sanctuary Pkwy Ste 300, Alpharetta&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Join us on Tuesday, December 8th when &lt;a href="http://www.sapien.com/blog/"&gt;June Blender&lt;/a&gt; will be giving a talk on PowerShell Events!  This will be in our brand-new venue and meeting place, Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s new Innovation Center, in the famous Atlanta Flat Iron building.  Wear your Santa hats for a special door prize!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;About June Blender&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
June Blender is a technology evangelist for SAPIEN Technologies, Inc. Formerly a Senior Programming Writer at Microsoft Corporation, she is best known for her work with the Windows PowerShell product team from 2006-2012, developing the help system and writing the Get-Help help topics for PowerShell 1.0 – 3.0. In other roles, June wrote content for the Azure Active Directory SDK and Azure PowerShell Help, Windows Driver Kits, Windows Support Tools, and Windows Resource Kits. She lives in magnificent Escalante, Utah, where she works remotely when she&amp;rsquo;s not out hiking, canyoneering, or convincing lost tourists to try Windows PowerShell. She is a Windows PowerShell MVP, a PowerShell Hero, an Honorary Scripting Guy, and a frequent contributor to PowerShell.org. Contact her at  &lt;a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/phillyposh-december-3rd-2015-adam-bertram-tickets-19612925789?ref=ebtnebregn"&gt; and follow her on the &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sapien.com/blog/"&gt;SAPIEN Blog&lt;/a&gt; and on Twitter at &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/juneb_get_help"&gt;@juneb_get_help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.meetup.com/Atlanta-PowerShell-Users-Group/events/226320634/?a=socialmedia"&gt;Register now on Meetup!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.meetup.com/Atlanta-PowerShell-Users-Group/events/226320634/?a=socialmedia"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/MeetUp.png" alt="MeetUp"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Philadelphia PowerShell User Group Meeting – December 3rd 2015 with Adam Bertram</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-11-17-philadelphia-powershell-user-group-meeting-december-3rd-2015-with-adam-bertram/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2015 01:24:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-11-17-philadelphia-powershell-user-group-meeting-december-3rd-2015-with-adam-bertram/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join us on Thursday, December 3rd when &lt;a href="http://adamtheautomator.com"&gt;Adam Bertram&lt;/a&gt; will be giving a talk called a &amp;ldquo;&lt;strong&gt;Top 10 PowerShell mistakes&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;About Adam Bertram&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Adam Bertram is an independent consultant, technical writer, trainer and presenter. Adam specializes in consulting and evangelizing all things IT automation mainly focused around Windows PowerShell. Adam is a Microsoft Windows PowerShell MVP, 2015 &lt;a href="https://powershell.org"&gt;powershell.org&lt;/a&gt; PowerShell hero and has numerous Microsoft IT pro certifications. He authors IT pro course content for Pluralsight, is a regular contributor to numerous print and online publications and presents at various user groups and conferences.  You can find Adam at &lt;a href="http://adamtheautomator.com"&gt;adamtheautomator.com&lt;/a&gt; or on Twitter at &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/adbertram"&gt;@adbertram&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/phillyposh-december-3rd-2015-adam-bertram-tickets-19612925789?ref=ebtnebregn"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.eventbrite.com/custombutton?eid=19612925789" alt="Eventbrite - PhillyPosh December 3rd 2015 - Adam Bertram"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2016 – the agenda</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-11-14-powershell-devops-global-summit-2016-the-agenda/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2015 18:50:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-11-14-powershell-devops-global-summit-2016-the-agenda/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve finalised the agenda and we&amp;rsquo;re starting to publish session information on the web site at&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://eventloom.com/event/login/PSNA16"&gt;https://eventloom.com/event/login/PSNA16&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are a handful of sessions on the site at present. The rest will be added over the next week or so.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Keep checking back to see who&amp;rsquo;s been added.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Registration opens 1 December 2015&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2016 Info</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-11-13-powershell-devops-global-summit-2016-info/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2015 14:48:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-11-13-powershell-devops-global-summit-2016-info/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s everything that&amp;rsquo;s fit to print regarding Summit 2016, running April 3-4-5-6 in Bellevue, WA! You can also download: &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Brochure-PowerShell-and-DevOps-Summit-2016-copy.pdf"&gt;Brochure-PowerShell and DevOps Summit 2016&lt;/a&gt; to share with your boss and team.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="registration"&gt;Registration&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Registration for Summit will open December 1, 2015, and run through March 1, 2016. &lt;a href="https://eventloom.com/event/home/PSNA16"&gt;Visit the registration website for more details&lt;/a&gt;. Registration will be limited to about 200 attendees. Initially, we will only offer registration for a 4-day event, which includes full-day pre-conference sessions on April 3rd, 2016. On February 1st, 2016, we will open any remaining space for 3-day registration.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>2015-November Scripting Games Puzzle</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-11-07-november-2015-scripting-games-puzzle/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2015 14:06:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-11-07-november-2015-scripting-games-puzzle/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Our November 2015 puzzle comes from PowerShell.org user [Tim Curwick][1], who created the puzzle based on a challenge he ran across at work. There&amp;rsquo;s nothing more real-world than this!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Summit 2016 – Call for topics is closed</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-11-01-summit-2016-call-for-topics-is-closed/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2015 12:27:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-11-01-summit-2016-call-for-topics-is-closed/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The Call for Topics for the 2016 Summit is now closed. We&amp;rsquo;ve had an amazing number of top quality submissions. We&amp;rsquo;d like to thank everyone who took the time to submit a proposal for a session at the Summit. We&amp;rsquo;ll be working through the submissions over the next few days as we put the agenda together for what looks to be a superb Summit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ll publish the schedule as soon as we can. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Join Computer to Domain with Specified Computer Name and OU</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-30-join-computer-to-domain-with-specified-computer-name-and-ou/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2015 18:10:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-30-join-computer-to-domain-with-specified-computer-name-and-ou/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I addressed a reader requested script for my article this week. PowerShell gives you the ability to add computers to Active Directory right from the command line with the built in PowerShell commandlets. This was introduced with PowerShell version 3 and can be used to automate imaging processes or to prompt an agent for the desired computer name and organizational unit. This is useful since a lot of organizations will use specific OUs for computers according to location or department. This allows them to set group policies that apply to those computer accounts accordingly. By default these computer accounts are created in the root Computers OU, but creating an account can be targeted. The highlighted examples should provide you everything you need to tackle that use case. I provide the basics of adding a computer to the domain as well as prompting the user to enter the computer name and location. Head on over to &lt;a href="http://powershellblogger.com/?p=220"&gt;PowershellBlogger.com&lt;/a&gt; for the full write up and thanks for everyone&amp;rsquo;s continued support!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Win a Free 4-Day Pass to PowerShell and DevOps Summit 2016!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-28-win-a-free-4-day-pass-to-powershell-and-devops-summit-2016/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:56:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-28-win-a-free-4-day-pass-to-powershell-and-devops-summit-2016/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Want to attend the newly expanded, 4-day &lt;a href="http://powershellsummit.org"&gt;PowerShell and DevOps Summit&lt;/a&gt; coming to Bellevue, WA in April 2016? Well you can - if you make your own community contribution!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/newsletter/"&gt;TechLetter newsletter&lt;/a&gt; is looking for articles. And, November is of course &lt;a href="http://nanowrimo.org"&gt;NaNoWriMo&lt;/a&gt;, the National Novel Writing Month. But we aren&amp;rsquo;t looking for a novel - just newsletter articles! So we&amp;rsquo;ll call it National PowerShell and DevOps Article Writing Month (NaPoshDoArWriMo). Er. Or something.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Find any E-Mail Address or Proxy Address In Active Directory</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-23-find-any-e-mail-address-or-proxy-address-in-active-directory/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:58:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-23-find-any-e-mail-address-or-proxy-address-in-active-directory/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I am back this week with some more Exchange and Unified Communications goodness. This is another request I see a lot, someone want&amp;rsquo;s to know where an e-mail address is assigned. This opens up the possibilities of user mailboxes, shared mailboxes, distribution lists, public folders, conference rooms, contacts or resources. I have also seen duplicate e-mail addresses being assigned outside of Exchange causing delivery failures. I take a look at how you can quickly find any e-mail address in your environment along with partial searches of e-mail addresses. The two attributes for e-mail addresses being mail and proxyAddresses.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 307 – PowerScripting Podcast – PowerShell MVP Eric Courville</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-10-21-episode-307-powerscripting-podcast-powershell-mvp-eric-courville/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2015 03:47:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-10-21-episode-307-powerscripting-podcast-powershell-mvp-eric-courville/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-307.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest –&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; MVP Eric Courville&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://organicit.org/"&gt;
http://organicit.org/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/_organicit"&gt;
https://twitter.com/_organicit
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.meetup.com/Northern-California-Powershell-User-Group/"&gt;
http://www.meetup.com/Northern-California-Powershell-User-Group/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://slack.com/"&gt;
https://slack.com/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.slack.com"&gt;
https://powershell.slack.com
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;or maybe it&amp;rsquo;s slack.poshcode.org
&lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org"&gt;
http://slack.poshcode.org
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;hit that latter link later (
&lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org/"&gt;
http://slack.poshcode.org/
&lt;/a&gt;
) - you sign up there, it invites you the community&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;its slack.poshcode.org
&lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org"&gt;
http://slack.poshcode.org
&lt;/a&gt;
for the invite&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2014/05/14/episode-269-powerscripting-podcast-u-s-powershell-summit-recap/"&gt;
https://powershell.org/2014/05/14/episode-269-powerscripting-podcast-u-s-powershell-summit-recap/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.trustedsec.com/podcast/"&gt;
https://www.trustedsec.com/podcast/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://talkpython.fm/"&gt;
http://talkpython.fm/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/containers-come-to-windows-with-new-windows-server-2016-beta/"&gt;
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/containers-come-to-windows-with-new-windows-server-2016-beta/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/announcing-windows-server-2016-containers-preview"&gt;
https://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/announcing-windows-server-2016-containers-preview
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/liveevents/what-s-new-in-windows-server-2016-preview-jump-start"&gt;
http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/liveevents/what-s-new-in-windows-server-2016-preview-jump-start
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://blog.docker.com/2015/08/tp-docker-engine-windows-server-2016/"&gt;
https://blog.docker.com/2015/08/tp-docker-engine-windows-server-2016/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2015/07/22/episode-304-powerscripting-podcast-ben-armstrong-from-microsoft-on-windows-containers/"&gt;
https://powershell.org/2015/07/22/episode-304-powerscripting-podcast-ben-armstrong-from-microsoft-on-windows-containers/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://mesosphere.com/"&gt;
https://mesosphere.com/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://kubernetes.io/"&gt;
http://kubernetes.io/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The JAPE challenge</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-19-the-jape-challenge/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2015 08:58:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-19-the-jape-challenge/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I have wanted to write my very own obfuscated e-mail signature for a long time but kept myself from doing it. At the time I thought of all these lines of obfuscated code that people wrote during competitions such as the &lt;em&gt;International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC)&lt;/em&gt; or the &lt;em&gt;Obfuscated Perl Contest&lt;/em&gt; as beyond interest.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then I started competing in the Scripting Games, and some tasks involved writing Powershell oneliners that required &lt;strong&gt;mastering the use of the pipeline&lt;/strong&gt; as a tool to refine what each cmdlet passed to another. Once I added a few aliases to these oneliners - which sometimes happened to involve pretty arcane regular expressions - I often came back with hard-to-read and impossible-to-maintain pieces of Powershell code. But, hey, this was fun!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Command and query separation in Pester tests</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-18-command-and-query-separation-in-pester-tests/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2015 19:15:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-18-command-and-query-separation-in-pester-tests/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Do you feel that writing tests is confusing, and you often end up with complicated test code? I did too, before I learned about Command-query separation principle (or CQS). This principle lead me to start thinking about data flow directions in tests and in the end I realized there are few basic patterns that I use in my test code over and over.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="command-query-separation-principle"&gt;Command-query separation principle&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The command and query separation principle tells us that we should separate commands from queries (duh!). To do that, we first need to learn the difference between a command and query: A command is a function that has an observable side-effect and returns no result. A query is the opposite. A function that has no observable-side effect, and returns a result.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://gist.github.com/nohwnd/fb5616fb92995555480c"&gt;https://gist.github.com/nohwnd/fb5616fb92995555480c&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
The call to &lt;em&gt;Set-Variable&lt;/em&gt; has a side effect of creating a variable named &amp;ldquo;a&amp;rdquo; and setting it to value &amp;ldquo;1&amp;rdquo;. This side effect is clearly observable, because we had no variable &lt;em&gt;$a&lt;/em&gt; before the call and now we have one, so &lt;em&gt;Set-Variable&lt;/em&gt; must be a command. Also the &lt;em&gt;Set-Variable&lt;/em&gt; does not return any output which should be another clue (unless you provide the &lt;em&gt;-PassThru&lt;/em&gt; parameter, more on that later).&lt;br&gt;
The other call, the call to &lt;em&gt;Get-Variable&lt;/em&gt;, has no observable side effect. You could call it once or 100 times and that would have no effect on the value of the &lt;em&gt;$a&lt;/em&gt; variable. Plus the Get-Variable returns a result so it must be a query.&lt;br&gt;
PowerShell also gives us another clue whether a function is a command or query with the Verb used for that function. Anything with Set, Add and New verb is supposed to be a command. Anything with Get verb should be a query.&lt;br&gt;
Understanding the difference between commands and queries is important, because data flows through them in opposite directions, and so you need to test them differently.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Desired State Configuration – Beware Of Circular Configurations</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-14-desired-state-configuration-beware-of-circular-configurations/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:00:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-14-desired-state-configuration-beware-of-circular-configurations/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Lately, I&amp;rsquo;ve been working at converting a lot of my server configuration scripts into DSC configurations.  After all, what better way to learn than by updating your existing methods?  I recently ran into an issue, however, while converting my SCCM Distribution Point deployment script into a config, where the test systems inexplicably began rebooting every thirty minutes or so.  The Local Configuration Manager was configured to reboot if necessary, and these were fresh installs, so I knew that my culprit was most likely in my configuration.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Using Package Management in Windows PowerShell v3</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-12-using-package-management-in-windows-powershell-v3/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2015 20:48:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-12-using-package-management-in-windows-powershell-v3/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hey now! The &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2015/10/09/package-management-preview-for-powershell-4-amp-3-is-now-available.aspx"&gt;PowerShell team&lt;/a&gt; published a preview version of &lt;a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49186"&gt;PackageManagement&lt;/a&gt; for Windows PowerShell v3 and v4. As it happens, I have a Windows 7 SP1 box running PowerShell v3&amp;ndash;why not run a little experiment?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;`$PSVersionTable.PSVersion
Major Minor Build Revision&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3 0 -1 -1
`## Preparing the Environment&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You need &lt;a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40779"&gt;.NET Framework 4.5&lt;/a&gt; or later, so take care of that prerequisite before you install the following two assets:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34595"&gt;Windows Management Framework (WMF) v3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49186"&gt;PackageManagement PowerShell Modules Preview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I restarted the computer after each installation just to be safe.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Automate Sip Address and UPN name changes in Lync / Skype for Business</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-12-automate-sip-address-and-upn-name-changes-in-lync-skype-for-business/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:37:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-12-automate-sip-address-and-upn-name-changes-in-lync-skype-for-business/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Name changes are a common occurrence in the world of IT and usually the primary concern is the e-mail address. Exchange e-mail address policies will handle this for us but often times the Sip Address and User Principal Name are left behind. I tackle these changes with an automated way of changing the Lync / Skype for Business sip address (also known as sign-in address) and User Principal Name to match the e-mail address. I also include the link to download the Lync / Skype for Business meeting update tool that is required when a Sip Address is changed. Head on over to &lt;a href="http://powershellblogger.com/?p=164"&gt;PowerShellBlogger.com&lt;/a&gt; for the full article.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Export Subnets from Active Directory Sites and Services</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-09-export-subnets-from-active-directory-sites-and-services/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2015 02:39:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-09-export-subnets-from-active-directory-sites-and-services/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I am back this week with a quick write up on how to export your network subnets from Active Directory Sites and Services. Active Directory Sites and Services subnet assignments are important for healthy replication and for location based services to function properly. The need for this information has come across my desk on several occasions. Even a quick print out would be extremely helpful to keep at your desk.  I have included both Windows 7/2008 and Windows 8/2012 methods to ensure everyone is covered. Head on over to &lt;a href="http://powershellblogger.com/?p=121"&gt;PowerShellBlogger.com&lt;/a&gt; for the full article. As always, leave a comment and I will be sure to respond.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Testing PowerShell Direct with Windows Server 2016 TP3 Hyper-V</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-08-testing-powershell-direct-with-windows-server-2016-tp3-hyper-v/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2015 14:03:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-08-testing-powershell-direct-with-windows-server-2016-tp3-hyper-v/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hey there! I  thought we could test &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2015/05/14/powershell-direct-running-powershell-inside-a-virtual-machine-from-the-hyper-v-host.aspx"&gt;PowerShell Direct&lt;/a&gt; together today. Here&amp;rsquo;s the elevator pitch: In Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10, we can send PowerShell commands from the Hyper-V host directly to its corresponding virtual machines (VMs), &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;even in the absence of guest VM networking&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. Yeah, that&amp;rsquo;s cool, isn&amp;rsquo;t it?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What&amp;rsquo;s just as impressive is that PowerShell Direct works _&lt;strong&gt;even if PowerShell remoting is disabled on the guest VM!&lt;/strong&gt; _PowerShell Direct also circumvents Windows Firewall. Note that PowerShell Direct requires that commands are sent only from a Hyper-V host to its local VMs.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>#MSPSUG Virtual Meeting: Using Regular Expressions with #PowerShell – October 13th 2015</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-06-mspsug-virtual-meeting-using-regular-expressions-with-powershell-october-13th-2015/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2015 14:13:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-06-mspsug-virtual-meeting-using-regular-expressions-with-powershell-october-13th-2015/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join the Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtually on Tuesday, October 13th at 8:30pm Central Time when &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/TechTrainerTim"&gt;Timothy Warner&lt;/a&gt; will present “&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pattern Match Like a Pro: Using Regular Expressions with Windows PowerShell&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;”.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many Windows systems administrators are intimidated with regular expressions due to its seemingly strange, &amp;ldquo;Unixy&amp;rdquo; syntax. Take heart! By the end of this session, you&amp;rsquo;ll finally understand how to perform simple and advanced text filtering with RegEx, specifically by leveragine PowerShell&amp;rsquo;s -match operator and Select-String cmdlet.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Finding Evil LDAP Queries</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-05-finding-evil-ldap-queries/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2015 14:17:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-05-finding-evil-ldap-queries/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Have you ever wondered what LDAP queries were hitting your domain controllers? Even outside of fun investigations, it can be insightful to get a sampling of queries hitting your domain controller. The more services you have integrated with Active Directory, the more likely a vendor or sysadmin unwittingly configured their service to produce evil queries.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mark Morowczynski from Microsoft wrote a great post on &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2015/05/11/how-to-find-expensive-inefficient-and-long-running-ldap-queries-in-active-directory.aspx"&gt;finding these expensive, inefficient, or long running queries&lt;/a&gt; - But something was missing. Screen shots of regedit? If you have more than a handful of domain controllers, enabling and disabling this logging is going to be quite a chore.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>2015-October Scripting Games Puzzle</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-03-october-2015-scripting-games-puzzle/</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2015 13:31:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-03-october-2015-scripting-games-puzzle/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Our October 2015 puzzle might take us beyond the realm of one-liners, but it circles back to the August 2015 theme of retrieving information from the web. This is another scenario that actually has a lot of real-world applications, in that there&amp;rsquo;s a lot of practical uses in the work environment for this technique. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Delete Specific E-Mail or E-Mails From All Exchange Mailboxes</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-02-delete-specific-e-mail-or-e-mails-from-all-exchange-mailboxes/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2015 15:27:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-10-02-delete-specific-e-mail-or-e-mails-from-all-exchange-mailboxes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Well this is week number two in my quest to post an article once a week and I am back with a common request for Exchange administrators. There are a lot of scenarios that bring up a need to remove an e-mail or e-mails from all mailboxes in your environment. Perhaps there was a disgruntled employee, a virus outbreak, or a reply all to the whole company. We all know that the &amp;ldquo;Retract&amp;rdquo; button is best effort (yes I still miss GroupWise for that purpose).&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Convert ISO and WIM to VHD with a module</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-28-convert-iso-and-wim-to-vhd-with-a-module/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2015 04:24:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-28-convert-iso-and-wim-to-vhd-with-a-module/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Convert-WindowsImage.ps1 is a very popular method to create VHD&amp;rsquo;s with. However it&amp;rsquo;s not a module, and in it&amp;rsquo;s current form cant be added to one.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So I have started a new project on GitHub called WindowsImageTools and posted the results to the &lt;a href="https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/WindowsImageTools/"&gt;PowerShell Gallery&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It has a few functions so far. Convert-Wim2Vhd, to do the work,  and New-UnattendXml because it hate having to edit XML to make minor changes. The resulting XML is universal in that it works on both 32 and 64 bit and will do a silent install (currently on Volume Media only). Then it auto-logs on the Admin and run a PowerShell script to kick off what ever you need bootstrapped (like DSC)&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>How to handle oAuth from PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-25-how-to-handle-oauth-from-powershell/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:35:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-25-how-to-handle-oauth-from-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;One of the coolest features of PowerShell is the many tools we have available to work with services on the web, be they SOAP, REST, RPC or even WSDL services.  It&amp;rsquo;s no question, PowerShell makes it very easy to pull down data from any of these places.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, getting data from a service isn&amp;rsquo;t always as easy as embedding your credentials in a URL. In fact, some services require us to authenticate and ask the user for permission before giving up the goods.  For these, oAuth is the de-facto standard for delegated access.  &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Automate enabling and disabling Lync / Skype for Business users</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-23-automate-enabling-and-disabling-lync-skype-for-business-users/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2015 21:30:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-23-automate-enabling-and-disabling-lync-skype-for-business-users/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hello PowerShell.org community,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is my first post here at PowerShell.org, and I have a goal of posting tips, tricks, articles, and solutions once a week. My first exposure to scripting was on my x486 computer. I would always create .bat files to launch my DOS based games from the root folder. I learned complex scripting through the use of VB Script, automating the roll out and updating of Windows 2000 desktops and servers. I quickly transitioned to PowerShell as my preferred scripting language upon its release. I use PowerShell on a daily basis to administer Windows Server, SQL Server, Exchange, Lync / Skype for Business, Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop, Office 365, and Dell Active Roles Server. I have very much enjoyed watching the progression and adoption of PowerShell as the default scripting language. I hope my posts will be useful to other administrators around the world.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Scheduled Jobs and Tableau analytics</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-21-powershell-scheduled-jobs-and-tableau-analytics/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2015 18:43:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-21-powershell-scheduled-jobs-and-tableau-analytics/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Here’s a brief rundown of how we leverage a few Cmdlets from the PSScheduledJob module to manage our Analytics stack. For those of us on the Analytics team at
&lt;a href="http://www.pluralsight.com/"&gt;
Pluralsight
&lt;/a&gt;
, PowerShell is the lynch-pin which binds our two worlds together. To manage the gaps inherent in all platforms (since one tool would be hard-pressed to cover all areas), we use PowerShell to link the worlds of Data and Analytics (and back). We do this because of its depth and the ease with which we can automate just about anything.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Take home from PowerShell Summit Europe</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-17-take-home-from-powershell-summit-europe/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:25:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-17-take-home-from-powershell-summit-europe/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;WOOHA it&amp;rsquo;s been a great week.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I sat down last night my brain all fried and tried to compile a list of things to remember from the past week.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2011/09/23/powershell-wallpapers/"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/KeepCalmAndLearnPowerShell_1024x768.jpg" alt="PowerShellMagazine - (wallpaper) - KEEP CALM.cdr"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is  much focus on &amp;ldquo;changing the mindset&amp;rdquo; of the community. Get into the DevOps mindset and become a toolmakers. This is my take-home from the conference. There&amp;rsquo;s no way to summarize all of the conference other than to say: Look forward to the videos on YouTube.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Speaking at PowerShell Summit 2016: Topic Ideas for Aspiring Speakers</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-16-speaking-at-powershell-summit-2016-topic-ideas-for-aspiring-speakers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2015 08:26:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-16-speaking-at-powershell-summit-2016-topic-ideas-for-aspiring-speakers/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Our call for topics for &lt;strong&gt;PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit 2016&lt;/strong&gt; is open until November 1st, and I thought I&amp;rsquo;d share some ideas for the kind of 400-level content we&amp;rsquo;re looking for.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First, to submit abstracts, &lt;a href="https://eventloom.com/event/register/PSNA16/Speaker?preregister=1"&gt;pre-register as a speaker candidate&lt;/a&gt;. Be sure to fill in the brief demographic information presented, and then add any information for the Attendee Directory that you&amp;rsquo;d like. When you&amp;rsquo;re done with that, select &lt;strong&gt;Abstracts&lt;/strong&gt; from the menu at the tippy-top of the page, and enter your session information. Be sure to include, as the first characters in the abstract, either &amp;ldquo;[45m]&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;[90m]&amp;rdquo;, or &amp;ldquo;[120m]&amp;rdquo; as an indication on your desired timeslot - 45, 90, or 120 minutes. Also set your session to &amp;ldquo;Ready for Review&amp;rdquo; when you&amp;rsquo;re done.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Store Secured Password in PowerShell Script</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-15-store-secured-password-in-powershell-script/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2015 00:52:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-15-store-secured-password-in-powershell-script/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Automation is awesome, but what if you need to run a script with elevated privileges?   If you are following security best practices then the account you login with most likely doesn&amp;rsquo;t have the required elevated privileges.  Storing your password in plain text in your scripts is no good either.  So what do we do?  There are several options and each has there place, but I&amp;rsquo;ll show you my favorite below.  Check out the full article by clicking on the link below.  While you are there check out some of my other posts, the &lt;a href="http://powershellmasters.com/scripts/"&gt;script repository&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://powershellmasters.com/resources/"&gt;resource page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Call for Topics Extended: PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit 2016</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-13-call-for-topics-extended-powershell-and-devops-global-summit-2016/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2015 06:56:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-13-call-for-topics-extended-powershell-and-devops-global-summit-2016/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In light of our recent &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2015/09/13/future-of-powershell-summit-in-europe-and-north-america/"&gt;announcement regarding the future of PowerShell Summit&lt;/a&gt;, we are extending the call for topics to the end of October, 2015.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We invite speakers to re-visit their existing proposals and indicate the desired length of their session. For example, simply add &amp;ldquo;[45min]&amp;rdquo; to the session abstract if you feel your session is suitable for our traditional 45-minute time slot. Or, indicate an alternative of [90min] or [120min]. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Future of PowerShell Summit in Europe and North America</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-13-future-of-powershell-summit-in-europe-and-north-america/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2015 06:49:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-13-future-of-powershell-summit-in-europe-and-north-america/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As we kick off PowerShell Summit Europe 2015, I wanted to share some decisions we&amp;rsquo;ve made regarding the future of the event.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When we first launched PowerShell Summit in 2013, our goal was to be the spiritual successor of the former “PowerShell Deep Dive” events held as part of Quest’s The Experts Conference (TEC) event. Dell’s acquisition of Quest eliminated TEC, and PowerShell.org worked with the PowerShell product team to create the Summit.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Find Stale Accounts in Active Directory</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-12-find-stale-accounts-in-active-directory/</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2015 16:02:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-12-find-stale-accounts-in-active-directory/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="find-stale-accounts-in-active-directory"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Find Stale Accounts in Active Directory&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Everyone who has managed Active Directory knows that keeping it free of &amp;ldquo;stale&amp;rdquo; accounts is a tough task.  Typically no one cares about this until it’s time for the Microsoft True Up.  Then we’ve got to hustle to get rid of all these unused accounts before we have to pay for them again!  Pre-PowerShell it was tough because well&amp;hellip; you didn&amp;rsquo;t have POWERSHELL!  Now the hardest part about finding these accounts is defining what stale means to your company.  There is no right or wrong answer to this question, but there are some things that we can check to help lead us to an optimal answer.  You can read the rest of this article by clicking on the link below.  While you are there check out some of my other posts, the &lt;a href="http://powershellmasters.com/scripts/"&gt;script repository&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://powershellmasters.com/resources/"&gt;resource page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Working with PowershellGallery</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-11-working-with-powershellgallery/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2015 13:34:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-11-working-with-powershellgallery/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;After my two first posts (&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2015/08/20/multithreading-using-jobs/"&gt;Multithreading using jobs&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2015/08/28/list-users-logged-on-to-your-machines/"&gt;List users logged on to your machines&lt;/a&gt;) where I mentioned &lt;a href="http://www.PowershellGallery.com"&gt;PowershellGallery.com&lt;/a&gt; a few times and after &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2015/09/06/writing-and-publishing-powershell-modules/"&gt;Warren talked about the Gallery a few days ago&lt;/a&gt; I felt like digging a little deeper to see if I was actually doing it right.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So I wrote them an email and this was their reply:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &amp;mdash;&amp;mdash;&amp;mdash;&amp;mdash;&amp;mdash;&amp;mdash;&amp;mdash;&amp;mdash;&amp;ndash;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;ldquo;Hi Jonas – The “limited preview” designation on the PowerShell Gallery is because we are doing significant development to the site.&lt;/em&gt; * However, there is nothing about that status which should prevent you from sharing your code. *&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>DevOps: A Practical Example</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-11-devops-a-practical-example/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:22:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-11-devops-a-practical-example/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you look at DevOps as a means of removing hurdles between coders and users, there&amp;rsquo;s almost no better real-world, practical example than Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. If you&amp;rsquo;re not familiar with EBS, look into it - it&amp;rsquo;s kinda cool.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;EBS isn&amp;rsquo;t suitable for every situation, to be sure. It&amp;rsquo;s mainly useful for Linux VMs, running Web sites, in fact, which isn&amp;rsquo;t 100% of your workloads. But the &lt;em&gt;idea&lt;/em&gt; is pretty awesome. Developers store their code in a source control repo - ideally, Git. Along with their code - and this is the cool bit - they include a configuration file. This file can list things like environment variables, packages (installed from repos using NPM, RHL, YUM, etc), and so on.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 306 – PowerScripting Podcast – Rob “Barkz” Barker from Pure Storage</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-09-10-episode-306-powerscripting-podcast-rob-barkz-barker-from-pure-storage/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2015 03:28:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-09-10-episode-306-powerscripting-podcast-rob-barkz-barker-from-pure-storage/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-306.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Rob “Barkz” Barker from Pure Storage&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.purestorage.com/"&gt;
http://www.purestorage.com/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/barkz/PureStoragePowerShellToolkit"&gt;
https://github.com/barkz/PureStoragePowerShellToolkit
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.purestorage.com/blog/author/barkz/"&gt;
http://www.purestorage.com/blog/author/barkz/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.purestorage.com/blog/announcing-the-new-pure-storage-powershell-sdk/"&gt;
http://www.purestorage.com/blog/announcing-the-new-pure-storage-powershell-sdk/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.purepowershellguy.com/"&gt;
http://www.purepowershellguy.com/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.purestorage.com/blog/author/barkz/"&gt;
http://www.purestorage.com/blog/author/barkz/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.purestorage.com/blog/announcing-the-new-pure-storage-powershell-sdk/"&gt;
http://www.purestorage.com/blog/announcing-the-new-pure-storage-powershell-sdk/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/barkz/PureStoragePowerShellToolkit"&gt;
https://github.com/barkz/PureStoragePowerShellToolkit
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.powershellgallery.com/"&gt;
http://www.powershellgallery.com/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.purestorage.com/blog/getting-started-with-the-pure-storage-python-toolkit/"&gt;
http://www.purestorage.com/blog/getting-started-with-the-pure-storage-python-toolkit/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebrequest(v=vs.110).aspx"&gt;
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebrequest(v=vs.110).aspx
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;apropos of nothing:
&lt;a href="https://kitematic.com/"&gt;
https://kitematic.com/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.purepowershellguy.com/"&gt;
http://www.purepowershellguy.com/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;laquo;@UPLLB|halr9000&amp;raquo; halr9000 uploaded a file: A million!
&lt;a href="https://powershell.slack.com/files/halr9000/F0842DD0R/11694774_10153405387861278_7797248343927230277_n.png"&gt;
https://powershell.slack.com/files/halr9000/F0842DD0R/11694774_10153405387861278_7797248343927230277_n.png
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;laquo;@UPSHF|herschelle42&amp;raquo; herschelle42 uploaded a file: Snover VMWorld Session
&lt;a href="https://powershell.slack.com/files/herschelle42/F0842L5K3/pasted_image_at_2015_07_24_12_30_pm.png"&gt;
https://powershell.slack.com/files/herschelle42/F0842L5K3/pasted_image_at_2015_07_24_12_30_pm.png
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ferventcoder"&gt;
https://twitter.com/ferventcoder
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;iex (new-object net.webclient).downloadstring(&amp;lsquo;&lt;a href="https://get.scoop.sh"&gt;https://get.scoop.sh&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rsquo;)&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Where Are My FSMO Roles?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-08-where-are-my-fsmo-roles/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2015 14:00:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-08-where-are-my-fsmo-roles/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hello, PowerShell people! I&amp;rsquo;ve never posted on PowerShell.org before and so I feel as though I owe you a quick introduction before we dive into the tip I&amp;rsquo;d like to share with you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My name is Thomas Rayner and I am a Microsoft MVP for Windows PowerShell. I&amp;rsquo;m also a systems administrator and degree program instructor. I volunteer a fair bit of time as the President of the Edmonton Microsoft User Group (EMUG). EMUG has a more in depth bio for me on their &lt;a href="http://emug.ca/executive/"&gt;About Executive&lt;/a&gt; page in case you want to know more about the person behind the avatar. If you&amp;rsquo;re in the Edmonton area, I strongly recommend &lt;a href="http://emug.ca/contact-us/"&gt;signing up for our mailing list&lt;/a&gt; so you can come attend the great events we put on.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Find Location of Locked Out Accounts</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-08-find-location-of-locked-out-accounts/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2015 11:16:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-08-find-location-of-locked-out-accounts/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="im-locked-out-help"&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m Locked Out, Help!&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;ve been a sys admin for more than a week you&amp;rsquo;ve probably heard this&amp;hellip;&amp;ldquo;I&amp;rsquo;m locked-out, help!&amp;rdquo;.  Normally the user has made their way to your cube and is impatiently tapping their foot waiting for you to magically solve there problem.  So you find their account, reset their password and everything is right with the world&amp;hellip;Or is it?  Two minutes later they show up again because their account was locked-out before they even got back to their desk.  Now what do you do?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Writing and Publishing PowerShell Modules</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-06-writing-and-publishing-powershell-modules/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2015 20:31:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-06-writing-and-publishing-powershell-modules/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Earlier in August &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2015/08/16/abstraction-and-configuration-data/"&gt;we mentioned&lt;/a&gt; that modularity and abstraction are quite helpful. PowerShell modules can help enable these concepts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You might ask &amp;ldquo;Modules&amp;hellip; why can&amp;rsquo;t I just write a function?&amp;rdquo; There are a number of benefits to bundling your functions into modules:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Simplify code organization&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Group related functions together&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Share state between functions, but not with the user&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Re-use &amp;ldquo;helper functions&amp;rdquo; that you don&amp;rsquo;t want exposed to the user&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Improve discoverability:
&lt;code&gt;Find-Module MyModule&lt;/code&gt;Get-Command -Module MyModule
&lt;code&gt;* Simplify distribution: &lt;/code&gt;Install-Module MyModule
`Where does that last bullet come from?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="the-powershell-gallery"&gt;The PowerShell Gallery&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;ve worked with Perl, you&amp;rsquo;ve probably used &lt;a href="https://www.perl.org/about/whitepapers/perl-cpan.html"&gt;CPAN&lt;/a&gt;, which archives more than 150,000 modules. Other languages have similar tools, like &lt;a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi"&gt;PyPI&lt;/a&gt; for Python, or &lt;a href="https://rubygems.org/"&gt;RubyGems&lt;/a&gt; for Ruby.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>20115-September Scripting Games Puzzle</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-05-september-2015-scripting-games-puzzle/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2015 13:26:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-05-september-2015-scripting-games-puzzle/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Our September 2015 puzzle is another one-liner, to help get you out of Summer Mood and back into Work Mode. This time, it&amp;rsquo;s a pretty real-world scenario, designed to test your understanding of the pipeline and how data can be manipulated within it. You&amp;rsquo;ll need to really grasp pipeline parameter binding to make this work in the shortest command possible.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>#MSPSUG Virtual Meeting: The Art of #PowerShell Runspaces – September 8th 2015</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-04-mspsug-virtual-meeting-the-art-of-powershell-runspaces-september-8th-2015/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2015 14:58:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-04-mspsug-virtual-meeting-the-art-of-powershell-runspaces-september-8th-2015/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join the Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtually on Tuesday, September 8th at 8:30pm Central Time when PowerShell MVP &lt;a href="http://learn-powershell.net/"&gt;Boe Prox&lt;/a&gt; will present “&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Art of PowerShell Runspaces&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;”.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell runspaces are a known but little documented area that can help to provide performance improvements in your scripts. Besides just using this for performance gains, you can use this to provide a snappier approach to building GUIs in PowerShell. This presentation will show you examples of using Runspaces, RunspacePools as well as utilizing shared variables that can be viewed and modified in multiple runspaces during runtime. Also being demoed is a module called &lt;a href="https://github.com/proxb/PoshRSJob"&gt;PoshRSJob&lt;/a&gt; which provides runspace multhreading in a familiar jobs infrastructure.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Use Import-LocalizedData to Internationalize your Scripts</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-03-use-import-localizeddata-to-internationalize-your-scripts/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2015 21:13:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-03-use-import-localizeddata-to-internationalize-your-scripts/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Whether you&amp;rsquo;re working with an enterprise client with a global presence or building a tool that you want to share with the world, you may find yourself wanting to build support for multiple languages into your scripts. The Import-LocalizedData Cmdlet is a simple and powerful way to achieve this. I put up a pair of posts about my recent experience with a globalization effort and how we were able to get a lot of functionality with only a few lines of code.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Basic Exchange Monitoring</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-01-basic-exchange-monitoring/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2015 01:32:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-09-01-basic-exchange-monitoring/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hello Powershell.org!  This is the first time I&amp;rsquo;ve posted for anyone outside of my own powershell blog site &lt;a href="http://www.powershellmasters.com"&gt;PowerShellMasters.com&lt;/a&gt; and I just want to thank PowerShell.org for everything they do for our community.  I think most of you would agree that this site is one of the best PowerShell sites out there today and I am grateful for the opportunity to reach so many PowerShell people.  OK enough with the touchy-feely stuff. 🙂&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>List users logged on to your machines</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-28-list-users-logged-on-to-your-machines/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:12:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-28-list-users-logged-on-to-your-machines/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Password policies are the best 😀 Sometimes they lead to account logouts when someone forgets to logout of a session somewhere on the network though. It might be the TS session they use once a quarter for reporting or maybe you know the feeling when you RDP to a server only to find that it is locked by 2 other admins who forgot to logoff when they left. (Off cause this never happens… we all use PowerShell…) Anyway, this had me searching for a user session somewhere on the network. The worst thing is when my own password expires. I hate when my account ends up being locked. Therefor I made it a rule to just check all servers before I change password. There are multiple ways to do this but of course I tend to go the PowerShell route. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>TechSession Webinar: The Top 10 Considerations When Writing #PowerShell Advanced Functions</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-26-techsession-webinar-the-top-10-considerations-when-writing-powershell-advanced-functions/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2015 14:52:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-26-techsession-webinar-the-top-10-considerations-when-writing-powershell-advanced-functions/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;On Wednesday, September 2nd at 2pm EDT (1pm CDT), I’ll be presenting the September TechSession Webinar for PowerShell.org. The topic for this month&amp;rsquo;s session is: “&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/event/techsession-the-top-10-considerations-when-writing-powershell-advanced-functions/"&gt;The Top 10 Considerations When Writing PowerShell Advanced Functions&lt;/a&gt;”.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here’s what you can expect from my presentation:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are lots of things to consider when writing an advanced function in PowerShell depending on what the function will be designed to accomplish, what operating system and PowerShell versions it will be written for, and who will be using it. During this session, PowerShell MVP Mike F Robbins will walk you through the top 10 items that he takes into consideration along with his thought process when creating advanced functions in PowerShell. We’ll briefly discuss comment based help, parameters, parameter validation, pipeline input, and error handling. This will NOT be a deep dive into any one of these topics as the focus of this session will be on writing advanced functions to maximize code reusability by minimizing static values. Prior experience with PowerShell is recommended.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Multithreading using jobs</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-20-multithreading-using-jobs/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:23:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-20-multithreading-using-jobs/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Often I have had to check something against all servers or clients. A classic problem and every time I run into the it it&amp;rsquo;s time consuming and running the job multithreaded would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A few years back I found a nice little script for multithreading which I have been using quite often. Unfortunately this wasn&amp;rsquo;t a module. And I can&amp;rsquo;t remember where it came from. So this week I set my mind on recreating this as a module and to see if I can publish it on &lt;a href="https://www.powershellgallery.com/"&gt;PowerShell Gallery&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Philadelphia PowerShell User Group Meeting – September 3rd 2015 with Max Trinidad</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-17-philadelphia-powershell-user-group-meeting-september-3rd-2015-with-max-trinidad/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2015 01:11:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-17-philadelphia-powershell-user-group-meeting-september-3rd-2015-with-max-trinidad/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join us on Thursday, September 3rd when &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/juneb_get_help"&gt;
Maximo Trinidad
&lt;/a&gt; will be giving a talk called a &amp;ldquo;&lt;strong&gt;Creating a SQL Server Database Report with PowerShell&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;rdquo;. As describe by Maximo: This is a deep dive on how to create a SQL Server report using PowerShell and SMO. At the same time, you will learn how to create and work with PowerShell objects, scriptblocks, formatting properties, and generating output results. We&amp;rsquo;ll be looking into creating a report to identify database properties irregularities. This will be a good start to help begin documenting your SQL Server on the network.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>TEST IT: New IISAdministration Module</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-17-test-it-new-iisadministration-module/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2015 17:35:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-17-test-it-new-iisadministration-module/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s no secret that Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s WebAdministration module isn&amp;rsquo;t universally loved. It&amp;rsquo;s functionality isn&amp;rsquo;t deep, and it doesn&amp;rsquo;t play well in the PowerShell pipeline. There are also a number of things in it that run really slowly, making bulk administration a pain.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Last week, &lt;a href="http://blogs.iis.net/bariscaglar/iisadministration-powershell-cmdlets-new-feature-in-windows-10-server-2016"&gt;Baris Caglar announced that Windows 10 contains a new IISAdministration module&lt;/a&gt;, which is a rough draft of what is hoped to be a final module in Windows Server 2016. &lt;strong&gt;If you use IIS, get hold of this and start testing so the team can get feedback.&lt;/strong&gt; Note that this is a _feature of Windows 10; _I haven&amp;rsquo;t yet been able to test and see if file-copying it to another version of Windows will work or not (if you try, please post your results in a comment). The module seems to rely heavily on the &lt;a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.web.administration.servermanager(v=vs.90).aspx"&gt;IIS Administration .NET class&lt;/a&gt;, going so far as giving you easy access to an instance of it so you can code against it directly for whatever the module itself doesn&amp;rsquo;t offer.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Abstraction and Configuration Data</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-16-abstraction-and-configuration-data/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2015 20:55:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-16-abstraction-and-configuration-data/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Modularity and abstraction are a huge benefit in scripting and coding. Which of the following blocks of code are easier to understand?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;$SQLConnection = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SQLConnection $SQLConnection.ConnectionString = 'Server=SqlServer1;Database=MyDB;Integrated Security=True;Connect Timeout=15' $cmd = New-Object system.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand(&amp;quot;SELECT * FROM Table1&amp;quot;,$SQLConnection) $ds = New-Object system.Data.DataSet $da = New-Object system.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataAdapter($cmd) [void]$da.fill($ds) $SQLConnection.Close() $ds.Tables[0] &lt;/code&gt;Or&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;# Invoke-Sqlcmd2 -ServerInstance SQLServer1 -Database MyDB -Query 'SELECT * FROM Table1' &lt;/code&gt;If you aren&amp;rsquo;t a masochist, &lt;a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RamblingCookieMonster/PowerShell/master/Invoke-Sqlcmd2.ps1"&gt;the latter&lt;/a&gt; probably looks a bit nicer. Oh, and it offers other parameters, error handling, parameterized SQL queries, built in help, and other benefits the .NET code block misses.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Template based parsing and progress bars</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-12-template-based-parsing-and-progress-bars/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2015 22:54:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-12-template-based-parsing-and-progress-bars/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Working with wifi I have often needed to do a survey of the surroundings, and therefor I loved that windows 7 (maybe even Vista) introduced more advanced netsh with wifi support.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There’s a lot of useful information but it might be nice to have a more graphical overview. The thing is that a text blob like this is not very handy to work with.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/image1.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/image1.png" alt="image1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some time late last year I heard a guy from the powershell team on the Powerscripting podcast talk about ConvertFrom-String and the new template based parsing. And it occurred to me that you can combine this with a simple powershell progress bar (write-progress) to give a visual representation of signal strength.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Start Sharing Challenge</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-10-the-start-sharing-challenge/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2015 15:55:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-10-the-start-sharing-challenge/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m back from &lt;a href="https://techmentorevents.com/Home.aspx"&gt;Techmentor Redmond 2015&lt;/a&gt; which was my first public speaking talk ever. It went great. I met a ton of great people and really enjoyed myself. When speaking to IT pros one of the questions I typically ask them is &amp;ldquo;&lt;strong&gt;Are you blogging or sharing your knowledge?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;rdquo;. 9 times out of 10 I get a big, fat no. Why? It&amp;rsquo;s because they feel like they have nothing to share. They feel like no one would be interested in their ho-hum, mundane life as an IT guy. I always followup that comment with &amp;ldquo;How do you know?&amp;rdquo; which ultimately results in a shrug. You don&amp;rsquo;t know that your life isn&amp;rsquo;t interesting and can teach others something. &lt;strong&gt;Why are you making the decision for others?&lt;/strong&gt; You&amp;rsquo;ve acquired lots of knowledge in your career. Don&amp;rsquo;t be stingy! Share it!&lt;br&gt;
As a personal challenge to you, I have a copy of Don Jones&amp;rsquo; and Jeff Hicks&amp;rsquo; &lt;a href="http://www.manning.com/jones4/"&gt;Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches&lt;/a&gt; book. If you don&amp;rsquo;t have a blog today, start one. If you do and haven&amp;rsquo;t blogged in awhile, dust it off and start writing again. The first one to contact me on my blog &lt;a href="http://adamtheautomator.com"&gt;Adam, The Automator&lt;/a&gt; with a link to their blog with at least 5 good posts will win the book. Don&amp;rsquo;t try to sneak those piddly little one paragraph posts by me just to get a free book! Minimum post length is 500 words.&lt;br&gt;
You have nothing to lose but perhaps a few hours of your time and some further opportunities in your career. Give back and you will be rewarded.&lt;br&gt;
P.S. Did you know I used to blog about selling used books on Amazon? Talk about a niche topic. At it&amp;rsquo;s peak it was getting over 1,000 readers/day. Now, don&amp;rsquo;t you think IT is just a wee bit bigger than that? If I can blog about selling used books and get 1,000 readers/day you can spend just an hour a week writing a blog post about your IT experiences and you &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; help more people than you think.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and PSDeploy</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-08-continuous-integration-continuous-delivery-and-psdeploy/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2015 15:16:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-08-continuous-integration-continuous-delivery-and-psdeploy/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Are you starting to use version control at work? Are you being pestered by fellow PowerShell aficionados to start learning version control? Did you catch the PowerShell.org &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/event/techsession-a-crash-course-in-version-control-and-git/"&gt;Crash Course in Version Control&lt;/a&gt; and pick up some Git and GitHub experience? Shameless plug, sorry : )&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Version control is just the start. What if we want to automate testing? To deploy our files, folders, and other artifacts out to production or other environments? Version control alone offers some nice benefits, but without these extra steps, it might introduce some pain points!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>What are variables anyway…</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-07-what-are-variables-anyway/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2015 09:03:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-07-what-are-variables-anyway/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Fellow Admins.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A quick chat if you&amp;rsquo;re new to variables.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So if you&amp;rsquo;re like me and don&amp;rsquo;t know any other programing/scripting language then all this PowerShell stuff is a bit daunting. So to help, this articles is on
PowerShell Variables. The thing is that Variables in PowerShell are very important. I&amp;rsquo;m assuming you know what a cmdlet is? The very basic underlying tools that make powershell work. They are like powershell building blocks or bricks in a PowerShell wall. For example, get-aduser gets a list of all the users in AD and includes a few details like SID, name and distinguished name. So that little cmdlet gets all that information, and more once you learn to manipulate it. If cmdlets are the bricks then Variables are the mortar. They hold all this information you have gathered together and let you save and pick and choose what you want.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 305 – PowerScripting Podcast – Josh Atwell from SolidFire</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-08-05-episode-305-powerscripting-podcast-josh-atwell-from-solidfire/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2015 03:27:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-08-05-episode-305-powerscripting-podcast-josh-atwell-from-solidfire/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-305.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**In This Episode **&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Josh Atwell from Solidfire&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vtesseract.com/"&gt;http://www.vtesseract.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.solidfire.com/storage-system/automated-management/"&gt;http://www.solidfire.com/storage-system/automated-management/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/solidfire"&gt;https://github.com/solidfire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;powershell.slack.com &lt;a href="http://powershell.slack.com"&gt;http://powershell.slack.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[https://powershell.slack.com/](https://powershell.slack.com/)


[http://www.solidfire.com/blog/elements-of-solidfire-podcast-ep-7-hal-rottenberg-splunk-on-powershell/](http://www.solidfire.com/blog/elements-of-solidfire-podcast-ep-7-hal-rottenberg-splunk-on-powershell/)


[http://www.amazon.com/Josh-Atwell/e/B00F54LL72/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1437097909&amp;amp;sr=8-2-ent](http://www.amazon.com/Josh-Atwell/e/B00F54LL72/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1437097909&amp;amp;sr=8-2-ent)


[http://www.amazon.com/DevOps-VMware-Administrators-Press-Technology/dp/0133846474/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8](http://www.amazon.com/DevOps-VMware-Administrators-Press-Technology/dp/0133846474/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8)


[http://vupaas.com/](http://vupaas.com/)


[figured it out http://www.rolls.com/pdf/M_MS111.pdf](http://www.rolls.com/pdf/M_MS111.pdf)


[http://vupaas.com/](http://vupaas.com/)


[http://www.solidfire.com/storage-system/automated-management/](http://www.solidfire.com/storage-system/automated-management/)


[https://github.com/solidfire](https://github.com/solidfire)


joshatwell: he writes his powershell from a mac! [https://github.com/solidfire/PowerShell/blob/master/.DS_Store](https://github.com/solidfire/PowerShell/blob/master/.DS_Store)


[http://www.vtesseract.com/](http://www.vtesseract.com/)


[http://www.amazon.com/Martian-Andy-Weir/dp/0553418025/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1437100859&amp;amp;sr=1-1&amp;amp;keywords=the+martian](http://www.amazon.com/Martian-Andy-Weir/dp/0553418025/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1437100859&amp;amp;sr=1-1&amp;amp;keywords=the+martian)


[http://www.thecloudcast.net/2015/06/the-cloudcast-193-andy-weir-author-of.html](http://www.thecloudcast.net/2015/06/the-cloudcast-193-andy-weir-author-of.html)


another book to read: [http://www.amazon.com/Seveneves-Novel-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0062190377/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1437100957&amp;amp;sr=1-1&amp;amp;keywords=seveneves](http://www.amazon.com/Seveneves-Novel-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0062190377/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1437100957&amp;amp;sr=1-1&amp;amp;keywords=seveneves)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2 id="for-whenever-its-convenient-any-idea-what-factors-helped-persuade-solidfire-to-buy-into-building-an-official-powershell-module"&gt;for whenever it&amp;rsquo;s convenient&amp;hellip; Any idea what factors helped persuade SolidFire to buy into building an official PowerShell module?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;## why is multi-tenant so important for a storage system?


## it's flash‚ how could you run out of IOPS?
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>MSPSUG Virtual Meeting: Conquering Azure and Office 365 with PowerShell – August 11th 2015</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-05-mspsug-virtual-meeting-conquering-azure-and-office-365-with-powershell-august-11th-2015/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2015 14:49:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-05-mspsug-virtual-meeting-conquering-azure-and-office-365-with-powershell-august-11th-2015/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join the Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtually on Tuesday, August 11th at 8:30pm Central Time when SharePoint MVP &lt;a href="http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/default.aspx"&gt;Todd Klindt&lt;/a&gt; will present “
&lt;em&gt;**Conquering Azure and Office 365 with PowerShell **&lt;/em&gt;
”.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After years and years of anticipation, 2015 might end up actually being the year of the Cloud. With any new technology comes the opportunity to tame it with PowerShell. In this session Todd will give you an overview of the PowerShell options you have when interacting with Office 365 and Azure. He’ll go over how to get them installed in your environment. Then he’ll walk you through getting them connected to Office 365 and Azure and actually doing some work with them. Finally he’ll show you some tricks to get around the limitations. When this session is finished you’ll be armed with all the information you need to fire up PowerShell and wrangle Office 365 and Azure AD into submission.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit North America 2016 – Call for Topics</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-03-powershell-summit-north-america-2016-call-for-topics/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2015 16:39:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-03-powershell-summit-north-america-2016-call-for-topics/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;**&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Summit NA 2016 – Call for Topics&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The PowerShell Summit is the number one conference where PowerShell enthusiasts gather and learn from each other in fast-paced, knowledge packed presentations. PowerShell experts from all over the world including MVP’s, Guru’s, community leaders and PowerShell team members, will once again join together for a few days in Bellevue, WA. to discuss and learn about maximizing PowerShell in the workplace. If you want to share your PowerShell expertise or story, then this is your official call to submit presentations for selection!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>2015-August Scripting Games Puzzle</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-01-august-2015-scripting-games-puzzle/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2015 13:10:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-08-01-august-2015-scripting-games-puzzle/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Our August 2015 puzzler tests your ability to retrieve data from the Web. If you&amp;rsquo;ve never done this before, it can be a real brain-bender - but don&amp;rsquo;t overthink it; experts can probably pull this off in a one-liner if they&amp;rsquo;re using a newer version of PowerShell!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Introduction to Powershell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-31-introduction-to-powershell/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:07:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-31-introduction-to-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Guys,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m going to have a PowerShell ramble on a semi regular basis. What prompts me to write here on powershell.org is that I love powershell. I makes my job so much better. I&amp;rsquo;m an IT Pro and work for a large ish world spanning company. I mostly work with windows servers but get to work with other technology too. Like VMware and Citrix for example. The other thing I want to point out is that I&amp;rsquo;m not a programer. I don&amp;rsquo;t know VB Script and no one taught me
PowerShell
. There are many people though that helped me on my PowerShell Journey through their books, blogs, postings, and videos. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>[UPDATED] Even Vaguely Considering PowerShell Cruise? READ THIS RIGHT NOW.</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-29-even-vaguely-considering-powershell-cruise-read-this-right-now/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2015 19:02:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-29-even-vaguely-considering-powershell-cruise-read-this-right-now/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s no secret that I&amp;rsquo;m a big fan of next year&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href="http://poshcruise.org"&gt;PowerShell Cruise&lt;/a&gt; and am excited for the folks who are organizing it. Tonight&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href="https://t.co/StJPSxbexE"&gt;webinar&lt;/a&gt; (which they&amp;rsquo;ll post to their YouTube channel) will be a chance for you to learn more.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;ve never cruised before, you may not be aware of how the majority of the cruise industry works:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Your cruise price includes your room, and is based on two people staying in the room together.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Your cruise price includes most food on the ship - certain specialty restaurants may charge a la carte like a normal restaurant, or may have a small ($25-ish) per-person charge to dine there. If they have the per-person charge, everything on the menu is  then included at no extra charge.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Your drinks cost extra - everything but water, tea, and plain coffee in most cases. Even soda is an extra price.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That&amp;rsquo;s why I want you to think &lt;strong&gt;really really hard&lt;/strong&gt; about what I&amp;rsquo;m going to write next.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>2015-July Scripting Games Wrap-Up</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-29-2015-july-scripting-games-wrap-up/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:39:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-29-2015-july-scripting-games-wrap-up/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2015/07/04/2015-july-scripting-games-puzzle/"&gt;July puzzler&lt;/a&gt; wasn&amp;rsquo;t intended to break your brain - but it was intended to highlight an extremely important pipeline technique - and to make you think about how PowerShell parses command lines. Let&amp;rsquo;s begin with our Celebrity Entry, from Boe Prox. We think you&amp;rsquo;ll discover some interesting new techniques in this answer - and learn from understanding how he got there.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1 id="celebrity-entry"&gt;Celebrity Entry&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The 2015 Scripting Games have started and have taken a different route this year in that we are they are running a monthly puzzle vs. the usual format. That being said, I was asked to be a celebrity contestant and put together my solution as well as adding my thoughts (I promise to try and stay on a clear path) and various routes that I took to get to my final solution.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Powershell IS for the desktop tech as well</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-28-powershell-is-for-the-desktop-tech-as-well/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2015 00:06:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-28-powershell-is-for-the-desktop-tech-as-well/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Every day some one tends to ask me if there is a simpler way to do task A or B, and the minute I mention PowerShell the response is almost always the same, &amp;ldquo;yea i have been meaning to learn that but. This really saddens me for 2 reasons, &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Because PowerShell can and does make your life simpler &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;i am already seeing peoples jobs get replaced when they fall behind in the skill and as more and more companies move closer to automation it will only get worse. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It saddens me even more so when I see co-workers who i have taken the time to write the scripts to improve the speed of resolution not use them either. then wounder why i am able to fix the same issue in a fraction of the time they have. &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit NA 2016 – call for topics coming soon</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-28-powershell-summit-na-2016-call-for-topics-coming-soon/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2015 15:28:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-28-powershell-summit-na-2016-call-for-topics-coming-soon/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The North American PowerShell Summit 2016 will take place at the
Meydenbauer center in Bellevue WA. on April 4-6 2016. The Summit is a community event, with community based speakers. That means we need **you **to submit sessions. Members of the PowerShell team will be attending, and speaking, as in previous years as will a number of PowerShell MVPs. One of the goals of PowerShell.org is to help build the PowerShell community and that means helping and developing new speakers. You don&amp;rsquo;t have to be an established speaker to present at the Summit - just knowledgeable about your topic and enthusiastic about PowerShell.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Curious about PowerShell Cruise? Here's how to learn more.</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-24-curious-about-powershell-cruise-heres-how-to-learn-more/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2015 19:58:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-24-curious-about-powershell-cruise-heres-how-to-learn-more/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m stupid-excited about &lt;a href="Http://PoshCruise.org"&gt;PowerShell Cruise&lt;/a&gt;. Did you know you can register now for just $500, which is fully refundable up to a point? And that doing so NOW gets you awesome amenities like free Internet minutes or liquor packages? Did you know I&amp;rsquo;m speaking? Did you&amp;hellip; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wait. You probably have a ton of questions, especially if you&amp;rsquo;ve never cruised. So on Wednesday July 29, at 4pm Pacific, get your answers. Go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4206318439550861826 to register for a webinar. I&amp;rsquo;ll host, and I&amp;rsquo;ll be joined by the event organizers, as well as the travel agency that&amp;rsquo;s handling the bookings. There&amp;rsquo;s literally no PowerShell Cruise question these brave souls can&amp;rsquo;t answer.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 304 – PowerScripting Podcast – Ben Armstrong from Microsoft on Windows Containers</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-07-22-episode-304-powerscripting-podcast-ben-armstrong-from-microsoft-on-windows-containers/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2015 02:05:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-07-22-episode-304-powerscripting-podcast-ben-armstrong-from-microsoft-on-windows-containers/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-304.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**In This Episode **&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Ben Armstrong from Microsoft about Containers&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;**Interview**





- 
 [http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/](http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/)


- 
 [https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers.aspx](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers.aspx)









 **Chatroom Highlights**
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;VirtualPCGuy - &lt;a href="https://slack.poshcode.org"&gt;https://slack.poshcode.org&lt;/a&gt; if you want to join the more modern side of the chat : )&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [http://snag.gy/d2iJM.jpg](http://snag.gy/d2iJM.jpg)





 [https://powershell.org/2013/05/02/episode-226-the-virtual-pc-guy-ben-armstrong-talks-virtualization-and-powershell/](https://powershell.org/2013/05/02/episode-226-the-virtual-pc-guy-ben-armstrong-talks-virtualization-and-powershell/)





 [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview)





 [http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2015/05/14/powershell-direct-running-powershell-inside-a-virtual-machine-from-the-hyper-v-host.aspx](http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2015/05/14/powershell-direct-running-powershell-inside-a-virtual-machine-from-the-hyper-v-host.aspx)





 PowerShell Direct Running PowerShell inside a virtual machine from the Hyper-V host [http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2015/05/14/powershell-direct-running-powershell-inside-a-virtual-machine-from-the-hyper-v-host.aspx](http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2015/05/14/powershell-direct-running-powershell-inside-a-virtual-machine-from-the-hyper-v-host.aspx)





 [https://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell/feedbackdetail/view/1473625/hyper-v-vm-backups-force-the-user-to-use-an-old-exe-no-powershell](https://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell/feedbackdetail/view/1473625/hyper-v-vm-backups-force-the-user-to-use-an-old-exe-no-powershell)





 [http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/](http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/)





 [ https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers.aspx](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers.aspx)





 [ https://imgflip.com/i/nez38](https://imgflip.com/i/nez38)







 **Question**





 - 
 First Computer - Commodore 64







 Thanks to Stephen Owen for this expertly timed meme drop!





 ![nez38](https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/nez38.jpg)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 303 – PowerScripting Podcast – Andrew Mason from Microsoft on Nano Server</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-07-19-episode-303-powerscripting-podcast-andrew-mason-from-microsoft-on-nano-server/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2015 03:30:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-07-19-episode-303-powerscripting-podcast-andrew-mason-from-microsoft-on-nano-server/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-303.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Andrew Mason from Microsoft about Nano Server&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://windowsserver.uservoice.com/forums/295068-nano-server"&gt;https://windowsserver.uservoice.com/forums/295068-nano-server&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/nanoserver/archive/2015/06/16/powershell-script-to-build-your-nano-server-image.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/nanoserver/archive/2015/06/16/powershell-script-to-build-your-nano-server-image.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Nano-Server-Team/Remote-Server-Management-Tools-on-Nano-Server"&gt;https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Nano-Server-Team/Remote-Server-Management-Tools-on-Nano-Server&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://channel9.msdn.com/Search?term=nano#ch9Search&amp;amp;lang-en=en"&gt;https://channel9.msdn.com/Search?term=nano#ch9Search&amp;amp;lang-en=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="will-nano-server-be-an-installation-option-like-server-core-or-will-it-be-a-completely-different-sku"&gt;Will Nano server be an installation option like Server Core or will it be a completely different SKU?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="are-3rd-parties-doing-a-better-job-of-supporting-core-and-nano-they-have-been-my-biggest-hindrance-for-running-it-in-my-enterprise"&gt;are 3rd parties doing a better job of supporting core and nano?  They have been my biggest hindrance for running it in my Enterprise&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="will-nano-support-powershell"&gt;Will Nano support PowerShell?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="is-there-open-stack-integration"&gt;is there Open Stack integration?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="density"&gt;density&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="any-plans-to-support-nano-on-rasberry-pi-2"&gt;Any plans to support nano on Rasberry Pi 2?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="the-hardware-that-you-are-running-windows-server-on-today-will-it-support-running-nano-server-tomorrow"&gt;The hardware that you are running Windows Server on today, will it support running Nano Server tomorrow?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="can-i-use-oneget-on-nano-packagemanagement-module"&gt;Can I use OneGet on nano? (packagemanagement module)&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/nanoserver/archive/2015/06/16/powershell-script-to-build-your-nano-server-image.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/nanoserver/archive/2015/06/16/powershell-script-to-build-your-nano-server-image.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 302 – PowerScripting Podcast – SCOM MVP Scott Moss</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-07-18-episode-302-powerscripting-podcast-scom-mvp-scott-moss/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2015 19:11:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-07-18-episode-302-powerscripting-podcast-scom-mvp-scott-moss/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-302.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**In This Episode **&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Operations Manager MVP Scott Moss&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://om2012.wordpress.com/"&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/jscottmoss"&gt;https://twitter.com/jscottmoss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/best-of-build-and-windows-10"&gt;Best of Build and Windows 10&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2015/05/powershell-auto-closing-alerts-by-rules.html"&gt; PowerShell: Auto Closing Alerts By Rules &amp;amp; Reckoning UTC Time With Day Light Savings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://stefanroth.net/2015/05/06/scom-2012-r2-technical-preview-2-whats-new/"&gt;New Post: SCOM 2012 R2 Technical Preview 2 - What’s New?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2014/07/24/how-to-stop-the-receiving-of-advisor-alerts-in-operations-manager.aspx"&gt; Just in case Department: if you don’t want Ops Insight Alerts going to SCOM any more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 301 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVP Jeff Wouters</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-07-16-episode-301-powerscripting-podcast-mvp-jeff-wouters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2015 03:24:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-07-16-episode-301-powerscripting-podcast-mvp-jeff-wouters/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-301.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**In This Episode **&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to PowerShell MVP Jeff Wouters&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/09/11/episode-240-powerscripting-podcast-jeff-wouters-on-becoming-an-mvp-starting-a-usergroup-and-more/"&gt;Ep 240, Jeff’s first appearance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Topic is:&lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt; http://live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org/"&gt; http://slack.poshcode.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.newsarama.com/21815-the-new-full-comic-book-superhero-movie-schedule.html"&gt;http://www.newsarama.com/21815-the-new-full-comic-book-superhero-movie-schedule.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://marvel.com/universe/Mandarin%27s_Rings"&gt;http://marvel.com/universe/Mandarin%27s_Rings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2015/04/08/microsoft-announces-nano-server-for-modern-apps-and-cloud.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2015/04/08/microsoft-announces-nano-server-for-modern-apps-and-cloud.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/01/microsoft_nano_server_deep_dive/"&gt;http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/01/microsoft_nano_server_deep_dive/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt126167.aspx"&gt;https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt126167.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;http://live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;https:&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=221&amp;amp;v=o8LkucHNt0Y"&gt;//www.youtube.com/watch?t=221&amp;amp;v=o8LkucHNt0Y&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(this might be the PowerShell Unplugged session &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8atzeKyi1Q"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8atzeKyi1Q&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK4451"&gt;https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK4451&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;check out this list, it’s insane &lt;a href="https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/DSC-Resource-Kit-All-c449312d"&gt;https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/DSC-Resource-Kit-All-c449312d&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can also check the source - &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/DscResources/tree/master/xDscResources"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/DscResources/tree/master/xDscResources&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.dotcom-monitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/worst.jpg"&gt;http://blog.dotcom-monitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/worst.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.itrw.net/blog/server_spaghetti_4.jpg"&gt;http://www.itrw.net/blog/server_spaghetti_4.jpg&lt;/a&gt; just for contrast&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Even better if you color code &lt;a href="https://www.racksolutions.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/photo-1.jpg"&gt;https://www.racksolutions.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/photo-1.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Recording live with Josh Atwell tonight!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-07-16-recording-live-with-josh-atwell-tonight/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2015 16:39:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-07-16-recording-live-with-josh-atwell-tonight/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We are happy to have Josh Atwell joining us 7/16/2015 at 9:30 EST at &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;http://live.powerscripting.net &lt;/a&gt;. Josh Atwell is a fellow podcaster (
vBrownBag and VUPaaS) vExpert, CiscoChampion and author and he is joining us to talk about the PowerShell work being done at &lt;a href="http://www.solidfire.com/"&gt;SolidFire&lt;/a&gt;. However, as usual, we&amp;rsquo;ll talk about whatever comes up. I hope you can join us live to ask Josh questions or to just hang out and have fun.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Building a test lab : The basics Part 1 RootCA</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-15-building-a-test-lab-the-basics-part-1-rootca/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2015 04:16:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-15-building-a-test-lab-the-basics-part-1-rootca/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Part of building a functional test lab is being able to deal with cattle and not pets. With that in mode I&amp;rsquo;m writing a series about the script necessary to build a production like lab for testing DSC, and be able to to tear it down and rebuild it with little effort.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Part 1 is about bootstrapping DSC for the Root CA. and doing so without using plaintext passwords.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I would welcome some feedback on both my methods and writing style.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Curious About the #PoshCruise? Ask Questions Here.</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-14-curious-about-the-poshcruise-ask-questions-here/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2015 16:12:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-14-curious-about-the-poshcruise-ask-questions-here/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Jeffrey Langdon, Doug Finke, and untold others are putting together &lt;a href="http://poshcruise.org"&gt;PoshCruise&lt;/a&gt;, a PowerShell Cruise Conference. I wanted to make sure everyone knew about it, because it (A) stands to be a lot of run, and (B) offers some special pricing through this month.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &amp;ldquo;conference&amp;rdquo; itself is free - you just have to pay for your cruise. There&amp;rsquo;ll be presentations (I&amp;rsquo;m guessing mainly on the &amp;ldquo;at sea&amp;rdquo; days of the 7-day trip, although personally I&amp;rsquo;ve rented a beach cabana on Great Stirrup Cay and will hold forth on technical topics over tropical cocktails). &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 07/07/2015 meeting summary and presentation materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-13-phillyposh-07072015-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2015 00:51:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-13-phillyposh-07072015-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Iczer1"&gt;John Mello&lt;/a&gt; gave a presentation entitled “ConvertFrom-String Overview and Examples”.
&lt;a href="https://github.com/PhillyPoSH/2015-07-ConvertFrom-String"&gt;A copy of his demo scripts and presentation&lt;/a&gt;
are available at our
&lt;a href="https://github.com/PhillyPoSH"&gt;GitHub site&lt;/a&gt;
. &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/techguytj"&gt;TJ Turner&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rsquo;s presentation &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://techguytj.com/whats-in-your-toolbox/"&gt;What&amp;rsquo;s in your Toolbox&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo; is available at his &lt;a href="http://techguytj.com/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;. 
&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGr3dQRi5nQ"&gt;A recording of this meeting&lt;/a&gt;
has been posted to our
&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAc_ow5FIJtRpvew__9Iqzg"&gt;YouTube channel&lt;/a&gt;
.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Philadelphia PowerShell User Group Meeting – August 6th 2015</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-12-philadelphia-powershell-user-group-meeting-august-6th-2015/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2015 03:40:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-12-philadelphia-powershell-user-group-meeting-august-6th-2015/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join us on Thursday, August 6th when &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/juneb_get_help"&gt;June Blender&lt;/a&gt; will be conducting a hands on lab (in person!) called &lt;strong&gt;Working with Classes in PowerShell&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;5.0.&lt;/strong&gt; To participate in the lab, bring a laptop (or VM) with PowerShell 5.0, but it&amp;rsquo;s not required! After that, we will review the results of the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2015/07/04/2015-july-scripting-games-puzzle/"&gt;
July Scripting games puzzle
&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="aboutjune"&gt;About June&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;June Blender is a technology evangelist for SAPIEN Technologies, Inc.
Formerly a Senior Programming Writer at Microsoft Corporation, she is best known for her work with the Windows PowerShell product team from 2006-2012. developing the help system and writing the Get-Help help topics for PowerShell 1.0 – 3.0. In other roles, June wrote content for the Azure Active Directory SDK and Azure PowerShell Help, Windows Driver Kits, Windows Support Tools, and Windows Resource Kits.
She lives in magnificent Escalante, Utah, where she works remotely when she&amp;rsquo;s not out hiking, canyoneering, taking Coursera classes, or convincing lost tourists to try Windows PowerShell.
She is a Windows PowerShell MVP, a PowerShell Hero, an Honorary Scripting Guy, and a frequent contributor to PowerShell.org. Contact her at [&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>NYC Powershell Usergroup meets on July 13th</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-10-nyc-powershell-usergroup-meets-on-july13/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2015 18:03:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-10-nyc-powershell-usergroup-meets-on-july13/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We have an exciting line-up for the July Powershell User-Group meeting.&lt;br&gt;
Powershell MVP, Tome Tanasovski will be presenting a beginner’s track on Powershell covering File Management, and Date/Time manipulations.&lt;br&gt;
We also have Powershell MVP Doug Finke, who will be covering Pester.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AGENDA:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tome Tanasovski&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br&gt;
File management&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Managing paths&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Reading data from a file&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Finding strings in a collection of files&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;XML and CSV file manipulation&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Exporting data to an HTML page&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Handling dates and time&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Mississippi PowerShell User Group Virtual Meeting – July 14th 2015</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-07-mississippi-powershell-user-group-virtual-meeting-july-14th-2015/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2015 15:19:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-07-mississippi-powershell-user-group-virtual-meeting-july-14th-2015/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join us virtually on Tuesday, July 14th at 8:30pm Central Time when PowerShell MVP Sean Kearney will present “&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Introduction to Windows PowerShell&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;”.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Windows PowerShell is not a difficult system to work with however sometimes, like with anything in life, you stare at it and say “Where do I even start?”. In this session we will do a very simple overview of Windows PowerShell and what it is and how to make it useful at very simple level. It comes directly from a person who had Zero time to learn about any technology in his first IT Job, Windows PowerShell MVP, Sean Kearney. You might not master PowerShell after this session, but you certainly should be a little more comfortable to open up the door and play afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>RabbitMQ and PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-07-rabbitmq-and-powershell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2015 11:22:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-07-rabbitmq-and-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Have you ever needed to communicate between scripts, perhaps running on different servers and in different languages?  Did you use a non-standard &amp;ldquo;messaging&amp;rdquo; solution like the file system or a SQL database? Did you try to avoid this and squeeze everything into a monolithic, delicate script?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/RabbitMQ-Intro/"&gt;RabbitMQ&lt;/a&gt; is a solid messaging solution that happens to have a handy REST API and .NET client, which means we can use PowerShell!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wrote a quick hit on setting up a simple RabbitMQ deployment and using PowerShell to manage the solution and send and receive messages. Thanks go to Mariusz Wojcik and Chris Duck for writing and sharing the PowerShell modules that were tweaked for this article.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>2015-July Scripting Games Puzzle</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-04-2015-july-scripting-games-puzzle/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2015 08:01:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-04-2015-july-scripting-games-puzzle/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Our July 2015 puzzler is designed to make you really think about the PowerShell parser. Normally, you can more or less ignore the parser, because if you&amp;rsquo;re typing best-practice, long-form code (no aliases, spell out parameter names, etc), the parser deals really well with everything. But knowing how the parser works is useful, because when you get into tricky syntax, the parser can be harder to work with. So we&amp;rsquo;re going to test the limits of the parser&amp;rsquo;s patience - and your skills!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Want to Blog at PowerShell.org?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-01-want-to-blog-at-powershell-org/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2015 22:16:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-07-01-want-to-blog-at-powershell-org/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;PowerShell.org was never meant to be a small group of people doing good - it was meant to be a place where &lt;em&gt;all of us&lt;/em&gt; can do good for each other. And that&amp;rsquo;s why **everyone is invited to blog here. **&lt;br&gt;
Yup, even you.&lt;br&gt;
If you&amp;rsquo;d like blogging permissions added to your account, just e-mail webmaster@ with your site username, and we&amp;rsquo;ll make it so. Now, I do realize that a lot of folks would much rather blog in their own space, and that&amp;rsquo;s totally, 100% cool. But, if you&amp;rsquo;d like to blog here, we only have a few rules.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>I need YOUR PowerShell Stories</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-30-i-need-your-powershell-stories/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:57:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-30-i-need-your-powershell-stories/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We all love PowerShell and we all probably have some very entertaining stories about a situation where it really saved our butts (or caused problems). Either way, we can all tell some kind of interesting story around a memorable moment you had with PowerShell or automation in general.  I&amp;rsquo;d love to hear about them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m looking for a short story anywhere from a few paragraphs to an entire article if you want.  The more detail the better. What kind of situation were you in? Were you under a deadline and PowerShell saved the day?  Did automation backfire in your face and you blew up your whole datacenter?  I want to know about it!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell.org, Inc. 2015 Shareholder Meeting Roundup</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-30-powershell-org-inc-2015-shareholder-meeting-roundup/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2015 17:55:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-30-powershell-org-inc-2015-shareholder-meeting-roundup/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I wanted to provide a quick wrap-up of the Annual Shareholder Meeting that we just concluded. We had a quorum of shareholder votes present online or by proxy, and we made some important decisions that I want to share with the community overall.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One, we voted to amend the organization&amp;rsquo;s Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws to make some important structural changes. These are absolutely in line with our original &lt;em&gt;intent&lt;/em&gt; for the organization, and reflect how we&amp;rsquo;ve actually done things, but now they&amp;rsquo;re &amp;ldquo;law.&amp;rdquo; The first was to remove any legal possibility of corporate funds being paid out to shareholders; all corporate funds must be used only for corporate programs and operating expenses. We also voted that, in the event the corporation is completely dissolved, any remaining assets and proceeds will be donated to a 501(c)(3) charity.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Scripting Games: Here's What's Happening</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-29-the-scripting-games-heres-whats-happening/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2015 15:11:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-29-the-scripting-games-heres-whats-happening/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I know a lot of folks have been wondering about when the next Scripting Games will be. It&amp;rsquo;s a complicated answer&amp;hellip; so bear with me for a minute while I unburden my soul to you. If you prefer to just skip the explanations, you can skip a bit to see what we&amp;rsquo;re doing, part 1.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="the-background"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Background&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m not sure how long Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s Scripting Guys ran The Scripting Games, but it goes back at least to 2006. Back then, the focus was on VBScript, it wasn&amp;rsquo;t until a year or so later that a parallel PowerShell track was started, and another year or two before VBScript was discontinued. The Games back then were&amp;hellip; well, &lt;em&gt;games.&lt;/em&gt; They weren&amp;rsquo;t always terribly real-world, but they were fun, and they made you think.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Decorating PowerShell Objects</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-22-decorating-powershell-objects/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2015 12:44:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-22-decorating-powershell-objects/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Ever wonder how PowerShell seems to know how to format objects? When you run&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Get-ChildItem &lt;/code&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Get-WmiObject &lt;/code&gt;, you only see a few key properties, but a wealth of other information is available through commands like&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Select-Object &lt;/code&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Get-Member &lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Have you ever written a PowerShell function that you nearly always pipe to&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Format-Table &lt;/code&gt;? Wouldn&amp;rsquo;t it be nice to specify some default properties and force them into a table?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Stop by for &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/DecoratePSObjects"&gt;a quick hit on how to decorate your PowerShell objects&lt;/a&gt; with type names and formatting, including a re-usable tool to abstract out some of the details.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Walkthrough: An example of how I write PowerShell functions</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-19-walkthrough-an-example-of-how-i-write-powershell-functions/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:59:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-19-walkthrough-an-example-of-how-i-write-powershell-functions/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A couple of days ago I posted a blog article titled &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://mikefrobbins.com/2015/06/17/powershell-function-test-consolecolor-provides-a-visual-demonstration-of-the-foreach-scripting-construct/"&gt;PowerShell function: &lt;em&gt;Test-ConsoleColor&lt;/em&gt; provides a visual demonstration of the foreach scripting construct&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo; and today I thought I would walk you through that function step by step since it&amp;rsquo;s what I consider to be a well written PowerShell function.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It starts out by using the &lt;a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh847765.aspx"&gt;#Requires&lt;/a&gt; statement to require at least PowerShell version 3 or it won&amp;rsquo;t run. It also requires that the &lt;a href="https://pscx.codeplex.com/"&gt;PowerShell Community Extensions&lt;/a&gt; module be installed since it uses a function from that module and continuing without it only leads to errors:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 300 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVP Adam Driscoll and Andre Sayre from Microsoft on PoshTools</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-06-16-episode-300-powerscripting-podcast-mvp-adam-driscoll-and-andre-sayre-from-microsoft-on-poshtools/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2015 01:45:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-06-16-episode-300-powerscripting-podcast-mvp-adam-driscoll-and-andre-sayre-from-microsoft-on-poshtools/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-300.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**In This Episode **&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to MVP Adam Driscoll and Andre Sayre (Microsoft) about PoshTools&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRILgGQb_hQ&amp;amp;index=11&amp;amp;list=PLfeA8kIs7CochwcgX9zOWxh4IL3GoG05P"&gt;PoshTools video from pshsummit&lt;/a&gt; (32min)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs#d-community"&gt;Visual Studio Tools - Community Edition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c9eb3ba8-0c59-4944-9a62-6eee37294597"&gt;Donwload PoshTools from VS Gallery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://adamdriscoll.github.io/poshtools/"&gt;PoshTools Homepage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/adamdriscoll/poshtools"&gt;PoshTools github repo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Nano Server
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Visual Studio Code&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pester in PowerShell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2015/04/29/windows-management-framework-5-0-preview-april-2015-is-now-available.aspx"&gt;PS WMF5 April Preview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://powershell.slack.com/"&gt;http://powershell.slack.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2015/04/29/windows-management-framework-5-0-preview-april-2015-is-now-available.aspx
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;slack.poshcode.org &lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org"&gt;http://slack.poshcode.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://live.powerscripting.net
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Content for the Podcast news feed: &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Poshoholic/status/593499208117719041"&gt;https://twitter.com/Poshoholic/status/593499208117719041&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Philadelphia PowerShell User Group Meeting – July 7th 2015</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-16-philadelphia-powershell-user-group-meeting-july-7th-2015/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2015 01:30:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-16-philadelphia-powershell-user-group-meeting-july-7th-2015/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join us Tuesday, July 7th when PhillyPosh members &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Iczer1"&gt;John Mello&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/techguytj"&gt;TJ Turner&lt;/a&gt; will be presenting. John will be giving a presentation on the new ConvertFrom-String cmdlet in the PowerShell V5 preview. Afterwards TJ Turner will be giving a presentation entitled &amp;ldquo;What&amp;rsquo;s in your toolbox?”.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/phillyposh-july-7th-2015-tickets-17420823151"&gt;
register
&lt;/a&gt; if you plan to attend in person or online. The meeting URL to join us remotely will be included in your Eventbrite registration confirmation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/phillyposh-july-7th-2015-tickets-17420823151?ref=ebtnebregn"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.eventbrite.com/custombutton?eid=17420823151" alt="Eventbrite - PhillyPoSH July 7th 2015"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Why Remoting vs. SSH Isn't Even a Thing</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-09-why-remoting-vs-ssh-isnt-even-a-thing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2015 21:13:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-09-why-remoting-vs-ssh-isnt-even-a-thing/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As you&amp;rsquo;ve probably read, Microsoft &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2015/06/03/looking-forward-microsoft-support-for-secure-shell-ssh.aspx"&gt;recently announced&lt;/a&gt; that they&amp;rsquo;re getting on board with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell"&gt;SSH&lt;/a&gt;, and that they&amp;rsquo;ve plans to, in some future-and-unspecified version of Windows, include a default SSH server and client. Some folks have taken to the Twittersphere rejoicing this decision, even though I suspect they&amp;rsquo;ve no idea why Microsoft is doing it. Others have suggested that this is the downfall of Remoting (management via &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WS-Management"&gt;WS-MAN&lt;/a&gt;), because who would want that when you&amp;rsquo;ve got SSH?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Trust, but Verify</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-08-trust-but-verify/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2015 00:12:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-08-trust-but-verify/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The PowerShell code you write can turn up in interesting places. Production services might rely on it. Your co-workers might take a peak and borrow ideas from it. You might decide to share it online. Someone might see your code online and use it in their own solutions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/Trust-but-Verify/"&gt;Hit the link&lt;/a&gt; for a quick bit on how we can help create more reliable, consistent, and secure solutions. Simplified to one line: always ask yourself &amp;ldquo;what could go wrong?&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell.org: Where We've Been, Our New Look, Where We're Going</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-08-powershell-org-where-weve-been-our-new-look-where-were-going/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2015 18:29:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-08-powershell-org-where-weve-been-our-new-look-where-were-going/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;PowerShell.org has come a long way, both spiritually and physically, since our inception in September of 2012. Let&amp;rsquo;s look at some screen grabs from the &lt;a href="http://archive.org"&gt;Internet Archive&lt;/a&gt;, and take a stroll through our history.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Mississippi PowerShell User Group Virtual Meeting – June 9th 2015</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-08-mississippi-powershell-user-group-virtual-meeting-june-9th-2015/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2015 13:46:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-08-mississippi-powershell-user-group-virtual-meeting-june-9th-2015/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join us virtually on Tuesday, June 9th at 8:30pm Central Time when PowerShell MVP Trevor Sullivan will present
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“Creating Object-Oriented Scripts using PowerShell Classes”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;
.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;During this deep, technical discussion, we will take a look at PowerShell classes, and then authoring PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) Resource using PowerShell v5 classes. We’ll also explore leveraging PowerShell DSC on Microsoft Azure infrastructure (IaaS) virtual machines using the Azure VM DSC Extension. This session assumes some previous knowledge of PowerShell &amp;amp; DSC, so make sure you’re familiar with the basics ahead of time!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>DON'T Start Learning PowerShell?!?!?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-07-dont-start-learning-powershell/</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2015 16:13:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-07-dont-start-learning-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Jason Helmick and I were recently up in Redmond recording a Microsoft Virtual Academy series entitled, &amp;ldquo;Building Your Datacenter One DSC Resource at a Time.&amp;rdquo; While we were there, we decided to film a tongue-in-cheek promo for the series that started with the premise that, &amp;ldquo;if you haven&amp;rsquo;t already learned PowerShell, you missed the bus.&amp;rdquo; Obviously, there&amp;rsquo;s a bit more to the story.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Creating a small footprint, base image Part 4 | Bringing it all together with automation</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-04-creating-a-small-footprint-base-image-part-4-bringing-it-all-together-with-automation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2015 04:07:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-04-creating-a-small-footprint-base-image-part-4-bringing-it-all-together-with-automation/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In this entry I combing all I covered into a set of scripts to automate the process of creating a small footprint VHDX base image and a WIM to use a sorce that is fully patched. And I added a script to update the files on a regular basis.&lt;br&gt;
Check it out and let me know what you think.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://bladefirelight.wordpress.com/2015/06/05/creating-a-small-footprint-base-image-part-4-bringing-it-all-together-with-automation/"&gt;Creating a small footprint, base image Part 4 | Bringing it all together with automation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Automating with Jenkins and PowerShell on Windows</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-04-automating-with-jenkins-and-powershell-on-windows/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2015 01:31:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-04-automating-with-jenkins-and-powershell-on-windows/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Take a minute think about how many PowerShell scripts you have written for yourself or your team. Countless functions and modules, helping to automate this or fix that or make your teams lives easier. You spend hours coding, writing in-line help, testing, packaging your script, distributing it to your team. All that effort, and then a lot of the time the script is forgotten about! People just go back to doing things the manual way.&lt;br&gt;
I put this down to being out of sight, out of mind. Users who do not use the command line regularly will quickly forget about the amazing PowerShell-ing that you did to try and make their lives easier.&lt;br&gt;
Then there are are other problems, like working out the best way to give end users permissions to use your function when they aren’t administrators. Do you give them remote desktop access to a server and only provide a PowerShell session? Setup PowerShell Web Access? Configure a restricted endpoint? I thought the point of this module was to make your life easier, not make things harder!&lt;br&gt;
These problems are what an open source tool called &lt;strong&gt;Jenkins&lt;/strong&gt; can solve for you. Traditionally used by developers to automate their build process, it can be leveraged to wrap web interfaces, job tracking and scheduling around the PowerShell scripts you worked so hard on.&lt;br&gt;
The below image shows what a Jenkins build looks like. In this basic example, the the build creates a text file on a remote machine by using PowerShell Remoting and the &lt;strong&gt;Set-Content&lt;/strong&gt; CmdLet**. **The parameters for these commands can be entered into the form, and will be passed to your PowerShell script via variables.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/jenkins.png" alt="jenkins"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
To find out how to start leveraging Jenkins in your environment, take a look at the below blog posts:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>NYC Powershell Usergroup meets on June 8th</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-04-nyc-powershell-usergroup-meets-on-june-8th/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2015 18:47:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-04-nyc-powershell-usergroup-meets-on-june-8th/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Continuing from our May meeting, Tome will be presenting a beginner’s track on Powershell covering String manipulations, Functions and Powershell Scripts.&lt;br&gt;
We also have Powershell MVP Doug Finke, who will be covering the new components as part of the Powershell V5.0 release, including PSPM, Classes and Convert-String.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;AGENDA:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Tome Tanasovski&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br&gt;
String manipulation&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Counting, splitting, uppercasing/lowercasing, etc.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Format operator&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;-split, -join&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;-match, -replace&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Select-String&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Secure strings&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Scripts and functions&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Principles&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Execution policies&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Passing arguments and parameters&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Scoping&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bio&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Tome is an executive for a market-leading global financial services firm in New York City where he focuses on automation, private cloud, and distributed computing. He is the founder and leader of the New York City PowerShell User group, a blogger, and speaks regularly at conferences and user groups. In 2011 he became a cofounder of the NYC Techstravaganza, coauthored the Windows PowerShell Bible, and received the title of Honorary Scripting Guy from the Hey Scripting Guy! blog. Tome has also received the MVP award from Microsoft for the last five years in Windows PowerShell.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Blog&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href="http://powertoe.wordpress.com"&gt;http://powertoe.wordpress.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Twitter&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/toenuff"&gt;http://twitter.com/toenuff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Doug Finke:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>VERIFIED EFFECTIVE Self-Assessment</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-02-verified-effective-self-assessment/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2015 23:36:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-02-verified-effective-self-assessment/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve had a number of people ask about a self-assessment for their PowerShell Toolmaking skills. We&amp;rsquo;ve decided to publish one, just once, in July. Here&amp;rsquo;s how to get it.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Major Changes to DSC Pull Server Configuration IDs</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-02-major-changes-to-dsc-pull-server-configuration-ids/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2015 13:45:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-06-02-major-changes-to-dsc-pull-server-configuration-ids/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Configuration IDs - Globally Unique Identifiers, or GUIDs, that DSC nodes use to identify themselves to a pull server - have always been a limiting factor in DSC design and architecture. In the April 2015 preview of WMF5, however, Microsoft has completely overhauled Configuration IDs. If you&amp;rsquo;re working with DSC, this is must-have information.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>New PS Module for working with F5's LTM REST API</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-05-26-new-ps-module-for-working-with-f5s-ltm-rest-api/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2015 04:54:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-05-26-new-ps-module-for-working-with-f5s-ltm-rest-api/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you use F5&amp;rsquo;s BIG‑IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) for load-balancing, then you may find the new PS module I&amp;rsquo;ve written helpful. The module uses the REST API in ver. 11.6 of the LTM to query and manipulate an F5 LTM device. You can add and remove members from a pool, enable and disable them, and find out what pools a member is in, among other things.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;ve made the module files available &lt;a href="https://github.com/joel74/POSH-LTM-Rest"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I welcome all comments.&lt;br&gt;
A few notes: Since the module uses the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet, PowerShell 3 or higher is required. Also, since some F5&amp;rsquo;s utilize self-signed certificates, and Invoke-WebRequest is unhappy if part of the certificate chain isn&amp;rsquo;t trusted, I&amp;rsquo;ve included a dependency on Jaykul&amp;rsquo;s PS module &lt;a href="https://github.com/Jaykul/Tunable-SSL-Validator"&gt;TunableSSLValidator&lt;/a&gt;, which allows for temporarily ignoring certificate errors. If you&amp;rsquo;re using a trusted certificate chain, then you don&amp;rsquo;t need the TunableSSLValidator module and can remove the -insecure flags from the Invoke-WebRequest calls.&lt;br&gt;
Cheers,&lt;br&gt;
Joel&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 299 – PowerScripting Podcast -Warren Frame on Invoke-Parallel and PoshRSJob</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-05-22-episode-299-powerscripting-podcast-warren-frame-on-invoke-parallel-and-poshrsjob/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2015 04:06:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-05-22-episode-299-powerscripting-podcast-warren-frame-on-invoke-parallel-and-poshrsjob/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-299.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Warren Frame&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/"&gt;Warren’s blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/RamblingCookieMonster/Invoke-Parallel"&gt;Invoke-Parallel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/proxb/PoshRSJob"&gt;PoshRSJob&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/GitHub-For-PowerShell-Projects/#continuous-integration"&gt;http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/GitHub-For-PowerShell-Projects/#continuous-integration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/SQLite-and-PowerShell/"&gt;SQLite and PowerShell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/proxb/PoshRSJob"&gt;https://github.com/proxb/PoshRSJob&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
PowerShell Function to Create CimSessions to Remote Computers with Fallback to Dcom &lt;a href="http://mikefrobbins.com/2014/08/28/powershell-function-to-create-cimsessions-to-remote-computers-with-fallback-to-dcom/"&gt;http://mikefrobbins.com/2014/08/28/powershell-function-to-create-cimsessions-to-remote-computers-with-fallback-to-dcom/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Targeting Down Level Clients with the Get-CimInstance PowerShell Cmdlet &lt;a href="http://mikefrobbins.com/2012/09/20/targeting-down-level-clients-with-the-get-ciminstance-powershell-cmdlet/"&gt;http://mikefrobbins.com/2012/09/20/targeting-down-level-clients-with-the-get-ciminstance-powershell-cmdlet/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
AppVeyor badge on DSC modules (Pester tests) - &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShell/xAdcsDeployment"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShell/xAdcsDeployment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://t.co/B2cQqErHM7"&gt;https://t.co/B2cQqErHM7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://t.co/B2cQqErHM7"&gt;https://t.co/B2cQqErHM7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Is it Sergei Vorobev &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/xvorsx"&gt;http://twitter.com/xvorsx&lt;/a&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.crowdcast.io/e/vipug-2015-05"&gt;https://www.crowdcast.io/e/vipug-2015-05&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://stevenmurawski.com/powershell/2015/4/youll-pry-the-gui-from-my-cold-dead-hands-1"&gt;http://stevenmurawski.com/powershell/2015/4/youll-pry-the-gui-from-my-cold-dead-hands-1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
StarWars trailer (whoa! I did not know!)  &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngElkyQ6Rhs"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngElkyQ6Rhs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/"&gt;http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
GitHub pages - &lt;a href="https://pages.github.com/"&gt;https://pages.github.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Creating a small footprint, base image Part 2</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-05-20-creating-a-small-footprint-base-image-part-2/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2015 00:56:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-05-20-creating-a-small-footprint-base-image-part-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I posted Part 2 of using PowerShell to create small footprint VHDX that are fully patched.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://bladefirelight.wordpress.com/2015/05/20/creating-a-small-footprint-base-image-part-2-patching-and-cleanup-via-powershell/"&gt;Patching and Cleanup via PowerShell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Creating a small footprint, base image Part 1</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-05-19-creating-a-small-footprint-base-image-part-1/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2015 19:01:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-05-19-creating-a-small-footprint-base-image-part-1/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m starting a new blog series on using &lt;a href="https://bladefirelight.wordpress.com/2015/05/19/creating-a-small-footprint-base-image-part-1-vhdx-from-iso/"&gt;PowerShell to create small footprint VHDX&lt;/a&gt; that are fully patched.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Philadelphia PowerShell User Group Meeting – June 4th 2015</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-05-18-philadelphia-powershell-user-group-meeting-june-4th-2015/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2015 01:14:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-05-18-philadelphia-powershell-user-group-meeting-june-4th-2015/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join us on Thursday, June 4th when &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/MSH_Dave"&gt;Dave Wyatt&lt;/a&gt;, will present &lt;strong&gt;The basics of encrypting and decrypting data, including symmetric and public key algorithms, key management / sharing, and digital certificates.&lt;/strong&gt; This talk will focus on doing so in the .NET Framework and PowerShell.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="about-dave"&gt;About Dave&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/MSH_Dave"&gt;Dave Wyatt&lt;/a&gt; has been in the IT business since 1999 and is currently an Application Operations Engineer at &lt;a href="http://www.devopsguys.com/team/"&gt;DevOpsGuys.&lt;/a&gt; In addition Dave is a Microsoft MVP (PowerShell) and a member of PowerShell.org&amp;rsquo;s Board of Directors.&lt;br&gt;
Please &lt;a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/phillyposh-june-4th-2015-tickets-17038157588"&gt;
register
&lt;/a&gt; if you plan to attend in person or online. The meeting URL to join us remotely will be included in your Eventbrite registration confirmation.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Survey Results: Source Control for the IT Professional</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-05-18-source-control-survey-results/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2015 13:42:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-05-18-source-control-survey-results/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;First off - thank you to everyone who participated in the version control survey!&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;ve had a fun few weeks - Somehow the &lt;a href="http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/PowerShell-Summit-Wrap/"&gt;PowerShell Summit&lt;/a&gt;, Build, and Ignite were scheduled back-to-back-to-back. Among a host of other announcements and tidbits, we found that Microsoft has open sourced the DSC resources on GitHub, that Pester will be included in Windows, and saw a cool demonstration from Steven Murawski on &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2P5Az3vfxk"&gt;using Test Kitchen to test DSC resources&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
These and other solutions and technologies are starting to assume you know how to use source control, and many require having a source control solution in place - how do you automate testing and deployment on a commit, if you have nothing to commit to?&lt;br&gt;
Source control has long been an important component of IT, but it seems IT professionals, particularly those in Microsoft environments, aren&amp;rsquo;t consistently using it.&lt;br&gt;
You might expect a gap between IT professionals and developers, but less than 50% of IT pro respondents used source control as a team.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/images/source-control/UseByDevVsITPro.png" alt=""&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Breaking down the IT professional population by environment, we see that Microsoft environments are even further behind. Many PowerShell aficionados work on teams that aren&amp;rsquo;t using version control.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/images/source-control/UseByEnvironment.png" alt=""&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Long story short? IT professionals, management, and vendors have work to do; these new tools and ideas that rely on source control are great, but we need to work on finding a horse for the cart. The rest of &lt;a href="http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/Source-Control-Survey"&gt;my rambling analysis can be found here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
If you want to get up and running quickly, consider &lt;a href="http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/GitHub-For-PowerShell-Projects/"&gt;using GitHub for your PowerShell projects&lt;/a&gt;. You can start with the easy-to-use GUI client, and drop into the command line when you want to get your hands dirty. It&amp;rsquo;s a great way to start learning about source control, and to get involved in the community.&lt;br&gt;
Do you have any suggestions on how we can get to a place where using source control is common place for IT professionals? Is this a worthwhile goal? Sound off in the comments!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>What's it Like at PowerShell Summit?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-05-16-whats-it-like-at-powershell-summit/</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2015 13:15:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-05-16-whats-it-like-at-powershell-summit/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Ever wonder what it&amp;rsquo;s like to attend PowerShell Summit? Attendee Tommy Maynard &lt;a href="http://tommymaynard.com/extra-powershell-summit-north-america-2015-0-2015/"&gt;blogged about his entire experience&lt;/a&gt; - including the build-up anticipation prior to the event - and it&amp;rsquo;s a great set of reads. Check it out.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Mississippi PowerShell User Group Virtual Meeting – May 12th 2015</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-05-11-mississippi-powershell-user-group-virtual-meeting-may-12th-2015/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2015 14:30:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-05-11-mississippi-powershell-user-group-virtual-meeting-may-12th-2015/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join us virtually on Tuesday, May 12th at 8:30pm Central Time when PowerShell MVP Kirk Munro will present &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;ldquo;A peek inside the Poshoholic’s toolbelt&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
It’s easy to get excited about all of the new technologies that are being talked about these days.  PowerShell 5.  Windows 10.  Nano server.  .NET Core.  But none of these technologies have been released yet, and even when they are released, it will be some time before we can fully adopt them in our organizations.  That’s why I like to arm my PowerShell toolbelt with impactful modules that work with current releases, so that people like you and I can work with innovative solutions for today while we keep learning about what will be available tomorrow.  This session is about those modules that I use in my toolbelt every day.  HistoryPx, FormatPx, DebugPx, SnippetPx, TypePx, and others.  Highly impactful, innovative PowerShell solutions that you can use, right now.&lt;br&gt;
**About Kirk&lt;br&gt;
** Kirk Munro is a Technical Product Manager at Provance Technologies, where he is helping build the next generation of Provance’s flagship IT Asset Management product, along with several smaller products such as the ScsmPx PowerShell module and the Auto-Close Work Item MP.  He is also an 8-time recipient of the Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP) award for his involvement in the PowerShell community.  For the past 9 years, Kirk has focused almost all of his time on PowerShell and PowerShell solutions, including managing popular products such as PowerGUI, PowerWF and PowerSE.  It is through this work he became known as the world’s first self-proclaimed Poshoholic.  Outside of work these days Kirk is returning to his software developer roots, learning mobile technologies like Xamarin and Ruby on Rails, and taking courses on Coursera or edX whenever he can make the time to do so.&lt;br&gt;
Register via &lt;a href="http://mspsug.eventbrite.com/"&gt;EventBrite&lt;/a&gt; to receive the URL for this virtual meeting. &lt;a href="http://mspsug.com/2015/05/05/mspsug-virtual-meeting-a-peek-inside-the-poshoholics-toolbelt-on-tuesday-may-12th-at-830pm-cst/"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to be redirected to the original post of this article on the &lt;a href="http://mspsug.com/"&gt;Mississippi PowerShell User Group&lt;/a&gt; website which contains additional information about the meeting including the system requirements to attend.&lt;br&gt;
µ&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Survey: Source Control for the IT Professional [Results in]</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-05-10-survey-source-control-for-the-it-professional/</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2015 18:22:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-05-10-survey-source-control-for-the-it-professional/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2015/05/18/source-control-survey-results/"&gt;The results are in.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
I was watching Don and Jeffrey&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK4451"&gt;PowerShell Unplugged session&lt;/a&gt; from Ignite the other day, and something stood out.&lt;br&gt;
At 30 minutes in, Don asked the crowd whether they were using source control. Based on the video, the crowd wasn&amp;rsquo;t big on source control.&lt;br&gt;
I work in IT. If I asked that same question at work, I would likely get a similar response. Why is that? Source control is incredibly important and can drive a number of other processes, yet it seems to be an afterthought for many IT professionals.&lt;br&gt;
I drafted up a quick, informal &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/VCSForIT"&gt;survey on source control for IT professionals&lt;/a&gt;. If you have a moment, would love to see your responses. Stay tuned for a rough analysis and write-up on the results [Edit: &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2015/05/18/source-control-survey-results/"&gt;Results are in&lt;/a&gt;].&lt;br&gt;
Cheers!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>NYC User Group Restart!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-05-07-nyc-user-group-restart/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2015 18:52:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-05-07-nyc-user-group-restart/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;After a long hiatus, NYC Powershell User-group is back.&lt;br&gt;
Tome and Sunny will be presenting 2 sessions&lt;br&gt;
This is the inaugural series of Tome&amp;rsquo;s 1-year residency on Powershell Concepts (Beginner to Advanced)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Tome Tanasovski:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Concept of Objects&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Object Characterization&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Everything is an object&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sorting, Grouping, Counting&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Where-Object and ForEach&lt;br&gt;
Language Fundamentals&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Operators, Variables.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Arrays and Hashtables&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Loop structures&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Conditional Structures&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Useful rules to know.&lt;br&gt;
Tome is an executive for a market-leading global financial services firm in New York City where he focuses on automation, private cloud, and distributed computing. He is the founder and leader of the New York City PowerShell User group, a blogger, and speaks regularly at conferences and user groups. In 2011 he became a cofounder of the NYC Techstravaganza, coauthored the Windows PowerShell Bible, and received the title of Honorary Scripting Guy from the Hey Scripting Guy! blog. Tome has also received the MVP award from Microsoft for the last five years in Windows PowerShell.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Blog&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href="http://powertoe.wordpress.com"&gt;http://powertoe.wordpress.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Twitter&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/toenuff"&gt;http://twitter.com/toenuff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Sunny Chakraborty:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Large scale Application inventory using Custom MOF Files.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Remote MSI Execution Tricks&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Invoke-Command AST&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Powershell Anonymous Functions.&lt;br&gt;
Sunny is a Sr. Engineer with a global financial services firm in Philadelphia, where he focusses on Messaging, Microsoft Applications and Automation using Powershell.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;GitHub&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href="https://gist.github.com/sunnyc7"&gt;https://gist.github.com/sunnyc7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Twitter&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/sunnyc7"&gt;https://twitter.com/sunnyc7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Pizza is being sponsored by SAPIEN, Makers of PowerShell Studio and Primal Script&lt;br&gt;
6pm - 6:30 - Pizza and catching up&lt;br&gt;
6:30 - 7:15 - Tome.&lt;br&gt;
7:15 - 7:45 - Sunny.&lt;br&gt;
8ish - ?? - Drinks at Beer Authority (next to Port Authority)&lt;br&gt;
You must RSVP via Event Brite in order to attend:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-powershell-ug-tome-tanasovski-and-sunny-chakraborty-powershell-language-fundamentals-powershell-tickets-4054585374"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/EventBriteLogo.bmp" alt="EventBriteLogo"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Meeting Date:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Monday, May 11, 2015 - 18:00 - 20:00&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Location&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Microsoft - Times Square - 6th Floor&lt;br&gt;
11 Times Square&lt;br&gt;
New York, NY 10018&lt;br&gt;
United States&lt;br&gt;
See map: &lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/?q=40.750879+-73.985792+%2811+Times+Square%2C+New+York%2C+NY%2C+10018%2C+us%29"&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 298 – PowerScripting Podcast -Vaughn Stewart and Cody Hosterman from Pure Storage</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-05-06-episode-298-powerscripting-podcast-vaughn-stewart-and-cody-hosterman-from-pure-storage/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2015 02:57:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-05-06-episode-298-powerscripting-podcast-vaughn-stewart-and-cody-hosterman-from-pure-storage/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-298.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Vaughn Stewart and Cody Hosterman from Pure Storage&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.purestorage.com/"&gt;http://www.purestorage.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/purestorage/PowerShell-Toolkit"&gt;https://github.com/purestorage/PowerShell-Toolkit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.themicrosoftdude.com/"&gt;http://www.themicrosoftdude.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.purestorage.com/blog/quick-start-guide-for-the-pure-storage-powershell-toolkit/"&gt;http://www.purestorage.com/blog/quick-start-guide-for-the-pure-storage-powershell-toolkit/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.purestorage.com/blog/pure-storage-powershell-toolkit-2-5-0-324/"&gt;http://www.purestorage.com/blog/pure-storage-powershell-toolkit-2-5-0-324/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/themsftdude"&gt;https://twitter.com/themsftdude&lt;/a&gt; - Rob on Twitter&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://codyhosterman.com/"&gt;http://codyhosterman.com/&lt;/a&gt; - Cody’s blog&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**** ****&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/purestorage/PowerShell-Toolkit"&gt;https://github.com/purestorage/PowerShell-Toolkit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.purestorage.com/blog/pure-storage-powershell-toolkit-2-5-0-324/"&gt;http://www.purestorage.com/blog/pure-storage-powershell-toolkit-2-5-0-324/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.purestorage.com/blog/quick-start-guide-for-the-pure-storage-powershell-toolkit/"&gt;http://www.purestorage.com/blog/quick-start-guide-for-the-pure-storage-powershell-toolkit/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/themsftdude"&gt;https://twitter.com/themsftdude&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://youtu.be/1pMvzYZx2h0"&gt;https://youtu.be/1pMvzYZx2h0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Superhero:
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Vaughn - Mr. Fantastic&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Cody - Zack Morris (Saved By The Bell - Stop time)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>Setting up the PowerShell.org DSC tools from Github</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-05-05-setting-up-the-powershell-org-dsc-tools-from-github/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2015 04:27:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-05-05-setting-up-the-powershell-org-dsc-tools-from-github/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I have created a &lt;a href="https://bladefirelight.wordpress.com/2015/04/27/test-homelab-inputobject-the-plan/"&gt;short blog series&lt;/a&gt; about how to setup the DSC tooling from the &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC"&gt;PowerShell.org DSC repository&lt;/a&gt;. With the mindset of contributing changes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://bladefirelight.wordpress.com/2015/04/27/test-homelab-inputobject-the-plan/"&gt;Test-HomeLab -InputObject ‘The Plan’&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://bladefirelight.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/get-posh-git-test-lab/"&gt;Get-Posh-Git | Test-Lab&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://bladefirelight.wordpress.com/2015/05/02/get-dscframework-test-lab/"&gt;Get-DSCFramework | Test-Lab&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://bladefirelight.wordpress.com/2015/05/03/invoke-dscbuild-test-lab-2/"&gt;Invoke-DscBuild | Test-Lab&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://bladefirelight.wordpress.com/2015/05/06/test-lab-update-github/"&gt;Test-Lab | Update-GitHub&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-David Jones&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Dealing with the Click-Next-Admin</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-05-04-dealing-with-the-click-next-admin/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2015 17:24:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-05-04-dealing-with-the-click-next-admin/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I had a good deal of yard work to do this weekend; I see yard work in a similar way that a click-next-admin sees Windows PowerShell. I want no part in it. So I wrote a quick bit on &lt;a href="http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/Dealing-With-The-Click-Next-Admin/"&gt;how we can deal with the click-next-admin&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
Jeffrey Snover recently gave a TechDays Online session where he candidly asked us to &amp;ldquo;make today the last day you hire a click next admin.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/images/click-next/lastday.png" alt="Reward the right people"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
This is a fantastic goal, but how do we get there? There&amp;rsquo;s no set answer, but I listed out some of the major challenges I see.&lt;br&gt;
Would love to hear your feedback and ideas - &lt;a href="http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/Dealing-With-The-Click-Next-Admin/"&gt;flip through the post&lt;/a&gt; and stop back here to discuss!&lt;br&gt;
If you&amp;rsquo;d like to have some fun, share your click-next-admin stories on twitter with the &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23clicknextadmin&amp;amp;src=typd"&gt;#ClickNextAdmin&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/images/click-next/toobusy.png" alt="Too Busy"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Aside: Thank you for the invite to contribute here, it&amp;rsquo;s an honor.&lt;br&gt;
Cheers!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell.org Is Now On Imgur!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-30-powershell-org-is-now-on-imgur/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2015 17:00:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-30-powershell-org-is-now-on-imgur/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hey there everyone!  I&amp;rsquo;m pleased to announce that PowerShell.org has a new feed on Imgur!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Why is Remoting Enabled by Default on Windows Server?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-28-why-is-remoting-enabled-by-default-on-windows-server/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2015 23:16:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-28-why-is-remoting-enabled-by-default-on-windows-server/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;There was a brief and lively discussion on Twitter recently stemming from someone asking for advice on how to convince management to turn on Remoting.&lt;br&gt;
&amp;ldquo;Fire Management, if they have to ask&amp;rdquo; was apparently not an option, although it should have been. I mean, at this stage, you either know the value of PowerShell and its Remoting technology, or you&amp;rsquo;re being willfully ignorant.&lt;br&gt;
But that wasn&amp;rsquo;t where the discussion got lively.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShellTO's Next Meeting – May 6th, 2015</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-27-powershelltos-next-meeting-may-6th-2015/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2015 23:00:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-27-powershelltos-next-meeting-may-6th-2015/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join us on Wednesday, May 6th for our second Toronto PowerShell User’s Group meeting.  This time you get to take the wheel!  Send us some of your PowerShell related challenges and we’ll pick the top ones to work out in a group together!  We’ll also be talking about some of the things learned at PowerShell Summit – North America, and more!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Management Information: The OMI/CIM/WMI/MI/DMTF Dictionary</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-24-management-information-the-omicimwmimidmtf-dictionary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2015 22:57:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-24-management-information-the-omicimwmimidmtf-dictionary/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Not too long ago, over on DonJones.com, I &lt;a href="http://donjones.com/2015/04/14/omi-cim-wmi/"&gt;wrote an article&lt;/a&gt; that tried to explain some of the confusion between Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s World of Management Instrumentation - e.g., WMI, OMI, CIM, and a bunch of other acronyms. I glossed over some of the finer details, and this article is intended to provide more specificity and accuracy - thanks to Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s Keith Bankston for helping me sort things out.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="cim-and-the-dmtf"&gt;CIM and the DMTF&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let us begin with CIM. CIM stands for Common Information Model, and it is not a tangible thing. It isn&amp;rsquo;t even software. It&amp;rsquo;s a set of standards that describe how management information can be represented in software, and it was created by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), an industry working group that Microsoft is a member of.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Charlotte PowerShell User Group meeting for May</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-24-charlotte-powershell-user-group-meeting-for-may/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2015 14:01:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-24-charlotte-powershell-user-group-meeting-for-may/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The Charlotte PowerShell User Group had a great meeting in late April with a special guest presenter, Lee Holmes. Due to this occurrence and scheduling conflicts for the month of May, our regularly scheduled meeting will not occur. Stay tuned for information about our next meeting which will occur on our normal day (1st Thursday of every month), June 4th.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Observations from our PowerShell Summit VERIFIED EFFECTIVE Exam</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-23-observations-from-our-powershell-summit-verified-effective-exam/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:24:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-23-observations-from-our-powershell-summit-verified-effective-exam/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We offered our first in-person, proctored VERIFIED EFFECTIVE exam at PowerShell Summit in April 2015, located in Charlotte, NC. While the exam is not intended as a diagnostic or learning tool, there are definitely some observations I can share from glancing through some of the submissions so far.&lt;br&gt;
First, the exam isn&amp;rsquo;t easy. 31 people signed up to take it (our room capacity; more would have if we&amp;rsquo;d had space), and only 12 turned in submissions. Of those, fewer than 5 are probably going to pass by the end of the grading process.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Painlessly Get Data from PowerShell to Excel</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-21-painlessly-get-data-from-powershell-to-excel/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2015 12:08:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-21-painlessly-get-data-from-powershell-to-excel/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Doug Finke has &lt;a href="http://www.dougfinke.com/blog/index.php/2015/04/20/painlessly-get-data-from-powershell-to-excel/"&gt;written an awesome article&lt;/a&gt; - complete with a module! - to help get data into Excel spreadsheets.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit – North America Launches!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-20-powershell-summit-north-america-launches/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2015 22:49:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-20-powershell-summit-north-america-launches/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The PowerShell community descended on Charlotte, North Carolina for the third annual PowerShell Summit - North America this week!  Enthusiasts, MVPs, community leaders, and the PowerShell product team came to discuss the latest and greatest ongoings in the PowerShell world.&lt;br&gt;
The festivities kicked off in downtown Charlotte at the Ri Ra Irish Pub this last Sunday.  New network connections were made and old friends reunited over fine brews in the Victorian-style public house before getting a good nights&amp;rsquo; rest before the three day summit.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Microsoft Publishes DSC Resource Kit in GitHub</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-16-microsoft-publishes-dsc-resource-kit-in-github/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2015 11:47:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-16-microsoft-publishes-dsc-resource-kit-in-github/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;When Microsoft first released the DSC Resource Kit (in &lt;a href="https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/DSC-Resource-Kit-All-c449312d"&gt;Wave 10&lt;/a&gt; as of this writing), they opened the door to community contributions. Our own &lt;a href="https://github.com/powershellorg"&gt;PowerShell.org GitHub repo&lt;/a&gt; consists partly of DSC resource that used Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s code as a baseline, and then corrected problems or expanded capabilities.&lt;br&gt;
What we never had was a way for Microsoft to circle back, pick up those enhancements, and include them as part of an official future Resource Kit Wave. Now, we do.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit Europe VENUE CHANGE</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-10-powershell-summit-europe-venue-change/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:43:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-10-powershell-summit-europe-venue-change/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re announcing a venue change for PowerShell Summit Europe 2015. Although we&amp;rsquo;re very appreciative to Microsoft for offering the use of their office in Kista, our registration velocity warrants a larger venue, and gives us the opportunity for a more central location.&lt;br&gt;
Dates are not changed. We will be at the &lt;a href="http://www.scandichotels.se/Hotels/Sverige/Stockholm/Scandic-Klara/#.VSfgrlwtaq4"&gt;Scandic Klara hotel&lt;/a&gt;, which is near to the &lt;a href="http://htlhotels.com/hotels/kungsgatan/"&gt;HTL Kungsgaten&lt;/a&gt;, both of which has sleeping room available as of this writing. Both are as close as we can get to Stockholm Central station, and both are near a tram line.&lt;br&gt;
We are recommending that attendees **reserve sleeping rooms immediately. **A government congress at the waterfront convention center has made room inventory tight. Our &lt;a href="https://eventmgr.azurewebsites.net/event/home/PSEU15"&gt;registration website&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with the additional attendee capacity.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A Quick PowerShell Summit Europe Update (spread the word!)</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-07-a-quick-powershell-summit-europe-update-spread-the-word/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2015 14:52:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-07-a-quick-powershell-summit-europe-update-spread-the-word/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;First: Because e-mail these days is actually unreliable, what with spam filters and all, please know that we&amp;rsquo;re relying on you to keep yourself informed on Summit updates. Following the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/forums/forum/powershell-summit/"&gt;Summit category on PowerShell.org&lt;/a&gt;, and watching the &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/pshsummit"&gt;@PSHSummit Twitter account&lt;/a&gt;, are the reliable means of doing so.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;First:&lt;/strong&gt; Summit Europe is happening. There was some confusion because a draft blog post from a month ago got resurrected somehow, but the Summit is &lt;strong&gt;on.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
**Second: **We&amp;rsquo;re almost sold out. I think we literally have 2 or 3 seats left. There was a rush over this past weekend.&lt;br&gt;
**Third: **We&amp;rsquo;re exploring other venues in Stockholm and Kista, which would afford us more room. I expect to have this pinned down no later than mid-May. The dates will not change, and the Kista area will probably not change. But &lt;strong&gt;pay attention&lt;/strong&gt; so you&amp;rsquo;re not going to the wrong building. Watching the Summit category and @PSHSummit Twitter page is vital, especially closer-in.&lt;br&gt;
**Fourth: **Hotel inventory in central Stockholm is dicey because there&amp;rsquo;s some giant conference at the waterfront conference center. There are rooms available just outside the central area, as well as in Kista. So long as you&amp;rsquo;re close to a tram line or Metro stop, you&amp;rsquo;re good to go - the Metro will be able to get you to whatever venue we select (we&amp;rsquo;re ensuring that).&lt;br&gt;
**Fifth: **That is all. Have a good week :).&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>NJ PowerShell Users Group Meet: Presenter Jeffrey Hicks – Microsoft MVP</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-06-nj-powershell-users-group-meet-presenter-jeffrey-hicks-microsoft-mvp/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2015 16:54:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-06-nj-powershell-users-group-meet-presenter-jeffrey-hicks-microsoft-mvp/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The NJ PowerShell User Group is having a meetup on Tuesday, April 28th from 6:00 - 8:00 PM.  The first half hour will be for socializing, pizza, and playing pool at our coffee bar. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Agenda:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;                6:00 – 6:30: Pizza and socializing&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;                6:30 – 7:30: Presentation&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;                7:30 - 8:00: Q &amp;amp; A&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please note that the Webex meeting will start at 6:00 PM, but the actual presentation won&amp;rsquo;t start until 6:30. In-Person a ttendees must register, print out their EventBrite ticket, and present it at the door.  Walk-ins will not be permitted.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Omaha PSUG March Meeting Slides &amp; Video Now Available</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-02-omaha-psug-march-meeting-slides-video-now-available/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2015 13:08:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-04-02-omaha-psug-march-meeting-slides-video-now-available/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Trond Hindenes presented on Real Life SMA this month.  Boe Prox was able to get this presentation recorded and it is now on YouTube.&lt;br&gt;
The slides Trond used in his presentation are &lt;a href="https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=4bfe4a6675a48c91%21120"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  The YouTube video is &lt;a href="https://youtu.be/eLKZ0GWAO10"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 297 – PowerScripting Podcast -Alan Renouf from VMware on PowerCLI 6</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-04-01-episode-297-powerscripting-podcast-alan-renouf-from-vmware-on-powercli-6/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2015 02:40:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-04-01-episode-297-powerscripting-podcast-alan-renouf-from-vmware-on-powercli-6/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-297.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Alan Renouf from VMware&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2015/03/powercli-6-0-r1-now-generally-available.html"&gt;PowerCLI 6.0 R1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://vcloud.vmware.com/"&gt;http://vcloud.vmware.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Platform-Whats-New.pdf"&gt;http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Platform-Whats-New.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://snag.gy/Cv5eP.jpg"&gt;http://snag.gy/Cv5eP.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.teavana.com/the-teas/black-teas/p/yunnan-golden-pu-erh-tea"&gt;http://www.teavana.com/the-teas/black-teas/p/yunnan-golden-pu-erh-tea&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2015/03/powercli-6-0-r1-now-generally-available.html"&gt;http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2015/03/powercli-6-0-r1-now-generally-available.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://vcloud.vmware.com/"&gt;http://vcloud.vmware.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-automation"&gt;http://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-automation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Platform-Whats-New.pdf"&gt;http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Platform-Whats-New.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Martian-Novel-Andy-Weir-ebook/dp/B00EMXBDMA"&gt;http://www.amazon.com/The-Martian-Novel-Andy-Weir-ebook/dp/B00EMXBDMA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
**** ****&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Favorite book:The Davinci Code&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>Special Charlotte PowerShell Group meeting on 4/22 featuring Lee Holmes</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-03-26-special-charlotte-powershell-group-meeting-on-422-featuring-lee-holmes/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2015 22:41:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-03-26-special-charlotte-powershell-group-meeting-on-422-featuring-lee-holmes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Charlotte hackers, our regularly scheduled meeting on April 2nd will not be occurring. Instead we will have our monthly meeting on April 22nd. Can you hear the drum roll in the distance? It will continue to build to a crescendo as April 22nd approaches. Lee Holmes will be speaking at the meeting.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this highly interactive session, Principle PowerShell developer Lee Holmes shares some of his favorite PowerShell tips and tricks. Attendees are encouraged to share their favorite PowerShell tricks as well, and so the session should be both fun and educational.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Home Labs for the IT pro</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-03-25-home-labs-for-the-it-pro/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2015 15:34:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-03-25-home-labs-for-the-it-pro/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Every IT pro needs a lab. It’s not just the fact that we all have a little mad scientist in us, it’s a playground for experimentation and learning. By “lab” I do not mean a formal test or dev environment, but a much more informal setting that typically goes before the “dev” part gets started. This lab need not be expensive. A little creative repurposing and virtualization will go a long way towards getting started with a home lab.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>March Omaha PowerShell User Group Meeting</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-03-11-march-omaha-powershell-user-group-meeting/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:52:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-03-11-march-omaha-powershell-user-group-meeting/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This month we have several exciting things going on!  First, Trond Hindenes will be joining us via Lync from the great country of Norway for a presentation on Service Management Automation (SMA).  Trond is a Senior Consultant at Crayon who spends most of his non-snowboarding time working on Microsoft System Center, PowerShell, Active Directory, Virtualization and Microsoft Azure. You can find him on&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/trondhindenes"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; and on his website &lt;a href="http://hindenes.com/trondsworking/"&gt;Trond’s Working!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Second, the first 30 minutes of this meeting will be used to announce the “official” formation of an Omaha System Center Users Group and to give attendees time to network with each other and talk to Matt, Kelly and Zac about the formation of the user group (if they are interested in learning more about it).  If you are interested in learning more about the Omaha Sytems Center User Group before the meeting you can find them on &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/omahascug%20"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; or you can email them &lt;a href="mailto:omahascug@outlook.com"&gt;omahascug@outlook.com&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;br&gt;
We will attempt to record Trond’s presentation using Lync but no promises :).&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/omaha-powershell-user-group-march-meeting-tickets-16120181898"&gt;Event Registration is here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 03/05/2015 meeting summary and presentation materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-03-10-phillyposh-03052015-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2015 01:18:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-03-10-phillyposh-03052015-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/OutOfOrder2day"&gt;Derek Murawsky&lt;/a&gt; gave an excellent presentation entitled “Introducing Chocolatey”. &lt;a href="https://github.com/PhillyPoSH/2015-03-Derek-Murawsky-Chocolatey-"&gt;A copy of his demo script and presentation&lt;/a&gt; are available here at our &lt;a href="https://github.com/PhillyPoSH"&gt;GitHub site&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqyHyoa_F1c"&gt;A recording of this meeting&lt;/a&gt; has been posted to our &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAc_ow5FIJtRpvew__9Iqzg"&gt;YouTube channel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The fastest Powershell #1 : Count all users in Active Directory domain</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-03-06-the-fastest-powershell-2-count-all-users-in-active-directory-domain/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2015 00:47:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-03-06-the-fastest-powershell-2-count-all-users-in-active-directory-domain/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Updated :&lt;/strong&gt; October 01, 2015&lt;br&gt;
**
Question
**: What is the fastest solution to count all the users in Active Directory domain?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**
Answer
**: To answer this question, I will compare 17 different commands in a domain with 75 000 users.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;`[System.GC]::WaitForPendingFinalizers()
[System.GC]::Collect()
Set-Location -Path &amp;lsquo;C:\demo&amp;rsquo;
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.DirectoryServices.Protocols
Import-Module -Name .\S.DS.P.psd1
Add-PSSnapin -Name &amp;lsquo;Quest.ActiveRoles.ADManagement&amp;rsquo;
$searcher = [adsisearcher]&amp;rsquo;(&amp;amp;(objectclass=user)(objectcategory=person))'
$searcher.SearchRoot = &amp;lsquo;LDAP://DC=domain,DC=com&amp;rsquo;
$searcher.PageSize = 1000
$searcher.PropertiesToLoad.AddRange((&amp;lsquo;samaccountname&amp;rsquo;))
function Get-QueryResult
{
[CmdletBinding()]
Param
(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[int]$Id
)
switch ($id)
{
1 { ( Get-ADUser -Filter &amp;lsquo;objectClass -eq &amp;ldquo;user&amp;rdquo; -and objectCategory -eq &amp;ldquo;person&amp;rdquo;&amp;rsquo; -SearchBase &amp;lsquo;DC=domain,DC=com&amp;rsquo; -Properties SamAccountName).SamAccountName }
2 { ( Get-ADUser -LDAPFilter &amp;lsquo;(&amp;amp;(objectclass=user)(objectcategory=person))&amp;rsquo; -SearchBase &amp;lsquo;DC=domain,DC=com&amp;rsquo; -Properties SamAccountName).SamAccountName }
3 { ( Get-ADObject -Filter &amp;lsquo;objectCategory -eq &amp;ldquo;person&amp;rdquo; -and objectClass -eq &amp;ldquo;user&amp;rdquo;&amp;rsquo; -SearchBase &amp;lsquo;DC=domain,DC=com&amp;rsquo; -Properties SamAccountName).SamAccountName }
4 { ( Get-ADObject -LDAPFilter &amp;lsquo;(&amp;amp;(objectclass=user)(objectcategory=person))&amp;rsquo; -SearchBase &amp;lsquo;DC=domain,DC=com&amp;rsquo; -Properties SamAccountName).SamAccountName }
5 { ( Get-ADObject -LDAPFilter &amp;lsquo;sAMAccountType=805306368&amp;rsquo; -SearchBase &amp;lsquo;DC=domain,DC=com&amp;rsquo; -Properties SamAccountName).SamAccountName }
6 { ( Get-QADUser -SearchRoot &amp;lsquo;DC=domain,DC=com&amp;rsquo; -DontUseDefaultIncludedProperties -IncludedProperties SamAccountName -SizeLimit 0).SamAccountName }
7 { ( $searcher.FindAll() ) }
8 { (Find-LdapObject -SearchFilter:&amp;rsquo;(&amp;amp;(objectclass=user)(objectcategory=person))&amp;rsquo; -SearchBase:&amp;lsquo;DC=domain,DC=com&amp;rsquo; -LdapServer:&amp;rsquo;&amp;rsquo; -PageSize 1000 -PropertiesToLoad:@(&amp;lsquo;sAMAccountName&amp;rsquo;)) }
9 { (Find-LdapObject -SearchFilter:&amp;lsquo;sAMAccountType=805306368&amp;rsquo; -SearchBase:&amp;lsquo;DC=domain,DC=com&amp;rsquo; -LdapServer:&amp;rsquo;&amp;rsquo; -PageSize 1000 -PropertiesToLoad:@(&amp;lsquo;sAMAccountName&amp;rsquo;)) }
10 { (Find-LdapObject -SearchFilter:&amp;rsquo;(&amp;amp;(objectclass=user)(objectcategory=person))&amp;rsquo; -SearchBase:&amp;lsquo;DC=domain,DC=com&amp;rsquo; -LdapServer:&amp;rsquo;&amp;rsquo; -PageSize 1000) }
11 { (Find-LdapObject -SearchFilter:&amp;lsquo;sAMAccountType=805306368&amp;rsquo; -SearchBase:&amp;lsquo;DC=domain,DC=com&amp;rsquo; -LdapServer:&amp;rsquo;&amp;rsquo; -PageSize 1000) }
12 { (dsquery user -o samid &amp;lsquo;DC=domain,DC=com&amp;rsquo; -limit 0) }
13 { (dsquery * -filter &amp;lsquo;(&amp;amp;(objectclass=user)(objectcategory=person))&amp;rsquo; -attr samAccountName -attrsonly -limit 0) }
14 { (dsquery * -filter &amp;lsquo;sAMAccountType=805306368&amp;rsquo; -attr samAccountName -attrsonly -limit 0) }
15 { ([regex]::match((.\AdFind.exe -b &amp;lsquo;DC=domain,DC=com&amp;rsquo; -f &amp;lsquo;(&amp;amp;(objectclass=user)(objectcategory=person))&amp;rsquo; -c),&amp;rsquo;\d{5}&amp;rsquo;).value) 2&amp;gt; $null }
16 { ([regex]::match((.\AdFind.exe -b &amp;lsquo;DC=domain,DC=com&amp;rsquo; -f &amp;lsquo;sAMAccountType=805306368&amp;rsquo; -c),&amp;rsquo;\d{5}&amp;rsquo;).value) 2&amp;gt; $null }
17 { ([regex]::match((.\AdFind.exe -b &amp;lsquo;DC=domain,DC=com&amp;rsquo; -sc adobjcnt:user -c),&amp;rsquo;\d{5}&amp;rsquo;).value) 2&amp;gt; $null }
}
}&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 296 – PowerScripting Podcast – Joe Levy from Microsoft on Azure Automation</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-03-05-episode-296-powerscripting-podcast-joe-levy-from-microsoft-on-azure-automation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2015 03:46:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-03-05-episode-296-powerscripting-podcast-joe-levy-from-microsoft-on-azure-automation/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-296.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Joe Levy from Microsoft about Azure Automation&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/tag/azure-automation/"&gt;Azure Automation blog posts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Microsoft-Azure/Level-Up-Azure-IaaS-for-IT-Pros/Learn-the-Ins-and-Outs-of-Azure-Automation-PowerShell-and-Desired-State-Configuration"&gt;Azure Automation and DSC Channel 9 video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/automation-create-runbook-from-samples/"&gt;Azure Automation getting started guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**** ****&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="does-azure-automation-just-expose-sma-or-is-it-its-own-thing"&gt;Does Azure automation just expose SMA or is it it&amp;rsquo;s own thing&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="do-users-find-powershell-workflows-complex-and-limiting"&gt;do users find powershell workflows complex and limiting?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="do-people-prefer-to-use-portal-ui-to-interact-with-runbooks-or-to-work-in-ise-and-automate-everything"&gt;do people prefer to use portal UI to interact with runbooks or to work in ISE and automate everything?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="what-are-the-main-pain-points-for-authoring-runbooks"&gt;what are the main pain points for authoring runbooks?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="what-are-the-main-scenarios-you-can-tackle-with-sma-and-aa"&gt;what are the main scenarios you can tackle with SMA and AA?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="are-there-any-plans-to-enable-pure-powershell-scripts-and-not-just-workflows"&gt;are there any plans to enable pure PowerShell scripts and not just workflows?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="can-we-run-dsc-in-sma-and-aa-are-there-any-differences-compared-to-running-dsc-from-powershell-hosts"&gt;can we run DSC in SMA and AA? are there any differences compared to running DSC from PowerShell hosts?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="can-he-talk-a-little-bit-about-the-actual-smaaa-architecture-or-i-missed-that"&gt;can he talk a little bit about the actual SMA/AA architecture? (or I missed that)&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="he-had-a-great-demo-at-teched-europe-get-thispartystarted-where-he-turned-on-a-disco-ball-from-azure"&gt;he had a great demo at TechEd Europe &amp;ldquo;Get-ThisPartyStarted&amp;rdquo; where he turned on a disco ball from Azure&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="can-we-expect-some-graphical-authoring-ui-in-azure-automation-like-we-have-in-orchestrator"&gt;can we expect some graphical authoring UI in Azure Automation like we have in Orchestrator?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="cross-plat-"&gt;cross plat (&lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Azure-Friday/Azure-Automation-104-managing-Linux-and-creating-Modules-with-Joe-Levy"&gt;http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Azure-Friday/Azure-Automation-104-managing-Linux-and-creating-Modules-with-Joe-Levy&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="can-we-perform-all-actions-available-in-portal-just-by-using-cmdlets-in-ise"&gt;can we perform all actions available in portal just by using cmdlets in ISE?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="the-disco-ball-demo-is-worth-asking-about-if-you-have-time-joe-is-a-genius"&gt;the disco ball demo is worth asking about if you have time.  Joe is a genius&amp;hellip;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="what-language-is-he-primarily-coding-in"&gt;What language is he primarily coding in?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="joe-remind-me-to-give-you-a-converter-"&gt;joe, remind me to give you a converter 🙂&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;for those of you wondering what the sp handle deal is - slack.poshcode.org &lt;a href="http://slack.poshcode.org"&gt;http://slack.poshcode.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/author/jolevy"&gt;http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/author/jolevy&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/automation/"&gt;http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/automation/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn469260.aspx?f=255&amp;amp;MSPPError=-2147217396"&gt;https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn469260.aspx?f=255&amp;amp;MSPPError=-2147217396&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
For the show notes - great session from TEE - &lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2014/CDP-B344"&gt;http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2014/CDP-B344&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Joe&amp;rsquo;s SMA authoring plugin for ISE - &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/archive/2014/03/27/authoring-sma-runbooks-in-the-powershell-ise.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/archive/2014/03/27/authoring-sma-runbooks-in-the-powershell-ise.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/08/07/introducing-the-azure-powershell-dsc-desired-state-configuration-extension.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/08/07/introducing-the-azure-powershell-dsc-desired-state-configuration-extension.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn457809.aspx"&gt;https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn457809.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/08/07/introducing-the-azure-powershell-dsc-desired-state-configuration-extension.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/08/07/introducing-the-azure-powershell-dsc-desired-state-configuration-extension.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Microsoft-Azure/Level-Up-Azure-IaaS-for-IT-Pros/Learn-the-Ins-and-Outs-of-Azure-Automation-PowerShell-and-Desired-State-Configuration"&gt;http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Microsoft-Azure/Level-Up-Azure-IaaS-for-IT-Pros/Learn-the-Ins-and-Outs-of-Azure-Automation-PowerShell-and-Desired-State-Configuration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Charlotte PowerShell User Group Meeting–3/5/2015</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-02-27-charlotte-powershell-user-group-meeting352015/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:52:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-02-27-charlotte-powershell-user-group-meeting352015/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We will be bringing you a presentation by Jason Walker, @AutomationJason, at our next meeting. Jason will be discussing the Anatomy of a DSC Resource. The session will dive into the anatomy of a DSC resource and will provide an understanding of what it takes to develop your own DSC resources.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Food and drinks will be provided. Everyone is welcome. Please RSVP on the &lt;a href="http://www.meetup.com/Charlotte-PowerShell-Users-Group/events/216116072/"&gt;MeetUp&lt;/a&gt; event page so we can plan food accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit Europe Registration</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-02-20-powershell-summit-europe-registration/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2015 14:35:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-02-20-powershell-summit-europe-registration/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Registration for PowerShell Summit Europe will commence on February 27th, 2015 at roughly 12:01am server time (I believe the server is in a Pacific time Azure datacenter). We will be limited to roughly 100 attendees.&lt;br&gt;
I want everyone to understand the basic rules of engagement for this. Setting up and running this event involves significant financial risk. While in this case the event venue, a Microsoft office in Kista (near Stockholm), Sweden, isn&amp;rsquo;t charging us huge fees and requiring us to commit to hotel rooms and the like, there is still risk. _Most of that risk is not borne by PowerShell.org, _but for the most part by myself, personally. Our speakers also commit to covering their own travel expenses (something we&amp;rsquo;re hoping to offset this year). In addition, PowerShell team members are taking &lt;em&gt;time away from the product&lt;/em&gt; to attend, which is a huge logistical commitment because it&amp;rsquo;s such a relatively small team.&lt;br&gt;
For the Europe 2014 event, we had very poor registration numbers almost until the last minute. We also had to work very hard to drum up topic submissions from European speakers. Those two facts worry us a lot, because it suggests that there isn&amp;rsquo;t a strong and engaged community interested in this event. If that&amp;rsquo;s the case, we don&amp;rsquo;t want to barge in and run the event at all. As a result, we&amp;rsquo;re going to be taking a pretty risk-averse approach this time, and I wanted to be up-front and forthright about it.&lt;br&gt;
So: We&amp;rsquo;re going to evaluate the registration numbers and velocity in mid-April. By then, we need to see at least 20-30 registrations. (We usually achieve that in the first week of registrations for the North American event.) If we&amp;rsquo;re not hitting that level, then &lt;strong&gt;the event is subject to cancellation&lt;/strong&gt; (and everyone will naturally get a full and complete refund).&lt;br&gt;
Also know that, should we make it past that point, registration &lt;strong&gt;will end by August 15th 2015&lt;/strong&gt; or when we fill the available space, whichever comes first. In other words, last-minute registration won&amp;rsquo;t be a thing.&lt;br&gt;
The success of this event **depends on the European members of the overall PowerShell community. **
You
need to help get the word out. We aren&amp;rsquo;t going to be advertising, soliciting Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s help, or other techniques. This isn&amp;rsquo;t a commercial conference; it&amp;rsquo;s being done &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; the community and &lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt; the community - and if the community can&amp;rsquo;t make it happen, then it won&amp;rsquo;t happen.&lt;br&gt;
Our agenda will be going online shortly, and you should head to &lt;a href="http://PowerShellSummit.org"&gt;http://PowerShellSummit.org&lt;/a&gt; to find the registration links (after reading the introductory material, click &amp;ldquo;Europe 2015&amp;rdquo; for details). We&amp;rsquo;ll get it all posted and ready for February 27th - it won&amp;rsquo;t be live until then. **Help us get the word out. **Tell co-workers. Use Twitter, Google+, and Facebook. Attend user group meetings and spread the word. We&amp;rsquo;ve got about 6 weeks to get 20-30 people signed up to make sure we&amp;rsquo;re covering base expenses and making this happen.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>NJ PowerShell UG Meeting March 5th: Presenter Adam Bertram</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-02-19-nj-powershell-ug-meeting-march-5th-presenter-adam-bertram/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:59:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-02-19-nj-powershell-ug-meeting-march-5th-presenter-adam-bertram/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The NJ PowerShell User Group is having a meetup on Thursday, March 6th from 6:00 - 8:00 PM.  The first half hour will be for socializing, pizza, and playing pool at our coffee bar. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Registration&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/nj-powershell-ug-meeting-march-5th-presenter-adam-bertram-tickets-15834592693"&gt;EventBrite&lt;/a&gt;  You must register to attend in person.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Agenda&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;                6:00 – 6:30: Pizza and socializing&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;                6:30 – 7:30: Presentation&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;                7:30 - 8:00: Q &amp;amp; A&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please note that the Webex meeting will start at 6:00 PM, but the actual presentation won&amp;rsquo;t start until 6:30&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 295 – PowerScripting Podcast – June Blender from SAPIEN Technologies</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-02-18-episode-295-powerscripting-podcast-june-blender-from-sapien-technologies/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2015 03:50:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-02-18-episode-295-powerscripting-podcast-june-blender-from-sapien-technologies/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-295.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to June Blender from SAPIEN Technologies&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.sapien.com/software"&gt;https://www.sapien.com/software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sapien.com/blog/"&gt;http://www.sapien.com/blog/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.sapien.com/software"&gt;https://www.sapien.com/software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.sapien.com/software/powershell_studio"&gt;https://www.sapien.com/software/powershell_studio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/T-Mobile-Nokia-Lumia-635-Contract/dp/B00LIWB34Q/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1423795422&amp;amp;sr=8-3&amp;amp;keywords=unlocked+lumia+635"&gt;http://www.amazon.com/T-Mobile-Nokia-Lumia-635-Contract/dp/B00LIWB34Q/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1423795422&amp;amp;sr=8-3&amp;amp;keywords=unlocked+lumia+635&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.sapien.com/software/powershell_helpwriter"&gt;https://www.sapien.com/software/powershell_helpwriter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
List of phones on the testing list for WP10 - &lt;a href="http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/02/12/announcing-the-first-build-of-windows-10-technical-preview-for-phones-2/"&gt;http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/02/12/announcing-the-first-build-of-windows-10-technical-preview-for-phones-2/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.sapien.com/blog/"&gt;http://www.sapien.com/blog/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education?language=en"&gt;http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education?language=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
MIT OpenCourseWare has a lot of good stuff. &lt;a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm"&gt;http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Stanford&amp;rsquo;s Engineering Everywhere has some interesting CS stuff also. &lt;a href="http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx"&gt;http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/powershell-azure-resource-manager/"&gt;http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/powershell-azure-resource-manager/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn835138.aspx"&gt;https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn835138.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Microsoft-Azure/AzureConf-2014/Inside-the-Azure-Resource-Manager"&gt;http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Microsoft-Azure/AzureConf-2014/Inside-the-Azure-Resource-Manager&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn654592.aspx"&gt;https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn654592.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.kelake.org/design/apple-baby-mac-1985/"&gt;http://www.kelake.org/design/apple-baby-mac-1985/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://memecrunch.com/meme/1YKXW/daaaaamn/image.jpg?w=400&amp;amp;c=1"&gt;http://memecrunch.com/meme/1YKXW/daaaaamn/image.jpg?w=400&amp;amp;c=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="is-powershell-studio-strictly-powershell-or-does-it-have-features-like-syntax-highlighting-for-vbscript-python-etc"&gt;Is PowerShell Studio strictly PowerShell, or does it have features like syntax highlighting for vbscript, python, etc.?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;First Computer - Baby Mac&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>Design the Next Scripting Games</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-02-09-design-the-next-scripting-games/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2015 15:03:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-02-09-design-the-next-scripting-games/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We have some folks working on the next Scripting Games&amp;hellip; but we want some feedback from the community to make sure we&amp;rsquo;re offering something of value.&lt;br&gt;
The current plan is to run a series of events, with both Beginner and Intermediate tracks. There will be no &amp;ldquo;advanced&amp;rdquo; track; the feeling is that, if you&amp;rsquo;re advanced, you should be helping out by judging ;). Events will be constructed as a combination of puzzles and real-world tasks, meaning some things will simply test your PowerShell skills, while others will test them in a more production-applicable way.&lt;br&gt;
What we need from the community is some sense of what you want to get from the Games. However, before you reply, understand what is NOT on the table: &lt;strong&gt;we will not be running an event where every entry gets personal commentary or feedback from an expert judge.&lt;/strong&gt; It simply isn&amp;rsquo;t practical - everyone doing the judging has a full-time job, and offering personal feedback just isn&amp;rsquo;t feasible.&lt;br&gt;
What COULD be on the table is offering a numeric score from a judge, based on the completeness of your entry and what the judge thinks of it. However, if it&amp;rsquo;s a low score, you&amp;rsquo;re not going to be told why (&amp;ldquo;no commentary,&amp;rdquo; see above). So we&amp;rsquo;re not sure that numeric scores are useful.&lt;br&gt;
One proposal has been to post the events, and have judges select both good ones and less-good ones to write about. In other words, provide commentary on the outstanding entries, but not EVERY entry. Individual entries wouldn&amp;rsquo;t receive a score, but you could certainly compare what you did to the outstanding ones that did receive commentary. The idea here is to give you a task on which to test your skills, and to provide some educational feedback on some representative entries. The fact is that, in any given task, we tend to see a lot of similar-looking entries anyway, so hopefully taking some of them and commenting (both positively and constructively) will help everyone &amp;ldquo;judge&amp;rdquo; their own entries and improve their skills.&lt;br&gt;
After trying numerous approaches to the Games over the past years, and after listening closely to people&amp;rsquo;s feedback, we&amp;rsquo;re trying to come up with something that is both useful and do-able.&lt;br&gt;
What do you think of that proposal? Or, would you offer another proposal for us to build the Games around? Keep in mind - any proposal that suggests &amp;ldquo;expert commentary on every entry&amp;rdquo; will simply have to be turned down outright. After major discussion, we simply can&amp;rsquo;t commit to it. We&amp;rsquo;ll leave this open for the month of February 2015 - &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/forums/topic/the-next-scripting-games-your-thoughts/"&gt;discuss away&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/forums/topic/the-next-scripting-games-your-thoughts/"&gt;Add to the discussion in the Forums&lt;/a&gt;. Login required; not accepting comments on this post.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 294 – PowerScripting Podcast – Michael Greene &amp; Charles Joy from Microsoft</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-02-04-episode-294-powerscripting-podcast-michael-greene-charles-joy-from-microsoft/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2015 04:02:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-02-04-episode-294-powerscripting-podcast-michael-greene-charles-joy-from-microsoft/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-294.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Michael Greene &amp;amp; Charles Joy from Microsoft&lt;br&gt;
**** ****&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/"&gt;Building Clouds Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://aka.ms/jea"&gt;JEA whitepaper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/The-New-World-of-Tenant-778b9f40"&gt;Tenant Provisioning whitepaper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2014/CDP-B353"&gt;Automated Workload Provisioning on the CPS platform&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2014/CDP-B313"&gt;Leveraging SMA and JEA for Service Provider Operations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;SMA resources
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Search?term=Charles%20Joy#ch9Search"&gt;http://channel9.msdn.com/Search?term=Charles%20Joy#ch9Search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Search?term=Service%20Management%20Automation#ch9Search"&gt;http://channel9.msdn.com/Search?term=Service%20Management%20Automation#ch9Search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**** ****&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.splunk.com/2014/12/18/splunk-and-microsoft-azure-intro-and-resource-roundup/"&gt;http://blogs.splunk.com/2014/12/18/splunk-and-microsoft-azure-intro-and-resource-roundup/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://conf.splunk.com/sessions/2014/conf2014_SWarrington_Microsoft_Business_Analytics.pdf?activity=presentations"&gt;http://conf.splunk.com/sessions/2014/conf2014_SWarrington_Microsoft_Business_Analytics.pdf?activity=presentations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/about"&gt;http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/about&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
blog: &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Just-Enough-Administration-6b5ad370"&gt;https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Just-Enough-Administration-6b5ad370&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
found the teched video! &lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2014/CDP-B313"&gt;http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2014/CDP-B313&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
ok the JEA episode was back in the summer, #274 &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2014/06/20/episode-274-powerscripting-podcast-microsoft-distinguished-engineer-jeffrey-snover-on-jea/"&gt;https://powershell.org/2014/06/20/episode-274-powerscripting-podcast-microsoft-distinguished-engineer-jeffrey-snover-on-jea/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/xAzure-PowerShell-Module-7dbf43b4"&gt;https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/xAzure-PowerShell-Module-7dbf43b4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/The-New-World-of-Tenant-778b9f40"&gt;https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/The-New-World-of-Tenant-778b9f40&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
here&amp;rsquo;s the mac equiv: &lt;a href="https://rogueamoeba.com/freebies/soundflower/"&gt;https://rogueamoeba.com/freebies/soundflower/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2014/10/24/introducing-the-jea-toolkit-helper.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2014/10/24/introducing-the-jea-toolkit-helper.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/powershell-azure-resource-manager/"&gt;http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/powershell-azure-resource-manager/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2014/CDP-B353"&gt;http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2014/CDP-B353&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn790568.aspx"&gt;https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn790568.aspx&lt;/a&gt; (REST AIP for ARM)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn654592.aspx"&gt;https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn654592.aspx&lt;/a&gt; (cmdlets)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2014/04/25/automation-microsoft-azure-automation-the-evolution-of-cloud-automation.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2014/04/25/automation-microsoft-azure-automation-the-evolution-of-cloud-automation.aspx&lt;/a&gt; (The Evolution of Cloud Automation)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2014/02/28/automation-the-new-world-of-tenant-provisioning-with-windows-azure-pack-part-1-introduction-and-table-of-contents.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2014/02/28/automation-the-new-world-of-tenant-provisioning-with-windows-azure-pack-part-1-introduction-and-table-of-contents.aspx&lt;/a&gt; (The New World of Tenant Provisioning with Windows Azure Pack (Part 1): Introduction and Table of Contents)&lt;br&gt;
Automated Tenant Deprovisioning with SMA in WAP White Paper: &lt;a href="https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Automated-Tenant-5f3b83a8"&gt;https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Automated-Tenant-5f3b83a8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
The New World of Tenant Provisioning White Paper: &lt;a href="https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/The-New-World-of-Tenant-778b9f40"&gt;https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/The-New-World-of-Tenant-778b9f40&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
The Evolution of Cloud Automation White Paper: &lt;a href="https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/The-Evolution-of-Cloud-aef485c1"&gt;https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/The-Evolution-of-Cloud-aef485c1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://aka.ms/IntroToSMA"&gt;http://aka.ms/IntroToSMA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Search?term=Charles%20Joy#ch9Search"&gt;http://channel9.msdn.com/Search?term=Charles%20Joy#ch9Search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Search?term=Service%20Management%20Automation#ch9Search"&gt;http://channel9.msdn.com/Search?term=Service%20Management%20Automation#ch9Search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/archive/2014/05/01/managing-ssh-enabled-linux-hosts-using-service-management-automation.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/archive/2014/05/01/managing-ssh-enabled-linux-hosts-using-service-management-automation.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedback.azure.com/forums/246290-azure-automation"&gt;http://feedback.azure.com/forums/246290-azure-automation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Monkeys_(TV_series)"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Monkeys_(TV_series)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/thanosrules"&gt;https://twitter.com/thanosrules&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIND_MGMT"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIND_MGMT 😉&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Charlotte PowerShell User Group 2/5/2014</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-01-26-charlotte-powershell-user-group-252014/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2015 17:23:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-01-26-charlotte-powershell-user-group-252014/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;It has been quite a busy past couple of months and we have not had our monthly get-together. We are working to get back on track and will start in February. This month, I will be discussing IIS and PowerShell at our meeting. For those of you that do not know me, I am an IIS MVP and a PowerShell hack. I would like to tailor the discussion, demos, and examples to address specific questions or needs that the members have. You can also check out my powershell specific blogs &lt;a href="http://terrid.me/tag/powershell/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Feel free to tweet to @owterri with any content requests that you have.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell.org Free eBook Transition</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-01-25-powershell-org-free-ebook-transition/</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2015 13:02:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-01-25-powershell-org-free-ebook-transition/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Over the past few weeks, &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/salisbury_matt"&gt;Matt Penny&lt;/a&gt; has been busy moving our free eBooks into &lt;a href="http://penflip.com/powershellorg"&gt;their new home on Penflip&lt;/a&gt;. Code, when available, is located in our &lt;a href="http://github.com/powershellorg/ebooks"&gt;GitHub repo&lt;/a&gt;, and modules will &lt;a href="http://powershellgallery.com"&gt;soon be available in the PowerShell Gallery&lt;/a&gt; for downloading via Install-Module.&lt;br&gt;
Penflip is a Markdown-based editing system backed by GitHub. This means anyone can contribute corrections, additional material, and so on - which will make it easier to maintain these great books over time. You can download ebooks directly from Penflip in a variety of e-book formats. We&amp;rsquo;re now focused on electronic formats, rather than traditional page-based layout, although PDF is still an available download option if you want to make a hardcopy.&lt;br&gt;
The conversion from Word to Markdown was challenging and largely manual, so if you run across formatting problems (especially with code), we absolutely appreciate your help in fixing those. Simply &amp;ldquo;branch&amp;rdquo; the book, creating your own copy of the project. Make corrections, and then submit those back to the master branch. Approvals are manual, so give us a few days to review what you&amp;rsquo;ve done and merge it into the master.&lt;br&gt;
Massive thanks to Matt for all the long hours making this conversion happen, and to the folks who&amp;rsquo;ve submitted cover art for the new books.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit NA 2015 Agenda changes</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-01-18-powershell-summit-na-2015-agenda-changes/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2015 16:15:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-01-18-powershell-summit-na-2015-agenda-changes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We’ve had to make some minor changes to the Summit agenda – the revised schedule is shown on the event web site - &lt;a href="http://eventmgr.azurewebsites.net/event/home/PSNA15" title="http://eventmgr.azurewebsites.net/event/home/PSNA15"&gt;
http://eventmgr.azurewebsites.net/event/home/PSNA15
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Our eBook Transition – and Your Chance to Contribute!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-01-17-our-ebook-transition-and-your-chance-to-contribute/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2015 16:26:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-01-17-our-ebook-transition-and-your-chance-to-contribute/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re in the process of migrating our free ebook collection over to Penflip, an online, Git-based collaborative authoring and publishing tool. Matt Penny has taken the lead in converting our Word documents to the Markdown syntax used by Penflip, and as &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/ebooks/"&gt;you can see on our ebooks page&lt;/a&gt;, most of the titles now have an initial version in Penflip.&lt;br&gt;
One neat thing about Penflip is that anyone can register for a free account, fork one of our projects, and make their own modifications. You can then submit your changes back to the master branch, so we can incorporate your changes into the ebook. This will make it easy for everyone in the community to suggest new content, offer corrections, and so on. &lt;strong&gt;I encourage you to help out -&lt;/strong&gt; right now, you may simply notice some flaws from the semi-automated and fully hellish Markdown conversion, and we&amp;rsquo;d love your assistance in correcting those.&lt;br&gt;
Penflip also supports on-demand downloads of each ebook in a variety of common formats, including EPUB, PDF, and more. That means you&amp;rsquo;ll always be able to grab the latest version of your favorite ebook. We&amp;rsquo;ve not yet migrated the source code that goes with some of the ebooks; the plan is to move those into our GitHub repo over the next week.&lt;br&gt;
Penflip will be enabling the next generation of our ebooks, including a massive new DSC title I plan to begin working on in 2015.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Thanks for any help you can&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;provide&lt;/strong&gt;, and I hope you continue to find the ebooks helpful!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 01/08/2015 meeting summary and presentation materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-01-13-phillyposh-01082015-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2015 02:12:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-01-13-phillyposh-01082015-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://mellositmusings.com/"&gt;John Mello&lt;/a&gt; gave a presentation entitled “The ForEach and Where methods in Powershell v4 ”. &lt;a href="https://github.com/PhillyPoSH/2015-01"&gt;A copy of his demo script and presentation&lt;/a&gt; are available here at our &lt;a href="https://github.com/PhillyPoSH"&gt;GitHub site&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/vc2Ukz2N9WQ"&gt;A recording of this meeting&lt;/a&gt; has been posted to our &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAc_ow5FIJtRpvew__9Iqzg"&gt;YouTube channel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 293 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVP Brian Ehlert from Citrix</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-01-11-episode-293-powerscripting-podcast-mvp-brian-ehlert-from-citrix/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2015 03:50:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-01-11-episode-293-powerscripting-podcast-mvp-brian-ehlert-from-citrix/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-293.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Brian Ehlert from Citrix about DSC and XenDesktop&lt;br&gt;
**** ****&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.citrix.com/author/brianeh/"&gt;http://blogs.citrix.com/author/brianeh/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://itproctology.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://itproctology.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.citrix.com/go/xendesktop-for-the-private-cloud.html"&gt;http://www.citrix.com/go/xendesktop-for-the-private-cloud.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2014/02/12/episode-258-powerscripting-podcast-jim-britt-from-microsoft-on-service-management-automation/"&gt;https://powershell.org/2014/02/12/episode-258-powerscripting-podcast-jim-britt-from-microsoft-on-service-management-automation/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**** ****&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
##Do you know if Azure Pack is going to be able to provision in Microsoft Azure any time soon?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="snover-said-that-even-exes-could-be-traced"&gt;SNover said that even EXEs could be traced&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://itproctology.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://itproctology.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/2115+Jep+Wheeler+Rd,+Woodstock,+GA+30188/@34.1491471,-84.416224,617m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x88f571b78f6681b5:0xbd70324994bd2272"&gt;https://www.google.com/maps/place/2115+Jep+Wheeler+Rd,+Woodstock,+GA+30188/@34.1491471,-84.416224,617m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x88f571b78f6681b5:0xbd70324994bd2272&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://binged.it/1ANUsvp"&gt;http://binged.it/1ANUsvp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.citrix.com/author/brianeh/"&gt;http://blogs.citrix.com/author/brianeh/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://itproctology.blogspot.com"&gt;http://ITProctology.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt; (the MVP blog)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.thecloudcast.net/"&gt;http://www.thecloudcast.net/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.citrix.com/go/xendesktop-for-the-private-cloud.html"&gt;http://www.citrix.com/go/xendesktop-for-the-private-cloud.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
here they are: &lt;a href="http://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/search-mvp.aspx?ex=Remote+Desktop+Services"&gt;http://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/search-mvp.aspx?ex=Remote+Desktop+Services&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/cHyper-V"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/cHyper-V&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2014/02/12/episode-258-powerscripting-podcast-jim-britt-from-microsoft-on-service-management-automation/"&gt;https://powershell.org/2014/02/12/episode-258-powerscripting-podcast-jim-britt-from-microsoft-on-service-management-automation/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://itproctology.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://itproctology.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.citrix.com/author/brianeh/"&gt;http://blogs.citrix.com/author/brianeh/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://chocolatey.org/packages?q=reaper"&gt;https://chocolatey.org/packages?q=reaper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Superhero/Power - the power to convey understanding&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 292 – PowerScripting Podcast – News Only</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-01-08-episode-292-powerscripting-podcast-news-only/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2015 04:29:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-01-08-episode-292-powerscripting-podcast-news-only/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-292.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;News&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/12/17/another-holiday-present-from-the-powershell-team-dsc-reskit-wave-9.aspx"&gt;DSC Resource Kit Wave 9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The PowerShell Summit N.A. 2015 - &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2014/12/30/powershell-summit-n-a-2015-additional-capacity/"&gt;additional capacity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2015/01/03/verified-effective-exams-to-be-held-at-powershell-summit-na-2015/"&gt;Verified Effective exams will be held&lt;/a&gt; at the NA summit&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Topic Submissions are still open for &lt;a href="http://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/powershell-summit-europe-2015topic-submissions/"&gt;PowerShell Summit Europe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The Mississippi PowerShell User group is &lt;a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/mississippi-powershell-user-group-january-2015-meeting-tickets-15131645158?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=5"&gt;meeting January 13th&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The Twin Cities PowerShell User group is &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/event/twin-cities-powershell-user-group-meeting-3/"&gt;meeting January 13th&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>Let's Make a PowerShell Job Interview Quiz. C'mon and Help.</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-01-06-lets-make-a-powershell-job-interview-quiz-cmon-and-help/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2015 23:51:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-01-06-lets-make-a-powershell-job-interview-quiz-cmon-and-help/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The folks at &lt;a href="http://smarterer.com"&gt;Smarterer&lt;/a&gt; have agreed to let us - that&amp;rsquo;s all of us, as in &amp;ldquo;The PowerShell Community&amp;rdquo; - build a sort of &amp;ldquo;exam&amp;rdquo; for people to prove their PowerShell Proficiency. And I need your help to do it!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Step 1&lt;/strong&gt;, you need to be pretty decent with PowerShell yourself. Not Level 12 Guru Level, mind you, but you should be working with it daily. &lt;a href="http://manning.com/jones6/"&gt;Most of this book&lt;/a&gt; should make sense to you.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Step 2&lt;/strong&gt;, you need to download my Quiz Question Writing Guide (It&amp;rsquo;s all of 1 page) and Topic List. &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/PowerShell-Quiz-Guidelines.docx"&gt;PowerShell Quiz Guidelines&lt;/a&gt; is the download. Go on, I&amp;rsquo;ll wait.&lt;br&gt;
**Step 3, **you need to sign up, using your e-mail address, and let me know you&amp;rsquo;re interested in helping. What you&amp;rsquo;re volunteering to do is, over the course of February 2015, write at least 20 questions. That&amp;rsquo;s about 2 questions per category. You&amp;rsquo;re also agreeing to help peer-review the questions other folks write, so we can spot the stinkers. 
Signups are due by January 20th 2015
.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>eBook Cover Contest</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-01-06-ebook-cover-contest/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2015 18:55:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-01-06-ebook-cover-contest/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Fancy yourself a graphics person? Just like to doodle?&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;re holding a contest to create new covers for our various &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/ebooks/"&gt;ebooks&lt;/a&gt;. Winners will receive absolutely nothing, other than a cover credit within the text (hey, we&amp;rsquo;ll also give you a full set of the ebooks for free, what the heck).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Covers must include the book title, and should include the PowerShell.org logo. The logo is below.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t include author names in the artwork. Authors are credit on the book&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;About&amp;rdquo; page.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Images must be 8.5&amp;quot; wide by 11&amp;quot; high, preferably at 300dpi, in PNG or JPG format (&lt;a href="https://www.penflip.com/Penflip/help/blob/master/publishing/cover.md"&gt;see these specifications&lt;/a&gt; if you need that sizing in pixels).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t include art, photos, or any other elements that you yanked off the Internet, including Microsoft imagery, unless you can provide us with written permission from the copyright holder to use it.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can submit a series for all the books, or just covers for the book or books you like best.&lt;br&gt;
Be serious. Have fun. Whatever! Send submissions via e-mail to Admin, right here at PowerShell.org. We&amp;rsquo;ll let you submit until the **end of January 2015, **and we&amp;rsquo;ll pick the best selections we have at the time.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/metro-logo.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/metro-logo.png" alt="metro-logo"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit Europe 2015–topic submissions</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-01-06-powershell-summit-europe-2015-topic-submissions/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2015 09:02:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2015-01-06-powershell-summit-europe-2015-topic-submissions/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Topic submissions for the PowerShell Summit Europe are still open. If you want to be considered as a speaker please submit your topic very soon.&lt;br&gt;
At the moment there aren’t enough submissions to enable us to put on a quality event. The 2014 European Summit was an excellent event with many good sessions – now is the time to submit your sessions. We need your sessions.&lt;br&gt;
We have a policy of accepting sessions from new speakers as well as established experts. It’s not who you are but the quality of the session that counts.&lt;br&gt;
Details on how to submit session proposals are available here&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2014/11/24/call-for-presentations-for-powershell-summit-europe-2015/" title="https://powershell.org/2014/11/24/call-for-presentations-for-powershell-summit-europe-2015/"&gt;
https://powershell.org/2014/11/24/call-for-presentations-for-powershell-summit-europe-2015/
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Please submit your proposals soon as we can’t run the European PowerShell Summit without them! As a note, we are confirmed for Stockholm (or within a a short subway ride of Stockholm) for the timeframe indicated, although we don&amp;rsquo;t have the exact venue yet. It&amp;rsquo;s important that we get sessions lined up soon, so that we can begin general registration.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 291 – PowerScripting Podcast – Garrett Serack from Microsoft on OneGet</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-01-04-episode-291-powerscripting-podcast-garrett-serack-from-microsoft-on-oneget/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2015 03:40:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2015-01-04-episode-291-powerscripting-podcast-garrett-serack-from-microsoft-on-oneget/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-291.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Garrett Serack from Microsoft abount OneGet&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://oneget.codeplex.com/"&gt;https://oneget.codeplex.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.powershellgallery.com/"&gt;http://www.powershellgallery.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**** ****&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;From the Chat room&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="when-will-powershell-be-open-sourced"&gt;When will PowerShell be open sourced?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="is-powershellget-open-source-or-going-to-be-if-not"&gt;is powershellget open source (or going to be if not?)&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="will-powershellget-eventually-support-a-system-wide-list-of-sources-so-enterprise-defaults-can-be-provided-globally"&gt;will powershellget eventually support a system-wide list of sources (so enterprise defaults can be provided globally)?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="will-oneget-be-integrated-or-leveraged-through-sccm-or-other-system-center-tools"&gt;will oneget be integrated or leveraged through SCCM or other System Center tools?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="are-there-any-oss-licensing-concerns-in-oneget-eg-is-it-kosher-to-have-a-gpl-licensed-provider-loaded-with-the-apache-licensed-oneget-core"&gt;Are there any OSS licensing concerns in OneGet?  (eg, is it kosher to have a GPL licensed provider loaded with the Apache licensed OneGet core?)&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="powershellget-appears-to-only-save-the-list-of-package-sources-in-a-per-user-profile-directory"&gt;powershellget appears to only save the list of package sources in a per-user profile directory&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="does-oneget-leverage-powershell-remoting-in-order-to-manage-installs-on-remote-systems"&gt;does oneget leverage powershell remoting in order to manage installs on remote systems?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="are-there-any-plans-to-make-these-configurations-policy-friendly-when-theyre-in-xml-files-its-awkward-to-enforce-a-list-of-trusted-sources-in-an-enterprise"&gt;Are there any plans to make these configurations policy-friendly?  When they&amp;rsquo;re in XML files, it&amp;rsquo;s awkward to enforce a list of trusted sources in an enterprise.&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest74842: we&amp;rsquo;re trying to revive JPavlecks old ##SCOM channel here on freenode.  I am going back to SCOM after a two year brak.&lt;br&gt;
screencap for the evening &lt;a href="http://snag.gy/UrX2V.jpg"&gt;http://snag.gy/UrX2V.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
links: &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/garretts/archive/2014/04/01/my-little-secret-windows-powershell-oneget.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/b/garretts/archive/2014/04/01/my-little-secret-windows-powershell-oneget.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://oneget.codeplex.com/"&gt;https://oneget.codeplex.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/OneGet/oneget"&gt;https://github.com/OneGet/oneget&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/OneGet/oneget"&gt;https://github.com/OneGet/oneget&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.powershellgallery.com/"&gt;http://www.powershellgallery.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/xOneGet/"&gt;http://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/xOneGet/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Hunh. &lt;a href="http://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/GistProvider/"&gt;http://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/GistProvider/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
.NET Core Framework &lt;a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/announcing-open-source-of-net-core-framework-net-core-distribution-for-linux-osx-and-free-visual-studio-community-edition"&gt;http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/announcing-open-source-of-net-core-framework-net-core-distribution-for-linux-osx-and-free-visual-studio-community-edition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://oneget.org/weekly/meeting.html"&gt;http://oneget.org/weekly/meeting.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://halr9000.tumblr.com/post/104672616190/initial-review-of-the-amazon-fire-tv-stick"&gt;http://halr9000.tumblr.com/post/104672616190/initial-review-of-the-amazon-fire-tv-stick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.citrix.com/2014/10/09/tech-preview-xendesktop-desired-state-configuration-resource-provider/"&gt;http://blogs.citrix.com/2014/10/09/tech-preview-xendesktop-desired-state-configuration-resource-provider/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.citrix.com/2014/10/07/desired-state-configuration-xendesktop-dsc-resource-and-azure-dsc-vm-extension-part-"&gt;http://blogs.citrix.com/2014/10/07/desired-state-configuration-xendesktop-dsc-resource-and-azure-dsc-vm-extension-part-&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>NJ PowerShell Users Group Meeting: Presenter Doug Finke – Microsoft MVP</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-12-29-nj-powershell-users-group-meeting-presenter-doug-finke-microsoft-mvp/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2014 04:25:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-12-29-nj-powershell-users-group-meeting-presenter-doug-finke-microsoft-mvp/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The NJ PowerShell User Group is having a meetup on Thursday, January 8th from 6:00 - 8:00 PM. If interested, please register through the &lt;a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/nj-powershell-users-group-meeting-presenter-doug-finke-microsoft-mvp-tickets-15066672824"&gt;Eventbrite website&lt;/a&gt; to track attendance for ordering pizza.  For those attending online (Webex) we will send a follow-up email with the meeting link based on Eventbrite online registrants.
&lt;strong&gt;Agenda&lt;/strong&gt;:
6:00 – 6:30: Pizza and socializing
6:30 – 7:30: Presentation
7:30 - 8:00: Q &amp;amp; A&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Please note that the Webex meeting will start at 6:00 PM, but the actual presentation won't start until 6:30
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In-Person attendees must register, print out their EventBrite ticket, and present it at the door. Walk-ins will not be permitted.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 290 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeffrey Snover and John Slack on PowerShell 5.0 (Technical Preview)</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-12-17-episode-290-powerscripting-podcast-jeffrey-snover-and-john-slack-on-powershell-5-0-technical-preview/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2014 04:01:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-12-17-episode-290-powerscripting-podcast-jeffrey-snover-and-john-slack-on-powershell-5-0-technical-preview/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-290.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jeffrey Snover and John Slack from Microsoft&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.powershellgallery.com/"&gt;https://www.powershellgallery.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jo Ann Snover’s &lt;a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/g/jsnover/sets/1955144-turks-and-caicos"&gt;beautiful pictures from Turks &amp;amp; Caicos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Here’s a &lt;a href="http://www.digitalbristles.com/image-type/turks-caicos-images/"&gt;larger set&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="hal-what-hair-products-are-you-using-today"&gt;HAL what hair products are you using today?&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h3 id="curating-code"&gt;curating code?&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2 id="any-known-conflicts-with-things-like-exchange-or-system-center-operations-manager-like-previous-versions-of-powershell-had"&gt;Any known conflicts with things like Exchange or System Center Operations Manager like previous versions of PowerShell had?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="or-sharepoint-add-on-to-sepeck"&gt;or SharePoint??? add on to sepeck&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="is-microsoft-using-wmf5-in-the-cloud-platform-system"&gt;Is Microsoft using WMF5 in the Cloud Platform System&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="does-the-previous-sep-release-have-to-be-removed-prior-to-installing-the-nov-release-didnt-see-anything-in-the-release-notes"&gt;does the previous Sep release have to be removed prior to installing the Nov release, didn&amp;rsquo;t see anything in the release notes&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="any-discussions-of-docker-support-in-the-near-future"&gt;any discussions of docker support in the near future?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="will-the-x-ever-be-removed-from-the-dsc-resource-names-are-they-going-to-be-experimental-forever"&gt;Will the &amp;ldquo;x&amp;rdquo; ever be removed from the DSC resource names? Are they going to be experimental forever?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;RobCannon: use ## in front of questions&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit N.A. 2015 Status Update &amp; Info</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-12-15-powershell-summit-n-a-2015-status-update-info/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2014 20:01:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-12-15-powershell-summit-n-a-2015-status-update-info/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As of this post, PowerShell Summit North America 2015 is full, and registration has been cut off. We&amp;rsquo;re taking some time to confirm our numbers and venue capacity; if we&amp;rsquo;re able to open additional seats, that will happen in January 2015. We will allow any additional capacity to be registered until one month prior to the Summit, or until it sells out, whichever comes first. We do not maintain a waiting list; please check here and on the @PSHSummit Twitter feed for any announcements.&lt;br&gt;
For those already registered, we _do not have any official hotel recommendations. _You&amp;rsquo;re welcome to use the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/forums/forum/powershell-summit/"&gt;Summit Forum&lt;/a&gt; to see where others are staying, or to arrange for carpooling or other stuff. We certainly encourage all attendees to check the Forum for Q&amp;amp;A and other discussion - it&amp;rsquo;s never too early to start getting involved. On the hotel front, just look for hotels in downtown Charlotte, or near Microsoft Charlotte, based on your preferences. The reason there&amp;rsquo;s no official hotel is that there are numerous business-class hotels nearby, and after a close call last year we didn&amp;rsquo;t want to take the financial risk of booking out a room block.&lt;br&gt;
Our intent at this time is to book the venue to fire code capacity, which is why we may be able to open additional slots after we confirm everything. That means _both venue rooms will be full at all times. _You will not be permitted to stand or sit in the aisles, back of the room, or block the doorways. If the session you hoped to attend is full, you&amp;rsquo;ll need to go to the other one. Keep in mind we&amp;rsquo;re recording everything, so you won&amp;rsquo;t miss out entirely.&lt;br&gt;
The last sessions on all three days will only have a single session. We&amp;rsquo;ll position the speaker in one of the two rooms, and we&amp;rsquo;ll live-stream to the other room. This is where we plan to put Jeffrey Snover&amp;rsquo;s talks, both to accommodate what has historically been high interest in his sessions, and to accommodate his total inability to do a session in only 45 minutes :). If you don&amp;rsquo;t get a chair in the &amp;ldquo;live&amp;rdquo; room, you&amp;rsquo;ll need to join from the &amp;ldquo;overflow&amp;rdquo; room.&lt;br&gt;
The two rooms are actually in different buildings, separated from each other by a driveway/courtyard arrangement. We&amp;rsquo;re suggesting that you &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; bring your ginormous 21&amp;quot; laptop, since it&amp;rsquo;ll just drag you down moving between sessions. Maybe stick with a Surface if you want to take notes and stuff. Although we&amp;rsquo;re recording everything, so&amp;hellip; you know. Maybe just enjoy the session.&lt;br&gt;
Lunches will be taken &lt;em&gt;in the session rooms&lt;/em&gt;, with buffet setups in the hallways just outside each room.&lt;br&gt;
Stay tuned for further details, and please use the Summit forum to ask questions.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>JOB POSTING: Help us Run PowerShell.org</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-12-08-job-posting-help-us-run-powershell-org/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2014 17:00:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-12-08-job-posting-help-us-run-powershell-org/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[UPDATE: We&amp;rsquo;ve gotten an outpouring of responses - I&amp;rsquo;m literally a bit teary-eyed right now - so I&amp;rsquo;ll work with the existing set of volunteers and post again should everyone realize what we&amp;rsquo;re asking and go running for the hills!]&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;re looking for a volunteer to take over regular maintenance of the PowerShell.org website. We may even have a small budget to make this a paid-contractor gig. Trick being, it&amp;rsquo;s gotta be done _regularly. _&lt;br&gt;
The specifics:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A Crowdsourced PowerShell Proficiency Exam</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-12-04-a-crowdsourced-powershell-proficiency-exam/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 16:25:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-12-04-a-crowdsourced-powershell-proficiency-exam/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I wanted to call your attention to Smarterer, a company recently acquired by my employer, Pluralsight. Smarterer&amp;rsquo;s schtick (apart from vexing my auto-correct) is that the host crowdsourced technology assessments. In other words, the &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt; decides what questions to ask someone in the test.&lt;br&gt;
The magic is that their back-end engine, over time, figures out which questions are awesome and which ones suck, and adjusts the assessment accordingly. So as more people (especially qualified ones) take the test, the better it gets at identifying skilled people. It gives it a sort of built-in immunity against bad community-contributed questions, because those eventually filter out of the assessment that&amp;rsquo;s delivered to people. It&amp;rsquo;s pretty engaging, actually. I&amp;rsquo;ve had some fun taking some web development-oriented assessments, and surprised myself in a few places.&lt;br&gt;
They&amp;rsquo;ve &lt;a href="http://smarterer.com/tests/powershell"&gt;got a PowerShell assessment&lt;/a&gt;. Why not jump in, take it, and then add some questions of your own? Next time you need to interview someone for PowerShell chops, send &amp;rsquo;em to Smarterer.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 289 – PowerScripting Podcast – Mike Hendrickson and Jason Walker from Microsoft on Configuring Exchange With DSC</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-11-30-episode-289-powerscripting-podcast-mike-hendrickson-and-jason-walker-from-microsoft-on-configuring-exchange-with-dsc/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 02:55:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-11-30-episode-289-powerscripting-podcast-mike-hendrickson-and-jason-walker-from-microsoft-on-configuring-exchange-with-dsc/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-289.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Mike Hendrickson and Jason Walker from Microsoft about their DSC resources for Exchange&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;News&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mike’s book: new &lt;a href="http://mikefrobbins.com/2014/11/13/my-new-book-windows-powershell-tfm-4th-edition-is-now-available/"&gt;4th ed of PowerShell TFM&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/11/18/windows-management-framework-5-0-preview-november-2014-is-now-available.aspx"&gt;WMF 5.0 November preview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Limited Preview of the &lt;a href="https://www.powershellgallery.com/"&gt;PowerShell Gallery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Steven Murawaski is doing &lt;a href="http://stevenmurawski.com/powershell/2014/11/special-event-kanban-and-dsc"&gt;PowerShell DSC training in LA December 9th and 10th&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**** ****&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;before: 1000’s of lines of script, harder to read&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;with DSC: 400 lines, easy to read, no config drift&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;blog post: &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mhendric/archive/2014/10/17/managing-exchange-2013-with-dsc-part-1-introducing-xexchange.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/mhendric/archive/2014/10/17/managing-exchange-2013-with-dsc-part-1-introducing-xexchange.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;powershellget: &lt;a href="https://msconfiggallery.cloudapp.net/packages/xExchange/"&gt;https://msconfiggallery.cloudapp.net/packages/xExchange/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;install-module xExchange&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Q&amp;amp;A on Technet Gallery &lt;a href="https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/xExchange-PowerShell-1dd18388/view/Discussions#content"&gt;https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/xExchange-PowerShell-1dd18388/view/Discussions#content&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**** ****&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mhendric/archive/2014/10/17/managing-exchange-2013-with-dsc-part-1-introducing-xexchange.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/mhendric/archive/2014/10/17/managing-exchange-2013-with-dsc-part-1-introducing-xexchange.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://msconfiggallery.cloudapp.net/packages/xExchange/"&gt;https://msconfiggallery.cloudapp.net/packages/xExchange/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mhendric/archive/2014/10/17/managing-exchange-2013-with-dsc-part-1-introducing-xexchange.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/mhendric/archive/2014/10/17/managing-exchange-2013-with-dsc-part-1-introducing-xexchange.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
DSC Resource Kit Wave 8 : &lt;a href="https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/DSC-Resource-Kit-All-c449312d"&gt;https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/DSC-Resource-Kit-All-c449312d&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://gist.github.com/halr9000/20ab184a91277f3a2438"&gt;https://gist.github.com/halr9000/20ab184a91277f3a2438&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/pester/Pester"&gt;https://github.com/pester/Pester&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://mikefrobbins.com/2014/10/09/using-pester-for-test-driven-development-in-powershell/"&gt; Using Pester for Test Driven Development in PowerShell http://mikefrobbins.com/2014/10/09/using-pester-for-test-driven-development-in-powershell/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/DSC-Resource-Kit-All-c449312d"&gt;https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/DSC-Resource-Kit-All-c449312d&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://msconfiggallery.cloudapp.net/packages/xExchange/"&gt;https://msconfiggallery.cloudapp.net/packages/xExchange/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/xExchange-PowerShell-1dd18388/view/Discussions#content"&gt;https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/xExchange-PowerShell-1dd18388/view/Discussions#content&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mhendric/archive/2014/10/17/managing-exchange-2013-with-dsc-part-1-introducing-xexchange.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/mhendric/archive/2014/10/17/managing-exchange-2013-with-dsc-part-1-introducing-xexchange.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
My New Book: Windows PowerShell TFM 4th Edition is now Available! &lt;a href="http://mikefrobbins.com/2014/11/13/my-new-book-windows-powershell-tfm-4th-edition-is-now-available/"&gt;http://mikefrobbins.com/2014/11/13/my-new-book-windows-powershell-tfm-4th-edition-is-now-available/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Call for Presentations for PowerShell Summit Europe 2015</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-11-24-call-for-presentations-for-powershell-summit-europe-2015/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:02:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-11-24-call-for-presentations-for-powershell-summit-europe-2015/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The PowerShell Summit is the number one conference where PowerShell enthusiasts gather and learn from each other in fast-paced, knowledge packed presentations. PowerShell experts from all over the world including MVP’s, Guru’s, community leaders and PowerShell team members, will once again join together for a few days in Stockholm, Sweden to discuss and learn about maximizing PowerShell in the workplace. If you want to share your PowerShell expertise or story, then this is your official call to submit presentations for selection!&lt;br&gt;
PowerShell Summit Europe 2015 will be held 14-16 September 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 288 – PowerScripting Podcast – Hal and Jon talk about Splunk and DSC troubleshooting</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-11-17-episode-288-powerscripting-podcast-hal-and-jon-talk-about-splunk-and-dsc-troubleshooting/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 03:51:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-11-17-episode-288-powerscripting-podcast-hal-and-jon-talk-about-splunk-and-dsc-troubleshooting/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-288.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, Hal and Jon talk about Splunk and troubleshooting DSC&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Links&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://aka.ms/dscmp"&gt;http://aka.ms/dscmp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
here&amp;rsquo;s my screen. &lt;a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/5bz3jqbghjsh2lx/Screenshot%202014-10-23%2021.42.33.png?dl=0"&gt;https://www.dropbox.com/s/5bz3jqbghjsh2lx/Screenshot%202014-10-23%2021.42.33.png?dl=0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://apps.splunk.com/app/1477/"&gt;https://apps.splunk.com/app/1477/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
wave 7 shipped &lt;a href="https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/DSC-Resource-Kit-All-c449312d"&gt;https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/DSC-Resource-Kit-All-c449312d&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
wrong link: this one: &lt;a href="https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/xExchange-PowerShell-1dd18388/"&gt;https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/xExchange-PowerShell-1dd18388/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.citrix.com/2014/10/09/tech-preview-xendesktop-desired-state-configuration-resource-provider/"&gt;http://blogs.citrix.com/2014/10/09/tech-preview-xendesktop-desired-state-configuration-resource-provider/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
They did a series on it a short while back - &lt;a href="http://blogs.citrix.com/author/brianeh/"&gt;http://blogs.citrix.com/author/brianeh/&lt;/a&gt; has them I think&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/01/03/using-event-logs-to-diagnose-errors-in-desired-state-configuration.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/01/03/using-event-logs-to-diagnose-errors-in-desired-state-configuration.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog/portfolio/book-windows-powershell-desired-state-configuration-revealed/"&gt;http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog/portfolio/book-windows-powershell-desired-state-configuration-revealed/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/xDscDiagnostics-PowerShell-abb6bcaa"&gt;https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/xDscDiagnostics-PowerShell-abb6bcaa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/xDscResourceDesigne-Module-22eddb29"&gt;https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/xDscResourceDesigne-Module-22eddb29&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.citrix.com/author/brianeh/"&gt;http://blogs.citrix.com/author/brianeh/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="chatroom-highlights"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatroom Highlights:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h3 id="input-inot-splunk-keyvalue-pairs-custom-objects"&gt;input inot splunk    key/value pairs?    custom objects?&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;** ### @JonWalz   did you say you have a resource that pushes your PowerShell profile to a remove computer?**&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Charlotte PowerShell User Group meeting on 11/6</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-11-03-charlotte-powershell-user-group-meeting-on-116/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2014 19:06:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-11-03-charlotte-powershell-user-group-meeting-on-116/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Shell and Tell is back.. bring your scripts you&amp;rsquo;ve been working on and show your PowerShell pride by displaying your scripting prowess.  We&amp;rsquo;ll have food and drinks, so come join the fun!&lt;br&gt;
Everyone is welcome. Please RSVP on the &lt;a href="http://www.meetup.com/Charlotte-PowerShell-Users-Group/events/216116072/"&gt;MeetUp&lt;/a&gt; event page so we can plan food accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Our NaNoWriMo Challenge: Write a PowerShell Article</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-10-25-our-nanowrimo-challenge-write-a-powershell-article/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2014 16:28:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-10-25-our-nanowrimo-challenge-write-a-powershell-article/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In honor of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), I wanted to offer a smaller, and more unique, challenge.&lt;br&gt;
Send me a PowerShell article.&lt;br&gt;
Seriously. My name is &lt;strong&gt;Don J&lt;/strong&gt;ones, and this is &lt;strong&gt;PowerShell.org&lt;/strong&gt;, so you can probably figure out how to contact me. Send me an article between 800 and 3,000 words (including code) in Microsoft Word format. Don&amp;rsquo;t attach any scripts. Please keep the formatting super-simple: paste code from the PowerShell ISE, and use Word&amp;rsquo;s default styles otherwise. If you must include screen shots, please embed them in the doc, but also include them as a a separate PNG in your e-mail.&lt;br&gt;
You can write about &lt;em&gt;anything,&lt;/em&gt; provided it&amp;rsquo;s PowerShell-related._ _What&amp;rsquo;s best? Some challenge that stumped you - and that you eventually solved (and please, tell us how). Something that you think folks could benefit from, or could learn to do better. Even an article that lays out both sides of a particular question, and outlines the pros and cons of each argument. Doesn&amp;rsquo;t matter. What matters is that you &lt;em&gt;write. _&lt;br&gt;
I will
personally
commit to reading every single one, and providing you with feedback on your article. When suitable, I&amp;rsquo;ll make some specific suggestions for improving the article. If you then fix it up accordingly, I&amp;rsquo;ll run it by a professional editor&lt;/em&gt; - and I&amp;rsquo;ll have it published. _In some cases, we&amp;rsquo;ll publish it right here on PowerShell.org. In other cases, I&amp;rsquo;ll submit it to my friends at 1105 Media for their consideration in one of their IT magazines, like &lt;em&gt;Redmond Magazine&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;MCPMag.com&lt;/em&gt;. Still others will go into the PowerShell.org TechLetter, which would be a huge help to our editors, who are always hungry for content.&lt;br&gt;
Being able to communicate well is important in all walks of life, but being &lt;em&gt;willing to share&lt;/em&gt; is even more important. Think you&amp;rsquo;ve got nothing to share? _Wrong. _You have unique experiences that everyone can learn from. You do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; need to be an expert in order to have something valuable to share. We would all benefit a lot more if &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; people shared their experiences and successes - so now it&amp;rsquo;s your turn.&lt;br&gt;
The deadline is November 30th, of course, and I&amp;rsquo;ll work my way through them all as quickly as possible. You&amp;rsquo;re not going to be judged on your grammar or spelling (although do use Word&amp;rsquo;s tools to help those as much as it can). Don&amp;rsquo;t try to write fancy, or overly formal. In fact, just write like you&amp;rsquo;d talk. Read your piece back to yourself _aloud, _and if it sounds weird, fix it so it doesn&amp;rsquo;t. If it &lt;em&gt;sounds&lt;/em&gt; good, it&amp;rsquo;ll &lt;em&gt;read&lt;/em&gt; well.&lt;br&gt;
C&amp;rsquo;mon. Take up the challenge. And tweet folks over to this article, too. Let&amp;rsquo;s make it a thing. My goal is to help at least a few folks because regular bloggers, either here or elsewhere, and my dream is to find maybe a couple of folks who can pick up a full-time column with a magazine or other publication. That&amp;rsquo;d be awesome. I know you&amp;rsquo;re out there - let&amp;rsquo;s get the party started.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 287 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVP Kirk Munro on PowerShellGet</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-10-20-episode-287-powerscripting-podcast-mvp-kirk-munro-on-powershellget/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2014 03:17:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-10-20-episode-287-powerscripting-podcast-mvp-kirk-munro-on-powershellget/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-287.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Kirk Munro about PowerShellGet&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;News&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;MVA session &lt;a href="http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/liveevents/using-powershell-for-active-directory"&gt;Using PowerShell for Active Directory&lt;/a&gt; is October 29th.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;All of the videos from the PowerShell Summit Europe 2014 &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2014/10/14/powershell-summit-europe-2014-all-videos-available/"&gt;have been posted&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We want to know who your PowerShell Hero is! &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2014/10/07/accepting-nominations-for-2015-powershell-heroes/"&gt;Nominate him/her today&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Free ebook - &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2014/10/01/announcing-powershell-hyper-v-cookbook-free/"&gt;PowerShell Hyper-V CookBook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lee Holmes did a presentation on the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2014/10/06/the-current-and-future-state-of-the-windows-management-framework/"&gt;current and future state of WMF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;There is a kickstarter project for &lt;a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ferventcoder/chocolatey-the-alternative-windows-store-like-yum"&gt;Chocolatey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The NJ PowerShell Users group is meeting &lt;a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/nj-powershell-users-group-meeting-tickets-13315999513?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=3"&gt;October 21st&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The Greater Milwaukee Script Club is meeting &lt;a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/nj-powershell-users-group-meeting-tickets-13315999513?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=3"&gt;October 21st&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The Omaha PowerShell User Group is meeting &lt;a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/omaha-powershell-user-group-october-meeting-tickets-13782298225?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=6"&gt;October 28th&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://community.idera.com/blog/idera/powershell-plus-5-0-is-now-available-2/"&gt;PowerShell Plus 5.0 is now available&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>How to Have the PowerShell Summit Come to You</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-10-16-how-to-have-the-powershell-summit-come-to-you/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2014 18:24:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-10-16-how-to-have-the-powershell-summit-come-to-you/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re &lt;strong&gt;often&lt;/strong&gt; asked if we&amp;rsquo;re planning to have a PowerShell Summit in (insert name of town/country/city). The answer is, &amp;ldquo;no,&amp;rdquo; because we&amp;rsquo;re usually not planning much in advance of whatever&amp;rsquo;s currently on the table. Keep in mind - **we&amp;rsquo;re all volunteers. **We don&amp;rsquo;t have a ton of free time to plan 3 years out! As you&amp;rsquo;ll see in a minute, it&amp;rsquo;s a lot of work.&lt;br&gt;
That said, &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; can play a big role in bringing the Summit to &lt;strong&gt;your&lt;/strong&gt; town. How? Simply write a proposal and submit it to us. Use the &amp;ldquo;Admin&amp;rdquo; e-mail alias at PowerShell.org. Here&amp;rsquo;s what to include:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit Europe 2014 – All videos available</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-10-14-powershell-summit-europe-2014-all-videos-available/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2014 07:08:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-10-14-powershell-summit-europe-2014-all-videos-available/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;All of the recordings from the recent PowerShell Summit in Amsterdam are now available through the PowerShell.org channel on youtube. The playlist for the Summit is &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Coehjg9cB6foPjBojLHYQGb"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfeA8kIs7Coehjg9cB6foPjBojLHYQGb&lt;/a&gt;_&lt;br&gt;
Thank you again to the speakers, and attendees, who made for a wonderful first Summit in Europe and more thanks to the people who donated to our appeal to raise funds for the recording equipment.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 286 – PowerScripting Podcast – Alan Renouf from VMware on PowerCLI</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-10-13-episode-286-powerscripting-podcast-alan-renouf-from-vmware-on-powercli/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2014 02:58:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-10-13-episode-286-powerscripting-podcast-alan-renouf-from-vmware-on-powercli/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-286.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Alan Renouf from VMware about PowerCLI&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;News&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLI/changelog.html#PowerCLI58R1"&gt;https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLI/changelog.html#PowerCLI58R1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://get-scripting.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://get-scripting.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h4 id="chatroom-highlights"&gt;Chatroom Highlights:&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://grooveshark.com/s/Stars/6OE7V7?src=5"&gt;http://grooveshark.com/s/Stars/6OE7V7?src=5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://grooveshark.com/s/Gunfight/6TCnYp?src=5"&gt;http://grooveshark.com/s/Gunfight/6TCnYp?src=5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLI/changelog.html#PowerCLI58R1"&gt;https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLI/changelog.html#PowerCLI58R1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2014/09/powercli-5-8-release-1-enhanced-performance.html"&gt;http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2014/09/powercli-5-8-release-1-enhanced-performance.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2014/09/poweractions.html"&gt;http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2014/09/poweractions.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2014/09/poweractions.html"&gt;http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2014/09/poweractions.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/25/us-cybersecurity-shellshock-idUSKCN0HK23Y20140925"&gt;http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/25/us-cybersecurity-shellshock-idUSKCN0HK23Y20140925&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/files/2014/09/Screenshot2014091613.21.59.png"&gt;http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/files/2014/09/Screenshot2014091613.21.59.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.virtu-al.net/2014/09/16/powercli-vsphere-web-clientannouncing-poweractions/"&gt;http://www.virtu-al.net/2014/09/16/powercli-vsphere-web-clientannouncing-poweractions/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://labs.vmware.com/flings/poweractions-for-vsphere-web-client"&gt;https://labs.vmware.com/flings/poweractions-for-vsphere-web-client&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Learning-PowerCLI-Robert-van-Nieuwendijk/dp/1782170162"&gt;http://www.amazon.com/Learning-PowerCLI-Robert-van-Nieuwendijk/dp/1782170162&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://beta.pluralsight.com/search/?searchTerm=powercli"&gt;http://beta.pluralsight.com/search/?searchTerm=powercli&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://forge.puppetlabs.com/joshcooper/powershell"&gt;https://forge.puppetlabs.com/joshcooper/powershell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/blainbar/archive/2014/06/05/technet-radio-jessica-devita-interviews-gene-kim-from-the-phoenix-project-devops-tune-in.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/blainbar/archive/2014/06/05/technet-radio-jessica-devita-interviews-gene-kim-from-the-phoenix-project-devops-tune-in.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://get-scripting.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://get-scripting.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="so-should-we-expect-a-vsphere-58"&gt;so should we expect a vSphere 5.8?&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;####Horizon is the View VDI portion&amp;hellip;corect?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="did-he-say-it-is-or-it-is-not-yet"&gt;did he say it IS or it is NOT YET&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2 id="are-there-any-free-air-services-available"&gt;are there any &amp;ldquo;free&amp;rdquo; Air services available?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;####Can you manage vCloud Air with the standard PowerCLI  or you need another snappin&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 10/02/2014 meeting summary and presentation materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-10-13-phillyposh-10022014-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2014 01:35:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-10-13-phillyposh-10022014-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</guid><description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://mellositmusings.com/about/"&gt;John Mello&lt;/a&gt; gave a presentation entitled &amp;ldquo;Custom Object Creation&amp;rdquo;. A copy of his demo scripts and presentation are available &lt;a href="https://github.com/PhillyPoSH/2014-10/tree/master/Creating%20Custom%20Objects"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; at our &lt;a href="https://github.com/PhillyPoSH/"&gt;GitHub site&lt;/a&gt;.
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://techguytj.com/bio/"&gt;TJ Turner&lt;/a&gt; gave a presentation entitled &amp;ldquo;Runspace Pools&amp;rdquo;. A copy of his demo scripts and presentation are available &lt;a href="https://github.com/PhillyPoSH/2014-10/tree/master/Run%20Space%20Pools"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; at our &lt;a href="https://github.com/PhillyPoSH/"&gt;GitHub site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A
recording of this meeting&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;has been posted to our &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAc_ow5FIJtRpvew__9Iqzg"&gt;
YouTube channel
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit Europe 2014 – – videos from day 1</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-10-08-powershell-summit-europe-2014-videos-from-day-1/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2014 07:23:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-10-08-powershell-summit-europe-2014-videos-from-day-1/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The videos from day 1 of the Powershell Summit Europe 2014 are now available on the PowerShell.org youtube channel. The European Summit playlist can be found at&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Uploading of day 2 is in progress and I&amp;rsquo;ll supply notification when complete&lt;br&gt;
Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit Europe 2014 – – slides and code</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-10-07-powershell-summit-europe-2014-slides-and-code/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 17:49:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-10-07-powershell-summit-europe-2014-slides-and-code/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;All of the slides and demo code the speakers wanted to share are available for your enjoyment at &lt;a href="http://1drv.ms/1vMWmtm"&gt;http://1drv.ms/1vMWmtm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;m currently uploading the videos which is a slow process. I&amp;rsquo;ll post when hat activity is completed.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The current and future state of the Windows Management Framework</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-10-06-the-current-and-future-state-of-the-windows-management-framework/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2014 11:04:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-10-06-the-current-and-future-state-of-the-windows-management-framework/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;At the 2nd of October, &lt;a href="http://www.leeholmes.com/"&gt;Lee Holmes&lt;/a&gt; gave a presentation about the current and future state of the Windows Management Framework (WMF) during the &lt;a href="http://www.dupsug.com/?page_id=914"&gt;Dutch PowerShell User Group (DuPSUG)&lt;/a&gt; at the Microsoft headquarters in The Netherlands.&lt;br&gt;
The slide decks and recorded videos will be made available soon, but this is what was discussed:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The release cycle of the Windows Management Framework (WMF)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Faster incremental releases of preview versions are being released. This rapid development means that companies that need specific new functionalities to tackle current problems they&amp;rsquo;re having, don&amp;rsquo;t have to wait as long as they had to in the past.&lt;br&gt;
Everyone should keep in mind that documentation for preview versions can be more limited, but should still read the &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44070"&gt;release notes &lt;/a&gt;carefully. They contain descriptions of some of the improvements that are discussed in this blog post, but also cover other things that aren&amp;rsquo;t discussed here. Also be sure to take a look at &lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh857339.aspx"&gt;What&amp;rsquo;s New in Windows PowerShell&lt;/a&gt; at TechNet.&lt;br&gt;
A request from the audience was to include more helpful real-life examples until documentation is fully up-to-date.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 285 – PowerScripting Podcast – Simon May from Microsoft</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-10-05-episode-285-powerscripting-podcast-simon-may-from-microsoft/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2014 02:58:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-10-05-episode-285-powerscripting-podcast-simon-may-from-microsoft/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-285.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Simon May from Microsoft** News**





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 personal: [http://simon-may.com/](http://simon-may.com/)


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 twitter: [https://twitter.com/simonster](https://twitter.com/simonster)
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 ## is that report potentially in a powershell script?
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/markrogowsky/2014/09/18/a-guide-to-whats-great-in-ios-8/?utm_campaign=techtwittersf&amp;amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;amp;utm_medium=social"&gt;http://www.forbes.com/sites/markrogowsky/2014/09/18/a-guide-to-whats-great-in-ios-8/?utm_campaign=techtwittersf&amp;amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;amp;utm_medium=social&lt;/a&gt;
Simon&amp;rsquo;s technet blog: &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/simonmay/"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/simonmay/&lt;/a&gt;
personal: &lt;a href="http://simon-may.com/"&gt;http://simon-may.com/&lt;/a&gt;
twitter: &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/simonster"&gt;https://twitter.com/simonster&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/virtuallabs/bb467605.aspx"&gt;http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/virtuallabs/bb467605.aspx&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning/"&gt;http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/azure-sql-databases-api-management-media-services-websites-role-based-access-control-and-more"&gt;http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/azure-sql-databases-api-management-media-services-websites-role-based-access-control-and-more&lt;/a&gt;
Stuwee &lt;a href="http://regex101.com/"&gt;http://regex101.com/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0pjD4qpIpg"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0pjD4qpIpg&lt;/a&gt;
@HAl &lt;a href="http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/media-services/"&gt;http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/media-services/&lt;/a&gt;
Azure pricing: &lt;a href="http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/media-services/"&gt;http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/media-services/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit Europe 2014 – – Thank you</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-10-04-powershell-summit-europe-2014-thank-you/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2014 11:17:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-10-04-powershell-summit-europe-2014-thank-you/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I would like to express a huge thank you to the speakers and attendees at our recent Summit.&lt;br&gt;
The speakers delivered an excellent set of sessions that dived into PowerShell features new and old.&lt;br&gt;
The attendees asked lots of questions, both during and after sessions, which is what we want. This is a Summit not a conference where a speaker rushes in, delivers a talk and rushes out. We wanted a healthy level of discussion and that&amp;rsquo;s what we got.&lt;br&gt;
The feed back we&amp;rsquo;ve had has been very positive from both the attendees and speakers. We managed to record practically all of the sessions and those videos as well as the slides and code will be available for download soon.&lt;br&gt;
This year&amp;rsquo;s event in Amsterdam has laid a very solid foundation for the future of the European Summit and our plans are to run a European Summit in 2015. Exact location and dates haven&amp;rsquo;t been decided yet but we will communicate them as soon as we know.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>When Will There be a PowerShell Summit in ____?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-30-when-will-there-be-a-powershell-summit-in-____/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2014 11:18:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-30-when-will-there-be-a-powershell-summit-in-____/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As we move into the middle of PowerShell Summit Europe 2014, we have a lot of folks asking, &amp;ldquo;when will you hold a Summit in ____&amp;rdquo; (insert the name of your favorite country).&lt;br&gt;
Right now, PowerShell.org is committed to organizing both North American and European events, one per year, while there is audience demand for them. Both events will shift locations from year to year, and the location choice is driven by a number of criteria - mainly financial ones.&lt;br&gt;
But we&amp;rsquo;re all volunteers here. Each event requires upwards of 240 man-hours to put together, and an up-front financial commitment of up to $25,000. We&amp;rsquo;re getting to the point where the organization can front that money, but it&amp;rsquo;s been on personal credit cards to this point, paid back only once the event is complete. So&amp;hellip; it&amp;rsquo;s a big deal. Strictly from a time perspective, we just don&amp;rsquo;t have enough to organize more events elsewhere in the world.&lt;br&gt;
However, we continue to encourage folks to organize their own events. We&amp;rsquo;ve even come up with a brand name to get you started: PowerShell Forum. The idea is for those to be smaller 2-3 day, regional-level events that we help promote. We&amp;rsquo;ll provide all the advice we can to help get you going, too. We&amp;rsquo;ll put you in touch with the right folks so that if product team participation is an option, you can find out. We hope that a PowerShell Forum &amp;ldquo;grows up&amp;rdquo; to one day host a PowerShell Summit - because the organizers and volunteers are in place to let us hold a full Summit without taking on the entire time commitment ourselves.&lt;br&gt;
In any community, if you want something good to come your way, the best way is to do it yourself - rather than asking someone else to bring the good to you. We feel that&amp;rsquo;s particularly true with live events, because &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; know the local market, the venues, the audience, the customs, the laws, and so on.&lt;br&gt;
So, &amp;ldquo;when will there be a PowerShell Summit in _____?&amp;rdquo; The answer is, &amp;ldquo;when you make it happen.&amp;rdquo; We&amp;rsquo;d love to help - but you&amp;rsquo;ll have to take the first step.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Join the DSC Hackathon at PowerShell Summit 2014 Europe</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-28-join-the-dsc-hackathon-at-powershell-summit-2014-europe/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2014 14:08:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-28-join-the-dsc-hackathon-at-powershell-summit-2014-europe/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;On Monday night (Amsterdam time, September 29th), we&amp;rsquo;ll be holding the first DSC Hackathon at PowerShell Summit Europe 2014. Attached are the scenarios we&amp;rsquo;ll be asking participants to select from. We&amp;rsquo;ll ask everyone to work in small groups, pick one scenario, and try to produce a custom DSC resource that solves the problem.&lt;br&gt;
Many of these are from Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s own internal &amp;ldquo;wish list&amp;rdquo; of resources that they don&amp;rsquo;t yet have anyone assigned to.&lt;br&gt;
You&amp;rsquo;re welcome to participate, even if you&amp;rsquo;re not present at the Summit. You _will _need to operate in Amsterdam time; we&amp;rsquo;re only accepting submissions during that time (from about 6pm local time). If you&amp;rsquo;d like to participate, you&amp;rsquo;ll need a Twitter account to begin with. When the Hackathon starts, drop a tweet that includes the hash tag #DSCHackathon, as well as the scenario you&amp;rsquo;d like to work on. We&amp;rsquo;ll respond and connect you with a group that&amp;rsquo;s working on that scenario. From there, the group will let you know how they&amp;rsquo;d like to communicate - possibly a Skype chat window, possibly an IRC chat, it&amp;rsquo;ll be up to them.&lt;br&gt;
In the event that Internet connectivity sucks, we&amp;rsquo;ll simply do our best, and may direct remote users to work on their own. But, if you monitor the #DSCHackathon tag, you may be able to find other remote users to team up with.&lt;br&gt;
There are no prizes - we&amp;rsquo;re doing this for the good of the community. However, every team who hands in a working resource will get public recognition in the PowerShell team blog, on PowerShell.org, and wherever else we can manage to mention you :).&lt;br&gt;
As a reminder, you should plan to have Windows PowerShell v4 or later on your laptop in order to participate. We don&amp;rsquo;t anticipate going longer than 2-3 hours, and if you&amp;rsquo;re on-site plan to use battery power for the entire period. Ideally, you&amp;rsquo;ll want a server VM or two so that you can test the scenarios&amp;hellip; which are attached herewith. And it&amp;rsquo;s fine to get an early start on these, if you like.&lt;br&gt;
Download: &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/DSC-Hackathon.docx"&gt;DSC Hackathon&lt;/a&gt; Scenarios&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 284 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jason Helmick interviews Jon and Hal</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-09-23-episode-284-powerscripting-podcast-jason-helmick-interviews-jon-and-hal/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2014 02:35:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-09-23-episode-284-powerscripting-podcast-jason-helmick-interviews-jon-and-hal/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-284.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast Jason Helmick interviews Jon and Hal.** News**





- 
 The Seattle Script Club is back! [September 24th](http://get-powershell.com/post/2014/09/23/Seattle-Script-Club-is-Back!.aspx)


- 
 The Atlanta PowerShell user group is back! [September 25th](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/atlanta-powershell-user-group-september-meeting-tickets-13037013057)


- 
 Registration for the PowerShell Summit North America starts [October 30th, 2014](https://powershell.org/2014/09/17/powershell-summit-north-america-2015-registration-information/)


- 
 A Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration [book has been announced](http://www.apress.com/9781484200179).
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 [https://powershell.org/2007/03/15/episode-zero/](https://powershell.org/2007/03/15/episode-zero/)
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&lt;p&gt;rcookiemonster did you see this angle of the funeral procession yesterday? &lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-prtlr12ejQQ/VBGnBXppovI/AAAAAAAAJfE/NGv_-cFX6P0/w799-h599-no/2014091095091713.jpg"&gt;https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-prtlr12ejQQ/VBGnBXppovI/AAAAAAAAJfE/NGv_-cFX6P0/w799-h599-no/2014091095091713.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://joby.com/gorillapod"&gt;http://joby.com/gorillapod&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit Europe 2014 – final agenda</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-23-powershell-summit-europe-2014-final-agenda/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2014 20:12:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-23-powershell-summit-europe-2014-final-agenda/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The final agenda for the PowerShell Summit is available at &lt;a href="http://eventmgr.azurewebsites.net/event/home/PSEU14"&gt;http://eventmgr.azurewebsites.net/event/home/PSEU14&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Circumstances beyond the control of PowerShell.org have meant we’ve had to make a few changes to the agenda from that previously published.&lt;br&gt;
Look forward to seeing you all in Amsterdam.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Instructions for PowerShell Summit North America 2015 Registration</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-23-instructions-for-powershell-summit-north-america-2015-registration/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2014 19:28:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-23-instructions-for-powershell-summit-north-america-2015-registration/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;re planning to attend PowerShell Summit North America 2015, to be held at the end of April 2015 in Charlotte, North Carolina, you should read the following important information:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The registration site will be open from 30 October 2014 to 30 March 2015. There is about a 30-day window from the end of registration to the event itself. There are no exceptions to this cutoff.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You should read the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/"&gt;extremely important information&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; about registering. It also contains links to the agenda and to the registration site.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The agenda will be available in mid-October 2014.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We will only have about 90 seats available due to the size of the venue. You will probably need to plan to register early, because we don&amp;rsquo;t have a magical way of making the building bigger to accommodate &amp;ldquo;just one more person.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We will not be holding seats for later registrations. Everything becomes available on 30 October 2014. We&amp;rsquo;ve done the &amp;ldquo;phased release&amp;rdquo; before and it was a major PITA.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Yes, we will be recording all sessions and posting them on the PowerShell.org YouTube channel. We will not be live-streaming because the facilities don&amp;rsquo;t exist to do so. Recordings will include slides/demos and a room microphone; this will not be Channel 9-quality, but it should get the job done. Or you could, you know, show up at the live event.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you are planning to have someone in your organization register and pay on your behalf, it is crucial that they do so 
using your e-mail address
, not theirs.&lt;/strong&gt; Otherwise, we may not be able to admit you to the event. **
This is a big deal.
 **Please don&amp;rsquo;t mess it up.&lt;br&gt;
**
Please help us get the word out.
** This is entirely a community event, run entirely by volunteers who are paying their own way to the event also. We have zero marketing and advertising budget, because we try to keep the overall costs as low as humanly possible. Set reminders to tweet, Facebook, etc. once a month and help us let the world know about the event.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Philadelphia Meeting – October 2nd 2014</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-14-philadelphia-meeting-october-2nd-2014/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2014 00:59:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-14-philadelphia-meeting-october-2nd-2014/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join us Thursday, October 2nd where
[&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;John Mello&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;](&lt;a href="http://mellositmusings.com/"&gt;http://mellositmusings.com/&lt;/a&gt;)
will be presenting a talk on &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The different custom object creation methods and their performance tradeoffs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Followed by
[&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;TJ Turner&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;](&lt;a href="http://techguytj.com/bio/"&gt;http://techguytj.com/bio/&lt;/a&gt;)
will give a talk entitled&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Intro to basic run space pools&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;a href="http://phillyposh.eventbrite.com/" title="phillyposh on eventbrite"&gt;
register
&lt;/a&gt; if you plan to attend in person or online. The meeting URL to join us remotely will be included in your Eventbrite registration confirmation.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/phillyposh-october-2th-2014-tickets-13119002289?ref=ebtnebregn"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.eventbrite.com/custombutton?eid=13119002289" alt="Eventbrite - PhillyPoSH October 2th 2014"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
We are also giving &lt;a href="http://meetu.ps/2xTtT0"&gt;Meetup&lt;/a&gt; a try for the next 6th month so feel free to register there as well.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell v5: Misc Goodness (including Auditing)</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-10-powershell-v5-misc-goodness-including-auditing/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2014 14:49:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-10-powershell-v5-misc-goodness-including-auditing/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Aside from classes and new DSC features, which I&amp;rsquo;ve already written about, there are a number of less-headline, but still-very-awesome, new capabilities.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;This article is based on the September 2014 preview release of WMF 5.0. Information is highly subject to change.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
First up is the **ability to automatically create PowerShell cmdlets from an OData endpoint. **Huh? OData is a kind of web service (basically); PowerShell gains the ability to look at the endpoint and construct a set of proxy cmdlets that let you interact with the endpoint more naturally. This is spiritually similar to what PowerShell can already do for a SOAP web service endpoint.&lt;br&gt;
Next are some 7-years-overdue cmdlets for &lt;strong&gt;managing ZIP files&lt;/strong&gt;: Compress-Archive and Expand-Archive. Finally. These use underlying .NET Framework ZIP functionality (I think), which has had &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; compatibility problems in the past, so we&amp;rsquo;ll see how these hold up. But they should be the missing link to letting you do everything DSC-related right in PowerShell, since you can now ZIP up your custom resources for deployment via pull server.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Auditing gets a huge win&lt;/strong&gt;, and this is really more of a headline feature than people think. For one, the ISE now supports transcript creation. Yay! You can also &amp;ldquo;nest&amp;rdquo; transcripts, meaning you can have one running, and then start a second one to cover only a portion of time. Closing the second one lets the first remain running. You can also specify a central transcript directory, which is useful when you want to collect these things into a central folder for reporting. For example, you should now be able to set up Remoting endpoints that automatically kick off a transcript when someone connects, and saves them to that central location.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;More auditing&lt;/strong&gt; comes in the form of Group Policy settings. You&amp;rsquo;ve always been able to log the fact that certain commands were run (did you know that?), but now you can enable detailed script tracing that logs a crapload of detail to the PowerShell operational log (which can, like any other event log, be forwarded to another server). You get the complete details of every script block executed, even if it creates another script block. Again, this is set up in Group Policy - check out the WMF 5.0 release notes for the location.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Ed Snowden gets a face slap&lt;/strong&gt; with new Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) cmdlets, including Get-CmsMessage, Protect-CmsMessage, and Unprotect-CmsMessage. These use PKI to encrypt data. By the way, **if your organization doesn&amp;rsquo;t already have an internal PKI, WTF are you waiting for, you&amp;rsquo;re ten years behind the curve, man. **PKI becomes more important to Windows environments every single day, and you need to get with the program.&lt;br&gt;
There&amp;rsquo;s also a new **fun feature for extracting content from strings. &lt;strong&gt;This system uses some Microsoft Research functionality called FlashExtract. Essentially, you give it examples of what your data looks like, and then point it to a big string (like a text file) full of data. It can extract all the data pieces based on your example. It&amp;rsquo;s early days for this technology, but it&amp;rsquo;s kind of &lt;em&gt;awesome&lt;/em&gt; to see the PowerShell team giving us an easy way to play with it.&lt;br&gt;
Because WMF 5.0 &lt;strong&gt;introduces PowerShellGet&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;/strong&gt; **it now includes commands to add PowerShellGet repositories. That means you can stand up your own repo, host your modules there, and install modules by simply running Install-Module (or find them using Find-Module). Tres awesome! We don&amp;rsquo;t yet have technical details on what the heck a PowerShellGet repository actually looks like, but I&amp;rsquo;m sure that&amp;rsquo;ll crop up.&lt;br&gt;
ARE YOU PLAYING WITH WMF 5.0 ON A NON-PRODUCTION VM YET? YOU SHOULD BE. Times are changing and you gotta keep up!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>September Omaha PowerShell User Group Registration is Live!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-09-september-omaha-powershell-user-group-registration-is-live/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2014 19:52:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-09-september-omaha-powershell-user-group-registration-is-live/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This month PowerShell MVP Trevor Sullivan will be presenting on using Windows Azure with PowerShell. Additionally you will want to bring your laptops (or favorite device to use PowerShell on) as we will have a little scripting challenge involving PowerShell, Credentials and Security. Also, my girlfriend has promised to make cookies for everyone!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Trevor Sullivan is an IT professional and a Microsoft Windows PowerShell MVP who has been in the field since early 2004. His focus has been on using various enterprise tools within the Microsoft platform to provide business value through positive end user impact.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Omaha PowerShell User Group August Meeting Materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-09-omaha-powershell-user-group-august-meeting-materials/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2014 19:25:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-09-omaha-powershell-user-group-august-meeting-materials/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In August Bartek Bielawski presented on OMI, PowerShell, Linux using PowerShell and the power of Sparkle Ponies.  His presentation notes and code can be found here:  https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=4BFE4A6675A48C91&amp;amp;id=4BFE4A6675A48C91%21115&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell v5: What's New in DSC</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-09-powershell-v5-whats-new-in-dsc/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:11:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-09-powershell-v5-whats-new-in-dsc/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;When Desired State Configuration (DSC) came out - gosh, just about a year ago - I kept telling people that there was more to come. And a lot of it is now just around the corner in PowerShell v5.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;This article is written to the September 2014 preview release - things may change for the final release.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
A major set of changes in DSC is a much more detailed and granular configuration of the Local Configuration Manager (LCM), the local &amp;ldquo;agent&amp;rdquo; that makes DSC work on the target node. This new level of configuration really shows you where Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s thinking is.&lt;br&gt;
For example, a single target node can be configured _to pull configurations from multiple pull servers. _That doesn&amp;rsquo;t necessarily mean separate _machines, _as a single IIS instance can host multiple websites, but it means you&amp;rsquo;re no longer limited to one MOF per computer.&lt;br&gt;
Yes, I said that. The LCM can now &lt;em&gt;pull&lt;/em&gt; (but not have pushed to it) _partial configurations. _Each partial configuration is a MOF, but the understanding is that there can be more than one. There&amp;rsquo;s still no dynamic evaluation of &lt;em&gt;which&lt;/em&gt; MOFs will be pulled; you have to specify them all in the LCM configuration, but now you can break a machine&amp;rsquo;s total configuration into multiple bits. Each partial configuration is given a &lt;em&gt;source&lt;/em&gt;, which is a pull server.&lt;br&gt;
Each partial configuration can be given exclusivity over certain resources. This helps avoid overlap. For example, you might decided that Partial Config A has exclusive control over all xIPAddress settings, meaning those settings from &lt;em&gt;any other&lt;/em&gt; partial config wouldn&amp;rsquo;t work. Partial configurations can also depend on each other, so that (for example), Partial Config B won&amp;rsquo;t even run until Partial Config A is complete.&lt;br&gt;
The LCM can also have a separate server configured for web- or file-based resource repositories, meaning those can be separated from the pull server endpoint.&lt;br&gt;
What used to be called the &amp;ldquo;compliance server&amp;rdquo; is now simply the &lt;em&gt;reporting server&lt;/em&gt; - we mentioned in &amp;ldquo;The DSC Book&amp;rdquo; that the name of this would likely change. It&amp;rsquo;s now a distinct configuration item, meaning &lt;em&gt;even a node in Push mode can report its status to the reporting server!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
New global synchronization capabilities also exist. A node&amp;rsquo;s configuration can be made dependent on _a configuration item from another node. _Meaning, Node &amp;ldquo;A&amp;rdquo; won&amp;rsquo;t try to configure until Node &amp;ldquo;B&amp;rdquo; completes certain items first. Communications is all via WS-MAN and CIM.&lt;br&gt;
A new &lt;strong&gt;Get-DscConfigurationStatus&lt;/strong&gt; returns a high-level status for a node - similar to what the reporting server would collect - and an amazing new &lt;strong&gt;Compare-DscConfiguration&lt;/strong&gt; can now accept a configuration and tell you _where a given node differs. _This is a big deal, and something a lot of folks wanted in PowerShell v4. There&amp;rsquo;s also an **Update-DscConfiguration, **which forces a node to evaluate its DSC stuff right away.&lt;br&gt;
DSC is quickly coming of age. In less than a year, we&amp;rsquo;ve seen (so far) 6 releases of additional resources, and now with PowerShell v5 we&amp;rsquo;re seeing a number of important enhancements and evolutions in the core technology. Many of the things that frustrated folks initially are now taken care of.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 283 – PowerScripting Podcast – Ed Horley on IPv6</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-09-08-episode-283-powerscripting-podcast-ed-horley-on-ipv6/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2014 03:13:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-09-08-episode-283-powerscripting-podcast-ed-horley-on-ipv6/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-283.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Ed Horley about IPv6** News**





- 
 The WMF 5.0 September preview [has been released](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/09/04/windows-management-framework-5-0-preview-september-2014-is-now-available.aspx)!


- 
 You can now register for the [PowerShell Summit Europe!](http://eventmgr.azurewebsites.net/event/home/PSEU14) through September 10th


- 
 [Speak at the 2015 PowerShell Summit NA!](https://powershell.org/2014/09/01/last-call-for-speaker-submissions-for-the-2015-na-powershell-summit/)


- 
 PowerShell Desired State Configuration at LabCenter in Stockholm, Sweden on [September 10th](http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2w-powershell-desired-state-configuration-registrering-12120810671?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=4)


- 
 The Indianapolis PowerShell User Group is meeting on [September 10th ](http://www.eventbrite.com/e/meeting-16-desired-state-configuration-unplugged-tickets-12885413619?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=5)


- 
 PowerBreakfast SG #005 is happening Saturday [September 13th](http://www.poshbreakfast.com/?p=22)
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 [http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Windows-Administrators-Edward-Horley/dp/1430263709](http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Windows-Administrators-Edward-Horley/dp/1430263709)


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 [https://tunnelbroker.net/](https://tunnelbroker.net/)


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 [http://www.gogo6.com/freenet6](http://www.gogo6.com/freenet6)


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 [http://www.howfunky.com/](http://www.howfunky.com/)


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 [http://cav6tf.org/](http://cav6tf.org/)


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 [https://twitter.com/ehorley](https://twitter.com/ehorley)
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 ## cidr notation, I'm drawing a blank on what that is
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&lt;h2 id="what-about-the-lower-addresses"&gt;what about the lower addresses? &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_address_blocks"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_address_blocks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="and-this-natting-is-in-the-us"&gt;and this natting is in the US?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="can-anyone-point-to-anyone-thats-actually-doing-this-it-sounds-as-complex-as-rolling-out-ipv6--p"&gt;Can anyone point to anyone that&amp;rsquo;s actually doing this? It sounds as complex as rolling out IPV6 :-p&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="cpe-device-what-is-that"&gt;CPE device, what is that?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h3 id="were-using-it-but-this-means-that-its-enabled-past-my-router"&gt;we&amp;rsquo;re using it???&amp;hellip; but this means that it&amp;rsquo;s enabled past my router?!?&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2 id="how-can-i-figure-out-if-my-cpe-is-using-v6"&gt;How can I figure out if my CPE is using v6?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h3 id="so-youre-given-ipv6-ips-from-the-service-provider"&gt;so you&amp;rsquo;re given IPv6 IPs from the service provider???&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h3 id="how-is-your-internal-router-passing-that-information"&gt;how is your internal router passing that information???&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h3 id="but-if-youre-old-printer-doesnt-support-ipv6-then-it-will-only-accept-ipv4-packets"&gt;but if you&amp;rsquo;re old printer doesn&amp;rsquo;t support IPv6&amp;hellip; then it will only accept IPv4 packets&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;##does Ed run a firewall at the perimeter? if so, which one?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell v5: Class Support</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-08-powershell-v5-class-support/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2014 14:14:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-08-powershell-v5-class-support/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This post is based on the September 2014 preview release of WMF 5.0. This is pre-release software, so this information may change.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
One of the banner new features in PowerShell v5 is support for real live .NET Framework class creation in Windows PowerShell. The WMF 5.0 download&amp;rsquo;s release notes has some good examples of what classes look  like, but I wanted to briefly set some expectations for the feature, based on my own early experiences.&lt;br&gt;
The primary use case for classes, at this point, is for DSC resources. Rather than creating a special PowerShell module that has specially named functions, live in a specially named folder, and work in a special way - that&amp;rsquo;s a lot of special, which means a lot of room for error - classes provide a more declarative way of creating DSC resources.&lt;br&gt;
But we&amp;rsquo;re a bit ahead of ourselves. What&amp;rsquo;s a &lt;em&gt;class&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;br&gt;
In object-oriented programming, a &lt;em&gt;class&lt;/em&gt; is a hunk of code that provides a specific interface. Everything in the .NET Framework is a class. When you run Get-Process in PowerShell, for example, you are returning objects of the type System.Diagnostics.Process - or, in other languages, objects &lt;em&gt;of the class&lt;/em&gt; System.Diagnostics.Process. Each process is an &lt;em&gt;instance&lt;/em&gt; of the class. The class describes all the standardized things that a process can show you (like its name or ID), or that it can do (like terminate). Programmers build the functionality into the class itself.&lt;br&gt;
Classes can have &lt;em&gt;static&lt;/em&gt; properties and methods - these are hunks of code that don&amp;rsquo;t require an actual instance of a process. For example, you can start a process without having a process in the first place. The System.Math class in .NET has lots of static members - the static property Pi, for example, contains the numeric value of pi to a certain number of decimal places. The static Abs() method returns the absolute value of a number.&lt;br&gt;
PowerShell classes are designed to provide similar functionality. The trick with PowerShell classes, at least at this stage of their development, is that they don&amp;rsquo;t add their type name to any kind of global namespace. That is, let&amp;rsquo;s say you write a class named My.Cool.Thing, and you save it into a script module named MyCoolThing.psm1. You can&amp;rsquo;t just go into the shell and run &lt;strong&gt;New-Object -TypeName My.Cool.Thing&lt;/strong&gt; to create an instance of the class, because there&amp;rsquo;s nothing in PowerShell (yet) that knows to go look for your script module to find the class. That&amp;rsquo;ll likely change in a future release, but for right now it means classes are kind of limited.&lt;br&gt;
The basic rule is that you can only use a class _within the same module that contains the class. _That is, the class can only be &amp;ldquo;seen&amp;rdquo; from within the module. So, your MyCoolThing.psm1 module might define a class, and then might also define several commands (functions) that use the class - that&amp;rsquo;s legal, and it will work. You still can&amp;rsquo;t use New-Object; instead, you&amp;rsquo;d instantiate your class by using something like &lt;strong&gt;ClassName::new()&lt;/strong&gt;, calling the static New() method of the class to instantiate it. I expect New-Object will get &amp;ldquo;hooked up&amp;rdquo; at some point, but it might not be until some future version of PowerShell.&lt;br&gt;
Anyway, back to DSC.&lt;br&gt;
DSC is a bit unique, because normally &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; don&amp;rsquo;t load resource modules; the Local Configuration Manager loads them. When you build a DSC resource class, you&amp;rsquo;re forced to provide three methods: Get(), Set(), and Test(). The LCM loads your module, instantiates the class, and then calls the three methods as needed. DSC resources built in this fashion can live in a plain old module .PSM1 file - there&amp;rsquo;s no need to create a DSCResources subfolder, no need to have an empty &amp;ldquo;root&amp;rdquo; module, or any of that. So it&amp;rsquo;s a more elegant solution all around. Aside from some structural differences, you code them the same as you always have. v5 still supports the old-style resources, for backward compatibility, but class-based resources are the &amp;ldquo;way forward.&amp;rdquo; I expect Microsoft will eventually refactor the DSC Resource Kit to be class-based resources, as soon as they get a minute and as soon as v5 is widely adopted.&lt;br&gt;
So most of the &amp;ldquo;wiring&amp;rdquo; behind classes has, to this point, been designed to support that DSC use case. In other words, of all the things a PowerShell class will need to do, the team has &lt;em&gt;so far&lt;/em&gt; focused mainly on those things that impact DSC. The rest will come later - the release notes use the phrase, &amp;ldquo;&amp;hellip;in this release&amp;rdquo; a lot, meaning the team understands where the current weaknesses are. &amp;ldquo;This release&amp;rdquo; in some cases may simply mean _this current preview release, _meaning they&amp;rsquo;re targeting more features for v5&amp;rsquo;s final release; in other cases, more features will have to wait for v6 (or whatever) or a later version of PowerShell.&lt;br&gt;
So there&amp;rsquo;s a little rambling on classes and what&amp;rsquo;s presently in PowerShell v5. If you haven&amp;rsquo;t already downloaded the preview and started playing with it, you should; _not in production, though. _Keep it in a test VM for the time being.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 09/04/2014 meeting summary and presentation materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-07-phillyposh-09042014-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2014 02:39:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-07-phillyposh-09042014-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</guid><description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.powershell.no/"&gt;
Jan Egil Ring
&lt;/a&gt; gave a presentation entitled “Get Started with Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration”. During his talked Jan went over a series of demos explaining how to use the configuration keyword to define configurations for different resources along with the different configuration modes. A copy of his demo scripts and presentation are available &lt;a href="https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=4e672563938ed1e2&amp;amp;id=4E672563938ED1E2%2132074&amp;amp;ithint=folder,&amp;amp;authkey=!AAKDqB2auYF3L9w"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeStZxknsCM&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be"&gt;
recording of this meeting
 &lt;/a&gt;has been posted to our &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAc_ow5FIJtRpvew__9Iqzg"&gt;
YouTube channel
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>LAST CALL for the European PowerShell Summit 2014</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-06-last-call-for-the-european-powershell-summit-2014/</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2014 08:50:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-06-last-call-for-the-european-powershell-summit-2014/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This is the &lt;strong&gt;last call&lt;/strong&gt; for attendee registration for the European PowerShell Summit 2014.&lt;br&gt;
The Summit is in Amsterdam - 29 September to 1 October 2014. Details from the events page &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/"&gt;https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
Due to a change in circumstances beyond our control &lt;strong&gt;we have to close public registration on 10 September 2014&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
If you contact us by 10 September and ask to be able to perform a funds transfer rather than paying on line you have until 15 September 2014 to complete that transaction. No monies or registrations will be accepted after 15 September. We will not accept any new request for paying by money transfer after 10 September.&lt;br&gt;
Apologies for the change in dates (the web site states registration is open until 15 September) but our hands have been forced on this.&lt;br&gt;
There are still a number of places available so please register quickly if you want to attend. The more attendees we have the better chance we have of staging a European PowerShell Summit in 2015.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit Europe 2014: Prepare for the DSC Hackathon</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-02-powershell-summit-europe-2014-prepare-for-the-dsc-hackathon/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2014 22:54:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-09-02-powershell-summit-europe-2014-prepare-for-the-dsc-hackathon/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re hoping that everyone attending the PowerShell Summit Europe 2014 will join our Monday evening **DSC Hackathon, **where we&amp;rsquo;ll become &amp;ldquo;product team members for a night&amp;rdquo; and try to code up some DSC Resources from the team&amp;rsquo;s own internal wish list!&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;ll provide a cash bar as well as finger food for our on-site attendees&amp;hellip; but you&amp;rsquo;re welcome to participate remotely, too! Sometime on September 29th, watch PowerShell.org for a posting that includes the challenges. Choose your challenge, and follow the blog post instructions to submit them. We&amp;rsquo;ll also include details for participating live via IRC and other chat mechanisms, and we may be able to do a live room-cast via Lync or something.&lt;br&gt;
There are no winners and no losers - only the _entire community _wins, because completed entries will be added to the PowerShell.org GitHub repo and made available to the world, for free. But, coders who complete a resource &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; receive public recognition, both here on PowerShell.org and in some other very visible venues!&lt;br&gt;
Here&amp;rsquo;s what you&amp;rsquo;ll need to participate:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>European Summit deadline approaching</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-08-28-european-summit-deadline-approaching/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:23:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-08-28-european-summit-deadline-approaching/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;There are just over two weeks left for you to register for the European PowerShell Summit. At the moment we are still short of the number that would enable us to repeat a European Summit in 2015. We had a lot of comments from people stating they wanted a Summit in Europe. Now is the time to step up and support that idea.&lt;br&gt;
Hope to see you there&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 282 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jennelle Crothers &amp; Jessica DaVita from Microsoft</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-08-26-episode-282-powerscripting-podcast-jennelle-crothers-jessica-davita-from-microsoft/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2014 02:14:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-08-26-episode-282-powerscripting-podcast-jennelle-crothers-jessica-davita-from-microsoft/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-282.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jennelle Crothers &amp;amp; Jessica DaVita** News**





- 
 You can now register for the [PowerShell Summit Europe!](http://eventmgr.azurewebsites.net/event/home/PSEU14)


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 [Azure PowerShell DSC extension](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/08/07/introducing-the-azure-powershell-dsc-desired-state-configuration-extension.aspx) announced


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 [DSC Resource Kit Wave 6](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/08/20/dsc-resource-kit-wave-6-is-here.aspx) is out


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 [The Denver PowerShellers are meeting 9/4](http://www.meetup.com/Denver-PowerShellers/)


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 [The Philadelphia PowerShell User Group is meeting 9/4](http://www.eventbrite.com/e/phillyposh-september-4th-2014-tickets-12733862325?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=3)
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 [http://blogs.technet.com/b/blainbar/archive/2014/06/05/technet-radio-jessica-devita-interviews-gene-kim-from-the-phoenix-project-devops-tune-in.aspx](http://blogs.technet.com/b/blainbar/archive/2014/06/05/technet-radio-jessica-devita-interviews-gene-kim-from-the-phoenix-project-devops-tune-in.aspx)


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 [http://blogs.technet.com/b/jennellecrothers/](http://blogs.technet.com/b/jennellecrothers/)


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 [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/08/07/introducing-the-azure-powershell-dsc-desired-state-configuration-extension.aspx](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/08/07/introducing-the-azure-powershell-dsc-desired-state-configuration-extension.aspx)


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 [http://technetevents.com/Default.aspx](http://technetevents.com/Default.aspx)


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 [http://www.techbunny.com/](http://www.techbunny.com/)
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 [http://www.techbunny.com/](http://www.techbunny.com/)
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/CommsNinja"&gt;https://twitter.com/CommsNinja&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.theubergeekgirl.com/"&gt;http://www.theubergeekgirl.com/&lt;/a&gt;
you must check this interview out: &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/blainbar/archive/2014/06/05/technet-radio-jessica-devita-interviews-gene-kim-from-the-phoenix-project-devops-tune-in.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/blainbar/archive/2014/06/05/technet-radio-jessica-devita-interviews-gene-kim-from-the-phoenix-project-devops-tune-in.aspx&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/jennellecrothers/"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/jennellecrothers/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://manage.windowsazure.com/"&gt;https://manage.windowsazure.com/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://portal.azure.com/"&gt;http://portal.azure.com/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://snag.gy/5Qdfl.jpg"&gt;http://snag.gy/5Qdfl.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
Azure PowerShell DSC Extension &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/08/07/introducing-the-azure-powershell-dsc-desired-state-configuration-extension.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/08/07/introducing-the-azure-powershell-dsc-desired-state-configuration-extension.aspx&lt;/a&gt;
(or just go to &lt;a href="https://portal.azure.com"&gt;https://portal.azure.com&lt;/a&gt; )
&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/08/07/introducing-the-azure-powershell-dsc-desired-state-configuration-extension.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/08/07/introducing-the-azure-powershell-dsc-desired-state-configuration-extension.aspx&lt;/a&gt;
It literally has a new Clippy :&amp;lt;&lt;a href="http://snag.gy/jQwC2.jpg"&gt; http://snag.gy/jQwC2.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
is this it ehorley? &lt;a href="http://technetevents.com/azureitcamps/"&gt;http://technetevents.com/azureitcamps/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://technetevents.com/Default.aspx"&gt;http://technetevents.com/Default.aspx&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-into-wild.html"&gt;http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-into-wild.html&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blog.codinghorror.com/working-with-the-chaos-monkey/"&gt;http://blog.codinghorror.com/working-with-the-chaos-monkey/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/jennellecrothers/archive/2014/01/20/get-up-to-speed-with-mva-39-s-quot-azure-week-quot.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/jennellecrothers/archive/2014/01/20/get-up-to-speed-with-mva-39-s-quot-azure-week-quot.aspx&lt;/a&gt;
check it &lt;a href="http://snag.gy/hz26p.jpg"&gt;http://snag.gy/hz26p.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/ebooks/"&gt;https://powershell.org/ebooks/&lt;/a&gt;
this? &lt;a href="http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/PowerShell-Deployment-f20bb605"&gt;http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/PowerShell-Deployment-f20bb605&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/09/08/episode-239-powerscripting-podcast-rob-willis-from-microsoft-on-the-powershell-deployment-toolkit/"&gt;https://powershell.org/2013/09/08/episode-239-powerscripting-podcast-rob-willis-from-microsoft-on-the-powershell-deployment-toolkit/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC/issues/26"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC/issues/26&lt;/a&gt;  (Ed Horley is butt hurt that there is no IPv6 support)&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>DenverPSUG – Keith Hill Presenting</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-08-26-denverpsug-keith-hill-presenting/</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2014 15:32:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-08-26-denverpsug-keith-hill-presenting/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hello everyone,&lt;br&gt;
The Denver PowerShell User Group will be meeting again on September 4th and we will have &lt;a href="http://rkeithhill.wordpress.com/"&gt;Keith Hill&lt;/a&gt; presenting. Keith has published an ebook, is a repeat Microsoft MVP, and has been heavily involved in writing and maintaining the PowerShell Community Extensions.&lt;br&gt;
You can find more information on the event as well as RSVP here:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Keith Hill - Effective PowerShell





 Thursday, Sep 4, 2014, 7:00 PM
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&lt;p&gt;899 Logan st&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Philadelphia Meeting – September 4th 2014</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-08-20-philadelphia-meeting-september-4th-2014/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2014 03:59:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-08-20-philadelphia-meeting-september-4th-2014/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join us Thursday, September 4th where &lt;a href="http://blog.powershell.no/"&gt;Jan Egil RIng&lt;/a&gt; will be presenting a talk on &lt;strong&gt;Get Started with Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Jan will explain how to use Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC), which was introduced in Windows PowerShell 4.0, to configure your environment. The purpose of DSC is to provide Deployment, Configuration and Compliance capabilities for Windows resources such as a files, services, roles and features, users, groups and anything that can be managed from PowerShell by using custom resources such as a script. During his talk you will&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Registration for August Omaha PowerShell User Group Meeting is Live!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-08-19-registration-for-august-omaha-powershell-user-group-meeting-is-live/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2014 13:22:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-08-19-registration-for-august-omaha-powershell-user-group-meeting-is-live/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/omaha-powershell-users-group-august-meeting-tickets-12703856577"&gt;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/omaha-powershell-users-group-august-meeting-tickets-12703856577&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the second ever meeting of the Omaha PowerShell User Group we will have PowerShell MVP Bartek Bielawski talking about OMI: PowerShell Everywhere:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;CIM cmdlets and CDXML commands are advertised as technology that will enable PowerShell users to manage anything in datacenter. It wouldn’t be possible though without something that we can talk to on the remote end, and that’s were OMI kicks in. In this presentation I will show you how you can manage processes on Linux using OMI and CIM, and how easy it is to create CDXML based commands on top of it.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This meeting (and all future meetings) are for anyone who uses or is interested in PowerShell.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 281 – PowerScripting Podcast – Robert Cain on SQL and PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-08-18-episode-281-powerscripting-podcast-robert-cain-on-sql-and-powershell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2014 02:41:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-08-18-episode-281-powerscripting-podcast-robert-cain-on-sql-and-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-281.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Robert Cain.** News**





- 
 You can now register for the [PowerShell Summit Europe!](http://eventmgr.azurewebsites.net/event/home/PSEU14)


- 
 The Florida PowerShell User group is [meeting August 21st 2014](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/florida-powershell-user-group-monthly-meeting-august-2014-tickets-12673184837?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=5)


- 
 PowerShell Saturday #10 is happening in [Singapore August 23rd 2014](https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/powershell-saturday-010-tickets-12314662487?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=6)


- 
 [Microsoft Community Day 2014 - Bangalore](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/microsoft-community-day-2014-bangalore-itpro-and-powershell-bangalore-ug-meet-tickets-12458869815) is August 23rd 2014


- 
 [SQLSaturday #328 in Birmingham](http://www.sqlsaturday.com/328/eventhome.aspx) is August 23rd 2014
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Guest - Glenn Block and Oisin Grehan
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- 
 [http://www.instedit.com/](http://www.instedit.com/)


- 
 [http://pluralsight.com/training/Authors/Details/robert-cain](http://pluralsight.com/training/Authors/Details/robert-cain)


- 
 [http://arcanecode.com/about/](http://arcanecode.com/about/)


- 
 [http://twitter.com/arcanecode](http://twitter.com/arcanecode)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Chatroom Highlights:
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://pluralsight.com/training/Authors/Details/robert-cain"&gt;http://pluralsight.com/training/Authors/Details/robert-cain&lt;/a&gt;
did you try &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;http://live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;?
&lt;a href="http://arcanecode.com/about/"&gt;http://arcanecode.com/about/&lt;/a&gt;
Exclude Delayed Start Services when Checking Status with PowerShell &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2014/07/31/exclude-delayed-start-services-when-checking-status-with-powershell.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2014/07/31/exclude-delayed-start-services-when-checking-status-with-powershell.aspx&lt;/a&gt;
Using PowerShell to discover information about your Microsoft SQL Servers &lt;a href="http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2014/07/21/using-powershell-to-discover-information-about-your-microsoft-sql-servers"&gt;http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2014/07/21/using-powershell-to-discover-information-about-your-microsoft-sql-servers&lt;/a&gt;/
I&amp;rsquo;m presenting two PowerShell sessions at SQL Saturday #324 in Baton Rouge this weekend: &lt;a href="http://www.sqlsaturday.com/324/eventhome.aspx"&gt;http://www.sqlsaturday.com/324/eventhome.aspx&lt;/a&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;m also doing the same two sessions at SQL Saturday #328 in Birmingham on August 23rd: &lt;a href="http://www.sqlsaturday.com/328/eventhome.aspx"&gt;http://www.sqlsaturday.com/328/eventhome.aspx&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.sqlsaturday.com/328/eventhome.aspx"&gt;http://www.sqlsaturday.com/328/eventhome.aspx&lt;/a&gt;
Getting Started with Administering and Managing Microsoft SQL Server with PowerShell &lt;a href="http://mikefrobbins.com/2014/04/24/getting-started-with-administering-and-managing-microsoft-sql-server-with-powershell/"&gt;http://mikefrobbins.com/2014/04/24/getting-started-with-administering-and-managing-microsoft-sql-server-with-powershell/&lt;/a&gt;
You have to install it from the command line on Server Core (no GUI): &lt;a href="http://mikefrobbins.com/2014/04/24/getting-started-with-administering-and-managing-microsoft-sql-server-with-powershell/"&gt;http://mikefrobbins.com/2014/04/24/getting-started-with-administering-and-managing-microsoft-sql-server-with-powershell/&lt;/a&gt;
Wrong link. Installing SQL Server 2012 RC0 on Server Core &lt;a href="http://mikefrobbins.com/2011/11/24/installing-sql-server-2012-rc0-on-server-core/"&gt;http://mikefrobbins.com/2011/11/24/installing-sql-server-2012-rc0-on-server-core/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/arcanecode"&gt;http://twitter.com/arcanecode&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://arcanecode.com/"&gt;http://arcanecode.com/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://pragmaticworks.com/"&gt;http://pragmaticworks.com/&lt;/a&gt;
PowerShell Deep Dives book &lt;a href="http://www.manning.com/hicks/"&gt;http://www.manning.com/hicks/&lt;/a&gt;
Hey, anyone know what this guy&amp;rsquo;s real name is? &lt;a href="https://github.com/nohwnd"&gt;https://github.com/nohwnd&lt;/a&gt;
No, but he is following me on twitter: &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/nohwnd"&gt;http://twitter.com/nohwnd&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://jakubjares.com/#/gotthemvp"&gt;http://jakubjares.com/#/gotthemvp&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/mvp/Jakub%20Jares-5000731"&gt;http://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/mvp/Jakub%20Jares-5000731&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.instedit.com/"&gt;http://www.instedit.com/&lt;/a&gt;
seen this? &lt;a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/this-thumbdrive-hacks-computers-badusb-exploit-makes-devices-turn-evil/"&gt;http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/this-thumbdrive-hacks-computers-badusb-exploit-makes-devices-turn-evil/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Omaha PowerShell User Group Meeting – 8/26</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-08-18-omaha-powershell-user-group-meeting-826/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:36:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-08-18-omaha-powershell-user-group-meeting-826/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The next (and second ever) meeting of the Omaha PowerShell Users Group is taking place next Tuesday, August 26th.  MVP Bartek Bielawski will be talking about OMI on Windows and Linux.&lt;br&gt;
I am having some issues with Lync in our Office 365 account so as soon as that gets straightened out I will be creating the invite for you to sign up, so watch for that!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 280 – PowerScripting Podcast – Glenn Block and Oisin Grehan on Asynchronous Programming</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-08-06-episode-280-powerscripting-podcast-glenn-block-and-oisin-grehan-on-asynchronous-programming/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2014 03:30:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-08-06-episode-280-powerscripting-podcast-glenn-block-and-oisin-grehan-on-asynchronous-programming/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-280.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Watch the recording: (&lt;a href="http://youtu.be/QXC_9KazCvQ"&gt;behind the scenes&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Glenn Block and Oisin Grehan** News**





- 
 You can now register for the [PowerShell Summit Europe!](http://eventmgr.azurewebsites.net/event/home/PSEU14)


- 
 The Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson is speaking at the [Charlotte SQL Server User Group Aug 13th](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/charlotte-sql-server-user-group-wed-aug-13th-meeting-invitation-and-rsvp-registration-12338993261?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=4)


- 
 Washington DC [Office 365 Ramp-Up Day](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/washington-dc-office-365-ramp-up-day-tickets-11958858267?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=6) is August 15th
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Guest - Glenn Block and Oisin Grehan
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Links





- 
 Glenn Block [@gblock](https://twitter.com/gblock)


- 
 Oisin Grehan [@oising](https://twitter.com/oising)


- 
 [Intro to async/await and asynchronous programming in .NET 4.5](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh191443.aspx)


- 
 Oisin’s [psasync project on github](https://github.com/oising/psasync/blob/master/AsyncCallJobSource/Commands/RegisterAsyncCallEventCommand.cs)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Chatroom Highlights:





 [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hosed](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hosed)
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXC_9KazCvQ"&gt; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXC_9KazCvQ&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXC_9KazCvQ"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXC_9KazCvQ&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh191443.aspx"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh191443.aspx&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell/feedback/details/838221/powershell-must-support-calling-async-apis"&gt;https://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell/feedback/details/838221/powershell-must-support-calling-async-apis&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell/feedback/details/838221/powershell-must-support-calling-async-apis"&gt;https://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell/feedback/details/838221/powershell-must-support-calling-async-apis&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.manning.com/jones6/"&gt;http://www.manning.com/jones6/&lt;/a&gt;
sweet! &lt;a href="http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html"&gt;http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/oising/psasync/blob/master/AsyncCallJobSource/Commands/RegisterAsyncCallEventCommand.cs"&gt;https://github.com/oising/psasync/blob/master/AsyncCallJobSource/Commands/RegisterAsyncCallEventCommand.cs&lt;/a&gt;
Shattered Planet, on ios and android &lt;a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kitfox.shatteredplanet"&gt;https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kitfox.shatteredplanet&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shattered-planet-rpg/id698929655?mt=8"&gt;https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shattered-planet-rpg/id698929655?mt=8&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/gblock"&gt;https://twitter.com/gblock&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/oising"&gt;https://twitter.com/oising&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/oising/psasync"&gt;https://github.com/oising/psasync&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.nivot.org/"&gt;http://www.nivot.org/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-csharp-pcl"&gt;https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-csharp-pcl&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Omaha PowerShell User Group Meeting Notes/Video</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-07-30-omaha-powershell-user-group-meeting-notesvideo/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 14:31:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-07-30-omaha-powershell-user-group-meeting-notesvideo/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The first Omaha PowerShell User Group Meeting is in the books!  We had a great turnout with 26 people showing up last night.&lt;br&gt;
The video Don Jones made for us is available on YouTube &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtAcl64oHH4&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
Our next meeting will take place on August 26th with PowerShell MVP Bartek Bielawski doing the presentation on either Pre-Param Scriptology or PowerShell and OMI.  We will also have a short Scripting Game/Contest of some kind.  Stay tuned for the event sign up which should be going out soon.&lt;br&gt;
If you would like to speak about PowerShell here is a list of some topics people have expressed interest in learning more about:&lt;br&gt;
PowerShell Security/InfoSec&lt;br&gt;
Desired State Configuration&lt;br&gt;
OMI Interface w/PowerShell&lt;br&gt;
Workflows/SMA&lt;br&gt;
PowerCLI/VMWare&lt;br&gt;
.NET Methods/Classes/Underneath/Exploration&lt;br&gt;
OneGet/Chocolaty/Nuget&lt;br&gt;
TFS/PowerShell Integration&lt;br&gt;
PowerShell Formatting/Export Options&lt;br&gt;
PowerShell Basics/PowerShell 101/Why PowerShell&lt;br&gt;
Finally, if you have any ideas for things we could do for the Scripting Games/Contest please send them to &lt;a href="mailto:omahapsug@gmail.com"&gt;omahapsug@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 279 – PowerScripting Podcast – Matt Johnson and Ben Ten on PoshSec</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-07-28-episode-279-powerscripting-podcast-matt-johnson-and-ben-ten-on-poshsec/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2014 01:46:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-07-28-episode-279-powerscripting-podcast-matt-johnson-and-ben-ten-on-poshsec/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-279.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Watch the recording: (&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lAuV9PbjPk"&gt;behind the scenes&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Matt Johnson and Ben Ten about PoshSec** News**





- 
 The Omaha PowerShell User Group is having their first [meeting on July 29th](https://powershell.org/event/omaha-powershell-user-group/)


- 
 The NoVa PowerShell User Group is [meeting July 30th](https://powershell.org/event/july-nova-psug-meeting/)


- 
 MVP Steven Murawski will be talking DSC for the [Singapore PowerShell User Group August 2nd](https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/powerbreakfast-sg-004-tickets-12353604965)


- 
 The Northern California PowerShell user group is [meeting August 5th](http://www.meetup.com/Northern-California-Powershell-User-Group/events/195422552/)


- 
 The Northern California PowerShell user group is [meeting August 19th](http://www.meetup.com/Northern-California-Powershell-User-Group/events/196046192/)


- 
 You can now register for the [PowerShell Summit Europe!](http://eventmgr.azurewebsites.net/event/home/PSEU14)


- 
 Steve Murawski is [holding office hours](http://ohours.org/stevenmurawski)
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Guest - Matt Johnson and Ben Ten
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Links





- 
 [http://www.poshsec.com/](http://www.poshsec.com/)


- 
 [Security BSides](http://www.securitybsides.com/w/page/12194156/FrontPage)


- 
 [Jayson Street](https://twitter.com/jaysonstreet)


- 
 [CTF leaderboards](https://bsjtf.com/leaderboards.php)


- 
 “[Lork](https://bsjtf.com/lork/)” (think Zork)


- 
 [http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2014/07/10/introduction-to-poshsec/](http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2014/07/10/introduction-to-poshsec/)


- 
 [https://github.com/PoshSec/PoshSecFramework](https://github.com/PoshSec/PoshSecFramework)


- 
 [https://github.com/PoshSec](https://github.com/PoshSec)


- 
 [SIEM](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_information_and_event_management)


- 
 [SANS Institute - Critical Security Controls](https://www.sans.org/critical-security-controls/)


- 
 Ben Ten’s blog - [https://ben0xa.com](https://ben0xa.com)


- 
 Ben Ten’s Twitter - [https://twitter.com/Ben0xA](https://twitter.com/Ben0xA)


- 
 Matt Johnson’s blog - [http://www.mwjcomputing.com](http://www.mwjcomputing.com)


- 
 Matt Johnson’s blog - [https://twitter.com/mwjcomputing](https://twitter.com/mwjcomputing)


- 
 PoshSec Twitter - [https://twitter.com/poshsec](https://twitter.com/poshsec)
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[22:14:52] $PSAlert.Add(&amp;quot;message&amp;quot;, severity)
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&lt;p&gt;[22:15:19] $PSMessageBox.Show()
[22:15:29] $PSTab.Add(0
&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerScriptingLive&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt; http://live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt; will get you there
&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lAuV9PbjPk"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lAuV9PbjPk&lt;/a&gt; is the direct link if someone is looking for it.
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2014/07/16/tonight-on-the-podcast-matt-johnson-and-ben-ten-on-the-poshsec-project/"&gt;https://powershell.org/2014/07/16/tonight-on-the-podcast-matt-johnson-and-ben-ten-on-the-poshsec-project/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lAuV9PbjPk#t=3111"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lAuV9PbjPk#t=3111&lt;/a&gt;
good bsides link? &lt;a href="http://www.securitybsides.com/w/page/12194156/FrontPage"&gt;http://www.securitybsides.com/w/page/12194156/FrontPage&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://bsjtf.com/leaderboards.php"&gt;https://bsjtf.com/leaderboards.php&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://bsjtf.com/lork"&gt;https://bsjtf.com/lork&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.sans.org/critical-security-controls/"&gt;https://www.sans.org/critical-security-controls/&lt;/a&gt; &amp;lt;&amp;ndash; our focus
&lt;a href="http://www.poshsec.com/"&gt;http://www.poshsec.com/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/PoshSec"&gt;https://github.com/PoshSec&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/poshsec/poshsecframework"&gt;https://github.com/poshsec/poshsecframework&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_information_and_event_management"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_information_and_event_management&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2014/07/11/introduction-to-the-poshsec-framework/"&gt;http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2014/07/11/introduction-to-the-poshsec-framework/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2014/07/10/introduction-to-poshsec/"&gt;http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2014/07/10/introduction-to-poshsec/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.sans.org/critical-security-controls/"&gt;https://www.sans.org/critical-security-controls/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YlTj7iyYsQ"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YlTj7iyYsQ&lt;/a&gt; &amp;lt;&amp;ndash; Video showing an alerts tab during intrusion on my webapp
&lt;a href="https://ben0xa.com"&gt;https://ben0xa.com&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.mwjcomputing.com"&gt;http://www.mwjcomputing.com&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.poshsec.com/"&gt;http://www.poshsec.com/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://github.com/poshsec"&gt;http://github.com/poshsec&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228440.700-dotdashdiss-the-gentleman-hackers-1903-lulz.html"&gt;http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228440.700-dotdashdiss-the-gentleman-hackers-1903-lulz.html Nevil Maskelyne&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://ben0xa.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/matt_chunli-300x278.png"&gt;http://ben0xa.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/matt_chunli-300x278.png&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://encrypted.google.com/search?tbm=isch&amp;amp;q=kirby&amp;amp;tbs=imgo:1"&gt;https://encrypted.google.com/search?tbm=isch&amp;amp;q=kirby&amp;amp;tbs=imgo:1&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://supersmashbros.wikia.com/wiki/Kirby"&gt;http://supersmashbros.wikia.com/wiki/Kirby&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/217/7/a/kirby_hat_chaos_by_professorfandango-d45k1td.png"&gt;http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/217/7/a/kirby_hat_chaos_by_professorfandango-d45k1td.png&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Ben0xA/status/460757374920175617"&gt;https://twitter.com/Ben0xA/status/460757374920175617&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://kirby.nintendo.com/triple-deluxe/"&gt;http://kirby.nintendo.com/triple-deluxe/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://tbirdbrent.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/done-jones-provides-powershell-learnings/"&gt;http://tbirdbrent.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/done-jones-provides-powershell-learnings/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUTjLOUDI90"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUTjLOUDI90 - link to part A&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 278 – PowerScripting Podcast – Karsten Bott from EMC on EMC Storage Integrator</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-07-19-episode-278-powerscripting-podcast-karsten-bott-from-emc-on-emc-storage-integrator/</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2014 17:04:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-07-19-episode-278-powerscripting-podcast-karsten-bott-from-emc-on-emc-storage-integrator/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-278.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Watch the recording: (&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig7Rvt9gbwg"&gt;behind the scenes&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="karsten-bott-from-emc-on-emc-storage-integrator"&gt;Karsten Bott from EMC on EMC Storage Integrator&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;News&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The PowerShell Team has posted &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/07/17/powershell-dsc-resource-kit-wave-5-arrives.aspx"&gt;DSC Resource Kit Wave 5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The xDSCResourceDesigner Module &lt;a href="http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/xDscResourceDesigne-Module-22eddb29"&gt;has been updated&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Don has posted his &lt;a href="http://tbirdbrent.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/done-jones-provides-powershell-learnings/"&gt;Practical PowerShell sessions&lt;/a&gt; from the PowerShell Summit NA 2014&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;LouPOSH is &lt;a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/louposh-powershell-fundamentals-tickets-12111318279"&gt;meeting on July 21st&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The Perth SQL Server User Group is &lt;a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/pssug-powershell-with-a-focus-on-automation-cody-konior-tickets-12236797591?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=1"&gt;meeting on July 24th&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The QLD SQL Server User Group is &lt;a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/july-2014-qld-sql-server-user-group-tickets-12323922183?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=2"&gt;meeting on July 24th&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest - Karsten Bott&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Registration for European Summit 2014 is open</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-07-15-registration-for-european-summit-2014-is-open/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2014 08:15:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-07-15-registration-for-european-summit-2014-is-open/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Registration for the PowerShell Summit Europe 2014 is now open. Follow the links under Events&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 277 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVP Pat Richard on PowerShell and Lync</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-07-13-episode-277-powerscripting-podcast-mvp-pat-richard-on-powershell-and-lync/</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2014 19:07:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-07-13-episode-277-powerscripting-podcast-mvp-pat-richard-on-powershell-and-lync/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-277.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to MVP Pat Richard about PowerShell and Lync&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;News&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The PowerShell Summit North America is looking for &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2014/07/10/call-for-presentations-for-powershell-summit-north-america-2015/"&gt;speakers for 2015&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The PowerShell Portland User Group is &lt;a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/powershell-portland-user-group-poshpug-tickets-7869547027?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=3"&gt;meeting July 15th&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Greater Milwaukee Script Club is &lt;a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/greater-milwaukee-script-club-tickets-509330421?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=5"&gt;meeting July 15th&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Brisbane Cloud User Group is &lt;a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/demystify-single-sign-on-sso-and-dirsync-tickets-12188461015?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=6"&gt;meeting July 17th&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Tampa PowerShell User Group is &lt;a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/tampa-powershell-user-group-tickets-1634714475?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=7"&gt;meeting July 17th&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Florida PowerShell User group is &lt;a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/florida-powershell-user-group-monthly-meeting-july-2014-tickets-11827017929?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=8"&gt;meeting virtually July 17th&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 276 – PowerScripting Podcast – Josh Atwell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-07-07-episode-276-powerscripting-podcast-josh-atwell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2014 03:02:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-07-07-episode-276-powerscripting-podcast-josh-atwell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-276.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtu.be/gKZ1WFwcidE?t=1s"&gt;Watch on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Josh Atwell&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;News&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;New PowerShell MVPs!
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://pwrshell.net/"&gt;Fabien Dibot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://mikefrobbins.com/"&gt;Mike Robbins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.exploit-monday.com/"&gt;Matt Graeber&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/mvp/Deepak%20Singh%20Dhami-5000887"&gt;Deepak Dhami&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.darkoperator.com/"&gt;Carlos Perez&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://p0w3rsh3ll.wordpress.com/"&gt;Emin Atac&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest - Josh Atwell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="links"&gt;Links&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vce.com/"&gt;Worked at VCE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.solidfire.com/"&gt;Now works for SolidFire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://techfieldday.com/event/sfd5/"&gt;Storage Field Day 5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.cisco.com/perspectives/ciscochampion-radio-s1ep15-openstack-at-openstack/"&gt;Cisco Champion Podcast s1ep15&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Josh_Atwell"&gt;@josh_atwell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://professionalvmware.com/brownbags/"&gt;vBrownbag Podcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h4 id="chatroom-highlights"&gt;Chatroom Highlights:&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;does this work? &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRXhUW0up89yreN7BUnAtVg"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRXhUW0up89yreN7BUnAtVg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.massdrop.com/buy/monoprice-mic-shield"&gt;https://www.massdrop.com/buy/monoprice-mic-shield&lt;/a&gt; &amp;lt;&amp;ndash; anyone need a sound shield for their mic?&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRXhUW0up89yreN7BUnAtVg"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRXhUW0up89yreN7BUnAtVg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRXhUW0up89yreN7BUnAtVg"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRXhUW0up89yreN7BUnAtVg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/103225533481178551610/"&gt;https://plus.google.com/103225533481178551610/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
or even &lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/103225533481178551610/posts/HULvrSEFzbT"&gt;https://plus.google.com/103225533481178551610/posts/HULvrSEFzbT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 07/03/2014 meeting summary and presentation materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-07-05-phillyposh-07032014-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2014 18:46:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-07-05-phillyposh-07032014-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</guid><description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ferdinandrios.com/"&gt;Ferdinand G. Rios&lt;/a&gt; gave a presentation entitled “Building PowerShell GUI Tool Solutions&amp;quot; During his talked Ferdinand demonstrated how to use &lt;a href="http://www.sapien.com/software/powershell_studio"&gt;Sapien PowerShell Studio 2014&lt;/a&gt; to easily build GUI applications on top of PowerShell,
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1daOFL4lp5E&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be"&gt;
recording of this meeting
&lt;/a&gt; has been posted to our &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAc_ow5FIJtRpvew__9Iqzg"&gt;
YouTube channel
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 275 – PowerScripting Podcast – PowerShell MVP Steve Murawski</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-06-24-episode-275-powerscripting-podcast-powershell-mvp-steve-murawski/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2014 03:06:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-06-24-episode-275-powerscripting-podcast-powershell-mvp-steve-murawski/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-275.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Steve Murawski&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest - Steve Murawski&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="links"&gt;Links&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Community DSC Resources: &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC/tree/master/Resources"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC/tree/master/Resources&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd878343(v=vs.85).aspx"&gt;Writing help for powershell modules&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://stevenmurawski.com/"&gt;http://stevenmurawski.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.opsallthethings.com/"&gt;http://www.opsallthethings.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.arresteddevops.com/"&gt;http://www.arresteddevops.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h4 id="chatroom-highlights"&gt;Chatroom Highlights:&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/powershellorg/dsc"&gt;https://github.com/powershellorg/dsc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
also here are links to his talks on DSC from summit: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWR2SVXEpXk"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWR2SVXEpXk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkKyfsy-iQA"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkKyfsy-iQA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAzjf4sQvro"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAzjf4sQvro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn249912.aspx"&gt;http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn249912.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
this is my favorite one-page post about the Summit &lt;a href="http://curah.microsoft.com/67912/powershell-summit-na-2014"&gt;http://curah.microsoft.com/67912/powershell-summit-na-2014&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC/tree/master/Resources/StackExchangeResources/DSCResources"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC/tree/master/Resources/StackExchangeResources/DSCResources&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Hum, limited to IPv4 only in &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC/blob/master/Resources/cNetworking/DSCResources/PSHOrg_cIPAddress/PSHOrg_cIPAddress.psm1"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC/blob/master/Resources/cNetworking/DSCResources/PSHOrg_cIPAddress/PSHOrg_cIPAddress.psm1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd878343(v=vs.85).aspx"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd878343(v=vs.85).aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
here ya go ehorley &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC/issues/new"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC/issues/new&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC/blob/master/Tooling/DscDevelopment/New-MofFile.ps1"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC/blob/master/Tooling/DscDevelopment/New-MofFile.ps1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC/issues/26"&gt;https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC/issues/26&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 274 – PowerScripting Podcast – Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Jeffrey Snover on JEA</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-06-20-episode-274-powerscripting-podcast-microsoft-distinguished-engineer-jeffrey-snover-on-jea/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2014 03:46:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-06-20-episode-274-powerscripting-podcast-microsoft-distinguished-engineer-jeffrey-snover-on-jea/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt; Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-274.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Distinguished Engineer Jeffrey Snover&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The European PowerShell Summit Agenda has been posted&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;NoVaPowerShell User Group is &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/event/june-nova-powershell-user-group/"&gt;meeting June 26th&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;SQL Saturday is coming to Birmingham, AL and they are &lt;a href="http://www.sqlsaturday.com/328/eventhome.aspx"&gt;looking for speakers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest - Jeffrey Snover&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="links"&gt;Links&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2014?sort=sequential&amp;amp;direction=desc&amp;amp;term=powershell#fbid="&gt;PowerShell videos from TechEd 2014&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/05/19/announcing-windows-powershell-desired-state-configuration-for-linux.aspx"&gt;Announcing DSC for Linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2014/05/19/powershell-dsc-for-linux-step-by-step.aspx"&gt;DSC for Linux step by step&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.petri.co.il/enable-powershell-logging.htm#"&gt;How to Enable Powershell Logging&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell/feedback/details/838221/powershell-must-support-calling-async-apis"&gt;Connect Item: PowerShell support for async APIs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/05/07/powershell-summit-videos/"&gt;PowerShell Summit videos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h4 id="notes"&gt;Notes&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;JEA premises&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>European PowerShell Summit</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-06-19-european-powershell-summit/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2014 07:35:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-06-19-european-powershell-summit/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;There seems to have been a bit of confusion regarding the European PowerShell Summit as the site will tell you that registration is currently unavailable.&lt;br&gt;
There isn&amp;rsquo;t a problem and the Summit &lt;strong&gt;HAS NOT&lt;/strong&gt; sold out at this time. WE just haven&amp;rsquo;t opened registration yet.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Registration will open on 15 July 2014&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Omaha PowerShell User Group is Filling Up Fast!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-06-19-omaha-powershell-user-group-is-filling-up-fast/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:55:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-06-19-omaha-powershell-user-group-is-filling-up-fast/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The first meeting of the Omaha PowerShell User Group is filling up fast!  There are only 16 available seats so make sure you get your spot!&lt;br&gt;
Meeting details and sign up information can be found at omahapsug.eventbrite.com&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Charlotte PowerShell User Group No meeting in July, enjoy your holiday!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-06-16-charlotte-powershell-user-group-no-meeting-in-july-enjoy-your-holiday/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2014 22:00:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-06-16-charlotte-powershell-user-group-no-meeting-in-july-enjoy-your-holiday/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;There will not be a meeting in July in Charlotte, please enjoy the 4th of July holiday. We will be back on schedule in August.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 273 – PowerScripting Podcast – The Scripting Games Team Winners</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-06-15-episode-273-powerscripting-podcast-the-scripting-games-team-winners/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2014 21:32:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-06-15-episode-273-powerscripting-podcast-the-scripting-games-team-winners/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt; Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-273.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Stephen Owen, Julie Andreacola and Jason Morgan about the Scripting Games&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/05/19/announcing-windows-powershell-desired-state-configuration-for-linux.aspx"&gt;PowerShell DSC for Linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Here’s a chance to attend a &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2014/05/19/attend-a-beta-advanced-powershell-class-live-or-remote/"&gt;beta Advanced PowerShell class&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Here’s the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2014/05/17/beta-powershell-lab-guide-for-classes/"&gt;lab guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The PowerShell Summit N.A. videos Aaron Hoover recorded are up
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2014/05/16/powershell-summit-n-a-2014-session-videos/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://curah.microsoft.com/67912/powershell-summit-na-2014"&gt;and here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.eventbrite.sg/e/powershell-saturday-009-tickets-11556697393?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=5"&gt;PowerShell Saturday #009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/mmcug-may-meeting-tickets-11499189385?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=6"&gt;MMCUG May Meeting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest - Stephen Owen &amp;amp; Julie Andreacola, Jason Morgan&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Free Online Access to TechLetter Back Issues</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-06-13-free-online-access-to-techletter-back-issues/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2014 18:38:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-06-13-free-online-access-to-techletter-back-issues/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Did you know that PowerShell.org has, for more than a year now, offered a mostly-monthly TechLetter e-mail newsletter? It&amp;rsquo;s stuffed with community news, announcements (like our free &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/techsession-webinars/" title="TechSession Webinars"&gt;webinar&lt;/a&gt; schedule), feature articles on PowerShell, and much more. It&amp;rsquo;s a great way to learn a little bit at a time, and it&amp;rsquo;s truly awesome content.&lt;br&gt;
And we keep back issues for your perusal!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/techletter/"&gt;You can find the back issues online&lt;/a&gt;. We post all but the most recent 2-3 issues, but of course you can &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/newsletter/" title="Newsletter"&gt;subscribe and have them delivered right to your inbox&lt;/a&gt; around the middle of most months.&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;re always on the lookout for new content, too - and if you&amp;rsquo;re thinking, &amp;ldquo;oh, I have nothing really to share,&amp;rdquo; you&amp;rsquo;re wrong! It can be as simple as an article about something you figured out. With more than 5,000 subscribers, someone&amp;rsquo;s sure to appreciate your perspective! Contact our Editors at PowerShell.org via e-mail to submit your article, or to suggest an article idea.&lt;br&gt;
And please - tell a friend!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 06/05/2014 meeting summary and presentation materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-06-09-phillyposh-06052014-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2014 03:19:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-06-09-phillyposh-06052014-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</guid><description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/"&gt;Jeff Hicks&lt;/a&gt; gave a presentation entitled “Getting Started with Desired State Configuration (DSC)”. During his talked Jeff gave an overview of &lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn249912.aspx"&gt;DSC&lt;/a&gt; and walked through an example of a push mode configuration. A copy of his &lt;a href="https://github.com/PhillyPoSH/2014-06-Jeff-Hicks-DSC"&gt;
presentation materials are available here
.&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ru8h73F0g&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be"&gt;
recording of this meeting
&lt;/a&gt; has been posted to our &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAc_ow5FIJtRpvew__9Iqzg"&gt;
YouTube channel
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>Wish List: Better Code Formatting in the Forums (Can You Help?)</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-06-09-wish-list-better-code-formatting-in-the-forums-can-you-help/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2014 18:06:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-06-09-wish-list-better-code-formatting-in-the-forums-can-you-help/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I know it&amp;rsquo;s been a &amp;ldquo;wish&amp;rdquo; of many folks for our forums to have better code formatting. Well, if you know some PHP and a little about WordPress, you can make it happen.&lt;br&gt;
What we need is a WordPress plugin that hooks the action for post displays. The plugin needs to take the post body, and look for anything contained within HTML &amp;ldquo;code&amp;rdquo; tags or &amp;ldquo;pre&amp;rdquo; tags.&lt;br&gt;
Within that content, the plugin needs to strip any further code/pre tags (WordPress has a bit of a glitch where it&amp;rsquo;ll sometimes nest them). It should then HTML-encode the remaining content to turn any backticks into an HTML entity. Finally, it should color-code the content, or whatever, and hand it back to WordPress for display.&lt;br&gt;
If you think you might be interested, let me know.&lt;br&gt;
There ARE existing code formatters. But they have some weaknesses:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 272 – PowerScripting Podcast – Steve Hall &amp; Alan Sharp-Paul from ScriptRock</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-06-08-episode-272-powerscripting-podcast-steve-hall-alan-sharp-paul-from-scriptrock/</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2014 19:31:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-06-08-episode-272-powerscripting-podcast-steve-hall-alan-sharp-paul-from-scriptrock/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt; Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-272.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Steve Hall &amp;amp; Alan Sharp-Paul from ScriptRock
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News





- 
 The Omaha PowerShell User group is [in the making](https://powershell.org/2014/06/05/omaha-powershell-user-group-is-open/)!


- 
 [DSC Resource Kit Wave 4](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/06/06/dsc-resource-kit-wave-4-is-live.aspx) is out


- 
 Don Jones is doing a DSC [TechSession June 13th](https://powershell.org/event/techsession-get-to-know-dsc/)


- 
 MVP Steve Murawski’s DSC sessions from the Summit have been posted to [his YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6JzyemHEoynmirAAAfkbWg)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Interview





Guest - Steve Hall &amp;amp; Alan Sharp-Paul
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Links





- 
 http://www.scriptrock.com/
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Chatroom Highlights:
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://mashable.com/2014/05/29/lego-movie-scenes/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_source=rss"&gt;http://mashable.com/2014/05/29/lego-movie-scenes/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_source=rss&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.scriptrock.com/about/company"&gt;http://www.scriptrock.com/about/company&lt;/a&gt;
Does this work? &lt;a href="http://vaughnlive.tv/embed/video/jonwalz"&gt;http://vaughnlive.tv/embed/video/jonwalz&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.scriptrock.com/"&gt;http://www.scriptrock.com/&lt;/a&gt;
omg&amp;hellip;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNI4oDOnPuc"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNI4oDOnPuc&lt;/a&gt; &amp;ldquo;DevOps in a Box&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Omaha PowerShell User Group is Open!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-06-05-omaha-powershell-user-group-is-open/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2014 18:51:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-06-05-omaha-powershell-user-group-is-open/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The Omaha PowerShell User Group is now open for business!  If you are in the Omaha-Council Bluffs-Lincoln area and are interested in being a part of it, either let myself, Jacob Benson (@vhusker) or Boe Prox (@proxb) know.&lt;br&gt;
We are currently looking for a meeting place and are shooting for having our first meeting the last week in July.  In addition to finding out who might be interested in attending, we would also like to know what days/times work best for you and the kinds of things you would like to get out of the meetings.&lt;br&gt;
You can follow us on Twitter at @OmahaPSUG.  If you wish to contact us through email you can reach us at &lt;a href="mailto:omahapsug@gmail.com"&gt;omahapsug@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Quick Tip: WMI vs. CIM Syntax</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-06-04-quick-tip-wmi-vs-cim-syntax/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2014 12:31:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-06-04-quick-tip-wmi-vs-cim-syntax/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;# List all classes in a namespace Get-CimClass -Namespace root\CIMv2 Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\CIMv2 -List &lt;/code&gt;# list all classes containing &amp;ldquo;service&amp;rdquo; in their name&lt;br&gt;
Get-CimClass -Namespace root\CIMv2 | Where CimClassName -like &amp;lsquo;*service*&amp;rsquo; | Sort CimClassName&lt;br&gt;
(or)&lt;br&gt;
Get-CimClass -Namespace root\CIMv2 -Classname *service*&lt;br&gt;
Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\CIMv2 -List | Where Name -like &amp;lsquo;*service*&amp;rsquo; | Sort Name&lt;br&gt;
# get all class instances&lt;br&gt;
Get-CimInstance -Namespace root\CIMv2 -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem&lt;br&gt;
Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\CIMv2 -Class Win32_OperatingSystem&lt;br&gt;
# filter class instances&lt;br&gt;
Get-CimInstance -Namespace root\CIMv2 -ClassName Win32_LogicalDisk -Filter &amp;ldquo;DriveType=3&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;
Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\CIMv2 -Class Win32_LogicalDisk -Filter &amp;ldquo;DriveType=3&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;
# show all properties&lt;br&gt;
Get-CimInstance -Namespace root\CIMv2 -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem | Get-Member&lt;br&gt;
Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\CIMv2 -Class Win32_OperatingSystem | Get-Member&lt;br&gt;
# show all properties and values&lt;br&gt;
Get-CimInstance -Namespace root\CIMv2 -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem | fl *&lt;br&gt;
Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\CIMv2 -Class Win32_OperatingSystem | fl *&lt;br&gt;
# remote computer&lt;br&gt;
Get-CimInstance -Namespace root\CIMv2 -ClassName Win32_BIOS -ComputerName dc,win81&lt;br&gt;
Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\CIMv2 -Class Win32_BIOS -ComputerName dc,win81&lt;br&gt;
# use CIM command to talk to non-CIM computer&lt;br&gt;
Get-CimInstance -Namespace root\CIMv2 -ClassName win32_BIOS -CimSession (&lt;br&gt;
New-CimSession -ComputerName OLD-XP-PC -SessionOption (&lt;br&gt;
New-CimSessionOption -Protocol Dcom&lt;br&gt;
)&lt;br&gt;
)&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell.org Annual Operating Budget</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-06-01-powershell-org-annual-operating-budget/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2014 14:30:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-06-01-powershell-org-annual-operating-budget/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As we approach our annual shareholder meeting for PowerShell.org, Inc., I wanted to take a moment and share some details about our 2014-2015 operating budget.&lt;br&gt;
First, you can always &lt;a href="http://1drv.ms/1eKECnJ"&gt;review the budget spreadsheet in our OneDrive account&lt;/a&gt;. This is updated as our plans change, prices rise, and so on; you&amp;rsquo;re welcome to check back whenever you like.&lt;br&gt;
Now, let&amp;rsquo;s talk about some of our organizational goals, and what some of the items in the spreadsheet mean. As you know, we&amp;rsquo;ve been fortunate to have the support of several corporate sponsors since our invention. MVP Systems, Interface Technical Training, CBT Nuggets, and SAPIEN Technologies have been amongst those helping us out; Interface and SAPIEN both signed on for a generous three-year commitment right when we launched, and we couldn&amp;rsquo;t have gotten to this point without them. However, we know that companies&amp;rsquo; goals and positions change over time, so we&amp;rsquo;ve been trying to drive to a point where we didn&amp;rsquo;t need to rely on corporate sponsorship. We now believe that the PowerShell Summit is stable enough that, with a conservative budget, we can meet our operational needs out of the profits from the North America and Europe events.&lt;br&gt;
As a note, PowerShell.org isn&amp;rsquo;t classified as a _nonprofit; _we&amp;rsquo;re a _not-for-profit. _We&amp;rsquo;re legally allowed to make a profit; it just isn&amp;rsquo;t a goal. The corporation pays Federal income tax on any profits, although most of our income is spent on expenses, which end up being deductions.&lt;br&gt;
As you&amp;rsquo;ll notice in the spreadsheet, we believe we can meet our annual operating budget by applying a $175 overhead charge to each attendee of the Summit, assuming we get 100 attendees between the two events annually. That&amp;rsquo;s _conservative; _the N.A. show has done 100 and 150, in its two years. So in reality the number can probably be much smaller.&lt;br&gt;
Our $750 annual AWPP fee includes Summit admission, VERIFIED EFFECTIVE exams, and other benefits; our operating budget reflects the costs for these items (including virtual machine hosting for the examination program). So $175 of that $750 is earmarked for PowerShell.org; that leaves $575 to cover actual Summit expenses. Due to the exchange rate, Europe is our worst-case show for expenses, with a $330/person overhead for food and beverage. The remaining $245 goes to cover speaker overhead: speaker food and beverage (we admit them to the event for free, but they still eat), and some speaker travel reimbursement. With 50 paid attendees, that&amp;rsquo;s $12,250 in overhead income. Subtract $3300 for 10 speakers&amp;rsquo; F&amp;amp;B, and we have about $9000 left to cover other expenses, including some speaker travel reimbursement. The US shows do somewhat better; in reality; we probably will take less than the $175 per person from the Europe show, to allow for more speaker travel expenses, and take a bit more from the US show where our expenses are lower and attendance is known to be higher.&lt;br&gt;
Most of the budget line items should be fairly self-explanatory. In some cases, we&amp;rsquo;re receiving some of the services for free at present; we&amp;rsquo;ve budgeted to pays for them should our free ride ever end. You&amp;rsquo;re welcome to ask about anything that seems unclear, too. But you&amp;rsquo;ll notice that there&amp;rsquo;s no budget for salaries: nobody associated with PowerShell.org, Inc. is paid for their efforts. We&amp;rsquo;re run by volunteers.&lt;br&gt;
So what happens when we get 200 global Summit attendees instead of the 100 we budget for? That&amp;rsquo;ll give us an operational pad. In most cases, it means we&amp;rsquo;ll be able to be a bit more elaborate with the Summit itself, buying some food for an evening event, for example. As I mentioned, it&amp;rsquo;ll also allow us to better reimburse speakers for their out-of-pocket travel expenses, which is definitely a goal. In fact, one reason we&amp;rsquo;ve tried to pay the operational budget from just half our expected attendance is specifically so we&amp;rsquo;ll have extra funds so that speakers don&amp;rsquo;t have to be entirely out-of-pocket to present at the Summits.&lt;br&gt;
I hope this is helpful. As always, feel free to post your questions.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Analyzing the "Black Magic" PowerShell "Exploit" and Appropriate Actions</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-31-analyzing-the-black-magic-powershell-exploit-and-appropriate-actions/</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2014 14:39:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-31-analyzing-the-black-magic-powershell-exploit-and-appropriate-actions/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Trend Micro released a report on a new &lt;a href="http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/black-magic-windows-powershell-used-again-in-new-attack/"&gt;PowerShell-vectored exploit named Black Magic&lt;/a&gt;. I had a lovely Twitter conversation about what this means in terms of PowerShell&amp;rsquo;s vulnerability to attack, and what admins should do. Unfortunately Twitter sucks for carrying on that kind of conversation, so I wanted to post this to clarify a few things.&lt;br&gt;
First, I&amp;rsquo;m going to write this article as if &amp;ldquo;you&amp;rdquo; were hit by this exploit. Don&amp;rsquo;t take it personally, it&amp;rsquo;s just an easier style of language for me - it&amp;rsquo;s not actually addressing &lt;em&gt;you.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Second, when it comes to security, the goal is to &lt;em&gt;stop attacks from happening.&lt;/em&gt; That means you have to consider all the ways something could nail you, and try to block as many of them as is practical. That&amp;rsquo;s called &amp;ldquo;defense in depth,&amp;rdquo; giving you multiple layers of defense. The corollary to that is that your environment must still be functional. I mean, from a secure standpoint, if I unplugged all the WiFi access points and Ethernet switches you have, you&amp;rsquo;d be pretty secure. And non-functional.&lt;br&gt;
Third&amp;hellip; and I don&amp;rsquo;t know how to be delicate about this, but a lot of admins out there aren&amp;rsquo;t very sophisticated about security. There&amp;rsquo;s sometimes a tendency to fix what they can get their hands on, whether or not that makes any impact on security or not. So let&amp;rsquo;s be very clear about what you do when it comes to security: &lt;em&gt;You do as little as possible, and impinge as little functionality as possible, while achieving your security goals.&lt;/em&gt; That helps maintain a &amp;ldquo;functional&amp;rdquo; environment, and keeps the security aspect of it &amp;ldquo;maintainable.&amp;rdquo; Sometimes, &amp;ldquo;as little as possible&amp;rdquo; is quite a lot indeed - but you look for that balance. Finally, you almost &lt;em&gt;never do anything to &amp;ldquo;improve&amp;rdquo; security if it is in fact a null improvement.&lt;/em&gt; That is, you don&amp;rsquo;t lock the doors if the windows can&amp;rsquo;t be closed. There&amp;rsquo;s no point.&lt;br&gt;
Now, let&amp;rsquo;s look at how Black Magic operates.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>YASG! (Yet Another Scripting Game)</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-30-yasg-yet-another-scripting-game/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 16:02:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-30-yasg-yet-another-scripting-game/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The monthly Charlotte PowerShell Users Group meeting is coming up quickly. Mark Thursday, June 5th on your calendars. All of our MIA leaders should be at this one. Hopefully we will be able to personally congratulate the Teresa, aka ScriptingWife, on her recent MVP Award. Jump on over to the &lt;a href="http://www.meetup.com/Charlotte-PowerShell-Users-Group/events/178572422/"&gt;MeetUp&lt;/a&gt; page and let us know if we will see you there.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 271 – PowerScripting Podcast – Ferdinand Rios and David Corrales from SAPIEN</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-05-28-episode-271-powerscripting-podcast-ferdinand-rios-and-david-corrales-from-sapien/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 02:33:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-05-28-episode-271-powerscripting-podcast-ferdinand-rios-and-david-corrales-from-sapien/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt; Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-271.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Ferdinand Rios and David Corrales from SAPIEN with special co-host Jason Helmick!
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News





- 
 Jeff Hicks has a new [PowerShell course on Pluralsight](http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/2014/05/new-powershell-pluralsight-course/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JeffsScriptingBlogAndMore+%28The+Lonely+Administrator%29#utm_source=feed&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=feed)


- 
 PhillyPoSH is meeting [June 5th](http://www.eventbrite.com/e/phillyposh-june-5th-2014-tickets-11743628509?aff=es2)


- 
 The Charlotte PowerShell User Group is meeting on[ June 5th](https://powershell.org/event/charlotte-powershell-users-group-2/2014-06-05/)


- 
 PowerBreakfast SG#2 is [June 7th](http://www.eventbrite.sg/e/powerbreakfast-sg-002-tickets-11750541185?aff=es2)


- 
 [The PowerShell and Bangalore IT Pro User Group is meeting June 7th](http://www.eventbrite.com/e/powershell-and-bangalore-it-pro-user-group-meeting-june-2014-tickets-11751008583?aff=es2)
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Guests - Ferdinand Rios and David Corrales from SAPIEN
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 [http://www.sapien.com/](http://www.sapien.com/)


- 
 [Software Suite](http://www.sapien.com/software/bundles)


- 
 [PowerRegEx](http://www.sapien.com/blog/2013/08/26/introducing-powerregex-community-preview/)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Chatroom Highlights:





 For anyone new to the chatroom, please place ## in front of questions for the guests so Jon and Jason can easily see them, THX
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&lt;h2 id="would-you-say-primal-script-userbase-were-among-the-core-early-adopters-of-powershell"&gt;would you say Primal Script userbase were among the core early adopters of Powershell?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="are-sapien-concerned-that-if-microsoft-were-to-start-building-more-support-into-visual-studio-for-powershell-and-many-of-us-believe-they-should-it-might-start-removing-a-lot-of-the-requirements-people-have-for-tools-such-as-powershell-studio"&gt;Are SAPIEN concerned that if Microsoft were to start building more support into Visual Studio for PowerShell (and many of us believe they should), it might start removing a lot of the requirements people have for tools such as PowerShell Studio?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="good-point-raised-about-wpf-was-there-a-reason-powershell-studio-uses-winforms-and-not-wpf-as-well-or-it-might-now-and-i-may-have-missed-that"&gt;Good point raised about WPF, was there a reason PowerShell Studio uses WinForms and not WPF as well? (or it might now and I may have missed that?)&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="is-it-too-late-in-cy2014-for-user-groups-to-get-dr-rios-scheduled-for-visit-we-had-him-scheduled-earlier-but-bad-weather-didnt-allow-it-to-happen"&gt;Is it too late in CY2014 for User Groups to get Dr. Rios scheduled for visit?  We had him scheduled earlier but bad weather didn&amp;rsquo;t allow it to happen.&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="ive-been-reading-up-on-and-would-like-to-set-up-an-internal-powershellget-repository-does-sapien-have-products-to-help-facilitate-this-or-similar"&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve been reading up on and would like to set up an internal PowerShellGet repository.  Does sapien have products to help facilitate this or similar?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="why-are-the-price-points-of-the-sapien-tools-so-high-primalscript-and-powershell-studio-are-nearly-400-apiece-more-expensive-than-professional-versions-of-office-windows-and-visual-studio-is-this-targeted-at-corporate-customers-or-individuals"&gt;Why are the price points of the Sapien tools so high?  PrimalScript and PowerShell Studio are nearly $400 apiece, more expensive than professional versions of Office, Windows and Visual Studio.  Is this targeted at corporate customers, or individuals?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="that-concept-would-work-well-in-our-environmet-only-2-3-scripters-and-10-14-sys-admins-who-dont-want-to-climb-the-learning-curve-ability-to-easily-create-apps-for-internal-modules-would-be-nice"&gt;that concept would work well in our environmet.  only 2-3 scripters and 10-14 sys admins who don&amp;rsquo;t want to climb the learning curve.  ability to easily create apps for internal modules would be nice&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sapien.com/blog/2014/05/05/i-already-have-the-ise-do-i-need/"&gt;http://www.sapien.com/blog/2014/05/05/i-already-have-the-ise-do-i-need/&lt;/a&gt;
@JonWalz: &lt;a href="http://www.sapien.com/blog/2013/08/26/introducing-powerregex-community-preview/"&gt;http://www.sapien.com/blog/2013/08/26/introducing-powerregex-community-preview/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Steve Hall and Alan Sharp-Paul from Script Rock</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-05-27-up-next-steve-hall-and-alan-sharp-paul-from-script-rock/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2014 00:25:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-05-27-up-next-steve-hall-and-alan-sharp-paul-from-script-rock/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Thursday May 29th, guests on the PowerScripting Podcast will be Steve Hall and Alan Sharp-Paul from &lt;a href="http://www.scriptrock.com/"&gt;http://www.scriptrock.com/&lt;/a&gt;  Please join us at 9:30 PM EDT.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We will Rock you!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>[UPDATED] Verified Effective Exams will Begin Soon</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-24-verified-effective-exams-will-begin-soon-looking-for-early-registrants/</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2014 23:21:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-24-verified-effective-exams-will-begin-soon-looking-for-early-registrants/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Check it out&amp;hellip;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/getcertificate.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/getcertificate.png" alt="getcertificate"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="wave-1"&gt;Wave 1&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ll be going live with the PowerShell Toolmaker program very soon. Wave 1 will permit our PowerShell Summit N.A. 2014 alumni who registered early and were given a free exam. If you&amp;rsquo;re one of those folks, &lt;strong&gt;and if you would like to be an early registrant, please contact exams at PowerShell.org&lt;/strong&gt;. You will need to have your Summit confirmation code (it was e-mailed to you when you registered, and was printed on your badge; we cannot provide it to you if you&amp;rsquo;ve lost it). &lt;strong&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re looking for a small handful of early registrants to take the exam and help us test the grading systems&lt;/strong&gt;. If you pass, it&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;real,&amp;rdquo; and you&amp;rsquo;ll get an e-certificate like the one shown here!&lt;br&gt;
How do you know if you got a free exam? There was a slip included with your badge at the Summit. If you weren&amp;rsquo;t paying attention, we&amp;rsquo;ll allow you to try entering your Summit confirmation code as an exam voucher to see if it works. If you can&amp;rsquo;t find your confirmation code, you&amp;rsquo;re out of luck.&lt;br&gt;
Wave 1 is designed to let us test the system and make sure everything is working well, in a small enough scale to manage any problems that arise.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Patterns for Implementing a DSC Pull Server Environment</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-23-patterns-for-implementing-a-dsc-pull-server-environment/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2014 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-23-patterns-for-implementing-a-dsc-pull-server-environment/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;My Patterns for Implementing a DSC Pull Server Environment talk from the PowerShell Summit is now online.&lt;br&gt;
Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Building Scalable Configurations With DSC</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-22-building-scalable-configurations-with-dsc/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2014 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-22-building-scalable-configurations-with-dsc/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;My Building Scalable Configurations with DSC talk from the PowerShell Summit is now online.&lt;br&gt;
Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Life and Times of a DSC Resource</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-21-life-and-times-of-a-dsc-resource/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2014 01:21:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-21-life-and-times-of-a-dsc-resource/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;My Life and Times of a DSC Resource talk from the PowerShell Summit is now online.&lt;br&gt;
Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Installing PowerShell v5? Be a Little Careful, OK?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-21-installing-powershell-v5-be-a-little-careful-ok/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2014 17:37:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-21-installing-powershell-v5-be-a-little-careful-ok/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m getting a lot of questions from folks, via Twitter and other venues, regarding Windows Management Framework 5.0 - which is where PowerShell v5 comes from. It&amp;rsquo;s awesome that people are installing v5 and kicking the tires - however, please help spread the word:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;v5 &lt;strong&gt;is a preview.&lt;/strong&gt; It isn&amp;rsquo;t done, and it isn&amp;rsquo;t guaranteed bug-free. It shouldn&amp;rsquo;t be installed on production computers until it&amp;rsquo;s officially released.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;v5 doesn&amp;rsquo;t install &amp;lsquo;side by side&amp;rsquo; with v3 or v4. You can&amp;rsquo;t run it with &amp;ldquo;-version 3&amp;rdquo; to &amp;ldquo;downgrade.&amp;rdquo; Now, v5 shouldn&amp;rsquo;t &lt;em&gt;break&lt;/em&gt; anything - something that runs in v3 or v4 should still work fine - but there are no guarantees &lt;strong&gt;as it&amp;rsquo;s a preview and not released code&lt;/strong&gt; at this stage.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Server software (Exchange, SharePoint, etc) often has a hard dependency on a specific version of PowerShell. You need to look into that before you install v5.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;After installing v5, you might not be able to cleanly uninstall and revert to a prior version.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, v5 should be installed in a test virtual machine at the very least, not on a production computer. It&amp;rsquo;s great to play with it, and you should absolutely log bugs and suggestions to &lt;a href="http://connect.microsoft.com"&gt;http://connect.microsoft.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
This situation will be true for &lt;strong&gt;any&lt;/strong&gt; pre-release preview of PowerShell or WMF going forward. &amp;ldquo;Preview&amp;rdquo; is the new Microsoft-speak for &amp;ldquo;beta,&amp;rdquo; and you should treat it as such. Play with it, yes - that&amp;rsquo;s the whole point, and it&amp;rsquo;s how we get a stable, clean release in the end. But play with caution, and never on production computers.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 270 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVP Jim Christopher on StudioShell and More</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-05-20-episode-270-powerscripting-podcast-mvp-jim-christopher-on-studioshell-and-more/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2014 02:16:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-05-20-episode-270-powerscripting-podcast-mvp-jim-christopher-on-studioshell-and-more/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt; Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-270.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to MVP Jim Christopher about frameworks and the PowerShell Summit
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News





- 
 [PowerShell DSC for Linux](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/05/19/announcing-windows-powershell-desired-state-configuration-for-linux.aspx)


- 
 Here’s a chance to attend a [beta Advanced PowerShell class](https://powershell.org/2014/05/19/attend-a-beta-advanced-powershell-class-live-or-remote/) 


 Here’s the [lab guide](https://powershell.org/2014/05/17/beta-powershell-lab-guide-for-classes/)






- 
 The PowerShell Summit N.A. videos Aaron Hoover recorded are up 


 [here](https://powershell.org/2014/05/16/powershell-summit-n-a-2014-session-videos/)


 - 
 [and here](http://curah.microsoft.com/67912/powershell-summit-na-2014)






- 
 [PowerShell Saturday #009](http://www.eventbrite.sg/e/powershell-saturday-009-tickets-11556697393?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=5)


- 
 [MMCUG May Meeting](http://www.eventbrite.com/e/mmcug-may-meeting-tickets-11499189385?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=6)
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Guest - Jim Christopher
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Links





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 [Jim’s blog](http://www.beefycode.com/)


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 [http://www.codeowls.com/](http://www.codeowls.com/)


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 [https://github.com/beefarino/ast-provider](https://github.com/beefarino/ast-provider)


- 
 [https://github.com/beefarino/EntityShell](https://github.com/beefarino/EntityShell)
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 This is very cool [http://curah.microsoft.com/67912/powershell-summit-na-2014](http://curah.microsoft.com/67912/powershell-summit-na-2014)** I&amp;quot;™m slightly considering doing this: [http://ozar.me/2014/05/one-pound-sql-server-dell-venue-pro-8/](http://ozar.me/2014/05/one-pound-sql-server-dell-venue-pro-8/)
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/beefarino/EntityShell"&gt;https://github.com/beefarino/EntityShell&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/beefarino/ast-provider"&gt;https://github.com/beefarino/ast-provider&lt;/a&gt;
Hey, anyone ever seen a laptop get a bar in the screen and have half the screen be washed out like &amp;hellip; &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152219758933402&amp;amp;set=a.10151468972933402.1073741827.592718401&amp;amp;type=1"&gt;https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152219758933402&amp;amp;set=a.10151468972933402.1073741827.592718401&amp;amp;type=1&lt;/a&gt;
Also here is the link to the provider framework: &lt;a href="https://github.com/beefarino/p2f"&gt;https://github.com/beefarino/p2f&lt;/a&gt;
shameless plug for my coworker who is using p2f: &lt;a href="https://github.com/cdhunt/NewRelicApiPoshProvider"&gt;https://github.com/cdhunt/NewRelicApiPoshProvider&lt;/a&gt;
( @ &lt;a href="http://www.threebirdstavern.com/"&gt;http://www.threebirdstavern.com/&lt;/a&gt; now )
VS Object Model: &lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/za2b25t3.aspx"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/za2b25t3.aspx&lt;/a&gt;
talk about the summit reminds me.  Snover put out the article on using JEA today.  &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2014/05/14/just-enough-administration-step-by-step.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2014/05/14/just-enough-administration-step-by-step.aspx&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/03/05/episode-218-powershell-jokes-and-sql-talk-with-the-midnightdbas/"&gt;https://powershell.org/2013/03/05/episode-218-powershell-jokes-and-sql-talk-with-the-midnightdbas/&lt;/a&gt;
Stuwee: SHhhh. &lt;a href="https://msconfiggallery.cloudapp.net/"&gt;https://msconfiggallery.cloudapp.net/&lt;/a&gt;
category list in sidebar &lt;a href="http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/"&gt;http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Attend a Beta "Advanced PowerShell" Class Live or Remote</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-19-attend-a-beta-advanced-powershell-class-live-or-remote/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2014 16:29:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-19-attend-a-beta-advanced-powershell-class-live-or-remote/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As you may know, I helped developing the forthcoming Microsoft Official Courseware 10962A class, &amp;ldquo;Advanced Windows PowerShell.&amp;rdquo; It&amp;rsquo;s a 3-day class that includes an overview of DSC, a full day of scripting and toolmaking, a Workflow overview, error handling and debugging, and more. It&amp;rsquo;s meant as a direct follow-on to the 5-day 10961 course. We&amp;rsquo;re scheduling a beta teach through a Microsoft training center in mid-August 2014. It&amp;rsquo;ll be taught by MCT Jason Yoder, who&amp;rsquo;s an excellent trainer (and who attended PowerShell Summit North America 2014 a few weeks ago, so you know he&amp;rsquo;s jiggy with PowerShell).&lt;br&gt;
There will likely be a fee to attend live or remote, as you&amp;rsquo;ll get the complete &amp;ldquo;A&amp;rdquo; rev of the course. If you think you might be interested, go to &lt;a href="http://powershell.hosted.phplist.com/lists/?p=subscribe&amp;amp;id=7"&gt;http://powershell.hosted.phplist.com/lists/?p=subscribe&amp;amp;id=7&lt;/a&gt; and sign up. Once the full class info is online, we&amp;rsquo;ll e-mail you and let you know where to go find it - we won&amp;rsquo;t share your info with anyone else, including the training center.&lt;br&gt;
Do this quickly - the class will likely fill up.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>BETA PowerShell Lab Guide for Classes</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-17-beta-powershell-lab-guide-for-classes/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2014 18:59:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-17-beta-powershell-lab-guide-for-classes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve been working on a new lab guide for my classes, and thought I&amp;rsquo;d share an early version. Note that this may become unavailable at any point; the final version will go on MoreLunches.com, as the lab guide corresponds largely with &lt;em&gt;Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches&lt;/em&gt;, as well as with several of the free ebooks here on PowerShell.org.&lt;br&gt;
Also note that there is no slide deck. I hate slides and don&amp;rsquo;t use them in class, so I haven&amp;rsquo;t produced any slides. I do use a few diagrams in class (I load them into an iPad app called AirSketch, which &amp;ldquo;broadcasts&amp;rdquo; to my computer&amp;rsquo;s web browser, allowing me to show those images on the screen, and to whiteboard on them as needed), and those diagrams are replicated in the lab guide for students&amp;rsquo; convenience.&lt;br&gt;
This new guide is designed to be more standalone than the ones I&amp;rsquo;ve used in the past. Each lab includes background and syntax reminders, designed so that students don&amp;rsquo;t have to take notes while the instructor is demonstrating things. That way, everyone can focus on the demos. I basically review each lab myself before I start a unit, and then just teach and demo what&amp;rsquo;s covered in the lab. Students then get the lab itself as a reminder, and exercises to cement what they&amp;rsquo;re learning. In many of my classes, this guide is the only thing students have in front of them, and it works well with my teaching style.&lt;br&gt;
At 119 pages, it&amp;rsquo;s a pretty substantial guide - and I have about nine more units to write, plus an additional four I plan to develop in the future.&lt;br&gt;
You can &lt;a href="http://1drv.ms/1lwCYtr"&gt;download the guide in PDF form&lt;/a&gt;. Again, this link may go dead at some point when I&amp;rsquo;m done with the guide, and officially post it on MoreLunches.com. Right now, I&amp;rsquo;m very interested in what you think. It&amp;rsquo;s designed to present very concise summaries of what I teach, not completely replace me, but in some places it&amp;rsquo;s still pretty extensive.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit N.A. 2014 Session Videos!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-16-powershell-summit-n-a-2014-session-videos/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2014 21:20:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-16-powershell-summit-n-a-2014-session-videos/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Aaron Hoover was kind enough to webcam the Summit sessions he attended, and he&amp;rsquo;s posted the videos on YouTube. URLs, from Aaron&amp;rsquo;s channel, are below.&lt;br&gt;
Just Enough Admin - Security in a Post-Snowden World - Jeffrey Snover - PowerShell Summit 2014&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Windows System Internals with PowerShell - Adam Driscoll - PowerShell Summit 2014&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerCLI: How to Automate Your VMWare Environment Reports - Matt Griffin - PowerShell Summit 2014&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Parallel Execution with PowerShell - Tome Tanasovski - PowerShell Summit 2014&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>TechEd N.A. 2014 Session Recordings</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-15-teched-n-a-2014-session-recordings/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2014 20:50:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-15-teched-n-a-2014-session-recordings/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;There&amp;rsquo;s some great PowerShell content now online for your viewing pleasure.&lt;br&gt;
Jeffrey Snover and I had a blast doing &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2014/DCIM-B318#fbid="&gt;Windows PowerShell Unplugged&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;rdquo; and I reviewed some best PowerShell practices (and hopefully provided a little inspiration for your career) in &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2014/DCIM-B417#fbid="&gt;Windows PowerShell Best Patterns and Practices: Time to Get Serious.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo; And the #2 overall session of TechEd? &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2014/DCIM-B417#fbid="&gt;DSC: A Practical Overview&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;rdquo; including a surprise demo (and announcement) from Snover showing DSC running on Linux.&lt;br&gt;
Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 269 – PowerScripting Podcast – U.S. PowerShell Summit Recap</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-05-14-episode-269-powerscripting-podcast-u-s-powershell-summit-recap/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2014 02:16:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-05-14-episode-269-powerscripting-podcast-u-s-powershell-summit-recap/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt; Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-269.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Eric Courville, Dave Wyatt, Jeff Truman, Jason Hofferle, and Teresa Wilson about the PowerShell Summit&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;A new version of the WMF 5.0 Preview [dropped today](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/05/14/windows-management-framework-5-0-preview-may-2014-is-now-available.aspx)!








 [TechEd session](http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2014/DCIM-B318#fbid=) with Jeffrey Snover and Don Jones
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[TechDays SF](http://techdays.org/) is coming up June 5-6
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Atlanta Techstravaganza](http://www.atltechstravaganza.com/) is coming June 6th
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Microsoft Infrastructure &amp;amp; Management Group is [meeting on May 19th](http://www.eventbrite.com/e/microsoft-infrastructure-management-user-group-19052014-tickets-11493038989?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=4)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The PowerShell Portland User Group is [scheduled to meet on May 20th](http://www.eventbrite.com/e/powershell-portland-user-group-poshpug-tickets-7869547027?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=5)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Greater Milwaukee Script Club is [meeting May 20th ](http://www.eventbrite.com/e/powershell-portland-user-group-poshpug-tickets-7869547027?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=5)
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&lt;p&gt;Interview&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title/><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-14-why-puppet-vs-dsc-isnt-even-a-thing/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2014 13:06:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-14-why-puppet-vs-dsc-isnt-even-a-thing/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;After all the DSC-related excitement this week, there have been a few online and Twitter-based discussions including Chef, Puppet, and similar solutions. Many of these discussions start off with a tone I suppose I should be used to: fanboy dissing. &amp;ldquo;Puppet already does this and is cross-platform! Why should I bother with DSC?&amp;rdquo; Those people, sadly, miss the point about as entirely as it&amp;rsquo;s possible to do.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="point-1-coolness"&gt;Point 1: Coolness&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First, what Microsoft has accomplished with DSC is &lt;strong&gt;cool.&lt;/strong&gt; Star Wars Episode V was also cool. These facts do not prevent previous things - Puppet/Chef/etc and Episode IV - from being cool as well. Something new being cool does not make other things less cool. This shouldn&amp;rsquo;t be a discussion of, &amp;ldquo;Puppet did this first, so nothing else can possibly be interesting at the same time.&amp;rdquo; As &lt;em&gt;IT professionals,&lt;/em&gt; we should be looking at &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; with an eye toward what it does, and what new ideas it might offer than can be applied to existing approaches.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>My TechEd 2014 "Patterns and Practices" Example Scripts</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-11-my-teched-2014-patterns-and-practices-example-scripts/</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2014 14:23:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-11-my-teched-2014-patterns-and-practices-example-scripts/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ll be using these examples in my TechEd 2014 session on PowerShell patterns and practices. They won&amp;rsquo;t make much sense, perhaps, until you see the session (live, or in the recordings - and I believe this session is one of the &amp;ldquo;Taste of TechEd&amp;rdquo; ones that will be live-streamed), but here are the scripts.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/TechEd-NA-2014-Patterns-Examples.zip"&gt;TechEd-NA-2014-Patterns-Examples&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 05/01/2014 meeting summary and presentation materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-10-phillyposh-05012014-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2014 22:21:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-05-10-phillyposh-05012014-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</guid><description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://learn-powershell.net/author/boeprox/"&gt;Boe Prox&lt;/a&gt; gave a presentation entitled “Managing WSUS with Windows PowerShell”. During his talked Boe went over the various ways you can orchestrate &lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/bb332157.aspx"&gt;WSUS&lt;/a&gt; using PowerShell. A copy of his &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/PhillyPosh-2014_05_01-BoeProx_WSUS.zip"&gt;presentation materials are available here&lt;/a&gt;.
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&lt;p&gt;We then had a group discussion around:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://paglia.org/"&gt;Lido Paglia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://mellositmusings.com/"&gt;John Mello&lt;/a&gt; discussed their experiences and what they learned at the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/powershell-summit-north-america/"&gt;2014 PowerShell Summit&lt;/a&gt;,,&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The differences between how Active Directory Users and Computers displays groups when compared to &lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee617241.aspx"&gt;Get-Aduser&lt;/a&gt; in regards to primary group membership. In PowerShell the primary group is only returned in the &lt;em&gt;PrimaryGroup&lt;/em&gt; property and all other groups are returned in the &lt;em&gt;MemberOf&lt;/em&gt; property, while ADUC will show every group the user is a member of.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/k4geOLcrQec"&gt;recording of this meeting&lt;/a&gt; has been posted to our &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAc_ow5FIJtRpvew__9Iqzg"&gt;YouTube channel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 268 – PowerScripting Podcast – Paul Long from Microsoft on Message Analyzer</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-05-07-episode-268-powerscripting-podcast-paul-long-from-microsoft-on-message-analyzer/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2014 02:14:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-05-07-episode-268-powerscripting-podcast-paul-long-from-microsoft-on-message-analyzer/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt; Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-268.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Paul Long from Microsoft about Message Analyzer&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Visit the Scripting Guys booth](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2014/05/04/weekend-scripter-find-the-scripting-guys-booth-at-teched-2014.aspx) at TechEd!
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;PowerShell Security is the topic at the [Brisbane Infrastructure User’s Group on May 13th](http://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/powershell-security-tickets-11551100653?aff=es2)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Florida PowerShell User Group is [meeting on May 15th](http://www.eventbrite.com/e/florida-powershell-user-group-monthly-meeting-may-2014-tickets-11511791077?aff=es2)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[The Script Browser has been released](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/04/16/a-world-of-scripts-at-your-fingertips-introducing-script-browser.aspx)
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&lt;p&gt;Interview&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit Europe 2014 – Call for Topics</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-04-30-powershell-summit-europe-2014-call-for-topics/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 18:31:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-04-30-powershell-summit-europe-2014-call-for-topics/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The PowerShell Summit is the number one place where PowerShell enthusiasts gather and learn from each other in fast-paced, knowledge packed presentations. Experts from all over the world including MVP’s, Guru’s, and PowerShell team members, join together for a few days to discuss and learn how to maximize using PowerShell in the workplace.&lt;br&gt;
And now the PowerShell Summit is coming to Europe. PowerShell Summit Europe 2014 will be held September 29, 30, and October 1 at the Hotel Park in Amsterdam, Holland. &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/powershell-summit-europe/"&gt;https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/powershell-summit-europe/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
If you want to share your PowerShell expertise, then this is your official call to submit presentations for selection!&lt;br&gt;
**Topic Areas – What we are looking for&lt;br&gt;
** We are looking for 45-minute presentations covering a wide aspect of PowerShell expertise. We have three main topic areas that may assist you in building an abstract.&lt;br&gt;
• PowerShell Internals – A deep look into the inside workings of PowerShell and practical solutions that are built from them. These presentations are more focused on the PowerShell development community that is building extensions and solutions relating to PowerShell.&lt;br&gt;
• PowerShell in Production – These presentations are focused on domain specific PowerShell solutions for IT Pro’s such as managing Exchange, System Center, IIS, SharePoint, VMware and more.&lt;br&gt;
• PowerShell Features Deep Dive – These presentations are a deep look into configuring and working with PowerShell features and capabilities such as PowerShell Remoting, PowerShell Web Access, Reporting and more.&lt;br&gt;
We are open to presentations across the entire ecosystem that has been built around PowerShell; so don’t hesitate to send an abstract for your particular area of expertise. And don’t think, “oh, I can’t do a presentation!” We aren’t looking for Toastmasters winners – we’re looking for folks to be a part of the community! Take the leap and present! Each session is only 35 minutes, with 10 minutes for Q&amp;amp;A!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Presentation submissions – What you should send to us&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Presentations will be 45-minutes in length (planning for 30-40 minutes of material and 5-15 minutes of Q&amp;amp;A) and the submission should include the following:&lt;br&gt;
• Presentation Title&lt;br&gt;
• Presentation abstract – a description of the presentation and the topics covered. 100 words or less and suitable for marketing.&lt;br&gt;
• 50 word biography&lt;br&gt;
You can submit multiple presentations in the same topic area or for different ones.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;What you get if you present&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
The European Summit is working to a very tight budget as this is the first time we are running it. Compensation for speakers will be free admission (not free Association for Windows PowerShell Professionals membership, &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/association-for-windows-powershell-professionals"&gt;https://powershell.org/association-for-windows-powershell-professionals&lt;/a&gt;, just free admission, which includes food). We will not reimburse hotel, expenses, or travel. It’s important that speakers not register for the conference, because we will not be refunding you if you do that.&lt;br&gt;
The financial situation may change to a certain degree if the event sells out but we can’t cover all of your expenses as a speaker and we can’t make any guarantees at this stage.&lt;br&gt;
We also ask that you help publicize the event.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Presentation submission deadline – When you should send it by&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Start sending your presentation submissions immediately! The selection committee will start selecting presentations as soon as they arrive so you don’t want to miss out. The last day we will accept presentation submissions will be May 23, 2014.&lt;br&gt;
Send your proposals to &lt;a href="mailto:cft2014eu@powershell.org"&gt;cft2014eu@powershell.org&lt;/a&gt;. Please either put multiple proposals in a Word doc, or send just one proposal in the body of an email, so that we can track these more easily.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;When you will know you’ve been selected&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
The selection committee will start reviewing submissions immediately and begin the selection process. You will be informed if one or more of your presentations have been selected and sent a contract on or before June 14, 2014. You will need to return the signed contract by June 21, 2014.&lt;br&gt;
The final agenda will be announced early July and posted on PowerShell.Org.&lt;br&gt;
We look forward to your submissions and your help in making PowerShell Summit Europe 2014 your most valuable IT/Dev conference of the year!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Fundraising: PowerShell People Kick Butt, Take Names</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-04-29-fundraising-powershell-people-kick-butt-take-names/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 15:21:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-04-29-fundraising-powershell-people-kick-butt-take-names/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Our &lt;a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/powershell-summit-session-recording/x/7291807"&gt;IndieGoGo Campaign&lt;/a&gt; is off to an amazing start, raising over $6,300 (including some offline donations) toward our ultimate $9,000 goal. So far, we&amp;rsquo;ve raised enough to ensure we can record two tracks of Summit content - enabling us to record speakers&amp;rsquo; laptops and voice, and to post the videos on YouTube, for free. Meeting our full $9,000 goal will enable three tracks of recordings, which is what the North American show currently produces.&lt;br&gt;
The equipment we&amp;rsquo;re investing in will also support, should we choose to add it, an analog camera input and automatic picture-in-picture, meaning we can later add-on to include video of the speaker(s) as well as what&amp;rsquo;s on their laptop.&lt;br&gt;
This &lt;a href="http://www.epiphan.com/"&gt;equipment&lt;/a&gt; also meets an important set of goals for us: It requires no software on speaker laptops (often problematic), and it&amp;rsquo;s operated - literally - by a single big, red, lighted button. Meaning, it&amp;rsquo;s easy to use and shouldn&amp;rsquo;t interfere with the live audience&amp;rsquo;s experience.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;m personally humbled by the generosity of our community. While larger donations are being considered &amp;ldquo;share purchases&amp;rdquo; in PowerShell.org, Inc., these contributors are essentially getting nothing in return for their money - but they&amp;rsquo;re making something possible that will benefit _everyone. _Making this content permanently available, for free, will become a treasure trove of valuable information _forever. _I can&amp;rsquo;t express my gratitude enough.&lt;br&gt;
Tell a colleague, tell a friend: Every donation helps, no matter how small. And thank you, thank you, thank you.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Help us Record the PowerShell Summit Sessions</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-04-28-help-us-record-the-powershell-summit-sessions/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2014 17:27:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-04-28-help-us-record-the-powershell-summit-sessions/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re often asked if the PowerShell Summit sessions will be recorded or live-streamed. The answer, so far, has been &amp;ldquo;no,&amp;rdquo; because the equipment needed to do so gets expensive.&lt;br&gt;
But we&amp;rsquo;re willing to give it a go - with crowd funding. Check out our &lt;a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/powershell-summit-session-recording/x/7291807#home"&gt;IndieGoGo campaign&lt;/a&gt;, where you can contribute to making session recordings a reality - forever. We&amp;rsquo;ve got about 30 days to reach our goal. So if recorded sessions are important to you - now&amp;rsquo;s the time to put your money where you mouth is!!&lt;br&gt;
Fingers crossed!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 267 – PowerScripting Podcast – Alan Renouf from VMware on PowerCLI</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-04-23-episode-267-powerscripting-podcast-alan-renouf-from-vmware-on-powercli/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2014 03:40:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-04-23-episode-267-powerscripting-podcast-alan-renouf-from-vmware-on-powercli/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt; Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-267.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Alan Renouf from VMware&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Iron Scripter Tournament](https://powershell.org/2014/04/22/iron-scripter-tournament-at-powershell-summit-north-america-2014/) at the PowerShell Summit
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Cisco UCS [Scripting Contest Update](http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/ciscoscripts-update-1/)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[PhillyPoSH is meeting 5/1](http://www.eventbrite.com/e/phillyposh-may-1st-2014-tickets-11395392927?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=1&amp;amp;sid=3b067128cadc11e3ae31123139104db1)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Singapore PowerShell User group is having a [PowerBreakfast on 5/3](http://www.eventbrite.sg/e/powerbreakfast-sg-01-tickets-10142282841?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=2&amp;amp;sid=3b067128cadc11e3ae31123139104db1)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[http://norcalposh.org](http://norcalposh.org) meeting 5/6
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The [Chicago PowerShell User Group](http://www.eventbrite.com/e/chicago-powershell-user-group-kick-off-meeting-tickets-11253558697?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=9) is meeting May 8th
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&lt;p&gt;Interview&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Charlotte 5/1/2014 Meeting update</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-04-23-charlotte-512014-meeting-update/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:59:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-04-23-charlotte-512014-meeting-update/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The regularly scheduled meeting for the group will not be held due to overlap with the PowerShell Summit and travel related to it for some of our members. If there is interest in scheduling a side meeting, we can do that to accommodate those of us that are not attending the Summit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If not, we will be back on track and ready for &lt;a href="http://www.meetup.com/Charlotte-PowerShell-Users-Group/events/178572422/"&gt;YASG!&lt;/a&gt; (Yet Another Scripting Game) on 6/5/2014. Looks like it is going to be a good one.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>SAPIEN's new WMI Explorer Released</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-04-21-sapiens-new-wmi-explorer-released/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2014 22:59:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-04-21-sapiens-new-wmi-explorer-released/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We all know that working with WMI/CIM can be frustrating. So little of it is documented, and it can be tough to find the class that has the exact info you need.&lt;br&gt;
A long time ago, SAPIEN released a very nice WMI Explorer tool that, recently, was taken offline. The reason is that the company was producing an all-new, from-scratch replacement - &lt;a href="http://www.sapien.com/blog/2014/04/17/wmi-explorer-2014-released/"&gt;and it&amp;rsquo;s now available&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
Their new approach is pretty interesting. Rather than just live-browsing the local WMI repository or a remote computer&amp;rsquo;s repository, the tool can now go through the repo and actually create a local cache. That cache is optimized for searching, making it a ton easier to search not only for class names, but also for property names and more. Even property values! So if you know (for example) that &amp;ldquo;Windows 8.1&amp;rdquo; is part of &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; property of &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; class, this tool can help you find where it is. It also provides in-product links to what online WMI documentation exists, making it quicker to get to that stuff.&lt;br&gt;
Although the old tool was a freebie, this new one will set you back $40, and I imagine it&amp;rsquo;s included with the $789 kitchen-sink bundle the company sells. While I miss the free tool, this new one is significant enough that I&amp;rsquo;d pay for it. After all, money is what keeps the programmers at SAPIEN employed, so we can&amp;rsquo;t expect great tools for zero money. Frankly, this new WMI Explorer is one of the very, very, very, very few tools that&amp;rsquo;s going to earn a place in my base VM images that I use in classes - simply because it&amp;rsquo;s so useful. The ability to search for &lt;em&gt;property values&lt;/em&gt; gives me a whole new approach to finding the exact WMI class I need.&lt;br&gt;
It&amp;rsquo;s a well thought-out tool. Now, it&amp;rsquo;s not &amp;ldquo;zero footprint&amp;rdquo; like the old one - but the old one didn&amp;rsquo;t do nearly as much, like creating a local, searchable cache of the repo. Also, this isn&amp;rsquo;t something I&amp;rsquo;d install on all my servers. There&amp;rsquo;s no need - you install it on &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; computer, and let it reach out to key servers to discover their repositories. So it&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;zero footprint&amp;rdquo; on the server, which is all I care about. That cache means I can even browse a remote machine&amp;rsquo;s repo when I&amp;rsquo;m completely offline, like on an airplane working on a book. That&amp;rsquo;s a huge deal for me.&lt;br&gt;
SAPIEN&amp;rsquo;s blog article on the software release includes another interesting fact: They plan to release a new line of smaller tools like WMI Explorer, and either sell them separately or as a community package. Cool! But what&amp;rsquo;s even cooler is this: _&amp;ldquo;The proceeds from these tools will go towards supporting user groups and non-profit organizations.&amp;rdquo; _Well, damn. So that $40 isn&amp;rsquo;t even funding the development of the tool per se, it&amp;rsquo;s funding (in part) your local user group. That&amp;rsquo;s awesome, and makes it well worth the standalone purchase if you don&amp;rsquo;t own the whole Software Suite already.&lt;br&gt;
As usual, SAPIEN offers a free trial. Give it a whirl.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 266 – PowerScripting Podcast – Matt Wrock from Microsoft on BoxStarter</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-04-15-episode-266-powerscripting-podcast-matt-wrock-from-microsoft-on-boxstarter/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2014 04:31:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-04-15-episode-266-powerscripting-podcast-matt-wrock-from-microsoft-on-boxstarter/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt; Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-266.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Matt Wrock about BoxStarter&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The [Chicago PowerShell User Group](http://www.eventbrite.com/e/chicago-powershell-user-group-kick-off-meeting-tickets-11253558697?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=9) is meeting May 8th
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interview&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest - Matt Wrock&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Links&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[http://boxstarter.org/](http://boxstarter.org/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[http://chocolatey.org/](http://chocolatey.org/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Nuget Package Explorer](http://npe.codeplex.com/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[http://www.myget.org/](http://www.myget.org/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[ProGet](http://inedo.com/proget/overview)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Matt interviewed on Runas Radio #355](http://runasradio.com/?nomobile=1&amp;amp;ShowNum=355)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Getting started with Boxstarter](http://boxstarter.org/WebLauncher)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[http://boxstarter.org/package/nr/astley](http://boxstarter.org/package/nr/astley)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Chatroom Highlights:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>[UPDATED] Review: SAPIEN VersionRecall</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-04-15-review-sapien-versionrecall/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2014 19:44:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-04-15-review-sapien-versionrecall/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I recently played around with &lt;a href="http://www.sapien.com/software/versionrecall"&gt;SAPIEN&amp;rsquo;s VersionRecall&lt;/a&gt;, and thought I&amp;rsquo;d share a bit about the experience. As a note, SAPIEN provided me with a license key to use. VersionRecall is advertised as a simple, single-user version control system &amp;ldquo;for the rest of us.&amp;rdquo; There are no servers, no databases, and nothing complex, according to the marketing copy.&lt;br&gt;
Setup is quick - a 3-screen wizard and you&amp;rsquo;re done. Installation took under a minute. When you first launch the product, it attempts to find all the places on your computer where you might store scripts, so that it can connect those to a version-control repository. You can skip that bit, but it only took a few moments on my virtual machine. It found my DSC scripts, my PowerShell modules, and several other places I&amp;rsquo;d dropped scripts. You then indicate where you&amp;rsquo;d like your version-control repository - this is where old versions of files will be saved. You can also pick a certificate, to have the software automatically sign scripts each time you make a new version. That&amp;rsquo;s a subtle and very cool feature - and it&amp;rsquo;s a way to make AllSigned a more convenient execution policy.&lt;br&gt;
I selected an option to have my version control repository updated every day at 4:30pm. That seems to let the software capture a snapshot of any changed files at that time every day; it was clear that you could also manually submit an update to the repository using VersionRecall or Windows&amp;rsquo; own File Explorer.&lt;br&gt;
From there, you&amp;rsquo;re in an Explorer-like view. It includes a tab for each folder where you store scripts. I find that I like that approach a lot - I tend to organize my scripts that way. I&amp;rsquo;ve got my modules in one spot, some sample scripts in another, stuff I&amp;rsquo;m playing with in a third, and so on - so the tabbed approach fits my organizational style. You can open files for editing right there. I don&amp;rsquo;t have PrimalScript installed on this test machine, but files opened in the ISE just fine. Ribbon buttons let you open the shell, the ISE, or SAPIEN&amp;rsquo;s PrimalScript or PowerShell Studio products.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/fig1.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/fig1.png" alt="fig1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit N.A. 2014 – Budget</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-04-15-powershell-summit-n-a-2014-budget/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2014 15:56:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-04-15-powershell-summit-n-a-2014-budget/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As part of our commitment to being a transparent, community-owned organization, I wanted to share the basic budget for the upcoming Summit. Now that registration is cut off, we have most of our final numbers. Keep in mind that, at live events, things &amp;ldquo;on the ground&amp;rdquo; can change quickly - so these are, at present, only our expectations &amp;ldquo;going in.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;$113,833.51 in net registration fees. This is after paying credit card transaction fees.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;-$398.00 for event insurance (already paid)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;-$76,466.04 for the venue, which includes A/V, F&amp;amp;B, room rental, etc. (already paid)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;-$9,335.01 for speaker lodging (hotel)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;-$3,000 for professional event management (including travel for the event manager)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;-$1,490 for our registration web site (already paid)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;-$1,710.51 for deposit on the European Summit&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;-$7,500 for speaker reimbursement&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That last number is presently the big question; we have some speakers who paid for their registration, and we need to reimburse them. That&amp;rsquo;s probably about $4,000. We have another $2,500  in promised travel offset fees to speakers doing 3 sessions. We&amp;rsquo;re trying to reimburse additional travel expenses for other speakers so they&amp;rsquo;re not totally out of pocket; the final number may be more than $7,500.&lt;br&gt;
Right now, that puts us at an event profit of roughly $13,933.95. Again, some of that may end up going to additional speaker reimbursement; the rest will help fund PowerShell.org ongoing activities (like Azure hosting and so forth; I&amp;rsquo;ll share a full annual operating budget in June, but it&amp;rsquo;s about $17,000 per year). We have about $20k in payments coming up for the European Summit.&lt;br&gt;
We have approximately $92,000 on-hand; much of that will go to the expenses above that are still pending. We should end April with around $65,000 on-hand - a lot of that comes from earning back a $40,000 pre-payment for the N.A. Summit that we made in fiscal 2013-2014. We&amp;rsquo;ll use some of that $65k to cover the remaining $20k fees on the European Summit; the rest of our cash-on-hand will help provide deposits for the 2015 N.A. Summit, and to fund ongoing operations for 2014-2015. We&amp;rsquo;re in good financial shape - we&amp;rsquo;re making a &lt;em&gt;bit&lt;/em&gt; more than we need, but not very much - which is right where we want to be.&lt;br&gt;
The good news is that, between the Summits and our generous corporate sponsors, we&amp;rsquo;re on track to actually find the $17k wish-list budget we&amp;rsquo;ve put together (which we&amp;rsquo;re still researching and tweaking; as stated, I&amp;rsquo;ll share the full thing in June). That means we&amp;rsquo;ll be able to start spinning up services like the VERIFIED EFFECTIVE program, monthly TechSession webinars, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit NA 2014 Shirts Available</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-04-14-powershell-summit-na-2014-shirts-available/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:50:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-04-14-powershell-summit-na-2014-shirts-available/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;re attending PowerShell Summit NA 2014 (or wish you were), we have some new logo items for purchase! Buy &amp;rsquo;em now and wear &amp;rsquo;em to the Summit, including a baseball jersey and a polo shirt. &lt;a href="http://zazzle.com/powershellorg*"&gt;Visit our Zazzle store&lt;/a&gt; to buy (or the &lt;a href="http://zazzle.ca/powershellorg*"&gt;Canadian store&lt;/a&gt;, to save a bit on shipping if you live up there).&lt;br&gt;
Note that the items may take about 24 hours to become visible, so check on April 15th in the afternoon if you don&amp;rsquo;t see them immediately.&lt;br&gt;
See you at the Summit!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Summit Session Change</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-04-13-summit-session-change/</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2014 23:21:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-04-13-summit-session-change/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Paul Higinbotham&amp;rsquo;s session on threading in PowerShell has been changed, because his content would have overlapped with other sessions. Instead, Paul will be presenting:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;PowerShell Debugging Enhancements&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
A number of script debugging enhancements were added to PowerShell 4.0 and the WMF 5.0 preview release. In this talk I will discuss these new debugging features and demonstrate how they work. This will include the new support for remote debugging, debugging workflow scripts, debugging PowerShell jobs, ISE enhancements for remote debugging, and the new &amp;ldquo;Break All&amp;rdquo; command.&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;ll update the schedule grid and abstract document.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 265 – PowerScripting Podcast – Narayanan Lakshmanan from the PowerShell Team on DSC</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-04-08-episode-265-powerscripting-podcast-narayanan-lakshmanan-from-the-powershell-team-on-dsc/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2014 03:04:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-04-08-episode-265-powerscripting-podcast-narayanan-lakshmanan-from-the-powershell-team-on-dsc/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt; Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-265.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Narayanan Lakshmanan from the PowerShell team about DSC&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/](https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The [PowerShell Portland User Group](http://www.eventbrite.com/e/powershell-portland-user-group-poshpug-tickets-7869547027?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=5) is meeting April 15th
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The [Greater Milwaukee Script Club](http://www.eventbrite.com/e/greater-milwaukee-script-club-tickets-509330421?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=6) is meeting on April 15th
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The [Tampa PowerShell User Group](http://www.eventbrite.com/e/tampa-powershell-user-group-tickets-1634714475?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=7) is meeting on April 17th
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interview&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest - Narayanan Lakshmanan&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Massive Update to All Seven Free eBooks at PowerShell.org</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-04-07-massive-update-to-all-seven-free-ebooks-at-powershell-org/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 00:13:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-04-07-massive-update-to-all-seven-free-ebooks-at-powershell-org/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve just finished a massive re-do of all 7 PowerShell.org free ebooks.&lt;br&gt;
First, they&amp;rsquo;re now hosted in a &lt;a href="http://1drv.ms/1eaLKiu"&gt;public OneDrive folder&lt;/a&gt;. This means you can quickly and easily view them online, download a DOCX, or download a PDF. Anytime, anywhere.&lt;br&gt;
Second, we&amp;rsquo;ve had folks go through and make the formatting more consistent, using a more modern font and somewhat &amp;ldquo;airier&amp;rdquo; spacing. Hopefully that translates to &amp;ldquo;nicer to read.&amp;rdquo; All the original code is also accessible, and available for one-click downloading. Note that .PS1 files may open for viewing; you need to checkmark the file to download it.&lt;br&gt;
Uploads are now proceeding, so depending on when you read this, some files might still be in progress. The GitHub versions (which were problematic for some folks to download) will be removed shortly. Please update your links; &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/ebooks"&gt;https://powershell.org/ebooks&lt;/a&gt; has already been updated.&lt;br&gt;
Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 04/04/2014 meeting summary and presentation materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-04-06-phillyposh-03042014-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 03:37:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-04-06-phillyposh-03042014-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</guid><description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/goateepfe"&gt;Ashley McGlone&lt;/a&gt; gave a presentation entitled “Demystifying The PowerShell Scripting Process”. During his talked Ashley broke down the script creation process by starting with a task and working through the cmdlet discovery process to build a repeatable task into a script. A copy of his &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/ashleymcglone/archive/2014/02/08/powershell-saturday-007-charlotte-from-cmdlets-to-scripts-to-powershell-hero.aspx"&gt;presentation materials&lt;/a&gt; are available on his &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/ashleymcglone/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We then had a group discussion around:
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;DSC and how various group members are using/testing it&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;WMF 5.0&amp;rsquo;s OneGet&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/"&gt;ConEmu &lt;/a&gt;a windows console emulator&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw-rnpOk94Q"&gt;recording of this meeting&lt;/a&gt; has been posted to our &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAc_ow5FIJtRpvew__9Iqzg"&gt;YouTube channel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 264 – PowerScripting Podcast – Eric Williams and Jeff Foster on the Cisco UCS PowerTool</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-04-06-episode-264-powerscripting-podcast-eric-williams-and-jeff-foster-on-the-cisco-ucs-powertool/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 01:43:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-04-06-episode-264-powerscripting-podcast-eric-williams-and-jeff-foster-on-the-cisco-ucs-powertool/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt; Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-264.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Eric Williams and Jeff Foster about the Cisco UCS PowerTool&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The [Windows Management Framework V5 Preview](http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2014/04/03/windows-management-framework-v5-preview.aspx) is out!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;You still have until April 14th to register for the [PowerShell Summit](https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/powershell-summit-north-america/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Chicago PowerShell User Group](http://chitownpug.wordpress.com/)








 [https://twitter.com/pcgeek86/status/451828082694172672](https://twitter.com/pcgeek86/status/451828082694172672)
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&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interview&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest - Eric Williams and Jeff Foster&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Charlotte 4/3/2014 Meeting – Using PowerShell in Websites</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-04-02-charlotte-432014-meeting-using-powershell-in-websites/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2014 18:32:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-04-02-charlotte-432014-meeting-using-powershell-in-websites/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The monthly Charlotte PowerShell Users Group meeting will be held tomorrow, April 3rd at 6PM EDT. The meeting is held at the Microsoft Charlotte Office (8055 Microsoft Way, Charlotte, NC).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This looks to be an awesome meeting with guest speaker Jason Walker. Jason will demonstrate running PowerShell scripts in a cool and novel way – from a website. If you would like to attend, please jump on over to the &lt;a href="http://www.meetup.com/Charlotte-PowerShell-Users-Group/events/172416592/"&gt;MeetUp&lt;/a&gt; page and let us know you are coming.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 263 – PowerScripting Podcast – Bala Narasimhan from PernixData on FVP and PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-04-01-episode-263-powerscripting-podcast-bala-narasimhan-from-pernixdata-on-fvp-and-powershell/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2014 03:57:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-04-01-episode-263-powerscripting-podcast-bala-narasimhan-from-pernixdata-on-fvp-and-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt; Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-263.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Bala Narasimhan from PernixData about FVP&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;New MVPs!








 [Teresa Wilson](http://scriptingwife.wordpress.com/) @ScriptingWife





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 [Jakub Jareš](http://jakubjares.com/) @nohwnd





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 [Trever Sullivan](http://trevorsullivan.net/) @pcgeek86





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 [Dave Wyatt](http://davewyatt.wordpress.com/) @MSH_Dave





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 @guitarrapc_tech [http://tech.guitarrapc.com/](http://tech.guitarrapc.com/) [http://powershellgroup.org/node/429](http://powershellgroup.org/node/429)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The PowerShell team as dropped [DSC Resource Kit Wave 3](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/03/28/dsc-resource-kit-wave-3.aspx)!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Charlotte PowerShell User’s group](https://powershell.org/event/charlotte-powershell-users-group-2/2014-04-03/) meets April 3rd
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[PhillyPoSH](https://powershell.org/event/phillyposh-april-3rd-2014/) meets April 3rd
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The [Virtual PowerShell User Group](https://powershell.org/event/virtual-powershell-user-group-1/) meets on April 3rd
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interview&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>April 3, 2014 Virtual PowerShell User Group meeting</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-03-29-april-3-2014-virtual-powershell-user-group-meeting/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 21:11:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-03-29-april-3-2014-virtual-powershell-user-group-meeting/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;PowerShell MVP Joel Bennett will present about authoring PowerShell modules, including tips, tricks and best practices for writing modules and functions that work well together (and behave properly in the pipeline) &amp;hellip; and&amp;hellip;&lt;br&gt;
NOTE: if you have QUESTIONS about PowerShell modules which you would like addressed, you can start adding them to the Q&amp;amp;A bar (and voting to rank them) already. Just click the &amp;ldquo;Q&amp;amp;A&amp;rdquo; icon overlay on the video placeholder:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/hangouts/onair/watch?hid=hoaevent%2Fcval1ku1pro5uijqk4fnmfk45lo&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;t=0"&gt;https://plus.google.com/hangouts/onair/watch?hid=hoaevent%2Fcval1ku1pro5uijqk4fnmfk45lo&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;t=0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Code from this week's Oslo class</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-03-26-code-from-this-weeks-oslo-class/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2014 12:04:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-03-26-code-from-this-weeks-oslo-class/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/OSTools.zip"&gt;OSTools&lt;/a&gt; - download for my class in Oslo this week.&lt;br&gt;
Here&amp;rsquo;s some more: &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/share.zip"&gt;share&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 262 – PowerScripting Podcast – Scott Muc on Testing with Pester</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-03-23-episode-262-powerscripting-podcast-scott-muc-on-testing-with-pester/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2014 18:30:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-03-23-episode-262-powerscripting-podcast-scott-muc-on-testing-with-pester/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt; Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-262.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Scott Muc about Pester
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News





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 [https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/](https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/)





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 Alan Renouf will be presenting at the [Norcal PowerShell user group](http://norcalposh.org) on 4/1
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Interview





Guest - Scott Muc
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Links





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 Pester on Github: [https://github.com/pester/Pester#pester](https://github.com/pester/Pester#pester)





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 [https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries](https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries)





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 [http://scottmuc.com/blog/development/powershell-bdd-testing-pester-screencast/](http://scottmuc.com/blog/development/powershell-bdd-testing-pester-screencast/)





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 [http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2014/03/12/get-started-with-pester-powershell-unit-testing-framework/](http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2014/03/12/get-started-with-pester-powershell-unit-testing-framework/)





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 [http://twitter.com/ScottMuc](http://twitter.com/ScottMuc)





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 [http://scottmuc.com](http://scottmuc.com)















Chatroom Highlights:





[22:49:25] I did one and it was hard





 ## When will it get a psd1?





 ##Why is unit testing important for scripts?





 ##What benefits do we get from writing tests?





 ##How does TDD play into the equation?  Is that feasible with scripts?





 ##I'm curious diffs between pester and psate. I integrated both in PoshTools and see a lot of similarities.





 ## are there any youtube video tutorials for Pester





 [http://www.meetup.com/Metro-Atlanta-Splunk-Meetup-Group/events/171166432/](http://www.meetup.com/Metro-Atlanta-Splunk-Meetup-Group/events/171166432/)





 200MB free, and you can get more by, uhhhh ... sharing on facebook [http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57528605-93/netzero-subscribers-can-share-free-data-with-facebook-friends](http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57528605-93/netzero-subscribers-can-share-free-data-with-facebook-friends)





 FYI: I am *not* endorsing NetZero. You should also try http://www.freedompop.com/





 Hey halr9000: /topic #PowerScriptingPodcast [http://vaughnlive.tv/embed/video/jonwalz](http://vaughnlive.tv/embed/video/jonwalz)





* halr9000 changes topic to: http://vaughnlive.tv/embed/video/jonwalz





 [https://github.com/pester/Pester](https://github.com/pester/Pester)#pester





 [https://github.com/jonwagner/PSate/wiki/PSate-v-Pester](https://github.com/jonwagner/PSate/wiki/PSate-v-Pester)





 Dave_Wyatt: [https://github.com/jaykul/PSAINT](https://github.com/jaykul/PSAINT) 😉





 [https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries](https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries)





 [https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts](https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts)





 Another good resource is Working Effectively With Legacy Code by Michael Feathers.  Good discussion of where to create seams for testing. [http://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Feathers/dp/0131177052/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1394764302&amp;amp;sr=1-1&amp;amp;keywords=working+with+legacy+code](http://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Feathers/dp/0131177052/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1394764302&amp;amp;sr=1-1&amp;amp;keywords=working+with+legacy+code)





 [http://babushka.me/](http://babushka.me/)





 Example of a resource [https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC/blob/master/Resources/StackExchangeResources/DSCResources/StackExchange_Pagefile/StackExchange_Pagefile.psm1](https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC/blob/master/Resources/StackExchangeResources/DSCResources/StackExchange_Pagefile/StackExchange_Pagefile.psm1)





 Example of tests for a resource [https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC/blob/master/Resources/StackExchangeResources/DSCResources/StackExchange_Pagefile/StackExchange_Pagefile.Tests.ps1](https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC/blob/master/Resources/StackExchangeResources/DSCResources/StackExchange_Pagefile/StackExchange_Pagefile.Tests.ps1)





 [http://scottmuc.com/powershell-pester-2-and-1-dot-2-released/](http://scottmuc.com/powershell-pester-2-and-1-dot-2-released/)





 [http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2014/03/12/get-started-with-pester-powershell-unit-testing-framework/](http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2014/03/12/get-started-with-pester-powershell-unit-testing-framework/)





 [http://scottmuc.com/blog/development/powershell-bdd-testing-pester-screencast/](http://scottmuc.com/blog/development/powershell-bdd-testing-pester-screencast/)





 [http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2014/03/12/get-started-with-pester-powershell-unit-testing-framework/](http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2014/03/12/get-started-with-pester-powershell-unit-testing-framework/)





 [https://github.com/pester/Pester/graphs/contributors](https://github.com/pester/Pester/graphs/contributors)





 [http://twitter.com/ScottMuc](http://twitter.com/ScottMuc)





 [http://scottmuc.com](http://scottmuc.com)





 [https://powershell.org/2014/03/13/building-desired-state-configuration-custom-resources/](https://powershell.org/2014/03/13/building-desired-state-configuration-custom-resources/)





 did you see this? [https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/ebooks/tree/master/DSC](https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/ebooks/tree/master/DSC)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Question -





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 Hero - Gandalf
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>We Want Your DSC Resource Wish List!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-03-20-we-want-your-dsc-resource-wish-list/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:08:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-03-20-we-want-your-dsc-resource-wish-list/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;What sorts of things would you want to configure via DSC that don&amp;rsquo;t already have a resource?&lt;br&gt;
NB: Focusing on the core Windows OS and its components only; Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server, and other products are off the table for this discussion.&lt;br&gt;
For example, I want a &amp;ldquo;log file rotator&amp;rdquo; resource, that lets me specify a log file folder, an archive folder, and a pair of dates. Files older than one date are moved from the log folder to the archive folder; archived files older than the second date are deleted.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;d also like a File Permissions resource. Specify a folder or file, optional recursion, and a set of access control entries (in plain English terms), and it&amp;rsquo;ll make sure the permissions stay that way.&lt;br&gt;
Maybe also a User Home Folder resource, which would (a) ensure a folder exists for a given set of user accounts, and (b) ensures a set of &amp;ldquo;template&amp;rdquo; permissions, so that each individual user has the rights to their folder, plus rights given to global users like admins.&lt;br&gt;
What resources would YOU like to have to ease configuration and maintenance in YOUR environment? Drop a comment!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Going Deeper on DSC Resources</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-03-19-going-deeper-on-dsc-resources/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:43:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-03-19-going-deeper-on-dsc-resources/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Desired State Configuration is a very new technology and declarative configuration management is a very young space yet.  We (Microsoft and the community) are still figuring out the best structure for resources, composite configurations, and other structures.&lt;br&gt;
That said, there are certain viewpoints that I&amp;rsquo;ve come to, either from hands on experience or in watching how other communities (like the Puppet community or Chef community) handle similar problems.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1 id="how-granular-should-i-get"&gt;How Granular Should I Get?&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is no absolute answer.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 261 – PowerScripting Podcast – Nick Howell from NetApp on the Software Defined Datacenter</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-03-17-episode-261-powerscripting-podcast-nick-howell-from-netapp-on-the-software-defined-datacenter/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 03:32:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-03-17-episode-261-powerscripting-podcast-nick-howell-from-netapp-on-the-software-defined-datacenter/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt; Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-261.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Nick Howell from NetApp about the software designed datacenter.
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News





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 [https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/](https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/)





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 The Portland PowerShell user group is [meeting on March 18th](http://www.eventbrite.com/e/powershell-portland-user-group-poshpug-tickets-7869547027?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=5&amp;amp;sid=c212fac7a88b11e39b4112313b002034)





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 The Chicago Windows User Group is [meeting on March 20th](http://www.eventbrite.com/e/chicago-windows-user-group-cwug-march-meeting-tickets-10841935521?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=9&amp;amp;sid=31fc59e8a88c11e3aa0c12313b002034) talking about PowerShell Workflow





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 March 21st is The [New York City Techstravaganza](http://www.techstravaganza.com/)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Interview





Guests - Nick Howell from Netapp
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 [https://communities.netapp.com/community/products_and_solutions/storage_management_software/workflow-automation](https://communities.netapp.com/community/products_and_solutions/storage_management_software/workflow-automation)





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 [http://datacenterdude.com/netapp-podcast/](http://datacenterdude.com/netapp-podcast/)









Chatroom Highlights





 ## Hi all!  Is this going to be a generic focus or is there some NetApp product?





 ### SDN is crap until there are PowerShell cmdlets!!! 🙂





 ####   What role will powershell play in the Software Defined Storage landscape?





 ##does he work in NC with Glenn?





The Question - Hero/Power





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 Superman
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>My DSC Demo-Class Setup Routine</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-03-17-my-dsc-demo-class-setup-routine/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 22:52:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-03-17-my-dsc-demo-class-setup-routine/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I think I&amp;rsquo;ve gotten my DSC classroom and demo setup ready. Understand that this isn&amp;rsquo;t meant to be production-friendly - it doesn&amp;rsquo;t automate some stuff because I &lt;strong&gt;want&lt;/strong&gt; to cover that stuff in class by walking through it. But, I thought I&amp;rsquo;d share.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;ve basically made an ISO that I can carry into class, attach to a Win2012R2 VM and a Win81 VM, and run students through. The server VM is a DC in &amp;ldquo;company.pri&amp;rdquo; domain, and the client VM belongs to that domain.&lt;br&gt;
In the root of the ISO are these scripts: &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ISO_Root.zip"&gt;ISO_Root&lt;/a&gt; (unzip that). Students basically just open PowerShell, set the execution policy to RemoteSigned or Unrestricted, and then run &lt;strong&gt;SetupLab -DVD D:&lt;/strong&gt;, replacing &amp;ldquo;D:&amp;rdquo; with the drive letter of the VM&amp;rsquo;s optical drive. The script isn&amp;rsquo;t super-intelligent since I demo it at the same time; it needs the colon after the drive letter.&lt;br&gt;
In a folder called DSC_Modules, I add the following DSC modules (unzipped): xActiveDirectory, xComputerManagement, xDscDiagnostics, xDscResourceDesigner, xNetworking, xPSDesiredStateConfiguration_1.1, xSmbShare, xSqlPs, xWebAdministration.&lt;br&gt;
In a folder called DSC_Pull_Examples, I include these scripts: &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/DSC_Pull_Examples.zip"&gt;DSC_Pull_Examples&lt;/a&gt; (unzip that).&lt;br&gt;
In a folder called eBooks, I include these files: &lt;a href="http://files.concentratedtech.com/ebooks.zip"&gt;eBooks&lt;/a&gt; (unzip that). Those get used in a lot of the demos I do, so I have the lab setup scripts copy over some script modules.&lt;br&gt;
In a folder called Help, I have a file called Help.zip. This contains everything downloaded by the Save-Help command in PowerShell. The Setup script unzips this into the VM and then runs Update-Help against it, so the VM doesn&amp;rsquo;t need to be Internet-connected.&lt;br&gt;
In a folder called Hotfix, I have the Windows8.1-KB2883200-x64.msu hot fix installer. I include the 32-bit version also, just in case, but my script doesn&amp;rsquo;t use it.&lt;br&gt;
In a folder called Installers, I have installers for PrimalScript, PowerShell Studio, and SQL Server Express with Advanced Services. Again, those get used a lot in my classes, but the setup script doesn&amp;rsquo;t rely on them.&lt;br&gt;
Finally, in a folder called sxs, I have the contents of the Windows 8.1 installation media&amp;rsquo;s \Sources\sxs folder. Some of the things my setup script does - like adding .NET Framework 3.5 so SQL Server 2012 will work - rely on features that aren&amp;rsquo;t in a Win8.1 VM, normally. Because I don&amp;rsquo;t want to rely on the Internet, I include this source so I can install new features from it.&lt;br&gt;
This is all pretty specific to the way I run classes, but if there&amp;rsquo;s any use you can make of it, feel free.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Building Desired State Configuration Custom Resources</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-03-13-building-desired-state-configuration-custom-resources/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 03:07:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-03-13-building-desired-state-configuration-custom-resources/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Now that we&amp;rsquo;ve suitably rested, let&amp;rsquo;s get back to working with Desired State Configuration.  Now, there are some basic features to work with that ship by default and the &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/12/26/holiday-gift-desired-state-configuration-dsc-resource-kit-wave-1.aspx"&gt;PowerShell team has been blogging some additional resources&lt;/a&gt;, but in order to do some really interesting thing with DSC, we&amp;rsquo;ll need to create our own resources.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="the-high-points"&gt;The High Points&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/10/02/building-a-desired-state-configuration-infrastructure/"&gt;Overview &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/10/03/building-a-desired-state-configuration-pull-server/"&gt;Configuring the Pull Server (REST version)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Creating Configurations (&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/10/08/building-a-desired-state-configuration-configuration/"&gt;one of two&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/10/14/building-a-desired-state-configuration-configuration-part-2/"&gt;two of two&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/11/06/configuring-a-desired-state-configuration-client/"&gt;Configuring Clients&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Building Custom Resources (this post)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Packaging Custom Resources&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Advanced Client Targeting&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="the-dsc-resource-structure"&gt;The DSC Resource Structure&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DSC resources are (at their most basic) a PowerShell module.  These modules are augmented by a schema.mof file (we&amp;rsquo;ll get into that more in a minute or two).  These modules expose three main functions, Get-TargetResource, Set-TargetResource, and Test-TargetResource.  All three functions should share the same set of parameters.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 03/06/2014 meeting summary and presentation materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-03-13-phillyposh-03062014-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 01:57:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-03-13-phillyposh-03062014-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</guid><description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/bielawb"&gt;Bartek Bielawski&lt;/a&gt; gave a presentation entitled &amp;ldquo;OMI : PowerShell Everywhere&amp;rdquo;. During his talk Bartek discussed and gave examples of how to CIM cmdlets and CDXML commands to manage everything in your datacenter. A &lt;a href="https://github.com/PhillyPoSH/2014-03"&gt;copy of his presentation materials&lt;/a&gt; are available on our &lt;a href="https://github.com/PhillyPoSH"&gt;GitHub Repository&lt;/a&gt;.
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We then had a script club where various members presented scripts they were working on&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw-rnpOk94Q"&gt;recording of this meeting&lt;/a&gt; has been posted to our &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAc_ow5FIJtRpvew__9Iqzg"&gt;YouTube channel&lt;/a&gt;; please note that there are some audio issues near the end of the recording.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>The DSC Conversation Continues</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-03-05-the-dsc-conversation-continues/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 18:58:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-03-05-the-dsc-conversation-continues/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Some &lt;a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1ziudp/desired_state_configuration_dsc_musthave_or_just/"&gt;lovely conversation on DSC over on Reddit&amp;hellip;&lt;/a&gt; with some I wanted to perhaps offer an opinion on. From what I&amp;rsquo;ve seen, these are very common sentiments, and they definitely deserve&amp;hellip; not argument or disagreement, but perhaps an alternate viewpoint. I&amp;rsquo;m not suggesting the commenters are wrong - but that maybe they&amp;rsquo;re not considering the entire picture.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Certainly if you work with a superset of MS OSs (i.e. you do Linux also), then Puppet or something like it seems like a no brainer. In fact, that is what we&amp;rsquo;re doing now. Puppet has powershell modules you can install for instance. Personally, I still feel like Powershell is overrated except for small snippets of that&amp;rsquo;s how something is exposed. Puppet can run powershell commands. AutoIT can run powershell commands&amp;hellip; I just don&amp;rsquo;t see value in Powershell today.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Jobs: PowerShell Scripter Wanted</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-03-05-jobs-powershell-scripter-wanted/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 14:47:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-03-05-jobs-powershell-scripter-wanted/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Told you this would eventually start happening ;). Matt Sullivan of Strategic Staffing contacted me with the following job posting; if you&amp;rsquo;re interested, reply to him directly at 781-347-5220.&lt;br&gt;
&amp;hellip;&lt;br&gt;
My name is Matt Sullivan and I am a member of the Strategic Staffing Division at NTT DATA Inc., the sixth largest global IT integrator. We have more than 75,000 employees worldwide, offices in 40 different countires, and we are owned by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, the largest telecommunications company in the world.&lt;br&gt;
I am currently seeking a Scripting Engineer - PowerShell to join our team in Burlington, VT. The job description can be found below for your review. Please note that your resume will not be submitted to the client until we have discussed your background.&lt;br&gt;
Title: PowerShell Scripter&lt;br&gt;
Location: Burlington, VT&lt;br&gt;
Duration: 1 year&lt;br&gt;
Our Client has a number of projects in flight that require scripting (PowerShell) as part of their automation solution in our Windows environment. This position would require that the contractor meet with other project members, to gather requirements, build, test and document the scripts. He/she will then hand this work off to another vendor to be implemented on the scheduling platform (BMC&amp;rsquo;s Control-M, a SaaS hosted by Client).&lt;br&gt;
As a second priority, the contractor will work with various departments, to examine an existing body of scripts/jobs which also in our Windows environment. These jobs, having been prioritized by the client, will be converted, if necessary, to PowerShell, tested and documented before being turned over to Client. This body of work is not expected to be completed in the time allotted as it is very large. Our goal is to address as many as possible working from the highest priority down.&lt;br&gt;
PowerShell is the scripting language of choice. A few years at a minimum is required including experience with .NET remoting.&lt;br&gt;
Expert level in Powershell&lt;br&gt;
3+ years experience&lt;br&gt;
Powershell V2 and/or V3&lt;br&gt;
Solid understanding of Powershell Remoting&lt;br&gt;
Business Analyst skills&lt;br&gt;
Experience in requirements gathering&lt;br&gt;
Testing methodologies, test plan development&lt;br&gt;
Strong documentation skills&lt;br&gt;
We are dedicated to working with a wide range of IT consultants, as an example corp to corp and W-2 hourly contractors; and we offer competitive benefits for candidates applying as W-2 contractors.&lt;br&gt;
Benefits available for W-2 contractors only:&lt;br&gt;
Medical&lt;br&gt;
Dental&lt;br&gt;
Vision&lt;br&gt;
Caremark Prescription&lt;br&gt;
401(k)&lt;br&gt;
W-2 Employee Assistance Program&lt;br&gt;
Accident Insurance- Workers’ Compensation Insurance and Business Travel Insurance&lt;br&gt;
COBRA&lt;br&gt;
Healthcare Reimbursement Account Programs&lt;br&gt;
Credit Union&lt;br&gt;
Corporate Mortgage Program&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The DSC Opportunity for ISVs</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-03-04-the-dsc-opportunity-for-isvs/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 23:45:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-03-04-the-dsc-opportunity-for-isvs/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Desired State Configuration offers a number of immediate opportunities for independent software vendors (ISVs) who are smart enough to jump on board _now. _DSC currently suffers from a marked lack of tooling. That&amp;rsquo;s partially deliberate; MS obviously needs to deliver the functionality, and they may well rely on third parties or the System Center team to build tools on top of that functionality. But let&amp;rsquo;s explore some of the immediate opportunities.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Change Control and Versioning&lt;/strong&gt;. This should be pretty easy. We basically need a way to &amp;ldquo;check in&amp;rdquo; a new DSC configuration, possibly have it go through an approvals workflow, and then deploy it. In more detail, I&amp;rsquo;d want to be able to submit a configuration script to this tool. It would run the config, generate a MOF, and deploy it to a &amp;ldquo;lab&amp;rdquo; pull server location. I could then verify its functionality, and &amp;ldquo;approve&amp;rdquo; it to deploy the MOF to a production pull server. Deployment would include creating the necessary checksum file. Obviously, rollback capability to a previous version would be nice.**&lt;br&gt;
**&lt;br&gt;
**Configuration Consolidation. **Natively, DSC requires me to specify the nodes I want to push a configuration too. I&amp;rsquo;d like to see a tool that lets me create server lists somewhat graphically, organizing things so that a single server might appear in a &amp;ldquo;domain controllers&amp;rdquo; list, a &amp;ldquo;New York servers&amp;rdquo; list, and a &amp;ldquo;Win2012R2&amp;rdquo; list.  I could target configurations at each list, and the tool would combine those configurations to create the appropriate one for each node based on its &amp;ldquo;folder memberships.&amp;rdquo; That might be done through composite resources. This makes DSC work a bit like GPO, with this tool doing the work of combining configurations into a single one per node.&lt;br&gt;
**DSC Studio. **Using the underlying DSC Resource Kit and Resource Designer for functionality, give me an IDE that lets me graphically design a resource (specify properties) and then spit out the schema MOF and skeleton PSM1 file. This could probably be a very simple PowerShell ISE add-on, in fact.&lt;br&gt;
**Node management. **In a pull server environment, give me a tool that lets me group servers. The tool should modify the LCM on each group, so that each member of the group has the same DSC configuration ID. That way, they&amp;rsquo;re all pulling the correct MOF from the pull server. Otherwise, managing GUIDs gets out of hand pretty quickly - I can see a lot of Excel spreadsheets.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Resources&lt;/strong&gt;. There are obviously a ton of resources to be written. This might be a bit of a bad call for an ISV, as you never know what MS is going to release resources for. Now that MS has built so many PowerShell cmdlets, building resources on top of them gets pretty straightforward. They&amp;rsquo;ve pumped out two waves of resources pretty fast already.&lt;br&gt;
In short, I think there&amp;rsquo;s a big opportunity for a smart company. It&amp;rsquo;s a matter of seeing the &amp;ldquo;holes&amp;rdquo; in the technology, which currently focus mainly on management, and filling them in.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerScripting Podcast will be on Wednesday this week, that is March 5th</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-03-03-powerscripting-podcast-will-be-on-wednesday-this-week-that-is-march-5th/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 07:55:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-03-03-powerscripting-podcast-will-be-on-wednesday-this-week-that-is-march-5th/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Quick change of date, Wednesday March 5th instead of Thursday this week.&lt;br&gt;
Guest is Narayanan Lakshmanan from Microsoft talking about post V4 goodies.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Charlotte PowerShell User Group Meeting cancelled this week 3/6/14</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-03-03-charlotte-powershell-user-group-meeting-cancelled-this-week-3614/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 04:00:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-03-03-charlotte-powershell-user-group-meeting-cancelled-this-week-3614/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Sorry but we have to cancel the User group meeting this month in Charlotte on 3/6/14 we will meet again on April 3, 2014.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>DSC: Must-Have or Just Nice-To-Have?</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-03-03-dsc-must-have-or-just-nice-to-have/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2014 19:38:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-03-03-dsc-must-have-or-just-nice-to-have/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;On a recent &lt;a href="http://t.co/SbH5uuYKk0"&gt;PowerScripting Podcast episode&lt;/a&gt;, I went off on a bit of a career-oriented rant, and amongst other things mentioned something to the effect of, &amp;ldquo;if you&amp;rsquo;re not learning DSC now, you&amp;rsquo;re screwed.&amp;rdquo; It hopefully goes without saying that my comment applies to folks working in environments that use Microsoft server products; obviously, in an all-Linux shop you&amp;rsquo;re pretty safe not knowing Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s technologies :).&lt;br&gt;
Some discussion on Twitter ensued, a place I &lt;em&gt;hate&lt;/em&gt; for discussions because 140 characters leaves you enough room to be misunderstood and paraphrased, but not enough room to articulate your perspective. I wanted to follow-up on the rant a bit, and by doing so here hopefully engender a more detailed discussion.&lt;br&gt;
One comment - and this is a nice, succinct one to start with: &amp;ldquo;Is it a useful tool? Yes; is it the tool that makes or breaks a sysadmin? No.&amp;rdquo; Couldn&amp;rsquo;t disagree more. Maybe it won&amp;rsquo;t make or break you _today, _but in a few years - absolutely. Unless you&amp;rsquo;re stuck in a company that&amp;rsquo;s going to just run Win2008 forever. So if it&amp;rsquo;s going to be an inevitable part of your future, then you are, in fact, more and more screwed the longer you ignore it. It&amp;rsquo;s like the poor NetWare guys who ignored TCP/IP. They &lt;em&gt;were&lt;/em&gt; screwed, in the end, and had to hustle to catch up. I hate playing catch-up; in my mind &amp;ldquo;screwed&amp;rdquo; is what you are whenever you&amp;rsquo;re playing &amp;ldquo;catch up.&amp;rdquo; So maybe knowing my definition of &amp;ldquo;screwed&amp;rdquo; will help the discussion a bit!&lt;br&gt;
Another comment - and a good one - was, &amp;ldquo;[PowerShell] is a must&amp;hellip; but I live in a multi-platform world where it is just a part, not a definer, of the whole.&amp;rdquo; Excellent point, but if you &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; manage Microsoft technologies, then DSC &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; going to be a part of your life. Perhaps it&amp;rsquo;ll be DSC &amp;ldquo;as managed by ___&amp;rdquo; cross-platform solution, but DSC is going to be the underlying API. If you&amp;rsquo;re comfortable being insulated from underlying APIs by tools, fine - but you&amp;rsquo;ll never be as effective as you would be if you knew those tools. Point being, in a multi-platform environment, DSC is not &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; you need to know, but you &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; know it (or begin to) if that environment includes Microsoft server products. Could you manage your Microsoft elements without using DSC? Sure. You can also drive a car using mind control, I&amp;rsquo;m told, but it&amp;rsquo;s not the most effective way of doing so. Folks are quite welcome to disagree, but I do firmly believe that &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; environment would benefit from DSC. Time will tell if I&amp;rsquo;m right or wrong there, but &lt;em&gt;personally&lt;/em&gt; - and this is very much a &amp;ldquo;this is how I proceed with my life&amp;rdquo; thing - I would rather be on the forefront of something than turn around in 5 years and realize I &lt;em&gt;should have been&lt;/em&gt; there.&lt;br&gt;
Keep in mind that, 6 years ago, folks felt free to ignore PowerShell. Many now wish they hadn&amp;rsquo;t. It was a lot easier to get into PowerShell in v1, and then &amp;ldquo;keep up&amp;rdquo; with new versions, than to dive in now.&lt;br&gt;
Why do I think DSC will be the same? Because _DSC is the ultimate outcome of PowerShell. _DSC is what PowerShell has been building toward. I think this is perhaps a perspective that other folks don&amp;rsquo;t share. To them, DSC is &amp;ldquo;just a tool.&amp;rdquo; It isn&amp;rsquo;t doing anything they couldn&amp;rsquo;t have done all along.&lt;br&gt;
But understand something about DSC: This is something Snover planned _almost a decade ago. _It was the ultimate destination of his &amp;ldquo;Monad Manifesto.&amp;rdquo; DSC is exactly what PowerShell has been building up to. DSC is the _main reason, _in many ways, for PowerShell. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you really think about it, DSC removes much of the need for you to learn PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;** **&lt;br&gt;
That&amp;rsquo;s a bold statement. Let me explain.&lt;br&gt;
There&amp;rsquo;s no question that PowerShell can be difficult to learn. It&amp;rsquo;s programming, and not everyone has an aptitude for that. There are literally thousands of commands, and that&amp;rsquo;s just from Microsoft product teams. It&amp;rsquo;s a huge product, like any language has idiosyncrasies, and you can come at it from a half-dozen different directions. Writing scripts that configure or re-configure computers, or even that report on current configurations, can be complex. Yes, they&amp;rsquo;re faster than doing it manually - but it&amp;rsquo;s not a zero effort.&lt;br&gt;
DSC abstracts all of that. To create a DSC configuration, _you don&amp;rsquo;t need to know how to program, _yet you can potentially leverage all the PowerShell investment Microsoft has been making. You can &lt;em&gt;use&lt;/em&gt; PowerShell, and all it can do, without having to really touch much of PowerShell. Sure, there&amp;rsquo;s a middle layer of folks writing DSC resources (which use PowerShell commands as their API), but that&amp;rsquo;s going to be a small subset of folks. A highly-paid subset, I suspect.&lt;br&gt;
If Microsoft had had infinite time, money, and people, they&amp;rsquo;d have just given us DSC and not mentioned PowerShell at all. PowerShell v1, v2, and v3 were building blocks toward what DSC gives us. DSC was the _point, _all along. We&amp;rsquo;re just seeing the tippy top of that, now. There&amp;rsquo;s a glacier underneath.&lt;br&gt;
Now, you may be thinking, &amp;ldquo;bullshit. I can&amp;rsquo;t use DSC to do everything that my job involves, even if I just think about my Microsoft assets.&amp;rdquo; True. _Today. _But folks, you need to have a little vision. We&amp;rsquo;re dealing with DSC 1.0. _Kindergarten DSC. _Literally, what you&amp;rsquo;re seeing now is the simplest possible expression of something that _the world&amp;rsquo;s largest software company took seven years to deliver. _Seven years. Most of Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s PowerShell investment, going forward, is going to be in DSC - I guarantee it. They&amp;rsquo;ve done the lower-level building blocks already.&lt;br&gt;
&amp;ldquo;Can I use DSC to generate configuration reports?&amp;rdquo; Maybe not today. But have you noticed that a DSC pull server can have a &amp;ldquo;compliance server&amp;rdquo; component? Have you looked at its service definition? It&amp;rsquo;s basically a way for servers to report in on the state of their configuration compliance. That&amp;rsquo;s reporting. And that&amp;rsquo;s my point: DSC _has a super long way to go. _It is going to be &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; for an administrator - and that&amp;rsquo;s going to happen fast. Looking at DSC today, that may be tough to imagine. So was PowerShell, in 2006.&lt;br&gt;
And we haven&amp;rsquo;t even seen the tooling that will be layered on top of DSC yet, because it&amp;rsquo;s all so new. The tool where you click a Wizard to add a user&amp;hellip; and the tool goes and rewrites four dozen server configuration files, causing the user to exist in AD, in your accounting system, as a home directory on a file server, and so on. Yeah, that&amp;rsquo;ll all happen. Eventually, you won&amp;rsquo;t touch servers anymore - you&amp;rsquo;l touch their configuration files, and they&amp;rsquo;ll reconfigure themselves appropriately. That&amp;rsquo;s why this is such a big deal. It&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a tool. It&amp;rsquo;s the administrative _interface. _&lt;br&gt;
So when I say, &amp;ldquo;if you&amp;rsquo;re not learning DSC _right now, _you&amp;rsquo;re screwed,&amp;rdquo; it&amp;rsquo;s because I personally believe that to be true. My experience in the industry and my familiarity with how Microsoft pursues these things informs that opinion. You are going to fall behind the curve so fast you won&amp;rsquo;t even realize it&amp;rsquo;s a curve anymore. Today, people look at Infant DSC and see a basic configuration tool. &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; see Teenager DSC, and Young Adult DSC, coming around the corner, and _they are going to absolutely change the way you are required to manage Microsoft products. _Yeah, I personally want to be on board with that right now.&lt;br&gt;
&amp;ldquo;What about a small shop? Isn&amp;rsquo;t DSC meant for large scale?&amp;rdquo; No, large enterprises just have the _most obvious _&lt;em&gt;advantage&lt;/em&gt; from DSC. It&amp;rsquo;s less obvious to small shops.&lt;br&gt;
You know how Exchange 2007 really impressed everyone, because the GUI was just running PowerShell under the hood? That meant a small shop could still get the GUI, but you could always drop down to PowerShell when you needed to. It also meant that not _everything _went into the GUI, and sometimes you had to drop into PowerShell anyway. I predict DSC will do the same thing. GUIs won&amp;rsquo;t run PowerShell commands anymore - they&amp;rsquo;ll modify DSC configurations. Those configurations will then be implemented on the affected servers. Your cross-platform management tools? If they&amp;rsquo;re smart, they&amp;rsquo;ll be doing the same thing.&lt;br&gt;
Think about that. DSC isn&amp;rsquo;t going to be &amp;ldquo;just a tool.&amp;rdquo; It&amp;rsquo;s going to be the entire interface by which you interact with Microsoft server products. It&amp;rsquo;s as important as the mouse or the keyboard. I truly think people aren&amp;rsquo;t seeing the end-game when it comes to this technology.&lt;br&gt;
You know those admins who only know what the GUI shows them? They don&amp;rsquo;t know much about what&amp;rsquo;s happening underneath, and as a result, they&amp;rsquo;re not very good at planning, architecture, troubleshooting, or anything else that requires a deeper knowledge. That&amp;rsquo;s where you stand with DSC. You either ride that bus, or get run over by it. Eventually.&lt;br&gt;
Do you want to risk &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; knowing this thing? You might. Perhaps in your job position you know it&amp;rsquo;s not going to affect you. For me, I won&amp;rsquo;t risk it. So that&amp;rsquo;s where my perspective comes from. In my world, this thing is a must-have. And yes, that&amp;rsquo;s an enterprise-class world, with large, cross-platform environments. But it&amp;rsquo;s also a perspective from my experience in SMB - I&amp;rsquo;d have killed for DSC, given the minuscule budgets and staff I worked with in those environments, and given my colleagues&amp;rsquo; distaste for scripting.&lt;br&gt;
Anyway, that&amp;rsquo;s how I feel about it - in more detail than 140 characters allowed ;). If you have a different perspective, please feel free to share it. I can&amp;rsquo;t promise that you&amp;rsquo;ll change my mind (and I&amp;rsquo;m not really out to change yours), but it&amp;rsquo;s good for the world in general to see different perspectives, so that folks can make informed decisions about their own career directions.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 260 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVPs Don Jones and Jason Helmick on The Scripting Games and More</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-03-01-episode-260-powerscripting-podcast-mvps-don-jones-and-jason-helmick-on-the-scripting-games-and-more/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2014 05:20:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-03-01-episode-260-powerscripting-podcast-mvps-don-jones-and-jason-helmick-on-the-scripting-games-and-more/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-260.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 [https://powershell.org/](https://powershell.org/)





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 [Lean IIS in a Month of Lunches](http://www.manning.com/helmick/)









**Chatroom Highlights:**





 ## How many teams total?





 ## @ Jason - How cool was it making that MVA JumpStart videos with jsnover?





 ## Watch out for the ScriptingGuys Forum





 ## The one year I had problems was one of the challenges required Hyper-V





 ## Don, where are these videos?





 I'm having to learn .NET C## at work yuk!





 ## Jason what's your favorite type of Steak?





 ##is there going to be a DSC in a month of lunches book?





 ## Why was Don underwhelmed by workflow?





 ##Will DSC be a major component of the upcoming Summit?





 ## I feel like DSC is important to large enterprise, but how much value is there in it for small-medium businesses?





 ## I feel like DSC is important to large enterprise, but how much value is there in it for small-medium businesses?





 ## I'm sure this has been asked before, but is there any benefit to looking into DSC if you're already running SCCM?





 ## yeah do that question jon





 ## So what do you manage with Group Policy vs DSC?





 ## So you can patch with DSC?





 ##small guys really do want more scripting options. Anything coming down the line to make small/mobile office scripting work for us.?
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&lt;p&gt;Fun Fact: &lt;a href="http://www.mrfa.org/ssn.htm"&gt;http://www.mrfa.org/ssn.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 259 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeff Galloway from HP</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-02-25-episode-259-powerscripting-podcast-jeff-galloway-from-hp/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2014 04:30:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-02-25-episode-259-powerscripting-podcast-jeff-galloway-from-hp/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-259.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jeff Galloway from HP
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 A new PowerCLI book has been published, [Learning PowerCLI](http://www.packtpub.com/learning-powercli/book)





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 [The Power of PowerShell](http://www.eventbrite.com/e/linkoping-the-power-of-powershell-tickets-10551384475?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=1&amp;amp;sid=17c1b8199a4011e3a566123139104db1) February 26th 2014 in Sweden





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 [PowerShell Saturday India](http://www.eventbrite.com/e/powershell-saturday-india-march-2014-tickets-10615803153?aff=es2&amp;amp;rank=3&amp;amp;sid=17c1b8199a4011e3a566123139104db1) March 8th 2014





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 [PowerShell magazine](http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2014/02/19/another-important-milestone-powershell-magazine-has-published-500-posts/) has surpassed 500 posts
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Guest - Jeff Galloway
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 [http://hp.com/go/powershell](http://hp.com/go/powershell)









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 ## Do you know if this just covers servers, or will there be PowerShell cmdlets for managing things like HP Thin Clients, Printers, etc?





 ## Mostly I just want to automate HP Device Manager 😉  We have something like 30 thousand HP thin clients in our stores.





 ## Will he be attending TechEd?





 [http://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/003/797/I_m_on_a_Boat.jpg](http://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/003/797/I_m_on_a_Boat.jpg)





 [http://hp.com/go/powershell](http://hp.com/go/powershell)
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/1c4grSV"&gt;http://bit.ly/1c4grSV&lt;/a&gt; Press the listen button&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Nick Howell from NetApp talking about software defined datacenter</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-02-25-up-next-nick-howell-from-netapp-talking-about-software-defined-datacenter/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:22:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-02-25-up-next-nick-howell-from-netapp-talking-about-software-defined-datacenter/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 join us with guest, Nick Howell, (@that1guynick) from NetApp as the discussion will be software defined datacenter. See you at 9:30PM EST&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Julie's Comments: The Scripting Games – Winter 2014</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-02-19-julies-comments-the-scripting-games-winter-2014/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-02-19-julies-comments-the-scripting-games-winter-2014/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This post comes to us from Julie Andreacola, one of the members of team Kitton Mittons, who won The Scripting Games - Winter 2014. You&amp;rsquo;re welcome to submit your thoughts about the Games as well!&lt;/em&gt;__&lt;br&gt;
The 2014 Scripting Games are over and once again, it was a terrific experience. This was my third scripting games and I was blown away with all that I learned.&lt;br&gt;
The team approach was very appealing to me as I have been the PowerShell expert at my workplace so I was hoping to find a team where someone knew more than I did as I’m only intermediate in PowerShell skills. I struggled to put a team together from our local PowerShell user group for the practice event, but it just didn’t work out due to the timing and workload of potential team members. I took to Twitter to find a team that had an open spot and found the Kitton_Mittons.&lt;br&gt;
The team was just what I needed. We had no expectations to win and we acknowledged that some weeks, people would not be able to participate. All of the team, but myself was located in Northern Virginia, so we arranged for a Google Hangout each evening around 7 p.m. We also had a shared repository on GitHub. Both of these tools were new for us, but were invaluable for our team collaboration. I think we only had one night with everyone in attendance. The sessions varied from discussion of elements of the script, screen sharing (nice Google Hangout feature), and general geek conversation. Two of the team traveled to Charlotte NC to join me in PowerShell Saturday 007 where we met and gained another team member for the final few events.&lt;br&gt;
The learning benefits happened immediately. The first week I learned more about parameters and using them to validate inputs. I immediately began implementing them in my scripts at work, making them more robust and easier to hand off to others as I was transitioning to a new job. A couple days later, our team made our first module. I knew it was easy, but had never done it and now my script at work had a module. One of our team members made an install script that put the files and modules in the correct places. I realized the advantage of this especially when turning scripts over to users unfamiliar with PowerShell. I was able to take the same installer script and quickly customize for use in my workplace. The following weeks included getting more experience with efficiencies of script blocks and better error checking. Although many of my evenings were being taken up with PowerShell, I found the nightly sessions invaluable as our team leader, Jason Morgan, took the time to teach and explain the more complex aspects of the scripts.&lt;br&gt;
The 2014 Scripting Games exceeded my expectations and truly advanced my skills. I also have a new network of System Center IT Pros. I’m starting a new job this week and I know what I learned and gained over the last 4 weeks will help me to excel in this new position. A big thank you to my team mates, coaches, judges, and the PowerShell community. Learning can be fun!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Free eBook from Microsoft's Scripting Guy: Windows PowerShell Networking Guide</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-02-19-free-ebook-from-microsofts-scripting-guy-windows-powershell-networking-guide/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 14:55:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-02-19-free-ebook-from-microsofts-scripting-guy-windows-powershell-networking-guide/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Ed Wilson, Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s Scripting Guy, has created a free ebook, _Windows PowerShell Networking Guide. _It&amp;rsquo;s designed to provide a super-quick PowerShell crash course, and then show you how to  manage various networking scenarios by using the shell.&lt;br&gt;
And it&amp;rsquo;s free! Just click the link to get your copy - and please, tell a friend!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/PoshNetworking.pdf.zip"&gt;PoshNetworking.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Closing the Games</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-02-17-closing-the-games/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:10:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-02-17-closing-the-games/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The judging is complete for the fourth and final event in the 2014 Winter Scripting Games.&lt;br&gt;
This Games was something very different in that we presented 4 we complex scenarios that were designed to be as close as possible to the type of tasks you may have to perform at work. The solutions required multi-file answers - there&amp;rsquo;s no way you could solve these with a one liner!&lt;br&gt;
All of the teams that submitted entries rose to meet the hardest challenge I&amp;rsquo;ve seen in a Scripting Games - and I&amp;rsquo;ve taken part of judged all but the first Games.&lt;br&gt;
All entries were scored by 2 judges with the judges being rotated to ensure that all judges scored each team in at least one event.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;d like to thank the judges for their hard work and also thank the coaching team put together by Mike Robbins - most of all I&amp;rsquo;d like to thank all of the teams that entered for taking part.&lt;br&gt;
In any Games we have winners and the winning teams from these Games are:&lt;br&gt;
1.Kitton Mittons with 19.375 points (8 of 8 scores received)&lt;br&gt;
2.TecHaH with 18.75 points (8 of 8 scores received)&lt;br&gt;
3.Schnipersons with 18.5 points (8 of 8 scores received)&lt;br&gt;
Congratulations to Kitton Mittons for winning the 2014 Winter Scripting Games - if a representative from the winning team could please contact Don Jones or myself we&amp;rsquo;ll see about getting your prizes to you .&lt;br&gt;
The Games are closed. .&lt;br&gt;
Until the next time.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>What Should The Scripting Games Look Like Next Time?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-02-17-what-should-the-scripting-games-look-like-next-time/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:17:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-02-17-what-should-the-scripting-games-look-like-next-time/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;ve been following along with The Scripting Games over the past couple of iterations, you know that we&amp;rsquo;ve been trying some different, new things. This Winter Games, we did a team-based series of events that threw some &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; complex scenarios at you. However, we know some folks would like to see the next Summer Games include a less-complex track that perhaps includes a focus on one-liners.&lt;br&gt;
(Not that one-liners are an essential part of a work environment, but they&amp;rsquo;re fun and a good competitive thing - this is &lt;em&gt;games&lt;/em&gt;, after all.)&lt;br&gt;
So we&amp;rsquo;re looking for your ideas. Drop a comment, and tell us how you think the next Games should be structured.&lt;br&gt;
**However, before you comment, **understand that judging by official, expert judges gets &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; difficult. Multiple 10 events across 250 entries and you&amp;rsquo;ve got a _metric butt _&lt;em&gt;tonne&lt;/em&gt; of work for our volunteers to do. Quite frankly, it&amp;rsquo;s unlikely we&amp;rsquo;ll be able to provide a score-per-entry with that kind of volume. The folks who do judging just can&amp;rsquo;t take that much time off work. Seriously, even if a judge only had to look at an entry for 2 minutes, that can easily be more than 80 hours of work to look at every entry. It just isn&amp;rsquo;t do-able.&lt;br&gt;
So, in your comment, include some thoughts on what you&amp;rsquo;d like to see for the judging/scoring side as well, keeping in mind the desire of judges to also have family lives and jobs. What&amp;rsquo;s your real goal in participating in the Games? To get &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt; feedback (comments) on what you&amp;rsquo;ve done? We can arrange that. Is it perhaps educational to have judges pick out &amp;ldquo;noteworthy&amp;rdquo; (both good and bad) entries and comment on them, as a learning guide? Or are you solely after having a &amp;ldquo;known&amp;rdquo; expert offer commentary on your entry - which isn&amp;rsquo;t something we can guarantee if there are a large number of entries?&lt;br&gt;
Help us understand what you&amp;rsquo;re in it for, and give us some ideas for creating a Summer event that&amp;rsquo;s _fun, _as well as educational.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next guest co-host Don Jones joins Jon Walz as they talk to Jason Helmick</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-02-16-up-next-guest-co-host-don-jones-joins-jon-walz-as-they-talk-to-jason-helmick/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 03:02:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-02-16-up-next-guest-co-host-don-jones-joins-jon-walz-as-they-talk-to-jason-helmick/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This week on the PowerScripting Podcast, Don Jones (@concentrateddon) is the guest co-host with Jon Walz and the guest will be Jason Helmick (@theJasonHelmick) Items up for discussion will be the Winter Scripting Games 2014, the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/powershell-summit-north-america/"&gt;PowerShell Summit NA&lt;/a&gt; and lots more. Join us Thursday Feb 20 at 9:30 PM EST&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://cdn.powershell.org/wp/wp-content/themes/powershell2013/art/logo.png" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Saturday 007 in review</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-02-13-powershell-saturday-007-in-review/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:55:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-02-13-powershell-saturday-007-in-review/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Saturday was a huge success. Thank you to all of the speakers, event organizers, and most of all attendees for making it a great day. A new Iron Scripter was crowned and received this awesome trophy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bf9xA3zCAAARsYk.jpg" alt="Embedded image permalink"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Congrats to Stephen Owen aka @SRed13!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There were many great sessions for both beginners and advanced scripters. Some of the speakers even posted slides, videos, and scripts of their presentations. Check out Brian Wilhite’s, @bwhilhite1979, ‘CIM’narios &lt;a href="http://t.co/SZdsUBcOdV"&gt;downloads&lt;/a&gt; from the event. Ashley McGlone, @GoateePFE, posted his beginner sessions including slides, video, and the coveted scripts &lt;a href="http://t.co/y5VaRNA3i5"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 258 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jim Britt from Microsoft on Service Management Automation</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-02-12-episode-258-powerscripting-podcast-jim-britt-from-microsoft-on-service-management-automation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2014 05:21:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-02-12-episode-258-powerscripting-podcast-jim-britt-from-microsoft-on-service-management-automation/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-258.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jim Britt from Microsoft about Service Management Automation
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 Details are being posted for [PowerShell Summit Europe](https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/powershell-summit-europe/)





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 [DSC Resource Kit Wave 2](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/02/07/need-more-dsc-resources-announcing-dsc-resource-kit-wave-2.aspx) has been released





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 The PowerShell team has posted a [DSC Diagnostics Module](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/02/11/dsc-diagnostics-module-analyze-dsc-logs-instantly-now.aspx)





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 Don Jones is teaching a [PowerClass in April](https://powershell.org/2014/02/03/my-2014-public-powerclass-is-now-open-for-registration/)
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Guest - Jim Britt from Microsoft about Service Management Automation
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 [Intro to SMA](http://aka.ms/IntroToSMA)





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 [http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2013/10/23/automation-service-management-automation-sma-runbook-toolkit-spotlight-smart-for-runbook-import-and-export.aspx](http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2013/10/23/automation-service-management-automation-sma-runbook-toolkit-spotlight-smart-for-runbook-import-and-export.aspx)





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 [http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/archive/2013/10/29/using-the-service-management-automation-feature-of-orchestrator-in-system-center-2012-r2.aspx](http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/archive/2013/10/29/using-the-service-management-automation-feature-of-orchestrator-in-system-center-2012-r2.aspx)





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 [http://www.systemcenteruniverse.com/](http://www.systemcenteruniverse.com/)





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 [http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/](http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/)















Chatroom Highlights:





 [https://powershell.org/2014/02/04/up-next-jim-britt-from-microsoft-talks-about-sma/](https://powershell.org/2014/02/04/up-next-jim-britt-from-microsoft-talks-about-sma/)





 yeah, I scheduled the hangout using the Events page: [https://plus.google.com/events](https://plus.google.com/events) because that's where last month's event shows up...





 Instead ... even though you want an event ... you have to go to the on air page [https://plus.google.com/hangouts/onair](https://plus.google.com/hangouts/onair)





 By the way, Hal ... if you want to share the event link, the recording is up, but be sure to share THIS link, and not the other one. [https://plus.google.com/events/cnj9o1b8sem1bcv1odc7haa6kgc](https://plus.google.com/events/cnj9o1b8sem1bcv1odc7haa6kgc)





 [http://nyr.kr/1e7VRgB](http://nyr.kr/1e7VRgB)





 we probably talked about SCORCH on this show: [https://powershell.org/2012/10/23/episode-204-santos-martinez-on-mastering-configuration-manager-2012/](https://powershell.org/2012/10/23/episode-204-santos-martinez-on-mastering-configuration-manager-2012/)





 [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/windows-azure-pack/default.aspx?nv1if5=1#fbid=iYMAZB7bUvJ](http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/windows-azure-pack/default.aspx?nv1if5=1#fbid=iYMAZB7bUvJ)





 [http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/you-had-one-job](http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/you-had-one-job)





 @BrianK [http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2013/02/08/deployment-introducing-powershell-deployment-toolkit.aspx](http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2013/02/08/deployment-introducing-powershell-deployment-toolkit.aspx)





 [http://aka.ms/IntroToSMA](http://aka.ms/IntroToSMA)





 [http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2013/10/23/automation-service-management-automation-sma-runbook-toolkit-spotlight-smart-for-runbook-import-and-export.aspx](http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2013/10/23/automation-service-management-automation-sma-runbook-toolkit-spotlight-smart-for-runbook-import-and-export.aspx)





 [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-had-one-job](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-had-one-job)





 [http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/archive/2013/10/29/using-the-service-management-automation-feature-of-orchestrator-in-system-center-2012-r2.aspx](http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/archive/2013/10/29/using-the-service-management-automation-feature-of-orchestrator-in-system-center-2012-r2.aspx)





 [http://www.systemcenteruniverse.com/](http://www.systemcenteruniverse.com/)





 [http://www.canistream.it/search/movie/516312edf5f807cc42000009/europa-report](http://www.canistream.it/search/movie/516312edf5f807cc42000009/europa-report)





 [https://twitter.com/JimBrittPhotos](https://twitter.com/JimBrittPhotos)





 [http://aka.ms/BuildingClouds](http://aka.ms/BuildingClouds)





 [http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=you+had+one+job](http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=you+had+one+job)





 [http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/In-the-Shadow-of-the-Moon/70059639?strkid=1585735354_42_4&amp;amp;strackid=6d0257187cc57b58_42_srl&amp;amp;trkid=496833](http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/In-the-Shadow-of-the-Moon/70059639?strkid=1585735354_42_4&amp;amp;strackid=6d0257187cc57b58_42_srl&amp;amp;trkid=496833)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Question -





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 Create wormholes - teleportation
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>UP Next: Jeff Galloway from HP on HP Scripting Tools for Windows PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-02-12-up-next-jeff-galloway-from-hp-on-hp-scripting-tools-for-windows-powershell/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2014 17:15:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-02-12-up-next-jeff-galloway-from-hp-on-hp-scripting-tools-for-windows-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join us Thursday Feb 13, 2014 as Jeff Galloway from HP talks about how HP is extending your PowerShell capabilities to enable core HP ProLiant server  features. HP Scripting Tools for Windows PowerShell is a powerful set of utilities that can be used to perform various configuration tasks on HP&lt;br&gt;
hardware.&lt;br&gt;
Check it out at &lt;a href="http://www.hp.com/go/powershell"&gt;www.hp.com/go/powershell&lt;/a&gt; and click on the Technical Support link to get to the download page, then click on Software, Drivers, and Firmware. There is also a User Guide if you click “Manuals” on the left side of the page&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://product-images.www8-hp.com/digmedialib/prodimg/lowres/c03243325.png" alt="HP Scripting Tools for Windows PowerShell"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Testing for the Presence of a Registry Key and Value</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-02-10-testing-for-the-presence-of-a-registry-key-and-value/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:41:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-02-10-testing-for-the-presence-of-a-registry-key-and-value/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;There are a number of different ways to test for the presence of a registry key and value in PowerShell. Here’s how I like to go about it. We’ll use an example key &lt;strong&gt;HKLM:\SOFTWARE\TestSoftware&lt;/strong&gt; with a single value &lt;strong&gt;Version&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.jonathanmedd.net/2014/02/testing-for-the-presence-of-a-registry-key-and-value.html"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to be redirected to the original post of this article on the author’s blog site where you can read the remainder of the article.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 02/06/2014 meeting summary and presentation materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-02-09-phillyposh-02062014-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2014 01:26:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-02-09-phillyposh-02062014-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Art Beane gave a presentation using PowerShell to automate applications using &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/com/default.mspx"&gt;COM&lt;/a&gt; . A &lt;a href="https://github.com/PhillyPoSH/2014-02"&gt;copy of his presentation materials&lt;/a&gt; are available on our &lt;a href="https://github.com/PhillyPoSH"&gt;GitHub Repository&lt;/a&gt;. Due to recording issues, we do not &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/Q0wFY2JPSMg"&gt;We do have a recording&lt;/a&gt; of this meeting on our &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAc_ow5FIJtRpvew__9Iqzg"&gt;YouTube channel.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Problems with Windows Live Logins</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-02-09-problems-with-windows-live-logins/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2014 20:39:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-02-09-problems-with-windows-live-logins/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I know we&amp;rsquo;re currently seeing folks having a problem logging into the site by means of Windows Live accounts. Unfortunately, the problem is on Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s end - we&amp;rsquo;ve submitted a ticket.&lt;br&gt;
In the meantime, I want to point out a neat feature that can help: You can log in using a different social account, and if it or you provides the same e-mail address that you use with your Live account, our site will link the two. From then on you can log into the same profile on our site using either social account. Makes a nice backup.&lt;br&gt;
For this linking to work, you (a) need to know the e-mail address that you use to log into Windows Live. You then need to (b1) log in using a social account that has the same e-mail address for you, or (b2) log in using a social account that doesn&amp;rsquo;t provide an e-mail to us. In the case of (b2), we&amp;rsquo;ll then prompt you for an e-mail address, and you provide the same one you use to log into Windows Live. That&amp;rsquo;s how we link your profile to the new social account.&lt;br&gt;
Social accounts that fall into the (b2) category include BlogSpot.com, Twitter, and LiveJournal.&lt;br&gt;
We very much want to get Windows Live working again. We&amp;rsquo;re working on it, and you can contact our admin@ email alias if you think you have any clues for helping.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 257 – PowerScripting Podcast – PowerShell Hero Dave Wyatt on Error Handling</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-02-04-episode-257-powerscripting-podcast-powershell-hero-dave-wyatt-on-error-handling/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2014 04:46:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-02-04-episode-257-powerscripting-podcast-powershell-hero-dave-wyatt-on-error-handling/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-257.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to PowerShell Hero Dave Wyatt
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News





- 


 [The Scripting Games](https://powershell.org/category/announcements/scripting-games/) are going on now!





- 


 [PowerShell Saturday #007](http://powershellsaturday.com/007/) is on February 8th





- 


 [PowerShell Saturday #008](http://powershellsaturday.com/008/) is on February 15th
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Interview





Guest - Dave Wyatt
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Links





- 


 [free ebooks](https://powershell.org/newsletter/)





- 


 [https://powershell.org/author/dlwyatt/](https://powershell.org/author/dlwyatt/)





- 


 [http://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/](http://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/)





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 [https://powershell.org/2013/11/24/saving-passwords-and-preventing-other-processes-from-decrypting-them/](https://powershell.org/2013/11/24/saving-passwords-and-preventing-other-processes-from-decrypting-them/)





- 


 [http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Enhanced-Script-Logging-27615f85](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Enhanced-Script-Logging-27615f85)





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 [http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Generic-PowerShell-string-e9ccfe73](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Generic-PowerShell-string-e9ccfe73)





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 [https://www.odesk.com/](https://www.odesk.com/)





- 


 [https://www.elance.com/](https://www.elance.com/)





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 [http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/site/search?f%5B0%5D.Type=User&amp;amp;f%5B0%5D.Value=David%20Wyatt](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/site/search?f%5B0%5D.Type=User&amp;amp;f%5B0%5D.Value=David%20Wyatt)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Chatroom Highlights:





 [http://powerevents.codeplex.com/](http://powerevents.codeplex.com/)





 [https://powershell.org/newsletter/](https://powershell.org/newsletter/)





 [http://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/](http://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/)





 you should check out this post by adam driscoll on automating your de-compiling with powershell [http://csharpening.net/?p=1590](http://csharpening.net/?p=1590)





 [https://powershell.org/2013/11/24/saving-passwords-and-preventing-other-processes-from-decrypting-them/](https://powershell.org/2013/11/24/saving-passwords-and-preventing-other-processes-from-decrypting-them/)





 [http://invisiblebread.com/2014/01/car-problem/](http://invisiblebread.com/2014/01/car-problem/)





 [http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Enhanced-Script-Logging-27615f85](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Enhanced-Script-Logging-27615f85)





 [http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Write-timestamped-output-4ff1565f](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Write-timestamped-output-4ff1565f)





 [https://powershell.org/author/dlwyatt/](https://powershell.org/author/dlwyatt/)





 [https://powershell.org/2014/01/22/automatic-formatting-of-code-for-posting-on-powershell-org-forums/](https://powershell.org/2014/01/22/automatic-formatting-of-code-for-posting-on-powershell-org-forums/)





 [http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Generic-PowerShell-string-e9ccfe73](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Generic-PowerShell-string-e9ccfe73)





 [http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/site/search?f%5B0%5D.Type=User&amp;amp;f%5B0%5D.Value=David%20Wyatt](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/site/search?f%5B0%5D.Type=User&amp;amp;f%5B0%5D.Value=David%20Wyatt)





 [https://twitter.com/SnookieBjorn](https://twitter.com/SnookieBjorn)





 [http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/archive/2013/09/04/automation-service-management-automation-getting-started-with-sma-runbooks.aspx](http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/archive/2013/09/04/automation-service-management-automation-getting-started-with-sma-runbooks.aspx)





The Question - Hero/Power





- 


 Jedi mind control
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Resources





- 


 [http://boxstarter.org/](http://boxstarter.org/)





- 


 Dave’s [Error Handling draft is available](https://powershell.org/2014/02/01/error-handling-draft-available/)





- 


 Dave blogged about [encrypting credentials with PowerShell](https://powershell.org/author/dlwyatt/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Tip





- 
 [Bulk comment in the ISE](http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tips/archive/2014/01/09/using-block-comment-in-the-ise-editor.aspx)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>Using PowerShell Parameter Validation to Make Your Day Easier</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-02-04-using-powershell-parameter-validation-to-make-your-day-easier/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2014 03:59:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-02-04-using-powershell-parameter-validation-to-make-your-day-easier/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A number of entries in the Winter Scripting Games use parameter validation, but some that I have seen may not be using it correctly or to its full potential.&lt;br&gt;
Writing functions or scripts require a variety of parameters which have different requirements based on a number of items. It could require a collection, objects of a certain type or even a certain range of items that it should only accept.&lt;br&gt;
The idea of parameter validation is that you can specify specific checks on a parameter that is being used on a function or script. If the value or collection that is passed to the parameter doesn’t meet the specified requirements, a terminating error is thrown and the execution of the code halts and gives you an error stating (usually readable) the reason for the halt. This is very powerful and allows you to have much tighter control over the input that is going into the function. You don’t want to have your script go crazy halfway into the code execution because the values sent to the parameter were completely off of the wall.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://learn-powershell.net/2014/02/04/using-powershell-parameter-validation-to-make-your-day-easier/"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to be redirected to the original post of this article on the author’s blog site where you can read the remainder of the article.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Jim Britt from Microsoft talks about SMA</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-02-04-up-next-jim-britt-from-microsoft-talks-about-sma/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2014 14:18:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-02-04-up-next-jim-britt-from-microsoft-talks-about-sma/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Thursday Feb 6 is our next podcast, joining us is Jim Britt (@jimbrittphotos) from Microsoft talking about SMA. What is SMA you might ask (or at least I asked) &lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn469258.aspx"&gt;Service Management&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn469258.aspx"&gt;Automation is the answer.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/the-enterprise-cloud/service-management-automation-sma-management-from-the-cloud/"&gt;Here is another page&lt;/a&gt; you might want to look at as well.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://tr1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2013/09/18/c888dd82-9280-4b79-aa61-07e52e7e62d4/resize/140x105/system_center.png?hash=0a91fd3a0c4b9f720c8bf4a24d100e17" alt="system_center.png"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Hope to see you in the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/powerscripting-podcast/"&gt;chatroom&lt;/a&gt; at 9:30PM EST.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>MY 2014 Public POWERCLASS is Now Open for Registration</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-02-03-my-2014-public-powerclass-is-now-open-for-registration/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:44:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-02-03-my-2014-public-powerclass-is-now-open-for-registration/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m going to be running a 3-day POWERCLASS April 2, 3, and 4 near Raleigh-Durham, NC! You can get &lt;a href="http://events.concentratedtech.com"&gt;full details on my company&amp;rsquo;s website&lt;/a&gt;, including pricing and class descriptions.&lt;br&gt;
Don&amp;rsquo;t leave near Raleigh-Durham? Well, it&amp;rsquo;s a fun place, and not that expensive to visit. More importantly, I&amp;rsquo;m &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; going to be doing a huge road-show and visiting a bunch of cities. Right now, my schedule is almost full through _September, _so this may well be the only public class I do in 2014. It might therefore be worth your while to take a short trip!&lt;br&gt;
The class will be VERY limited in size - just 16 students, max, and I&amp;rsquo;ll be happy with a bunch fewer. This is a &lt;em&gt;hardcore&lt;/em&gt; class. We&amp;rsquo;re going to assume you&amp;rsquo;ve conquered the basics of Windows PowerShell and that you&amp;rsquo;re looking to implement best practices, start using PowerShell for real production tasks, and learn more about PowerShell performance and troubleshooting. It&amp;rsquo;s a &amp;ldquo;bring your own laptop&amp;rdquo; hands-on class, too, so you&amp;rsquo;ll get tons of hands-on time with an instructor who really cares about what you learn.&lt;br&gt;
This is all-new material, and you won&amp;rsquo;t find it anyplace else. It&amp;rsquo;s applicable to v2 through v4, although some things - we WILL be covering DSC, for example - only apply to specific versions (and you&amp;rsquo;ll learn which is which as we go).&lt;br&gt;
It&amp;rsquo;s the best PowerShell class I could come up with - I hope you&amp;rsquo;ll join me.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games event 1 close</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-02-03-scripting-games-event-1-close/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:57:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-02-03-scripting-games-event-1-close/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Event 1 is over and the judging is complete.&lt;br&gt;
First off congratulations to every team that posted an entry - the events in these games are different and we&amp;rsquo;ve tried to up the challenge level to account for it being a team based.&lt;br&gt;
The high scorers for event 1 are:&lt;br&gt;
1.Troll Bait with 22 points&lt;br&gt;
2.Kitton Mittons with 22 points&lt;br&gt;
3.Aliens with 20 points&lt;br&gt;
4.PhillyPosh with 20 points&lt;br&gt;
5.Thanks4TheInvite with 17 points&lt;br&gt;
6.TecHaH with 17 points&lt;br&gt;
7.Bengals with 17 points&lt;br&gt;
8.TPUG THUGS with 16 points&lt;br&gt;
9.DuPSOGD2 with 16 points&lt;br&gt;
10.Hogans Heroes with 16 points&lt;br&gt;
Congratulations to them.&lt;br&gt;
Good luck to everyone with the remaining events&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Reporting On Installed Windows Programs Via The Registry</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-31-reporting-on-installed-windows-programs-via-the-registry/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 14:37:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-31-reporting-on-installed-windows-programs-via-the-registry/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Quite a common request for working with Windows machines is to report the software installed on them. If you don’t have a centralised system for reporting on client software (many places don’t) then you may turn to some form of scripted method to obtain this information.&lt;br&gt;
Most people tend to head to &lt;strong&gt;Add / Remove Programs&lt;/strong&gt; when thinking about what software is installed in Windows. However, not all applications will always populate information in there, depending on how they have been installed. Additionally, to query that information you would typically query the WMI class Win32_Product, however this &lt;a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974524"&gt;can lead to performance issues&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.jonathanmedd.net/2014/01/reporting-on-installed-windows-programs-via-the-registry.html"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to be redirected to the original post of this article on the author’s blog site where you can read the remainder of the article.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 256 – PowerScripting Podcast – Ed Wilson (The Scripting Guy) from Microsoft</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-01-29-episode-256-powerscripting-podcast-ed-wilson-the-scripting-guy-from-microsoft/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2014 04:42:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-01-29-episode-256-powerscripting-podcast-ed-wilson-the-scripting-guy-from-microsoft/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-256.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Ed Wilson (The Scripting Guy) from Microsoft
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Interview





Guest - Ed Wilson, The Scripting Guy
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Links





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 [http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/)





- 


 [Windows PowerShell Best Practices](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0790145347268.do?code=WKPWERS)





- 


 [Windows PowerShell 3.0 First Steps](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0790145389503.do?code=WKPWERS)









**Chatroom Highlights:**





 ## At some point during the show can Ed made a reference to the EAC (Exchange Admin Center)? He sounds uncannily like the Turtle in Finding Nemo 🙂





 ## Bring on the nostalgia!  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.visualbasic.strings(v=vs.110).aspx





 ## (or the horror)





 ## throw the gang sign Ed!!!!





 ## Would people come to Napa if Sapian hosted a powershell saturday?





 ##Jon Up Next Dave Wyatt





 ## real-world usage question for Ed...





 ## do you use aliases in scripts you write for yourself?





 ## are there any major caveats to using DSC and/or v4.0 in general on down-level OS versions?





 ## I ask because some cmdlets introduced in 3.0 don't work on 2008R2





 ## Powershell against RT?





 ## What's the next book? (or did I miss that?)





 ## do you benefit at all from safari online usage?





 for your pre-show streaming enjoyment, here's a NASA launch: [http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#.UuHIzmQo45I](http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#.UuHIzmQo45I)





 [http://www.amazon.com/Windows-PowerShell-Best-Practices-Wilson/dp/0735666490](http://www.amazon.com/Windows-PowerShell-Best-Practices-Wilson/dp/0735666490)





 @jonwalz enjoying some pre-show tunes: [http://youtu.be/qPzBC3vnIcc](http://youtu.be/qPzBC3vnIcc)





 [http://shop.oreilly.com/category/deals/powershell.do?code=WKPWERS&amp;amp;cmp=tw-na-books-videos-info-promo_powershell](http://shop.oreilly.com/category/deals/powershell.do?code=WKPWERS&amp;amp;cmp=tw-na-books-videos-info-promo_powershell)





 [http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/services/recovery-manager/?loc=zTS2z&amp;amp;prod=zWAz&amp;amp;tech=zvirtz&amp;amp;prog=zOTprogz&amp;amp;type=zOTtypez&amp;amp;media=zOTmediaz&amp;amp;country=zUSz](http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/services/recovery-manager/?loc=zTS2z&amp;amp;prod=zWAz&amp;amp;tech=zvirtz&amp;amp;prog=zOTprogz&amp;amp;type=zOTtypez&amp;amp;media=zOTmediaz&amp;amp;country=zUSz)





 ## Bring on the nostalgia!  [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.visualbasic.strings(v=vs.110).aspx](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.visualbasic.strings(v=vs.110).aspx)





 MattHitchcock - it's a bit buggy IME, but there is this: [http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/PowerShell-ISE-VariableExpl-fef9ff01](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/PowerShell-ISE-VariableExpl-fef9ff01)





 [http://www.sapien.com/software/changevue](http://www.sapien.com/software/changevue)





 They also have VersionRecall [http://www.sapien.com/software/versionrecall](http://www.sapien.com/software/versionrecall)





 [http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=what+does+the+fox+say+video&amp;amp;qpvt=what+does+the+fox+say+video&amp;amp;FORM=VDRE](http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=what+does+the+fox+say+video&amp;amp;qpvt=what+does+the+fox+say+video&amp;amp;FORM=VDRE)





 [http://scriptcop.start-automating.com/](http://scriptcop.start-automating.com/) Scriptcop





 &amp;amp;&amp;amp; [http://open.spotify.com/track/0aDmudjjboRLuCaf93k2JJ](http://open.spotify.com/track/0aDmudjjboRLuCaf93k2JJ)





 [http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter)





 [http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/512f2371-96e4-423f-8596-58578aa7db31](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/512f2371-96e4-423f-8596-58578aa7db31)





 [http://www.yelp.com/biz/zeitouni-grill-charlotte#hrid:ViSQ6ZeUoBBVV_rC1KrqTg](http://www.yelp.com/biz/zeitouni-grill-charlotte#hrid:ViSQ6ZeUoBBVV_rC1KrqTg)





 [http://youtu.be/qPzBC3vnIcc](http://youtu.be/qPzBC3vnIcc)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Question - Favorite Vacation Spot





- 
 Europe
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Scripting Games Winter 2014 – Update on Event 1 Scores</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-29-the-scripting-games-winter-2014-update-on-event-1-scores/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 18:16:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-29-the-scripting-games-winter-2014-update-on-event-1-scores/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Note that scorecards for the first event will not be accurate immediately on Sunday when judging closes; we have the scores in the database, but they&amp;rsquo;re not tagged in a way the system can find them. The bug has been fixed, but I need to go through and manually re-tag the first day&amp;rsquo;s scorecards, and it&amp;rsquo;s going to take a couple of days. This also affect the leaderboard display. I hope to have it fixed over the weekend. Thanks for your patience!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: David Wyatt talking about error handling and more</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-01-29-up-next-david-wyatt-talking-about-error-handling-and-more/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:50:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-01-29-up-next-david-wyatt-talking-about-error-handling-and-more/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Thursday night Jan 30, 2014 our guest will be &lt;a href="http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/david%20wyatt/?ws=usercard-mini"&gt;David Wyatt&lt;/a&gt; talking about the error handling book and so much more.  David was recently named &amp;ldquo;PowerShell Hero&amp;rdquo;. Join us in the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/live.php"&gt;chatroom&lt;/a&gt; and learn more about David&amp;rsquo;s current projects.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 255 – PowerScripting Podcast – Steve Roberts from Amazon on AWS and PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-27-episode-255-powerscripting-podcast-steve-roberts-from-amazon-on-aws-and-powershell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 00:07:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-27-episode-255-powerscripting-podcast-steve-roberts-from-amazon-on-aws-and-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-255.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Steve Roberts from Amazon on Amazon Web Services and PowerShell.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News





- 


 [The Scripting Games](https://powershell.org/category/announcements/scripting-games/) are going on now!





- 


 [PowerShell Saturday #007](http://powershellsaturday.com/007/) is on February 8th





- 


 [PowerShell Saturday #008](http://powershellsaturday.com/008/) is on February 15th
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Interview





Guest - Steve Roberts
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Links





- 


 [Amazon Web Services](http://aws.amazon.com/)





- 


 [AWS Tools for PowerShell](http://aws.amazon.com/powershell/)





- 


 AWS .Net / PowerShell team








 [Windows &amp;amp; .Net Developer Center](http://aws.amazon.com/net/)





 - 


 [Blog](http://aws.amazon.com/net/)





 - 


 Twitter: [@awsfornet](https://twitter.com/awsfornet)








- 


 [Handling credentials with PowerShell tools](http://blogs.aws.amazon.com/net/post/Tx36NATIEAMER5V/Handling-Credentials-with-AWS-Tools-for-Windows-PowerShell)















Chatroom Highlights:





[21:55:58] [http://amzn.com/1430264519](http://amzn.com/1430264519)





[21:56:13] Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services





[21:56:33] Steve (speaking) was a big help with the book





[21:56:43] his team was great





 [https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/](https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/)





 [http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughpad/us/7-inch-tablet-fz-m1.asp](http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughpad/us/7-inch-tablet-fz-m1.asp)





 [http://aws.amazon.com/powershell/](http://aws.amazon.com/powershell/)





 [http://docs.aws.amazon.com/powershell/latest/reference/Index.html](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/powershell/latest/reference/Index.html)





 [http://aws.amazon.com/](http://aws.amazon.com/)





 [http://amzn.com/1430264519](http://amzn.com/1430264519)





 [http://docs.aws.amazon.com/powershell/latest/reference/Index.html](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/powershell/latest/reference/Index.html)





 [http://aws.amazon.com/net/](http://aws.amazon.com/net/)





 [http://blogs.aws.amazon.com/net](http://blogs.aws.amazon.com/net)





 [http://www.musicradar.com/us/news/guitars/trent-reznor-talks-johnny-cash-168199](http://www.musicradar.com/us/news/guitars/trent-reznor-talks-johnny-cash-168199)





 [https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1607005_10202465193703988_1046463679_n.jpg](https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1607005_10202465193703988_1046463679_n.jpg)





 ## what does AWS stand for again?





 DexterPOSh, please add ## before your questions so they are easier for us to pick out





 @JonWalz ...got it ##





 ## can you give a quick/small example of the differences between AWS and Azure?





 ## Can I extend my local Lab to include machines from AWS ?





 ## does he have a blog
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 Thor
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Saturday 007 style</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-23-powershell-saturday-007-style/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:46:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-23-powershell-saturday-007-style/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Last year was the first annual PowerShell Saturday in Charlotte, NC. We were 002. This year, we are back and will be blowing minds in 007 style. We have some great speakers and sessions lined up and there are still &lt;a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/powershell-saturday-007-charlotte-nc-tickets-9019263861?ref=ecount"&gt;tickets available&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The popular Iron Scripter! competition will also be back.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;All of the information you could want to know about this event is located on the &lt;a href="http://powershellsaturday.com/007/"&gt;PowerShell Saturday&lt;/a&gt; site. Jump on over, take a look around, and don’t forget to register.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Tip from the Head Coach of the 2014 Winter Scripting Games: Design for Performance and Efficiency!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-23-powershell-tip-from-the-head-coach-of-the-2014-winter-scripting-games-design-for-performance-and-efficiency/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 14:28:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-23-powershell-tip-from-the-head-coach-of-the-2014-winter-scripting-games-design-for-performance-and-efficiency/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;There are several concepts that come to mind when discussing the topic of designing your PowerShell commands for performance and efficiency, but in my opinion one of the items at the top of the list is &amp;ldquo;Filtering Left&amp;rdquo; which is what I&amp;rsquo;ll be covering in this blog article.&lt;br&gt;
First, let&amp;rsquo;s start out by taking a look at an example of a simple one-liner command that&amp;rsquo;s poorly written from a performance and efficiency standpoint:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://mikefrobbins.com/2014/01/23/powershell-tip-from-the-head-coach-of-the-2014-winter-scripting-games-design-for-performance-and-efficiency/"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to be redirected to the original post of this article on the author’s blog site where you can read the remainder of the article.&lt;br&gt;
µ&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 01/09/2014 meeting summary and presentation materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-21-phillyposh-01092014-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:53:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-21-phillyposh-01092014-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</guid><description>&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/nicemarmot"&gt;Lido Paglia&lt;/a&gt; gave a presentation entitled “A PowerShell beginner’s guide to using GitHub”. During his talk Lido went over the history of GitHub and how you can use it to manage your scripts and to collaboratively code (e.g. The Winter Scripting games!). A &lt;a href="https://github.com/PhillyPoSH/2014-01"&gt;copy of his presentation materials&lt;/a&gt; are available on our &lt;a href="https://github.com/PhillyPoSH"&gt;GitHub Repository&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/nicemarmot"&gt;Lido Paglia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://mellositmusings.com/"&gt;John Mello&lt;/a&gt; both went over their approach to the homework problem they presented during the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/11/12/phillyposh-11072013-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/"&gt;11/07/2013&lt;/a&gt; meeting. You can find a copy of &lt;a href="https://github.com/PhillyPoSH/2014-01/blob/master/PhotoFlashback.ps1"&gt;Lido&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://github.com/PhillyPoSH/2014-01/blob/master/PhotoFlashback_JohnMello.ps1"&gt;John&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/a&gt; script in our &lt;a href="https://github.com/PhillyPoSH"&gt;GitHub Repository&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=culZp4EwmdU"&gt;recording of this meeting&lt;/a&gt; has been posted to our &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAc_ow5FIJtRpvew__9Iqzg"&gt;YouTube channel&lt;/a&gt;; please note that there are some audio issues near the end of the recording.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson talking PSSAT007 and his new book</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-01-21-up-next-microsoft-scripting-guy-ed-wilson-talking-pssat007-and-his-new-book/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2014 16:42:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-01-21-up-next-microsoft-scripting-guy-ed-wilson-talking-pssat007-and-his-new-book/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join us Thursday Jan 23, 2014 as our guest will be the Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, as he talks about &lt;a href="http://powershellsaturday.com/007/"&gt;PowerShell Saturday 007&lt;/a&gt; in Charlotte (Feb 8, 2014); his new book &lt;a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0790145347268.do"&gt;Windows PowerShell Best Practices&lt;/a&gt; and who knows what else. We record live at 9:30PM EST hope to see you then.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://akamaicovers.oreilly.com/images/0790145347268/lrg.jpg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Adding and Removing Items from a PowerShell Array</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-21-adding-and-removing-items-from-a-powershell-array/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2014 11:46:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-21-adding-and-removing-items-from-a-powershell-array/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Adding and removing Items from a PowerShell array is a topic which can lead to some confusion, so here are a few tips for you.&lt;br&gt;
Create an array and we will note the type &lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.array(v=vs.110).aspx"&gt;System.Array&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.jonathanmedd.net/2014/01/adding-and-removing-items-from-a-powershell-array.html"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to be redirected to the original post of this article on the author’s blog site where you can read the remainder of the article.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Testing for Admin Privileges in PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-21-testing-for-admin-privileges-in-powershell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:27:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-21-testing-for-admin-privileges-in-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when running a PowerShell script you may need to test at the beginning whether the process it was called from had Windows admin privileges in order to be able to achieve what it needs to do. Prior to PowerShell v4 I had used something along the lines of the following to test for this condition – not the most obvious piece of code ever to be fair:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.jonathanmedd.net/2014/01/testing-for-admin-privileges-in-powershell.html"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to be redirected to the original post of this article on the author’s blog site where you can read the remainder of the article.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Winter Scripting Games 2014 Tip #2: Use #Requires to let PowerShell do the work for you</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-20-winter-scripting-games-2014-tip-2-use-requires-to-let-powershell-do-the-work-for-you/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2014 03:51:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-20-winter-scripting-games-2014-tip-2-use-requires-to-let-powershell-do-the-work-for-you/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In Version 2 of PowerShell, you had the ability to use #Requires –Version 2.0 to ensure that your scripts/functions would only run at a specified PowerShell version to prevent folks running an older version from wondering why things weren&amp;rsquo;t working that well.&lt;br&gt;
In this article, I will show you a couple of new additions to the #Requires statement that will make your life easier when writing functions that require specific pre-requisites rather than coding your own methods&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://learn-powershell.net/2014/01/20/winter-scripting-games-2014-tip-2-use-requires-to-let-powershell-do-the-work-for-you/"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to be redirected to the original post of this article on the author’s blog site where you can read the remainder of the article..&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games 2014 – event submission tip</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-18-scripting-games-2014-event-submission-tip/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2014 12:21:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-18-scripting-games-2014-event-submission-tip/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve testing out the judging system using the practice event and one thing jumped out at me.&lt;br&gt;
It was a lot easier to understand the entries for those teams that included a transcript of their entry.&lt;br&gt;
I would very strongly recommend that you include a transcript of your entry running. As a minimum I would recommend that you include:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;the solution running - show each type of input required by the scenario (pipeline, single values, file etc)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;if parameter validation is asked for - show that in action&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;show error handling in action if you can&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;show the partial contents of any output file&lt;br&gt;
Transcripts make for happy judges. You want your judges to be happy don&amp;rsquo;t you&amp;hellip;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>Winter Scripting Games 2014 Tip #1: Avoid the aliases</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-16-winter-scripting-games-2014-tip-1-avoid-the-aliases/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2014 03:57:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-16-winter-scripting-games-2014-tip-1-avoid-the-aliases/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Having been a judge for the previous 2 Scripting Game competitions as well as competing in the 2 before that, I have seen my share of scripts submitted that didn&amp;rsquo;t quite meet the cut of what I felt were the best scripts. It doesn&amp;rsquo;t mean that they wouldn&amp;rsquo;t work out in the real world in a production environment (Ok, some wouldn&amp;rsquo;t :)), but some were just really hard to read or others were doing things that I wouldn&amp;rsquo;t consider to be a good practice. The first of several articles that I will be doing will start out with the use of aliases in scripts and why this is not necessarily a good idea.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://learn-powershell.net/2014/01/16/winter-scripting-games-2014-tip-1-avoid-the-aliases/"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to be redirected to the original post of this article on the author’s blog site where you can read the remainder of the article.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Tip #3 from the Winner of the Advanced Category in the 2013 Scripting Games</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-16-powershell-tip-3-from-the-winner-of-the-advanced-category-in-the-2013-scripting-games/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:18:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-16-powershell-tip-3-from-the-winner-of-the-advanced-category-in-the-2013-scripting-games/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In my previous blog article (&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2014/01/09/powershell-tip-2-from-the-winner-of-the-advanced-category-in-the-2013-scripting-games/"&gt;PowerShell Tip #2&lt;/a&gt;), I left off with the subject of inline help and stated there was a better way. I’m fast-forwarding through lots of concepts and jumping right into “Advanced Functions and Scripts” with this tip because they are where you’ll find the answer to a “better way” to add inline help.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://mikefrobbins.com/2014/01/16/powershell-tip-3-from-the-winner-of-the-advanced-category-in-the-2013-scripting-games/"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to be redirected to the original post of this article on the author’s blog site where you can read the remainder of the article.&lt;br&gt;
µ&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 254 – PowerScripting Podcast – Symon Perriman and Rick Claus from Microsoft on the PowerShell Deployment Toolkit</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-01-15-episode-254-powerscripting-podcast-symon-perriman-and-rick-claus-from-microsoft-on-the-powershell-deployment-toolkit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2014 03:56:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-01-15-episode-254-powerscripting-podcast-symon-perriman-and-rick-claus-from-microsoft-on-the-powershell-deployment-toolkit/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-254.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Symon Perriman and Rick Claus from Microsoft about the PowerShell Deployment Toolkit
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 New PowerShell MVP [Bo Wu](http://blog.vichamp.com/) from China





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 2014 [PowerShell Heroes](https://powershell.org/2014/01/08/announcing-our-2014-powershell-heroes/)!








 Teresa Wilson





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 Dave Wyatt





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 Mark Schill





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 Francois-Xavier Cat





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 Martin Pugh








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 MVP Jonathan Medd blogged about the [Scripting Games](http://www.jonathanmedd.net/2014/01/winter-scripting-games-2014.html)





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 PowerShell product team members [speaking at the summit](https://powershell.org/2014/01/07/powershell-summit-north-america-2014-some-more-reasons-to-register/)





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 Dallas-Fort Worth [PowerShell meeting](https://powershell.org/event/moving-from-command-line-tools-to-powershell-for-active-directory/) on January 28th
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Guests - Symon Perriman and Rick Claus on the PDT
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 [PowerShell Deployment Toolkit show with Rob Willis (ep 239)](https://powershell.org/2013/09/08/episode-239-powerscripting-podcast-rob-willis-from-microsoft-on-the-powershell-deployment-toolkit/)





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 [Deployment track on the Private Cloud TechNet blog](http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/tags/deployment+track/default.aspx)





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 [Download PDT](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/PowerShell-Deployment-f20bb605)





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 [Rick’s website](http://regularitguy.com/) and [@RicksterCDN](https://twitter.com/RicksterCDN)





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 [Symon’s website](http://www.symonperriman.com/) and [@SymonPerriman](https://twitter.com/SymonPerriman)





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 [System Center Advisor](https://www.systemcenteradvisor.com/)





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 [TechNet Virtual Labs](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/virtuallabs/bb467605.aspx)





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 [Rob Wills presentation from TechEd on the PDT](http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2013/MDC-B322#fbid=)















Chatroom Highlights:





 ## Did you see my question about naming? 🙂





 ## Rick is an awesome supporter of The Krewe for TechEd!





 ## how can PDT deploy to Azure if some System Center components (SCVMM) are not supported in Azure?





 ## Are there any plans to port some of the PDT functionality to leverage DSC?





 ## how are customers successful deploying SC with PDT without Microsoft's help? I often hear people having problems with too complex XML config files





 ## Whats the fewest number of VM's I need to deploy the whole system centre suite using this toolkit?





 ## some error logs might help too 😉





 lletwahsoj [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN8eJA9rpXw&amp;amp;list=WLCE6501CC63F5E36C](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN8eJA9rpXw&amp;amp;list=WLCE6501CC63F5E36C)





 pics of Niagara Falls this week: [http://www.businessinsider.com/frozen-niagara-falls-pictures-2014-1](http://www.businessinsider.com/frozen-niagara-falls-pictures-2014-1)





 [http://www.symonperriman.com/index.html](http://www.symonperriman.com/index.html)





 latest version: [http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/PowerShell-Deployment-f20bb605](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/PowerShell-Deployment-f20bb605)





 kobeckman: [https://powershell.org/2014/01/09/tonight-on-the-powerscripting-podcast-rick-claus-and-symon-perriman-talk-about-build-a-windows-server-and-system-center-environment-with-the-powershell-deployment-toolkit/](https://powershell.org/2014/01/09/tonight-on-the-powerscripting-podcast-rick-claus-and-symon-perriman-talk-about-build-a-windows-server-and-system-center-environment-with-the-powershell-deployment-toolkit/)





 deployment track of the private cloud blog: [http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/tags/deployment+track/default.aspx](http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/tags/deployment+track/default.aspx)





[ https://www.systemcenteradvisor.com/](https://www.systemcenteradvisor.com/)





 [http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2013/MDC-B322#fbid=DwXiNVzUZEW](http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2013/MDC-B322#fbid=DwXiNVzUZEW)





 [http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MMS/2013/SD-B302](http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MMS/2013/SD-B302)





 [http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2013/MDC-B322#fbid=](http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2013/MDC-B322#fbid=)
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 Symon: flying (no wings required)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Steve Roberts from Amazon talking about the AWS Tools</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-01-14-up-next-steve-roberts-from-amazon-talking-about-the-aws-tools/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:49:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-01-14-up-next-steve-roberts-from-amazon-talking-about-the-aws-tools/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join us this Thursday, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:30 PM EST as we talk with Steve Roberts from Amazon about the AWS Tools. Read more about it here: &lt;a href="http://aws.amazon.com/powershell/"&gt;http://aws.amazon.com/powershell/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://www.commoncrawl.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/AWS_LOGO_CMYK.png" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Winter Scripting Games 2014</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-14-winter-scripting-games-2014/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:00:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-14-winter-scripting-games-2014/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/PowerShell-Scripting-Games-Logo.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/PowerShell-Scripting-Games-Logo.png" alt="PowerShell-Scripting-Games-Logo"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
If you’re looking to learn or improve on existing skills as part of a new year goal and one of those in PowerShell, then you may find it useful to check out the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/category/announcements/scripting-games/page/2/"&gt;Winter Scripting Games 2014&lt;/a&gt;. When you are looking to improve your scripting skills it can sometimes be tricky if you don’t have a practical problem to solve. By taking part in these games you will have a number of opportunities to apply your skills to _real _problems.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.jonathanmedd.net/2014/01/winter-scripting-games-2014.html"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to be redirected to the original post of this article on the author’s blog site where you can read the remainder of the article.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tampa Bay Powershell User Group – Jan Meeting</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-13-tampa-bay-powershell-user-group-jan-meeting/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:37:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-13-tampa-bay-powershell-user-group-jan-meeting/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Next meeting:&lt;br&gt;
Topic: Winter Scripting Games Kickoff and Team formation&lt;br&gt;
Jan 16th 2014 6 – 8 PM back at Tek System Tampa Office&lt;br&gt;
FOOD PROVDED&lt;img src="http://cdn.powershell.org/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
RSVP via – &lt;a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/tampa-powershell-user-group-tickets-1634714475"&gt;http://www.eventbrite.com/e/tampa-powershell-user-group-tickets-1634714475&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
4301 West Boy Scout Boulevard&lt;br&gt;
Suite 590&lt;br&gt;
Tampa, FL 33607&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games Winter 2014 – WE HAS PRIZES!!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-10-scripting-games-winter-2014-we-has-prizes/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 19:43:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-10-scripting-games-winter-2014-we-has-prizes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Many thanks to SAPIEN Technologies&lt;/strong&gt; for providing - completely without us asking - first-place and overall-best prizes for The Scripting Games!&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;ll have copies of PowerShell Studio (x2), PrimalScript (x2), and the entire SAPIEN Software Suite (x1) for our overall top-scoring team at the end of the Games. Team members can decide how to divvy up the loo themselves.&lt;br&gt;
Remember that Event 1 is coming up soon:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Instructions available 2014-01-18 00:00:00 UTC&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Entries accepted starting 2014-01-19 00:00:00 UTC&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;All entries due by 2014-01-26 00:00:00 UTC&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**You must be registered and on a team
before
we begin accepting entries, or you will not be able to participate. **Any latecomers will not be allowed to chat or upload files, even if they join a team.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast: Rick Claus and Symon Perriman talk about Build a Windows Server and System Center Environment with the PowerShell Deployment Toolkit</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-01-09-tonight-on-the-powerscripting-podcast-rick-claus-and-symon-perriman-talk-about-build-a-windows-server-and-system-center-environment-with-the-powershell-deployment-toolkit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 18:17:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-01-09-tonight-on-the-powerscripting-podcast-rick-claus-and-symon-perriman-talk-about-build-a-windows-server-and-system-center-environment-with-the-powershell-deployment-toolkit/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join us tonight at 9:30 PM as Rick Claus and Symon Perriman talk about how to Build a Windows Server and System Center Environment with the PowerShell Deployment Toolkit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://cdn.powershell.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/podcast-logo.png" alt="podcast-logo"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Tip #2 from the Winner of the Advanced Category in the 2013 Scripting Games</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-09-powershell-tip-2-from-the-winner-of-the-advanced-category-in-the-2013-scripting-games/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 14:10:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-09-powershell-tip-2-from-the-winner-of-the-advanced-category-in-the-2013-scripting-games/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tip #2 - Comment (Document) your code!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
This is another one of those tips that probably isn&amp;rsquo;t very popular, but regardless of how good you are at writing PowerShell scripts and functions, they&amp;rsquo;re useless if no one else can figure out how to use them. You might be thinking that you&amp;rsquo;re the only one who uses the PowerShell code that you write, but I&amp;rsquo;m sure that you like to go on vacation just like the rest of us and none of us are going to live forever.&lt;br&gt;
In &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2014/01/03/powershell-tip-1-from-the-winner-of-the-advanced-category-in-the-2013-scripting-games/"&gt;my tip #1 blog&lt;/a&gt; you learned that you need to &amp;ldquo;Read the Help!&amp;rdquo;. This tip builds on the first one because it allows others to &amp;ldquo;Read the Help!&amp;rdquo; for the PowerShell code that you write.&lt;br&gt;
The type of help that you want to provide for your PowerShell functions and scripts is &amp;ldquo;Comment Based Help&amp;rdquo;. &lt;a href="http://mikefrobbins.com/2014/01/09/powershell-tip-2-from-the-winner-of-the-advanced-category-in-the-2013-scripting-games/"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to be redirected to the original post of this article on the author’s blog site where you can read the remainder of the article.&lt;br&gt;
µ&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit North America 2014 – Some More Reasons to Register!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-07-powershell-summit-north-america-2014-some-more-reasons-to-register/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2014 19:17:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-07-powershell-summit-north-america-2014-some-more-reasons-to-register/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Summit North America Registration is in full swing, and we&amp;rsquo;ve got about 50 more spots to reach our break-even goal. Hopefully, those of you that have been holding off for budgetary reasons are now &amp;ldquo;weapons free&amp;rdquo; and can plan to join us in April 2014!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="confirmed-powershell-product-team-presenters"&gt;Confirmed PowerShell Product Team Presenters&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve confirmed a great set of speakers from the team itself, including Jason Shirk, Lee Holmes, Kenneth Hanson, and Hemant Manhawar. Of course, Shell Father Jeffrey Snover will also be presenting a couple of sessions!&lt;br&gt;
This helps really round out our &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/powershell-summit-north-america/summit-agenda/"&gt;agenda&lt;/a&gt;, along with several special events that we&amp;rsquo;ve got planned. You&amp;rsquo;ll participate in a large-scale Iron Scripter event, mix and mingle with team members in Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;top of the world&amp;rdquo; cafe in downtown Bellevue, and rub elbows with PowerShell experts from all over the world during our pre-event mixer.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 253 – PowerScripting Podcast – Talking PowerShell with Jeff Truman</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-01-06-episode-253-powerscripting-podcast-talking-powershell-with-jeff-truman/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2014 04:13:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2014-01-06-episode-253-powerscripting-podcast-talking-powershell-with-jeff-truman/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-253.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jeff Truman
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 New PowerShell MVP Laerte Junior from Brazil





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 New PowerShell MVP Chendrayan Venkatesan in the Netherlands





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 New PowerShell MVP [Francois-Xavier Cat](http://www.lazywinadmin.com/2014/01/im-powershell-mvp.html) in Canada





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 [DSC Resource Kit Wave 1](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/12/26/holiday-gift-desired-state-configuration-dsc-resource-kit-wave-1.aspx)





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 Winter Scripting Games








 [Understanding the Scoring](https://powershell.org/2014/01/03/scripting-games-winter-2014-understanding-the-scoring/)





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 [Practice Event](https://powershell.org/2014/01/03/scripting-games-winter-2014-practice-event-rules/)








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 [PowerShell Summit info](https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/powershell-summit-north-america/)





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 [January 8th IndyPosh meeting](https://powershell.org/event/indyposh-meeting-10-whats-new-in-powershell-v4/)





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 [January 9th PhillyPosh meeting](https://powershell.org/event/phillyposh-january-9th-2014/)





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 [January 15th Research Triangle meeting](https://powershell.org/event/research-triangle-monthly-meeting-6pm-115/)
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Guests - Jeff Truman the Script Warrior
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 Works at [Serve](https://www.serve.com/), a subsidiary of American Express





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 President of the [Tampa Bay PowerShell User Group](https://powershell.org/user-groups/tampa-powershell-user-group/)









Chatroom Highlights:





 caption the peoples:  [http://cdn.powershell.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/contech.png](http://cdn.powershell.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/contech.png)





 [https://www.bluebird.com](https://www.bluebird.com)





 what's the tampa user group homepage? [http://powershellgroup.org/Tampa.Fl ](http://powershellgroup.org/Tampa.Fl)seems stale





 [https://powershell.org/user-groups/tampa-powershell-user-group/](https://powershell.org/user-groups/tampa-powershell-user-group/)





 [http://live.powerscripting.net](http://live.powerscripting.net)





 how about [http://vaughnlive.tv/embed/video/jonwalz](http://vaughnlive.tv/embed/video/jonwalz)





 [https://powershell.org/live.php](https://powershell.org/live.php) is embedding that same url
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 Iron Man
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games Winter 2014 – Team Discussion Tips</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-06-scripting-games-winter-2014-team-discussion-tips/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2014 15:42:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-06-scripting-games-winter-2014-team-discussion-tips/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;When you&amp;rsquo;re logged into the Games, you&amp;rsquo;ll notice that clicking on your team pulls up a &amp;ldquo;team discussion&amp;rdquo; box. That&amp;rsquo;s a shared discussion area for you and your team.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/figure_15-001.png" alt="figure_15-001"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
However, if you click on one of the files you&amp;rsquo;ve uploaded, you&amp;rsquo;ll see the discussion turn into a &amp;ldquo;File Discussion.&amp;rdquo; We retain a separate thread for each file you upload, so that you and your team can discuss that file specifically.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/figure_15-002.png" alt="figure_15-002"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games Winter 2014 – Teams in Danger</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-05-scripting-games-winter-2014-teams-in-danger/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2014 22:37:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-05-scripting-games-winter-2014-teams-in-danger/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Note that as of the time of this post (about 2pm Pacific on Jan 5th), the following teams do not have enough players to participate in the upcoming Practice Event:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lake County Hoosiers&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Annihilators&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;AZPOSH&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Avengers&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;PeopleTecIsAwesome&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Time Travel is Dangerous&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kotagiris&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;wow. much power. very shell.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Blasters&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;CCC&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Anteaters&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Barracudas&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hypothermia&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Bearcats&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;#PSexec&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Avalanche&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Bull Gators&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Alligators&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To reiterate: **You must have 2-6 players signed into the Web site and joined to your team, or you will be unable to post entries. **Anyone joining after midnight UTC on Jan 6th &lt;strong&gt;will not count&lt;/strong&gt; toward your team total for the Practice Event.&lt;br&gt;
Many of the above teams are &amp;ldquo;private,&amp;rdquo; which means nobody can join them without the team invite code.&lt;br&gt;
If you are on one of the following teams, especially if it&amp;rsquo;s public, _consider quitting NOW and joining another public team that needs players. _Otherwise, you may miss out on the practice event, which starts in just a couple of hours.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Script for Setting Up and Demoing a DSC Pull Server</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-05-script-for-setting-up-and-demoing-a-dsc-pull-server/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2014 18:59:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-05-script-for-setting-up-and-demoing-a-dsc-pull-server/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/dsc.zip"&gt;DSC Setup and Demo Scripts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
I recently set up a virtual machine to use for Desired State Configuration (DSC) demos. I wanted to make the demo-ing fairly brainless, as DSC requires a number of setup steps to get a pull server running. So I took some demo scripts Microsoft offered from TechEd 2013, updated them to work with Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM, and thought I&amp;rsquo;d offer them to you.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;SetupDSC.ps1&lt;/strong&gt; is the main script. Now, because I didn&amp;rsquo;t want to use good ol&amp;rsquo; Start-Demo, there&amp;rsquo;s a who crapload of kinda ugly Write-Debug statements. That way I can get an &amp;ldquo;about to do ____&amp;rdquo; message and then have the script pause before doing it. Lets me explain to the class what&amp;rsquo;s about to happen. You can remove all that crud if you like.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;InstallPullServerConfig.ps1&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;PSWSIISEndpoint.psm1&lt;/strong&gt; are the updated Microsoft scripts. SetupDSC.ps1 calls these. They&amp;rsquo;re intended to run locally; you&amp;rsquo;ll need to be _on _the machine you want to make into a pull server, and it needs to be Windows Server 2012 R2 (the DSC pull server role is part of the OS, not part of Windows Management Framework v4). Setup takes a few minutes, and will install IIS. This sets up an HTTP pull server.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;SampleConfig.ps1&lt;/strong&gt; is a sample DSC configuration, targeted to a computer named MEMBER2. It just specifies that the Windows Server Backup feature be installed. SetupDSC.ps1 actually runs this, which produces a MOF. SetupDSC.ps1 also copies the MOF to the DSC pull server configuration directory.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;SampleSetPullMode.ps1&lt;/strong&gt; also gets run by SetupDSC.ps1. This contains a DSC Local Configuration Manager configuration, targeted to MEMBER2, that turns on pull mode and directs MEMBER2 to pull the previously-created configuration. I think I have it refreshing every 5 minutes, which is totally unrealistic for production. Again, this was made for class demos, but you can adjust the time or leave it off to default to 30min. Running this script creates the MOF and pushes it to MEMBER2. That, in turn, causes MEMBER2 to start pulling the sample config, which causes Windows Server Backup to be installed.&lt;br&gt;
SetupDSC.ps1 has some additional code to show that Windows Server Backup isn&amp;rsquo;t installed, and then is installed (after you give the pull time to occur).&lt;br&gt;
Anyway, might need some tweaking to use in production, but hopefully it&amp;rsquo;ll give you a snapshot of the whole DSC process. Much thanks to &lt;a href="http://readsource.co.uk/blog/2013/10/1/configuring-powershell-dsc-pull-mode"&gt;James Dawson&amp;rsquo;s article on DSC&lt;/a&gt;, which gave me a couple of the tweaks I needed to get all this working on RTM code.&lt;br&gt;
Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games Winter 2014 Notice</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-03-scripting-games-winter-2014-notice/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2014 00:05:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-03-scripting-games-winter-2014-notice/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Due to some vagaries in the system, we have some users who &amp;ldquo;belong&amp;rdquo; to multiple teams.&lt;br&gt;
I think I&amp;rsquo;ve corrected the problem so it won&amp;rsquo;t crop up again.&lt;br&gt;
A couple of players&amp;rsquo; team memberships were manually reduced to 1. If it was you, and you&amp;rsquo;re suddenly on the wrong team, post in the forum and I&amp;rsquo;ll fix it for you.&lt;br&gt;
For everyone else, when you go to the event list you may be redirected to a &amp;ldquo;You&amp;rsquo;re on multiple teams&amp;rdquo; page, and asked to click the team you wish to remain on. Your &amp;ldquo;join date&amp;rdquo; will not change, so you&amp;rsquo;ll still be able to participate in the events. You&amp;rsquo;ll simply be de-listed from the other teams.&lt;br&gt;
As always, post in the forums if you need help.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games Winter 2014 – Practice Event Rules</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-03-scripting-games-winter-2014-practice-event-rules/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2014 19:40:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-03-scripting-games-winter-2014-practice-event-rules/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;On Monday, our practice event should be open at &lt;a href="http://ScriptingGames.org"&gt;http://ScriptingGames.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
**If you formed a team but only have one player on Monday morning, you will not be able to submit entries. **I&amp;rsquo;ve noticed several folks who have only a single player but who have set their team membership to &amp;ldquo;private,&amp;rdquo; meaning nobody can join you unless you provide them with your invitation code.&lt;br&gt;
**Your team must have 2-6 players to participate in the Games. **
You may consider leaving your team (it&amp;rsquo;ll be deleted if you&amp;rsquo;re the last player in it) and joining one of the public teams. Once you join a new team, you will not be able to fully participate until the current, in-progress event is over and the next event begins.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Tip #1 from the Winner of the Advanced Category in the 2013 Scripting Games</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-03-powershell-tip-1-from-the-winner-of-the-advanced-category-in-the-2013-scripting-games/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2014 17:16:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-03-powershell-tip-1-from-the-winner-of-the-advanced-category-in-the-2013-scripting-games/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In case you haven&amp;rsquo;t heard, the 2014 Winter Scripting Games are just now getting started. Regardless of your skill level with PowerShell, it couldn&amp;rsquo;t be a better time to participate since this is the first time in the history of the scripting games that you&amp;rsquo;ll be able to work as part of a team and receive proactive feedback (before your code is judged) from a team of expert coaches who use PowerShell in the real world on a daily basis. Ultimately, the scripting games make learning PowerShell more interesting and challenging while giving you the opportunity to network with other enthusiasts in the industry.&lt;br&gt;
Now it&amp;rsquo;s time to talk about a PowerShell tip that I wanted to share.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Tip #1 - Read the Help!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
While this may not be the most popular tip, believe it or not, it&amp;rsquo;s one of the most important and it&amp;rsquo;s something that&amp;rsquo;s so simple it&amp;rsquo;s often times overlooked. In my opinion, you&amp;rsquo;ll never truly be effective with PowerShell and be able to figure things out for yourself until you learn to read the help.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://mikefrobbins.com/2014/01/03/powershell-tip-1-from-the-winner-of-the-advanced-category-in-the-2013-scripting-games/"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to be redirected to the original post of this article on the author’s blog site where you can read the remainder of the article.&lt;br&gt;
µ&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Winter Scripting Games Team Formation in Full Swing</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-02-winter-scripting-games-team-formation-in-full-swing/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2014 21:40:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-02-winter-scripting-games-team-formation-in-full-swing/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;It looks like Team Formation is in full swing, with more than a dozen teams already registered for The Scripting Games: Winter 2014.&lt;br&gt;
Some team tips:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;If you create a new team, we&amp;rsquo;re assigning it a default team name. You can immediately change that.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Teams start as public, but we&amp;rsquo;re allowing you to make them private. This removed the team from the &amp;ldquo;join up&amp;rdquo; list, and gives you an invite code. You can distribute that invite to anyone you wish to join your team, and they can use it to sign up.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The public team list shows a time zone offset. This is kind of the average number of minutes between you and the other people on the team. So basically, lower numbers means you&amp;rsquo;re all closer to the same time zone. You don&amp;rsquo;t necessarily NEED to be close; it depends on how you all plan to collaborate.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Right now, we have about a half-dozen public teams that you can join if you&amp;rsquo;d like to participate in the Games. Remember, a team must have at least 2 players in order to participate.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;m loving some of the team names, like &lt;strong&gt;Excessive Use of -Force&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Troll Bait&lt;/strong&gt;. I know several local user groups are forming teams as well, and encouraging their members to join. You&amp;rsquo;re welcome to use email, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or even standing outside and screaming as ways of recruiting members to your team.&lt;br&gt;
The practice event starts Jan 6. &lt;strong&gt;Please pay attention to PowerShell.org&amp;rsquo;s home page&lt;/strong&gt; for late-breaking announcements - if we have a problem, we&amp;rsquo;ll post there to let you know.&lt;br&gt;
Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Using Install-WindowsFeature with Offline Source</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-01-using-install-windowsfeature-with-offline-source/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2014 17:04:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2014-01-01-using-install-windowsfeature-with-offline-source/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As you probably know, the Install-WindowsFeature (used to be Add-WindowsFeature; that&amp;rsquo;s now an alias to Install-) can add Windows roles and features from PowerShell. If your server doesn&amp;rsquo;t have the installer source on the local disk, then the cmdlet will default to grabbing it from Windows Update - a pain for disconnected servers. Install-WindowsFeature does offer a means of using an alternate local source (like a DVD or file server location), but using it can be a bit hinky.&lt;br&gt;
The cmdlet help indicates that you should point to a Windows image (WIM) file. That&amp;rsquo;ll work, but you can&amp;rsquo;t just provide the path of the WIM. You also need to put a &lt;strong&gt;wim:/&lt;/strong&gt; prefix on the front of the path, and a suffix that tells the thing which edition of Windows you&amp;rsquo;re working with, so that it grabs the right bits. For example, &lt;strong&gt;wim:/d:/sources/install.wim:4&lt;/strong&gt;. That &amp;ldquo;4&amp;rdquo; is the suffix for Datacenter Edition, telling the installer to look at index 4 within the WIM for the necessary feature.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>State of the Org, ending 2013</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-12-30-state-of-the-org-ending-2013/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:24:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-12-30-state-of-the-org-ending-2013/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I wanted to take a moment and wish everyone a very happy new year, and to do a sort of wrap-up of 2013 from PowerShell.org&amp;rsquo;s perspective.&lt;br&gt;
We started 2013 with a bang, including our first-ever PowerShell Summit North America, held on-campus at Microsoft in Redmond. We&amp;rsquo;ll be returning to the Seattle area in April 2014 for &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/"&gt;PowerShell Summit North America 2014&lt;/a&gt;, and are planning the first &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/"&gt;PowerShell Summit Europe 2014&lt;/a&gt; in Amsterdam in September. For the N.A. show, we need about 50 more Summit attendees to break even, and can accommodate about 100 more than we&amp;rsquo;ve currently got registered.&lt;br&gt;
We ran a very successful Scripting Games that kicked off just as the Summit was ending. Thousands participated, tens of thousands of dollars in prizes were handed out, and most importantly the Games made the transition from being a much-loved child of the Microsoft Scripting Guys to being a community-owned event that can hopefully continue forever. We&amp;rsquo;ve got the first Winter Scripting Games in a loooong time starting in just a few days, in fact.&lt;br&gt;
In the wake of The Scripting Games, we ran a summer-long series of &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/category/great-debates/"&gt;Great Debates&lt;/a&gt;, and your comments on those informed the first-ever &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/newsletter/"&gt;Community Book of PowerShell Practices&lt;/a&gt;, now offered as a free ebook.&lt;br&gt;
PowerShell.org, Inc. closed its first fiscal year at the end of June 2013, and financially we lost just a bit of money. Don&amp;rsquo;t worry - that was always more or less the intent; we&amp;rsquo;re not running the corporation to make a buck, but rather to more-or-less break even. At the moment, we have $29,988.25 in our checking account, most of which is earmarked for Summit 2014 expenses.&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;re now providing hosting services for about 17 &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/user-groups/"&gt;local and regional user groups&lt;/a&gt;, giving them a spot to post upcoming meeting dates, post-meeting file attachments, and other details. We&amp;rsquo;re hoping this helps raise awareness of the efforts they&amp;rsquo;re all making to have a strong local PowerShell support system in place.&lt;br&gt;
2013 also saw the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/powerscripting-podcast/"&gt;PowerScripting Podcast&lt;/a&gt; become a welcome part of PowerShell.org. Host Jon Walz also got his first MVP Award, a long-awaited and well-deserved honor that he now shares with co-host Hal Rottenberg. Everyone appreciates the hard work they do, and we at PowerShell.org wanted to make sure they had the resources to keep doing it (equipment ain&amp;rsquo;t free), so we offered to help out when they needed, and they graciously accepted. We&amp;rsquo;re delighted to be working with them.&lt;br&gt;
PowerShell.org played an important role in developing Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s official entry-level PowerShell training, course 10961, by giving the authors (e.g., me) a place to survey folks about topic, level of coverage, and more, and to solicit feedback on the &amp;ldquo;A&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;B&amp;rdquo; revs while updating the course for PowerShell v4. This site (and all of you) also played an important role in selecting topics for the advanced-level training, course 10962, which will be developed in 2014. Finally, you all helped provide feedback for Microsoft Courseware Marketplace course 55039, which covers PowerShell scripting and toolmaking. When you see a survey posted here, jump in - it makes a very real difference in some very important projects!&lt;br&gt;
2013 was also the year we Moved to Azure, spinning up an Azure-hosted CentOS VM that&amp;rsquo;s now running the site. It&amp;rsquo;s gotten faster, is a bit easier to maintain, and is a heck of a lot more highly available thanks to Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s cloud hosting.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;m extremely proud to have had so many folks jump in and help out this year. Dave Wyatt, Matt Penny, Matt Johnson, Mike Shepard, and Nicholas Getchell have all taken on curator roles for the free ebooks we offer on PowerShell.org. They&amp;rsquo;re doing a wonderful job in making sure those titles stay updated - so much so, that &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/newsletter/"&gt;we&amp;rsquo;re now just linking to the books&amp;rsquo; GitHub repository&lt;/a&gt;, where you can download the DOC files directly. Dave Wyatt has also been &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/author/dlwyatt/"&gt;posting some incredibly detailed and informative blog posts&lt;/a&gt; that I hope you&amp;rsquo;re reading - I really appreciate his contributions here. I also want to thank Matt Tilford, Chris Hunt, and Mark Keisling, who have taken on editorial duties for the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/newsletter/"&gt;TechLetter newsletter&lt;/a&gt;. Our aim is to put out a solid, informative, technically deep monthly offering and these guys are absolutely on the job. I hope you&amp;rsquo;re subscribed, because if you aren&amp;rsquo;t, you&amp;rsquo;re missing out. Finally, MVP &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/author/stevenmurawski/"&gt;Steven Murawski&lt;/a&gt; has made PowerShell.org his home for Desired State Configuration (DSC) blogs and code, and he&amp;rsquo;s been prolific. His employer, StackExchange, has been an early adopter of the DSC technology, and Steven&amp;rsquo;s been sharing pretty much everything he&amp;rsquo;s learned.&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;ve had some transitions in 2013. Board member and co-founder Kirk Munro has had to step away from day-to-day duties with PowerShell.org, although he remains a member of the board. Board member Jason Helmick has stepped into a second-in-command position, and is more or less running the North America Summit from an operational perspective. Jason earned his first MVP Award this year, giving us an all-MVP Board that also includes myself, Jeffery Hicks, and Richard Siddaway.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;m extremely proud of everything we&amp;rsquo;ve accomplished. I&amp;rsquo;m delighted that so many folks are jumping into the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/forums/"&gt;forums&lt;/a&gt; and offering answers to questions - it&amp;rsquo;s a massive relief on my own workload, and there are some damn smart folks offering their help to the community for free. In fact, we plan to recognize some of them in our first-ever PowerShell Heroes award, scheduled for January 2014. We&amp;rsquo;re also going to make good on a promise I made when we started this site: our above-and-beyond contributors are going to become part-owners of this community with an award of stock in PowerShell.org, Inc. That&amp;rsquo;ll give them some concrete control over the community they&amp;rsquo;re helping to build. Look for that mid-2014, when we near the end of our fiscal year.&lt;br&gt;
For 2014, I&amp;rsquo;d like to thank our returning sponsors, &lt;a href="http://www.sapien.com"&gt;SAPIEN Technologies&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://interfacett.com"&gt;Interface Technical Training&lt;/a&gt;. These folks give a lot, financially, to help make this site work. Please show them your appreciation in every way you can. In 2014, my company, &lt;a href="http://concentratedtech.com"&gt;Concentrated Tech&lt;/a&gt;, is also coming aboard as a sponsor, and I&amp;rsquo;ll be offering my first-ever public PowerShell training.&lt;br&gt;
I think 2014 should be a great year, both for PowerShell.org and for the broader PowerShell community that we&amp;rsquo;re trying to serve. If you&amp;rsquo;re new here, or you&amp;rsquo;ve just been lurking, please jump in and help. Write an article about something you learned, answer a question in the forums, or volunteer to help out. We&amp;rsquo;re all in this together, and the stronger a community we all make _together, _the more we&amp;rsquo;ll be able to support each other when needs arise.&lt;br&gt;
I look forward to serving you in 2014!&lt;br&gt;
Don Jones&lt;br&gt;
President and CEO&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Introducing the Judges for Winter 2014 Scripting Games</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-12-28-introducing-the-judges-for-winter-2014-scripting-games/</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2013 15:50:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-12-28-introducing-the-judges-for-winter-2014-scripting-games/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In the last few years there has been a long list of people judging the Scripting Games. Those people were expected to view as many entries as possible, preferably all, and score the entries as well as providing feedback on the individual entries. That is a ton of work especially when you consider that the judges were all volunteers.&lt;br&gt;
This time round we&amp;rsquo;re attempting to spread the load somewhat. Mike Robbins has done a superb job recruiting coaches for the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/12/23/introducing-the-coaches-of-the-2014-winter-scripting-games/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Its their job to look at the entries and make suggestions and hints to the teams - if the teams wish to take advantage of this option. Looking at the list of coaches - I know I would take advantage of their assistance if I was competing.&lt;br&gt;
That leaves judging. This time we&amp;rsquo;re using a small group of judges. We have prepared scoring criteria for the events with some additional style points available to the judges. This will make MOST of the scoring objective but we&amp;rsquo;ve a bit of subjectivity available for individual judges to pick out, and hopefully comment on, things they like or don&amp;rsquo;t like.&lt;br&gt;
The judges are all very experienced PowerShell practitioners with more books written, talks given, blog posts created and classes taught between them than anyone would want to count. In alphabetical order your judges for the Winter 2014 Scripting Games are:&lt;br&gt;
Don Jones - founder and CEO of powershell.org. Author of several PowerShell books including the highly recommended Learn PowerShell v3 in a Month of Lunches and co-author of PowerShell in Depth. Don is a PowerShell MVP, PowerShell educator, columnist and course creator.&lt;br&gt;
Jason Helmick - Board member of powershell.org. A PowerShell MVP and author of Learn IIS in a Month of Lunches which includes lots of PowerShell. Jason also delivered the recent two-part Introducing PowerShell MVA sessions with Jeffrey Snover. PowerShell educator, columnist and speaker.&lt;br&gt;
Jeffery Hicks - Board member of powershell.org. PowerShell MVP. Co-author of PowerShell in Depth, lead editor of PowerShell Deep Dives and author of other PowerShell books. Jeffrey is also a PowerShell columnist and educator&lt;br&gt;
Ed Wilson - The Scripting Guy. Ed runs the Hey! Scripting Guy &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Author of several PowerShell books including Windows PowerShell Best Practices and Windows PowerShell Scripting Guide. Ed also delivers PowerShell classes and is a much in demand speaker.&lt;br&gt;
The list of judges is completed by&lt;br&gt;
Richard Siddaway - Board member of powershell.org. PowerShell MVP. Co-author of PowerShell in Depth and author of PowerShell in Practice and PowerShell and WMI. Frequent blogger on PowerShell related topics.&lt;br&gt;
Between them the judges have accumulated over 30 years of PowerShell experience that is focussed on judging the Games. They are all looking forward to the Games and hope to see your entries.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>January Charlotte PowerShell User Group Meeting</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-12-27-january-charlotte-powershell-user-group-meeting/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2013 14:15:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-12-27-january-charlotte-powershell-user-group-meeting/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Our monthly meeting will be held on January 2nd, 2014. This years Scripting Games is a team based event. What better place to find/join a team than a User Group meeting? We look forward to seeing you there.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here is some additional information about the Winter Scripting Games:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h5 id="teams-can-consist-of-between-2-to-6-scripters-and-official-registration-opens-on-jan-2nd"&gt;Teams can consist of between 2 to 6 Scripters and official registration opens on Jan 2nd.&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There will be a total of 4 official events for the Winter Scripting Games:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 252 – PowerScripting Podcast – Chris Ashley and Dmitry Petrashev from Dell on Mobile IT and PowerGui</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-12-23-episode-252-powerscripting-podcast-chris-ashley-and-dmitry-petrashev-from-dell-on-mobile-it-and-powergui/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 06:07:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-12-23-episode-252-powerscripting-podcast-chris-ashley-and-dmitry-petrashev-from-dell-on-mobile-it-and-powergui/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-252.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Chris Ashley and Dmitry Petrashev from Dell
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 [2014 Winter Scripting Games Schedule](https://powershell.org/2013/12/16/2014-winter-scripting-games-schedule/)





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 [Scripting Games Coaches](https://powershell.org/2013/12/23/introducing-the-coaches-of-the-2014-winter-scripting-games/)





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 [Scripting Games Player’s Guide](https://powershell.org/2013/12/09/2014-winter-scripting-games-players-guide/)
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Guests - Chris Ashley and Dmitry Petrashev





Links





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 [http://www.quest.com/mobile-it/](http://www.quest.com/mobile-it/)





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 [http://powergui.org/index.jspa](http://powergui.org/index.jspa)





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 [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quest.maclient](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quest.maclient)





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 [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mobile-it/id495923837?mt=8](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mobile-it/id495923837?mt=8)





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 [http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/mobile-it/2c1f0d33-284c-4bd6-8924-c49d147980e0](http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/mobile-it/2c1f0d33-284c-4bd6-8924-c49d147980e0)





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 [http://communities.quest.com/community/mobileit](http://communities.quest.com/community/mobileit)





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 [http://smrpodcast.com/](http://smrpodcast.com/)









**Chatroom Highlights:**





 ##Is there a means of capturing API from the GUI and translating it into Powershell?





 ##Chris, as a fellow Dell homey and Powershell fanboi may I make a request?





 ##API monitoring and translation into PS syntax.





 [http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=troll+dolls+from+the+60's&amp;amp;qpvt=troll+dolls+from+the+60%27s&amp;amp;FORM=IGRE](http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=troll+dolls+from+the+60's&amp;amp;qpvt=troll+dolls+from+the+60%27s&amp;amp;FORM=IGRE)





 Is this the correct one? [http://www.simplemobilereview.com/category/podcast/](http://www.simplemobilereview.com/category/podcast/)





 [http://www.quest.com/mobile-it/](http://www.quest.com/mobile-it/)





 [http://www.powergui.org/index.jspa](http://www.powergui.org/index.jspa) Oct 31 release





 [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quest.maclient](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quest.maclient)





 [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mobile-it/id495923837?mt=8](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mobile-it/id495923837?mt=8)





 Scope this though... [http://www.rohitab.com/apimonitor](http://www.rohitab.com/apimonitor)





 [https://powershell.org/?s=pfe](https://powershell.org/?s=pfe)





 [http://www.quest.com/mobile-it/](http://www.quest.com/mobile-it/)





 [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee424379.aspx](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee424379.aspx)





 [http://powergui.org/index.jspa](http://powergui.org/index.jspa)





 [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quest.maclient](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quest.maclient)





 [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mobile-it/id495923837?mt=8](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mobile-it/id495923837?mt=8)





 i'm at [http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/overview](http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/overview) having zero luck





 [http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/mobile-it/2c1f0d33-284c-4bd6-8924-c49d147980e0](http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/mobile-it/2c1f0d33-284c-4bd6-8924-c49d147980e0)





 [http://communities.quest.com/index.jspa](http://communities.quest.com/index.jspa)





 [http://communities.quest.com/community/mobileit](http://communities.quest.com/community/mobileit)





 [http://smrpodcast.com/](http://smrpodcast.com/)





 [http://webbrain.com/brainpage/brain/4685C1B4-FE68-2D62-3AFA-CE674E67F742#-64](http://webbrain.com/brainpage/brain/4685C1B4-FE68-2D62-3AFA-CE674E67F742#-64)





[ http://vaughnlive.tv/](http://vaughnlive.tv/)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Question - Hero/Power





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 Dmitry - Time Travel





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 Chris - The Hulk
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>Introducing the Coaches of the 2014 Winter Scripting Games</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-12-23-introducing-the-coaches-of-the-2014-winter-scripting-games/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2013 17:21:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-12-23-introducing-the-coaches-of-the-2014-winter-scripting-games/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A few weeks ago, just before the announcement to start recruiting your team for the 2014 Winter Scripting Games, I was contacted by Don Jones and Richard Siddaway about an opportunity to become the Head Coach for the Winter Scripting Games. I was honored to have been contacted and I&amp;rsquo;m a firm believer of taking advantage of opportunities when they emerge, especially when they&amp;rsquo;re PowerShell related, so I graciously accepted.&lt;br&gt;
One of my first responsibilities was to recruit a small team of coaches. I immediately went to work before potential coaches committed themselves to participating on teams. We had a huge number of people in the PowerShell community who had volunteered to be a coach and while we would have liked to have selected everyone who volunteered, we only had a specific number of positions to fill. Without further ado, here is the list of the coaches for the 2014 Winter Scripting Games:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 251 – PowerScripting Podcast – Josh Swenson talks about using PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-12-21-episode-251-powerscripting-podcast-josh-swenson-talks-about-using-powershell/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2013 16:59:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-12-21-episode-251-powerscripting-podcast-josh-swenson-talks-about-using-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-251.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Josh Swenson
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News





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 [2014 Winter Scripting Games Schedule](https://powershell.org/2013/12/16/2014-winter-scripting-games-schedule/)





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 MVP Jeff Hicks [has a Christmas present for you](http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/2013/12/friday-fun-a-christmas-present-for-you/#utm_source=feed&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&amp;amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;amp;utm_campaign=friday-fun-a-christmas-present-for-you&amp;amp;utm_reader=feedly)





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 Lee Homes posted the deck from presentation he did on [PowerShell Security Best Practices](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/12/16/powershell-security-best-practices.aspx)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Interview





Guest - Josh Swenson





**Chatroom Highlights:**





&amp;lt;12Stuwee_&amp;gt; ## What about change control on the scripts?





&amp;lt;12Stuwee_&amp;gt; ## does Josh maintain a blog?





 I meant this one [https://powershell.org/live.php](https://powershell.org/live.php)





 can you try this one for me? [https://powershell.org/live.php](https://powershell.org/live.php)





 [http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Podcast/26204571](http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Podcast/26204571)





 [http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Podcast+2/75638631](http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Podcast+2/75638631)





 [https://powershell.org/2008/07/21/podcast-to-be-released-on-friday/](https://powershell.org/2008/07/21/podcast-to-be-released-on-friday/)





 [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732101.aspx](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732101.aspx)





 alevyinroc: Off topic are you near this? [http://www.saranaclakewintercarnival.com/](http://www.saranaclakewintercarnival.com/)





 relevant: [http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2012/01/05/geeks-vs-non-geeks-pic/](http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2012/01/05/geeks-vs-non-geeks-pic/)





 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiSn2JuDQSc](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiSn2JuDQSc)





 ScriptingWife: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0)





 This just hit the YouTubes today [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAMzAIH12yc](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAMzAIH12yc)





 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0GtRI4Ulo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0GtRI4Ulo)





 [https://powershell.org/events/](https://powershell.org/events/)
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&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Question - Hero/Power





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 SuperMan
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Resources





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 [Working with Active Directory dates with PowerShell](http://blogs.technet.com/b/ashleymcglone/archive/2013/12/20/back-to-the-future-working-with-date-data-types-in-active-directory-powershell.aspx)





- 


 [From Cmdlets to Scripts to PowerShell Hero](http://blogs.technet.com/b/ashleymcglone/archive/2013/11/25/dogfoodcon-2013-from-cmdlets-to-scripts-to-powershell-hero-an-essential-session-on-the-scripting-process.aspx)





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 [Which device is locking out an AD user?](http://mikefrobbins.com/2013/11/29/powershell-script-to-determine-what-device-is-locking-out-an-active-directory-user-account/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>My outline for accelerated PowerShell training</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-12-20-my-outline-for-accelerated-powershell-training/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:40:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-12-20-my-outline-for-accelerated-powershell-training/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;When I teach PowerShell, either at a private client or in a public class, I tend to use my own outlines. I&amp;rsquo;m comfortable with them, and they work really well. They formed the basis for the Microsoft 10961 and 55039 courses, although I had to make some changes to accommodate Microsoft standards and varying MCT delivery styles. But I&amp;rsquo;m often asked if there&amp;rsquo;s a &amp;ldquo;MOC-equivalent&amp;rdquo; outline that combines the entry-level 10961 with the scripting-focused 55039.&lt;br&gt;
Yup.&lt;br&gt;
First, do understand that I naturally teach at a very concise and accelerated pace. I don&amp;rsquo;t spend much time on slides; I tend to skip right to demos, and use those to explain what I&amp;rsquo;m explaining. If you follow a more common delivery style of around 5min per slide, plus taking your time on demos, my approach might not work well for you. I also tend to not tell a lot of ancillary stories, I tend to make students take break during lab time (rather than individually scheduling breaks), and I tend to be as concise as possible in my lectures.&lt;br&gt;
Also, when accelerating these courses together, you don&amp;rsquo;t do &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of the labs. For labs with multiple components (find these 20 command), I&amp;rsquo;ll do about 1/3 of them. For the 55039 main-sequence labs, I&amp;rsquo;ll tell students to pick the &amp;ldquo;A,&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;B,&amp;rdquo; or &amp;ldquo;C&amp;rdquo; version rather than doing all three; sometimes I&amp;rsquo;ll just have them do the &amp;ldquo;D&amp;rdquo; version (which gives them a pre-done starting point for each module, rather than making them build on their own work from a previous module).&lt;br&gt;
For Day 1, I&amp;rsquo;ll cover modules 1-5, and maybe module 6, from 10961. Day 2 will be modules 7, 9, 11, and 12 (covering 6 first, if I didn&amp;rsquo;t get it done on Day 1). That&amp;rsquo;s the &amp;ldquo;core&amp;rdquo; PowerShell stuff. It&amp;rsquo;s a fast delivery; it&amp;rsquo;s possible to spread those out over three days if you prefer, but I explicitly skip modules 6, 8, and 10 at this stage.&lt;br&gt;
When my students all have strong shell or scripting skills, 2 days often gets me through that. If they&amp;rsquo;re newer, I&amp;rsquo;ll go slower on modules 1-5, do more of the labs, and take 3 days to cover that 10961 material.&lt;br&gt;
The remainder of the course comes from 55039. That&amp;rsquo;ll be 2 or 3 days, depending on how long it took you to do the 10961 material. Regardless, I&amp;rsquo;ll cover modules 2-5. I&amp;rsquo;ll usually skip module 6, and try to end the day with module 7 on debugging. I&amp;rsquo;ll cover module 8, 9, and 10. That&amp;rsquo;s usually 2 days, so it&amp;rsquo;s the last thing I do if I took 3 days to cover the 10961 stuff.&lt;br&gt;
If I got through 10961 in 2 days, I&amp;rsquo;ll finish the 55039 material, covering modules 11, 13, and 16. If students insist on workflows, I&amp;rsquo;ll throw that module in there - I have mixed feelings and results when it comes to workflow, so it&amp;rsquo;s not part of my standard accelerated delivery. If you have extra time, my priority then goes to modules 15, 13, and 14, in that order. 14 gets you some GUI-building experience, so if the class is pushing for that I&amp;rsquo;ll include that module instead of workflow.&lt;br&gt;
If all that seems a little informal - well, it is. I&amp;rsquo;m very good at reading my students, and making sure folks are actually keeping up, so I don&amp;rsquo;t press too hard. This is a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of conceptual and practical material to cover in a week.&lt;br&gt;
Price-wise, in the US, I see this kind of accelerated class going for around $3500, although a lot of training centers offer significant discounts. This accelerated outline is absolutely worth it: you&amp;rsquo;re literally taking someone from zero and teaching them how to build their own script modules and tools in PowerShell. It&amp;rsquo;s a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; to cover; not every class will be up to it.&lt;br&gt;
The labs in both courses are solid, and I&amp;rsquo;m especially happy with the ones in 55039 in terms of what they cover, and in how challenging they are. I&amp;rsquo;ll warn you that the 55039 labs don&amp;rsquo;t do a lot of hand-holding. Students are expected to &lt;em&gt;learn&lt;/em&gt; the material and then execute the labs; the &amp;ldquo;answer keys&amp;rdquo; are outright sample solutions, not hints. But if you teach the material as provided, everything students &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; is in there - if they&amp;rsquo;re willing to work hard and retain what you&amp;rsquo;ve shared.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Coaches and Judges Selected for Winter Scripting Games</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-12-19-coaches-and-judges-selected-for-winter-scripting-games/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 17:32:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-12-19-coaches-and-judges-selected-for-winter-scripting-games/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve had an outpouring of support for the upcoming games, with more volunteers than we know what to do with!&lt;br&gt;
At this point, we have our judging panel completely full; we&amp;rsquo;re operating with a fairly small group of celebrity judges this time around. Games Master Richard Siddaway will introduce our judges in a few days.&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;ve also filled our roster of Coaches, and Head Coach Mike Robbins will provide that lineup soon also.&lt;br&gt;
If you&amp;rsquo;ve volunteered but not heard from Richard or Mike, then you should definitely start recruiting a team for when registration and team formation opens in a couple of weeks!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 250 – PowerScripting Podcast – Julian Dunn from Chef on Configuration Management and PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-12-11-episode-250-powerscripting-podcast-julian-dunn-from-chef-on-configuration-management-and-powershell/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2013 02:16:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-12-11-episode-250-powerscripting-podcast-julian-dunn-from-chef-on-configuration-management-and-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-250.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Julian Dunn about configuration management and Chef
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Guests - Julian Dunn
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 here's the &amp;quot;marketing&amp;quot; entrypoint for Windows - [http://www.opscode.com/solutions/windows/](http://www.opscode.com/solutions/windows/)





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 and here's the &amp;quot;tech person's reference manual entrypoint&amp;quot; to Windows - [http://docs.opscode.com/windows.html](http://docs.opscode.com/windows.html)





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 random chef code example i found on the internet: [http://cookingclouds.com/2012/06/23/chef-simple-cookbook-example/](http://cookingclouds.com/2012/06/23/chef-simple-cookbook-example/)





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 here's another: [http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Garlic-Chicken/Detail.aspx?evt19=1](http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Garlic-Chicken/Detail.aspx?evt19=1)





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  [http://community.opscode.com/](http://community.opscode.com/)





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 this article isn't new but seems interesting, talks about when they first went windows. [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/24/opscode_chef_does_windows/](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/24/opscode_chef_does_windows/)





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  [https://www.google.com/search?q=decadal&amp;amp;oq=decadal&amp;amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.4531j0j7&amp;amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;amp;espv=210&amp;amp;es_sm=91&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8#es_sm=91&amp;amp;espv=210&amp;amp;q=decadal+definition](https://www.google.com/search?q=decadal&amp;amp;oq=decadal&amp;amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.4531j0j7&amp;amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;amp;espv=210&amp;amp;es_sm=91&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8#es_sm=91&amp;amp;espv=210&amp;amp;q=decadal+definition)
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&amp;lt;13Stuwee&amp;gt; ## If DSC and Chef are simular and I haven't used either, why would I learn Chef over DSC at this point?





&amp;lt;0halr9000&amp;gt; ## tell us more about configuration management of some &amp;quot;non-traditional&amp;quot; nodes like the network and storage hardware that you mentioned earlier





&amp;lt;13Stuwee&amp;gt; ## Do you use PSH within Chef?





&amp;lt;13Stuwee&amp;gt; ## please igonre if already asked.  Does it work with clients or just servers. Does it have a client install piece?





&amp;lt;13Stuwee&amp;gt; ## what about &amp;quot;what clients are supported&amp;quot;, XP, Win7 Server 2003 etc...





&amp;lt;0organicit&amp;gt; ##As an enterprise why should I consider Chef over Puppet.  Sorry if this has been addressed





&amp;lt;13Stuwee&amp;gt; ## what about cost?





&amp;lt;13Stuwee&amp;gt; ## if you have a run list and one thing fails, how is the admin notified that it failed, how easy is it to recover?





&amp;lt;13Stuwee&amp;gt; ## how many cookbooks exist today and how ofter do new ones get added/updated?





&amp;lt;13Stuwee&amp;gt; ## if the cookbooks are community created/driven, how is the quality of the cookbook verified?  Does anyone validate the cookbook?





&amp;lt;13Stuwee&amp;gt; ## how long has Chef been &amp;quot;in the business&amp;quot;.  In other words can I trust it to be around for the long term in light of DSC?





&amp;lt;13Stuwee&amp;gt; ## does it maintain a &amp;quot;state&amp;quot; or is it primarly used for installation of software?





&amp;lt;13Stuwee&amp;gt; ## wait wait.... just kidding
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Question - Hero/Power





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 Superman
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>How "Quick and Dirty" Becomes "Permanent and Annoying."</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-12-10-how-quick-and-dirty-becomes-permanent-and-annoying/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:23:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-12-10-how-quick-and-dirty-becomes-permanent-and-annoying/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Consider the following:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;$computers = Get-ADComputer -filter * -searchBase &amp;quot;ou=test,dc=company,dc=pri&amp;quot; foreach ($computer in $computers) { write-host &amp;quot;computer $computer&amp;quot; $result = Do-Something -computername $computer Write-Host &amp;quot;$($result.property) and $($result.value)&amp;quot; } &lt;/code&gt;Would you ever consider that acceptable? Some folks might well say, &amp;ldquo;sure! if I was just testing this, throwing in those Write-Hosts is no big deal. Heck, even if I was the only one who was going to use this, Write-Host isn&amp;rsquo;t bad.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;
And the point I&amp;rsquo;m going to make doesn&amp;rsquo;t just apply to Write-Host. It applies to &lt;em&gt;anytime&lt;/em&gt; when you&amp;rsquo;re doing something that you &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; breaks &amp;ldquo;best practices,&amp;rdquo; but you justify it because it&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;just for you&amp;rdquo; or because &amp;ldquo;it&amp;rsquo;s just for testing.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;
To wit: if you need your script to output some status or tracking information, as in the above, use Write-Verbose. Yes, Write-Verbose requires a script or function to have this at the top:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Charlotte Powershell User Group Holiday-themed Scripting Games</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-12-10-charlotte-powershell-user-group-holiday-themed-scripting-games/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:16:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-12-10-charlotte-powershell-user-group-holiday-themed-scripting-games/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The Charlotte Powershell Users Group meeting was held on Dec 5th. Jim put together a nifty challenge related to image manipulation. We started off with this nifty image. Pretty huh?&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/stegan1.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/stegan1.png" alt="stegan1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
The challenge was to manipulate the image using PowerShell to find the hidden message. After some discussion, the code was cracked and the image was displayed. As is normal with Powershell, there were multiple ways to achieve the end goal. Feel free to stop reading here and grab the image if you want to give this a go yourself. Spoilers are below.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 12/05/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-12-09-phillyposh-12052013-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 03:51:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-12-09-phillyposh-12052013-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</guid><description>&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/sunnyc7"&gt;Sunny Chakraborty&lt;/a&gt; gave an in-depth presentation on WMI Eventing using PowerShell. A copy of his presentation and scripts can be found &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/PhillyPosh_12_05_2014-Sunny.zip"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and a &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3V6K8ov1Ao"&gt;recording&lt;/a&gt; of his presentation can be found on our &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAc_ow5FIJtRpvew__9Iqzg"&gt;YouTube channel&lt;/a&gt;. If you want to learn even more about WMI, Sunny recommends checking out &lt;a href="http://www.lissware.net/"&gt;Alain Lissoir&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/a&gt; webpage and downloading he WSH and VBS scripts hosted on his site for the two books he was written: &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1555582664/qid=1048198398/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/102-5879685-5285706?v=glance&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;n=507846"&gt;How to exploit the power of Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s WMI to create mission-critical computing infrastructures&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1555582990/qid=1048198398/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_2/102-5879685-5285706?v=glance&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;n=507846"&gt;Leveraging Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Scripting&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scheduled site downtime</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-12-02-scheduled-site-downtime/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2013 22:13:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-12-02-scheduled-site-downtime/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Windows Azure has advised us of scheduled downtime on Friday, December 6, from approximately 15:00 hours (US Pacific) until approximately midnight Pacific time.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 249 – PowerScripting Podcast – Distinguished Engineer Jeffrey Snover for the PowerShell v4 Launch Party</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-11-30-episode-249-powerscripting-podcast-distinguished-engineer-jeffrey-snover-for-the-powershell-v4-launch-party/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2013 00:05:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-11-30-episode-249-powerscripting-podcast-distinguished-engineer-jeffrey-snover-for-the-powershell-v4-launch-party/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-249.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jeffrey Snover about PowerShell Version 4&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The PowerShell team has been doing a series of blog posts on DSC



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 [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/11/01/configuration-in-a-devops-world-windows-powershell-desired-state-configuration.aspx](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/11/01/configuration-in-a-devops-world-windows-powershell-desired-state-configuration.aspx)



 * 

 [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/11/05/understanding-configuration-keyword-in-desired-state-configuration.aspx](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/11/05/understanding-configuration-keyword-in-desired-state-configuration.aspx)



 * 

 [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/11/15/hungry-for-more-windows-powershell-desired-state-configuration-resources.aspx](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/11/15/hungry-for-more-windows-powershell-desired-state-configuration-resources.aspx)



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 [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/11/19/resource-designer-tool-a-walkthrough-writing-a-dsc-resource.aspx](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/11/19/resource-designer-tool-a-walkthrough-writing-a-dsc-resource.aspx)



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 [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/11/21/powershell-dsc-resource-for-configuring-pull-server-environment.aspx](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/11/21/powershell-dsc-resource-for-configuring-pull-server-environment.aspx)



 * 

 [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/11/26/push-and-pull-configuration-modes.aspx](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/11/26/push-and-pull-configuration-modes.aspx)
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&lt;ul&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [Ops All The Things Podcast](http://www.opsallthethings.com/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guests – Jeffrey Snover&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="chatroom-buzz-"&gt;Chatroom Buzz-&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;0halr9000&amp;gt; ## centralized package management support for v5?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Community Book of PowerShell Practices</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-11-14-community-book-of-powershell-practices/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2013 18:36:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-11-14-community-book-of-powershell-practices/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Released in our new Git repo:Â _The Community Book of PowerShell Practices,Â _an ongoing book started from this past Summer&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;Great Debates&amp;rdquo; blog post series. Grab it fromÂ https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/ebooks/blob/master/Practices/2013Sep_Practices/2013Sep_Practices.doc and enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Last chance for feedback on PowerShell course 10961A/B</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-11-14-last-chance-for-feedback-on-powershell-course-10961ab/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2013 17:45:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-11-14-last-chance-for-feedback-on-powershell-course-10961ab/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m in the midst of working on 10961C, the Windows Server 2012 R2 / Windows 8.1 / PowerShell 4.0 update of Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s 10961A/B course, &amp;ldquo;Automating Administration with Windows PowerShell.&amp;rdquo; I anticipate this being closed out by the end of November, 2013, so if you&amp;rsquo;ve taken or taught this course and have any feedback - even a typo - now&amp;rsquo;s the time to tell me. Drop a comment below, or e-mail me (if you have my address). Please, no Twitter replies on this one.&lt;br&gt;
The course will not be substantially changed from the B rev; because PowerShell v4 doesn&amp;rsquo;tÂ &lt;em&gt;change&lt;/em&gt; much, especially at the entry-level covered by 10961, there wasn&amp;rsquo;t much to alter. But I&amp;rsquo;m trying to sweep up as many lingering bugs and typos as possible. Kudos to MCT Jason Yoder for firing over a list of fixes!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 248 – PowerScripting Podcast – Tommy Patterson from Microsoft on PowerShell and Azure</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-11-12-episode-248-powerscripting-podcast-tommy-patterson-from-microsoft-on-powershell-and-azure/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2013 05:03:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-11-12-episode-248-powerscripting-podcast-tommy-patterson-from-microsoft-on-powershell-and-azure/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-248.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Tommy Patterson about PowerShell and Azure&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The PowerShell Summit agendaÂ [has been released](https://powershell.org/2013/11/10/the-n-a-2014-powershell-summit-agenda-is-released/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The PowerShell team is looking forÂ [session suggestions for the Summit](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/11/05/seeking-input-on-powershell-summit-sessions.aspx)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interview&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guests - Tommy Patterson&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Links&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[aka.ms/tp](http://aka.ms/tp)Â - virtuallycloud9.com - my site.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[aka.ms/qsk](http://aka.ms/qsk)Â - yung's powershell IAAS quick start kit
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[aka.ms/r2dsc](http://aka.ms/r2dsc)Â - Keith Mayer's post on DSC with PowerShell 4.0
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[aka.ms/hypervsweepstakes](http://aka.ms/hypervsweepstakes)Â Â - win a Surface Pro
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[aka.ms/virtsq](http://aka.ms/virtsq)Â Â - Â 2 Day free online class with free test voucher
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[aka.ms/boostcareer](http://aka.ms/boostcareer)Â - Main topic - Azure and uploading virtual machines/disks
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
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&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[TechNet Radio: Delivering Results - Deploying Unified Device Management at Microsoft](http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/TechNet+Radio/TechNet-Radio-Delivering-Results-Deploying-Unified-Device-Management-at-Microsoft)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Microsoft Cloud &amp;quot;“ Learn It Now, Boost Your Career &amp;quot;“ Virtual Machines &amp;quot;“ Step-by-Step Guide](http://www.virtuallycloud9.com/index.php/2013/10/microsoft-cloud-learn-it-now-boost-your-career-virtual-machines-step-by-step-guide/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Chatroom Buzz-&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 11/07/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-11-12-phillyposh-11072013-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2013 02:07:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-11-12-phillyposh-11072013-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</guid><description>&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://mellositmusings.com/"&gt;John Mello&lt;/a&gt; gave a presentation on a script that searches a mailbox for an email by subject and downloads any attachments it may contain. A copy of his scripts can be obtained &lt;a href="http://mellositmusings.com/2013/10/29/powershell-script-to-download-attachments-from-an-email/"&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jasonhelmick.com/"&gt;Jason Helmick&lt;/a&gt;, Senior Technologist at &lt;a href="http://concentratedtech.com/"&gt;Concentrated Tech&lt;/a&gt; andÂ &lt;a href="http://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/mvp/Jason%20Helmick-5000354"&gt;Windows PowerShell MVP&lt;/a&gt;, gave a presentation on &amp;ldquo;Understanding the Pipeline &amp;ldquo;“ Getting your one-liners to work!&amp;rdquo; A copy of his script can be found &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/PhillyPosh_11_07_2013_Jason_Helmick.zip"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVsMbxj6188"&gt;A recording of Jason Helmick&amp;rdquo;™s presentation&lt;/a&gt; can be found on our &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAc_ow5FIJtRpvew__9Iqzg"&gt;YouTube channel&lt;/a&gt;. Due to audio issues, John Mello&amp;quot;™s portion is not included in the recording.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Announcements
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tickets are still available for the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/powershell-summit-north-america/"&gt;2014 PowerShell Summit North America&lt;/a&gt;, if you&amp;quot;™re going then make sure to say hi to &lt;a href="http://paglia.org/"&gt;Lido Paglia&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We are still trying to arrange for a PowerShell Saturday sometime in 2014, if you are interested in presenting please let us know!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We are assigning homework this week! Hopefully this will be a fun task that we can discuss during our next meeting, so try your hand at the following problem:&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Title&lt;/strong&gt;: On This Day in Pictures&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Login now required for comments</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-11-11-login-now-required-for-comments/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2013 14:49:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-11-11-login-now-required-for-comments/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A quick note and an apology: I&amp;rsquo;ve had to modify the site configuration to require users to be registered and logged in before they can comment. We&amp;rsquo;ve been taking aÂ &lt;em&gt;ridiculous&lt;/em&gt; amount of comment spam, and it&amp;rsquo;s consuming more and more time to weed through it.&lt;br&gt;
You can register using any major social media account, so you don&amp;rsquo;t have to remember yet another username and password with us, so hopefully that&amp;rsquo;ll mitigate the inconvenience.&lt;br&gt;
Have a great week!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 247 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVP Joel Bennett on a PowerShell Package Manager</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-11-10-episode-247-powerscripting-podcast-mvp-joel-bennett-on-a-powershell-package-manager/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2013 01:55:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-11-10-episode-247-powerscripting-podcast-mvp-joel-bennett-on-a-powershell-package-manager/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-247.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to MVP Joel Bennett about a PowerShell package manager&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guests - Joel Bennett&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="links"&gt;Links&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [PowerShell Packaging Manager](https://github.com/PoshCode/poshcode)Â (on Github)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Compared to:Â [PsGet](http://psget.net/),Â [Chocolatey](http://chocolatey.org/)Â (andÂ [Ep 243](http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/episode-243-powerscripting-podcast-rob-reynolds-on-puppet-and-chocolatey/))
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [How to create a nuget package](http://docs.nuget.org/docs/creating-packages/creating-and-publishing-a-package)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [Module manifests (PSD1)](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd878337(v=vs.85).aspx)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Call for action:Â [Download the beta](https://github.com/PoshCode/poshcode)Â and bang on it!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4 id="chatroom-buzz-"&gt;Chatroom Buzz-&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;14ScriptingWife&amp;gt; ##Does that mean Python instead of PowerShell or in addition to PowerShell&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 246 – PowerScripting Podcast – Gary Siepser &amp; Ian Philpot from Microsoft on Scripting the Kinect</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-11-09-episode-246-powerscripting-podcast-gary-siepser-ian-philpot-from-microsoft-on-scripting-the-kinect/</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 Nov 2013 05:20:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-11-09-episode-246-powerscripting-podcast-gary-siepser-ian-philpot-from-microsoft-on-scripting-the-kinect/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;br&gt;
In This Episode&lt;br&gt;
Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Gary Siepser &amp;amp; Ian Philpot from Microsoft&lt;br&gt;
News&lt;br&gt;
Windows Management Framework 4.0 is available&lt;br&gt;
Known issue if you don&amp;quot;™t have .NET Framework 4.5&lt;br&gt;
PSCX 3.1 has been released&lt;br&gt;
New MTC PowerShell Class&lt;br&gt;
PFE Matthew Reynolds is speaking for the MSPSUG Nov 12th&lt;br&gt;
Jeffrey Snover will join us on November 14th!&lt;br&gt;
Interview&lt;br&gt;
Guests - Gary Siepser &amp;amp; Ian Philpot&lt;br&gt;
Links&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/adminian/PowerKinect"&gt;https://github.com/adminian/PowerKinect&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/adminian/PowerKinect/blob/master/Sample_KinectSpeech.ps1"&gt;https://github.com/adminian/PowerKinect/blob/master/Sample_KinectSpeech.ps1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://adminian.com/"&gt;http://adminian.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/gary/"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/gary/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Chatroom Buzz-&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://norcalposh.org"&gt;http://norcalposh.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.screencast.com/t/8pj9d7eK"&gt;http://www.screencast.com/t/8pj9d7eK&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Monitoring SQL Server Backups</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-11-06-monitoring-sql-server-backups/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2013 07:30:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-11-06-monitoring-sql-server-backups/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;One of the most important tasks for the** **DBAs is to ensure that there is a maintenance plan to recover data from a given disaster.
Â 
As a DBA we need to design a maintenance plan according to our scenario and business requirements. Do we want to be able to recover data at any point of time? How much data loss can we accept? All these questions and many more must be answered before designing the plan. In this post we will assume a basic daily full backup to keep our data safe, we will assume that there is a job performing full backups to our databases every day at midnight.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Configuring a Desired State Configuration Client</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-11-06-configuring-a-desired-state-configuration-client/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2013 23:47:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-11-06-configuring-a-desired-state-configuration-client/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Once we have our pull server in place and we&amp;rsquo;re starting to create configurations, we need to set up our client nodes to be able to connect to the pull server and how we want the node to behave.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="the-high-points"&gt;The High Points&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/10/02/building-a-desired-state-configuration-infrastructure/"&gt;Overview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/10/03/building-a-desired-state-configuration-pull-server/"&gt;Configuring the Pull Server (REST version)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Creating Configurations (&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/10/08/building-a-desired-state-configuration-configuration/"&gt;one of two&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/10/14/building-a-desired-state-configuration-configuration-part-2/"&gt;two of two&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Configuring Clients (this post)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2014/03/13/building-desired-state-configuration-custom-resources/"&gt;Building Custom Resources&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Packaging Custom Resources&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Advanced Client Targeting&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="examining-the-local-configuration-manager"&gt;Examining the Local Configuration Manager&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Desired State Configuration agent included in Windows Management Framework 4 (or natively on Server 2012 R2 / Windows 8.1) is exposed through the Local Configuration Manager.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell "Scripting and Toolmaking" Classroom Training Course Now Available to Microsoft Training Centers</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-28-powershell-scripting-and-toolmaking-classroom-training-course-now-available-to-microsoft-training-centers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:11:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-28-powershell-scripting-and-toolmaking-classroom-training-course-now-available-to-microsoft-training-centers/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Attention Microsoft training centers! Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s Courseware Marketplace now offers course 55039AC, &amp;ldquo;Windows PowerShell Scripting and Toolmaking.&amp;rdquo; Designed as a 5-day course, it&amp;rsquo;s a spiritual &amp;ldquo;Part 2&amp;rdquo; to Microsoft Official Curriculum course 10961.&lt;br&gt;
With 10961, the goal was to provide a founding in PowerShell basics, in a somewhat product-neutral way. That is, the course doesn&amp;rsquo;t cover Exchange, or SharePoint, or AD; it focuses on pure PowerShell. Unlike its predecessor, 10325, the 10961 course kind of &amp;ldquo;stops short&amp;rdquo; of actual scripting. It shows you how to build a parameterized script, but doesn&amp;rsquo;t dig into advanced functions, debugging, error handling, and the like. There was a feeling - which has been largely upheld through customer feedback - that a sizable audience needed to get the shell basics under their belt, and weren&amp;rsquo;t necessarily comfortable leaping into coding. 10325 kind of breezed through scripting at a somewhat high level, and didn&amp;rsquo;t have time to offer much in the way of practices and other guidance, and it didn&amp;rsquo;t really set you up for building reusable units of automation.&lt;br&gt;
That&amp;rsquo;s where 55039AC comes in. It is a scripting class, pure and simple, and it focuses on building reusable units of automation according to best practices and patterns. More time is devoted to design, structure, procedural error handling, and so on. There&amp;rsquo;s also deeper coverage of module building, including building custom formatting views, and there&amp;rsquo;s even an introduction to Workflow. Although designed for v3, the course is pretty version-agnostic, meaning it&amp;rsquo;s suitable for someone who wants to use PowerShell v2, v3, or beyond. And, because it&amp;rsquo;s a Courseware Marketplace offering, it&amp;rsquo;s compatible with Software Assurance (SA) training vouchers.&lt;br&gt;
Training centers are welcome to combine 10961 and 55039 to create an &amp;ldquo;accelerated&amp;rdquo; class that includes heavier scripting coverage than 10961 alone. I do that myself, actually, although it&amp;rsquo;s a pretty hardcore week. If you&amp;rsquo;re interested in doing that, &lt;a href="http://concentratedtech.com/contact"&gt;contact me&lt;/a&gt; and I can provide some of the accelerated-delivery outlines that I use.&lt;br&gt;
55039&amp;rsquo;s modules are all standalone - with a twist. Students are encouraged to use and evolve a single code project throughout several modules. However, if you&amp;rsquo;re not teaching all of the modules, or if a student falls behind, each lab comes with a complete &amp;ldquo;starting point&amp;rdquo; that keeps everyone on the same page.&lt;br&gt;
55039 has already been beta-taught, and of course I &lt;a href="http://concentratedtech.com/contact"&gt;welcome feedback&lt;/a&gt;Â if you&amp;rsquo;ve taught the course or taken it as a student.&lt;br&gt;
My company also offers licensing for this course outside the Courseware Marketplace, mainly geared to training centers who want an unlimited perpetual license to reproduce the course materials on their own. We know courseware costs are a significant concern, so we&amp;rsquo;re trying to offer something reasonable there.&lt;br&gt;
Both 10961 and 55039 (or at least a subset of 55039; we&amp;rsquo;re still working on exactly what) will be considered pre-requisites for the upcoming 3-day 10962 course, which will focus on advanced PowerShell techniques for us in production environments, including database connectivity, report generation, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Why Get-Content Ain't Yer Friend</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-21-why-get-content-aint-yer-friend/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2013 20:18:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-21-why-get-content-aint-yer-friend/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Well, it isn&amp;rsquo;t your &lt;em&gt;enemy&lt;/em&gt;, of course, but it&amp;rsquo;s definitely a tricky little beast.&lt;br&gt;
Get-Content is quickly becoming my nemesis, because it&amp;rsquo;s sucking a lot of PowerShell newcomers into its insidious little trap. Actually, the real problem is that most newcomers don&amp;rsquo;t really understand that PowerShell is an object-oriented, rather than a text-oriented shell; they&amp;rsquo;re trying to treat Get-Content like the old Type command (and why not? &lt;strong&gt;type&lt;/strong&gt; is an alias to Get-Content in PowerShell, isn&amp;rsquo;t it?), and failing.&lt;br&gt;
Worse, PowerShell has just enough under-the-hood smarts to make &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; things work, but not _everything. _&lt;br&gt;
For example, this works to replace all instances of &amp;ldquo;t&amp;rdquo; with &amp;ldquo;x&amp;rdquo; in the file test.txt, outputting the result to new.txt:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Shell vs. The Host</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-19-the-shell-vs-the-host/</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Oct 2013 18:03:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-19-the-shell-vs-the-host/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;One thing that&amp;rsquo;s oftenÂ &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; confusing about PowerShell is the difference between the shell itself - what I&amp;rsquo;ll callÂ &lt;em&gt;the engine&lt;/em&gt; in this article - and the application that hosts the engine.&lt;br&gt;
You see, you as a human being can&amp;rsquo;t really interact directly with PowerShell&amp;rsquo;s engine. Instead, you need aÂ &lt;em&gt;host application&lt;/em&gt; that lets you do so. The standard console - PowerShell.exe - is one such host; the Integrated Script Environment (ISE) is another. Those hosts &amp;ldquo;spin up&amp;rdquo; aÂ _runspace,Â _which is essentially an instance of the PowerShell engine. When you type a command and hit enter, the host creates a pipeline, jams your command into it, and then deals with the output.&lt;br&gt;
A number of standardized PowerShell commands actually require the host to implement some kind of command support. For example, most of the core Write- cmdlets actually depend upon the host to do something. Write-Verbose is a great example: The command causes the engine to spew text into the Verbose pipeline; the host is responsible for doing something with it. In the case of the console host, the Verbose text is displayed as yellow text (by default) preceded by the word &amp;ldquo;VERBOSE:&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br&gt;
When you develop a script using the ISE or the console (which behave pretty similarly for most of the core commands), you get used to your script behaving in a certain way. If you then move that script over to another host - perhaps a runbook automation system that runs PowerShell scripts by hosting the engine, rather than by launching PowerShell.exe - you may get entirely different behavior.&lt;br&gt;
Here&amp;rsquo;s a perfect example: most of the &amp;ldquo;built-in&amp;rdquo; variables you&amp;rsquo;re used to working with in the ISE or the console aren&amp;rsquo;t actually built into theÂ _engine,Â _they&amp;rsquo;re built into thoseÂ _hosts.Â _For example, since the host is responsible for presenting verbose output, theÂ &lt;em&gt;host&lt;/em&gt; is what creates and uses the $VerbosePreference variable. When your script is running in a different host, $VerbosePreference may not exist, and indeed verbose output may simply be ignored. An off-the-shelf PowerShell runspace doesn&amp;rsquo;t actually come with very much &amp;ldquo;built-in&amp;rdquo; at all, so scripts can behaveÂ &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; differently.&lt;br&gt;
It&amp;rsquo;s pretty important to understand these potential differences. When a developer sets out to create their own host application - like most of the commercial script editors do - it can be very confusing and frustrating, because they essentially have to reverse-engineer much of what the PowerShell.exe console application is doing, so that they can provide an equivalent experience. But you should neverÂ &lt;em&gt;assume&lt;/em&gt; that a script&amp;rsquo;s behavior under one host will be consistent in all other hosts; test and verify.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>More Summit Speaker Names Leaked</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-18-more-summit-speaker-names-leaked/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:36:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-18-more-summit-speaker-names-leaked/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;So, I got hold of one of the Summit planning spreadsheets and have the list of speaker names. Now, these folks haven&amp;rsquo;t yet confirmed, so there are obviously possible changes, but here&amp;rsquo;s who&amp;rsquo;ll be invited based on their proposals:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Augh, they caught me! TheÂ &lt;strong&gt;complete&lt;/strong&gt; session list isn&amp;rsquo;t yet finalized, and there are a few on the &amp;ldquo;final cut list&amp;rdquo; that may not actually physically fit, so stay tuned&amp;hellip;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lotta Jasons in there. Hmm, maybe I shouldn&amp;rsquo;t put Helmick in charge of this again. He appears to be partial. There&amp;rsquo;s also several slots for PowerShell product team members that haven&amp;rsquo;t yet been sorted; they may come in a bit closer to the show, once the team has a better grip on their short-term work schedule.&lt;br&gt;
That&amp;rsquo;s aboutÂ &lt;strong&gt;63 sessions total&lt;/strong&gt;. Wow. We&amp;rsquo;re planning to run continuous sessions from 9am to noon, and then from 1pm to 5pm every day, spread across three tracks. There&amp;rsquo;ll also be welcome address at 8:15am Monday morning.&lt;br&gt;
Please - tell a colleague. Help us get the word out, because this is going to beÂ _amazing.Â _&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Desired State Configuration – General Availability Changes</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-18-desired-state-configuration-general-availability-changes/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:19:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-18-desired-state-configuration-general-availability-changes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;PowerShell DSC, along with Windows Server 2012 R2 has reached General Availability! Â Yay!&lt;br&gt;
However, there is (at least one so far) &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;breaking change&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;**Â **in Desired State Configuration (DSC).&lt;br&gt;
Fortunately, the change is in an area I haven&amp;rsquo;t blogged about yet.. creating custom resources. Â Unfortunately, it does mean I&amp;rsquo;ll have to update the &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC"&gt;GitHub repository&lt;/a&gt;Â and all my internal content (should be done by early next week).&lt;br&gt;
The short version is that DSC resources are now resources inside modules, rather than each resource being independent modules. Â The benefit of this is that now DSC resources won&amp;rsquo;t pollute the module scope, each resource won&amp;rsquo;t need its own psd1 file (the source module will require one though), and it provides an easier way to group resources, which wasn&amp;rsquo;t really possible before.&lt;br&gt;
So, with GA, resources should go under the module root in a folder DSCResources. Â You can have one or more resources in one PowerShell module. Â The PowerShell module version is what will be used for the resource version number, so if you have several resources, a version number bump affects all the resources in the module.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;ll be picking back up with the DSC series next week with how to configure DSC clients, so stay tuned.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Did you attend the 2013 PowerShell Summit?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-17-did-you-attend-the-2013-powershell-summit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:45:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-17-did-you-attend-the-2013-powershell-summit/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m looking to hear from folks who attended the PowerShell Summit North America 2013. Specifically, I&amp;rsquo;d love to hear what you thought of it. What value did you get? If someone were considering attending in 2014, what advice would you offer them? How should they approach the boss? What did you, personally, &amp;ldquo;take home&amp;rdquo; from the Summit in the way of new information or skills?&lt;br&gt;
Drop a comment below. Some comments might be re-published as standalone posts as we try to help people understand what the Summit is all about, and why they might want to attend. Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 245 – PowerScripting Podcast – Dan Cunningham on the PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-10-16-episode-245-powerscripting-podcast-dan-cunningham-on-the-powershell-app-deployment-toolkit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2013 03:55:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-10-16-episode-245-powerscripting-podcast-dan-cunningham-on-the-powershell-app-deployment-toolkit/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-245.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Dan Cunningham about the PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[PowerShell Saturday #005 - Atlanta announced for Oct 26th](http://powershellsaturday.com/005/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;PowerShell.org is building aÂ [repository of DSC modules](https://powershell.org/2013/08/12/need-desired-state-configuration-modules/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;PowerShell summitÂ [agenda info](https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/powershell-summit-north-america/summit-agenda/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interview&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guests - Dan Cunningham&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Links&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[http://psappdeploytoolkit.codeplex.com/](http://psappdeploytoolkit.codeplex.com/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[http://dcunningham.net/2013/08/07/powershell-app-deployment-toolkit/](http://dcunningham.net/2013/08/07/powershell-app-deployment-toolkit/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Chatroom Buzz-&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Why the HECK Do You Want to be Taught .NET in a PowerShell Class?!?!?!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-15-why-the-heck-do-you-want-to-be-taught-net-in-a-powershell-class/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:01:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-15-why-the-heck-do-you-want-to-be-taught-net-in-a-powershell-class/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Ok, that post title is deliberately provocative. Twitter and all that.&lt;br&gt;
So look, we&amp;rsquo;re designed this advanced PowerShell class. One of the top five constant suggestions I get whenever I say &amp;ldquo;advanced&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;PowerShell&amp;rdquo; is &amp;ldquo;.NET Framework.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;
And I get it. When there&amp;rsquo;s no cmdlet, .NET has a ton of goodies that can solve a lot of problems. Maybe you don&amp;rsquo;t like turning to it, but you&amp;rsquo;ll do it if you have to.&lt;br&gt;
My problem is, what&amp;rsquo;s that look likeÂ &lt;em&gt;in a class?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
I mean, for me, using .NET basically works like this:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Questions about an Advanced PowerShell Class Design</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-15-questions-about-an-advanced-powershell-class-design/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:45:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-15-questions-about-an-advanced-powershell-class-design/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As we continue collecting responses to an outline survey about an Advanced PowerShell class, I&amp;rsquo;ve come up with a couple of questions and would appreciate any feedback you&amp;rsquo;d care to leave here.&lt;br&gt;
Keep in mind that we&amp;rsquo;re a bit bound by this course being Microsoft Official Curriculum. I gotta make sure, in other words, that the average MCT can teach it. Ahem. I also have to face facts that people don&amp;rsquo;t read or obey course pre-requisite suggestions, and that a lot of people taking the course will have zero programming background.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Building a Desired State Configuration Configuration – Part 2</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-14-building-a-desired-state-configuration-configuration-part-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2013 18:19:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-14-building-a-desired-state-configuration-configuration-part-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Ok, let&amp;rsquo;s get back to creating a DSC configuration. Â &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/10/08/building-a-desired-state-configuration-configuration/"&gt;If you haven&amp;rsquo;t read the last post in this series, go back and do that now&lt;/a&gt;, I&amp;rsquo;ll wait. Â Now with that out of the way, let&amp;rsquo;s get back to it&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="the-high-points"&gt;The High Points&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/10/02/building-a-desired-state-configuration-infrastructure/"&gt;Overview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/10/03/building-a-desired-state-configuration-pull-server/"&gt;Configuring the Pull Server (REST version)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Creating Configurations (&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/10/08/building-a-desired-state-configuration-configuration/"&gt;one of two&lt;/a&gt;, two of two - this post)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/11/06/configuring-a-desired-state-configuration-client/"&gt;Configuring Clients&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2014/03/13/building-desired-state-configuration-custom-resources/"&gt;Building Custom Resources&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Packaging Custom Resources&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Advanced Client Targeting&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="picking-back-up"&gt;Picking Back UP&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now that we have some of the basics down, we can start to look deeper at how composable these configurations are. A DSC configuration defined in PowerShell offers several advantages, not the least of which is that a configuration can be parameterized.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 10/03/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-13-phillyposh-10032013-meeting-summary/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2013 00:40:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-13-phillyposh-10032013-meeting-summary/</guid><description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://mellositmusings.com/"&gt;John Mello&lt;/a&gt; gave a presentation on creating HTML reports in PowerShell, &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/PhillyPosh_10_03_2013.zip"&gt;a copy of his presentation and scripts can be found here&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/techguytj"&gt;TJ Turner&lt;/a&gt; gave a presentation on Community Defined Best Practices, &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/PhillyPosh_10_03_03_Community_Best_Practices.zip"&gt;a copy of his presentation can be found here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We had user error audio issues with Lync throughout the meeting so a recording will not be posted to our &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAc_ow5FIJtRpvew__9Iqzg"&gt;YouTube channel&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We celebrated our 1st anniversary!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/PhillyPosh_cake_10_03_2013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/PhillyPosh_cake_10_03_2013-300x168.jpg" alt="PhillyPosh_cake_10_03_2013"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Help me Design the Advanced PowerShell Class!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-12-help-me-design-the-advanced-powershell-class/</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Oct 2013 16:06:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-12-help-me-design-the-advanced-powershell-class/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve been asked to work on an &amp;ldquo;advanced&amp;rdquo; PowerShell class. Now, I don&amp;rsquo;t like the &amp;ldquo;advanced&amp;rdquo; word very much, because it means something different to everyone, depending on their experience. So I&amp;rsquo;m trying to make the class focus on &amp;ldquo;powerful, practical things you can do with PowerShell that definitely drift into programming and scripting.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;
You can tell me what you think by &lt;a href="http://674004.polldaddy.com/s/advanced-powershell-class-design"&gt;taking an online survey about the proposed outline&lt;/a&gt;, which will be online through October 18th, 2013.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>LEAK: PowerShell Summit NA 2014 Speakers</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-10-leak-powershell-summit-na-2014-speakers/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2013 19:21:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-10-leak-powershell-summit-na-2014-speakers/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I got a glance at the &amp;ldquo;short list&amp;rdquo; of speakers for the PowerShell Summit North America 2014. While none of these names are guaranteed - these guys haven&amp;rsquo;t even been contacted to confirm - they&amp;rsquo;llÂ &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; receive an invite in the next few days.&lt;br&gt;
First up, Mike Pfeiffer. This excites me because Mike&amp;rsquo;s a former MVP, and now a Premier Field Engineer (PFE) with Microsoft. HeÂ _literallyÂ _wrote the book on managing Exchange Server with PowerShell, and should be a great addition to our new Domain-Specific track.&lt;br&gt;
Next, Steven Murawski. I&amp;rsquo;m betting he&amp;rsquo;ll be asked to deliver talks on Desired State Configuration (DSC), something he&amp;rsquo;s been playing with intensely at his job. Yeah,Â &lt;em&gt;production use of DSC&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
Ed Wilson&amp;rsquo;s going to be invited. What&amp;rsquo;s a Summit without the Scripting Guy?!?!?&lt;br&gt;
Ashley McGlone, too - another PFE, which gives us some awesome from-the-field experience, especially from large-scale environments where PFEs tend to work. Should be awesome stuff.&lt;br&gt;
I imagine I&amp;rsquo;ll be invited to speak , along with my often-co-author Jeffery Hicks andÂ &lt;em&gt;PowerShell In Depth&lt;/em&gt; co-author Richard Siddaway. Richard&amp;rsquo;s a WMI master, and his talks in 2013 were very well-received. Jeff, of course, is Jeff - it&amp;rsquo;ll be a fun talk or two, whatever they&amp;rsquo;re about.&lt;br&gt;
I saw Adam Driscoll&amp;rsquo;s name on the list (uber-developer with a ton of PowerShell experience), Jason Helmick (I&amp;rsquo;m hoping he&amp;rsquo;ll do a deeply in-depth talk on PowerShell Web Access, since he&amp;rsquo;s pretty much mastered all the not-documented intricacies of setting it up), and a few more.&lt;br&gt;
Early November should see the schedule finalized. Stay tuned.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 244 – PowerScripting Podcast – Ned Pyle from Microsoft on DFRS, SMB 3.0 and More</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-10-08-episode-244-powerscripting-podcast-ned-pyle-from-microsoft-on-dfrs-smb-3-0-and-more/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2013 03:15:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-10-08-episode-244-powerscripting-podcast-ned-pyle-from-microsoft-on-dfrs-smb-3-0-and-more/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-244.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Ned Pyle about DFRS and SMB 3.0&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Welcome new PowerShell MVPs!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Boe ProxÂ [https://twitter.com/proxb](https://twitter.com/proxb)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Matthew HitchcockÂ [https://twitter.com/hitchysg](https://twitter.com/hitchysg)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Carlo ManciniÂ [https://twitter.com/sysadm2010](https://twitter.com/sysadm2010)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[PowerShell Saturday #005 - Atlanta announced for Oct 26th](http://powershellsaturday.com/005/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[PowerShell Saturday #006 - Singapore Oct 12th](http://powershellsatsg02.eventbrite.sg/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;DFW PowerShell user group isÂ [meeting October](https://powershell.org/event/october-dallasfort-worth-powershell-user-group/)Â 19th
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[The Scripting Guy on the PowerShell Summit](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/09/27/the-powershell-summit-why-you-should-care.aspx)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interview&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Building a Desired State Configuration Configuration</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-08-building-a-desired-state-configuration-configuration/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2013 16:36:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-08-building-a-desired-state-configuration-configuration/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Now that&amp;rsquo;s a title! Â We&amp;rsquo;ve worked through my reasoning as to why I want Desired State Configuration (DSC) and how to build a pull server. Â Today and in the next post we are going to look at how to create configurations which describe how our target systems are supposed to work.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="the-high-points"&gt;The High Points&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/10/02/building-a-desired-state-configuration-infrastructure/"&gt;Overview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/10/03/building-a-desired-state-configuration-pull-server/"&gt;Configuring the Pull Server (REST version)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Creating Configurations (one of two - this post, &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/10/14/building-a-desired-state-configuration-configuration-part-2/"&gt;two of two&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/11/06/configuring-a-desired-state-configuration-client/"&gt;Configuring Clients&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2014/03/13/building-desired-state-configuration-custom-resources/"&gt;Building Custom Resources&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Packaging Custom Resources&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Advanced Client Targeting&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="building-configurations"&gt;Building Configurations&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Configurations are the driving force for DSC. Â A configuration is a &lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa823192(v=vs.85).aspx"&gt;Managed Object Format&lt;/a&gt; (MOF) document that describes the how a specified server (or servers) should look.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Building a Desired State Configuration Pull Server</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-03-building-a-desired-state-configuration-pull-server/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 19:40:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-03-building-a-desired-state-configuration-pull-server/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Quick recap, I&amp;rsquo;m working through a series of posts about the &lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn249912.aspx"&gt;Desired State Configuration&lt;/a&gt; infrastructure that I&amp;rsquo;m building at &lt;a href="http://stackexchange.com"&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;, including some how-to&amp;rsquo;s.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="the-high-points"&gt;The High Points&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/10/02/building-a-desired-state-configuration-infrastructure/"&gt;Overview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Configuring the Pull Server (REST version) (this post)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Creating Configurations (&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/10/08/building-a-desired-state-configuration-configuration/"&gt;one of two&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/10/14/building-a-desired-state-configuration-configuration-part-2/"&gt;two of two&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/11/06/configuring-a-desired-state-configuration-client/"&gt;Configuring Clients&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2014/03/13/building-desired-state-configuration-custom-resources/"&gt;Building Custom Resources&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Packaging Custom Resources&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Advanced Client Targeting&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I started with an overview of &lt;strong&gt;what&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt;. Â Today, I&amp;rsquo;m going to start the &lt;strong&gt;how&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="building-a-pull-server"&gt;Building a Pull Server&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m going to describe how to do this with Server 2012 R2 RTM (NOTE: this is not the General Availability Â release, so there may be changes at GA), since that&amp;rsquo;s the environment I&amp;rsquo;m working most in. Â If there is enough demand, I may follow up with how to do this using the Windows Management Framework on downlevel operating systems after the GA version of WMF 4 is released.&lt;br&gt;
The first step is adding the required roles and features, including the DSC Service.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Building a Desired State Configuration Infrastructure</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-02-building-a-desired-state-configuration-infrastructure/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 19:35:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-02-building-a-desired-state-configuration-infrastructure/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This is a the kickoff in a series of posts about building a &lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn249912.aspx"&gt;Desired State Configuration (DSC)&lt;/a&gt; infrastructure. I&amp;rsquo;ll be leveraging concepts I&amp;rsquo;ve been working on as I&amp;rsquo;ve been building out our DSC deployment at &lt;a href="http://stackexchange.com"&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="the-high-points"&gt;The High Points&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Overview (this post)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/10/03/building-a-desired-state-configuration-pull-server/"&gt;Configuring the Pull Server (REST version)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Creating Configurations (&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/10/08/building-a-desired-state-configuration-configuration/"&gt;one of two&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/10/14/building-a-desired-state-configuration-configuration-part-2/"&gt;two of two&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/11/06/configuring-a-desired-state-configuration-client/"&gt;Configuring Clients&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2014/03/13/building-desired-state-configuration-custom-resources/"&gt;Building Custom Resources&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Packaging Custom Resources&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Advanced Client Targeting&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m starting today with the general overview of what I&amp;rsquo;m trying to accomplish and why I&amp;rsquo;m trying to accomplish this. The &lt;strong&gt;what&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; are critical in determining the &lt;strong&gt;how&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Seeking Coaches and Judges for the Winter Scripting Games</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-02-seeking-coaches-and-judges-for-the-winter-scripting-games/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 17:58:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-02-seeking-coaches-and-judges-for-the-winter-scripting-games/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re now seeking volunteer Coaches and Judges for the Winter Scripting Games!&lt;br&gt;
The Games are tentatively scheduled to run for 4-6 weeks starting January 6th, 2014. There will be 4-6 events, each lasting one week.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="coaches"&gt;Coaches&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coaches have access to all teams&amp;rsquo; entries and private discussion threads for the week while entries are being developed and accepted. Coaches are meant to log inÂ &lt;em&gt;throughout&lt;/em&gt; that one-week period, evaluate what teams have submitted so far, and offer comments and advice in the in-Game discussion thread.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/6-002.png" alt="6-002"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Coaches&amp;rsquo; comments receive a special flag, helping teams focus on them quickly. Note that teams are not required to use the in-Game discussion thread - they can discuss via email or elsewhere. Teams are also not required to continually submit entry files for coach review, so for some teams, coaches will have nothing to offer.&lt;br&gt;
Team discussions are private to the team members and coaches; discussions will not be made public.&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;ll accept as many coaches as want to participate. Note that youÂ &lt;strong&gt;cannot&lt;/strong&gt; be both a coach and a judge, and coaches are not permitted to participate on a team as a player.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 243 – PowerScripting Podcast – Rob Reynolds on Puppet and Chocolatey</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-10-01-episode-243-powerscripting-podcast-rob-reynolds-on-puppet-and-chocolatey/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 04:22:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-10-01-episode-243-powerscripting-podcast-rob-reynolds-on-puppet-and-chocolatey/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-243.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Rob Reynolds about Chocolatey and Puppet&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Welcome new PowerShell MVPs!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Michael WashamÂ [@mwashamtx](http://twitter.com/mwashamtx)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Jonathan WalzÂ [@jonwalz](http://twitter.com/jonwalz)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Jason HelmickÂ [@theJasonHelmick](http://twitter.com/theJasonHelmick)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Aman DhallyÂ [@AmanDhally](http://twitter.com/AmanDhally)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[PowerShell Saturday #005 - Atlanta announced for Oct 26th](http://powershellsaturday.com/005/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[PowerShell Saturday #006 - Singapore Oct 12th](http://powershellsatsg02.eventbrite.sg/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Registration is now open for the PowerShell Summit 2014](http://eventmgr.azurewebsites.net/home/event/PSNA2014)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[PowerShell Hero program](https://powershell.org/2013/09/20/nominate-your-powershell-hero/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interview&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>More Congrats!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-01-more-congrats/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 19:29:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-01-more-congrats/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Another kudos to Jon Walz, host of the long running PowerScripting Podcast, for his first and well-deserved MVP Award!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Congrats!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-01-congrats/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 15:10:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-10-01-congrats/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Congrats to our CFO, Jason Helmick, on receiving his first MVP Award!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Winter Scripting Games Tentatively Scheduled</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-09-29-winter-scripting-games-tentatively-scheduled/</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 16:34:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-09-29-winter-scripting-games-tentatively-scheduled/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re tentatively scheduling the 2014 Winter Scripting Games for 4-6 weeks beginning January 6, 2014. Right now, we&amp;rsquo;re running functional tests on the platform (which will be all-new and much-improved), and soliciting scenarios from MVPs and PowerShell celebrities.&lt;br&gt;
As previously announced, players will work in teams of 2-6 in this edition of the Games, and it&amp;rsquo;s never too early to start finding friends to form a team with you. Because you&amp;rsquo;ll be working in teams, and because you&amp;rsquo;ll have a full week to complete each scenario, expect more complex scenarios! You&amp;rsquo;ll have to practice breaking down tasks and assigning them to team members.&lt;br&gt;
You&amp;rsquo;ll also need to think about how you want to collaborate as a team. We&amp;rsquo;ll be providing a very basic private in-Game discussion thread for each team, but you&amp;rsquo;re welcome to use Git, PoshCode, e-mail, MailChimp lists, orÂ &lt;em&gt;whatever&lt;/em&gt; for your collaboration. You&amp;rsquo;ll be able to submit your entries&amp;rsquo; files whenever you like, and revise them to your heart&amp;rsquo;s content right up to the entry submission deadline.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 242 – PowerScripting Podcast – Steven Murawski and Geoff Dalgas on DSC and Stack Overflow</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-09-25-episode-242-powerscripting-podcast-steven-murawski-and-geoff-dalgas-on-dsc-and-stack-overflow/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:24:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-09-25-episode-242-powerscripting-podcast-steven-murawski-and-geoff-dalgas-on-dsc-and-stack-overflow/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-242.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Steven Murawski and Geoff Dalgas about DSC &amp;amp; Stack Overflow&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [PowerShell Saturday #005 - Atlanta announced for Oct 26th](http://powershellsaturday.com/005/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [Registration is now open for the PowerShell Summit 2014](http://eventmgr.azurewebsites.net/home/event/PSNA2014)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [PowerShell Hero program](https://powershell.org/2013/09/20/nominate-your-powershell-hero/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; As mentioned on the show there are still plans forÂ [Winter Scripting Games](https://powershell.org/2013/09/24/the-new-look-of-the-scripting-games/)Â events
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; PowerShell.org it looking forÂ [ebook curators](https://powershell.org/2013/09/23/seeking-curators-for-powershell-ebooks/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; PhillyPosh isÂ [turning one](https://powershell.org/2013/09/17/philadelphia-meeting-october-3rd-2013/)!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The Charlotte PowerShell user group isÂ [meeting October 3rd](https://powershell.org/event/charlotte-powershell-users-group-monthly-meeting-3/2013-10-03/), 2013
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [Podcasting for Cancer](http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/podcasting-for-cancer)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guests - Steve Murawski, Geoff Dalgas&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The New Look of the Scripting Games</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-09-24-the-new-look-of-the-scripting-games/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:25:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-09-24-the-new-look-of-the-scripting-games/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve been busily working on a new interface for the Scripting Games - we&amp;rsquo;re still planning a Winter Games event - and wanted to share progress. You can click this thumbnail to see the full image.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/games.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/games-150x150.png" alt="The new Scripting Games features movable, resizable panels"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The new Scripting Games features movable, resizable panes
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The new layout features movable, resizable panels, allowing you to position them however works best on your screen. No, they&amp;rsquo;re not especially mobile-friendly.&lt;br&gt;
As you can see (at least in implication), entries can consist of multiple files, as in a complex script module. There&amp;rsquo;s a team-level discussion as well as (as shown) discussion threads for each file. Any player on the team can add new files, delete files, or modify existing files by uploading a replacement. This view shows that I joined the team &amp;ldquo;Aliens&amp;rdquo; after the current event had started, which is why I&amp;rsquo;m unable to contribute new files.&lt;br&gt;
Your team won&amp;rsquo;t be restricted to using the Scripting Games Web site. In fact, you can collaborate and communicate however you like. Use Git or PoshCode for your scripts, and e-mail or a discussion list for communications. It&amp;rsquo;s your choice.&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;ll be recruiting a team of Coaches, who will browse whatever you&amp;rsquo;ve added to the Scripting Games Web site in advance of the event deadline, offering their own comments - you can see that Coach comments are highlighted for easy recognition. It&amp;rsquo;ll pay to drop code into the Web site every day so our coaches have something to comment upon, and to check in daily for any coach comments that may have been left.&lt;br&gt;
The upcoming Games events will be more complicated - you&amp;rsquo;ve got a team to work with, so we figure you can handle an extra challenge. Event scenarios will be authored by a team of community all-star volunteers, including The Scripting Guys and various MVPs and enthusiasts. That should give each scenario a slightly different flavor, exposing you to a wider variety of real-world challenges.&lt;br&gt;
Judging of team entries will involve a more complex scoring rubric than our past 1-to-5-stars technique - giving you a more detailed scorecard. Keep in mind that each team will be able to submit only one combined entry, which will give our judges fewer to look at - and more time to look at each one. The new rubric will still allow judges to express some personal tastes and opinions, so you shouldn&amp;rsquo;t expect to be able to please everyone every time!&lt;br&gt;
Team assembly will allow you to form your own team, or be automatically assigned to a team that needs players (teams MUST have 2 players to participate). We&amp;rsquo;ve rigged the system to ask for your time zone, and to display the average time zone offset of potential teams. That way, you can look for a team whose players are geographically close to you, helping to facilitate any real-time collaboration you might set up (via YouTube, Google+, or whatever). If you choose auto-assignment, the system looks for a team whose players are geographically close to you, relatively speaking.&lt;br&gt;
Local user groups are encouraged to form their own team, and to have their own members join - that way, the Scripting Games can be the topic of a monthly meeting or two.&lt;br&gt;
Things are still evolving and under development, but wanted to share this early look!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Seeking Curators for PowerShell eBooks</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-09-23-seeking-curators-for-powershell-ebooks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 19:15:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-09-23-seeking-curators-for-powershell-ebooks/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[UPDATE: I think I&amp;rsquo;ve finally gotten all the books under curation - but if you&amp;rsquo;ve an idea for a PowerShell-related ebook, and would like to co-author or even be a principal author (I&amp;rsquo;ll help out with logistics), still hit me up.]&lt;br&gt;
As you may know, PowerShell.org hosts a number of free ebooks that have, to date, been written mainly by me. But I&amp;rsquo;ve recently been delighted to welcome some co-contributors - Forums regular Dave Wyatt has contributed new content to &amp;ldquo;Secrets of PowerShell Remoting,&amp;rdquo; for example, and Matt Penny has volunteered to organize the forthcoming &amp;ldquo;Community Book of PowerShell Practices.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;d like to try and sign up &amp;ldquo;curators&amp;rdquo; for some of our other free ebooks, including the forthcoming &amp;ldquo;Big Book of PowerShell Error Handling&amp;rdquo; and the &amp;ldquo;Creating Trend and Analysis Reports in PowerShell&amp;rdquo; titles, as well as - and this is one I&amp;rsquo;m really interested in getting someone for - the &amp;ldquo;Big Book of PowerShell Gotchas.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;
What&amp;rsquo;s a curator do?&lt;br&gt;
Mainly, incorporate community feedback (typos, etc) into future editions, as well as integrating new content. That content might be written by the curator, or contributed by someone else. We use a very simple Word template, and you&amp;rsquo;d use Calibre to produce PDF and EPUB from that. I provide cover art images and whatnot - this is mainly an &amp;ldquo;assemble, organize, and deal with the errata&amp;rdquo; process at a minimum. If you are passionate about the topic, you can of course become a co-author with me and add your own content (and I&amp;rsquo;m happy to help you do so). That&amp;rsquo;s especially true for the &amp;ldquo;Gotchas&amp;rdquo; title, which is mainly a series of short articles that cover some of the shell&amp;rsquo;s biggest speed bumps.&lt;br&gt;
A copy of Word, Calibre (free) and a GitHub client (free) are needed, plus a few free hours every few months and the willingness to take on the job. You&amp;rsquo;ll truly be helping: I often can produce extra content now and again, but actually spell-checking it, putting it into the book, making the EPUB version, and so on - believe it or not, that stuff takes me more time and is one reason the ebooks don&amp;rsquo;t get updated more often. Sigh.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://concentratedtech.com/contact"&gt;Hit me up if you&amp;rsquo;re interested&lt;/a&gt; in helping out!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Nominate Your PowerShell Hero</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-09-20-nominate-your-powershell-hero/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 17:02:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-09-20-nominate-your-powershell-hero/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;PowerShell.org is proud to announce a new community recognition program:Â &lt;strong&gt;PowerShell Heroes&lt;/strong&gt;. We&amp;rsquo;re looking for your Hero nominations!&lt;br&gt;
AÂ &lt;strong&gt;PowerShell Hero&lt;/strong&gt; is someone who you feel does an outstanding job helping the community, perhaps by answering questions in forums (here or elsewhere), writing useful blog posts, offering education, and more. AÂ &lt;strong&gt;PowerShell Hero&lt;/strong&gt; is someone whoÂ 
has not already received formal recognition elsewhere
, meaning past and present MVPs are not eligible.Â _&lt;br&gt;
_&lt;br&gt;
We are accepting nominations until December 15th, 2013. At that point, the Board of PowerShell.org will review the nominations, and in early 2014 we will announce those we&amp;rsquo;re honoring with this recognition. In subsequent years, past honorees will decide who gets recognized in the following years.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Who can I nominate?&lt;/strong&gt; Anyone you want, except current or past MVPs, Microsoft employees, Microsoft Regional Directors, or others who have been formally recognized for their community contributions.&lt;br&gt;
**How do I nominate them?Â **Send us an e-mail (admin@; our domain is powershell.org). We need the person&amp;rsquo;s name or online handle, and some links to their contributions. Also describe in 100-500 words why they&amp;rsquo;re your PowerShell Hero. Please put &amp;ldquo;PowerShell Hero&amp;rdquo; in the subject line of your email.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;How many people will be recognized?&lt;/strong&gt; We don&amp;rsquo;t have a fixed number.&lt;br&gt;
**What will honorees receive?Â **Online recognition; we&amp;rsquo;ll be publishing an online directory of Heroes. We&amp;rsquo;re looking into making plaques, but it depends a bit on the finances. There are no other benefits to the honoree.&lt;br&gt;
**Must someone re-qualify every year?Â **This isn&amp;rsquo;t like the MVP program - it&amp;rsquo;s a recognition with no benefits. So there&amp;rsquo;s nothing to &amp;ldquo;qualify&amp;rdquo; for. In future years, the previous year&amp;rsquo;s honorees will select the next year&amp;rsquo;s honorees, so you&amp;rsquo;re prohibited from being recognized in sequential years.&lt;br&gt;
**How can I think of who to nominate?Â **Think about who has helpedÂ &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; with PowerShell problems. Did someone help you solve something through a discussion forum? Did someone&amp;rsquo;s blog post give you that &amp;ldquo;aha!&amp;rdquo; moment? Did someone spend a massive amount of time putting together a PowerShell event that really helped you? Those are the heroes we want to recognize. Again, past and present MVP award recipients are not eligible - they&amp;rsquo;ve already been recognized.&lt;br&gt;
We look forward to your nominations!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 241 – PowerScripting Podcast – Microsoft PFE Matthew Reynolds on the Windows Performance Toolkit</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-09-18-episode-241-powerscripting-podcast-microsoft-pfe-matthew-reynolds-on-the-windows-performance-toolkit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 03:14:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-09-18-episode-241-powerscripting-podcast-microsoft-pfe-matthew-reynolds-on-the-windows-performance-toolkit/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-241.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Matthew Reynolds about the Windows Performance Toolkit&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[PowerShell Saturday #005 - Atlanta announced for Oct 26th](http://powershellsaturday.com/005/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Registration is now open for the PowerShell Summit 2014](http://eventmgr.azurewebsites.net/home/event/PSNA2014)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interview&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guests - Matthew Reynolds&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Links&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Windows Performance Toolkit](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/performance/cc825801.aspx)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Windows ADK for Windows 8](http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30652)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Event Tracing for Windows](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb968803(v=vs.85).aspx)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Chatroom Buzz-&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Winter Scripting Games: More Feedback Needed</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-09-12-winter-scripting-games-more-feedback-needed/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:33:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-09-12-winter-scripting-games-more-feedback-needed/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;So I&amp;rsquo;m continuing to work through some logistics regarding the Winter Scripting Games (and no, there&amp;rsquo;s no dates set).&lt;br&gt;
The intent of these Games, as I&amp;rsquo;ve written before, is to offer aÂ &lt;em&gt;collaborative&lt;/em&gt; experience. You&amp;rsquo;ll work in teams of (proposed) 2-6. You have two ways to join a team: Pick an existing one that needs players (you&amp;rsquo;ll be shown the average time zone offset, in minutes, of the existing players, so that you can choose a team near you) or create a new team from scratch - which others can then join. You&amp;rsquo;d be welcome to &amp;ldquo;recruit&amp;rdquo; for your team using social media.&lt;br&gt;
NB:Â &lt;em&gt;Collaborate&lt;/em&gt; does not meanÂ _live online collaboration.Â _Your team could do a Google Hangout or whatever optionally, but we&amp;rsquo;re only providing asynchronous collaboration.&lt;br&gt;
You will be able to leave your team up to a point. That is, you could always LEAVE your team, but each event within the Games will have a deadline for joining - meaning if you&amp;rsquo;re not on a team when the event starts, you&amp;rsquo;ll have to wait for the next event to re-join a team.&lt;br&gt;
My question right now revolves around the collaborative process. The idea is that the team has a single, shared code repository, meaning everyone on the team can see it. I want you to visualize this in your head, and then describe to me how you think it should work.&lt;br&gt;
The overall idea is that your team works on the assignment together, and then forwards (by the deadline) a final team entry for judging.&lt;br&gt;
Would you start by allowing one team member to upload an entry, and everyone would collaborate on it? Or would every member have the ability to upload a potential entry, and you&amp;rsquo;d all discuss which one you wanted to use as the team&amp;rsquo;s starting point? If there can be multiple parallel entries, how will the team decide, and then indicate to the system, which one is the &amp;ldquo;final&amp;rdquo; one? Remember, the team only sends ONE entry up for judging.&lt;br&gt;
NB: We will provide private team discussion threads within the system. You will not necessarily be able to comment on a given script fileÂ _per se,Â _but we&amp;rsquo;ll provide a means to reference lines of code within the team discussion threads. That keeps the discussion in one place, but allows you to refer to specific wodges of code.&lt;br&gt;
How will the code portion of the collaboration work? That is, when someone wants to provide a revision to the team entry, would they upload/paste an entirely new entry? Or would we provide a text editor so that you could edit the code that already exists? I&amp;rsquo;ll note that we&amp;rsquo;reÂ &lt;em&gt;NOT NOT NOT&lt;/em&gt; providing an ISE experience - so a Web-based text editor might well leave room for unintentional errors. We won&amp;rsquo;t help you with those.&lt;br&gt;
If we use a paste-in text editor, we&amp;rsquo;d enable you to paste in an all-new entry, or to simply make quick changes to an existing entry, right in the Web page. That might be convenient.&lt;br&gt;
The new system will recognize the concept of a given entry consisting of multiple files - e.g., a script module that includes a .psm1, .psd1, and .ps1xml file, all working as a unit.&lt;br&gt;
Do we version-control this? That is, if everyone&amp;rsquo;s uploading revisions, do we just keep &amp;rsquo;em all, and indicate which one was most recent? That way you could always access older versions? Again, if each team gets a single entry, and each member can paste in new code or edit the existing code, this seems workable. We&amp;rsquo;d keep old versions so you could &amp;ldquo;roll back&amp;rdquo; if needed.&lt;br&gt;
If we did that, would you NEED a version-to-version comparison tool? If so, the complexity of that may mean we don&amp;rsquo;t run the Games this Winter. So think real hard about WANT vs. NEED. We COULD provide a way to download, in a ZIPped folder hierarchy, all versions of the entry, meaning you could then use local comparison tools on your computer to compare revisions.&lt;br&gt;
Your thoughts? What do you think is the best workflow for this kind of Games?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 240 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeff Wouters on becoming an MVP, starting a usergroup and more</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-09-11-episode-240-powerscripting-podcast-jeff-wouters-on-becoming-an-mvp-starting-a-usergroup-and-more/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 03:06:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-09-11-episode-240-powerscripting-podcast-jeff-wouters-on-becoming-an-mvp-starting-a-usergroup-and-more/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-240.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jeff Wouters about becoming an MVP&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[PowerShell Saturday #005 - Atlanta announced for Oct 26th](http://powershellsaturday.com/005/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interview&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guests - Jeff Wouters&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Links&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Jeff&amp;quot;™s blog:Â [http://jeffwouters.nl/](http://jeffwouters.nl/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[@jeffwouters](https://twitter.com/jeffwouters)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;PowerShell Deep Dives book:Â [http://manning.com/hicks/](http://manning.com/hicks/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[http://jeffwouters.nl/](http://jeffwouters.nl/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Jaap Brasser](http://www.jaapbrasser.com/), another prolific Dutch scripter
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;MS PFEÂ [Stefan Stranger](http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_stranger/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Chatroom Buzz&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>My New PowerShell Video Series, Covering v2/v3/v4, Launches</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-09-11-my-new-powershell-video-series-covering-v2v3v4-launches/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:35:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-09-11-my-new-powershell-video-series-covering-v2v3v4-launches/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s finally starting to be published - my &lt;a href="http://cbtnuggets.com/it-training-videos/course/cbtn_pwrshl_master"&gt;Ultimate PowerShell Video Training Series&lt;/a&gt;, covering versions 2 and onward.&lt;br&gt;
This series will initially consist of 90 chunks of roughly 20 minutes each, adding up to more than 30 hours total. I&amp;rsquo;m building each individual video to CLEARLY differentiate between PowerShell v2, v3, and v4; for the most part, I switch to Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 to demonstrate specifics in each version. That means you can clearly tell what features and techniques go with each version. It also means the series can be extended as new versions are released in the future.&lt;br&gt;
This is going to coverÂ &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; - think of it as a &amp;ldquo;PowerShell In Depth&amp;rdquo; done in video. And, whatever I forget, if there is anything, can be easily added to the series. In other words, this will be my new, permanent video training for PowerShell. It&amp;rsquo;ll cover every version from v2, be extended to cover new version techniques and features, and be expanded to cover new topics as they become of interest.&lt;br&gt;
It&amp;rsquo;s being built with hands-on labs, too. I describe a lab environment you can set up (super-simple), and provide written lab documents for you to work through. Each is then covered in a standalone video, so that you can see sample solutions.&lt;br&gt;
Best of all, you can watch the whole thing for under $100. CBT Nuggets&amp;rsquo; program gives you monthly access to their entire library for that price, including my entire PowerShell series, their hundreds of titles related to certification and technology,Â _everything.Â _Or pay $1000 for an entire year - which also gets you access to practice certification exams from Transcender.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;ll be publishing 5-10 videos per week in this series, until it&amp;rsquo;s done - and we&amp;rsquo;ll then be tackling domain-specific PowerShell management, including Exchange, AD, SQL Server, System Center,Â &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of it. It&amp;rsquo;ll take some time to build out all of that, but I&amp;rsquo;m committed to building the most comprehensive PowerShell video training offering in the universe!&lt;br&gt;
If you get a chance to check out the new series, let me know what you think.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Great Debate: The Conclusion</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-09-10-great-debate-the-conclusion/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 20:23:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-09-10-great-debate-the-conclusion/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;All this Summer, we&amp;rsquo;ve been encouraging your feedback in a &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/category/great-debates/"&gt;series of Great Debate posts&lt;/a&gt;. Most of the topics came from the 2013 Scripting Games, where we definitely saw people coming down on both sides of these topics. My goal was to pull everyone&amp;rsquo;s thoughts together into a kind of community consensus, and to offer a living book of community-accepted practices for PowerShell. This&amp;rsquo;ll be a neverending story, likely adapting and growing to include more topics as the years wind on.&lt;br&gt;
But here&amp;rsquo;s the start:Â &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/DRAFT-2013Sep_Practices.pdf"&gt;DRAFT-2013Sep_Practices&lt;/a&gt;Â is the first draft, officially a Request For Comments, based on the comments you&amp;rsquo;ve all contributed to the Great Debate posts over these past few weeks. I tried to capture consensus where I saw it, and to outline both sides of the great back-and-forth we&amp;rsquo;ve seen.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; The cover image in this draft is just a placeholder; this book is NOT dedicated to error handling. Its working title is correctly shown on the page following the cover image.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;m going to leaveÂ &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; post in place until October 1st. Please drop any comments you&amp;rsquo;d like to offer to the final first edition of this ebook, and let me know if there are any topics you&amp;rsquo;d like to see debated in the future. After October 1st, I&amp;rsquo;ll publish the final edition of this Practices guide as one of PowerShell.org&amp;rsquo;s free ebooks. The final first edition will also become part of the next iteration of The Scripting Games, as its official &amp;ldquo;best practices&amp;rdquo; guide. In fact, you&amp;rsquo;ll notice in this draft that there are a couple of Games-specific comments, since the Games sometimes have different drivers than a production environment.&lt;br&gt;
Thanks again to everyone who participated!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 09/05/2013 meeting summary</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-09-08-phillyposh-09052013-meeting-summary/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 03:05:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-09-08-phillyposh-09052013-meeting-summary/</guid><description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.manning.com/hicks/"&gt;Author&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://scriptinggames.org/"&gt;Scripting Games 2013 winner&lt;/a&gt;, and founder of the &lt;a href="http://mspsug.com/"&gt;Mississippi PowerShell User Group&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://mikefrobbins.com"&gt;Mike Robbins&lt;/a&gt;, gave a presentation entitledÂ &amp;ldquo;Using CIM Cmdlets and CIM Sessions&amp;rdquo; via Lync.
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Afterwards various group members participated in script and tell.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=KUw10Dc_igs&amp;amp;video_referrer=watch&amp;amp;ns=1"&gt;recording of the meeting is available&lt;/a&gt; on our &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAc_ow5FIJtRpvew__9Iqzg"&gt;YouTube channel&lt;/a&gt;, please note that half way through our script club we had an issue with a duplicate audio track.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 239 – PowerScripting Podcast – Rob Willis from Microsoft on the PowerShell Deployment Toolkit</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-09-08-episode-239-powerscripting-podcast-rob-willis-from-microsoft-on-the-powershell-deployment-toolkit/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 00:58:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-09-08-episode-239-powerscripting-podcast-rob-willis-from-microsoft-on-the-powershell-deployment-toolkit/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-239.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Rob Willis from Microsoft about the PowerShell Deployment Toolkit&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[PowerShell Saturday #005 - Atlanta announced for Oct 26th](http://powershellsaturday.com/005/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Twin Cities PowerShell user groupÂ [is meeting](https://powershell.org/event/twin-cities-powershell-user-group-meeting/)Â September 10th from 4:30-7:30PM
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Atlanta PowerShell User groupÂ [is meeting](https://powershell.org/event/september-atlanta-powershell-user-group-meeting/)Â September 10th from 7:00-9:00PM
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Mississippi PowerShell User groupÂ [is meeting](http://mspsug.com/2013/09/03/honorary-scripting-guy-boe-prox-speaking-for-mspsug-on-tuesday-september-10th-at-830pm-cdt/)Â online September 10th from 8:30-10:00PM
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Dutch PowerShell UsergroupÂ [will be meeting](https://powershell.org/event/3rd-dupsug-meeting-evening-sessions/)Â September 12 from 6:00-9:00PM
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;A Northern California PowerShell user groupÂ [is in the works](http://www.virtu-al.net/2013/09/06/north-california-powershell-user-group/). Initial meetup on October 2nd
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interview&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Writing Courseware: 10961 PowerShell Class</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-09-05-writing-courseware-10961-powershell-class/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 15:36:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-09-05-writing-courseware-10961-powershell-class/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re in the process of working on a 10961C revision to the Microsoft PowerShell course, and I&amp;rsquo;ve been reviewing the anonymous comments submitted by MCTs and students on 10961A (the &amp;ldquo;B&amp;rdquo; rev, which is what was produced after our beta teach, is just now orderable so we don&amp;rsquo;t have comments yet).&lt;br&gt;
**By the way - if you&amp;rsquo;re a student or MCT who has taken/delivered 10961A, you&amp;rsquo;re welcome to &lt;a href="http://concentratedtech.com/contact"&gt;contact me directly&lt;/a&gt; if you want to share any info on typos you found. Would like to fix those.Â **Microsoft unfortunately didn&amp;rsquo;t bill 10961A as &amp;ldquo;pre-beta,&amp;rdquo; which it was, and I think that may have not properly set some expectations.&lt;br&gt;
Anyway, if you&amp;rsquo;ve ever taken a course and thought anything bad about theÂ &lt;em&gt;courseware&lt;/em&gt; (not necessarily the instructor), take a look at these comment excerpts from this one course:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Regular Expressions are a -replace's best friend</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-29-regular-expressions-are-a-replaces-best-friend/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:31:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-29-regular-expressions-are-a-replaces-best-friend/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Are you familiar with PowerShell&amp;rsquo;s -replace operator?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;quot;John Jones&amp;quot; -replace &amp;quot;Jones&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;Smith&amp;quot; &lt;/code&gt;Most folks are aware of it, and rely on it for straightforward string replacements like this one. But not very many people know that -replace also does some amazing stuff using regular expressions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;quot;192.168.15.12,192.168.22.8&amp;quot; -replace &amp;quot;\.\d{2}\.&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;10&amp;quot; &lt;/code&gt;That&amp;rsquo;d change the input string to &amp;ldquo;192.168.10.12,192.168.10.8,&amp;rdquo; replacing all occurrences of two digits, between periods, to 10. The 12 would be skipped because it isn&amp;rsquo;t followed by a period, as specified in the pattern. Note thatÂ &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; occurrences are replaced, in keeping with the usual operation of -replace.&lt;br&gt;
The operator can also do capturing expressions, and this is where it gets really neat-o.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Great Debate: "Fixing" Output</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-27-powershell-great-debate-fixing-output/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 14:11:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-27-powershell-great-debate-fixing-output/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;When should a script (or more likely, function) output raw data, and when should it &amp;ldquo;massage&amp;rdquo; its output?&lt;br&gt;
The classic example is something like disk space. You&amp;rsquo;re querying WMI, and it&amp;rsquo;s giving you disk space in bytes. Nobody cares about bytes. Should your function output bytes anyway, or output megabytes or gigabytes?&lt;br&gt;
If you output raw data, how would you expect a user to get a more-useful version? Would you expect someone running your command to use Select-Object on their own to do the math, or would you perhaps provide a default formatting view (a la what Get-Process does) that manages the math?&lt;br&gt;
The &amp;ldquo;Microsoft Way&amp;rdquo; is to use a default view - again, it&amp;rsquo;s what Get-Process does. But views are separate files, and they&amp;rsquo;re only really practical (many say) when they&amp;rsquo;re part of a module that can auto-load them.&lt;br&gt;
What do you think?&lt;br&gt;
[boilerplate greatdebate]&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell.org's Azure Journey, Part 4: Incoming Advice and Fun Facts</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-23-powershell-orgs-azure-journey-part-4-incoming-advice-and-fun-facts/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:40:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-23-powershell-orgs-azure-journey-part-4-incoming-advice-and-fun-facts/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Had an opportunity to speak with some folks on the Azure team yesterday - Mark Russinovich was kind enough to make a contact for me.&lt;br&gt;
First of all, fun fact: Azure only charges you forÂ &lt;em&gt;used pages&lt;/em&gt; in VHDs. That is, if you create a 100GB VHD and load 1GB of data on it, you&amp;rsquo;re paying for 1GB of data. Very clever. So it&amp;rsquo;s charging you as if it was a dynamically expanding VHD, but of course it&amp;rsquo;s a fixed VHD with all of the related performance improvements. Nice.&lt;br&gt;
Second, they basically confirmed something I&amp;rsquo;d suspected. Azure&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;website model&amp;rdquo; tends to appeal more to smaller businesses or personal Web sites; most &amp;ldquo;serious&amp;rdquo; players (my word) are using the IaaS model, meaning they&amp;rsquo;re hosting VMs in the cloud, not just hosting a Web site. Having a full VM under your control obviously has advantages in terms of management, along with the ability to run things like in-memory caching software, load additional Web extensions, and so on. IaaS is absolutely the right model for PowerShell.org for many of those reasons.&lt;br&gt;
That said, they also confirmed that the Web site model and the IaaS model cost about the same, at least as you get started. So it&amp;rsquo;s really - for a smaller Web site - a matter of what you want to do. Again, there are specifics about the IaaS model that work well for us, so that&amp;rsquo;s what we&amp;rsquo;re looking to do.&lt;br&gt;
Azure also costs about the same, in an apples-to-apples comparison, as Amazon Web Services. That&amp;rsquo;s probably somewhat deliberate on Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s part, but Azure has advantages. For one, their virtualization layer has been approved by the various Microsoft product teams, so if you&amp;rsquo;re running SharePoint or SQL Server in an Azure VM, the team will support you. Not the case with AWS. Also, I frankly found Azure&amp;rsquo;s presentation of the costs easier to grok.&lt;br&gt;
Fifth (I love numbered lists, sorry), I confirmed that the IaaS option charges you for (a) the VM&amp;rsquo;s you&amp;rsquo;re running, by the minute; (b) the storage used by all VM VHDs&amp;rsquo; used pages, and (c) outbound bandwidth. This can potentially make IaaS more expensive than the &amp;ldquo;website&amp;rdquo; model because Azure won&amp;rsquo;t spin down an IaaS VM, so you run 24x7 unless you&amp;rsquo;re manually deallocating. With a website, Azure only spins up worker processes when they&amp;rsquo;re needed, so your site isn&amp;rsquo;t &amp;ldquo;running&amp;rdquo; 24x7, so you might pay less if it&amp;rsquo;s not being &amp;ldquo;hit&amp;rdquo; 24x7. Again, though, the website model offers us less control and flexibility.&lt;br&gt;
Just thought you&amp;rsquo;d enjoy some of those details!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell.org's Azure Journey, Part 3: Load Testing [UPDATED]</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-21-powershell-orgs-azure-journey-part-3-load-testing/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:43:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-21-powershell-orgs-azure-journey-part-3-load-testing/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;So, I&amp;rsquo;ve gotten a two-VM version of PowerShell.org running in Azure. Yay, me! My *nix skills are unaccountably rusty (go fig), but it didn&amp;rsquo;t take too long. Restoring the WordPress installation was the toughest, as a number of settings had to be tweaked since the site is no longer under the same URL (the Â test site that is).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="baseline"&gt;Baseline&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I ran a load test against the existing production site yesterday; you can view the results atÂ &lt;a href="http://loadimpact.com/load-test/powershell.org-1aa960e59c5972af12898b745de9ec49"&gt;http://loadimpact.com/load-test/powershell.org-1aa960e59c5972af12898b745de9ec49&lt;/a&gt;. This simulated a 50-person concurrent load from three US locations and on UK location, which approximates our real-world traffic. The results are what they are; we&amp;rsquo;re looking for the delta between these and the Azure-based system. In this test, the green line is the number of concurrent connections, and the blue is the time it took each page to load. The test ran for 10 minutes total, with each simulated user hitting three different pages on the site (home page, a forums topic, and a blog post).&lt;br&gt;
A key fact is that the site currently runs under a shared hosting plan; I don&amp;rsquo;t have any details on how much RAM, how much CPU, or what kind of bandwidth exists for the site. It&amp;rsquo;s also important to note that the production Web site uses a Content Delivery Network, or CDN, which offloads a good amount of traffic from the site proper. Because that costs, we didn&amp;rsquo;t implement a CDN for the test site. I&amp;rsquo;d therefore expect it to be somewhat slower.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>So your company doesn't want to enable PowerShell Remoting?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-20-so-your-company-doesnt-want-to-enable-powershell-remoting/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:37:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-20-so-your-company-doesnt-want-to-enable-powershell-remoting/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;But I bet they&amp;rsquo;re okay with Remote Desktop Protocol, right? And all those Remote Procedure Calls?&lt;br&gt;
And I bet they never even thought about whyÂ &lt;em&gt;every *nix&lt;/em&gt; _system, ever,Â _has SSH enabled by default? But practically nothing else (by default)?&lt;br&gt;
Hmm.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Great Debate: What's Write-Verbose For?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-20-powershell-great-debate-whats-write-verbose-for/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2013 18:07:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-20-powershell-great-debate-whats-write-verbose-for/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This was a fascinating thing to see throughout The Scripting Games this year:Â _When exactly should you use Write-Verbose, and why?Â _The same question applies to Write-Debug.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;I use Write-Debug to provide developer-level comments in my scripts, since I can turn it on with -Debug to see variable contents.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&amp;ldquo;I use Write-VerboseÂ to provide developer-level comments in my scripts, since I can turn it on with -Debug to see variable contents.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See what I mean? Some folks will suggest that Verbose is for &amp;ldquo;user-friendly status messages;&amp;rdquo; others eschew Debug entirely and prefer PSBreakpoints for that functionality.&lt;br&gt;
What guidance wouldÂ &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; offer for using Write-Verbose and Write-Debug in a script?&lt;br&gt;
[boilerplate greatdebate]&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell.org's Azure Journey: Part 2</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-19-powershell-orgs-azure-journey-part-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2013 01:10:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-19-powershell-orgs-azure-journey-part-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I had no idea Azure gives MSDN subscribers a huge free monthly credit - $200 for the first month, and then on the Ultimate subscription level (which is what I get as an MVP) you get Â $175 per month thereafter. That starts to really justify the MSDN pricing. You want a lab in the cloud? Free Azure!&lt;br&gt;
Given the free-ness of it, I decided to set up a PowerShell.org in the sky to see how it went. Configuring dual CentOS VMs was a bit of an all-day affair; I have less experience with RHEL (which is what CentOS is based on) and it took me a while to figure out that the built-in firewall was causing all my grief. Fixed now.&lt;br&gt;
Microsoft publishes some pretty good guides for getting a LAMP stack running on CentOS in Azure. Not great guides, but good. They lack a decent guide on getting Passive FTP working - and it&amp;rsquo;s a PITA because Azure only lets you configure incoming ports on a one-at-a-time basis (not ranges), and you can only have 25. So that&amp;rsquo;s kind of a pain. But I got it working, got MySQL installed and working, and I&amp;rsquo;m presently waiting on VaultPress to smush up our latest site backup and spew it onto the Azure server. Remember: you don&amp;rsquo;t pay for bandwidth goingÂ &lt;em&gt;into&lt;/em&gt; Azure, so I can load the backup in as many times as I want without incurring bandwidth.&lt;br&gt;
This VaultPress thing is neat, if it works. It continually pulls changes from our WordPress installation and backs them up, timestamped, a la Apple Time Machine. Allegedly, if you give them the FTP info on you new server, and you have a base WordPress install working on the new server, they can &amp;ldquo;push&amp;rdquo; your whole site down to the new server. Given my fits and starts with FTP on CentOS today, we&amp;rsquo;ll see how well it works, but I&amp;rsquo;m optimistic. Dunno. It&amp;rsquo;s been saying &amp;ldquo;Testing Connection&amp;rdquo; for a long time now. Sigh.&lt;br&gt;
Anyway, I&amp;rsquo;m starting both VMs in extra-small instances. Part of what I want to play with is whether or not I can upgrade those to bigger instances without breaking the universe. Depends on how CentOS behaves when it suddenly finds itself running on &amp;ldquo;new hardware.&amp;rdquo; We shall see! If it works, then it&amp;rsquo;ll truly be killer in terms of scaling. I also want to see if we get more &amp;ldquo;juice&amp;rdquo; running two load-balanced extra-small instances vs. a small instance (which is technically twice as big as an extra-small). Common logic suggests that more, smaller servers is better - a la every web farm, ever. But it&amp;rsquo;ll be fun to test.&lt;br&gt;
**Question:**Â anyone have any Web site load-testing software they&amp;rsquo;re fond of? Mac or Windows is fine, or even both. I&amp;rsquo;ll enlist some folks to help with that, since I know my DSL line&amp;rsquo;s upstream side will chokepoint long before the Azure server does. Ooo, maybe we can have a PowerShell.org botnet that I could control&amp;hellip; bwaa haa haa!&lt;br&gt;
Meantime, Eric Courville, our new volunteer Webmaster, is setting up a similar Azure-based VM set with his own MSDN subscription. In addition to documenting the setup process, we&amp;rsquo;re going to try and do some load-testing and see what kind of instances we need to run in to get solid performance out of the site. PowerShell.org currently peaks at fewer than 50-60 concurrent connections (and even that day was a rare peak), so we&amp;rsquo;ll load test to that number.&lt;br&gt;
Stay tuned!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell.org's Azure Journey, Part 1</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-19-powershell-orgs-azure-journey-part-1/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:19:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-19-powershell-orgs-azure-journey-part-1/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;When we started PowerShell.org, my company (Concentrated Tech) donated shared hosting space to get the site up and running. We knew it wouldn&amp;rsquo;t be a permanent solution, but it let us start out for free. We&amp;rsquo;re coming to the point where a move to dedicated hosting will be desirable, and we&amp;rsquo;re looking at the options. Azure and Amazon Web Services are priced roughly the same for what we need, so as a Microsoft-centric community Azure&amp;rsquo;s obviously the way to go.&lt;br&gt;
Azure Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich is having someone on his team connect with me to discuss some of the models in which we could use Azure. What makes the discussion interesting is that PowerShell.org runs on a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) stack. We&amp;rsquo;re not looking to change that; WordPress requires PHP, and the Windows builds of PHP typically lack some of the key PHP extensions we use. I&amp;rsquo;m not interested in compiling my own PHP build, either - I want off-the-shelf. WordPress more or less requires MySQL; while there&amp;rsquo;s a SQL Server adapter available, it can&amp;rsquo;t handle plugins that don&amp;rsquo;t use WordPress&amp;rsquo; database abstraction layer, and I just don&amp;rsquo;t want to take the chance of needing such a plugin at some point and not being able to use it.&lt;br&gt;
What&amp;rsquo;s neat about Azure is that it doesn&amp;rsquo;t care. I adore Microsoft for selling a service and not caring what I do with it. Azure runs LinuxÂ _just fine.Â _Huzzah!&lt;br&gt;
So, we&amp;rsquo;ve got two basic models that could work for us. Model 1 is to just buy virtual machines in Azure. We&amp;rsquo;re planning one for the database and another for the Web site itself, so that we can scale-out the Web end if we want to in the future. We&amp;rsquo;re not going to do an availability set; that means we risk some short downtime if Azure experiences hardware problems and needs to move our VM, but we&amp;rsquo;re fine with that because right now we can&amp;rsquo;t afford better availability. We&amp;rsquo;d probably build CentOS machines using Azure&amp;rsquo;s provided base image (again,Â &lt;em&gt;adore&lt;/em&gt; Microsoft for making this easy for Linux hosting and not just Windows). We know we tend to top out at 250GB of bandwidth a month, and that we need about 1GB of disk space for the Web site. 500MB of space for the database will last us a long time, but we&amp;rsquo;d probably get 1GB for that, too. It&amp;rsquo;s only like $3 a month. We could probably start with Small VM instances and upgrade later if needed. All-in, we&amp;rsquo;re probably looking at about $125/mo, less any prepay discounts.&lt;br&gt;
Model 2 is to just run aÂ _Website.Â _We still get to pick the kind of instance that hosts our site, so if we went with Small and a single instance, we&amp;rsquo;d be at about $110 including bandwidth and storage. That doesn&amp;rsquo;t include MySQL, though. Interestingly, Microsoft doesn&amp;rsquo;t host MySQL themselves as they do with SQL Azure. Instead, they outsource to ClearDB.com, which provides an Azure-like service for hosted MySQL. Unfortunately, the Azure price calculator doesn&amp;rsquo;t cover the resold ClearDB service. Looking at ClearDB&amp;rsquo;s own pricing, it&amp;rsquo;d probably push us to about $120-$125 a month - or about the same as having our own virtual machines. The difference is that, with Model 2, Microsoft can float our Web site to whatever virtual hosts they need to at the time to balance performance; with Model 1, they can potentially move our entire VM - although they&amp;rsquo;re unlikely to do so routinely, since it&amp;rsquo;d involve taking us offline for a brief period. A super-neat part of this model is its integration with Git: I can run a local test version of the site, and as I make changes and commit them to our GitHub repository, Azure can execute a pull and get the latest version of the site code right from Git. Awesome and automated. I love automated.&lt;br&gt;
An appeal of Model 1 is that I can build out the proposed CentOS environment on my own Hyper-V server, hit it with some test traffic loads, and size the machine appropriately. I can then deploy the VHDs right to Azure, knowing that the instance size I picked will be suitable for the traffic we need to handle. It also give me an opportunity to validate the fact that a dedicated VM will be faster than our current shared hosting system, and to play around with the more advanced caching and optimization options available on a dedicated VM. I can get everything dialed in perfectly, and then deploy.&lt;br&gt;
Azure has other usage models, but these are the two applicable to us. I think it&amp;rsquo;s great that we get these options, and that the pricing is more or less the same regardless. And again, I think it&amp;rsquo;s pure genius that Azure&amp;rsquo;s in the business ofÂ &lt;em&gt;making money&lt;/em&gt; for Microsoft, and that they&amp;rsquo;re happy to do so running whatever OS I want them to.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;ll continue this series of posts as we move through the process, just for the benefit of anyone who&amp;rsquo;s interested in seeing Azure-ification from start to finish. Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Two PowerShell Books 50% off TODAY ONLY</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-16-two-powershell-books-50-off-today-only/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 17:59:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-16-two-powershell-books-50-off-today-only/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;_PowerShell in Depth_Â andÂ _Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches_Â are on half-price August 25th, 2013.&lt;br&gt;
Use code dotd0825au atÂ &lt;a href="http://www.manning.com/jones2/"&gt;www.manning.com/jones2/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
or&lt;br&gt;
Use code dotd0825au atÂ &lt;a href="http://www.manning.com/jones3/"&gt;www.manning.com/jones3/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Tell a friend who needs to start learning PowerShell - two great books at 50% off. All print books come with a voucher for free ebook versions (MOBI, EPUB, PDF), and the ebook-only version is also 50% off.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Site Maintenance this Weekend (Aug 17-18 2013)</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-16-site-maintenance-this-weekend-aug-17-18-2013/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:54:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-16-site-maintenance-this-weekend-aug-17-18-2013/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This weekend, we&amp;rsquo;ll be conducting maintenance on PowerShell.org. We have several goals:&lt;br&gt;
**New visual theme.Â **We&amp;rsquo;ll be installing a new visual theme. While we hope to catch everything, you may run across something goofy-looking. Please use the Community Discussion forum to report that, so we can ask the designers to take a look.&lt;br&gt;
**Performance.Â &lt;strong&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re going to continue to work on performance, with a goal of getting specified pages to have an &amp;ldquo;A&amp;rdquo; on the Page Test and YSlow tests. That&amp;rsquo;s not the entirety of performance, but it&amp;rsquo;s what we can address now without moving to a different hosting environment (which is planned). During this phase of our maintenance, the site may not function correctly, or certain features may come and go as we test different configurations.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Cleanup&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.Â **We&amp;rsquo;ll be condensing certain features of the site, rearranging menus, and so on, to provide a better visual experience across a wider variety of devices.&lt;br&gt;
We appreciate your patience!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>New PowerShell.org Visual Design Draft, Pt 2</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-15-new-powershell-org-visual-design-draft-pt-2/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 17:09:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-15-new-powershell-org-visual-design-draft-pt-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Spoke too soon in the morning&amp;rsquo;s updates; my designer buddies worked last night and took their first stab at the forums pages. They also changed their mind about the big black boxes, which I appreciate ;). The forums material is denser now, meaning more info per page, which should please some folks.&lt;br&gt;
Samples below - and comments welcome. Just keep in mind these folks aren&amp;rsquo;t being paid, so be nice ;).&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/new-forum-list.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/new-forum-list-150x150.png" alt="new-forum-list"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/new-single-topic.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/new-single-topic-150x150.png" alt="new-single-topic"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/new-topic-list.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/new-topic-list-150x150.png" alt="new-topic-list"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/new-article.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/new-article-150x150.png" alt="new-article"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/new-article-comments.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/new-article-comments-150x150.png" alt="new-article-comments"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/new-front.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/new-front-150x150.png" alt="new-front"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>State of the Org: Website, Games, Summit, and More</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-15-state-of-the-org-website-games-summit-and-more/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:39:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-15-state-of-the-org-website-games-summit-and-more/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I wanted to share a quick update on PowerShell.org, Inc.&lt;br&gt;
First, a couple of Web designer friends of mine have volunteered to do a visual re-theme of the site. Below is some of their early work, and you&amp;rsquo;re welcome to comment; I&amp;rsquo;ll just remind you that they&amp;rsquo;reÂ &lt;em&gt;volunteers&lt;/em&gt; and doing thisÂ _as a favor.Â _So be nice! You&amp;rsquo;ll notice that one of these reflects the layout a smartphone would use, which trims much of the &amp;ldquo;chrome&amp;rdquo; in favor of the content. They haven&amp;rsquo;t tackled the forums yet - that&amp;rsquo;s harder, and will probably come last.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/3-001.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/3-001-150x150.png" alt="3-001"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/3-002.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/3-002-150x150.png" alt="3-002"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/3-003.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/3-003-150x150.png" alt="3-003"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 238 – PowerScripting Podcast – Glenn Block &amp; Jim Christopher on scriptcs</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-08-14-episode-238-powerscripting-podcast-glenn-block-jim-christopher-on-scriptcs/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 02:31:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-08-14-episode-238-powerscripting-podcast-glenn-block-jim-christopher-on-scriptcs/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-238.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Glenn Block &amp;amp; Jim Christopher about scriptcs&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; No podcast next week
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; MVAÂ [Advanced Tools &amp;amp; Scripts with PowerShell 3.0 Jump Start](http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/advanced-tools-scripting-with-powershell-3-0-jump-start#fbid=XvTVyxieoRZ)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; MVPÂ [Adam Driscoll is working a new project](http://csharpening.net/?p=1673)Â called PoshTools
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The Florida PowerShell user group isÂ [meeting August 20th](https://powershell.org/event/florida-powershell-user-group-monthly-meeting-august-2013/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [PowerShell Saturday #005 - Atlanta announced for Oct 26th](http://powershellsaturday.com/005/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guests - Glenn Block &amp;amp; Jim Christopher&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Great Debate: Can You Have Too Much Help?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-13-powershell-great-debate-can-you-have-too-much-help/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2013 14:44:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-13-powershell-great-debate-can-you-have-too-much-help/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In The Scripting Games this year, more than a few folks took the time to write detailed comment-based help. Awesome. No debating it - comment-based helpÂ _is a good thing.Â _&lt;br&gt;
But some folks felt that others took it too far. There were definitely scripts where the authors used, for example, the .NOTES section to explain their thinking and approach. Some commenters felt it was excessive, while others have pointed out, &amp;ldquo;wow, what if every programmer gave us some idea what the heck he/she was thinking at the time?&amp;rdquo; Some felt these extensive comments were just at attempt to get a better score by &amp;ldquo;convincing&amp;rdquo; the reviewer of an approach or tactic; others felt, &amp;ldquo;so what?&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;
So let&amp;rsquo;s leave the Games out of this debate - in aÂ &lt;em&gt;production&lt;/em&gt; environment, where do you come down on extensive notes in a script? When is it not enough, and when is it going too far? Where&amp;rsquo;s the value, and where&amp;rsquo;s the annoyance?&lt;br&gt;
[boilerplate greatdebate]&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 08/01/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-12-phillyposh-08012013-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2013 04:11:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-12-phillyposh-08012013-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</guid><description>&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://mellositmusings.com/"&gt;John Mello&lt;/a&gt; gave a presentation on Tips and Tricks learned from the 2013 Scripting Games, a copy of his presentation and scripts can be obtained &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/PhillyPosh_2013-08-01_ScriptingGamesTipsandTricksLearned.zip"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Various group members contributed to a Script and Tell, scripts and participant names are forthcoming.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRS2275zUMk&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be"&gt;recording of the meeting is available&lt;/a&gt; on our &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAc_ow5FIJtRpvew__9Iqzg"&gt;YouTube channel&lt;/a&gt;, please note that the recording ends about 5 minutes before our meeting was done.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;</description></item><item><title>Need Desired State Configuration Modules?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-12-need-desired-state-configuration-modules/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 23:59:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-12-need-desired-state-configuration-modules/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;You&amp;rsquo;ve probably been hearing about Desired State Configuration from a number of sources (&lt;a href="http://runasradio.com/default.aspx?showNum=328"&gt;Runas Radio&lt;/a&gt;,Â the &lt;a href="http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/episode-236-powerscripting-podcast-mvp-don-jones-on-powershell-desired-state-configuration/"&gt;PowerScripting Podcast&lt;/a&gt;, or the &lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2013/MDC-B302#fbid=FsVi_S7Re5G"&gt;Channel 9 TechEd video&lt;/a&gt; for example). Â If you haven&amp;rsquo;t go check out those previously mentioned resources, I&amp;rsquo;ll wait&amp;hellip;&lt;br&gt;
Ok, now that you have a basic understanding of what Desired State Configuration (DSC) is, I have an announcement.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="powershellorg-is-building-a-repository-of-dsc-modules-for-the-community-to-use-and-contribute-to"&gt;PowerShell.Org is building a &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/13fDxns"&gt;repository of DSC modules &lt;/a&gt;for the community to use and contribute to.&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As I&amp;rsquo;ve started working with Desired State Configuration, I began building up a repository of modules I would use in configuring my systems. Â I started to round them out with some basic documentation and decent logging messages and began pushing them to GitHub.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;ve also seen several others starting to post some DSC modules on Github and elsewhere. Â Since we are very early in the Desired State Configuration lifecycle (it&amp;rsquo;s still not RTM yet), I would like our community to come together on a central location for our community contributions. Â I reached out to Don and the PowerShell.Org team and they graciously offered to host the contributions on the PowerShell.Org GitHub repository. Â What that means is that this effort is no longer under the control of one person (me), but owned by the community, by PowerShell.Org.&lt;br&gt;
There&amp;rsquo;s not much in the repository yet, so if you&amp;rsquo;ve been experimenting with DSC and would like to share your efforts with the community, feel free to send a pull request (if you&amp;rsquo;re into the whole GitHub thing) or file an issue on the GitHub site and we&amp;rsquo;ll figure something out.&lt;br&gt;
There is some basic &lt;a href="https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/DSC#powershell-community-dsc-modules"&gt;&amp;ldquo;Getting Started With Developing DSC Modules&amp;rdquo; information at the GitHub repository&lt;/a&gt; as well.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Coming Soon: 55039 "PowerShell Scripting and Toolmaking" Course</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-12-coming-soon-55039-powershell-scripting-and-toolmaking-course/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:23:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-12-coming-soon-55039-powershell-scripting-and-toolmaking-course/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Later this month, Jason Helmick will be offering a revised &amp;ldquo;PowerShell Scripting and Toolmaking&amp;rdquo; course at &lt;a href="http://interfacett.com"&gt;Interface Technical Training&lt;/a&gt; in Phoenix. This new course carries the Microsoft Courseware Marketplace number 55039 - that&amp;rsquo;s right, this is an official, unofficial course that will be available to all Microsoft training partners!&lt;br&gt;
(Courseware Marketplace offerings are not written or endorsed by Microsoft, but they are equivalent to Official Curriculum in many ways, including being eligible for Software Assurance voucher programs. Marketplace offerings supplement Official offerings by providing courses that Microsoft doesn&amp;rsquo;t have the time or resources to generate themselves.)&lt;br&gt;
This course is basedÂ &lt;em&gt;directly&lt;/em&gt; onÂ &lt;em&gt;Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches&lt;/em&gt;, and incorporates much of that book&amp;rsquo;s actual text (in fact, a portion of the course&amp;rsquo;s sale price goes to the book publisher, with a portion of &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; going to the book authors as royalties). That&amp;rsquo;s combined with a full slide deck, some awesome brand-new labs, lab answer key, &amp;ldquo;starting points&amp;rdquo; (for lab students who fall behind), and a complete inventory of demo scripts for the instructor to use. It walks through a quick PowerShell review, and moves all the way through creating modules, advanced functions, custom views, and much more. It&amp;rsquo;s a pretty handy course, and even dives into creating &amp;ldquo;controller&amp;rdquo; scripts, such as scripts that automate processes or generate HTML reports. We provide a complete 3-VM build guide, and a simple ISO image containing all of the instructor and student files. Students are even welcome to download that ISO themselves for later reference! That URL will be provided in the student manual.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;m especially proud of the labs, and thankful to Mike Robbins and Jason Helmick for debugging them for me. Through the main part of the course, students haveÂ &lt;em&gt;three&lt;/em&gt; lab tracks (A, B, and C) to choose from - and overachievers can work on more than one track. Through each module, the labs gradually build from a basic command to a complete, fleshed-out &amp;ldquo;script cmdlet&amp;rdquo; packaged in a module, with a custom view and more. It&amp;rsquo;s extremely realistic, and it means much of the classroom time is spent on hands-on labs, where students will get the most value for their money.&lt;br&gt;
This course is designed to complement Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s official 10961 course, which covers substantially the same material asÂ &lt;em&gt;Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches&lt;/em&gt;, meaning 55039 is kind of a &amp;ldquo;sequel&amp;rdquo; course. Training centers are welcome to offer a 5-day accelerated class that combines both courses; that&amp;rsquo;s pretty much the class I teach myself. I don&amp;rsquo;t personally categorize 55039 as &amp;ldquo;advanced;&amp;rdquo; rather, it&amp;rsquo;s more of a specific application of PowerShell - building reusable tools. I do offer an &lt;a href="http://itpro.concentratedtech.com/training"&gt;advanced course of my own&lt;/a&gt;, and there&amp;rsquo;s a chance for that to become a packaged course in the future.&lt;br&gt;
After the beta is complete, the course will be orderable in the Marketplace with a suggested price of $150 per student. It&amp;rsquo;s a full 5-day course, withÂ &lt;em&gt;multiple&lt;/em&gt; lab tracks per module, so I felt that was a pretty fair price, especially since students basically get theÂ &lt;em&gt;Toolmaking&lt;/em&gt; book &amp;ldquo;included&amp;rdquo; in their manual!&lt;br&gt;
If any other trainers would like to know more about the course, they&amp;rsquo;re welcome to &lt;a href="http://concentratedtech.com/contact"&gt;contact me&lt;/a&gt;. We will be selling it directly as well, for trainers who can&amp;rsquo;t access the Marketplace.&lt;br&gt;
Download the table of contents:Â &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/55039-TOC.pdf"&gt;55039-TOC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>My PowerShell Workflow Series on TechNet Magazine</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-12-my-powershell-workflow-series-on-technet-magazine/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 13:51:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-12-my-powershell-workflow-series-on-technet-magazine/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As most folks are aware, I&amp;rsquo;ve been writing theÂ &lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff628337.aspx?sdmr=windowspowershell&amp;amp;sdmi=columns"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Windows PowerShell&lt;/em&gt; column&lt;/a&gt; for Microsoft&amp;rsquo;sÂ _TechNet MagazineÂ _for&amp;hellip; wow, going on 7 years now. For 2013, I was doing a serialized column on PowerShell Workflow, introducing a bit of the technology at a time in each month&amp;rsquo;s article. Eagle-eyed observers will note that the series has &amp;ldquo;paused,&amp;rdquo; with no new articles in July or August.&lt;br&gt;
First, I&amp;rsquo;m sorry for the interruption. Unfortunately, right now Microsoft is re-evaluating and re-positioning TechNet Magazine (perhaps in line with a larger re-considering of the TechNet brand, where they recently discontinued the subscription product), and for the time being the company is sticking with internally generated content for TechNet Magazine. I&amp;rsquo;m hopeful the company will come to a decision soon, and I&amp;rsquo;ll try and keep you posted here.&lt;br&gt;
My past columns (all 77 of them) are still online and accessible, along with hundreds of other articles stretching back almost 8 years.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A Quick #PowerShell #PSHSummit Update (Europe &amp; NA)</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-08-a-quick-powershell-pshsummit-update-europe-na/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2013 20:44:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-08-a-quick-powershell-pshsummit-update-europe-na/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PowerShell Summit North America 2014&lt;/strong&gt;, April 28-30 (special precon on April 27) is open for registration to our 2013 alumni, shareholders, and to TechLetter subscribers. The alumni block will be released on August 15, and the subscriber block on September 15th; shortly after, sales will be open to the public. If you&amp;rsquo;re a shareholder, alumni, or subscriber, and you didn&amp;rsquo;t get your registration in e-mail, drop me a line (use the Contact link in the Site Info menu). Please only contact me if you&amp;rsquo;re anxious to register right now, so I don&amp;rsquo;t get swamped.&lt;br&gt;
North America will be in Bellevue, WA, adjacent to Microsoft offices up there; we will
investigate
a move East for the 2015 show, just to perhaps spread the love a bit. We know SEA isn&amp;rsquo;t the cheapest travel destination.&lt;br&gt;
North America&amp;rsquo;s &lt;strong&gt;call for topics&lt;/strong&gt; should start fairly soon, and that information will be posted here, along with information on how to submit prospective sessions. I won&amp;rsquo;t be taking the lead on that process, but some of my fellow Board members will be, so watch for their posts.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;PowerShell Summit Europe 2014&lt;/strong&gt; is being tentatively scheduled for September or October 2014. Our city shortlist includes Munich, Milan, and Amsterdam; we&amp;rsquo;re too far out at this point to make inquiries with prospective venues (they usually work only 8-12 months out), but we&amp;rsquo;ve assembled a list to contact over the next couple of months. Venue pricing and availability (and suitability) will be a significant set of factors in the final city selection, and we&amp;rsquo;ll post details right here.&lt;br&gt;
You&amp;rsquo;ll notice a &amp;ldquo;PowerShell Summit&amp;rdquo; post category here on PowerShell.org; that&amp;rsquo;s your one and official source for news and info, with our Summit Page being your one and official source for more static information on both events. You can follow &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/pshsummit"&gt;@PSHSummit&lt;/a&gt; on Twitter, which will be a good way to receive notifications of new posts here, but which will not contain any information not available on this site. We also try to hashtag #PSHSummit on Twitter, if you&amp;rsquo;d like to watch out for that.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 237 – PowerScripting Podcast – Shannon Bray on SharePoint Architecture</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-08-06-episode-237-powerscripting-podcast-shannon-bray-on-sharepoint-architecture/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2013 23:04:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-08-06-episode-237-powerscripting-podcast-shannon-bray-on-sharepoint-architecture/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-237.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Â Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Shannon Bray about SharePoint Architecture
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 The Atlanta PowerShell User Group isÂ [meeting on August 13th](https://powershell.org/event/building-tools-take-your-powershell-scripts-to-the-next-level/).





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 The Mississippi PowerShell User Group isÂ [meeting on August 13th](http://mspsug.com/2013/08/06/powershell-mvp-jeff-wouters-speaking-for-mspsug-on-tuesday-august-13th-at-830pm-cdt/).





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 [PowerShell Saturday #005 - Atlanta announced for Oct 26th](http://powershellsaturday.com/005/)
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 [@noidentity29](https://twitter.com/noidentity29)
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 [DSC in depth article form Darren Mar-Elia](http://sdmsoftware.com/group-policy-blog/desired-state-configuration/an-in-depth-walkthrough-of-desired-state-configuration-in-powershell-windows-management-framework-v4/)





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 Follow up titled &amp;quot;[GPO vs DSC vs...](http://sdmsoftware.com/group-policy-blog/group-policy/group-policy-vs-desired-state-configuration-vs/)&amp;quot;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>Is this list "Everything" in PowerShell?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-06-is-this-list-everything-in-powershell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2013 20:11:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-06-is-this-list-everything-in-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Soooo&amp;hellip;. it&amp;rsquo;s time for me to start looking at updating my various training materials (books, videos, courses, whatnot) for v4.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;m going to, with at least some of these, take an all-versions approach. I&amp;rsquo;ll teach what&amp;rsquo;s in v2, then cover what v3 added, then cover v4, etc. It&amp;rsquo;ll be easier to maintain over the upcoming years.&lt;br&gt;
For right now, I&amp;rsquo;m trying to assemble an organized topic list of &amp;ldquo;everything&amp;rdquo; the shell does. Now, I need to wrap that in an important caveat: I&amp;rsquo;m aiming atÂ &lt;em&gt;admins&lt;/em&gt;. Not developers. I&amp;rsquo;m not saying devs aren&amp;rsquo;t a great audience, but for this project I need to constrain my scope to just the admin audience. I&amp;rsquo;m also focused mainly on what the shell doesÂ _natively,Â _with only a few diversions into external or underlying technologies. Those are fixed caveats for this project - no exceptions.&lt;br&gt;
Right now I&amp;quot;m kind of chunking the list into what I feel can be taught (by me) in 20-30 minutes, or a book chapter, or something like that. This isn&amp;rsquo;t necessarily how the material will be presented - this is just me organizing my thoughts so as to not miss important stuff.&lt;br&gt;
So, given the list below, what do you feel is missing?&lt;br&gt;
(Numbers are major topics; letters are basically my mental notes about what the topic might include that I might otherwise forget; like I said, this isn&amp;rsquo;t meant to be a real book outline - it&amp;rsquo;s just a topic list)&lt;br&gt;
PowerShell Core&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Great Debate: Script or Function?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-06-powershell-great-debate-script-or-function/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:31:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-06-powershell-great-debate-script-or-function/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;One of the most frequent comments in The Scripting Games this year was along the lines of, &amp;ldquo;you should have submitted this as a function, not a script.&amp;rdquo; Of course, the second-most frequent comment was something like, &amp;ldquo;you shouldn&amp;rsquo;t have submitted this as a function.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;
Let&amp;rsquo;s be clear: if an assignment explicitly asks for a function, you should write one. What we&amp;rsquo;re debating are the pros and cons of aÂ &lt;em&gt;single tool&lt;/em&gt; being written one way or another. Read that again:Â _a single tool.Â _If you&amp;rsquo;re writing a library of tools, it&amp;rsquo;s obvious that writing them as functions for inclusion in a single file (like a script module) is beneficial.&lt;br&gt;
Some argue that any tool is potentially going to be included in a function&amp;hellip; so why not write it that way to begin with? Others argue that functions are a smidge harder to test, so why not just write a script?&lt;br&gt;
This is a debate I don&amp;rsquo;t personally have a strong stake in. I mean, we&amp;rsquo;re literally talking about aÂ _single keyword.Â _TakeÂ &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; script, add theÂ &lt;strong&gt;function&lt;/strong&gt; keyword, a function name, and a couple of curly brackets, and you&amp;rsquo;ve got a function. This really shouldn&amp;rsquo;t be a criteria when you&amp;rsquo;re looking at a contest entry&amp;hellip; or even when you&amp;rsquo;re looking at something a colleague offered to you.&lt;br&gt;
Or should it?&lt;br&gt;
[boilerplate greatdebate]&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Great Debate: PowerShell Versions?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-01-powershell-great-debate-powershell-versions/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 14:32:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-08-01-powershell-great-debate-powershell-versions/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Today&amp;rsquo;s Great Debate is a bonus, offered from former team member June Blender. Take it away, June!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Like several of the excellent debates in our Great Debate series, this debate issue arose during in Scripting Games 2013 when different judges used different selection criteria to evaluate entries.&lt;br&gt;
Some judges, like me, wanted to see evidence that the scripter had studied all features of the newest version of the Windows PowerShell language and selected the best approach for their solution. Other judges wanted the solutions to work on as many computers as possible.&lt;br&gt;
Outside of the Scripting Games, this issue is very practical and very important. If you&amp;quot;™re writing a script to work on particular computers in your enterprise, you know which versions of Windows PowerShell are installed and which features you can use. But when you write a shared script or functions for a module, your scripts/functions can run in any environment.&lt;br&gt;
What&amp;quot;™s the version best practice?&lt;br&gt;
I think we can all agree that a #Requires statement should appear in any shared script.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 236 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVP Don Jones on PowerShell Desired State Configuration</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-07-30-episode-236-powerscripting-podcast-mvp-don-jones-on-powershell-desired-state-configuration/</link><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2013 03:31:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-07-30-episode-236-powerscripting-podcast-mvp-don-jones-on-powershell-desired-state-configuration/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-236.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Don Jones about PowerShell Desired State Configuration&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; TheÂ [Getting Started with PowerShell 3.0 Jump Start](http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/getting-started-with-powershell-3-0-jump-start)Â videos are up
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [Advanced Tools &amp;amp; Scripting with PowerShell 3.0](http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/liveevents/Adv-PowerShell-Jump-Start?CR_CC=200226341)Â is August 1st
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; PowerShell sessions, slides and demos from TechEd 2013Â [have been posted](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/07/29/powershell-sessions-slides-and-demos-from-teched-2013.aspx)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; TheÂ [Philadelphia PowerShell group](https://powershell.org/2013/07/14/phillyposh-meeting-20130801/)Â is meeting August 1st
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; TheÂ [Charlotte PowerShell group](https://powershell.org/event/charlotte-powershell-users-group-monthly-meeting-3/2013-08-01/)Â is meeting August 1st
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; TheÂ [Arizona PowerShell group](https://powershell.org/event/arizona-powershell-azposh-user-group-meeting/2013-08-07/)Â is meeting August 7th
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [IndyPoSh is meeting August 7th](https://powershell.org/event/indyposh-the-road-to-azure-for-it-pros-goes-through-powershell/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guests - Don Jones&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Great Debate: The Purity Laws</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-30-powershell-great-debate-the-purity-laws/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:50:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-30-powershell-great-debate-the-purity-laws/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This should be interesting.&lt;br&gt;
During The Scripting Games, I observed (and in some cases made) a great many comments that I&amp;rsquo;m lumping under the name &amp;ldquo;Purity Laws.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;You shouldn&amp;rsquo;t use a command-line utility like Robocopy in a PowerShell script.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You shouldn&amp;rsquo;t use .NET classes in a PowerShell script.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You should map a drive using New-PSDrive, notÂ &lt;strong&gt;net use&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And so on. You see where I&amp;rsquo;m going: there are folks out there who feel as if the only thing that goes into a PowerShell script is Pure PowerShell. Which is odd, because it isn&amp;rsquo;t an approach the product team actually gave much value. They spentÂ &lt;em&gt;extra time&lt;/em&gt; making sure the shell could use .NET, and could run external utilities - why not use them, if they work and get the job done?&lt;br&gt;
A counterargument involves maintenance and readability. External commands, for example, are harder to read, may not be well-documented, and don&amp;rsquo;t work consistently with the rest of PowerShell. .NET classes are hard to discover, and force you into a very &amp;ldquo;programmer-y&amp;rdquo; approach. Some environments might not want the extra overhead - even if it means giving up functionality.&lt;br&gt;
So where do you come down on this debate? I&amp;rsquo;d really love someÂ _detailed recommendations.Â _What&amp;rsquo;s right forÂ &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; environment, and most importantlyÂ _why?Â _Are there any facts or situations that would sway you to the other side of the argument?&lt;br&gt;
Go.&lt;br&gt;
[boilerplate greatdebate]&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Calling all PowerShell Teachers/Trainers</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-29-calling-all-powershell-teacherstrainers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2013 15:02:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-29-calling-all-powershell-teacherstrainers/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m in the process of building a referral list for teachers and trainers who work with Windows PowerShell. My goal is to build a &amp;ldquo;find a trainer&amp;rdquo; page here on PowerShell.org, with the ability for prospective clients to send an inquiry via email. This would be for customers seeking private classes, not for individual students seeking a class.&lt;br&gt;
If you&amp;rsquo;d like to be on the list, please send me an email, or use the &amp;ldquo;Contact&amp;rdquo; page under the &amp;ldquo;Site Info&amp;rdquo; menu here on PowerShell.org. Please provide an email address that referrals can be sent to; you&amp;rsquo;d receive the potential client&amp;rsquo;s contact information directly and would work with them directly - I&amp;rsquo;m not looking to act s middleman or agent, and there are no referral fees. We won&amp;rsquo;t be providing pricing information or anything other than a means of connecting clients and trainers.&lt;br&gt;
You can also provide a link to your Web site, if you have one, preferably a page that describes your PowerShell training offering(s).&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Don Jones talks about PowerShell V4 Desired State Configuration</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-07-24-up-next-don-jones-talks-about-powershell-v4-desired-state-configuration/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2013 01:18:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-07-24-up-next-don-jones-talks-about-powershell-v4-desired-state-configuration/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/6759769a746ca9f0c2339df2a38cb9a8.png" alt="6759769a746ca9f0c2339df2a38cb9a8"&gt;This Thursday July 25, we are having PowerShell MVP,Â &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/author/DonJ/"&gt;Don Jones&lt;/a&gt;, on the show to give us his take on the PowerShell V4 feature Desired State Configuration. This will be a great show, don&amp;rsquo;t miss it!&lt;br&gt;
Some reading material from Don on the topic:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/06/04/microsoft-announces-powershell-v4-dsc/"&gt;Microsoft announces PowerShell v4, DSC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://redmondmag.com/blogs/it-decision-maker/2013/06/desired-state-configuration.aspx"&gt;Powershell 4: Desired State Configuration a Must-Have Feature&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Join us at 9:30PM EST atÂ &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;http://live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Daniel St. Jean from MVP Systems on JAMS batch automation</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-07-24-daniel-st-jean-from-mvp-systems-on-jams-batch-automation/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2013 12:27:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-07-24-daniel-st-jean-from-mvp-systems-on-jams-batch-automation/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-235.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Daniel St. Jean from MVP Systems!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [Advanced Tools &amp;amp; Scripting with PowerShell 3.0](http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/liveevents/Adv-PowerShell-Jump-Start?CR_CC=200226340)
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&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The Bangalore PowerShell User Group isÂ [meeting July 27th](https://powershell.org/event/bangalore-powershell-user-group-psbug-june-meeting-1/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; TheÂ [Philadelphia PowerShell group](https://powershell.org/2013/07/14/phillyposh-meeting-20130801/)Â is meeting August 1st
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; TheÂ [Charlotte PowerShell group](https://powershell.org/event/charlotte-powershell-users-group-monthly-meeting-3/2013-08-01/)Â is meeting August 1st
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
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&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Where should theÂ [PowerShell Summit Europe](https://powershell.org/2013/07/16/powershell-summit-city-selection-criteria/)Â be?
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; PowerShell Summit registration opens this week for alumni and shareholders. TechLetter subscribers get a chance in the middle of August
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; PowerShell.org is planningÂ [TechSession webinars](https://powershell.org/2013/07/23/techsessions-free-powershell-webinars/). Speakers wanted!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guests - Daniel St. Jean&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Great Debate: Credentials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-23-powershell-great-debate-credentials/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:47:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-23-powershell-great-debate-credentials/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Credentials suck.&lt;br&gt;
You obviously don&amp;rsquo;t want to hardcode domain credentials into a script - and PowerShell actually makes it a bit difficult to do so, for good reason. On the other hand, you sometimesÂ _need_Â a script to do something using alternate credentials, and you don&amp;rsquo;t necessarily want the runner of the script to know those credentials.&lt;br&gt;
So how do you deal with it?&lt;br&gt;
Let&amp;rsquo;s be clear: This isÂ &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a wish list. Comments like, &amp;ldquo;I wish PowerShell could do ____&amp;rdquo; aren&amp;rsquo;t valid. WhatÂ &lt;em&gt;do you do using the technology as it exists today&lt;/em&gt;? Do you prompt for a credential and assume the script user will have it? Do you try to hardcode it? Do you set up a constrained endpoint? What?&lt;br&gt;
[boilerplate greatdebate]&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>TechSessions: Free PowerShell Webinars</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-23-techsessions-free-powershell-webinars/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:05:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-23-techsessions-free-powershell-webinars/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;PowerShell.org is going to be launching TechSessions this Fall. These will be ~1 hour online webinars, which you&amp;rsquo;re welcome to attend live. We&amp;rsquo;ll also record them and make the recordings available.&lt;br&gt;
In most cases you will need toÂ &lt;em&gt;register&lt;/em&gt; for each one, so that we can send the appropriate invite information. Our sponsors are working with us on these, so each one might be in a different webinar platform (Lync, Webex, etc) depending on who is providing the infrastructure that month.&lt;br&gt;
In all cases, we&amp;rsquo;ll announce the TechSession in our &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp/newsletter"&gt;TechLetter Newsletter&lt;/a&gt;, via banners on this site, and in a blog post. You&amp;rsquo;ll notice a new &amp;ldquo;TechSessions&amp;rdquo; post category for those announcements.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;ll be soliciting presenters, and the goal is just to provide you with varied technical content around PowerShell. If you&amp;rsquo;d like to BE a presenter, hit the Contact link in the Site Info menu (above) and let me know! Attending live will obviously give you a Q&amp;amp;A opportunity as well.&lt;br&gt;
Be on the lookout! I&amp;rsquo;m hoping to kick off in September or October. If there are specific topics you&amp;rsquo;d like to see, drop a comment below and let me know. I&amp;rsquo;m sure potential presenters would love some suggestions, and I know I would.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 234 "“ PowerScripting Podcast "“ Summer 2013 Windows PowerShell Scripting Games Recap</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-07-23-episode-234-powerscripting-podcast-summer-2013-windows-powershell-scripting-games-recap/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:13:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-07-23-episode-234-powerscripting-podcast-summer-2013-windows-powershell-scripting-games-recap/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-234.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Rob Campbell, Mike Robbins, Ed Wilson!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Ed Wilson&amp;quot;™sÂ [Windows PowerShell 3.0 First Steps](http://www.amazon.com/Windows-PowerShell-3-0-First-Steps/dp/0735681007/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1374025116&amp;amp;sr=8-2&amp;amp;keywords=ed+wilson+first+steps)Â book is out!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [German PowerShell User Group](http://www.powershell-ag.de/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [PowerShell Saturday 01Â ](http://powershellgroup.org/2013-07-20)Singapore is July 20th!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; TheÂ [Philadelphia PowerShell group](https://powershell.org/2013/07/14/phillyposh-meeting-20130801/)Â is meeting August 1st
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guests &amp;ldquo;“ Rob Campbell, Mike Robbins, Ed Wilson&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 232 – PowerScripting Podcast – Thomas Kisner on Lync and PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-07-23-episode-232-powerscripting-podcast-thomas-kisner-on-lync-and-powershell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:07:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-07-23-episode-232-powerscripting-podcast-thomas-kisner-on-lync-and-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-232.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Tom Kisner about Lync!
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 [The Windows Management Framework 4.0 preview is available!](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/07/02/windows-management-framework-4-0-preview-now-available.aspx)





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 [Learn PowerShell July 18th](https://powershell.org/2013/06/27/a-special-presentation-on-getting-started-with-powershell/)Â with Jeffrey Snover and Jason Helmick!





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 The Charlotte PowerShell user group isÂ [meeting July 11th](http://powershellgroup.org/2013-07-11)





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 [PowerShell Saturday Singapore 01](http://powershellgroup.org/2013-07-20)Â is July 20th!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Interview





Guests &amp;quot;“ Tom Kisner
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 [Tom&amp;quot;™s Blog](http://thelync.net/)





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 [https://twitter.com/twkisner](https://twitter.com/twkisner)





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 [http://dfwucug.org](http://dfwucug.org/)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Chatroom Buzz





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 Been a WHILE since I was able to make one of theseÂ ![:)](http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif?m=1129645325g)Â Â Good to be back.
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 Superhero/Power &amp;quot;“ Â Super Strength
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit City Selection Criteria</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-16-powershell-summit-city-selection-criteria/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:40:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-16-powershell-summit-city-selection-criteria/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As you may know, we&amp;rsquo;re in the process of putting together a PowerShell Summit Europe for Fall 2014. It&amp;rsquo;s a big task, with a lot of financial risks, so we try to get it right. Folks have been helpful on Twitter in offering city selection ideas&amp;hellip; but there&amp;rsquo;s a bit more involved than just tossing out a city name. With that, here is the selection criteria!&lt;br&gt;
Given the information below&amp;hellip; AND the fact that Germany/UK/Netherlands (in that order) have been getting the overwhelming majority of &amp;ldquo;in what cities would you attend the Summit&amp;rdquo; votes&amp;hellip; what cities would YOU recommend we consider?&lt;br&gt;
(BTW, this is TOTALLY a chance to &amp;ldquo;sell&amp;rdquo; your suggestion - so do so! The criteria below are what&amp;rsquo;s really important to us, so help us understand how a given city helps meet all of that criteria! And, if you&amp;rsquo;re willing to help be our local &amp;lsquo;person on the scene&amp;rsquo; to help organize, mention that also!)&lt;br&gt;
-&amp;ndash;&lt;br&gt;
City Selection Criteria for PowerShell Summits&lt;br&gt;
This guide is intended to provide a framework for selecting an appropriate city and venue for a PowerShell Summit.&lt;br&gt;
Understand that a PowerShell Summit is meant to be a continent-level event, meaning the attendance of international speakers and attendees is a given. A PowerShell Summit is conducted primarily, if not entirely, in English, that being the &amp;ldquo;de facto&amp;rdquo; language of the technology industry, and the most-common language spoken by expert presenters in the field. A PowerShell Summit is open to everyone, and is not intended to fill the need for regional, culture- or language-specific events of any size. PowerShell.org recognizes the need for, and value of, those more-regional events, but the PowerShell Summit does not seek to full that need or provide that exact same value.&lt;br&gt;
Throughout this guide, note that &amp;ldquo;venue&amp;rdquo; does not refer to a city. While in casual discussions we may refer to a city name or metropolitan area name - like London or Munich - our venue may not in fact be within the legal limits of such a city or area. &amp;ldquo;Venue&amp;rdquo; refers to a specific facility, which may be a hotel or a conference center or other specific location.&lt;br&gt;
Our expectation is that most attendees will arrive at the event via common carrier - typically, train or airplane. Some may drive, but our focus is on providing good access for those who do not have their own personal transportation during the event.&lt;br&gt;
Criterion 1: Airport Access&lt;br&gt;
The first criterion is easy access to a major international airport. This is intended to accommodate the wide variety of attendees expected. In general, the venue should be either within a 15-20 minute drive from an airport by private car (including taxis and shuttle busses), or within a 30-minute ride via mass transit rail (specifically excluding public bus service, but including all levels of rail access).&lt;br&gt;
Exception: The airport service area may be widened in instances where a venue offers significant other advantages in other criteria, or where the venue offers specialized access to expert presenters - e.g., using Bellevue for its convenient access to the PowerShell team, despite the fact that it is a ~30 minute ride by private car from SEA-TAC airport and lacks public rail access to the airport.&lt;br&gt;
Criterion 2: Local Transit&lt;br&gt;
The venue must be well-connected to the local area by mass transit rail (tram, train, metro, etc.). Alternately, the area must offer a variety of amenities within walking distance. Our goal is to minimize the need for rental cars to travel to the event venue from local hotels, restaurants, and other amenities. A 15-minute walking radius is a good &amp;ldquo;maximum&amp;rdquo; guideline. Due to this criterion, local parking fees are explicitly not considered during venue selection, although the organization recognizes than some local attendees may be impacted by parking fees.&lt;br&gt;
Criterion 3: Evening Amenities&lt;br&gt;
The selected venue must be accessible (via local rail transit or short walks) to evening amenities, including hotels, restaurants, and so forth. While the PowerShell Summit will often include evening events, attendees must have independent access to these kinds of amenities.&lt;br&gt;
Criterion 4: Price, Quantity, and Quality of Lodging&lt;br&gt;
The selected venue must be accessible (via local rail transit or short walks) to hotels of at least 3-star quality (as listed on travel Web sites such as Expedia or Orbitz), with as reasonable a price as possible given the choices of venues under consideration. When possible, the organization will reserve a room block for at least 1/3 of the expected attendance number (with the understanding that room blocks carry significant financial risk, and the organization has a primary goal of mitigating such risk). Additional hotel capacity meeting this criterion must be available, but may not necessarily be reserved, for the event.&lt;br&gt;
Criterion 5: Language&lt;br&gt;
The selected venue must be in an area where English is commonly spoken, at least by hospitality workers. English need not be the dominant language in the area, but as it is the &amp;ldquo;common language&amp;rdquo; of PowerShell, English must at least be commonly understood as a &amp;ldquo;lingua franca&amp;rdquo; in order for a maximum number of attendees to be able to navigate the area. Venues that do not meet this criterion may still be viable locations for a regional, cultural-specific event, but might not be qualified for a PowerShell Summit.&lt;br&gt;
Criterion 6: Centrality&lt;br&gt;
Given all of the other criteria previously listed, it is desirable to have a venue that provides equitable travel access from the majority of the target area. However, the organization recognizes that central location is often the most difficult to achieve in combination with the other criteria listed.&lt;br&gt;
Criterion 7: Accessibility&lt;br&gt;
The venue must conform with a general international standard of access for disabled persons, and must provide at least basic ability to meet common dietary restrictions, such as vegetarianism. The organization accepts that extremely specific dietary needs, such as cultural or religious needs or allergy concerns, might incur extra costs that would be passed along to the concerned attendee(s).&lt;br&gt;
Criterion 8: Appropriateness&lt;br&gt;
The venue must provide appropriate meeting facilities. This means the venue must be able to accommodate the expected number of attendees in a comfortable and safe surrounding, and attendees must be able to access the venue without undue overhead (e.g., extensive security checks in an office building, etc.). In multi-track events, meeting rooms should be able to accommodate a 15-20% offset (e.g., in a 300-person event with 300 attendees, each room must be able to handle 120 attendees, to deal with the fact that some sessions will be more popular than others).&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Great Debate: Piping in a Script</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-16-powershell-great-debate-piping-in-a-script/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:40:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-16-powershell-great-debate-piping-in-a-script/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Take a look at this:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;`# version 1
Get-Content computers.txt |
ForEach-Object {
$os = Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem -comp $_
$bios = Get-WmiObject Win32_BIOS -comp $_
$props = @{computername=$_;
osversion=$os.version;
biosserial=$bios.serialnumber}
New-Object PSObject -Prop $props
}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1 id="version-2"&gt;version 2&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$computers = Get-Content computers.txt
foreach ($computer in $computers) {
$os = Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem -comp $computer
$bios = Get-WmiObject Win32_BIOS -comp $computer
$props = @{computername=$computer;
osversion=$os.version;
biosserial=$bios.serialnumber}
New-Object PSObject -Prop $props
}
`These two snippets do the same thing. The first uses a more &amp;ldquo;pipeline&amp;rdquo; style approach, and I&amp;rsquo;ve personally never felt the urge to do that in a script. Probably habit - I come from the VBScript world, so a construct like foreach($x in $y) is natural for me. I&amp;rsquo;ve seen folks get into that &amp;ldquo;pipeline&amp;rdquo; approach inside a script and get into trouble, and if I&amp;rsquo;m scripting I often prefer to use the more formal, structured approach of the version 2 snippet.&lt;br&gt;
What&amp;rsquo;re your thoughts? For me, version 1 has some downsides - forcing yourself into that pipeline structure can be limiting, and I find the approach in version 2 to be more readable and a bit easier to follow. Frankly, I&amp;rsquo;m never a fan of having to mentally track what&amp;rsquo;s in $&lt;em&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
(Which brings up a sidebar: I tend to evaluate a script&amp;rsquo;s goodness based on how well I can understand what it doesÂ &lt;em&gt;without running it&lt;/em&gt;. That&amp;rsquo;s a common criteria, in fact, and one I personally think helps aid in debugging as well as maintaining scripts.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
_&lt;br&gt;
Anyway&amp;hellip; discuss!&lt;br&gt;
[boilerplate greatdebate]&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 07/11/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-15-phillyposh-07112013-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 02:00:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-15-phillyposh-07112013-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</guid><description>&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Active Directory SDK team member and former Senior Programing writer for the Windows PowerShell team, &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/juneb_get_help"&gt;Jun Blender&lt;/a&gt; gave a presentation on The Hidden Charms of Windows PowerShell 3.0 via Lync. You can get a copy of &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/PhillyPosh_2013-07-11_June_Blender.pptx"&gt;her presentation here&lt;/a&gt; and see a &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY-kkuTwWUs"&gt;recording of the Lync meeting&lt;/a&gt; on our &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAc_ow5FIJtRpvew__9Iqzg"&gt;YouTube channel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Microsoft Technology Evangelist &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/yungchou/"&gt;Yung Chou&lt;/a&gt; gave demonstration on how to use theÂ &lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj152841.aspx"&gt;PowerShell Azure cmdlets&lt;/a&gt; to automate data center deployments
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You can try doing the same and test server 2012 R2 out with a free &lt;a href="http://aka.ms/200"&gt;1-month trial of Windows Azure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;General Announcements
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com"&gt;The Microsoft Virtual Academy&lt;/a&gt; is hosting 2 separate day long PowerShell learning sessions that will be taught by the lead Architect of PowerShell &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-admin/@jsnover"&gt;Jeffery Snover&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-admin/PowerShell.org"&gt;PowerShell.org&lt;/a&gt; board member &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-admin/@theJasonHelmick"&gt;Jason Helmick.&lt;/a&gt; Link to the sessions are as follows:
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/liveevents/PowerShell-JumpStart"&gt;Getting Started with PowerShell 3.0 : 7/18/2013 9AM-5PM PDT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/liveevents/Adv-PowerShell-Jump-Start"&gt;Advanced Tools &amp;amp; Scripting with PowerShell 3.0: 8/1/2013 9AM-5PM PDT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href="http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/we-want-your-powershell-show-ideas/"&gt;PowerScript Podcast&lt;/a&gt; is looking for show ideas&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;In the wake of the 2013 scripting games there are many entries in the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/category/great-debates/"&gt;&amp;ldquo;Great Debates&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt; series, in which the
community discusses the differing techniques that the community used during the games
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Speaking of the scripting games, the winners were on the &lt;a href="http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/up-next-winners-from-the-2013-scripting-games/"&gt;PowerScritping Podcast&lt;/a&gt;Â this week&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://mikefrobbins.com/"&gt;Mike Robbins&lt;/a&gt;, the winner of the advanced category, will be presenting for us in September!
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mike also runs the virtual &lt;a href="http://mspsug.com/"&gt;Mississippi PowerShell User Group&lt;/a&gt; and makes his meetings available to everyone.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Last month&amp;quot;™s speaker, &lt;a href="http://rohnspowershellblog.wordpress.com/"&gt;Rohn Edwards&lt;/a&gt;, has recently &lt;a href="http://rohnspowershellblog.wordpress.com/tag/powershellaccesscontrol/"&gt;blogged&lt;/a&gt; about how to use some of the functions included in his &lt;a href="http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/PowerShellAccessControl-d3be7b83"&gt;PowerShellAccessControl Module&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Check out &lt;a href="http://chocolatey.org/"&gt;Chocolatey&lt;/a&gt; which is a Machine Package Manager, somewhat like apt-get, but built with Windows and PowerShell in mind.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;</description></item><item><title>Working with the WSUS API and the SUSDB Database using PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-11-working-with-the-wsus-api-and-the-susdb-database-using-powershell/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 02:38:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-11-working-with-the-wsus-api-and-the-susdb-database-using-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Tthe WSUS API can be used to perform a multitude of WSUS tasks from approving patches, removing clients to creating automatic approval rules to many other things. By diving deeper into the API reveals that we can also find out the name of the SQL server (if using a remote SQL database server) that the SUSDB database is residing on. Beyond that, we can actually perform queries to the database (using TSQL) or perform tasks against the database itself.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;ve written a couple of articles hat focus on making the database connection via the WSUS API and preform a simple query and then following up on that by performing some database maintenance by re-indexing and updating the statistics on the database tables.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://learn-powershell.net/2013/07/07/use-the-wsus-api-and-powershell-to-query-the-susdb-database/"&gt;Use the WSUS API and PowerShell to query the SUSDB Database&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://learn-powershell.net/2013/07/07/using-the-wsus-api-and-powershell-to-perform-maintenance-on-the-susdb-database/"&gt;Using the WSUS API and PowerShell to Perform Maintenance on the SUSDB Database&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit… EUROPE?!?!?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-11-powershell-summit-europe/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:47:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-11-powershell-summit-europe/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I have received a lot of interest in a PowerShell Summit Europe, and we are starting to look at doing one in 2014. I know that&amp;rsquo;s a long way off, but it takes time to put these together when everyone&amp;rsquo;s volunteering that time!&lt;br&gt;
I have put together a very short survey to see if there is any consensus on where such an event might be held. The survey is &lt;a href="http://67004.polldaddy.com/s/powershell-summit-europe"&gt;online now and ready for your opinions&lt;/a&gt;. Please forward this to your colleagues and co-workers, as well - we would really like a variety of opinions. If you want to tweet about it, Facebook it, or anything else to help us get a broad perspective, it would be much appreciated.&lt;br&gt;
I must note that this event will be in English, as it is meant to be a pan-European event that involves as many different folks as possible. We are not attempting to hold a more regional, culture-specific event - some of those already exist (I&amp;rsquo;m aware of one in Germany, for example), and they do a better job serving their local market (which can be quite large) than we could ever do. We are trying to fill a different need, which is more along the lines of a very miniature TechEd Europe, which brings as many different folks together as possible. Hopefully we will achieve that goal.&lt;br&gt;
Thank you for your time and input!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Great Debate: Backticks</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-10-powershell-great-debate-backticks/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 21:26:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-10-powershell-great-debate-backticks/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s an age-old debate that we can finally, perhaps, put an end to: The backtick character for line continuation.&lt;br&gt;
The basic concept looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_BIOS &lt;/code&gt;
-ComputerName whatever &lt;code&gt;-Filter &amp;quot;something='else'&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt;This trick relies on the fact that the backtick (grave accent) is PowerShell&amp;rsquo;s escape character. In this case, it&amp;rsquo;s escaping the carriage return, turning it from a logical end-of-line marker into a literal carriage return. It makes commands with a lot of parameters easier to read, since you can line up the parameters as I&amp;rsquo;ve done.&lt;br&gt;
My personal beefs with this:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Would you contribute enterprise software reviews? [OFFTOPIC]</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-09-would-you-contribute-enterprise-software-reviews-offtopic/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:03:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-09-would-you-contribute-enterprise-software-reviews-offtopic/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve been working with a couple of folks lately who&amp;rsquo;ve been trying to review and pilot Active Directory auditing solutions. Both bemoaned the fact that, unlike consumer products of nearly any kind, IT products (specifically, enterprise software in this instance), don&amp;rsquo;t really get reviews from the admins who use those products.&lt;br&gt;
So, I&amp;rsquo;m curious. If you could (a) anonymously, and (b) without giving your organization&amp;rsquo;s name, would you (c) leave reviews of enterprise software for other admins? You&amp;rsquo;d need to leave some obvious details, like the approximate size of your organization (number of users), what you expected the software to do, what it really did, what you liked, what you didn&amp;rsquo;t like, and so on.&lt;br&gt;
Such a site would be a lot better (I think) than magazine or &amp;ldquo;professional&amp;rdquo; reviews, since you&amp;rsquo;d be reading the experiences of people who actually use the stuff every day. Yeah, as with any publicly-contributed content, review quality will vary - but you already know how to read between the lines, right? 😉&lt;br&gt;
Drop a comment, or even send a tweet to &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/concentrateddon"&gt;@concentrateddon&lt;/a&gt; with &amp;ldquo;Reviews: YES!&amp;rdquo; or &amp;ldquo;Reviews: NO!&amp;rdquo; comment. Or if you prefer Facebook, leave that comment &lt;a href="http://facebook.com/concentrateddon"&gt;on my FB page&lt;/a&gt;. It sure seems like we IT professionals could use something like this - it&amp;rsquo;d be a good place to start researching solutions to particular problems, and a good place to share some real-world intel on how different solutions really work. Even if you don&amp;rsquo;t likeÂ &lt;em&gt;writing&lt;/em&gt; reviews, would you use such a site as part of your research process?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>New Blog Posting on Desired State Configuration</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-09-new-blog-posting-on-desired-state-configuration/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 14:29:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-09-new-blog-posting-on-desired-state-configuration/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Just an FYI that I posted a walkthrough on my blog, of DSC, including my experiences as it relates to Group Policy:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/1868BYS"&gt;http://bit.ly/1868BYS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Winners from the 2013 Scripting Games</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-07-08-up-next-winners-from-the-2013-scripting-games/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2013 15:28:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-07-08-up-next-winners-from-the-2013-scripting-games/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This Thursday, July 11,  we&amp;quot;™re having the winners from the 2013 Scripting Games. Mike Robbins and Taylor Gibb were the top 2 winners. We will also have, Microsoft Scripting Guy,  Ed Wilson online as well. As a bonus, Rob Campbell,.one of the individual event winners may show up too.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As always, join us live at 9:30 PM EST Thursdays at &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net/"&gt;http://live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>We want your PowerShell show ideas!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-07-08-we-want-your-powershell-show-ideas/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:01:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-07-08-we-want-your-powershell-show-ideas/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi guys, Hal here. I just wanted to make a quick request: please reach out and let us know who or what you want to hear us talk about on the show in upcoming episodes. We have plenty of friends of the show who can come on and talk about what they are working on, and Jonathan and I certainly have no problem filling an hour with our own ideas. However, some of our best shows are driven by topics that we had never heard of before a listener like you dropped us a line to suggest it.&lt;br&gt;
Getting in touch is easy via &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/powerscripting"&gt;twitter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="mailto:feedback@powerscripting.net"&gt;email&lt;/a&gt;, or blog comment (look down!). If you have a person in mind, that&amp;rsquo;s great. If you just want to hear us delve into a particular topic, that&amp;rsquo;s also great. We can find the experts on a given topic, whether it&amp;rsquo;s a product manager or engineer at Microsoft or another company, or just a guy/gal with a cool open source project.&lt;br&gt;
Hope to hear from you soon!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>How Cloud-First Design Affects You</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-03-how-cloud-first-design-affects-you/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 17:29:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-03-how-cloud-first-design-affects-you/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Today, Brad Anderson (Corporate VP in the Windows Server/System Center unit) posted &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/in_the_cloud/archive/2013/07/03/what-s-new-in-2012-r2-beginning-and-ending-with-customer-specific-scenarios.aspx"&gt;the first in what should be a series of &amp;ldquo;What&amp;rsquo;s New in 2012 R2&amp;rdquo; articles&lt;/a&gt;. In it, Anderson focuses on how Microsoft squeezed so many features into the 2012R2 release in such a short period of time. The short answer, which has been stated by Jeffrey Snover before, is &amp;ldquo;we build for the cloud first.&amp;rdquo; That means features we&amp;rsquo;re getting in 2012R2 have, for the most part, already been developed, deployed, and in use in some of Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s own cloud services. This is a huge deal. It means their cloud services (think Azure, O365, and the like) get stuff first, where &lt;em&gt;Microsoft&lt;/em&gt; can make sure it&amp;rsquo;s stable. They then package those and hand them off to us.&lt;br&gt;
It means we get better stability, but it also means we get better manageability. Look, you don&amp;rsquo;t get excited when you have to deploy a new server, right? You want to automate that stuff. Well, Azure gets &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; ticked off if they can&amp;rsquo;t automate it, because they do it &lt;em&gt;thousands times more than you.&lt;/em&gt; So forcing themselves to run a ginormous datacenter also forces the company to make better management tools - which they then hand down to us in an OS release.&lt;br&gt;
If, that is, you&amp;rsquo;re managing your datacenter as if it was your own little&amp;hellip; dare I say it, &lt;em&gt;private cloud.&lt;/em&gt; In other words, if you think of your datacenter as a wee little cloud, and you manage it like one, then you&amp;rsquo;ll get the tech you need, because Microsoft has to develop that tech for themselves. If you want to keep managing it the old-fashioned way&amp;hellip; well, you&amp;rsquo;ll get less love.&lt;br&gt;
This whole approach, for me, is the ultimate expression of the Microsoft phrase, &amp;ldquo;eat the dogfood.&amp;rdquo; Meaning, &lt;em&gt;use our own products just as our customers would.&lt;/em&gt; You just have to make sure you&amp;rsquo;re eating the same flavor dogfood. Not that MS expects everyone to have their own in-house Azure. No, that&amp;rsquo;s not the point. The point is that they&amp;rsquo;re developing for a world where admins do nothing but create units of automation, and business processes (perhaps outside IT) initiate those processes. You&amp;rsquo;re going to see more and more tools and technologies (um, PowerShell) to facilitate that model of IT operations; you&amp;rsquo;ll see less and less tech that facilitates the old way (meaning, fewer and less robust GUI tools, I&amp;rsquo;m guessing).&lt;br&gt;
Desired State Configuration (DSC) is probably an ideal example of this new approach. In the past, when you wanted to configure a few hundred machines to look and behave a certain way, you went clicky-click a few hundred times in a GUI. That&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;imperative&lt;/em&gt; configuration; you tell each machine &lt;em&gt;what to do.&lt;/em&gt; That doesn&amp;rsquo;t scale to cloud-sized proportions, and so now we&amp;rsquo;re getting DSC. DSC is &lt;em&gt;declarative&lt;/em&gt; configuration, meaning you tell a group of machines &lt;em&gt;what to be.&lt;/em&gt; The OS itself figures out how to achieve that state of being. So admins have to shift from thinking &amp;ldquo;what do I make the machine do&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;how do I tell it what to be.&amp;rdquo; It&amp;rsquo;s not unlike Group Policy, actually, which is also declarative, except that DSC will eventually dwarf Group Policy in terms of reach and capability.&lt;br&gt;
Point being, if you&amp;rsquo;re in the old world of, &amp;ldquo;I just run through the Wizard and set the machine up,&amp;rdquo; you&amp;rsquo;re not aligned with the new world order. Expect fewer wizards, as product teams shift their investment to building things like DSC resources instead. With 12-18 month product cycles, time is in short supply for each new release. One-at-a-time approaches don&amp;rsquo;t scale to the cloud, so those are likely to get less of that limited amount of time.&lt;br&gt;
Anderson&amp;rsquo;s post is worth a read. It&amp;rsquo;s a little high-level - the man &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a Corporate VP, after all - but it shows where Microsoft is pointing their collective brain. It uses the word &amp;ldquo;delight.&amp;rdquo; It describes in great detail how Microsoft is trying harder to put the customer in the front of every conversation - but, more subtly, it also shows how Microsoft is moving the conversation past &amp;ldquo;what do customers tell us they want&amp;rdquo; and more toward &amp;ldquo;here&amp;rsquo;s what we see customers &lt;em&gt;needing.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; Henry Ford would be proud.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 233 – PowerScripting Podcast – Live from Atlanta TechStravaganza 2013</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-07-02-episode-233-powerscripting-podcast-live-from-atlanta-techstravaganza-2013/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 04:02:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-07-02-episode-233-powerscripting-podcast-live-from-atlanta-techstravaganza-2013/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-233.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recorded live June 21st at Atlanta TechStravaganza!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.atltechstravaganza.com/"&gt;http://www.atltechstravaganza.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>It's Safe to Run Update-Help – and you should!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-02-its-safe-to-run-update-help-and-you-should/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2013 17:23:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-02-its-safe-to-run-update-help-and-you-should/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m informed that sometime today Microsoft will be posting fixed core cmdlet help files for your downloading pleasure - so it&amp;rsquo;s safe to run Update-Help again, and you should definitely do so. There are likely a lot of fixes and improvements to the help text, and you won&amp;rsquo;t be &amp;ldquo;losing&amp;rdquo; the parameter value type information from the SYNTAX section.&lt;br&gt;
Maybe schedule an Update-Help for tomorrow morning?&lt;br&gt;
BTW - kudos to the team at Microsoft for getting this issue fixed so quickly. It&amp;rsquo;s a shame this one snuck past them, but once notified of the problem they really did jump on it. The fact that the problem was (from the public perspective) just with the downloadable help files means it&amp;rsquo;s an easy fix that doesn&amp;rsquo;t involve pushing code out through Windows Update (thank goodness).&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Great Debate: Formatting Constructs</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-02-powershell-great-debate-formatting-constructs/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2013 15:23:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-02-powershell-great-debate-formatting-constructs/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s an easy, low-stakes debate: How do you like to format your scripting constructs? And, more importantly,Â &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; do you like your method?&lt;br&gt;
For example, I tend to do this:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;`If ($this -eq $that) {&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1 id="do-this"&gt;do this&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;} else {&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1 id="do-this-1"&gt;do this&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;}
`I do so out of long habit with C-like syntax, and because when I&amp;rsquo;m teaching this helps me keep more information on the screen. However, some folks prefer this:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Come to PowerShell Summer School!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-01-come-to-powershell-summer-school/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2013 22:11:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-01-come-to-powershell-summer-school/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Through my company Concentrated Tech, I&amp;rsquo;ve decided to run a set of three &lt;a href="http://itpro.concentratedtech.com/training/summerschool.php"&gt;PowerShell Summer School&lt;/a&gt; classes (click that link for descriptions). These will be a combo of self-study and weekly online sessions, designed to teach Toolmaking, Practical applications of PowerShell, or how to teach PowerShell in a lunch &amp;rsquo;n&amp;rsquo; learn style format. Registration is open from now until August 1st, and you&amp;rsquo;ll also get a discount on some great SAPIEN products to use during class, if you like.&lt;br&gt;
The Toolmaking class will also prepare you for PowerShell VERIFIED EFFECTIVEâ„¢ certification, if you&amp;rsquo;ve been considering that.&lt;br&gt;
Two of the classes will incorporate group code reviews of student assignments, to help improve your style; the third will include mock delivery sessions to help polish your delivery skills. All will include a private Q&amp;amp;A forum where you can ask questions both of me and of your fellow students while you&amp;rsquo;re in the self-stufy phase. Classes will meet online, on Wednesdays, for six weeks through August and September.&lt;br&gt;
Planning a vacation in the middle of summer school? It&amp;rsquo;s fine - we can schedule a make-up online session when you get home. I&amp;rsquo;m also willing to try and make other accommodations to help make this an effective learning experience for everyone.&lt;br&gt;
All of these classes assume a basic level of PowerShell knowledge, although you&amp;rsquo;ll get plenty of review material to help you catch up, or dredge up old memories from when youÂ &lt;em&gt;last&lt;/em&gt; tried to learn the shell.&lt;br&gt;
Tell a friend, tell a colleague - I don&amp;rsquo;t do these kinds of offerings all that often; my travel schedule usually precludes it. But a fortuitous schedule has made it possible, so consider taking advantage!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Seeking Editor for PowerShell.org TechLetter</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-01-seeking-editor-for-powershell-org-techletter/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2013 18:30:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-07-01-seeking-editor-for-powershell-org-techletter/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The PowerShell.org TechLetter goes out once a month, and we&amp;rsquo;re looking for an editor to take over the task of building each monthly issue.&lt;br&gt;
You&amp;rsquo;ll need some basic HTML knowledge, and ideally will have a decent HTML editor. Not FrontPage. You&amp;rsquo;ll be given articles in both HTML and Word format, and will need to insert those into a master HTML document and (especially in the case of Word), fix the formatting. You&amp;rsquo;ll have plenty of examples from past issues to work with. Eventually, you&amp;rsquo;ll also schedule the mid-month mailing.&lt;br&gt;
It all takes a few hours once you have the monthly materials in hand, and you&amp;rsquo;ll usually have at least a week to do assembly and mailing. You&amp;rsquo;ll be helping us deliver technical content to a growing audience of more than 3,500 IT professionals and PowerShell enthusiasts!&lt;br&gt;
If you&amp;rsquo;re interested, &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/contact-us/" title="Contact Us"&gt;contact me&lt;/a&gt;. Your pay will beÂ &lt;em&gt;double&lt;/em&gt; what I&amp;rsquo;m currently paid to do this. Which is, sadly, nothing.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>[UPDATE: It's Safe] CAUTION: Don't Run Update-Help Right Now</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-28-caution-dont-run-update-help-right-now/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:19:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-28-caution-dont-run-update-help-right-now/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE 2 JULY 2013: Microsoft is informing MVPs that the fix is in, and new help files should be downloadable by (at latest) the morning of 3 July 2013. So get your Update-Help ready to run. &lt;a href="http://wp.me/p3priC-25s"&gt;More info&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
If you haven&amp;rsquo;t recently run Update-Help&amp;hellip; don&amp;rsquo;t. There&amp;rsquo;s a problem with the help files that have been produced recently so that instead of:&lt;br&gt;
**-computername **&lt;br&gt;
You&amp;rsquo;re getting:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;-computername&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
This affects all parameters - no value types will be shown. This has been reported to Microsoft, and they&amp;rsquo;ve acknowledged receipt of that report and are investigating. Personally, I believe the problem may be related to internal-use-only tools that are used to create the syntax section of the help files, so hopefully it&amp;rsquo;ll be an easy fix.&lt;br&gt;
The -full and -detail help still shows the correct information, so if you&amp;rsquo;ve downloaded the borked help files, you&amp;rsquo;re not totally out of luck.&lt;br&gt;
As far as I can determine, this only currently affects core PowerShell cmdlets, not add-in modules from product teams like Exchange, etc. I believe that&amp;rsquo;s because the core cmdlets were just updated and re-published, something the PowerShell team tends to do a bit more frequently than some of the other product groups.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;ll keep you posted as I learn anything new.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Great Debate: To Accelerate, or Not?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-25-powershell-great-debate-to-accelerate-or-not/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:38:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-25-powershell-great-debate-to-accelerate-or-not/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;At his &lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2013/BOF-ITP23"&gt;Birds of a feather session at TechEd 2013&lt;/a&gt;, Glenn Sizemore and I briefly debated something that I&amp;rsquo;d like to make the topic of today&amp;rsquo;s Great Debate. It has to do with how you create new, custom objects. For example, one approach - which I used to favor, but now think is too long-form:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;$obj = New-Object -Type PSObject $obj | Add-Member NoteProperty Foo $bar $obj | Add-Member NoteProperty This $that &lt;/code&gt;We saw some variants in The Scripting Games, including this one:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Pipeline or Script? That is the Question</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-21-pipeline-or-script-that-is-the-question/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:52:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-21-pipeline-or-script-that-is-the-question/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;When I teach PowerShell classes, I often start by assuring students that, with the shell, you canÂ _accomplish a great deal without ever writing a script.Â _And it&amp;rsquo;s true - you can. Unlike predecessor technologies like VBScript, PowerShell lets you pack a lot of goodness into a one-liner - or even into several lines run manually in the console.&lt;br&gt;
What I never say isÂ _you can accomplishÂ 
anything
without ever writing a script.Â _That isn&amp;rsquo;t true. I see folks struggle all the time to squeeze something into a one-liner pipeline, when life would be so much easier if they switched a script-style, procedural approach.&lt;br&gt;
So what&amp;rsquo;s the tipping point?&lt;br&gt;
Actually, it&amp;rsquo;s really easy to spot. You should be writing a script if:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 231 – PowerScripting Podcast – Hal's BOF session from TechEd Getting Started with Windows PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-06-20-episode-231-powerscripting-podcast-hals-bof-session-from-teched-getting-started-with-windows-powershell/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 02:50:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-06-20-episode-231-powerscripting-podcast-hals-bof-session-from-teched-getting-started-with-windows-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-231.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BOF-ITP05 Getting Started with Windows PowerShell from TechEd North America 2013.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Great Debate: Capturing Errors</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-17-powershell-great-debate-capturing-errors/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:30:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-17-powershell-great-debate-capturing-errors/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hot on the heels of &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/06/11/powershell-great-debate-error-trapping/" title="PowerShell Great Debate: Error Trapping"&gt;our last Great Debate&lt;/a&gt;, let&amp;rsquo;s take the discussion to the next logical step and talk about how you like to capture errors when they occur.&lt;br&gt;
The first technique is to use -ErrorVariable:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;`Try {
Get-WmiObject Win32_BIOS -comp nothing -ea stop -ev mine
} Catch {&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1 id="use-mine-for-error"&gt;use $mine for error&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;}
`Another is to use the $Error collection:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;`Try {
Get-WmiObject Win32_BIOS -comp badname -ea stop
} Catch {&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Charlotte User Group July Meeting</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-12-charlotte-user-group-july-meeting/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 02:24:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-12-charlotte-user-group-july-meeting/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Please join us on a special date in July. This month our meeting will be on July 11, 2013 instead of our normal first Thursday of the month due to the holiday.&lt;br&gt;
Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson will make a presentation on DSC Desired State Configuration for PowerShell V4.&lt;br&gt;
Sign up at the following link in Meetup so we know how many will be there and we can have adequate food for all.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.meetup.com/Charlotte-PowerShell-Users-Group/events/124356442/"&gt;http://www.meetup.com/Charlotte-PowerShell-Users-Group/events/124356442/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Great Debate: Error Trapping</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-11-powershell-great-debate-error-trapping/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:17:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-11-powershell-great-debate-error-trapping/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In the aftermath of The Scripting Games, it&amp;rsquo;s clear we need to have several community discussions - thus, I present to you, The Great Debates. These will be a series of posts wherein I&amp;rsquo;ll outline the basic situation, and you&amp;rsquo;re encouraged to debate and discuss in the comments section.&lt;br&gt;
The general gist is that, during the Games, we saw different people voting &amp;ldquo;up&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;down&amp;rdquo; for the exact same techniques. So&amp;hellip; which one is right? Neither! But all approaches have pros and cons&amp;hellip; so that&amp;rsquo;s what we&amp;rsquo;ll discuss and debate. In the end, I&amp;rsquo;ll take the discussion into a community-owned (free) ebook on patterns and practices for PowerShell.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Overall Winners of the Scripting Games</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-11-overall-winners-of-the-scripting-games/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:24:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-11-overall-winners-of-the-scripting-games/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;**Congratulations to our top winners,Â **determined by our expert judges (and in this case we also considered their CrowdScores),Â &lt;strong&gt;mikefrobbins&lt;/strong&gt; andÂ &lt;strong&gt;taygibb&lt;/strong&gt;, who have just won a free pass to Microsoft TechEd Europe or Microsoft TechEd North America 2014. Instructions are in your profile for claiming your prize. It is transferrable, but must be claimed/transferred by the end of July.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Congratulations to our top voters/commenters&lt;/strong&gt;, Klaus_Schulte and Poshsg0606. They were chosen randomly for this award, although I did review their comments and scores to ensure they were all meaningful and consistent. They&amp;rsquo;ve won free passes to the PowerShell Summit North America 2014; these are transferrable and must be claimed/transferred by the end of July.&lt;br&gt;
Thanks to everyone who participated in The Scripting Games this year. We&amp;rsquo;ve received a lot of feedback from you, and very much appreciate the time and spirit you spent to offer it. We&amp;rsquo;re taking it all into consideration for our next event.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games Event 6 Winners</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-11-scripting-games-event-5-winners-1/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:17:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-11-scripting-games-event-5-winners-1/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re pleased to announce the winners for Event 6 of The Scripting Games 2013!&lt;br&gt;
Winners: You can log into &lt;a href="http://scriptinggames.org/"&gt;The Scripting Games Web site&lt;/a&gt; and go to your Profile page to see your prize. You will be given a prize redemption code and either a URL where you can redeem it, or an e-mail address of the prize provider (they will need the redemption code). All prizes must be claimed by the end of July 2013. I will list winners by username; if you used your e-mail address as your username, then a portion of that will be truncated for your privacy. Anyone can log in and check their Profile page to see if they&amp;rsquo;ve won a prize.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Call for Debates!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-10-call-for-debates/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:20:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-10-call-for-debates/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As the Scripting Games begin to wind down, I know that we&amp;rsquo;ve come across a number of divergent opinions, especially in the comments. &amp;ldquo;You shouldn&amp;rsquo;t use .NET classes!&amp;rdquo; says one comment, &amp;ldquo;you should have done this with a .NET class&amp;rdquo; says another commentÂ _in the same entry.Â _Fun. It&amp;rsquo;s great to see those differences - but it&amp;rsquo;d be better toÂ &lt;em&gt;discuss&lt;/em&gt; them.&lt;br&gt;
So I&amp;rsquo;m asking everyone in the Games: Go through your comments on all of your entries. Find comments that you disagree with - but that you could possibly see someone making an argument for (and that you&amp;rsquo;d perhaps argue against). Post those here as a comment, or email me (there&amp;rsquo;s a contact form on the Site Info tab). I want to collect these, and start a series of discussions where we can, jointly, start to hammer out some patterns and practices that we, as a community, feel work well. Some of those may have exceptions (rules always do) - &amp;ldquo;never use a .NET classÂ _when there&amp;rsquo;s a cmdlet that can do the same thing,Â _but otherwise go nuts&amp;rdquo; is one example.&lt;br&gt;
Fire away. For now, you don&amp;rsquo;t need to put your argument for or against - I&amp;rsquo;m just collecting the topics that we&amp;rsquo;ve seen disagreement or differing opinions on. Discussion will follow!&lt;br&gt;
The result of this will be a community-guided Best Practices ebook, which I&amp;rsquo;ll assemble and we&amp;rsquo;ll give away for free. I might even build that, initially, as a wiki, so that folks could contribute to it over time. Will see - that&amp;rsquo;s a bit of extra software.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games 2013: Event 6 Notes</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-09-scripting-games-2013-event-6-notes/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 02:43:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-09-scripting-games-2013-event-6-notes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We have finally hit the final event of the 2013 Scripting Games! The past 6 weeks have given us many amazing scripts and some that were in need of extra work. Regardless, for those of you who have finished all 6 scripts in your respective, I say Congratulations! You have hit the finish line sprinting hard to the end! Now you can sit back and know that you made it and have learned (hopefully) some great things along the way. Remember, not only have you learned some new techniques, but also the techniques that you have used have taught others how to write better scripts!&lt;br&gt;
Check out the rest of my notes on my &lt;a href="http://learn-powershell.net/2013/06/09/scripting-games-2013-event-6-notes/"&gt;blog here&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Event 6 Judge's Notes from Jan Egil Ring</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-08-event-6-judges-notes-from-jan-egil-ring/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 01:25:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-08-event-6-judges-notes-from-jan-egil-ring/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.powershell.no/2013/06/08/2013-scripting-games-learning-points-from-event-6/"&gt;http://blog.powershell.no/2013/06/08/2013-scripting-games-learning-points-from-event-6/&lt;/a&gt;Â has Jan Egil&amp;rsquo;s thoughts on the final event.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Last events: my notes and scripts.</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-08-last-events-my-notes-and-scripts/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 20:46:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-08-last-events-my-notes-and-scripts/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Oops! Looks like I totally forgot about posting what I did over here. Sorry!&lt;br&gt;
In order of appearance:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://becomelotr.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/event-5-my-way/"&gt;Event 5 - script&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://becomelotr.wordpress.com/2013/06/02/event-5-my-notes/"&gt;Event 5 - notes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://becomelotr.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/event-6-my-way/"&gt;Event 6 - script&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://becomelotr.wordpress.com/2013/06/08/event-6-my-notes/"&gt;Event 6 - notes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
This is last event, and I would like to thank everybody who took part in this games. Thank you guys for great ideas, inspiration, feedback&amp;hellip; It was really educational experience for me (as it was in the past), and I hope it was educational for you too. And - congratulations for all the winners. 🙂&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 230 – PowerScripting Podcast – Kevin Hill talks NetApp and PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-06-07-episode-230-powerscripting-podcast-kevin-hill-talks-netapp-and-powershell/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:24:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-06-07-episode-230-powerscripting-podcast-kevin-hill-talks-netapp-and-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-230.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 [Don&amp;quot;™s post about DSC](https://powershell.org/2013/06/04/microsoft-announces-powershell-v4-dsc/)





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 [June DFW PowerShell Group Saturday Meeting](http://powershellgroup.org/2013-06-15) -Saturday, June 15, 2013 -08:00 - 10:00





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 [Atlanta TechStravaganza](http://powershellgroup.org/atlanta.ga/2013-06-21) -Friday, June 21, 2013 - 08:00 -16:30





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 [June DFW PowerShell Group Evening Meeting](http://powershellgroup.org/2013-06-27) -Thursday, June 27, 2013 -18:30 - 20:00
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&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>Notes for Event 6</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-07-notes-for-event-6/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:26:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-07-notes-for-event-6/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;When I read the instructions for event 6, I thought that here&amp;rsquo;s a tough one. A lot of competitors won&amp;rsquo;t have access to a test environment with Windows Server 2012 and Virtual Machines that they can actually work with. So, I expected that many of the entries wouldn&amp;rsquo;tÂ get testedÂ andÂ intended to forgive minor errors that would have shown up in testing.&lt;br&gt;
Well, there was one thing that really surprised me. The instructions were quite clear about minimizing &amp;ldquo;Are You Sure&amp;rdquo; queries to the user, but you can count on one hand the number of entries that included &lt;em&gt;-Confirm:$false&lt;/em&gt;. This is just an example of why it&amp;rsquo;s so important to read the problem statement very carefully and extract the solution requirements. Then, after creatingÂ the solution, go back and verify that the requirements have all been met. Many of the entries called out this requirement in the comments, but then didn&amp;rsquo;t account for it in the script.&lt;br&gt;
I had mentioned in a previous blog entry that, particularly in the advanced entries, the author was working too hard. Sometimes this means putting more emphasis on &amp;ldquo;completeness&amp;rdquo; than in solving the problem. Here&amp;rsquo;s an example of a wasted effort.Â A fewÂ entries used the _[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]_Â test for a possible alternate to the default value for &amp;ldquo;Server&amp;rdquo;.Â  Because there is a default value for the parameter, itÂ won&amp;rsquo;t be null or empty making this test unnecessary. Here, give this a try:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>More PowerShell v4 and DSC Details</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-05-more-powershell-v4-and-dsc-details/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:22:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-05-more-powershell-v4-and-dsc-details/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s what I know, much &lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2013/MDC-B400#fbid=8yK1U1eJ0GQ"&gt;based on a TechEd talk this week:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
We can expect PowerShell v4 to ship in the Windows Management Framework, as with previous versions. It will be preinstalled on Windows Server 2012 R2 and what they&amp;rsquo;re calling Windows 8.1; the default execution policy will be RemoteSigned, and on the server OS Remoting will be enabled by default. Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s past policy has been &amp;ldquo;current version and two back,&amp;rdquo; and if they follow that then we&amp;rsquo;ll get WMF 4.0 on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and later. That would leave out Server 2008, if in fact they follow that same policy.&lt;br&gt;
DSC itself starts with a PowerShell script that&amp;rsquo;s mainly declarative code: Make sure x is installed, make sure y isn&amp;rsquo;t installed, etc. PowerShell compiles that into a MOF, which can be transmitted to managed endpoints (computers). The built-in mechanisms for deployment aren&amp;rsquo;t as complex or flexible as GPO or SCCM targeting, but you could use either GPO or SCCM to deploy those MOFs. That&amp;rsquo;s the &amp;ldquo;push&amp;rdquo; model - you push MOFs out to managed nodes. A &amp;ldquo;pull&amp;rdquo; model requires you to configure managed nodes to have a URI and UDDI, and they check that URI for their MOFs.&lt;br&gt;
DSC runs every 15 minutes or every 30 minutes by default, depending on whether you&amp;rsquo;re using push or pull, and you can configure that time. Right now there&amp;rsquo;s no feedback or reporting - it&amp;rsquo;s a bit like GPO, where you push out the setting and it enforces it, but that&amp;rsquo;s it.&lt;br&gt;
When DSC runs, it takes your &amp;ldquo;desired state&amp;rdquo; MOFs and starts running &amp;ldquo;DSC resources.&amp;rdquo; These resources are special modules that implement a predefined set of functions - a Get, a Test, and a Set function, to be specific. I expect MS product groups to provide these - the Exchange team will likely someday provide resources that can check/set Exchange settings, for example. You can also write your own modules. DSC calls the &amp;ldquo;test&amp;rdquo; to see if your setting is or isn&amp;rsquo;t configured at that time; it calls the &amp;ldquo;set&amp;rdquo; to add/remove/whatever the setting. So the real work is done by these special modules - and those modules can do whatever they want. Write to the registry, run commands, call .NET classes, &lt;em&gt;anything.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
So there&amp;rsquo;s two scripts: The &amp;ldquo;desired state&amp;rdquo; script that gets compiled to a MOF (so you shouldn&amp;rsquo;t ever have to mess directly with MOFs yourself), and the &amp;ldquo;implementing module&amp;rdquo; that has the three special functions which actually do all the work.&lt;br&gt;
In the &amp;ldquo;pull&amp;rdquo; model, those special modules can be dynamically downloaded by a managed node. &amp;ldquo;Hey, I grabbed this desired state MOF, and it seems to require 12 modules, so I&amp;rsquo;ll go to the same URI and look for those 12 modules.&amp;rdquo; You provide those modules as ZIPs, and PowerShell can grab the ZIP, expand it into the proper location, and then run the modules as needed.&lt;br&gt;
Personal analysis (meaning this is my opinion, not something MS has said): I can see this DSC feature integrating super-well with some future version of SCCM. DSC writes out some local file with configuration details, and the SCCM client grabs it and feeds it up to the database. Those MOFs could potentially be pulled from a Distribution Point by the client, handed off to PowerShell, and run on a scheduled basis. I can also see DSC starting to supplant GPO in a lot of ways. After all, &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; GPO stuff is just reg hacks in a special section of the registry; there&amp;rsquo;s no reason DSC couldn&amp;rsquo;t do that - and it does it on a more frequent basis, making it more reliable. Right now, the targeting of a MOF isn&amp;rsquo;t as flexible as GPO targeting&amp;hellip; but that could obviously evolve. Until more of the architectural details emerge, we won&amp;rsquo;t know for sure&amp;hellip; and this is of course a v1 feature that will doubtless be expanded on and invested in as the team moves forward. We do know that the first release of DSC will not have a lot of those underlying &amp;ldquo;resource modules,&amp;rdquo; which means you won&amp;rsquo;t actually be able to configure much. This is a feature the team needs to put in place so that folks can start building those things&amp;hellip; so this is going to take a cycle or two to start being really useful.&lt;br&gt;
There&amp;rsquo;s obviously still a lot under wraps here, and this is all subject to change and tweaking as the team moves toward release. We&amp;rsquo;re told there will be some kind of public preview - but they haven&amp;rsquo;t announced a date on that. Personally, with the Build conference coming up, we can imagine that Microsoft will try and have a preview release ready for that show. There&amp;rsquo;s also no announcement of ship date. It&amp;rsquo;s still too early to tell, and I want to emphasize that the company hasn&amp;rsquo;t announced &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; dates. We can but try to make educated guesses at this stage.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 229 – MVP Jeff Hicks On The PowerShell Summit And More</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-06-04-episode-229-mvp-jeff-hicks-on-the-powershell-summit-and-more/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 03:31:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-06-04-episode-229-mvp-jeff-hicks-on-the-powershell-summit-and-more/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-229.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games Event 5 Winners</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-04-scripting-games-event-5-winners/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:08:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-04-scripting-games-event-5-winners/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re pleased to announce the winners for Event 5 of The Scripting Games 2013!&lt;br&gt;
Remember that Event 6 is now open for community voting, and that Event 6 opens up near the end of this week. That&amp;rsquo;ll be your last chance to contribute, and shortly after TechEd we&amp;rsquo;ll announce the overall winners. Good luck!&lt;br&gt;
Winners: You can log into &lt;a href="http://scriptinggames.org/"&gt;The Scripting Games Web site&lt;/a&gt; and go to your Profile page to see your prize. You will be given a prize redemption code and either a URL where you can redeem it, or an e-mail address of the prize provider (they will need the redemption code). All prizes must be claimed by the end of July 2013. I will list winners by username; if you used your e-mail address as your username, then a portion of that will be truncated for your privacy. Anyone can log in and check their Profile page to see if they&amp;rsquo;ve won a prize.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Microsoft announces PowerShell v4, DSC</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-04-microsoft-announces-powershell-v4-dsc/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:00:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-04-microsoft-announces-powershell-v4-dsc/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Yesterday at TechEd North America, Jeffrey Snover and Kenneth Hansen began describing features to be delivered with PowerShell v4 in Windows Server 2012 R2 (the company has not yet announced availability dates for either).&lt;br&gt;
In particular, a new feature called Desired State Configuration promises to become the foundation for some pretty serious expansion. Essentially, DSC lets administrators write a declarative &amp;ldquo;script&amp;rdquo; that describes what a computer should look like. PowerShell takes that, matches the declarative components with underlying modules, and ensures that the computer does, in fact, look like that. Nearly anything can be checked and controlled: roles, features, files, registry keys - anything, in fact, that a PowerShell module can do.&lt;br&gt;
The architecture includes the notion of centrally stored declarative scripts, and the ability to dynamically deploy supporting modules on an as-needed basis to computers that are checking themselves. A System Center Virtual Machine Manager demonstration utilized the feature to dynamically spin up brand-new VM instances and have them immediately reconfigure to their desired state.&lt;br&gt;
At first glance, it&amp;rsquo;s easy to see &amp;ldquo;more Microsoft stuff&amp;rdquo; in this feature. After all, the company has previous given us Dynamic Systems Management (DSM), various universal &amp;ldquo;configuration languages,&amp;rdquo; and even System Center Configuration Manager&amp;rsquo;s somewhat primitive configuration auditing feature. But keep in mind that DSC will &lt;strong&gt;be a core part of the OS.&lt;/strong&gt; That means product teams and ISVs can rely on it being there, with no other dependencies to worry about. DSC is also built around DMTF standards - like the MOF format - making it natively suitable for cross-platform management. A demo from Opscode using their Chef product showed clever use of the new DSC feature.&lt;br&gt;
Hansen also mentioned that PowerShell modules will be deployable through DSC as ZIP files, helping make them more self-contained (not entirely unlike PECL packages in the Unix world).&lt;br&gt;
There has been no announcement as yet on how far back PowerShell v4 will be made available, nor whether or not DSC is a PowerShell feature or a Windows Server 2012 R2 feature. If it is indeed a PowerShell feature (which I suspect it is), then it&amp;rsquo;ll be available on any system with v4 installed. That will hopefully include at least Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and later.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games 2013: Event 5 Notes</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-03-scripting-games-2013-event-5-notes/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 03:36:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-03-scripting-games-2013-event-5-notes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;With week 5 in the books, I can see that everyone just continues to grow and show some great submissions. Of course, nothing is perfect and can always show areas of improvement, but trust me, you are all doing an excellent job!&lt;br&gt;
I was hoping to have this article completed prior to now, but between a flight to Tech Ed and forgetting my power cord for the laptop, I am just now getting this accomplished. Better late than never :).&lt;br&gt;
With that, head over to my blog to check out my notes on Event 5 &lt;a href="http://learn-powershell.net/2013/06/03/scripting-games-2013-event-5-notes/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Next live show is June 19</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-06-03-next-live-show-is-june-19/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 11:52:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-06-03-next-live-show-is-june-19/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Jon and Hal are taking a summer break but we&amp;rsquo;ll be back before too long! Join us June 19 for the next live show. Our guests will be Glenn Block and Jim Christopher, and the topic is ScriptCS!&lt;br&gt;
We may have some TechEd content in the meantime, watch this space!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>As The Scripting Games Wrap Up…</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-01-as-the-scripting-games-wrap-up/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2013 18:39:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-06-01-as-the-scripting-games-wrap-up/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve still got, oh, about 48 hours or so for Event 6 submissions, and then of course voting and judging. &lt;strong&gt;But&lt;/strong&gt; I wanted to take a second and let you know what this year&amp;rsquo;s Games looked like:&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;ve logged over 1,100 entries. Almost 13,000 votes. More than 6,700 comments. That&amp;rsquo;s a lot - and it&amp;rsquo;ll all be &lt;a href="http://scriptinggames.org/entries"&gt;archived&lt;/a&gt; once the final votes are tallied and prizes awarded. There will be ZIP files of entries for each track and event, and I encourage you to download them over the Summer - we won&amp;rsquo;t necessarily archive them permanently.&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;ve seen an enormous range of techniques and approaches, and generated hundreds of learning notes across more than a dozen active expert commentators. We&amp;rsquo;ve awarded - with some yet to be handed out - thousands of dollars worth of prizes.&lt;br&gt;
This is also a good time to start collecting general feedback on the Games, so feel free to drop into our &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/forums/topic/post-mortem-likedislike/"&gt;official post-mortem thread and offer your feedback&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Read the introductory post in that thread&lt;/strong&gt; before you post, please. I&amp;rsquo;m asking for a specific feedback format at this time, although you&amp;rsquo;re always welcome to open your own thread if you have something specific or off-format you want to offer. I ask only that you keep things &lt;em&gt;constructive&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;professional.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Thanks to everyone who participated in the Games. We&amp;rsquo;re formulating our next event, so stay tuned.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Meet the Scripting Games Judges</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-31-meet-the-scripting-games-judges/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 20:42:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-31-meet-the-scripting-games-judges/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I can honestly say that the interactions that I&amp;quot;™ve had with the PowerShell community over the past five years have been some of the most fulfilling. There is something to watching someone learn to script. Some plateau artificially mainly because they don&amp;quot;™t want to leave the GUI. Often they&amp;quot;™re forced into learning PowerShell and stubbornly go into trying to learn as little as possible. If you competed this year you do not fall into that category. You fall into the category that I love working with Talented Specialist that weÂ watchÂ graduate from good to great. I&amp;quot;™m happy to invite this year&amp;quot;™s class into &amp;ldquo;the club&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br&gt;
For everyone else I have an invitation. If you would like to know what makes a good script great and will be in New Orleans next week for TechEd 2012 NA, then please join the judges of the Scripting Games as we do a public Code review. Simply put we&amp;quot;™ll take a script and as a group discuss what makes it good and bad. We&amp;quot;™re calling it best practices for the real word, but you&amp;quot;™ll see it listed in the directory under &lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2013/BOF-ITP23#fbid=LcGTktzJqbc" title="BOF-ITP23"&gt;BOF-ITP23&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games Week 5</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-31-scripting-games-week-5/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 15:02:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-31-scripting-games-week-5/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I loved this week&amp;quot;™s challenge as it had the right wiggle room to bring out the best in our participants.Â  Of course, this is also the point in the games when we start to get everyone&amp;quot;™s &amp;ldquo;A&amp;rdquo; game.Â  At this point even our new competitors are all warmed up and in the zone, and let me tell you the entries this week show it! Â Â I want to start with the beginners as I actually ran almost every entry this week.Â  Honestly everyone fell into one of three buckets Select-string, Import-CSV or ,Foreach.Â  Let me explain there where three primary means to solve this problem.Â  Use Select-String and some basic text parsing to get the ip addresses, and then using Select-Object to filter.Â  Converting the logs to objects with Import-CSV and using Where-Object to filter.Â  Or using Foreach and a combination of if and where.&lt;br&gt;
They are all three correct, so how does one judge one from another?Â  As this is a competition I used speed as the determining gauge. Â For a long time I was convinced that the following was about perfect.Â  Quick simple and accurate.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Free PowerShell Workshop Video from TechMentor and Me</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-31-free-powershell-workshop-video-from-techmentor-and-me/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 12:16:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-31-free-powershell-workshop-video-from-techmentor-and-me/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;At the last &lt;a href="http://techmentorevents.com"&gt;TechMentor&lt;/a&gt; (in Orlando), I did a Windows PowerShell pre-conference workshop. The conference was kind enough to let me record it - I basically just used Camtasia, so this isn&amp;rsquo;t a professional video by any stretch, but it gives you an idea of what a TechMentor conference is like. Obviously, my focus was on the folks in the room, but you can see all of the demos and hear me pretty clearly. &lt;a href="http://techmentorevents.com/forms/don-jones-video.aspx"&gt;You can view the video for free&lt;/a&gt;, although note that registration is required.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tobias' Event 5 Notes</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-31-tobias-event-5-notes/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 12:12:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-31-tobias-event-5-notes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Find &amp;rsquo;em at &lt;a href="http://www.powertheshell.com/scripting-games-task-5-commentary/"&gt;http://www.powertheshell.com/scripting-games-task-5-commentary/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Notes on Event 5</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-30-notes-on-event-5/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 13:54:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-30-notes-on-event-5/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Into the home stretch and the entries just keep getting better! The only advice I&amp;rsquo;d like to offer this time is to be careful to read the instructions carefully. They included the specific folder where the files were located and I noticed several misinterpretations in the scripts. Some included a mandatory Path parameter and others had a default Path that was not the specified folder. Including an optional Path with the correct default would certainly be acceptable, but not those variations.&lt;br&gt;
The instructions also included some ambiguity about what the log file actually contains. Was the client IP address in the first column (as specified in the instructions) or in a different column (as presented in the example logs)? There were a number of entries that just searched the logs for IP addresses and returned all of them. This approach would not be able to distinguished between the client and server addresses, which would give a wrong answer. Another approach searched for the &amp;ldquo;c-ip&amp;rdquo; column, but this would only work if the log files were as in the samples. Another method, select the second IP address in a line would also only work on the sample log style. There weren&amp;rsquo;t many entries that supported both file types, but one of them did it in a very concise manner, checking the first and ninth columns for an IP address and selecting the correct one.&lt;br&gt;
Most of the entries used &lt;em&gt;Sort-Object -Unique&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Select-Object -Unique&lt;/em&gt; to eliminate duplicates, which was the first approach that I thought of. There were several entries, however,Â that used alternate methods that I thought were quite clever applications of PowerShell technology: hash tables with the IP address as the key, and &lt;em&gt;Group-Object&lt;/em&gt; on the IP address. Both options provided a fairly simple way to also report the instance count for each address.&lt;br&gt;
Returning an instance count sounds like an interesting option, but after thinking about it some more, I&amp;rsquo;m not so sure. Counts of the number of sessions and the hits per session would be much more interesting than the raw hits count. But that&amp;rsquo;s way, way beyond the scope of this event.&lt;br&gt;
Anyway, just one more event to go. I&amp;rsquo;m expecting a spectacular finish!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tonight! Kevin Hill from NetApp on Workflow Automation!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-05-29-tonight-kevin-hill-from-netapp-on-workflow-automation/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 16:15:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-05-29-tonight-kevin-hill-from-netapp-on-workflow-automation/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(We are recording on a new night (summer schedule), so update your calendars!)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/200px-netapp_logo-svg.png" alt="200px-Netapp_logo.svg"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Tonight we are joined byÂ &lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kevin-hill/15/219/a29"&gt;Kevin Hill&lt;/a&gt;, an Automation Solutions Architect from NetApp. He&amp;rsquo;ll be talking with us about a cool product from NetApp calledÂ &lt;a href="http://www.netapp.com/us/products/management-software/workflow-automation/"&gt;OnCommand Workflow Automation&lt;/a&gt;Â which, as you might have guessed, is based on PowerShell!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As always, join us live at 9:30 PM EST Thursdays Wednesdays atÂ 
&lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net/"&gt;http://live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;
!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>"Super Secret" Snover Session at TechEd</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-29-super-secret-snover-session-at-teched/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 12:39:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-29-super-secret-snover-session-at-teched/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;So what&amp;rsquo;s with the &lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2013/MDC-B302#fbid=nMfDOO99OjI"&gt;&amp;ldquo;super secret&amp;rdquo; PowerShell session&lt;/a&gt; being given by Jeffrey Snover at TechEd 2013?&lt;br&gt;
First, if you&amp;rsquo;ll be in New Orleans, plan to attend this. The deal is pretty simple: Microsoft has got a lot of information pertaining to v.Next under embargo, which means people can&amp;rsquo;t talk about it yet, or even tell you the title of the session. But trust me, if you&amp;rsquo;re interested in the world of DevOps (and if you use PowerShell, you are), you&amp;rsquo;ll want to be at this session. PowerShell MVPs were given a sneak peek at what Snover will be discussing, and it&amp;rsquo;ll frankly blow your mind. It will, over the long haul, put PowerShell in a completely new place - and you&amp;rsquo;ll want to get in on the ground floor.&lt;br&gt;
Like most sessions at TechEd, it appears as if they&amp;rsquo;ll be recording this, so even if you can&amp;rsquo;t attend in person be sure to check back once the recording is live. That usually takes a day or two after the talk itself.&lt;br&gt;
And spread the word a bit. There&amp;rsquo;s a bit of a worry that, because even theÂ &lt;em&gt;title&lt;/em&gt; of the session won&amp;rsquo;t be announced until TechEd formally commences, folks won&amp;rsquo;t have much time to realize the session exists and it&amp;rsquo;ll go empty. We don&amp;rsquo;t want that to happen - as with any new developments in PowerShell, it&amp;rsquo;s crucial to get folks thinking about it early, to get their feedback early, and to start planning for it early.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Notes for Event 5</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-29-notes-for-event-5/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 12:27:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-29-notes-for-event-5/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Jan Egil, or Norwegian expert commentator/judge, has posted his learning notes for Event 5:Â &lt;a href="http://blog.powershell.no/2013/05/28/2013-scripting-games-learning-points-from-event-5/"&gt;http://blog.powershell.no/2013/05/28/2013-scripting-games-learning-points-from-event-5/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 228.1 – Bonus BOF Session from SQL Saturday in Atlanta hosted by Jim Christopher and Mark Schill</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-05-28-episode-228-1-bonus-bof-session-from-sql-saturday-in-atlanta-hosted-by-jim-christopher-and-mark-schill/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 03:29:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-05-28-episode-228-1-bonus-bof-session-from-sql-saturday-in-atlanta-hosted-by-jim-christopher-and-mark-schill/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-228.1.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recorded live at:Â &lt;a href="http://sqlsaturday.com/220/"&gt;http://sqlsaturday.com/220/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/beefarino"&gt;Jim Christopher&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/PowerSchill"&gt;Mark Schill&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games Event 4 Winners</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-28-scripting-games-event-4-winners/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 13:32:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-28-scripting-games-event-4-winners/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re pleased to announce the winners for Event 4 of The Scripting Games 2013!&lt;br&gt;
Remember that Event 5 is now open for community voting, and that Event 6 opens up near the end of this week. That&amp;rsquo;ll be your last chance to contribute, and shortly after TechEd we&amp;rsquo;ll announce the overall winners. Good luck!&lt;br&gt;
Winners: You can log into &lt;a href="http://scriptinggames.org/"&gt;The Scripting Games Web site&lt;/a&gt; and go to your Profile page to see your prize. You will be given a prize redemption code and either a URL where you can redeem it, or an e-mail address of the prize provider (they will need the redemption code). All prizes must be claimed by the end of July 2013. I will list winners by username; if you used your e-mail address as your username, then a portion of that will be truncated for your privacy. Anyone can log in and check their Profile page to see if they&amp;rsquo;ve won a prize.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Event 4: My notes…</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-25-event-4-my-notes/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 21:09:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-25-event-4-my-notes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Active Directory is one of those things I just love to work with. That&amp;rsquo;s why I was really looking forward to this event. As always, I learned few things, but still - seen some mistakes that I would like to highlight. As always - you can read about those both in &lt;a href="http://powershellpl.net/2013/05/25/scripting-games-moje-notatki-4/"&gt;Polish&lt;/a&gt; and in &lt;a href="http://becomelotr.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/event-4-my-notes/"&gt;English&lt;/a&gt;. Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games Week 4</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-24-scripting-games-week-4/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 21:37:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-24-scripting-games-week-4/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Again if you&amp;quot;™re participating in the games this year you&amp;quot;™ve already won!Â  If you&amp;quot;™re not and you&amp;quot;™re reading this post what are you doing!Â  I&amp;quot;™ve watched authors step there game up over the past month, and I can tell you from personal experience the games will make you better at your real job.Â  It&amp;quot;™s like sharpening an axe, an axe made of super juice that can automate the world 🙂&lt;br&gt;
**Well that&amp;rsquo;sÂ clever!&lt;br&gt;
** I came across this script this morning.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The new PowerShell Class is Coming to a CPLS Near You!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-24-the-new-powershell-class-is-coming-to-a-cpls-near-you/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 21:00:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-24-the-new-powershell-class-is-coming-to-a-cpls-near-you/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Looking for a great getting-started PowerShell class? Or perhaps you&amp;rsquo;d like to send a colleague or peer to some PowerShell &amp;ldquo;zero to hero&amp;rdquo; training?&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;ve just finished the official beta-teach of Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s 10961, Automating Administration with Windows PowerShell, and it wentÂ _great.Â _The sequencing of the class was spot-on, and we had an absolutely incredible group of students. Many were n00bs, which was perfect; a couple had &amp;ldquo;some&amp;rdquo; shell experience but wanted to learn &amp;ldquo;the right way.&amp;rdquo; And they did.&lt;br&gt;
Through a series of 12 modules, you&amp;rsquo;re led through the basics all the way up to writing your own script. The grand semi-finale has you creating a script that provisions a brand-new, freshly-installed Server Core instance - all without logging on to that instance at all. The high moment for me was when one student, after struggling a bit to get started on the provisioning lab, concluded with a &amp;ldquo;well, that did it.&amp;rdquo; Everything came together for him: command discovery, help, scripting, variables, remoting,Â &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of it. HeÂ &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; the task, from scratch, with practically no help. He&amp;rsquo;sÂ _there.Â _&lt;br&gt;
10961 replaces MS course 10325, and it will soon be supplemented by a Microsoft Courseware Marketplace title that goes further into scripting, error handling, debugging, and more&amp;hellip; what I&amp;rsquo;ve taken to callingÂ _toolmaking.Â _We&amp;rsquo;ll hopefully continue to refresh both courses as PowerShell evolves.&lt;br&gt;
So call your local Microsoft Certified Partner - Learning Systems (&amp;ldquo;training center&amp;rdquo;) and see when they&amp;rsquo;re offering 10961. A bit of caution: this is a class where, unfortunately, an inexperienced MCT will be really challenged. While the course book is a full, almost-500-page book (you&amp;rsquo;re welcome), it&amp;rsquo;s tightly timed and you&amp;rsquo;ll definitely want to check the credentials and experience of whatever trainer is running the class. You can&amp;rsquo;t just &amp;ldquo;read the slides&amp;rdquo; to stay a module ahead of the students on this one.&lt;br&gt;
This class isÂ &lt;em&gt;strongly&lt;/em&gt; based uponÂ _Learn Windows PowerShell 3.0 in a Month of Lunches,Â _in terms of how the material is presented, although the sequence and narrative was altered a bit to better accommodate Microsoft requirements and classroom logistics. I&amp;rsquo;mÂ &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; proud of how the course turned out - so if you&amp;rsquo;ve got folks who need some PowerShell training, tell &amp;rsquo;em to look it up. Many CPLS centers offer remote training, too, meaning you can attend from the comfort of your own home or office.&lt;br&gt;
If you take the class, I&amp;rsquo;d love to hear what you think.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games 2013: Event 4 Notes</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-23-scripting-games-2013-event-4-notes/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 01:21:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-23-scripting-games-2013-event-4-notes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;It is all downhill from here folks! Event 4 is in the books and we only have 2 more to go! Everyone has been doing an outstanding job with their submissions and it is becoming clear that people are learning new things and showing some great techniques with their code.&lt;br&gt;
Of course, thisÂ doesn&amp;rsquo;tÂ mean that thereÂ isn&amp;rsquo;tÂ room for improvement with some submissions to make them even better or just some simple mistakes that can be cleaned up to make average submissions into amazing submissions. With that, its time to dive into my notes&amp;quot;¦ You can check out the rest of this article &lt;a href="http://learn-powershell.net/2013/05/23/scripting-games-2013-event-4-notes/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Event 4 Notes</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-23-event-4-notes/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 15:10:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-23-event-4-notes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Loved seeingÂ &lt;strong&gt;[OutputType([PSObject])]&lt;/strong&gt; in an entry this morning&amp;hellip; that helps the help system document what your script produces. It&amp;rsquo;s a shame it doesn&amp;rsquo;t work well with custom type names (since those are a bit of a fake-out on the object), but it&amp;rsquo;s an attention to detail I appreciate.&lt;br&gt;
IÂ &lt;strong&gt;am&lt;/strong&gt; seeing a little bit of misunderstandings. Keep in mind that the lastLogonTimestamp attribute in AD is the one that replicates, although there is a long possible delay in that replication. There are other &amp;ldquo;last logged on&amp;rdquo; attributes thatÂ &lt;em&gt;don&amp;rsquo;t&lt;/em&gt; replicate so you can&amp;rsquo;t rely on them unless you&amp;rsquo;re querying every DC (pretty inefficient).&lt;br&gt;
Hey, one thing to think about: sometimes simpler is better. For example, instead of adding a dozen lines to check and see if a module exists and can be loaded, just add a #requires comment for that module. Let the shell do that work and spew an error if the module isn&amp;rsquo;t present. It&amp;rsquo;ll even force-load the module into memory. Saves lots of steps.&lt;br&gt;
Hey, don&amp;rsquo;t declare functions asÂ &lt;strong&gt;global:Do-This&lt;/strong&gt;. It&amp;rsquo;s a neat trick, but you&amp;rsquo;re polluting the shell&amp;rsquo;s global scope. Plan to write in-scope functions and make them a script module, so they can be loaded and unloaded. From the Games perspective, &amp;ldquo;whatever,&amp;rdquo; but in the real world&amp;hellip; don&amp;rsquo;t pollute the global scope.&lt;br&gt;
A comment I saw: &amp;ldquo;You should check to make sure the module isn&amp;rsquo;t loaded before loading it again.&amp;rdquo; Disagree. The shell does this for you when you use Import-Module. But, doc your module dependency in a #requires, and you won&amp;rsquo;t have to worry about the module. In fact, the whole theme of &amp;ldquo;checking to see if the AD module is loaded&amp;rdquo; appears to be a major point of commenting. I&amp;rsquo;m a fan of &amp;ldquo;easier&amp;rdquo; and a 1-lineÂ &lt;strong&gt;#requires -module ActiveDirectory&lt;/strong&gt; is far easier to write and maintain than, say, and entire function designed specifically to load the ActiveDirectory module.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Judge notes for Event 4</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-23-judge-notes-for-event-4/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 14:56:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-23-judge-notes-for-event-4/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Â Wow! That&amp;rsquo;s the only word I can think of to describe the submissions this time. I&amp;rsquo;m really impressed with the approaches taken to solve this problem. The only thing that could have been better is quitting when the ActiveDirectory module or the Quest snapin weren&amp;rsquo;t found. I chalked that up to not having experience with an actual audit where no answer is not acceptable, so I didn&amp;rsquo;t count against it when evaluating the scripts. But, on this point kudos to the one script that tested for the AD module, then the Quest snapin, and fell back to the ADSI accelerator if neither were found.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Beginner entries&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
For me, the best entries were those that had the shortest pipelines. Those of you who used &lt;em&gt;Get-Random -Count 20 -InputObject (Get-ADUser&amp;hellip;) | Select &amp;hellip; | ConvertTo-Html | Out-File&lt;/em&gt; had the shortest. AndÂ thoseÂ who used &lt;em&gt;Get-ADUser | Get-Random -Count 20&lt;/em&gt; were aÂ close second.&lt;br&gt;
A couple of entries had something that at first I thought was silly. But, instead, itÂ offers a learning opportunity. Here&amp;rsquo;s the code fragment: &lt;em&gt;Get-ADUser -Filter {ObjectClass -eq &amp;lsquo;User&amp;rsquo;}&lt;/em&gt;. Paying attention to what the cmdlet doesÂ saves a lot ofÂ typing, not only here where the filter is redundant, but also when entering other parameters. For example,Â a similar extra effort occurs when default properties are explicitly listed in a -Properties parameter.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Advanced entries&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
As mentioned, the best entries were those that fell back to the [ADSI] accelerator when the AD module or the Quest snapin weren&amp;rsquo;t found. Making this kind of check and fallback is pretty important when responding to audit requests. This reminds me of a case where I actually had to respond to an audit request with the actual last logon date in a domain with mixed W2K3, W2K8, and W2K8R2 domain controllers. The default choice was to use the AD module, but since we had to check each domain controller (there were 72 of them), it turned out to be a real pain determining which method to use on each of them. In the end, we decided to install the Quest tools on the audit server and just avoid the issue.&lt;br&gt;
There were several different methods used to verify the presence of the AD module before trying to load it. Most of them were actually more work that really necessary. The reason for this is that the Import-Module cmdlet does not return an error if the module has already been loaded. Thus, the easiest test would be:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Want a premier PowerShell class in your area next year? Help me make it happen.</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-23-want-a-premier-powershell-class-in-your-area-next-year-help-me-make-it-happen/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 14:18:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-23-want-a-premier-powershell-class-in-your-area-next-year-help-me-make-it-happen/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re putting together our schedule for 2014 (yes, already), and we&amp;rsquo;re looking to hold premier-level PowerShell master classes throughout the world. But&amp;hellip; we need your help.&lt;br&gt;
If you&amp;rsquo;ve got a really top-notch training center in your area that might be interested in working with us, &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/contact-us/"&gt;contact me&lt;/a&gt;. We&amp;rsquo;ll need the name of someone there - the training manager, the marketing manager, someone like that. We co-market our classes, but rely on a local center to market to their existing customer base as well. TheseÂ &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; premium classes, and they do go for a premium price, so the center has to be comfortable marketing that kind of class. We&amp;rsquo;re not the run-of-the-mill &amp;ldquo;official curriculum;&amp;rdquo; my Master Class packs in around eleven days of &amp;ldquo;normal&amp;rdquo; training, covering toolmaking, scripting, and advanced topics as well as the introductory-level stuff.Â _&lt;br&gt;
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International contacts are fine, and in fact it&amp;rsquo;s something I&amp;rsquo;m excited to get going, as international classes also help me set up future PowerShell Forum and PowerShell Saturday events in a country or region.&lt;br&gt;
So think about your area and see if we might be a fit, and if you&amp;rsquo;ve got a really top-notch training center you can put us in touch with!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Jan Egil's Event 4 Notes</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-22-jan-egils-event-4-notes/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:47:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-22-jan-egils-event-4-notes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Jan offers some perspective on Event 4 atÂ &lt;a href="http://blog.powershell.no/2013/05/22/2013-scripting-games-learning-points-from-event-4/"&gt;http://blog.powershell.no/2013/05/22/2013-scripting-games-learning-points-from-event-4/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 228 – MVP Darren Mar-Elia talks about Group Policy and PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-05-21-episode-228-mvp-darren-mar-elia-talks-about-group-policy-and-powershell/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 04:03:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-05-21-episode-228-mvp-darren-mar-elia-talks-about-group-policy-and-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;** Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-228.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Darren Mar-Elia about Group Policy!
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 [The Scripting Games are on](https://powershell.org/category/announcements/scripting-games/)





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 The 2013 PowerShell Summit [videos have been posted!](http://trevorsullivan.net/2013/05/07/powershell-summit-2013-videos/) - new link





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 The Central Ohio PowerShell user group is [meeting May 23rd](http://powershellgroup.org/central.oh/2013-05-23)





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 The DFW user group is [meeting on May 23rd](http://powershellgroup.org/2013-05-23)





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 The PowerShell Bangalore User Group is [meeting on June 1st](http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog/?p=2793&amp;amp;utm_source=feedly&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RavikanthChaganti+(From+Ravikanth's+Blog))
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&lt;p&gt;**&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>ValidateScript for Beginners</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-21-validatescript-for-beginners/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:03:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-21-validatescript-for-beginners/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;There&amp;quot;™s been a lot of chatter about in Scripting Games 2013 blog posts about the ValidateScript attribute. The chatter is, appropriately, confined to the advanced events &amp;ldquo;“ this sort of thing is not expected in a one-liner. But I thought I&amp;rdquo;™d take a minute and demystify it &amp;ldquo;“ and discuss an issue that it raises about when input should be rejected.&lt;br&gt;
Let&amp;rdquo;™s start with a quick description of ValidateScript and its siblings. For help, see &lt;a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=135173"&gt;about_functions_advanced_parameters&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games Event 3 Winners</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-21-scripting-games-event-3-winners/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:41:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-21-scripting-games-event-3-winners/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re pleased to announce the winners for Event 3 of The Scripting Games 2013!&lt;br&gt;
Winners: You can log into &lt;a href="http://scriptinggames.org/"&gt;The Scripting Games Web site&lt;/a&gt; and go to your Profile page to see your prize. You will be given a prize redemption code and either a URL where you can redeem it, or an e-mail address of the prize provider (they will need the redemption code). All prizes must be claimed by the end of July 2013. I will list winners by username; if you used your e-mail address as your username, then a portion of that will be truncated for your privacy. Anyone can log in and check their Profile page to see if they&amp;rsquo;ve won a prize.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Our hosting company is doing some maintenance on their admin site, so it may be a day or two before redemption codes appear in your Scripting Games profile. Appreciate your patience.&lt;br&gt;
And seriously, you&amp;rsquo;re killing me with the usernames. Heh.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Some Event 3 Notes</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-18-some-event-3-notes/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 14:23:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-18-some-event-3-notes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I didn&amp;rsquo;t see anyone (although I&amp;rsquo;ll admit I haven&amp;rsquo;t checked every entry) using my EnhancedHTML module from &lt;em&gt;Creating HTML Reports in PowerShell.&lt;/em&gt; I am ensaddened.&lt;br&gt;
But man, Event 3 shows that you can really do well by learning a wee bit of HTML. Knowing an H2 and HR tag makes for much pretty results. Take it as career advice.&lt;br&gt;
As a nitpick, don&amp;rsquo;t use Convert as a function verb unless all the function is going to do is convert something. It shouldn&amp;rsquo;t &amp;ldquo;Get&amp;rdquo; as well. That said, because this event wants a single function that both gets and converts&amp;hellip; which is something I&amp;rsquo;d ordinarily avoid packing into one function&amp;hellip; no big. It&amp;rsquo;s interesting to see the function names folks picked out.&lt;br&gt;
Folks, &lt;strong&gt;test your scripts.&lt;/strong&gt; Seriously.&lt;br&gt;
I kinda giggled when I saw this comment in an entry:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Your Weekend Games Report</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-18-your-weekend-games-report/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 14:05:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-18-your-weekend-games-report/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s been a crazy-busy week for me, so I&amp;rsquo;m just getting caught up here. I&amp;rsquo;m off observing the beta-teach of the new 10961A PowerShell 3 class in Phoenix next week, but I&amp;rsquo;ll be keeping an eye on the Games.&lt;br&gt;
So let&amp;rsquo;s run some numbers.&lt;br&gt;
The Games have 2092 users at present, along with 10960 scores and 5412 comments. There are 849 total entries.&lt;br&gt;
Regarding Event 3, we have 109 Advanced entries and 122 Beginner entries. The average beginner score is 2.8416, and the advanced score is 2.8512. Darn close.&lt;br&gt;
Site traffic is up to 25,000 visits from 18,200 unique visitors, for a total of 56,000 page views and a poo-load of bandwidth. I should have Event 3 winners posted on Tuesday sometime.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Meet the Scripting Games Judges: Olver Lipkau</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-18-meet-the-scripting-games-judges-olver-lipkau/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 13:36:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-18-meet-the-scripting-games-judges-olver-lipkau/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I have been working for AtoS, formaly Siemens IT Solutions and Services, for 6 years as a IT Consultant.&lt;br&gt;
I was 15 when I started scripting. First only batch scripts to automate simple things. With time the scriptt grew in complexity and languages. VBS, AutoIt, AHK and finally PowerShell, which superseeded all others. PowerShell became a passion and became more and more a daily thing.&lt;br&gt;
I was invited to be a judge for the Scripting Games in 2011, 2012 and now 2013.&lt;br&gt;
You are welcome to visit my Blog at &lt;a href="http://oliver.lipkau.net/blog"&gt;http://oliver.lipkau.net/blog&lt;/a&gt; and check out what I have been up to.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Event 3: My notes…</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-17-event-3-my-notes/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 21:56:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-17-event-3-my-notes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m almost done judging event 3, perfect time to share few thoughts about things I&amp;rsquo;ve seen in this event. A lot of great entries, but still few things that could have been done (in my opinion) better. If you want to know my general opinion - you can read it either in &lt;a href="http://becomelotr.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/event-3-my-notes/"&gt;English&lt;/a&gt; or in &lt;a href="http://powershellpl.net/2013/05/17/scripting-games-moje-notatki-3/"&gt;Polish&lt;/a&gt;. Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Birds of a Feather sessions at MS TechEd</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-05-17-powershell-birds-of-a-feather-sessions-at-ms-teched/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:49:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-05-17-powershell-birds-of-a-feather-sessions-at-ms-teched/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post updated with catalog numbers and rooms.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Great news! Both of Hal&amp;rsquo;s Birds of a Feather session were accepted to the North America TechEd show this year. The details are:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CODE: BOF-ITP04&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;TITLE: PowerScripting: Windows PowerShell Best Practices from the Field with The Scripting Guy&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SPEAKER: E. Wilson, H. Rottenberg&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;TIMESLOT: 6/3 at 3:00 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ROOM: 264&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CODE: BOF-ITP05&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;TITLE: Getting Started with Windows PowerShell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SPEAKER: H. Rottenberg&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;TIMESLOT: 6/3 at 4:45 pm&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scheduled PowerShell.org Maintenance May 17-18</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-16-scheduled-powershell-org-maintenance-may-17-18/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 00:04:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-16-scheduled-powershell-org-maintenance-may-17-18/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ll be doing some maintenance on the site Friday and Saturday, and it may be down for periods during the maintenance. Don&amp;rsquo;t panic. This will not affect access to The Scripting Games Web site at all.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Jan Egil's Event 3 Learning Points</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-16-jan-egils-event-3-learning-points/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:54:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-16-jan-egils-event-3-learning-points/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Another judge steps up with some tips! &lt;a href="http://blog.powershell.no/2013/05/16/2013-scripting-games-learning-points-from-event-3/"&gt;http://blog.powershell.no/2013/05/16/2013-scripting-games-learning-points-from-event-3/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>More Updates to the Scripting Games</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-16-more-updates-to-the-scripting-games/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:50:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-16-more-updates-to-the-scripting-games/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve been making some more programming changes to the Scripting Games, based on folks&amp;rsquo; feedback. &lt;strong&gt;If you run into problems, please notify me via the Feedback Forums link at the bottom of every page on the site.&lt;/strong&gt; Use the email address provided. Don&amp;rsquo;t post a comment here, because I might not see it quickly.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Multiple comments per reviewer -&lt;/strong&gt; you can now leave multiple comments on an entry. Combined with the ability to mark your comment as pertaining to a line or range of lines, this should allow for more granular commenting.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comment without voting -&lt;/strong&gt; you are now free to offer comments without offering a score.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Delete comments&lt;/strong&gt; - you can now delete the comments you have written.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m still plugging away at some IE9/10-related errors, which are causing the code reviewer/voter/commenter to not display on some entries. In the meantime, Safari, Chrome, and Firefox seem to be working fine.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>No show tonight!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-05-16-no-show-tonight-6/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 19:53:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-05-16-no-show-tonight-6/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Jonathan is taking a vacation break and there will be no show tonight. Be sure to save up your PowerShell energy for May 23rd when we&amp;rsquo;ll be having Jeff Hicks on the show to talk about the PowerShell Deep Dive book!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tobias' Notes for Event 3</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-16-tobias-notes-for-event-3/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 19:18:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-16-tobias-notes-for-event-3/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Tobias has some notes for Event 3 for you: &lt;a href="http://www.powertheshell.com/scripting-games-task-3-commentary/"&gt;http://www.powertheshell.com/scripting-games-task-3-commentary/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Judge notes for event 3</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-16-judge-notes-for-event-3/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:33:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-16-judge-notes-for-event-3/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This event&amp;rsquo;s entries are impressive. Scoring appears to beÂ higher than in the earlier events, so this one must have been easier to solve. So this time, instead of talking about good and bad scripts, I&amp;rsquo;m going to comment on some of the techniques I saw.&lt;br&gt;
There was some &amp;ldquo;conversation&amp;rdquo; over whether Win32_Volume or Win32_LogicalDisk was the better approach to take. Fact is, either will return the requested data. So it really doesn&amp;rsquo;t matter which oneÂ you use. The controversy seemed to include misreading or misunderstanding the requirement of reporting on &amp;ldquo;local hard drives&amp;rdquo;, which implies that you need to use &lt;em&gt;-Filter &amp;ldquo;DriveType=3&amp;rdquo;&lt;/em&gt; (or equivalent) with either to eliminate network or CD/DVD drives.&lt;br&gt;
When passing a Path parameter into a function, it&amp;rsquo;s a good practice to include _[ValidateScriptÂ ({Test-Path -PathType Container})]_Â in the definition to avoid having a file name passed in error. Doing theÂ existenceÂ test forÂ the path and creating it if necessary in the Begin section of the function would save some time over the various techniques used in the Process section.&lt;br&gt;
One thing to remember when using a CIMSessionÂ is to close it when you&amp;rsquo;ve finished using it. A couple other points to pay attention toÂ include accounting for theÂ DCOM/WSMAN options when looking at remote computers and including _#requires -version 3_Â in scripts that might be run by other people on computers that might not have PowerShell 3 installed.&lt;br&gt;
Using a REGEX to validate a string parameter, such as a computer name, isn&amp;rsquo;t a bad idea, but it&amp;rsquo;s important to understand exactly what the match string means. As an example, some of the match strings included a pattern like this: &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;[a-zA-Z0-9.-]&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;. This means all lower and upper case letters, any numeric digit, any character, or a minus sign. The any character (&amp;quot;.&amp;quot;) defeats the whole purpose of the match. It really should have been escapedÂ to &amp;ldquo;.&amp;rdquo; to mean a period. This error would probably never appear due to the unlikelihoodÂ of a badlyÂ formatted computer name being fed into the function.&lt;br&gt;
Lastly, a caution when including an optional credentials parameter. It&amp;rsquo;s probably not a good idea to default it to an empty credential object &lt;em&gt;($Credential = [System.Management.Automation.PSCredential]::Empty)&lt;/em&gt;. If you do a _if ($Credential) {}_Â call later in the script, it will always be $true and you may end up calling for the user to enter credentials far too many times. A better solution would be to check PSBoundParametersÂ to see if a credential object was passed in.&lt;br&gt;
Hope these ideas help. Good luck in Event 4.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games 2013: Event 3 Notes</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-15-scripting-games-2013-event-3-notes/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 03:03:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-15-scripting-games-2013-event-3-notes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Wow, it is hard to believe that we are now halfway through the Scripting Games! As the events have progressed, I have seen a lot of improvement with the techniques as well as seeing new techniques that continue to impress me. On the flip side, I have seen some mistakes or assumptions when coding that cause a potential 5 star script to be a 2 or 3 star script. The best part about all of this is that we are all (yes, even the judges) learning new things that can only help to improve everyone&amp;quot;™s scripting knowledge. Check out the rest of the &lt;a href="http://learn-powershell.net/2013/05/15/scripting-games-2013-event-3-notes/"&gt;article here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Meet the Scripting Games Judges: Bartek Bielawski</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-15-meet-the-scripting-games-judges-bartek-bielawski/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:18:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-15-meet-the-scripting-games-judges-bartek-bielawski/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Bartosz (Bartek) Bielawski is a busy IT Administrator with an international company, PAREXEL. He loves PowerShell and automation. That love earned him the honor of Microsoft MVP. He shares his knowledge mainly on his blogs: in English (&lt;a href="http://becomelotr.wordpress.com"&gt;http://becomelotr.wordpress.com&lt;/a&gt;) and Polish (&lt;a href="http://powershellpl.net"&gt;http://powershellpl.net&lt;/a&gt;) and through articles published in the Polish IT Professional (&lt;a href="http://it-professional.pl"&gt;http://it-professional.pl&lt;/a&gt;) magazine. He is co-author of PowerShell Deep Dives book (&lt;a href="http://www.manning.com/hicks/)"&gt;http://www.manning.com/hicks/)&lt;/a&gt;. He loves good code that takes advantage of PowerShell pipeline and advanced functions grouped in modules.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games Event 2 Winners</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-14-scripting-games-event-1-winners-1/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:22:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-14-scripting-games-event-1-winners-1/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re pleased to announce the winners for Event 2 of The Scripting Games 2013!&lt;br&gt;
Winners: You can log into &lt;a href="http://scriptinggames.org/"&gt;The Scripting Games Web site&lt;/a&gt; and go to your Profile page to see your prize. You will be given a prize redemption code and either a URL where you can redeem it, or an e-mail address of the prize provider (they will need the redemption code). All prizes must be claimed by the end of July 2013. I will list winners by username; if you used your e-mail address as your username, then a portion of that will be truncated for your privacy. Anyone can log in and check their Profile page to see if they&amp;rsquo;ve won a prize.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Announcing the PowerShell Summit North America 2014</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-14-announcing-the-powershell-summit-north-america-2014/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 14:39:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-14-announcing-the-powershell-summit-north-america-2014/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The PowerShell Summit North America 2014 will be held April 28, 29, and 30 at the Meydenbauer Center on Northeast 6th Street in Bellevue, WA.&lt;br&gt;
Your membership in the PowerShell Summit also makes you a yearlong member of PowerShell.org, the online hub for the PowerShell community. Membership includes a daily continental breakfast, daily hot lunch, and three tracks of expert-led lectures and discussions. 2014 tracks include:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;INTERNALS: Inner secrets of PowerShell, suitable for developers and admins alike.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;DEEP DIVES: Dig into technically rich topics related to the shell itself and broad administrative tasks.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;DOMAIN SPECIFIC: Focus on managing specific server products and technologies using the shell.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[NB: For tax reasons, you become a &amp;ldquo;member&amp;rdquo; of the organization and go to our meeting as part of that; we don&amp;rsquo;t sell &amp;ldquo;tickets.&amp;rdquo;]&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Pricing&lt;/strong&gt; will range from $750-$950. We&amp;rsquo;d originally hoped to do a flat price, but the logistics of our venue is pushing this decision. So we&amp;rsquo;ll be offering discounted tickets first, and then moving up the price as we go. Get in early to get the cheap seats!&lt;br&gt;
If you choose to stay at one of our official hotels, you&amp;rsquo;ll enjoy a reduced room rate, complimentary in-room Internet, and a short 15-minute walk to the Meydenbauer Center. We recommend taking a shuttle from the airport (&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/ZNWGcw"&gt;http://bit.ly/ZNWGcw&lt;/a&gt; $20oneway; taxis $65+) instead of a rental car; parking is NOT complimentary.&lt;br&gt;
NEARBY HOTELS include: Sheraton (&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/10mVQog)"&gt;http://bit.ly/10mVQog)&lt;/a&gt;, Hilton (&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/YsQiq8)"&gt;http://bit.ly/YsQiq8)&lt;/a&gt;, and Red Lion (&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/10gXH8v)"&gt;http://bit.ly/10gXH8v)&lt;/a&gt;. All are adjacent to each other and are a .6 mile walk to the Meydenbauer Center. Courtyard by Marriott (&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/12RvG9a"&gt;http://bit.ly/12RvG9a&lt;/a&gt;) is across the street from the Meydenbauer Center. We do not yet have official room availability and rates.&lt;br&gt;
These hotels are also less than a 4-minute taxi ride (under $5oneway) to downtown Bellevue, full of retail, dining, bars, and nightlife. You will probably spend MORE on a rental car (around $100 best-case, plus parking fees and fuel).&lt;br&gt;
We will have a small-bandwidth Internet pipe available for WiFi use at the conference center. We recommend that you NOT rely on it for mission-critical or business-sensitive tasks, as it is a shared pipe and will likely have poor performance during peak usage.&lt;br&gt;
We are not currently planning to offer power outlets in rooms. You may NOT stretch power cords across walkways to plug in your laptop. We are seeking out a Power Sponsor - the cost to have enough power for everyone&amp;rsquo;s laptop is about $20,000 (it&amp;rsquo;s one way conference centers make their profits), so this is a significant expense.&lt;br&gt;
We are planning a brief private meet-and-greet reception for PowerShell.org, Inc. shareholders. We are also planning general evening events.&lt;br&gt;
MEMBERSHIP SALES WILL BEGIN IN JULY with a private announcement to our 2013 alumni and our shareholders. After that, we will offer a block of memberships to our TechLetter subscribers. These folks will have first dibs not only on the event, but also on our limited block of nearby and discounted hotel rooms. We will release subsequent blocks in 2013 and 2014 for the public.&lt;br&gt;
FULL DETAILS will always be available online at &lt;a href="http://PowerShellSummit.org"&gt;http://PowerShellSummit.org&lt;/a&gt; (this will redirect to the appropriate page for information and news).&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;: I know there&amp;rsquo;s a bit of disappointment that we&amp;rsquo;re not &amp;ldquo;on campus.&amp;rdquo; First&amp;hellip; understand that we were a little under-the-radar in 2013, in terms of outside groups doing what we did in those particular locations. We also need to grow the event a bit in order to make it financially self-sustaining. And, the real clincher, no place &amp;ldquo;on campus&amp;rdquo; could accommodate us. However, &amp;ldquo;campus&amp;rdquo; (this is why I keep putting it in quotes) spans Redmond and Bellevue - we&amp;rsquo;re actually adjacent to Microsoft offices, in 2014, and we&amp;rsquo;re scheduling an evening event (community/team mixer, with team Q&amp;amp;A stations) in MS facilities. We&amp;rsquo;ll also try to wrangle a company store/museum visit (there&amp;rsquo;s a company Connector Shuttle that runs to Commons, which is where the store and museum are located). Most importantly, our location will ensure team participation - which is what doing this in the Seattle metro was all about. In fact, we&amp;rsquo;re planning expanded team participation, with the addition of team-led &amp;ldquo;lightning demos&amp;rdquo; that will highlight cool features and tricks, and which will be a prelude to that evening&amp;rsquo;s community/team mixer (so you can ask follow-up questions in smaller groups). So&amp;hellip; given all of the possible alternatives, we felt this was the best solution. After all, the main session content is just you sitting in a room - shouldn&amp;rsquo;t matter where that room is. The big thing for us is the team engagement, and the opportunity to do &lt;em&gt;fun&lt;/em&gt; stuff on campus, and we think we&amp;rsquo;ve got that nailed. More to come.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Event 3: My way…</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-13-event-3-my-way/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 07:09:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-13-event-3-my-way/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Third event is open for voting, but as usual - before I see any of the scripts submitted by you, I&amp;rsquo;m posting my version. Tried to sneak in few tricks I&amp;rsquo;ve learned here and there, hope you will enjoy reading and will tell me why I&amp;rsquo;m wrong. 😉 You can find whole post &lt;a href="http://becomelotr.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/event-3-my-way/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games 2013: Event 2 Notes</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-12-scripting-games-2013-event-2-notes/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 02:32:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-12-scripting-games-2013-event-2-notes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I spent some time last week and this weekend to compile a list of notes of what I have seenÂ with the Event 2 submissions that could show improvement. I touched up on some items with my &lt;a href="http://learn-powershell.net/2013/05/08/scripting-games-2013-event-2-favorite-and-not-so-favorite/"&gt;previous article&lt;/a&gt; where I picked out some submissions that I liked andÂ didn&amp;rsquo;tÂ quite likeÂ but wanted to touch on a few more things.Â Some of this feels like a repeat of last week and even last years games, but that is Ok. This is all about learning and as long as everyone takes what all of the judges have been writing about, then there will be nothing but great improvements during the course of the games. &lt;a href="http://learn-powershell.net/2013/05/12/scripting-games-2013-event-2-notes/"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to go to continue reading this article.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>People Who are Blogging About the 2013 Scripting Games</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-11-people-who-are-blogging-about-the-2013-scripting-games/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 23:13:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-11-people-who-are-blogging-about-the-2013-scripting-games/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m sure that most people can easily find any of the blogs of the official judges from the 2013 Scripting Games. I recommend reading those blogs whether you&amp;rsquo;re competing in the scripting games or not since there&amp;rsquo;s a wealth of great information contained in them. The best place to find those blogs if you don&amp;rsquo;t know already is theÂ &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/category/announcements/scripting-games/judges-notes/"&gt;Judges Notes section&lt;/a&gt;Â under theÂ &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/category/announcements/scripting-games/"&gt;Scripting Games area&lt;/a&gt;Â onÂ &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/"&gt;PowerShell.org&lt;/a&gt;Â so there&amp;rsquo;s no reason to duplicate them here.&lt;br&gt;
There are also a number of people who are competing in the Scripting Games that areÂ writingÂ blog articles of their own blog sites. A couple of the ones that I&amp;rsquo;m aware of are listed below and while they&amp;rsquo;re myÂ competition in the advanced class and have links promoting theirÂ ScriptingÂ Games entries in their blogs (I do the same thing), Â I don&amp;rsquo;t mind promoting their blog articles because there&amp;rsquo;s some great information to be found in them. I&amp;rsquo;m actually glad they provided links to their entries because both of these guys are excellent PowerShell scripters and you could learn a lot from viewing their Scripting Games entries.Â Ultimately the scripting games is all about the community learning more about using PowerShell best practices in a friendly competition that&amp;rsquo;s just for fun. &lt;a href="http://mikefrobbins.com/2013/05/11/people-who-are-blogging-about-the-2013-scripting-games/"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to be redirected to the original post of this article on the author&amp;rsquo;s blog site where you can read the remainder of the article.&lt;br&gt;
Âµ&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Changes in Scripting Games Displays</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-10-changes-in-scripting-games-displays/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 23:52:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-10-changes-in-scripting-games-displays/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I want to point out some changes that are being made to the Games:&lt;br&gt;
Effective immediately, entry author names and current scores will not be shown for events that are still open for new votes. This is intended to help ensure everyone submitting a score isn&amp;rsquo;t influenced by other people. I&amp;rsquo;ve seen a bit of ganging-up that I&amp;rsquo;d rather not see.&lt;br&gt;
Archived events - those completely closed and for which prizes have been awarded - will display full information, including user names of comment authors.&lt;br&gt;
The new event viewer, which is currently under development, will display comment author names. These will be visible to an entry&amp;rsquo;s author immediately, and to the public once the event is no longer open for voting.&lt;br&gt;
Entry authors: This means you won&amp;rsquo;t be able to see your score while it&amp;rsquo;s still open for voting, unless you use the new beta viewer (which I&amp;rsquo;ll be wrapping up this weekend).&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games beta entry viewer</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-10-scripting-games-beta-entry-viewer/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 19:43:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-10-scripting-games-beta-entry-viewer/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;d like a quick peek at something, log into the &lt;a href="http://scriptinggames.org/"&gt;Scripting Games Web site&lt;/a&gt;, and go look at the entries in Event 1. Your URL should look like this:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://scriptinggames.org/entrylist.php?eventid=11"&gt;http://scriptinggames.org/entrylist.php?eventid=11&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Change it to this:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://scriptinggames.org/entrylist_.php?eventid=11"&gt;http://scriptinggames.org/entrylist_.php?eventid=11&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
This is the new viewer I&amp;rsquo;m building. It isn&amp;rsquo;t rigged up to accept votes or comments, yet, but I&amp;rsquo;m working on that. It&amp;rsquo;s being developed for Firefox; I&amp;rsquo;ll test the other major browsers once it&amp;rsquo;s a bit more complete. This is under development, so it may be offline or unreliable. Don&amp;rsquo;t &lt;em&gt;tell&lt;/em&gt; me about it - I&amp;rsquo;m &lt;em&gt;already working on it&lt;/em&gt; .&lt;br&gt;
You can probably use this on Event 2 as well. The voting and commenting should be working. Note that you must vote before you can comment, and right now it&amp;rsquo;ll only accept one comment per person. That will probably remain the case for the current iteration of the Games based on some back-end dependencies. However, you CAN tie a comment to a particular line number or range of lines, and when viewing the comment it&amp;rsquo;ll highlight those lines. It&amp;rsquo;s pretty neat, I think.&lt;br&gt;
Oh, and I know the coloring on block comments is wonky. I need to dive into the color-er&amp;rsquo;s regexes and see if I can tweak that. Any regex wizards who want to volunteer to help with that, drop me a line. Right now the PowerShell syntax in the color-er is a little primitive. Actually, there are probably several regexes we could add to this to spruce up the listings.&lt;br&gt;
And yes, I know the comments now show the author&amp;rsquo;s user name. That&amp;rsquo;s been a big back-and-forth. I&amp;rsquo;m not a huge fan of anonymous commenting, and right now it&amp;rsquo;s just your username anyway. Hopefully nobody said anything truly offensive simply because they thought they were anonymous :).&lt;br&gt;
Back to work.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Some notes on Event 2 Advanced</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-10-some-notes-on-event-2-advanced/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 16:17:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-10-some-notes-on-event-2-advanced/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I hate to seem negative, but I&amp;rsquo;ve noticed a few things about a number of the advanced entries that seem like folks didn&amp;rsquo;t read the instructions, or just weren&amp;rsquo;t careful about details.&lt;br&gt;
There were a surprising number of entries that had [string]$ComputerName instead of [string[]]$ComputerName in the params section and then went on to treat the parameter as if it were an array.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Somewhat related to the array issue, the problem statement indicated that thereÂ could be several files that had computer identification for piping into the solution. Several scripts went beyond the minimum by accepting a filename property to process those files directly. I don&amp;rsquo;t think that extension is out-of-bounds, butÂ  scripts that accepted only filenamesÂ and excluded ComputerName input didn&amp;rsquo;t get my vote.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The instructions asked for a &amp;ldquo;full help display&amp;rdquo;, but many of the entries had fairly limited documentation. One thing I especially missed was a .PARAMETER description.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;My last negative comment is about parameter names. Although there&amp;rsquo;s nothing in PowerShell to prevent it, best practices in parameter names should be followed. The parameterÂ ought to be $ComputerName, not $Name, $Server, $Computer, etc. I know it&amp;rsquo;s easier with verbs and nouns because of the Get-Verb and Get-Noun cmdlets, but please pay attention to how you name your parameters.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On the whole, though I really liked the effort everyone put into their scripts. Those that exactly met the requirements were short, sweet, and to the point. There were several extensions that I also liked.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games Week 2: Formatting edition</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-10-scripting-games-week-2-formatting-edition/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 12:40:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-10-scripting-games-week-2-formatting-edition/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This time of the year always feels like someone is holding down the fast forward button.Â  I blinked and here we are Friday morning another week of scripts in the rear view.Â  I spent most of my week in the beginner class this week, and was greeted by a combination of beginners and scripters who weren&amp;quot;™t quite ready to step up to advanced.Â  More of the latter if I&amp;quot;™m to be honest.Â  This was a pleasant surprise as it&amp;quot;™s another sign of the continuing growth of our community.Â  Now on to the scripts I knew when I signed up to do this, that at least one of these weeks I&amp;quot;™d talk about formatting.Â  It&amp;quot;™s one of those best practices that you don&amp;quot;™t appreciate until you&amp;quot;™re asked to review someone else&amp;quot;™s code.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Don&amp;quot;™t Crunch the Code, and for the love of all things, Hit Enter!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
I did not deduct any points for readability, but you didn&amp;quot;™t make my good list either.Â  Personally I find it disrespectful to share an ungodly one-liner, but it&amp;quot;™s downright wrong if that single line has semicolons! Â We&amp;quot;™re not printing these scripts the crunch gets us nothing. I&amp;quot;™m not going to call out the litany of scripts that were manually formatting the data directly which is even worse, but consider the following.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>As Event 3 gets underway, here are some Event 2 stats…</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-09-as-event-3-gets-underway-here-are-some-event-2-stats/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 23:50:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-09-as-event-3-gets-underway-here-are-some-event-2-stats/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Event 3 will be open for entries in about ten minutes, but I thought I&amp;rsquo;d share some Event 2 information. Keep in mind that Event 2 is open for voting until the 14th, GMT.&lt;br&gt;
Our Beginner Track had 120 entries this time, while the Advanced had 124. That contrasts with 165 and 159 from Event 1 - a perfectly normal falloff that&amp;rsquo;s occurred during every edition of past Games. Folks get busy, maybe get discouraged, but we&amp;rsquo;re keeping right on the trendline.&lt;br&gt;
Voting is down&amp;hellip; that happens, too, as the thrill of event 1 falls off. We had 3,966 Beginner votes and 2,775 Advanced votes in Event 1; so far we&amp;rsquo;ve gotten 1,446 Beginner and 1,131 Advanced in Event 2. Of course, we still have almost a week of voting left to go in Event 2, and in Event 1 we took a lot of votes up to the last minute.&lt;br&gt;
The good news is that Event 2&amp;rsquo;s votes have, so far, included a much higher percentage of comments. Event 1 Beginner has about 55% comments, while Advanced had 58%. In Event 2, Beginner is tracking to 63%, while Advanced is at 59%. Good job, guys - those comments are a big help. As you know, we&amp;rsquo;ve also put up some general guidelines to help keep everyone on the same page with what the score levels mean, so hopefully that&amp;rsquo;s helping, too.&lt;br&gt;
Something&amp;rsquo;s sure helping. The average score in Event 1 Beginner was 2.5585, and Advanced 2.3870. Event 2 is up a notch, at 2.6957 and 2.6631. That&amp;rsquo;s a 5% jump in Beginner scores and over 11% jump in Advanced scores. I know, people are tough on the scoring. And in some cases, I&amp;rsquo;m seeing comments that indicate the comment author had some misunderstandings. That&amp;rsquo;s okay - it&amp;rsquo;s an opportunity for us all to learn together, especially after the Games complete and we can start diving into this mess of data.&lt;br&gt;
I hope you&amp;rsquo;re already to start on Event 3! Our fastest entry so far is just over 51 minutes, and I might be saving some special prizes for the overall fastest entry (don&amp;rsquo;t worry - I&amp;rsquo;m going to look at it to make sure it&amp;rsquo;s decent).&lt;br&gt;
May the Games be Ever in Your Fav&amp;hellip; ugh, sorry. Don&amp;rsquo;t know where that came from. Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Event 2: My notes…</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-09-event-2-my-notes/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 21:50:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-09-event-2-my-notes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Today I finally had some time to look at all entries in both categories. What I liked, and what I did not like about them? You can find answers, as previously, either in &lt;a href="http://powershellpl.net/2013/05/09/scripting-games-moje-notatki-2/"&gt;Polish&lt;/a&gt;, or in &lt;a href="http://becomelotr.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/event-2-my-notes/"&gt;English&lt;/a&gt;. I focused mainly on things I did not like, but I would anyway say that scripts are really good (overall) this year. Still: few poppies died. If you are responsible for it - remember: at the end of the day, it is you who is tossing away strength that PowerShell offers: Object Oriented Pipeline. 1* note is nothing in comparison with report, that will exists only as long as your &lt;strong&gt;host&lt;/strong&gt;, very same that you want to &lt;strong&gt;write&lt;/strong&gt; on so much&amp;hellip; 😉&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Meet the Scripting Games Judges: Jan Egil Ring</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-09-meet-the-scripting-games-judges-jan-egil-ring/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 13:37:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-09-meet-the-scripting-games-judges-jan-egil-ring/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/janegilring"&gt;Jan Egil Ring&lt;/a&gt; is a multiple-year recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award for his contributions in the Windows PowerShell technical community.&lt;br&gt;
He has a strong passion for Windows PowerShell, and regularly writes articles on his &lt;a href="http://blog.powershell.no"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;. He occasionally also writes articles for others, such as the &lt;a href="http://www.powershellmagazine.com"&gt;PowerShell Magazine.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
As a judge in the Scripting Games, he will be writing articles on his blog reviewing both good and bad observations in the reviewed scripts. Clean formatting and avoidance of using aliases in scripts is among the things he will be paying attention to.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games 2013: Event 2 "˜Favorite"™ and "˜Not So Favorite"™</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-08-scripting-games-2013-event-2-favorite-and-not-so-favorite/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 03:27:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-08-scripting-games-2013-event-2-favorite-and-not-so-favorite/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Event 2 is in the books and with that, it is time to take a look at all of the scripts submitted and make the difficult decisions as to which ones I liked and which ones IÂ didn&amp;rsquo;tÂ quite like. Â Just because a script landed on my &amp;ldquo;˜Not so Favorite&amp;rdquo;™ listÂ doesn&amp;rsquo;tÂ mean it was terrible. It was just that I felt that there were some things here and there that could have been looked at a little differently. In fact, the amount of submissions that were great really made my decisions much for difficult.Â Everyone has really shown just how much knowledge is out there and how there are many different approaches to a single problem!&lt;br&gt;
Check out my picks &lt;a href="http://learn-powershell.net/2013/05/08/scripting-games-2013-event-2-favorite-and-not-so-favorite/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Event 2 Smart-Aleck</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-08-event-2-smart-aleck/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 21:08:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-08-event-2-smart-aleck/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Very funny.&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/FirefoxScreenSnapz001.jpg"&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/FirefoxScreenSnapz001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/FirefoxScreenSnapz001.jpg" alt="FirefoxScreenSnapz001"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>More Judges' Notes on Event 2</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-08-more-judges-notes-on-event-2/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 19:42:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-08-more-judges-notes-on-event-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Tobias Weltner: &lt;a href="http://www.powertheshell.com/scripting-games-task-2-commentary/"&gt;http://www.powertheshell.com/scripting-games-task-2-commentary/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Jan Egil Ring: &lt;a href="http://blog.powershell.no/2013/05/08/2013-scripting-games-learning-points-from-event-2/"&gt;http://blog.powershell.no/2013/05/08/2013-scripting-games-learning-points-from-event-2/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Voting for Event 2 is going strong, and you&amp;rsquo;ve got several more days in which to vote and (most importantly) add comments. Hopefully, you&amp;rsquo;re also considering the judges&amp;rsquo; notes and adjusting your approach for each event.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 227 – PowerShell MVP Joel Bennett talks about Splunk</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-05-08-episode-227-powershell-mvp-joel-bennett-talks-about-splunk/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 16:42:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-05-08-episode-227-powershell-mvp-joel-bennett-talks-about-splunk/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-227.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to PowerShell MVP Joel Bennett!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [The Scripting Games are on](https://powershell.org/category/announcements/scripting-games/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The 2013 PowerShell Summit [videos have been posted!](https://powershell.org/2013/05/07/powershell-summit-videos/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The NOVA PowerShell Group is having their [first meeting May 8th!](http://powershellgroup.org/NorthernVirginia/2013-05-08)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; MVP Don Jones will be speaking May 14th at the [Mississippi PowerShell User Group](http://mspsug.com/2013/04/23/up-next-powershell-mvp-don-jones/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The DFW user group is [meeting on May 24th](http://powershellgroup.org/DallasFtWorth.TX/2013-05-24)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guests - Joel Bennett&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Notes on Beginner Event 2</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-08-notes-on-beginner-event-2/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 15:29:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-08-notes-on-beginner-event-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Â First of all, congratulations! It looks to me like a lot of learning is going on; the 2nd event entries look really good to me. I especially liked the way a number of you built up a one-liner by starting with a_Â Get-WmiObject Win32_ComputerSystem -ComputerName (Get-Content file.txt)_ and piping it into &lt;em&gt;Select-Object&lt;/em&gt; to generate the data. However, there were a couple of areas within the Select block that make me think that some more discussion of what $_ means in a pipeline would be helpful.&lt;br&gt;
Within the Select block, it is necessary to make a call to &lt;em&gt;Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem&lt;/em&gt; to get come additional information. It looks like everybody got the format correct: &lt;em&gt;@{Name=&amp;lsquo;OS&amp;rsquo;;Expression={Get-WmiObject}}&lt;/em&gt; where folks got into trouble was in specifying the ComputerNameÂ property. Some didn&amp;rsquo;t even include it, meaning that the OS value would be taken from the local computer and not the remote one. But, more often than not, the code contained a plain $_ : &lt;em&gt;@{Name=&amp;lsquo;OS&amp;rsquo;;Expression={(Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem -ComputerName $&lt;/em&gt;).Caption}}&lt;em&gt;. So, what&amp;rsquo;s wrong with this? The problem is the value of $&lt;/em&gt; at this point in the pipeline.&lt;br&gt;
Let&amp;rsquo;s try an experiment to show what I mean. Try this:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tips on Implementing Pipeline Support</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-07-tips-on-implementing-pipeline-support/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 03:16:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-07-tips-on-implementing-pipeline-support/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;While reviewing Event 1 (and now Event 2) I&amp;rsquo;ve seen some scripts that don&amp;rsquo;t quite have the correct pipeline support and others that do a great job with it. Whether it is an unneeded Begin or End statement, or throwing everything into a Process block and not quite getting the expected output or even having a Process block when ValueFromPipeline/ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName is not even enabled. Before I start working through my notes for Event 2, I wanted to get this post out of the way. I hope that what I put together here will help those out who are working to implement pipeline support in their code as well as providing a method of troubleshooting the parameter binding using Trace-Command. The blog post is available &lt;a href="http://learn-powershell.net/2013/05/07/tips-on-implementing-pipeline-support/"&gt;hereÂ to view&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 05/02/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-07-phillyposh-05022013-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 02:56:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-07-phillyposh-05022013-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</guid><description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://jeffwouters.nl/"&gt;Jeff Wouters&lt;/a&gt; gave an excellent &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/PhillyPosh_2013-05-02_Presentation_JeffWouters.zip"&gt;presentation &lt;/a&gt;via Lync on:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Avoiding the pipeline


- 
 Improving your learning curve


- 
 Improving your teaching curve
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh529924%28v=exchg.141%29.aspx#BKMK_MultiValueCustom"&gt;John Mello&lt;/a&gt; gave a &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/PhillyPosh_2013-05-02_ScriptClub.zip"&gt;presentation and demo of script &lt;/a&gt;that uses &lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh529924%28v=exchg.141%29.aspx#BKMK_MultiValueCustom"&gt;Exchange multi-valued custom attributes&lt;/a&gt; to store information on when to remove users from a security group after a specified amount of days.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Standalone meeting material links&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[PhillyPosh_2013-05-02_ScriptClub](https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/PhillyPosh_2013-05-02_ScriptClub.zip)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/PhillyPosh_2013-05-02_Presentation_JeffWouters.zip"&gt;PhillyPosh_2013-05-02_Presentation_JeffWouters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>Don's Event 2 Notes</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-07-dons-event-2-notes/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 23:02:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-07-dons-event-2-notes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I thought I&amp;rsquo;d mentioned this last time (tap tap, this thing on?), but maybe not: don&amp;rsquo;t format the output of your functions. The minute a function includes Format-*, you&amp;rsquo;ve trapped me into on-screen display, a text file or piece of paper modeled after the on-screen display, or not a lot of other choices. If I want formatting, I&amp;rsquo;ll pipe your function to my own Format-* command of choice. But if I want CSV, or HTML, or XML, I&amp;rsquo;d like that option. Thanks.&lt;br&gt;
This is not a favorite technique of mine:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Are you getting unfair comments in the Games?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-07-are-you-geting-unfair-comments-in-the-games/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 17:33:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-07-are-you-geting-unfair-comments-in-the-games/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I continue to be amused by folks&amp;rsquo; reactions to the Games this year.&lt;br&gt;
There&amp;rsquo;s been some buzz on Twitter this morning from folks who feel some of their comments - and the corresponding low scores - aren&amp;rsquo;t warranted. In a couple of cases I&amp;rsquo;ve looked at, they&amp;rsquo;re right - their entries are being downrated for reasons that are actually not best practices; by following the best practices, these entries are getting lower scores.&lt;br&gt;
This reinforces a point I keep trying to make: The Games &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;aren&amp;rsquo;t about YOU. They&amp;rsquo;re about US.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; ****&lt;br&gt;
Let me put it another way: if you&amp;rsquo;re getting comments from folks whose opinions are founded in a misunderstanding or misconception, that&amp;rsquo;s an opportunity to educate. Not to attack that commenter - which is why commenter names aren&amp;rsquo;t shown - but to educate the community in general. The community took the time to give you comments, and although some of them might be misguided, &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; can take the time to offer a productive counterpoint and perhaps lay some misunderstandings to rest.&lt;br&gt;
That&amp;rsquo;s the point of the Games: to learn. Maybe not for &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; to learn, but maybe for you to help &lt;strong&gt;someone else&lt;/strong&gt; learn. Or to put it another way, I haven&amp;rsquo;t received Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s MVP Award for ten years straight because I got a good &amp;ldquo;score&amp;rdquo; on something. I got it because I look for teachable moments and try to offer explanations. Being able to teach something shows that you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; know it.&lt;br&gt;
Think of your Games entries as a honeypot. If you can attract some folks who don&amp;rsquo;t quite get what you&amp;rsquo;re doing, then through the comments you&amp;rsquo;ll spot broad areas of educational opportunity, or what I call &amp;ldquo;teachable moments.&amp;rdquo; Seize on those and help bring the community as a whole to a higher level.&lt;br&gt;
Does that mean the educational opportunity has to come at the cost of you getting a lower score? Yup. Will that score in any other way impact your life? Nope. It&amp;rsquo;s not going on your permanent record. Human Resources will never know. It won&amp;rsquo;t affect your salary, or your ability to choose which movie you will see this weekend (Iron Man 3, BTW). Thicken up that skin a little - every vote isn&amp;rsquo;t a personal attack on you. Every &amp;ldquo;unqualified&amp;rdquo; comment is not a stain upon your honor.&lt;br&gt;
I really wish I could use some of the cooler interjections from &lt;em&gt;Spartacus&lt;/em&gt; here, but none of that stuff is suitable for a professional environment :(.&lt;br&gt;
In short: Cool yer jets. Take the opportunity to educate. Not on Twitter. Man, you guys with the tweets. You don&amp;rsquo;t have a blog, drop me an e-mail and I&amp;rsquo;ll give you authoring permissions right here on PowerShell.org. Help us, as a community, educate each other.&lt;br&gt;
And hey, remember not ALL of your comments are non-constructive. Learn from the ones you can, tune out the rest. Like watching CNN. Ever notice how, on a slow news day, the talk about Atlanta&amp;rsquo;s traffic? Exactly.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games Event 1 Winners</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-07-scripting-games-event-1-winners/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 16:11:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-07-scripting-games-event-1-winners/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re pleased to announce the winners for Event 1 of The Scripting Games 2013!&lt;br&gt;
Winners: You can log into &lt;a href="http://scriptinggames.org/"&gt;The Scripting Games Web site&lt;/a&gt; and go to your Profile page to see your prize. You will be given a prize redemption code and either a URL where you can redeem it, or an e-mail address of the prize provider (they will need the redemption code). All prizes must be claimed by the end of July 2013. I will list winners by username; if you used your e-mail address as your username, then a portion of that will be truncated for your privacy. Anyone can log in and check their Profile page to see if they&amp;rsquo;ve won a prize.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit Videos</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-07-powershell-summit-videos/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 15:52:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-07-powershell-summit-videos/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Aaron Hoover, one of our Summit attendees, was kind enough to record via webcam the sessions he attended - and he&amp;rsquo;s posted about 13 hours of video on YouTube for your viewing pleasure.&lt;br&gt;
What I&amp;rsquo;d like to know from you, if you don&amp;rsquo;t mind dropping a comment below, is what you think of these. If we offered this KIND of recording in the future, would it be helpful? This is something we can do easily and is affordable from a technical perspective; there&amp;rsquo;s obviously a production quality compromise. We can do more&amp;hellip; but it costs more, and someone&amp;rsquo;s going to have to pay for it. So&amp;hellip; where do you sit on this kind of recording?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Event 2: My way…</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-06-event-2-my-way/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 04:26:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-06-event-2-my-way/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;rsquo;t received any negative feedback on idea to blog about &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;how would I do it&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; (what you think about my approach is different topic) so I decided to continue. Again: because I don&amp;rsquo;t want to be influenced by your ideas and make my task as close to your work as possible I post it early, before I see any of cool techniques I haven&amp;rsquo;t thought of and you did, so that I can regret it later. &lt;a href="http://becomelotr.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/event-2-my-way/"&gt;You can find whole article on my blog&lt;/a&gt;. Enjoy, and please - if you see something silly, let me know. I really &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; appreciate negative feedback!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Event 2 is final!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-06-event-2-is-final/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 00:23:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-06-event-2-is-final/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Event 2 has closed for submissions and will open for voting later this evening. Good luck! And voters: remember that quality comments will vastly increase your chances of winning a prize!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A Helpful Message about HelpMessage</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-06-a-helpful-message-about-helpmessage/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 23:39:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-06-a-helpful-message-about-helpmessage/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The Scripting Games 2013 winners have not yet been announced, but for the 3rd year running, I&amp;rsquo;m in the lead for the &amp;ldquo;Learned Most from the Scripting Games&amp;rdquo; award. I&amp;rsquo;m making space for the prize on my bookshelf. Seriously, I play with PowerShell all the time and read lots of blogs, but nothing compares to looking at dozens of scripts and commands and seeing how people do things in the real world.&lt;br&gt;
One of the practices I&amp;rsquo;ve noticed is use of the &lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/system.management.automation.parameterattribute.helpmessage(v=vs.85).aspx"&gt;HelpMessage parameter attribute&lt;/a&gt; to document a parameter. It&amp;rsquo;s a real thing, but I didn&amp;rsquo;t know that anyone used it any more.&lt;br&gt;
Here&amp;rsquo;s my help message about HelpMessage:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t use it!&lt;/strong&gt; Users can&amp;rsquo;t see it. It does no harm, but it has no value. Danger lurks in writing a HelpMessage instead of writing help that users can see. Write help that Get-Help gets, that is, XML help or comment-based help.&lt;br&gt;
Here&amp;rsquo;s what I&amp;rsquo;m talking about. This code is valid. The language permits it. But it&amp;rsquo;s not useful. And I saw it in several of the advanced solutions.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Placing Comment-Based Help</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-03-placing-comment-based-help/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 19:03:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-03-placing-comment-based-help/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;What an amazing event. I&amp;rsquo;m now reading through each of the Advanced entries in a vain attempt to whittle the entries down to a short list. It&amp;rsquo;s an incredibly difficult task, which is testament to your skill and diligence. We are so lucky to have so many competent scripters in the community.&lt;br&gt;
As I read through the comments on each script, I&amp;rsquo;ve noticed several that say:&lt;br&gt;
&amp;ldquo;Help should be nested under the function to work properly.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;
Au contraire! This is not true and I want to make sure that people who see this comment are not misled. The Windows PowerShell team designed comment-based help to be really flexible.&lt;br&gt;
As I explained in &lt;a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=144309"&gt;about_Comment_Based_Help&lt;/a&gt;, you can put comment-based help for a function in one of three positions:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games: What Should We Do With Comments?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-03-scripting-games-what-should-we-do-with-comments/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 19:02:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-03-scripting-games-what-should-we-do-with-comments/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Right now, I&amp;rsquo;ve got the Scripting Games Web site built to only make comments visible to a entry&amp;rsquo;s author. Some of the comments have been a little snarky, and I don&amp;rsquo;t want to create an online argument forum.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;m curious what folks think we should do as a next step.&lt;br&gt;
I could, for example, make comments visible to everyone once voting has ended for an event (I don&amp;rsquo;t want to make comments visible while we&amp;rsquo;re still accepting comments, because it&amp;rsquo;ll run a big risk of creating a discussion, which isn&amp;rsquo;t the intent).&lt;br&gt;
We do have a plan to dump all the entries into static files for long-term reference; I could insert entries&amp;rsquo; comments at the end of each entry, in a PowerShell comment block.&lt;br&gt;
Or, we could just leave comments visible to the entry&amp;rsquo;s author. That provides a learning experience for the author, although not for the public, and only until we purge the database for the next event.&lt;br&gt;
Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Beginner Event Tips</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-03-beginner-event-tips/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 15:57:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-03-beginner-event-tips/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Folks, as we dive into Event 2, I want to offer some advice based on the &lt;em&gt;comments&lt;/em&gt; I saw for Event 1.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t overthink the Beginner event. We&amp;rsquo;re not looking for a script or function - a one-liner, if possible. Don&amp;rsquo;t overdeliver.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Avoid aliases and positional parameters - this is a practice outlined in the Competitor Guide.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;TEST YOUR CODE. You can&amp;rsquo;t modify it. Also, judges can&amp;rsquo;t see any comment you might leave when &amp;ldquo;voting&amp;rdquo; on your own entry, so you can&amp;rsquo;t use comments to mitigate an error. TEST. Submitting an entry is like pushing a script into production.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;If there&amp;rsquo;s a straightforward, native way to do something - do it. People seemed to down-vote a lot of entries in Event 1 for using Robocopy. Not that it&amp;rsquo;s wrong&amp;hellip; but the general community opinion seems to be, &amp;ldquo;use native commands when they exist and can solve the problem.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Remember, these aren&amp;rsquo;t my guidelines - this is what I&amp;rsquo;m seeing in the comments that I&amp;rsquo;m reviewing, and wanted to pass them along as a sense of what the community seems to favor and disfavor.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>OK i'm impressed: Scripting Games Week 1</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-03-ok-im-impressed-scripting-games-week-1/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 14:44:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-03-ok-im-impressed-scripting-games-week-1/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Well guys, and gals another year has passed, and the annual scripting games are upon us again.Â  After a week of reviewing submissions for their technique and style I must say that I am truly impressed!Â  As a community the average ability seems to be growing by leaps and bounds.Â  That&amp;quot;™s not to say we&amp;quot;™re all Samurai just yet, but we&amp;quot;™re getting there!&lt;br&gt;
Before I go off and nit-pick I want to congratulate you all on a small mountain of really well written scripts.Â  Some of the things that the community was preaching 5 years ago are now just standard.Â  Stuff like comment your code, format for readability, and Parameters.Â  At this point I&amp;quot;™m convinced those who stillÂ aren&amp;rsquo;tÂ conforming are simply non-conformist and well that&amp;quot;™s a lost cause.Â  For the rest of us great work and keep it up!&lt;br&gt;
**Where is the Help!&lt;br&gt;
**
What IÂ 
didn&amp;rsquo;t
Â see enough of in the advanced category is help.Â  Honestly if you&amp;quot;™re going to write a 200 line script fill out the help!Â  It&amp;quot;™s not that hard and it is THE difference between a good script and a great solution! It&amp;quot;™s also one of the fundamental differences between hacking and tool building, both are focused around automating a given problem set.Â  The hacker just gets it to work, the tool builder makes it usable by the masses.Â  If you haven&amp;quot;™t figured it out yet the real money is in tool building, I&amp;quot;™m just sayin!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games 2013: Event 1 "˜Favorite' and "˜Not So Favorite' Submissions</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-02-scripting-games-2013-event-1-favorite-and-not-so-favorite-submissions/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 03:07:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-02-scripting-games-2013-event-1-favorite-and-not-so-favorite-submissions/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As a follow-up to my &lt;a href="http://learn-powershell.net/2013/05/01/scripting-games-2013-thoughts-after-event-1/"&gt;previous blog&lt;/a&gt; post, I plan to pick out a submission or two or three which stood out as my personal favorite and least favorite and tell you why I think this by pointing pieces of code that was either put together nicely or could have been improved in one way or another. Depending on my time, I will do at least 1 Advanced and 1 Beginner submission for both &amp;ldquo;˜Favorite&amp;rdquo;™ and &amp;ldquo;˜Not so Favorite. I&amp;rsquo;ll start out by listing the code and then discussing it bullet point style to highlight my thoughts.Â So with that, lets begin this journey through the Event 1 submissions by &lt;a href="http://learn-powershell.net/2013/05/02/scripting-games-2013-event-1-favorite-and-not-so-favorite-submissions/"&gt;following this link to my blog!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Event #1: Moving Old Files</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-02-event-1-moving-old-files/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 21:31:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-02-event-1-moving-old-files/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As a celebrity judge, I&amp;rsquo;m not required to blog &amp;ldquo;“ I&amp;rsquo;m just here for my good looks :&amp;gt; &amp;ndash; but I&amp;rsquo;m having a great time reading the blogs posted by the Expert Judges about the &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/04/25/2013-scripting-games-beginner-event-1.aspx"&gt;Event #1&lt;/a&gt; candidate solutions.Â  Much of the judging is subjective, but I&amp;rsquo;ll add the criteria that I use to distinguish a working solution from a great solution.&lt;br&gt;
Before I do, though, I want to congratulate everyone who submitted an entry. Most of the entries work and you probably learned just from playing with the challenge. Keep it up and come back year after year.&lt;br&gt;
One hint to everyone: &lt;strong&gt;TEST!&lt;/strong&gt; Most of the entries work, but many fail if the directory for the application (e.g. App1 in \NASServer\Archives\App1) does not already exist. And, a few fail with regular expression errors on the Replace operator (more in the blog). There are lots of great test strategies, but you can just run your code on file in your own directories or step through the code in the Windows PowerShell ISE debugger.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 226 – The Virtual PC Guy Ben Armstrong talks virtualization and PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-05-02-episode-226-the-virtual-pc-guy-ben-armstrong-talks-virtualization-and-powershell/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 21:02:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-05-02-episode-226-the-virtual-pc-guy-ben-armstrong-talks-virtualization-and-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-226.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Ben Armstrong, the Virtual PC Guy!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [PowerShell version 4.0?](http://withinwindows.com/within-windows/2013/4/7/windows-81-powershell-40-and-new-cmdlets?utm_source=feedly)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; MVP Don Jones will be speaking May 14th at the [Mississippi PowerShell User Group](http://mspsug.com/2013/04/23/up-next-powershell-mvp-don-jones/)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Don Jones has released [&amp;quot;The Big Book of PowerShell Gotchas&amp;quot;](https://powershell.org/books/the-big-book-of-powershell-gotchas-free/) for free
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [IT Pro Camp comes to Jacksonville, FL on June 15th](http://itprocamp.com/jacksonville/jacksonville-it-pro-camp/)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [PowerGUI gets PowerShell 3.0 support](http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2013/04/10/powergui-script-editor-gets-full-support-for-powershell-3-0/)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [Presentation downloads from the PowerShell Summit](https://powershell.org/2013/04/22/summit-downloads/)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; PowerShell Summit 2013 [Thank you video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRdaMoO6UWE&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guests - Ben Armstrong&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Judge Notes for Event 1</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-02-judge-notes-for-event-1/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 17:24:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-02-judge-notes-for-event-1/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Â A lot of you have been working too hard at solving the problem (both beginner and advanced). Some of this is clearly related to trying to offer a very complete solution but some look like attemptsÂ to write extra clever or elegant code. In the &amp;ldquo;real world&amp;rdquo;, there&amp;quot;™s probably not enough time or interest in putting lots of effort into these extras. The minimum it takes to achieve the goal is most often good enough. Here are a couple of examples to illustrate this (with the intent of providing a learning opportunity).&lt;br&gt;
Working with the destination folder address.&lt;br&gt;
A common error here was missing the subdirectory. Most folks got this correct by using some version of &lt;em&gt;$&lt;/em&gt;.FullName.Replace(&amp;quot;˜C:\Application\Log&amp;quot;™,&amp;quot;™\NASServer\Archives&amp;quot;™)_ or &lt;em&gt;Join-Path &amp;ldquo;˜\NASServer\Archives&amp;rdquo;™ $&lt;/em&gt;.Directory.Name_, but there were a number who just used the root destination folder name without looking for the subfolder. And some others had solutions that (although I thought were innovative), took too much effort. Among them are:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Event 2 Opens / Event 1 Winding Down</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-02-event-2-opens-event-1-winding-down/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 14:25:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-02-event-2-opens-event-1-winding-down/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Event 2 is scheduled to open this evening in The Scripting Games - &lt;em&gt;remember, all times on the &lt;a href="http://scriptinggames.org/"&gt;Scripting Games Web site&lt;/a&gt; are GMT.&lt;/em&gt; You will need to adjust for your local time zone.&lt;br&gt;
Voting on Event 1 is scheduled to end on May 7th, so you still have 5 days to earn pointlets and leave comments for your colleagues. As of right now, we have over 330 entries, and an astounding 4,900 votes - an average ratio of more than 14 votes per entry. Folks, that&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;seven times more&lt;/em&gt; than we&amp;rsquo;ve been able to provide in the past by just having &amp;ldquo;expert judges&amp;rdquo; voting.&lt;br&gt;
Those experts are now being put to better use, providing the learning experience we so much want to deliver. They&amp;rsquo;re posting in their own blogs (&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/the-scripting-games/scripting-games-judges-notes/"&gt;list&lt;/a&gt;) as well as &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/category/announcements/scripting-games/judges-notes/"&gt;here on PowerShell.org&lt;/a&gt;, and there&amp;rsquo;s a lot to read. I&amp;rsquo;m delighted that we&amp;rsquo;ve been able to provide so much commentary before Event 2 starts, since that&amp;rsquo;ll doubtlessly help everyone do better.&lt;br&gt;
The average CrowdScore is 2.551 per entry - obviously there&amp;rsquo;s everything from 1-point entries to 5-point entries. Folks are being pretty critical, and identifying things they don&amp;rsquo;t like, as well as things they do. With more than 1800 comments (that&amp;rsquo;s an average of more than 5 per entry), hopefully competitors are starting to get some take-aways from the community as well.&lt;br&gt;
On Mighty Panel of Celebrity Judges will start awarding first, second, and third place in Event 1 very soon, and that process will take a few days. Keep in mind that their decisions are in no way connected to the community-based CrowdScore. Instead, they&amp;rsquo;re exploring entries on their own, stating with the ones &amp;ldquo;favorited&amp;rdquo; by our expert commentary judges.&lt;br&gt;
Also, I&amp;rsquo;ve heard some concern about people trying to &amp;ldquo;cheat&amp;rdquo; the system by simply dropping in random votes in order to rack up pointlets and win prizes. We&amp;rsquo;re watching for that - we log IP addresses, vote times, and a lot of other data. We&amp;rsquo;ll be filtering the votes before awarding prizes, so there&amp;rsquo;s just no value in cheating. &lt;em&gt;You won&amp;rsquo;t see that filtering -&lt;/em&gt; we&amp;rsquo;re doing it on an offline copy of the data so that there&amp;rsquo;s no chance of accidentally deleting anything valuable - but you&amp;rsquo;ll also be happy to know that, right now, there&amp;rsquo;s very little in the way of anything suspicious, and nothing that&amp;rsquo;s been confirmed.&lt;br&gt;
I want to re-emphasize that the CrowdScore activity doesn&amp;rsquo;t become a true learning experience until &lt;em&gt;after the Games are over,&lt;/em&gt; which is when we can start mining that data and divining some crowdsourced best practices and patterns - creating our own community sense of &amp;ldquo;right and wrong&amp;rdquo; in PowerShell. I also want to point out that, after the Games, we&amp;rsquo;ll be posting all entries, and their comments, into easier-to-download archives (I know the Web site doesn&amp;rsquo;t make copy n paste super-easy; that&amp;rsquo;s largely an artifact of what we need to do to display things properly; we&amp;rsquo;re not offering downloads at this time mainly to control server load).&lt;br&gt;
Enjoy Event 2!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Few notes written after event 1.</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-01-few-notes-written-after-event-1/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 06:48:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-01-few-notes-written-after-event-1/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As promised, today more general thoughts on scripts I&amp;rsquo;ve seen in both categories in the first event. I&amp;rsquo;m Polish, so I decided to blog notes both in my own language, and in English, &amp;ldquo;just in case&amp;rdquo;. Also, my Polish is much better than my English (I hope!), so for people from Poland: they can read Polish version, without the pain of translating my-English to English-English. Enjoy!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://becomelotr.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/event-1-my-notes/"&gt;English version&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://powershellpl.net/2013/05/02/scripting-games-moje-notatki-1/"&gt;Polish version&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games 2013: Thoughts After Event 1</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-01-scripting-games-2013-thoughts-after-event-1/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 02:21:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-01-scripting-games-2013-thoughts-after-event-1/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;With Event 1 in the books for the 2013 Scripting Games, we are now in the voting period where the community gets the chance to play judge on all of the scripts submitted by voting and commenting on the submissions. I aim to take a look at the common items that pose problems and recommendations on what to do to fix this. The full article is available &lt;a href="http://learn-powershell.net/2013/05/01/scripting-games-2013-thoughts-after-event-1/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Do you really Support Should Process…?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-01-do-you-really-support-should-process/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 22:02:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-01-do-you-really-support-should-process/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;While working on my notes for first event of Scripting Games I was looking around what others wrote, and was surprised that people really think that enabling SupportsShouldProcess is good enough. In my opinion - it is not. And because this is relatively big topic I decided to write separate blog post just about that. You can find it &lt;a href="http://becomelotr.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/supports-should-process-oh-really/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I hope it will highlight the difference between &lt;strong&gt;enabling&lt;/strong&gt; this feature and actually &lt;strong&gt;implementing&lt;/strong&gt;Â it. And remember: &lt;strong&gt;do not&lt;/strong&gt;Â kill the messenger. 😉 More from me (mainly on other topics related to first event) tomorrow.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>And the Norweigian judge says…</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-01-and-the-norweigian-judge-says/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 20:22:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-01-and-the-norweigian-judge-says/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Jan Egil Ring weighs in with his thoughts on Event 1: &lt;a href="http://blog.powershell.no/category/2013-Scripting-Games-Judges-Notes/feed/"&gt;http://blog.powershell.no/category/2013-Scripting-Games-Judges-Notes/feed/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Why Doesn't My ValidateScript() work correctly?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-01-why-doesnt-my-validatescript-work-correctly/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 13:52:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-01-why-doesnt-my-validatescript-work-correctly/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve received a few comments from folks after my observations on the Scripting Games Event 1. In those observations, I noted how much I loved:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;[ValidateScript({Test-Path $_})][string]$path&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
As a way of testing to make sure your -Path parameter got a valid value, I love this. I&amp;rsquo;d never thought of it, and I plan to use it in classes. I may write a book about it someday, or maybe even an ode. Seriously good logic. But&amp;hellip; I also bemoaned some scripts that provided an additional Test-Path, in the script&amp;rsquo;s main body of code. Why have a redundant check?&lt;br&gt;
So, first, thanks for the e-mails you all sent. Second&amp;hellip; please understand that I can&amp;rsquo;t respond to you all. I&amp;rsquo;ve got this full-time job thing, and I&amp;rsquo;ve &lt;em&gt;got&lt;/em&gt; to do it or the grocery store will stop taking our checks. You&amp;rsquo;re &lt;em&gt;welcome&lt;/em&gt; to drop comments here, and I &lt;em&gt;really appreciate&lt;/em&gt; when you say stuff like, &amp;ldquo;can you explain ___ in a future post?&amp;rdquo; because it gives me ideas to write about. I just can&amp;rsquo;t get into private e-mail based education for a dozen folks. Teaching is kinda what I do for my job, so most of my time has to go to that.&lt;br&gt;
But - there&amp;rsquo;s a great teaching point here. Let&amp;rsquo;s take this example:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/valid-default-path.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/valid-default-path.png" alt="valid-default-path"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
This works as you would hopefully expect. When given a valid path, it&amp;rsquo;s fine. When allowed to use a valid default, it&amp;rsquo;s fine. When given an invalid path, it barfs in the ValidateScript. Now look at the next example - which more closely approximates what people have been seeing in their Scripting Games scripts:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/invalid-default-path.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/invalid-default-path.png" alt="invalid-default-path"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
In the Games, you were given a default path that &lt;em&gt;wasn&amp;rsquo;t valid on your computer.&lt;/em&gt; So folks allowed their script to run with that default, and got errors, and were annoyed that ValidateScript() didn&amp;rsquo;t catch the problem.&lt;br&gt;
It never will.&lt;br&gt;
When you run a command, PowerShell goes through a process called parameter binding, wherein it attaches values to parameters and runs any declarative validation - like ValidateScript(). That validation will &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; catch invalid incoming data that&amp;rsquo;s been manually specified or sent in via the pipeline (for parameters that accept pipeline input). Because my -Path parameter wasn&amp;rsquo;t declared as mandatory, the validation routine will let me run the script and not specify -path.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Then&lt;/em&gt; the shell actually &lt;em&gt;runs&lt;/em&gt; my code - and &lt;em&gt;that&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/em&gt; when it assigns the default value to $path if one wasn&amp;rsquo;t specified on -path. Validation is over by this point, so an invalid default value will sneak by. The assumption by the shell is that &lt;em&gt;you&amp;rsquo;re&lt;/em&gt; providing the default value, so &lt;em&gt;you&amp;rsquo;re&lt;/em&gt; smart enough to provide a valid one. If you don&amp;rsquo;t, it&amp;rsquo;s your problem.&lt;br&gt;
So do you just add a second, in-code check for the parameter? I&amp;rsquo;d still say no. I really dislike redundancy. If you know, because of your situation, that you can&amp;rsquo;t rely on ValidateScript(), then don&amp;rsquo;t use it at all - one check should suffice, and if it needs to be in-code instead of declarative, that&amp;rsquo;s fine. What&amp;rsquo;d be nice is if there was a declarative way of specifying a default, like &lt;strong&gt;[Default(&amp;lsquo;whatever&amp;rsquo;)]&lt;/strong&gt; that ran before the validation checks, but such a thing doesn&amp;rsquo;t exist. Frankly, you could probably argue that if you can&amp;rsquo;t guarantee the validity of a default, then you shouldn&amp;rsquo;t provide one - and I&amp;rsquo;d probably buy into that argument, and subscribe to your newsletter.&lt;br&gt;
In this case, the problem is entirely artificial. The default path value given to you in the Games scenario &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; valid &lt;em&gt;in the context of the Games;&lt;/em&gt; it&amp;rsquo;s just when you test it on &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; system, &lt;em&gt;outside&lt;/em&gt; that context, that a problem crops up.&lt;br&gt;
Hopefully this helps explain how the ValidateXXX() attributes work, and how they interact with other features, like a default value.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Now&lt;/em&gt; explain why this will never assign C:\ as a default value:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;[Parameter(Mandatory=$True)][string]$path = &amp;lsquo;c:'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tobias' Judge Notes</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-01-tobias-judge-notes/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 13:33:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-05-01-tobias-judge-notes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Tobias Weltner offers some &amp;ldquo;don&amp;rsquo;ts&amp;rdquo; from his review of Event 1 entries: &lt;a href="http://www.powertheshell.com/scripting-games-advanced-1/"&gt;http://www.powertheshell.com/scripting-games-advanced-1/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Thoughts on Event 1 – and, frankly, a rant.</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-30-thoughts-on-event-1-and-frankly-a-rant/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 00:06:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-30-thoughts-on-event-1-and-frankly-a-rant/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;There&amp;rsquo;s been a lot of dismay floating around the community about the state of &amp;ldquo;community voting&amp;rdquo; in the Scripting Games. Some folks are voting without leaving comments (we&amp;rsquo;ve expanded the comment field to 2000 characters, hopefully that&amp;rsquo;ll help), and some disagreement about scores.&lt;br&gt;
Disagreement is natural. For example, stick a &lt;strong&gt;Write-Host&lt;/strong&gt; in your script and I&amp;rsquo;m likely to score you lower. You may disagree, but it&amp;rsquo;s how I feel in many situations&amp;hellip; and I&amp;rsquo;m seeing a distressing amount of it.&lt;br&gt;
Did you know that using &lt;strong&gt;[CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess=$True)]&lt;/strong&gt; doesn&amp;rsquo;t automatically and universally &lt;em&gt;make the -confirm switch work?&lt;/em&gt; You have to do a bit more.&lt;br&gt;
Did you know that if you put &lt;strong&gt;$DebugPreference=&amp;lsquo;SilentlyContinue&amp;rsquo;&lt;/strong&gt; in your &lt;strong&gt;BEGIN{}&lt;/strong&gt; block, that you disable the built in -Debug switch&amp;rsquo;s functionality? Yep, seen this one a few times also.&lt;br&gt;
The community is showing a distinct lack of love for scripts that look like VBScript scripts. Does that mean your script is wrong? No - but it means you&amp;rsquo;re not approaching the problem in a way that the world in general feels is best. It doesn&amp;rsquo;t mean your script won&amp;rsquo;t work - but it means it wouldn&amp;rsquo;t be widely accepted.&lt;br&gt;
If you&amp;rsquo;re not happy with your score, look at some higher-scoring scripts. See what they&amp;rsquo;re doing differently. If you can&amp;rsquo;t figure it out, post in the forums on PowerShell.org (there&amp;rsquo;s a Scripting Games forum). Provide the permalink to your script, and solicit some feedback from the community. Tweet people and ask them to take a look. You can &lt;em&gt;ask&lt;/em&gt; for more feedback, if you want it and aren&amp;rsquo;t getting enough.&lt;br&gt;
As our judges begin to post their notes, look at what they&amp;rsquo;re writing. Maybe they didn&amp;rsquo;t pick your script to write about - but are they writing about things that you also did in your script?&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;m seeing a lot of good scripts. But I&amp;rsquo;m also seeing some misunderstandings of some core, advanced features, like error handling, use of Verbose output, and so on. Each of those is a star to a half-star off, for me&amp;hellip; some of these things, &lt;em&gt;in my opinion,&lt;/em&gt; are severe, and I score accordingly. I haven&amp;rsquo;t seen a perfect, un-improve-able script, yet (I&amp;rsquo;m not even halfway through, yet). So no 5-stars yet. But I &lt;em&gt;am&lt;/em&gt; trying to leave comments, and I know others are, too, so hopefully folks can improve. But be patient - it takes &lt;em&gt;time.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
And &lt;em&gt;opinions differ.&lt;/em&gt; Let me offer an example:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Write-Verbose (&amp;ldquo;Script: {0} ended at {1}&amp;rdquo; -f $MyInvocation.ScriptName, (get-date) )&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
****Dislike. Not saying it&amp;rsquo;s wrong at all - and some people will disagree, vehemently, with me. But I find -f strings hard to read.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Write-Verbose &amp;ldquo;Script $($MyInvocation.ScriptName) ended at $(Get-Date)&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
****For me, that&amp;rsquo;s easier to read. Not any more &amp;ldquo;right,&amp;rdquo; but in my company that&amp;rsquo;s the standard we adopted and that we use. Now, hopefully my opinion is being balanced by others&amp;rsquo; opinions. But, if a substantial number of people share my opinion, this code would get a low score, and a &lt;em&gt;community standard practice&lt;/em&gt; would emerge - something we can learn from &lt;em&gt;after the Games are complete.&lt;/em&gt; Because yes, I&amp;rsquo;m going to harvest the Games entries and comments long after the Games are over to help keep the conversation and education going.&lt;br&gt;
My point of this is that &lt;em&gt;none of us&lt;/em&gt; are as awesome as we think. Others will always have points of disagreement. What&amp;rsquo;s really exciting here is the opportunity to create a community consensus of what&amp;rsquo;s best. That won&amp;rsquo;t come for several weeks, yet&amp;hellip; but it &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; come. There is &lt;strong&gt;zero immediate benefit in getting a high score in the Games, and zero immediate detriment to a low score.&lt;/strong&gt; This is going to seem harsh, but the Games are not aboutÂ &lt;em&gt;you.&lt;/em&gt; They&amp;rsquo;re about &lt;em&gt;all of us.&lt;/em&gt; They&amp;rsquo;re about us developing a sense of community involvement and standards in an industry that doesn&amp;rsquo;t supply many of its own. This will happen over time, and with a lot of effort. But it&amp;rsquo;s worth it.&lt;br&gt;
Let&amp;rsquo;s continue.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;[ValidateScript({(Test-Path $_ -PathType Container)})]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
I love that. I never thought to do that, and I love it. I&amp;rsquo;ve seen a few people do it. Bless them. I learned something!&lt;br&gt;
An aside: There&amp;rsquo;s this general undercurrent of, &amp;ldquo;I wish &amp;rsquo;expert&amp;rsquo; judges were scoring me instead of the great unwashed masses.&amp;rdquo; Let me point out some practical realities. One, every entry in the Games at this point has at least 4 votes; many have double that. The last event, most had 1, 2 at most. And yes, while &amp;rsquo;expert&amp;rsquo; judges are allegedly well-qualified to render judgment, I&amp;rsquo;m not seeing a ton of scores I completely disagree with, yet. A few. Not a ton. And you want to know a dirty secret? How many entries do you think an &amp;rsquo;expert&amp;rsquo; can look at, in the evening, after working all day (we&amp;rsquo;re all volunteers), before he just starts getting a little arbitrary and inconsistent? The number is not &amp;ldquo;infinite.&amp;rdquo; I know I got a little arbitrary last year before I caught myself and stopped for the night. So&amp;hellip; don&amp;rsquo;t discount the value of your peers&amp;rsquo; opinions. If you&amp;rsquo;re getting a low score and don&amp;rsquo;t know why, seek out answers. Yes, people should leave comments with their votes. If they don&amp;rsquo;t, take charge and seek out answers yourself.&lt;br&gt;
I &lt;strong&gt;love&lt;/strong&gt; that I&amp;rsquo;m seeing so many divergent approaches to a single (admittedly open-ended) problem. Frankly, the value here is in browsing others&amp;rsquo; approaches and picking up some tips from them. Or just seeing something different. You shouldn&amp;rsquo;t care about your &lt;em&gt;score.&lt;/em&gt; You should care about what other people are doing, and about why you think their way might be better, worse, or just different. &lt;em&gt;Make&lt;/em&gt; a learning opportunity. Don&amp;rsquo;t wait for someone to come to you with a free, written analysis of your code. Analyze &lt;em&gt;other people&amp;rsquo;s entries&lt;/em&gt; and judge yourself against their work.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;ve seen this a few times:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>How to Name Your Help Files</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-30-how-to-name-your-help-files/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:42:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-30-how-to-name-your-help-files/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The first challenge of Scripting Games 2013 is complete! Honestly, you win by getting the experience of playing. I hope everyone is in there voting and writing really constructive comments. I&amp;rsquo;ll get over there in a minute, but I wanted to make sure that I got this information out to everyone before I get involved in voting.&lt;br&gt;
Everyone who writes shared Windows PowerShell cmdlets, functions, scripts, CIM commands, and workflows also writes help topics &amp;ldquo;“ or gets a friend or colleague to do it.&lt;br&gt;
For scripts and functions, you can write &lt;a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=144309"&gt;comment-based help&lt;/a&gt; (aka &amp;ldquo;inline help&amp;rdquo;). Â All parameters of the Get-Help cmdlet support comment-based help, including the new ShowWindow parameter, and by adding a URL to the first related link, you can support the Online parameter in comment-based help.&lt;br&gt;
But XML help files are required to document cmdlets (C#), CIM commands, and workflows, and to support Updatable Help. If you&amp;rsquo;re delivering your content in a module, you typically want to use XML-based help topics.&lt;br&gt;
When you create XML-based help topics, you need to put them where Get-Help looks and give them the name that Get-Help expects. Otherwise, Get-Help will not find the help topic.&lt;br&gt;
Get-Help looks for the XML-based help topics for the commands in a module in language-specific subdirectories of the module&amp;rsquo;s installation directory.Â  This is generally well-known and an easy instruction to follow.&lt;br&gt;
The naming guidelines are a bit trickier. In general (specifics follow), Get-Help expects the help topic for a command to be in a help file that is named for the file in which the command is defined, including the file name extension. When the commands in a module are defined in multiple assemblies or multiple CDXML files, the module must include a separate help file for each assembly or CDXML file.&lt;br&gt;
The help file name format is: &lt;strong&gt;-help.xml&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
For example:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>New Technical Product Manager at Provance Technologies</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-30-new-technical-product-manager-at-provance-technologies/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:25:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-30-new-technical-product-manager-at-provance-technologies/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Today is my first day working in my new role as Technical Product Manager at &lt;a href="http://www.provance.com/" title="Provance Technologies"&gt;Provance Technologies&lt;/a&gt;.  A little while back Provance approached me to talk about this position, and it seemed like a very natural fit.  Rarely have I felt such a positive vibe from a company through the interview process, so I was really happy to accept the position of Technical Product Manager with them and I have been looking forward to starting work with them.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games Voting Continues!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-30-scripting-games-voting-continues/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:52:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-30-scripting-games-voting-continues/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As of right now, we&amp;rsquo;ve got almost 1900 votes on entries in the &lt;a href="http://scriptinggames.org/"&gt;Scripting Games&lt;/a&gt;. Remember that each vote is a &amp;ldquo;pointlet&amp;rdquo; (see the PowerShell tie-in we did there?), which is basically a raffle ticket in our prize lottery.&lt;br&gt;
But&amp;hellip; there&amp;rsquo;s a secret about the lottery. It&amp;rsquo;s weighted based on how many entries you&amp;rsquo;ve voted on.&lt;br&gt;
The algorithm is a bit complex, but for example, if you&amp;rsquo;ve voted on 90% of the available entries, you&amp;rsquo;re something like 30% more likely to win a prize. Vote on 50%, and you&amp;rsquo;re about 12% more likely to win&amp;hellip; and so on. It&amp;rsquo;s a bit logarithmic&amp;hellip; as you get closer to 100% your chances of winning increase more and more, with about a 39% advantage if you&amp;rsquo;ve voted on 100% of the events.&lt;br&gt;
Of course, you can&amp;rsquo;t just abuse the system. We&amp;rsquo;ve got automated and manual checks in place for people who are just randomly voting - clicking all the same vote, voting in patterns, or voting with very little time separation between votes. All of those things will trigger a manual review, and you can be banned &lt;em&gt;for life&lt;/em&gt; for attempting to game the system. We&amp;rsquo;re also tracking IP addresses and whatnot, so if you&amp;rsquo;re voting from multiple accounts, or trying to upvote your own entries&amp;hellip; we&amp;rsquo;re going to just shut you out. You won&amp;rsquo;t even necessarily be notified, because we&amp;rsquo;re not confrontational folks.&lt;br&gt;
But I know nobody&amp;rsquo;d do all that - we&amp;rsquo;re all in this to make the Games fun and educational! So get in there and vote. And leave comments. If you vote 1-star, tell the author why, so they can improve. Hey, it&amp;rsquo;s what YOU would want if someone 1-starred YOUR code, right? Right!&lt;br&gt;
So vote! &lt;a href="http://scriptinggames.org/"&gt;http://ScriptingGames.org&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br&gt;
(PS - please don&amp;rsquo;t report any tech problems in the comments here. The Games Web site has a feedback link)&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Meet the Scripting Games Judges: June Blender</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-30-meet-the-scripting-games-judges-june-blender/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:15:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-30-meet-the-scripting-games-judges-june-blender/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;June Blender is was a senior programming writer on the Windows PowerShell team at Microsoft from Windows PowerShell 1.0 &amp;ldquo;“ 3.0. You see her work every time you type Get-Help for the core modules. She&amp;rsquo;s now working on the Windows Azure Active Directory SDK team, and she remains an avid Windows PowerShell user and a passionate user advocate. She&amp;rsquo;s a guest blogger for the Scripting Guys and she tweets Windows PowerShell tips on Twitter at @juneb_get_help.&lt;br&gt;
An engineering type by disposition, June was attracted to Windows PowerShell by the efficiency, productivity, and uniformity of automation. As a full-time working mom of three sons (now adults!), the idea of doing anything twice, unless it&amp;rsquo;s fun, is appalling. When evaluating scripts, she looks for elegance, but prefers scripts that inspire to those that intimidate. If saving a line of code makes your script difficult to understand and maintain, it&amp;rsquo;s not worth it. The scripts that get a thumbs-up from June are those that reveal a new way of performing a task and can be used as a template for scripts to come. Oh, and they must have Help!&lt;br&gt;
June&amp;rsquo;s philosophy about Help is pretty simple. It&amp;rsquo;s supposed to make the task easier &amp;ldquo;“ clear, complete, and accurate. A parameter description that says that ServerName is the name of the server isn&amp;rsquo;t worth the characters you use to type it, but neither is the one that says that a parameter retrieves the modification of the nth cell in the hierarchically rarified data structure. She hates passive voice, too, because you don&amp;rsquo;t know who is supposed to act. About topics are critical. A whole mess of disjointed cmdlet help without an explanation of how they are intended to be used is not really helpful. And the best part of help is the examples. You really can&amp;rsquo;t have too many (see &amp;ldquo;Get-Help Invoke-Command&amp;rdquo;).&lt;br&gt;
Community is the secret sauce in Windows PowerShell, so the best scripts contribute to our shared knowledge, productivity, and fun. June much prefer scripts and functions that you can open, read, and model to compiled anything.&lt;br&gt;
A 16-year veteran of Microsoft, June lives in magnificent Escalante, Utah, where she works remotely when she&amp;rsquo;s not out hiking, canyoneering, taking Coursera classes, or convincing lost tourists to try Windows PowerShell. She believes that outstanding documentation is a collaborative effort, and she welcomes your comments and contributions to Windows PowerShell and Windows Azure Help.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Event 1: My way…</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-29-event-1-my-way/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:11:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-29-event-1-my-way/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Looking for not-so-expert solution for Event 1 in both categories? Wonder how one of the judges would do it, if he had a chance? Want to return favor and tell me what I could do better and what I&amp;rsquo;m doing wrong? Don&amp;rsquo;t hesitate. 🙂 I decided it may be helpful to post my solutions before I ever see yours. Please find full article with lots of code on my &lt;a href="http://becomelotr.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/event-1-my-way/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;. If you want to tell me you like/ hate this idea - please don&amp;rsquo;t hesitate either. And now I move on to your work. Can&amp;rsquo;t wait!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>CIM vs WMI cmdlets-remote execution speed</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-29-cim-vs-wmi-cmdlets-remote-execution-speed/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:08:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-29-cim-vs-wmi-cmdlets-remote-execution-speed/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Following on from my previous post we&amp;quot;™ll look at how the two types of cmdlets compare for accessing remote machines.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I used a similar format to the previous tests but was accessing a remote machine.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First off was the WMI cmdlet &amp;ldquo;“ using DCOM to access the remote Windows 2012 server&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PS&amp;gt; 1..100 |&lt;br&gt;
foreach {&lt;br&gt;
Measure-Command -Expression{1..100 | foreach {Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem -ComputerName W12SUS }}&lt;br&gt;
} |&lt;br&gt;
Measure-Object -Average TotalMilliseconds&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Name that Property</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-29-name-that-property/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:47:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-29-name-that-property/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Challenge #1 of Scripting Games 2013 is coming to a close. I can&amp;rsquo;t wait to see the results! I solved both the Beginner and Advanced versions just for practice and I learned a lot along the way. They&amp;rsquo;re not easy, but if you haven&amp;rsquo;t yet tried them, go for it. And be sure to review the candidate solutions for new techniques.&lt;br&gt;
In my last post, I showed a very easy way to create a custom object in Windows PowerShell 3.0 and I argued that returning a custom object is far better than returning formatted objects. But, when you are formatting or selecting properties from an existing object, you can customize the names of the properties and their values. This techique isn&amp;rsquo;t new to Windows PowerShell 3.0 &amp;ldquo;“ it works in all versions &amp;ndash; but it&amp;rsquo;s really handy, and I&amp;rsquo;ve noticed that not a lot of people use it.&lt;br&gt;
Let&amp;rsquo;s start by changing the name of a table column. In this case, the big boss wants a list of files and their attributes. Get-ChildItem (&amp;ldquo;dir&amp;rdquo;) just about does it, but the property name is &amp;ldquo;Mode,&amp;rdquo; not &amp;ldquo;Atrributes,&amp;rdquo; and the big boss is a picky dude.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>AD Management in a Month of Lunches"“ chapter 9 in MEAP</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-29-ad-management-in-a-month-of-lunches-chapter-9-in-meap/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:23:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-29-ad-management-in-a-month-of-lunches-chapter-9-in-meap/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The MEAP for AD Management in a Month of Lunches has been updated with the release of chapter 9 on managing group policies&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2844/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2844/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2844&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>State of the Games</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-29-state-of-the-games/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:10:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-29-state-of-the-games/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As of Monday at 5pm Pacific time (which is Tuesday morning, 00:00 hours GMT), the 2013 Scripting Games&amp;rsquo; first event will conclude. That means the first event is open for community voting - &lt;a href="http://scriptinggames.org/"&gt;so get on it!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Remember, some of the best prizes - including a free pass to the 2014 PowerShell Summit - are reserved for folks who offer their votes and comments.&lt;br&gt;
Incoming new registrations for the Games will not be able to compete in Event 1 at this point, but they can jump in with Event 2 (and subsequent events) if desired.&lt;br&gt;
We presently have 1100 registered participants - which may include people who just signed up to spectate and vote, as well as our judges. 475 are registered in the Beginner track, 307 in Advanced, and 318 are presently view-only (meaning they&amp;rsquo;re just voting, not submitting entries). As I write this, we&amp;rsquo;ve only got 218 entries - but there are still a few more hours to get them in.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Comparing SQL Server table schemas with PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-28-comparing-sql-server-table-schemas-with-powershell/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:44:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-28-comparing-sql-server-table-schemas-with-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As a SQL Server DBA or SQL Server developer sometimes is necessary to know whether two tables have equal schemas or not. For example, a few months ago I had to consolidate two SQL Server instances in just one. One of the main problems were the collisions between Databases and Tables. I found out that both instances had Databases with equal name and the same thing happened with tables inside those databases. When consolidating databases is very important to make sure that users and apps will find the same schema they were used to find before consolidation, so in order to consolidate databases it will be necessary to find tables with different schemas, merge them and solve conflicts.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>CIM cmdlets vs WMI cmdlets"“speed of execution</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-28-cim-cmdlets-vs-wmi-cmdlets-speed-of-execution/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:04:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-28-cim-cmdlets-vs-wmi-cmdlets-speed-of-execution/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;One question that came up at the summit was the comparative speed of execution of the new CIM cmdlets vs the old WMI cmdlets. No of us knew the answer because we&amp;quot;™d never tried measuring the speed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I decided to perform some tests.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This first test is accessing the local machine. In both cases the cmdlets are using COM. WMI uses COM and CIM will use COM if a &amp;ldquo;“ComputerName parameter isn&amp;rdquo;™t used.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Time for D-CRUD?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-28-time-for-d-crud/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 17:52:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-28-time-for-d-crud/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I was thinking on the plane back from the PowerShell summit about the CRUD activities. They are a concept we have inherited from the database world:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;C = Create&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;R = Read&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;U = Update&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;D= Delete&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Create, Update and Delete correspond directly to the PowerShell verbs &amp;ldquo;“ New,Set and Remove respectively.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Read action corresponds to the Get verb.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well sort of.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get-* is used in two distinct scenarios. Firstly we know of an object and we we want to read its properties &amp;ldquo;“ for example:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Call to Action: PowerShell Birds of a Feather sessions at MS TechEd in New Orleans</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-04-28-call-to-action-powershell-birds-of-a-feather-sessions-at-ms-teched-in-new-orleans/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:56:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-04-28-call-to-action-powershell-birds-of-a-feather-sessions-at-ms-teched-in-new-orleans/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hey guys. Hal here. I just wanted to let everyone know that there are TWO Birds of a Feather sessions that I have volunteered to moderate at this year&amp;rsquo;s North America TechEd event in New Orleans. The sessions are:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Getting Started with PowerShell - This session will stick to the 100-200 level topics. I will round up some MVPs (PowerShell and otherwise) to help contribute to the conversation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerScripting: PowerShell Best Practices from the Field with The Scripting Guy - For this session I&amp;rsquo;ll be joined by Ed Wilson, and we&amp;rsquo;ll both be taking questions. We did this two years ago in Atlanta and it was standing room only.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games 2013 have started</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-28-scripting-games-2013-have-started/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:49:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-28-scripting-games-2013-have-started/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The 2013 Scripting Games kicked off during the PowerShell summit. Event 1 is open and you can submit entries up until 23:59:59 GMT on 29 April 2013. Voting on the entries starts at at midnight on 30 April.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can enter and &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; can vote on the entries. This is a community games run by powershell.org &amp;ldquo;“ all are welcome.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you haven&amp;rdquo;™t entered yet there is still plenty of time to get you entry in for event 1. Start by reviewing the information at &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/the-scripting-games/" title="https://powershell.org/the-scripting-games/"&gt;https://powershell.org/the-scripting-games/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit"“thank you</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-27-powershell-summit-thank-you/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:46:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-27-powershell-summit-thank-you/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;quot;™d like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who attended the PowerShell Summit this last week. The Summit was a success &amp;ldquo;“ in no small part due to you. Your questions, and discussions, are what this is all about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It was a pleasure meeting you all and I hope to return next year &amp;ldquo;“ I hope to see many of you there as well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2836/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2836/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2836&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Forums Migration Schedule</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-26-forums-migration-schedule/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:08:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-26-forums-migration-schedule/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s the schedule for our Forums migration:&lt;br&gt;
From &lt;strong&gt;Now until May 4th,&lt;/strong&gt; the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/discuss/"&gt;old forums&lt;/a&gt; will remain online and in-use. However, you should consider creating an account here on the &amp;ldquo;new&amp;rdquo; site (distinguishable by the different visual theme). Your new account will have no connection to the old one, and may be a Twitter, Facebook, Live, or other login. To create an account, just click &amp;ldquo;Login&amp;rdquo; at the top-left of any site page (in the dark gray toolbar).&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;On May 4th&lt;/strong&gt; we will activate the new forums. From then on, the Forums menu link will go there. The old forums will remain available at &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/discuss"&gt;https://powershell.org/discuss&lt;/a&gt;. You can continue to use the old forums to wrap-up old topics, or if the new ones stop working for some reason.&lt;br&gt;
On &lt;strong&gt;May 13th&lt;/strong&gt; we will shut down the old forums and direct everyone to the new ones.&lt;br&gt;
By &lt;strong&gt;May 20&lt;/strong&gt; we will have migrated the content from the old forums into the new ones. These will be imported as static threads that are closed for new messages, but they&amp;rsquo;ll still be searchable.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Recording the PowerShell Summit</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-25-recording-the-powershell-summit/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:51:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-25-recording-the-powershell-summit/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;So, we &lt;strong&gt;did&lt;/strong&gt; have one enterprising fella use his Webcam to record the Summit sessions he attended. Once he gets with me, we&amp;rsquo;ll get those online so you can see.&lt;br&gt;
We &lt;strong&gt;are&lt;/strong&gt; trying to think really hard about formal recordings for next time. It depends a lot on what folks want. For example:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pointing a camera at the front of the room is easy and cheap. We worry that the audio might suck and that you might not be able to read on-screen code - although many presenters make their code/slides available for download.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Putting software on presenters&amp;rsquo; machines to capture what they do is out of the question. There are MORE than enough moving parts already going on in the room - this just won&amp;rsquo;t work out consistently.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We can get one-button-recording devices that capture everything the speaker does on-screen, and an audio feed. You don&amp;rsquo;t get to SEE the speaker, and these are about $1000 each, plus sundry cables and adapters. For several hundred more, we can add a picture-in-picture from a camera feed.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So we can do cheap-o&amp;hellip; well, cheaply. And if folks are happy with that, we&amp;rsquo;ll do it. We can do pretty awesome-looking for pretty-expensive&amp;hellip; and that&amp;rsquo;s going to require a fundraising campaign. We aren&amp;rsquo;t Microsoft, and recording three rooms, along with possible general sessions, is going to take about $8-$12k in equipment. Our goal, however, would be to give the videos away for free once a year&amp;rsquo;s event sells to its &amp;ldquo;break even&amp;rdquo; attendance point.&lt;br&gt;
Live streaming won&amp;rsquo;t happen. Meeting venues get like $5,000 per day for a 5-10Mbps pipe. Yeah, you thought they made money off the $80/gallon coffee. We just can&amp;rsquo;t afford the bandwidth to livestream. We&amp;rsquo;re not even always sure we can turn on WiFi for people to check e-mail. It&amp;rsquo;s that expensive.&lt;br&gt;
Please drop some comments. Knowing what kind of video people are willing to accept will really help us plan this out for next time, and we need a lot of lead time to do that.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Meet the Scripting Games Judges: "Scripting Guy" Ed Wilson</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-25-meet-the-scripting-games-judges-scripting-guy-ed-wilson/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:24:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-25-meet-the-scripting-games-judges-scripting-guy-ed-wilson/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Ed Wilson is the Microsoft Scripting Guy and a well-known scripting expert. He writes the twice daily Hey Scripting Guy! blog (the number 1 blog on TechNet). He has also spoken at TechEd and at the Microsoft internal TechReady conferences. He is a Microsoft-certified trainer who has delivered a popular Windows PowerShell workshop to Microsoft Premier Customers worldwide. He has written 11 books including 8 on Windows scripting that were published by Microsoft Press. He has also contributed to nearly a dozen other books. He has two Microsoft Press Windows PowerShell 3.0 books: Windows PowerShell 3.0 Step by Step and Windows PowerShell 3.0 First Steps. Ed holds more than 20 industry certifications, including Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Prior to coming to work for Microsoft, he was a senior consultant for a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner where he specialized in Active Directory design and Exchange implementation. In his spare time, he enjoys woodworking, underwater photography, and scuba diving.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 225 – Mark Russinovich talks about Sysinternals, Infosec, and the Cloud</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-04-24-episode-225-mark-russinovich-talks-about-sysinternals-infosec-and-the-cloud/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 02:57:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-04-24-episode-225-mark-russinovich-talks-about-sysinternals-infosec-and-the-cloud/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-225.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Mark Russinovich about Sysinternals, Infosec, and the Cloud!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/the-scripting-games/"&gt;The Scripting Games&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [Beginner practice](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/04/18/beginner-practice-for-2013-scripting-games.aspx)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [Advanced practice](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/04/18/advanced-practice-for-2013-scripting-games.aspx)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The Tampa PowerShell group is [meeting April 25th](http://powershellgroup.org/Tampa.Fl/2013-04-25)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The Philadelphia PowerShell User Group is [meeting May 2nd](https://powershell.org/2013/04/06/philadelphia-meeting-may-2nd-2013/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [IT Pro Camp comes to Jacksonville, FL on June 15th](http://itprocamp.com/jacksonville/jacksonville-it-pro-camp/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Microsoft is [shutting down Script Explorer](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/04/05/microsoft-script-explorer-next-steps.aspx?utm_source=feedly)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; A free PowerShell 3.0 ebook has been [released in Brazilian Portuguese](http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2013/04/01/free-powershell-3-0-ebook-in-brazilian-portuguese/?utm_source=feedly&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PowershellMagazine+(PowerShell+Magazine))
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guests - Mark Russinovich&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PSCustomObject: Save Puppies and Avoid Dead Ends</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-24-pscustomobject-save-puppies-and-avoid-dead-ends/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:06:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-24-pscustomobject-save-puppies-and-avoid-dead-ends/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Welcome to Scripting Games 2013. Here&amp;rsquo;s my favorite hint for improving your functions and scripts. Avoid writing to the console or formatting your output. Instead use &lt;strong&gt;PSCustomObject&lt;/strong&gt; in Windows PowerShell 3.0 and leave the formatting to the end user.&lt;br&gt;
Windows PowerShell provides lots of great ways to return the output of a command or function. You can write to the host program (Write-Host), write to a file (Out-File), and format your output to look really pretty (Format-*). But all of these techniques kill puppies and bring the pipeline to an abrupt halt.&lt;br&gt;
&amp;ldquo;Puppies?,&amp;rdquo; you ask. Yes! Windows PowerShell MVP and Scripting Games 2013 Viceroy Don Jones (@concentrateddon) famously says that every time you use Write-Host, a puppy dies. So sad!&lt;br&gt;
The Format cmdlets are almost as bad, although no deaths have yet been attributed to them. Instead, when you use a Format cmdlet, a huge STOP sign should appear warning you that you&amp;rsquo;ve brought the pipeline to a halt. Not technically, of course, but for all practical purposes.&lt;br&gt;
To see what I mean, take a peek at these two commands. The output of these commands looks very similar, but it&amp;rsquo;s really quite different.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Now Accepting Nominations for PowerShell.org, Inc. Board of Directors</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-24-now-accepting-nominations-for-powershell-org-inc-board-of-directors/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:10:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-24-now-accepting-nominations-for-powershell-org-inc-board-of-directors/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;At our first annual Shareholders Meeting (shareholders will receive an e-mail from me later this week about that meeting), we will be voting on our Board of Directors. Our corporate articles permit our existing Board members to serve indefinitely, and so all are automatically re-nominated. The current Board includes:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Myself (Don Jones)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kirk Munro&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Richard Siddaway&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jason Helmick&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jeffery Hicks&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Board is responsible for appointing a CEO (which is currently myself) to run the company; the CEO then appoints other officers as needed to conduct the corporation&amp;rsquo;s business. I&amp;rsquo;ll reiterate that PowerShell.org is a not-for-profit business, meaning our goal is to more or less break even. We obviously have expenses - Web site hosting, running the Summit, and so on - and the corporation provides a place where the needed funds can be managed, without running through anyone&amp;rsquo;s personal checking account.&lt;br&gt;
If you would like to nominate someone for the Board, please e-mail president/at/powershell.org no later than May 15th, 2013. Provide the person&amp;rsquo;s name and e-mail address. You are welcome to nominate yourself.&lt;br&gt;
Each shareholder will receive 5 votes per share owned, and can distribute those votes however they like amongst the nominees. The top 5 vote-earning nominees will comprise our new Board. They will then elect their Chairman, who presides over Board meetings, and either reconfirm the existing CEO or appoint a new one.&lt;br&gt;
If you are interested in becoming a shareholder, &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/discuss/viewtopic.php?f=26&amp;amp;t=239"&gt;please see this post&lt;/a&gt;. Note that shares must be purchased before May 1st, 2013, in order to be eligible for voting in the upcoming cycle. We are also &lt;a href="http://wp.me/p3priC-EW"&gt;nearing the end of our capital campaign&lt;/a&gt;, so time is running out to own a piece of PowerShell.org.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Summit Downloads</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-22-summit-downloads/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:23:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-22-summit-downloads/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ll be updating this post as presenters turn over materials to us. Most of these files will be ZIPs. If there are any session materials missing - please be patient (we&amp;rsquo;re uploading as quickly as we can), or
contact the presenter directly
(as they may not have provided materials to us yet).&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/ASTManipulation.zip"&gt;Driscoll AST Manipulation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/pssummit2013WrappingBinaryModule.zip"&gt;Prosser WrappingBinaryModule&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Creating-HTML-Reports-with-Style-PSHSummit.zip"&gt;Creating HTML Reports with Style PSHSummit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Unit-Testing-Powershell.pptx.zip"&gt;Wrock Unit Testing Powershell.pptx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/The-Powers-of-PowerShell-Pipeworks.pptx.zip"&gt;Brundage The Powers of PowerShell Pipeworks.pptx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/DonJonesAll.zip"&gt;Don Jones All&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Slides.zip"&gt;Slides from Several Speakers in one ZIP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/BothSessionsAndExampleScripts.zip"&gt;Renouf BothSessionsAndExampleScripts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/How-Secure-Can-You-Be.pdf.zip"&gt;Hicks How Secure Can You Be.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Look-No-WinForms.zip"&gt;Hicks Look No WinForms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/PowerShellSummitNA2013-WinRM-Drilldown.potx.zip"&gt;Team - PowerShellSummitNA2013 - WinRM Drilldown.potx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/FasterPowerShellTalk.zip"&gt;Shirk FasterPowerShellTalk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/DevMgmt.zip"&gt;Ricardo&amp;rsquo;s Device Mgmt talk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/BunchMore.zip"&gt;Bunch more - should be the rest of them&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Ian Davis has his at &lt;a href="https://github.com/idavis/PowerShellSummit"&gt;https://github.com/idavis/PowerShellSummit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Here is the link to Ricardo Mendes&amp;quot;™ Device Management PowerShell module he mentioned during his session. &lt;a href="http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Device-Management-7fad2388"&gt;http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Device-Management-7fad2388&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>[UPDATED] PowerShell Summit 2013 Conference Schedule</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-22-powershell-summit-2013-conference-schedule/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:49:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-22-powershell-summit-2013-conference-schedule/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you are attending the PowerShell Summit next week in Redmond, you might want to make sure you have copies of the schedule on hand.Â  There are two tracks, and I have created two pdf documents, one for each track, that provide the full schedule including session abstracts and speaker bios.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/PowerShell-Summit-2013-Conference-Agenda-Track-1.pdf"&gt;PowerShell Summit 2013 Conference Schedule - Track 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/PowerShell-Summit-2013-Conference-Agenda-Track-2.pdf" title="PowerShell Summit 2013 Conference Schedule - Track 2.pdf"&gt;PowerShell Summit 2013 Conference Schedule - Track 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
While those details are very useful, some of the conference attendees have expressed an interest in having a consolidated view of the agenda so that they could see which sessions were taking place on each of the tracks and choose which they were more interested in.Â  Ask, and ye shall receive.Â  Here is a consolidated view of the conference sessions on all tracks, with each day on a separate page.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/PowerShell-Summit-2013-Conference-Agenda-At-a-glance.pdf"&gt;PowerShell Summit 2013 Conference Schedule - At at glance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Note that if you don&amp;quot;™t have a ticket for the conference, it is sold out for this year.Â  We&amp;quot;™re planning the 2014 conference now, so keep watching this blog for news about that conference as it becomes available.Â  There are already a few posts about it that are worth reviewing if you missed them.&lt;br&gt;
Thanks, and enjoy the conference next week!&lt;br&gt;
Kirk out.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Meet the Scripting Games Judges: Jeffery Hicks</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-22-meet-the-scripting-games-judges-jeffery-hicks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:46:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-22-meet-the-scripting-games-judges-jeffery-hicks/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Jeffery Hicks is a Microsoft MVP in Windows PowerShell, Microsoft
Certified Trainer and an IT veteran with over 20 years of experience,
much of it spent as an IT consultant specializing in Microsoft server
technologies with an emphasis in automation and efficiency.He works
today as an independent author, trainer and consultant.Jeffwritesthe
popular Prof. PowerShell column for MPCMag.com, is a regular contributor
to the Petri IT Knowledgebase, 4SysOps and the Altaro Hyper-V blog, as
well as frequent speaker at technology conferences and user groups.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Advanced Practice Event</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-20-advanced-practice-event/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:00:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-20-advanced-practice-event/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I want to direct your attention to &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/discuss/viewtopic.php?f=39&amp;amp;t=1810&amp;amp;p=8059#p8059"&gt;this forums post&lt;/a&gt;, which I think is worth anyone&amp;rsquo;s time to look through. I&amp;rsquo;ve left a pretty long reply with some comments on the entry that would also be worth a read.&lt;br&gt;
I find that a LOT of folks - like the gentleman who posted his script - have a really good approach to PowerShell scripts. They want to use parameters. They want verbose output. They want to proactively check for errors. Where I think folks get lost is in the fine points of how PowerShell enables these features. I see folks working harder than they need to, coding functionality that the shell will actually give them for free. I also see some not-entirely-perfect approaches to things like parameters and error handling, and some occasional mis-use of advanced features (I often see SupportsShouldProcess &lt;em&gt;declared&lt;/em&gt; but not actually &lt;em&gt;implemented&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;br&gt;
Sometimes, this simply happens because a lot of these advanced features aren&amp;rsquo;t well-documented in one convenient spot - they&amp;rsquo;re all spread out - and because folks are learning from blog posts, which may themselves have been written by someone with an incomplete understanding. Or, they&amp;rsquo;re pasting bits together without &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; knowing what they&amp;rsquo;re doing. That&amp;rsquo;s cool - what you have to sometimes do is take a whack at something like this poster did, and get some feedback. I&amp;rsquo;m &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; glad he did, because it offers an opportunity to clear up some misunderstandings, which will just make his scripts even better in the future.&lt;br&gt;
I hope everyone&amp;rsquo;s looking at the Games as a learning opportunity. I hope &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; will vote on folks&amp;rsquo; entries and leave comments when they do; I hope as many people as possible spend some time blogging about whatÂ  they see, what they&amp;rsquo;ve learned, and &lt;em&gt;what they don&amp;rsquo;t understand.&lt;/em&gt; That&amp;rsquo;s how we&amp;rsquo;ll all improve.&lt;br&gt;
Let me give you a perfect example (we&amp;rsquo;re no longer discussing the forums post, here - I&amp;rsquo;m moving on to a new topic):&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Show Your Scripting Games Pride!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-20-show-your-scripting-games-pride/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:06:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-20-show-your-scripting-games-pride/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;re participating in the Scripting Games, log on to the Scripting Games Web site and check out your Profile page. You&amp;rsquo;ll find a redemption code that can be used to unlock a Participant achievement on the main PowerShell.org Web site!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/FirefoxScreenSnapz0012.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/FirefoxScreenSnapz0012.png" alt="FirefoxScreenSnapz001"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Comments from the PowerShell.org survey</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-19-comments-from-the-powershell-org-survey/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:09:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-19-comments-from-the-powershell-org-survey/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As you probably know, we&amp;rsquo;ve been &lt;a href="http://674004.polldaddy.com/s/2013-powershell-org-member-survey"&gt;running a survey for PowerShell.org&lt;/a&gt;, which helps us both improve the site and create demographic information that makes us appealing to sponsors (who, you know, &lt;em&gt;pay&lt;/em&gt; for everything here). We&amp;rsquo;ve gotten a ton of great feedback. Yeah, we really are reading every single comment you left.&lt;br&gt;
Let&amp;rsquo;s start with the biggies:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Maybe some more guest writers for articles? I imagine it&amp;rsquo;s difficult with all the articles that get posted all over the net every day, but maybe some of those folks (like the scripting guys or scripting wife) can do some to help the Powershell.org community.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Beginner Practice Event</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-18-beginner-practice-event/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:07:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-18-beginner-practice-event/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As you may be aware, we posted &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/04/03/2013-scripting-games-schedule/"&gt;Practice Events for the 2013 Scripting Games&lt;/a&gt;, in an effort to give people an idea of what the events would look like and involve. There&amp;rsquo;s been a &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/discuss/viewtopic.php?f=39&amp;amp;t=1674"&gt;lively discussion&lt;/a&gt; in the PowerShell.org forums about the Beginner Practice, so I thought I&amp;rsquo;d weigh in. Here&amp;rsquo;s my solution:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/VMware-FusionScreenSnapz001.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/VMware-FusionScreenSnapz001.png" alt="Beginner practice event"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Of course, that&amp;rsquo;s hardly the only way to go about it. I used this approach because it minimizes the use of extra variables, and doesn&amp;rsquo;t create a script-style approach - it&amp;rsquo;s a &amp;ldquo;one-liner,&amp;rdquo; although I&amp;rsquo;ve broken it across several physical lines for readability. I think it makes good use of PowerShell&amp;rsquo;s native ability to deal with multiple objects in a stream - there&amp;rsquo;s no need for a ForEach loop, here.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>[UPDATED] Last-Minute Summit Info and Changes</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-18-last-minute-summit-info-and-changes/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:19:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-18-last-minute-summit-info-and-changes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Please make sure you&amp;rsquo;re following this announcements category as you travel to, and attend, the Summit. It&amp;rsquo;s the best way for us to get out late-breaking news.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Registration begins&lt;/strong&gt; at 8am on Monday, April 22nd, in the lobby of Building 40. Now, sometimes the lobby doors open a wee bit late - so bear with us. The first sessions aren&amp;rsquo;t until 9am, so there&amp;rsquo;s plenty of time. Please bring a printout of your ticket from EventBrite, and a photo ID.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Session pre-registration&lt;/strong&gt; didn&amp;rsquo;t happen - we had some volunteers have emergency health issues that just got us behind schedule, so we couldn&amp;rsquo;t get the mobile app thing going. No fear. Sessions will be on a first-come, first-seated basis. Note that we are spread between two adjacent buildings, so you may have to traipse from one to the other during the 15-minute session breaks.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Meals&lt;/strong&gt; will include a &lt;em&gt;very light continental breakfast&lt;/em&gt; and a lunch. We will endeavor to supply soft drinks throughout the day, but that will require Microsoft employees to shuttle them to us. You&amp;rsquo;re welcome to bring your own soft drinks. We&amp;rsquo;ve got coffee lined up. &lt;em&gt;Please&lt;/em&gt; respect your fellow attendees - we&amp;rsquo;ve ordered enough food for everyone, but that assumes everyone&amp;rsquo;s taking a normal-sized serving. A plate piled high with croissants isn&amp;rsquo;t normal, and deprives your fellow attendees of their share. Seriously - this happened at a conference I was at a couple of weeks ago. Pretty sad.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Kickoff&lt;/strong&gt; we will have a VERY SHORT kickoff in each session room at 8:45am. We&amp;rsquo;ll endeavor to present all general material in both session rooms, since neither room can accommodate all of us at once. Jason Helmick and myself will be handling those duties throughout the event. You&amp;rsquo;re welcome to come to us with any problems you run into.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Problems&lt;/strong&gt; may arise - bear in mind this is our first year, and just be patient with us. If you bring it to our attention, we&amp;rsquo;ll fix what we can, as soon as we can. We really appreciate your help and patience as we try to make a great event!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Wi-Fi&lt;/strong&gt; is not guaranteed, and we will not have power drops for everyone&amp;rsquo;s laptop. Please &lt;strong&gt;do not&lt;/strong&gt; stretch your laptop power cord across any walkways - you &lt;strong&gt;will&lt;/strong&gt; be asked to unplug for safety reasons. We suggest leaving the laptop in your hotel room, so help make the room more comfortable for everyone (if everyone brings a laptop and a giant bag for it, it&amp;rsquo;s going to get cramped).&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Parking is limited&lt;/strong&gt; on-site, and you need to make sure you park in a space that isn&amp;rsquo;t restricted. Check-in with the building receptionist to see if your car needs to be registered. You can also park at the ExtendedStay America hotel across the street, and walk to buildings 40 and 41. You&amp;rsquo;re responsible for your own transportation during the event.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Evening events&lt;/strong&gt; are strictly on-your-own. We don&amp;rsquo;t have anything official planned. If someone puts something together ad-hoc and tells us, we&amp;rsquo;ll do our best to spread the word.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;This is an informal event&lt;/strong&gt; - don&amp;rsquo;t think of the Summit as a conference like TechEd, but rather as a gathering of friends and colleagues. It&amp;rsquo;ll be less structured, more ad-hoc, and hopefully more engaging.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Please be respectful of speakers&lt;/strong&gt; while they present, and follow their guidelines on when to ask questions. We do have to push them off the stage at the end of their allotted time, so give them their time to complete their presentation for you. If you have additional Q&amp;amp;A after the session ends, please take it into the lobby so that the next session can start.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;MONDAY AT LUNCH&lt;/strong&gt; we will launch the 2013 Scripting Games with an EnergizedTech opening ceremonies video. It&amp;rsquo;ll be a pageant - don&amp;rsquo;t miss it. 12:30pm in each session room.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;WEDNESDAY AT LUNCH&lt;/strong&gt; in the lobby or session room in building 40, you&amp;rsquo;re invited to meet the Summit organizers (if you&amp;rsquo;ve managed to avoid us until then) and offer feedback for 2014.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>What are Your PowerShell Newbie Gotchas?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-18-what-are-your-powershell-newbie-gotchas/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:55:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-18-what-are-your-powershell-newbie-gotchas/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m putting together a list of common &amp;ldquo;gotchas&amp;rdquo; for PowerShell, mainly things that affect newcomers. So far, I&amp;rsquo;ve got:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Piping the output of a Format cmdlet to nearly anything else&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Using -contains instead of -like&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Selecting a subset of object properties and then trying to sort/fiter on a now-missing property&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Wrong syntax for -filter parameters on various commands&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Commands that don&amp;rsquo;t produce pipeline output (e.g., piping Export-CSV to something)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Using ConvertTo-HTML without -Fragment and appending multiple pages in one file&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Confusion with ( [ { and the other punctuation&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Concatenating strings (hard) vs. using double quotes (easier)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;$ not being part of the variable name (esp with -ErrorVariable)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Accumulating objects in a variable and returning it, vs. outputting to the pipeline directly&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What are your &amp;ldquo;gotchas?&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games Competitor Guide / Instructions Update</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-18-scripting-games-competitor-guide-instructions-update/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:41:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-18-scripting-games-competitor-guide-instructions-update/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve made some minor fixes and clarifications to the 2013 Scripting Games Competitors&amp;rsquo; Guide and Instructions booklet. I encourage you to &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/the-scripting-games/" title="The Scripting Games"&gt;download them and review them&lt;/a&gt; once more before we kick off next week.&lt;br&gt;
In addition, we have some additional prizes for our winners in each event - I&amp;rsquo;ve updated the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/04/17/scripting-games-2013-prize-list/" title="[UPDATED] Scripting Games 2013 Prize List"&gt;prize list post&lt;/a&gt; to include this new information. That post, going forward, will be the authoritative prize list.&lt;br&gt;
Registration is now open, and the Games will formally kick off on April 22nd. The first event opens April 25th. Please rely on the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/the-scripting-games/" title="The Scripting Games"&gt;Scripting Games Home Page&lt;/a&gt; for a complete list of links and information, and make sure you&amp;rsquo;re watching this &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/category/announcements/scripting-games/"&gt;announcement category&lt;/a&gt; for breaking news. Because we are not collecting e-mail addresses, this is the best way for us to communicate with you.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 224 – Boe Prox talks about PoshWSUS and his other projects</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-04-17-episode-224-boe-prox-talks-about-poshwsus-and-his-other-projects/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:37:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-04-17-episode-224-boe-prox-talks-about-poshwsus-and-his-other-projects/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;** Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-224.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Boe Prox about Windows Software Update Services and PowerShell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [https://powershell.org/the-scripting-games/](https://powershell.org/the-scripting-games/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Delhi User Group has great [PowerShell content on April 20th](http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=1ce3e2a8604cd419d0637a350&amp;amp;id=8292616e0d&amp;amp;e)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The Philadelphia PowerShell User Group is [meeting May 2nd](https://powershell.org/2013/04/06/philadelphia-meeting-may-2nd-2013/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guests - Boe Prox&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="links"&gt;Links&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [http://learn-powershell.net/](http://learn-powershell.net/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [Test-Port](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/97119ed6-6fb2-446d-98d8-32d823867131)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [http://poshwsus.codeplex.com/](http://poshwsus.codeplex.com/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [http://poshchat.codeplex.com/](http://poshchat.codeplex.com/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [http://poshpaig.codeplex.com/](http://poshpaig.codeplex.com/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/tags/boe+prox/](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/tags/boe+prox/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [http://learn-powershell.net/2012/05/13/using-background-runspaces-instead-of-psjobs-for-better-performance/](http://learn-powershell.net/2012/05/13/using-background-runspaces-instead-of-psjobs-for-better-performance/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [http://learn-powershell.net/2012/10/14/powershell-and-wpf-writing-data-to-a-ui-from-a-different-runspace](http://learn-powershell.net/2012/10/14/powershell-and-wpf-writing-data-to-a-ui-from-a-different-runspace)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [http://powertoe.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/http-post-with-powershell-to-json-rpc-or-how-to-control-xbmc-via-powershell/](http://powertoe.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/http-post-with-powershell-to-json-rpc-or-how-to-control-xbmc-via-powershell/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Invoke-Async-Allows-you-to-83b0c9f0](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Invoke-Async-Allows-you-to-83b0c9f0)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4 id="chatroom-buzz"&gt;Chatroom Buzz&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;16[2013-04-11 21:32:07] &amp;lt;9mrrothhcloud__&amp;gt; Did you people see that powershell scrip to tweet from powershell&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Pre-Summit Hang</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-17-pre-summit-hang/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:15:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-17-pre-summit-hang/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;re attending the Summit and are arriving Sunday afternoon, drop by the Azteca restaurant on 148th. I&amp;rsquo;ll be there with some of the Board from 5pm, in the bar. It&amp;rsquo;s informal, pay-your-own-way, and a chance just to say hi before we kick off on Monday. Safe journey!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>[UPDATED] Scripting Games 2013 Prize List</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-17-scripting-games-2013-prize-list/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:51:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-17-scripting-games-2013-prize-list/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve finalized the prizes!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="overall-winners"&gt;Overall Winners&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These are the folks who do the best overall. This prize will be awarded in mid-June.&lt;br&gt;
The &lt;strong&gt;overall winners&lt;/strong&gt; from both the Advanced and Beginner events will win a free pass (travel expenses not included) to TechEd North America 2014 or TechEd Europe 2013 - your choice. We realize the TechEd Europe dates are pretty close to when this prize will be awarded&amp;hellip; so we&amp;rsquo;ll try and intervene and make it a 2014 pass, if we can.&lt;br&gt;
Second place overall winners will receive a SAPIEN Software Suite 2012, valued at $699, from SAPIEN Technologies.&lt;br&gt;
Third place overall winners will receive 5 ebooks (per person) from Manning.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Changes Coming to PowerShell.org</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-15-changes-coming-to-powershell-org/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:34:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-15-changes-coming-to-powershell-org/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;ve been on the site today, you&amp;rsquo;ve doubtless noticed some of the visual changes. In addition to providing a simpler theme that - over time - will be more mobile-friendly, we&amp;rsquo;re also lining up for a major move of our discussion forums. That&amp;rsquo;ll probably happen after TechEd, but we may be able to squeeze it in prior.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The existing forums are fine, but they&amp;rsquo;re a bit heavy in the code department, and hard to maintain. We&amp;rsquo;ve also gotten a bit bloated with the categories. Sorry about that. Anyway, the plan is to move to an integrated forums, a simpler hierarchy, and better notification options. It&amp;rsquo;ll make it a lot easier for us moderators to help answer questions.&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;ll be archiving the old content, so it&amp;rsquo;ll still be accessible and searchable. However&amp;hellip; and here&amp;rsquo;s the rub&amp;hellip; we&amp;rsquo;re gonna ditch your user accounts. We have to. The old database is cloggy with spambots, and we just need to get away from it. We&amp;rsquo;re going to offer integrated login (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, a bunch others), so you won&amp;rsquo;t have to entrust your password to us any longer if you don&amp;rsquo;t want to. We are not linking the old forums to this WordPress site. You&amp;rsquo;ll be creating a NEW login here, and it can use those external authentication systems. The NEW login you create HERE will be completely separate from any login you have in the existing, old forums. You don&amp;rsquo;t need to create a new account now - you can wait until the new forums go live.&lt;br&gt;
Anyway&amp;hellip; that&amp;rsquo;s all ahead. Love to hear your thoughts as we continue planning.&lt;br&gt;
There&amp;rsquo;s another thing: The &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/people/"&gt;PowerShell People&lt;/a&gt; site. To be honest, that was created as a kind of&amp;hellip; game/toy. Something to see if I could do. We&amp;rsquo;ve gotten a few people using it but not many, and it just kind of sits there on its own. We&amp;rsquo;re probably going to be spinning that down, but we&amp;rsquo;re going to take what we learned from it and try and incorporate something into this main site. No firm ideas, yet, and we&amp;rsquo;d appreciate any you may have.&lt;br&gt;
In the meantime, we&amp;rsquo;ve already implemented a few changes. The new site theme is perhaps the most obvious; you&amp;rsquo;ll notice that we&amp;rsquo;ve also moved a lot of static pages - like the newsletter, Scripting Games, and Summit pages - into the new theme. We&amp;rsquo;ve also enabled single sign-on to the site, using Facebook, Twitter, Google, OpenID, WordPress.com, and Live ID (or whatever Microsoft is calling it this week).&lt;br&gt;
Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Mark Russinovich!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-04-15-up-next-mark-russinovich/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:10:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-04-15-up-next-mark-russinovich/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/markrussinovich-175x208.jpg" alt=""&gt;This Thursday, April 18, we’re
very, very
excited to be having &lt;a href="http://www.russinovich.com/"&gt;Mark Russinovich&lt;/a&gt; on the show! (What? I know, right?) For those of you who don&amp;rsquo;t know who Mark is: you should be ashamed of yourselves! It&amp;rsquo;s Mark Russinovich!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;He wrote filemon and regmon and the rest of the NTinternals aka Sysinternals utilities!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;He wrote a ton of books and articles about Windows internals&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;He was the guy that &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal"&gt;found the Sony rootkit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;He&amp;rsquo;s a two-time novelist of some seriously geeky sci-fi you&amp;rsquo;d love: &lt;a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250007305/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=techprosaic-20&amp;amp;camp=0&amp;amp;creative=0&amp;amp;linkCode=as4&amp;amp;creativeASIN=1250007305&amp;amp;adid=03PXHMKMW33ZHBJ9F57P&amp;amp;"&gt;Zero Day&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250010489/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=techprosaic-20&amp;amp;camp=0&amp;amp;creative=0&amp;amp;linkCode=as4&amp;amp;creativeASIN=1250010489&amp;amp;adid=1PWQ3E44B16C7BJYW96C&amp;amp;"&gt;Trojan Horse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;He has his own &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Russinovich"&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Of course, he&amp;rsquo;s been up to a lot of other cool stuff lately for Microsoft, and we&amp;rsquo;ll get into that on the show, as well as see what he has to say about PowerShell.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games Instructions Now Available</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-13-scripting-games-instructions-now-available/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 19:51:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-13-scripting-games-instructions-now-available/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/games"&gt;posted an instruction booklet&lt;/a&gt; for the 2013 Scripting Games. Although you can&amp;rsquo;t register until April 22nd, you can get a sneak peek at what the new Games Web site looks like, and start preparing yourself to compete.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;READ THE FRIENDLY MANUAL.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
There are some one-time decisions you&amp;rsquo;ll have to make, and some &amp;ldquo;if you mess this up, you&amp;rsquo;re screwed&amp;rdquo; moments (like forgetting your password). It&amp;rsquo;s all on you - so familiarize yourself with the potential &amp;ldquo;gotchas&amp;rdquo; right away. You&amp;rsquo;re welcome to leave a comment on this post if you have any questions, or &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/discuss/viewforum.php?f=39&amp;amp;sid=bf378a7ec4e2c6748515b1d3bb87429f"&gt;ask in the forums&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
Note that the forums &lt;strong&gt;may not be used&lt;/strong&gt; to ask for feedback on your entry from judges - they won&amp;rsquo;t be monitoring the forum. It should also not be used for technical support questions about the Web site; the site will have a &amp;ldquo;feedback&amp;rdquo; link on the bottom of every page for that purpose.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Deep Dives"“another MEAP release</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-13-powershell-deep-dives-another-meap-release-2/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:24:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-13-powershell-deep-dives-another-meap-release-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Manning have released another set of chapters in their early access program for &lt;a href="http://www.manning.com/hicks/"&gt;PowerShell Deep Dives&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you have an interest in PowerShell I would strongly urge you to buy a copy. It has chapters from a number of well known PowerShell authors together with some very good material from new authors. Best of all the royalties are going to charity.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2834/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2834/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2834&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Busy, busy, busy</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-13-busy-busy-busy-2/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:17:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-13-busy-busy-busy-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A very busy time coming up in PowerShell land with the first PowerShell Summit kicking off in just over a week&amp;quot;™s time. The 2013 Scripting Games will also be starting very soon.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;quot;™ll try and post about both of them as time allows&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2832/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2832/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2832&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Creating a new disk</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-12-creating-a-new-disk-3/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:44:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-12-creating-a-new-disk-3/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I really like Windows Server Core. The concept has come of age in Windows 2012.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I needed to add a new disk to a virtual machine – that&amp;quot;™s easy using the Hyper-V cmdlets. But what about formating the disk.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A module new to Windows 2012 &amp;amp; Windows can be used. Its the Storage module. I&amp;quot;™ve not had chance, or reason, to play with this module yet. So many cmdlets so little time.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Windows Server Backup</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-11-windows-server-backup-4/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:50:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-11-windows-server-backup-4/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Windows Server 2012 has a PowerShell enabled backup utility. When you enable the feature you get a module called WindowsServerBackup. It has the cmldets you would expect for creating and managing backups. No surprise you may say as this was avialable in Windows 2008 R2.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The difference with Windows Server 2012 is that you can do restores from PowerShell cmdlets whcih wasn&amp;quot;™t available in the earlier version.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The restore cmdlets are&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>[UPDATED] Time is running out to own a piece of PowerShell.org</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-11-time-is-running-out-to-own-a-piece-of-powershell-org/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:25:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-11-time-is-running-out-to-own-a-piece-of-powershell-org/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Believe it or not, we are coming up on our one year anniversary, and will be winding down our capital campaign. If you&amp;rsquo;d like to become a stockholder in PowerShell.org, you will have until June 1st May 15 to do so. Read the details at &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/discuss/viewtopic.php?f=26&amp;amp;t=239"&gt;https://powershell.org/discuss/viewtopic.php?f=26&amp;amp;t=239&lt;/a&gt; if you&amp;rsquo;re interested!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Updated&lt;/strong&gt; to show May 15 as the cutoff date. Our shareholder meeting notices and ballots will go out on May 16, so we can&amp;rsquo;t accept new stock purchases after that date.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 223 – Ashley McGlone talks about Active Directory and Premier Field Engineering</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-04-09-episode-223-ashley-mcglone-talks-about-active-directory-and-premier-field-engineering/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 02:32:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-04-09-episode-223-ashley-mcglone-talks-about-active-directory-and-premier-field-engineering/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-223.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Ashley McGlone about Active Directory and Premier Field Engineering!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [Tampa PowerShell user group](http://powershellgroup.org/Tampa.Fl/2013-04-25) is meeting on April 24th
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [The Scripting Games schedule is out!](https://powershell.org/2013/04/03/2013-scripting-games-schedule/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [Here&amp;quot;™s the Scripting Games Competitor&amp;quot;™s Guide](https://powershell.org/2013/04/02/2013-scripting-games-competitor-guide-for-the-public-too/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guests - Ashley McGlone&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="links"&gt;Links&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Microsoft Community Contributor Boe Prox talks about WSUS and more!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-04-09-up-next-microsoft-community-contributor-boe-prox-talks-about-wsus-and-more/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:44:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-04-09-up-next-microsoft-community-contributor-boe-prox-talks-about-wsus-and-more/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This Thursday, April 11, we’re having Boe Prox, @proxb on the show! Boe is a Microsoft Community Contributor and Honorary Scripting Guy . Here’s his full bio:&lt;br&gt;
Boe Prox is a Senior Windows System Administrator for BAE Systems and has been using PowerShell since 2008.He is also a recipient of the Microsoft Community Contributor Award and is a moderator on the &lt;a href="http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/ITCG/threads"&gt;Hey Scripting Guy forum&lt;/a&gt;. He is active both in that forum and in the &lt;a href="http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverpowershell/threads"&gt;Windows PowerShell forum&lt;/a&gt; as well. He is also a judge for the 2012 Scripting Games. His current projects are &lt;a href="http://poshpaig.codeplex.com/"&gt;PoshPAIG&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://poshwsus.codeplex.com/"&gt;PoshWSUS&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://poshchat.codeplex.com/"&gt;PoshChat&lt;/a&gt;, all available at Codeplex.&lt;br&gt;
He has published a several articles for Microsoft’s &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/"&gt;Hey Scripting Guy! blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
As always, join us live at 9:30 PM EST Thursdays at &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net/"&gt;http://live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Running workflows</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-08-running-workflows/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:12:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-08-running-workflows/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I tripped over an interesting issue recently regarding the running of PowerShell workflows.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Consider the world&amp;quot;™s simplest workflow&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;workflow test-w1 {&amp;ldquo;hello world&amp;rdquo;}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If I run this on a 32bit Windows 8 PowerShell machine &amp;ldquo;“ it works&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If I run this on Windows 2012 (64bit) on PowerShell it works&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;if I run this on Windows 2012 PowerShell (x86) &amp;ldquo;“ it doesn&amp;rdquo;™t work!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Be aware of how you are running your workflows&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 04/04/2013 meeting summary</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-07-phillyposh-04042013-meeting-summary/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 02:58:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-07-phillyposh-04042013-meeting-summary/</guid><description>&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jasonhelmick.com/"&gt;Jason Helmick&lt;/a&gt; remotely gave a demo of &lt;a href="http://sapien.com/software/powershell_studio"&gt;Sapien&amp;quot;™s Powershell Studio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.edwilson.com/"&gt;Ed Wilson&lt;/a&gt;,Â &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/"&gt;The Scripting Guy&lt;/a&gt;, gave a presentation on the different ways to remotely manage a Windows 8 workstation (remotely via theÂ &lt;a href="http://powershellgroup.org/charlotte.nc"&gt;Charlotte PowerShell User Group&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Announcements
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/category/announcements/scripting-games/"&gt;Scripting games start&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/04/03/2013-scripting-games-schedule/"&gt;04/25/2013,&lt;/a&gt; make sure to sign up! We plan on doing a post mortem once the games are done just like we did with the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/03/10/phillyposh-03072013-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/"&gt;Winter Scripting Camp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Check out the &lt;a href="http://mspsug.com/"&gt;Mississippi PowerShell User&lt;/a&gt;, which meets virtually every 2nd Tuesday. Take a look at their &lt;a href="http://mspsug.com/2013/02/27/mississippi-powershell-user-group-speaker-lineup-for-2013/"&gt;schedule which is filled with great speakers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;</description></item><item><title>AD Management in a Month of Lunches</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-06-ad-management-in-a-month-of-lunches/</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:40:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-06-ad-management-in-a-month-of-lunches/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The MEAP marches on with chapter 8 now released:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Chapter 8 &amp;ldquo;“ creating Group Policies&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;details from &lt;a href="http://www.manning.com/siddaway3/" title="http://www.manning.com/siddaway3/"&gt;http://www.manning.com/siddaway3/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2826/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2826/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2826&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>2013 Scripting Games Judges</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-06-2013-scripting-games-judges/</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 12:32:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-06-2013-scripting-games-judges/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As described in the 2013 Scripting Games Competitors&amp;rsquo; Guide, our expert judges this year will not be awarded numeric scores. Frankly, folks seem more interested in having their entries peer-reviewed than just getting a number - and why not? Expert review is a great way to learn! Unfortunately, there aren&amp;rsquo;t enough judges in the world to review all the entries we&amp;rsquo;ll receive, so our judges will be picking their own &amp;ldquo;best and worst&amp;rdquo; lists, and commenting on those (taking care to not reveal authors&amp;rsquo; names, as much as possible).&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>2013 Scripting Games' Mighty Panel of Celebrity Judges</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-06-2013-scripting-games-mighty-panel-of-celebrity-judges/</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 12:21:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-06-2013-scripting-games-mighty-panel-of-celebrity-judges/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As revealed in the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/games/"&gt;2013 Scripting Games Competitors&amp;rsquo; Guide&lt;/a&gt;, the 2013 Games will invite the community in general to award numeric votes for entries. Our expert judges will instead focus on commentary, helping make the Games into an even better learning experience. They&amp;rsquo;ll be commenting without revealing competitors&amp;rsquo; names, and even if you don&amp;rsquo;t recognize your entry in their comments, you&amp;rsquo;ll hopefully find plenty to learn from.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our top prizes, however, will be awarded by a Mighty Panel of Celebrity Judges. They&amp;rsquo;ll review all the other judges&amp;rsquo; top picks, stack-rank them, and through some Ingenious Number Crunchingâ„¢ award the top prizes.&lt;br&gt;
Bet you&amp;rsquo;d like to meet the judges.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Coming: Tips for the Scripting Games</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-05-coming-tips-for-the-scripting-games/</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 06:36:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-05-coming-tips-for-the-scripting-games/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In preparation for the upcoming Scripting Games, the April 2013 issue of the free &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/newsletter/" title="PowerShell Script that Relaunches as Admin"&gt;PowerShell.org TechLetter&lt;/a&gt; will feature tips, examples, and advice for helping you do the best in the Games! Remember that the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/games/"&gt;Competitor Guide&lt;/a&gt; is now available, so you can start reviewing how the Games will be graded (by the community) and judged this year.&lt;br&gt;
If you&amp;rsquo;re not already receiving the TechLetter, [subscribe by April 15th][3] to receive the April issue in your Inbox!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Script that Relaunches as Admin</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-05-powershell-script-that-relaunches-as-admin/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:08:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-05-powershell-script-that-relaunches-as-admin/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If were following good security practices we run our Windows system with UAC enabled. This means that if you forget to launch your PowerShell prompt as Administrator when you run a script that requires administrative privilege then that script will fail.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to build a mechanism into our script to &amp;ldquo;auto-elevate&amp;rdquo; if UAC is enabled. The trick to doing this is to run Start-Process &amp;ldquo;“verb runas. After that you only need to figure out if the current user is an administrator and if UAC is enabled. And you have to package up the script&amp;rdquo;™s parameters as an array of strings. All of this can be accomplished fairly easily with this bit of PowerShell script:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Manning Deal of the Day "“ April 6 2013</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-04-manning-deal-of-the-day-april-6-2013-2/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:42:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-04-manning-deal-of-the-day-april-6-2013-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;My PowerShell and WMI book will be Manning&amp;quot;™s deal of the day for 6 April 2013. The deal will go live at Midnight US ET and will stay active for about 48 hours.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is your chance to get the book with a 50% discount.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Use code dotd0406au at &lt;a href="http://manning.com/siddaway2/"&gt;manning.com/siddaway2/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Deal of the Day offer also applies to &lt;em&gt;SharePoint Workflow in Action&lt;/em&gt; ****(&lt;a href="http://www.manning.com/wicklund/"&gt;http://www.manning.com/wicklund/&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Enjoy&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2825/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2825/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2825&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>2013 Scripting Games Schedule</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-03-2013-scripting-games-schedule/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 06:26:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-03-2013-scripting-games-schedule/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Registration for the 2013 Scripting Games will begin April 22nd (check this post in case we need to make a change to that). You will register for &lt;strong&gt;either&lt;/strong&gt; the Beginner or Advanced track.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/games/BeginnerPractice.pdf"&gt;Get the Beginner Track Practice Event&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/games/AdvancedPractice.pdf"&gt;Get the Advanced Track Practice Event&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Each event will kick off on a Thursday, which is when you will be able to download the event details in a PDF file. You will have until the end of the following Monday to upload your one and only entry. Please pay attention to the time zone information displayed on the Web site so that you don&amp;rsquo;t misunderstand when the event starts and stops!&lt;br&gt;
The dates in this schedule refer to 00:00 hours, GMT, on the date given. So &amp;ldquo;April 25&amp;rdquo; means &amp;ldquo;00:00 hours on April 25, GMT,&amp;rdquo; or just as the clock ticks from April 24 to April 25 GMT. This is especially important for the end time - &amp;ldquo;April 30&amp;rdquo; means &amp;ldquo;as soon as it stops being April 29, GMT.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 222 – Don Jones talks about the Scripting Games for 2013 and beyond</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-04-03-episode-222-don-jones-talks-about-the-scripting-games-for-2013-and-beyond/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 03:23:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-04-03-episode-222-don-jones-talks-about-the-scripting-games-for-2013-and-beyond/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-222.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Don Jones about the 2013 Scripting Games!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The Scripting Games are [coming in April](https://powershell.org/games/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The Charlotte PowerShell group is [meeting April 4th](https://powershell.org/event/charlotte-april-2013-user-group-meeting/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The Philadelphia PowerShell group is also [meeting on April 4th](https://powershell.org/event/philadelphia-powershell-user-group-2013-04-04/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [UAE PowerShell group](http://powershellgroup.org/UAE) is meeting on April 6th
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The [Tampa PowerShell user group](http://powershellgroup.org/Tampa.Fl/2013-04-25) is meeting on April 24th
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guests - MVP Don Jones&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Putting the date in a file name</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-03-putting-the-date-in-a-file-name/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:18:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-03-putting-the-date-in-a-file-name/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I often need to create file names that include the date &amp;amp; time the file was created in the name. I&amp;quot;™ve come up with all sorts of ways to do but this I think is the simplest.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I want the date in this format: year-month-day-hour-minute-second. In other words a format that is easily sortable. I discovered that if you convert a data to a string there is a formatter that does most of the work for you. That&amp;quot;™s a lower case s.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell excerpt week</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-03-powershell-excerpt-week-2/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:00:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-03-powershell-excerpt-week-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The Scripting Guy is running a series of excerpts from the PowerShell books published by Manning. Today is PowerShell in Practice &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/04/03/excel-spreadsheets.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/04/03/excel-spreadsheets.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Check out the deals all this week on Manning PowerShell books&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2823/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2823/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2823&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>2013 Scripting Games Competitor Guide (for the Public, too!)</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-02-2013-scripting-games-competitor-guide-for-the-public-too/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:58:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-02-2013-scripting-games-competitor-guide-for-the-public-too/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Our Competitor Guide is now online - you can download it here:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/2013CompetitorGuide.pdf"&gt;2013 Competitor Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;re doing things a bit differently this year. We&amp;rsquo;ll be engaging the overall PowerShell community for numeric grades - and those &lt;em&gt;doing&lt;/em&gt; the grading have an awesome chance to win some great prizes! Our expert Judges will be focused on commentary, making this even more of a learning event. Download the Guide and see what&amp;rsquo;s in store - the Games are scheduled to start the week of April 22nd.&lt;br&gt;
As a note, you should get used to checking our Scripting Games Announcements thread (&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/category/announcements/scripting-games/"&gt;https://powershell.org/category/announcements/scripting-games/&lt;/a&gt;) so that you don&amp;rsquo;t miss any goodies.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Microsoft PFE Ashley McGlone talks about Managing Active Directory with PowerShell!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-04-01-up-next-microsoft-pfe-ashley-mcglone-talks-about-managing-active-directory-with-powershell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 02:10:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-04-01-up-next-microsoft-pfe-ashley-mcglone-talks-about-managing-active-directory-with-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This Thursday, April 4, we’re having &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/ashleymcglone/"&gt;Ashley McGlone&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/GoateePFE"&gt;@goateePFE&lt;/a&gt; on the show! Ashley works as a PFE (Premier Field Engineer) at Microsoft with an emphasis in AD. Ashley has spoken at TechMentor and PowerShell Saturday. Here&amp;rsquo;s his full bio:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ashley McGlone is a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (PFE). He started writing code on a Commodore VIC20 back in 1982, and he’s been hooked ever since. As a former MCT Ashley used to teach MCSE classes on NT 4.0 and Windows 2000. Ashley spent eight years of his IT career administering a large enterprise where he scripted for Active Directory and thousands of workstations. Today he specializes in Active Directory and PowerShell, helping Microsoft Premier customers reach their full potential through risk assessments and workshops. Ashley’s TechNet blog focuses on real-world solutions for Active Directory using Windows PowerShell.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>MVP renewal 2013</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-01-mvp-renewal-2013/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:46:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-01-mvp-renewal-2013/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This afternoon I received the email notifying me that my MVP award had been renewed for another year.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thank you to Microsoft &amp;ldquo;“ I regard the award as a great honour.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And thank you to the PowerShell community &amp;ldquo;“ its a great place to be&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2822/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2822/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2822&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Shutting down a remote computer</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-01-shutting-down-a-remote-computer/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:15:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-04-01-shutting-down-a-remote-computer/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;PowerShell provides the Stop-Computer cmdlet for closing down a remote machine. I find this especially useful in my virtual test environment. I&amp;quot;™ll have several machines running but won&amp;quot;™t necessarily have logged onto them. Using Stop-Computer means that I can shut them down cleanly without the hassle of logging onto them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In modern Windows systems you have to explicitly enable remote WMI access through the Windows firewall. Stop-Computer uses WMI. If the WMI firewall ports aren&amp;quot;™t enabled you can&amp;quot;™t use Stop-Computer. I&amp;quot;™ve taken to use the CIM cmdlets rather than WMI so sometimes don&amp;quot;™t open the WMI firewall ports.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 221 – Jeremy Moskowitz on Group Policy</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-03-26-episode-221-jeremy-moskowitz-on-group-policy/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:02:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-03-26-episode-221-jeremy-moskowitz-on-group-policy/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-221.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jeremy Moskowitz about Group Policy!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The Scripting Games are [coming in April](https://powershell.org/games/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The Dallas/Fort Worth PowerShell user group is [meeting Thursday the 28th](http://powershellgroup.org/DallasFtWorth.TX/2013-03-28)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The UK PowerShell User group meeting has been [moved to April 9th](http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2013/03/21/uk-powershell-group-session-postponement.aspx)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Mike Robbins posted the video from his &amp;quot;[PowerShell Fundamentals for Beginners](http://mikefrobbins.com/2013/03/21/florida-powershell-user-group-march-meeting-video-and-presentation-materials/)&amp;quot; session
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; MVP Adam Driscol brings us [PoshExec](http://csharpening.net/?p=1572)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>CIM cmdlets</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-03-26-cim-cmdlets/</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:04:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-03-26-cim-cmdlets/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The CIM cmdlets are found in the CIMcmdlets module.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get-Command -Module CimCmdlets produces this list of names. I&amp;quot;™ve added some information on the tasks they perform&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get-CimAssociatedInstance is for working with WMI associated classes&lt;br&gt;
Get-CimClass is for discovering the properties and methods of a WMI class&lt;br&gt;
Get-CimInstance is analogous to Get-WmiObject&lt;br&gt;
Get-CimSession&lt;br&gt;
Invoke-CimMethod is analogous to Invoke-WMIMethod &lt;br&gt;
New-CimInstance can be used for creating a new WMI instance in certain circumstances&lt;br&gt;
New-CimSession&lt;br&gt;
New-CimSessionOption&lt;br&gt;
Register-CimIndicationEvent is analogous to Register-WMIEvent&lt;br&gt;
Remove-CimInstance is analogous to Remove-WMIObject&lt;br&gt;
Remove-CimSession&lt;br&gt;
Set-CimInstance is analogous to Set-WMIInstance&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>WMI vs CIM</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-03-24-wmi-vs-cim/</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:03:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-03-24-wmi-vs-cim/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;An email debate yesterday regarding the use of the CIM cmdlets (new in PowerShell 3) vs the WMI cmdlets made me realise that other people are probably wondering the same thing,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The question is really part of a the semi-philosophical debate about when you should adopt new technology.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the case of the WMI/CIM cmdlets the resolution is fairly straightforward.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you are using PowerShell v2 you have to use the WMI cmdlets.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>UK PowerShell group session postponement</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-03-21-uk-powershell-group-session-postponement/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:52:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-03-21-uk-powershell-group-session-postponement/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;quot;™m postponing the 26 March session on PowerShell and Hyper-V until 9 April. Invites will go out shortly&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2818/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2818/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2818&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell 3 SDK samples</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-03-21-powershell-3-sdk-samples/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:49:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-03-21-powershell-3-sdk-samples/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A sample pack for the SDK is now available - see &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/03/17/windows-powershell-3-0-sample-pack.aspx" title="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/03/17/windows-powershell-3-0-sample-pack.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/03/17/windows-powershell-3-0-sample-pack.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2817/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2817/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2817&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 220 – Mark Minasi</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-03-19-episode-220-mark-minasi/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:16:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-03-19-episode-220-mark-minasi/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;** Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-220.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Mark Minasi&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The Scripting Games are [coming in April](https://powershell.org/games/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; May 2-3 Jeff Hicks will be at [TechDays San Francisco](http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/2013/03/techdays-san-francisco/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JeffsScriptingBlogAndMore+%28The+Lonely+Administrator%29#utm_source=feed&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&amp;amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;amp;utm_campaign=techdays-san-francisco)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; PowerShell books are [tops over at Manning](http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/2013/03/powershell-books-rule/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JeffsScriptingBlogAndMore+%28The+Lonely+Administrator%29#utm_source=feed&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&amp;amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;amp;utm_campaign=powershell-books-rule)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The [Windows PowerShell 3.0 SDK Sample Pack](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/03/17/windows-powershell-3-0-sample-pack.aspx) has been released
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Please send us your events!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Group Policy MVP Jeremy Moskowitz!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-03-19-up-next-group-policy-mvp-jeremy-moskowitz/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:51:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-03-19-up-next-group-policy-mvp-jeremy-moskowitz/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/d43fd846bc0ec75bdedf3d689fa5bdbb-bpthumb.jpg" alt=""&gt;This Thursday (at 9:30 EST) we&amp;rsquo;re pleased to have Jeremy Moskowitz (&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/jeremymoskowitz"&gt;@jeremymoskowitz&lt;/a&gt;) on the show! Jereey is a long-time speaker, author, trainer and expert around group policy, and this week we&amp;rsquo;ll see what he has to say about PowerShell! We hope you can make it for the live chat which you can find at &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeremy Moskowitz, Group Policy MVP is chief Propeller-Head for Moskowitz, Inc and GPanswers.com. He runs GPanswers.com, and WinLinAnswers.com, two community forums to help answer people&amp;rsquo;s tough questions about Group Policy and Windows/Linux integration. Since becoming one of the world&amp;rsquo;s first MCSEs, Jeremy has performed Windows NT, Active Directory, Group Policy, and Windows / Linux integration planning, training and implementation for some of the world&amp;rsquo;s largest organizations. Jeremy is one of only twelve Microsoft Group Policy MVPs in the world, and the only one who teaches full time. He has delivered technical presentations at some of the world&amp;rsquo;s largest conferences including REDMOND Magazine&amp;rsquo;s TechMentor, Windiws IT Pro Magazine&amp;rsquo;s Windows Connections, TechTarget&amp;rsquo;s Windows Decisions, NetPro&amp;rsquo;s Directory Experts Conference, and IIR Sweden&amp;rsquo;s Enterprise Server Summit. He is the noted author of seven books on Windows. His smash hit is entitled Group Policy, Profiles, and IntelliMirror for Windows 2003, Windows 2000 and Windows XP is on desks of administrators around the world and has been updated several times. His hands-on, intensive group policy training has been attended by many of the world&amp;rsquo;s leading companies. Jeremy is a frequent contributor to TechNet Magazine, REDMOND Magazine and Windows IT Pro Magazine and has additionally written for BackOffice Magazine, Windows PRO Magazine, Online Training Magazine, PC Magazine, Element-K Professional Journals, BYTE.COM and was a columnist for ENT Magazine. Jeremy is a featured expert on the Microsoft Windows XP Expert Zone and is the Featured Group Policy Expert for TechTarget.com.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 219 – Alan Renouf from VMware on PowerCLI</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-03-13-episode-219-alan-renouf-from-vmware-on-powercli/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 04:37:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-03-13-episode-219-alan-renouf-from-vmware-on-powercli/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;** Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-219.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Alan Renouf about PowerCLI
**&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News





- 
 The Scripting Games are [coming in April](https://powershell.org/games/)


- 
 [UAE PowerShell User&amp;quot;™s group](http://powershellgroup.org/UAE)


- 
 [Mississippi PowerShell User group](http://powershellgroup.org/mississippi)


- 
 [March Madness in Rochester](http://powershellgroup.org/Rochester.NY/2013-03-14)


- 
 [PowerShell 3.0 Step by Step](http://www.amazon.com/Windows-PowerShell-3-0-Step/dp/0735663394/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1363228540&amp;amp;sr=1-1&amp;amp;keywords=ed+wilson+powershell) is out now







**Â **
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Interview





Guests - Alan Renouf
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Links





**Â **





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 [https://twitter.com/alanrenouf](https://twitter.com/alanrenouf)





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 [PowerCLI](http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/server/vsphere/automationtools/powercli)





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 [The Get-Scripting Podcast](http://get-scripting.blogspot.com/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Question -





- 
 Mars mission - bring nothing, enjoy Parkour in zero gravity
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>Network Adapters"“Disable/Enable</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-03-11-network-adapters-disableenable/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:09:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-03-11-network-adapters-disableenable/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Last time we saw the Get-NetAdapter cmdlet from the NetAdapter module&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PS&amp;gt; Get-NetAdapter | ft Name, InterfaceDescription, Status -a&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Name InterfaceDescription Status
—- ——————– ——
Ethernet NVIDIA nForce 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Up
WiFi Qualcomm Atheros AR5007 802.11b/g WiFi Adapter Up&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you look in the module you also find Disable-NetAdapter &amp;amp; Enable-NetAdapter&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PS&amp;gt; Disable-NetAdapter -Name Wifi -Confirm:$false&lt;br&gt;
PS&amp;gt; Get-NetAdapter | ft Name, InterfaceDescription, Status -a&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Name InterfaceDescription Status
—- ——————– ——
Ethernet NVIDIA nForce 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Up
WiFi Qualcomm Atheros AR5007 802.11b/g WiFi Adapter Disabled&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 03/07/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-03-10-phillyposh-03072013-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:06:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-03-10-phillyposh-03072013-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</guid><description>&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://mellositmusings.com/"&gt;John Mello&lt;/a&gt;Â gave aÂ brief overview of the history of the Scripting Games and an overview of the beginner events from the 2013 Winter Scripting Camp. A copy of his presentation and 2013 Winter Scripting Camp submissions can be found &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/PhillPosh_2013-03-04_PT1.zip"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://paglia.org/"&gt;Lido Paglia&lt;/a&gt;Â gave an overview of the advanced events from the 2013 Winter Scripting Camp in addition to doing an in-depth review of &lt;a href="http://donjones.com/"&gt;Don Jones&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;™ &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/02/11/winter-scripting-camp-the-post-mortem/"&gt;Winter Scripting Camp Post Mortem&lt;/a&gt;. A copy of his 2013 Winter Scripting Camp submissions can be found &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/PhillPosh_2013-03-04_PT2.zip"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Various other information worth mentioning:
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Group member &lt;a href="http://tiki.gmartin.org/"&gt;Greg Martin&lt;/a&gt; presented a problem he ran into creating a COM object in PowerShell to hold an instance of Internet Explorer which he would then use to open a page. Stepping through the script worked fine, but running the script failed.Â  The issue was that the object would more often than not be blank when he tried to reference it. The group offered some&lt;br&gt;
suggestions and ideas to work around the issue which later helped Greg find the root cause. A breakdown of the problem and final solution can be found on &lt;a href="http://tiki.gmartin.org/tiki-view_blog_post.php?postId=181"&gt;Greg&amp;quot;™s Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Need help making sure your script is not using aliases? Take a look at &lt;a href="http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/2011/04/powershell-ise-alias-to-command/"&gt;Jeff Hicks convert to Alias function!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Following up on &lt;a href="http://paglia.org/"&gt;Lido Paglia&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;™s discussion of &lt;a href="http://donjones.com/"&gt;Don Jones&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;™ &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/02/11/winter-scripting-camp-the-post-mortem/"&gt;Winter Scripting Camp Post Mortem&lt;/a&gt;, here is a list of approved verbs and naming conventions for PowerShell directly from Microsoft:
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms714428(v=vs.85).aspx"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms714428(v=vs.85).aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms714395(v=vs.85).aspx"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms714395(v=vs.85).aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms714395(v=vs.85).aspx"&gt;The&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://mspsug.com/"&gt;PowerShell Mississippi User Group&lt;/a&gt; isÂ offering a series of &lt;a href="http://mspsug.com/2013/02/27/mississippi-powershell-user-group-speaker-lineup-for-2013/"&gt;online meetings every 2nd Tuesday of the month at 8:30PM CST for the rest of 2013&lt;/a&gt;. The speaker line-up is anÂ impressive who&amp;quot;™s who of PowerShell MVPs!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Check out the &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2009/10/15/introducing-the-windows-7-resource-kit-powershell-pack.aspx"&gt;Windows 7 Resource Kit PowerShell Pack&lt;/a&gt;, which contains over 800 scripts in 10 different modules. For example :
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;ISE shortcuts&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Task Scheduler&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;PowerShell Image manipulation&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;And many more!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Post Meeting announcement
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://paglia.org/"&gt;Lido Paglia&lt;/a&gt;Â came in 2nd place in the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/category/announcements/scripting-games/"&gt;2013Â Winter Scripting Camp&lt;/a&gt;! Give him a high five next time you see him!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
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&lt;/ol&gt;</description></item><item><title>Announcing Winter Scripting Camp Winners</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-03-08-announcing-winter-scripting-camp-winners/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 22:57:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-03-08-announcing-winter-scripting-camp-winners/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I know, this took forever. Mea culpa. I&amp;rsquo;ve been working my shell off, and finally got around to pulling the info.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Beginner Track&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Wouter Beens (4.667)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Laurel Raven (4.5)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Chris Davis (4.5)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Advanced Track&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Alexander Kuzin (4.5)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lido Paglia (4.5)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;(anonymous) (4)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Those are the average scores from those entries, and in case of a tie we broke it by submission timestamp. Things will be working a bit differently in the actual Games, coming your way in April, so stay tuned. In fact, you can &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/category/announcements/scripting-games/"&gt;subscribe to a specific topic for Scripting Games announcements&lt;/a&gt;, if you like.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>WMI Explorer</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-03-08-wmi-explorer/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:02:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-03-08-wmi-explorer/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This is a PowerShell-based WMI Explorer tool created by Marc van Orsouw (aka //\O//). His Web site has been down for ages, but &lt;a href="http://tfl09.blogspot.com/2013/03/wmi-explorerwheres-it-gonea-temporary.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;amp;utm_medium=twitter"&gt;Thomas Lee&lt;/a&gt; was helpful enough to post a copy of this, and we&amp;rsquo;re hosting it here as a backup against further unavailability.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/wmiexplorer.zip"&gt;Download WMI Explorer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit 2014 Planning Continues</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-03-08-powershell-summit-2014-planning-continues/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:09:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-03-08-powershell-summit-2014-planning-continues/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In an effort to keep folks as fully informed as possible, I&amp;rsquo;ll periodically share information about the Summit for next year. In this update, I want to explain how we&amp;rsquo;re hoping to address some of the issues (all good ones, actually) that we&amp;rsquo;ve experienced with the 2013 event.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First, the 2013 event sold out &lt;em&gt;fast.&lt;/em&gt; We have a fire code limit of about 100 people and we hit it quickly - and our wait list ballooned to almost as many people. The moral of that story is that (a) we need more space and (b) people gotta sign up quicker if they want a spot! This is like grabbing those U2 tickets - camp out overnight and snap &amp;rsquo;em up. So we&amp;rsquo;re hoping to be in the Microsoft Conference Center (MSCC) on campus, which should allow us around 250 attendees in 2014. We can&amp;rsquo;t book that space until about a year out, we&amp;rsquo;re told, but once we can start booking we will announce it here. Our 2013 alumni will get first dibs, and we&amp;rsquo;ll have about 25 early bird tickets to sell. We expect pricing to be about $700 for those, and about $850 for full-price tickets, plus about $40-$50 in ticketing fees (which covers credit card merchant fees and the ticketing company fee).&lt;br&gt;
Second, we &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; offer tickets as soon as we can do so. That may include an &amp;ldquo;I&amp;rsquo;m Feeling Lucky&amp;rdquo; ticket even before we know our dates (we&amp;rsquo;re still aiming for April 2014). However, due to changing regulations, we can only offer refunds for 30 days after you make your purchase, or (due to logistics) until February 1st, &lt;em&gt;whichever comes first.&lt;/em&gt; That&amp;rsquo;s something you&amp;rsquo;ll have to take into account.&lt;br&gt;
Third, we&amp;rsquo;re going to make the waitlist process a bit more automated, and give you the ability to use the waitlist to sell your ticket to someone else if you change your mind about attending. People will be able to waitlist on PowerShell.org, and prospective ticket-sellers will be able to offer tickets to that list. You&amp;rsquo;re on your own for completing the transaction (we suggest PayPal), and you simply notify us of the transfer once it&amp;rsquo;s complete.&lt;br&gt;
Fourth, in case the question of recording the sessions comes up again, here&amp;rsquo;s the deal. It&amp;rsquo;s expensive. We&amp;rsquo;ve looked into it, and we&amp;rsquo;ll need about $8,000 in equipment, which is a one-time expense that will let us record sessions with a minimum of on-site labor. So we&amp;rsquo;re going to launch an IndieGoGo campaign in late 2013 to try and raise that money. Contributors will receive (depending on the amount they contribute) access to all future Summit recordings, a discount on Summit recordings for 2014, or full access to the 2014 recordings. If we don&amp;rsquo;t meet our goal, we won&amp;rsquo;t record, and everyone gets their money back. If we do meet our goal, only contributors will get access to the 2014 videos. However, in subsequent years we will sell (for a nominal fee) access to the videos to the public - that&amp;rsquo;ll happen after the Summit is over. In years where the Summit sells out, we&amp;rsquo;ll put the videos online for free (unless we need to recoup labor costs, in which case there might still be a nominal fee). This is the fair-est approach we could come up with that balances our need to have a successful on-site event (without the paying attendees, we can&amp;rsquo;t do this thing at all) and to accommodate the needs of folks who can&amp;rsquo;t possibly attend.&lt;br&gt;
Fifth, we still have no word on any events outside the US, and probably will not. We are simply not pursuing it at this time. It gets very complicated when a US business starts doing events in other countries, and we don&amp;rsquo;t have the manpower or resources to tackle that right now. Several folks have expressed an interest in spearheading various non-US versions of the Summit, and most of those are going nowhere. One problem is that, in Europe, nobody appears interested in a &amp;ldquo;Euro Summit;&amp;rdquo; they all want one in their own country, which makes the whole endeavor financially risky and exponentially more complicated. There&amp;rsquo;s a huge concern that if we do one in (say) Barcelona, nobody from outside that area will even come. Another problem is that the Summit involves an insane amount of work - personally, I&amp;rsquo;ve spent hundreds of hours on this and I know Kirk has as well, along with Jason, Jeff, and Richard, the Scripting Wife, and a few more volunteers. It&amp;rsquo;s a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of work, and thus far we haven&amp;rsquo;t seen anyone outside the US willing to take it on. Keep in mind that we all still &lt;em&gt;need to have our full-time jobs&lt;/em&gt; to pay for silly things like groceries and electricity; we can&amp;rsquo;t afford to take out much more volunteer time.&lt;br&gt;
Sixth, the 2014 Summit will look much like the 2013 Summit in terms of content: about three dozen sessions in one-hour blocks, with about 45 minutes per session (including Q&amp;amp;A time). We&amp;rsquo;ll feed you breakfast and lunch. We &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; going to book out a block of rooms at a nearby hotel, and will run a shuttle bus to and from that hotel (only!) and the Summit venue. That should help lower travel costs by reducing the need for a rental car. We are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; going to be able to hold enough rooms for all 200-250 attendees (when you hold a room, you pay for it whether it gets used or not, so the financial risk there is huge). We are hoping to block about 60 rooms - so it&amp;rsquo;ll become important to book early. Once that block is sold, you&amp;rsquo;re on your own - although the same hotel may well have rooms at their normal rate, which is what we&amp;rsquo;re hoping will happen.&lt;br&gt;
Seventh, communications with registered attendees has been a huge PITA, mainly because some providers - like ForeFront Online Protection (FOLP) have a global block against EventBrite, our ticket company. Yeah, awesome. So for 2014 we&amp;rsquo;re going to use &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/category/announcements/powershell-summit/"&gt;THIS blog category&lt;/a&gt; and our [Twitter feed][2] to &amp;ldquo;push&amp;rdquo; communications. We&amp;rsquo;ll still attempt to use email, but it&amp;rsquo;s just not reliable in this age of ultra-spam-blocking. So if you register, &lt;em&gt;it will be your responsibility to check for updated information.&lt;/em&gt; After all, you&amp;rsquo;re supposed to be the big, smart IT professional, so you should be able to figure out how to do that .&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;ll continue posting updates as information is available, and we hope you&amp;rsquo;ll start talking to the boss about the 2014 show. The 2013 show is &lt;strong&gt;sold out&lt;/strong&gt;. As of right now, we are no longer to able process refunds for existing attendees, so we&amp;rsquo;re no longer processing the 2013 wait list. That means it&amp;rsquo;s time to start looking at the 2014 show.&lt;br&gt;
Any questions, drop &amp;rsquo;em in the comments!&lt;br&gt;
Thanks!&lt;br&gt;
Don&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 218 – PowerShell jokes and SQL talk with the MidnightDBAs</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-03-05-episode-218-powershell-jokes-and-sql-talk-with-the-midnightdbas/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 04:58:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-03-05-episode-218-powershell-jokes-and-sql-talk-with-the-midnightdbas/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;** Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-218.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Sean and Jen McCown, the MidnightDBA duo!**** 
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News





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 [PowerCLI 5.1 Release 2 is out](http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2013/02/12/powercli-5-1-release-2-is-released/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PowershellMagazine+%28PowerShell+Magazine%29)


- 
 MVP Jeff Hicks will be speaking at [SQL Saturday in Omaha, NE on April 6th](http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/2013/02/powershell-in-the-big-o/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JeffsScriptingBlogAndMore+%28The+Lonely+Administrator%29#utm_source=feed&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&amp;amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;amp;utm_campaign=powershell-in-the-big-o)


- 
 MVP Jeff Hicks has posted his upcoming [speaking schedule](http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/2013/02/on-the-road/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JeffsScriptingBlogAndMore+%28The+Lonely+Administrator%29#utm_source=feed&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&amp;amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;amp;utm_campaign=on-the-road)


- 
 The Atlanta PowerShell user group will be [meeting on March 12th](http://atlpug201303-eac2.eventbrite.com/)







Â **
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Guests - Sean and Jen McCown
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Links





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 Website: [MidnightDBA.com](http://midnightdba.com/)





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 Blog post: [Why is adopting PowerShell so hard](http://www.midnightdba.com/DBARant/?p=891) (for DBAs)?
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Question -





Sean superhero - tactile osmosis





Jen superhero - Firestar
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Resources





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 [T-SQL Tuesday #39 is a PowerShell grab bag](http://blog.waynesheffield.com/wayne/archive/2013/02/t-sql-tuesday-39-wrapup/)





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 MVP Joel Bennett teaches how to get help for [modules you don&amp;quot;™t have installed](http://huddledmasses.org/get-help-for-modules-you-dont-have-installed/)









**The Scripting Guy shows us how to [easily find out how long a process has been running](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/02/27/powertip-use-powershell-to-easily-find-how-long-a-process-runs.aspx)**
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 217 – The Scripting Guy Ed Wilson talks about his new PowerShell books</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-03-04-episode-217-the-scripting-guy-ed-wilson-talks-about-his-new-powershell-books/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 23:27:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-03-04-episode-217-the-scripting-guy-ed-wilson-talks-about-his-new-powershell-books/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;** Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-217.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Ed Wilson about his new PowerShell books**** 
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Interview





Guest - Ed Wilson (The Scripting Guy)
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Â **





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 [PowerShell 3.0 Step by Step](http://www.amazon.com/Windows-PowerShell-3-0-Step/dp/0735663394/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1361498762&amp;amp;sr=1-3&amp;amp;keywords=ed+wilson)





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 [Windows PowerShell 3.0 First Steps](http://www.amazon.com/Windows-PowerShell-3-0-First-Steps/dp/0735676151/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1361498843&amp;amp;sr=1-1&amp;amp;keywords=ed+wilson+first+steps)









**Â **
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Question -





**favorite book - [Snow Crash](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowcrash), [The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing](http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Companion-Crime-Mystery-Writing/dp/0195072391)**
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>Network adapters</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-03-04-network-adapters/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:24:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-03-04-network-adapters/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The WMI classes Win32_NetworkAdapter and Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration have seen a lot of use over the years. They can be a bit fiddly to use which is why the NetAdapter module in Windows 8/2012 is a so welcome.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lets start by looking at basic information gathering&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PS&amp;gt; Get-NetAdapter | ft -a&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Name InterfaceDescription ifIndex Status MacAddress LinkSpeed
—- ——————– ——- —— ———- ———
Ethernet NVIDIA nForce 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet 13 Up 00-1F-16-63-F5-DF 100 Mbps
WiFi Qualcomm Atheros AR5007 802.11b/g WiFi Adapter 12 Up 00-24-2B-2F-9C-A5 54 Mbps&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Windows 8 Kindle app</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-03-01-windows-8-kindle-app/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:22:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-03-01-windows-8-kindle-app/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Amazon have released an update for the Windows 8 Kindle app that appears to have resolved the corrupted display issue that occurred after every few pages of reading.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I would recommend updating the app immediately. The app now seems to be usable.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2814/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2814/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2814&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Book offer"“AD Management in a Month of Lunches</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-27-book-offer-ad-management-in-a-month-of-lunches/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:24:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-27-book-offer-ad-management-in-a-month-of-lunches/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;AD Management in a month of lunches is today&amp;quot;™s deal of the day from Manning &amp;ldquo;“ &lt;a href="http://www.manning.com/"&gt;www.manning.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The get 50% off today using code &lt;strong&gt;dotd0227cc. The offer is good for today only&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The same code can be used for 50% off PowerShell in Practice&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2813/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2813/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2813&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Last nights Live Meeting</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-27-last-nights-live-meeting/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:18:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-27-last-nights-live-meeting/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The sound was awful on last night&amp;quot;™s Live Meeting so I intend to re-record it at the weekend. I&amp;quot;™ll post the recording and scripts once its done.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;quot;™m also investigating an alternative delivery mechanism that will hopefully solve the sound issues.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2812/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2812/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2812&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Filter or LDAP filter</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-27-filter-or-ldap-filter/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:16:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-27-filter-or-ldap-filter/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Many of the Microsoft AD cmdlets have a &amp;ldquo;“Filter and an &amp;ldquo;“LDAPFilter parameter. So what&amp;rdquo;™s the difference?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PS&amp;gt; Get-Help Get-ADUser -Parameter *Filter*&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-Filter&lt;br&gt;
Specifies a query string that retrieves Active Directory objects. This string uses the PowerShell Expression&lt;br&gt;
Language syntax. The PowerShell Expression Language syntax provides rich type-conversion support for value types received by the Filter parameter. The syntax uses an in-order representation, which means that the operator is placed between the operand and the value. For more information about the Filter parameter, see about_ActiveDirectory_Filter.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Sean &amp; Jen McCown – the MidnightDBA duo!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-02-27-up-next-sean-jen-mccown-the-midnightdba-duo/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:02:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-02-27-up-next-sean-jen-mccown-the-midnightdba-duo/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/seanjen.jpg" alt=""&gt;This Thursday night please join us as we chat with Sean and Jen McCown from MidnightDBA.com (and &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/MidnightDBA"&gt;@MidnightDBA&lt;/a&gt; on Twitter)! Both Sean and Jen have long careers working with Microsoft SQL Server and they both have been awarded MVP for their efforts!
We&amp;rsquo;re happy to be slumming with the T-SQL community once again. 🙂&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can read up on the pair&amp;rsquo;s history at &lt;a href="http://midnightdba.itbookworm.com/WhoAreWe.aspx"&gt;MidnightDBA.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Join us in the chatroom or just listen in on Thursday Feb 21, 2013 at 9:30PM EST &lt;a href="http://powerscriptinglive.blogspot.com/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell.org Forums Etiquette</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-27-powershell-org-forums-etiquette/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:19:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-27-powershell-org-forums-etiquette/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Folks often ask for some advice on what to do, and what not to do, in the forums. Here are some suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t apologize for being a &amp;ldquo;noob&amp;rdquo; or &amp;ldquo;newbie&amp;rdquo; or &amp;ldquo;n00b.&amp;rdquo; There&amp;rsquo;s just no need - nobody will think you&amp;rsquo;re stupid, and the forums are all about asking questions. Just ask.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Try to avoid using obscure or punctuation aliases (like ? and %) - use command names instead. It makes your post easier for everyone, including n00bs, to follow.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Use the CODE or POWERSHELL buttons in the forums editor to format PowerShell and other code.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;If your problem is solved, find the little green checkmark button along the top of your message (or one of the replies; it&amp;rsquo;s near the Twitter and Facebook and other buttons), and click it. That helps indicate to everyone else that you found a solution.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t post massive scripts. We&amp;rsquo;re all volunteers, and we don&amp;rsquo;t have time to read all that, nor will we copy, paste, and run it. Post an excerpt, and clearly state what you&amp;rsquo;re having problems with.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Post error messages, as appropriate. They help.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t ask folks to provide you with a complete script, or to rewrite your script. Again, we&amp;rsquo;re all volunteers - respect that we&amp;rsquo;re taking time to help you, and help us minimize that time.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Try to ask just one question at a time. Posts with ten questions are a lot harder to help with.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;DO post what you&amp;rsquo;ve tried, what errors you got, and what didn&amp;rsquo;t work. It&amp;rsquo;s a lot easier, sometimes, to correct what you&amp;rsquo;ve already done than to try and write something from scratch.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;ve been given a working solution, SAY THANK YOU! Then make sure you know WHY it works&amp;hellip; and ask for an explanation if you don&amp;rsquo;t!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Take the time to educate yourself. Pick up a book, or a training video, or take a class, or attend a conference. Yes, those take time - but it&amp;rsquo;s time well-spent. If you&amp;rsquo;re continually asking other people to spend time answering questions that are &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; answered in every book, video, course, etc&amp;hellip;. well, that&amp;rsquo;s kinda wasting &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; time, right? Folks on the forums can help you more effectively if you have a base education first.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Have your own etiquette suggestions? Drop &amp;rsquo;em in the comments!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 216 – Jake Robinson and Damian Karlson talk PowerCLI</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-02-26-episode-216-jake-robinson-and-damian-karlson-talk-powercli/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 01:25:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-02-26-episode-216-jake-robinson-and-damian-karlson-talk-powercli/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;** Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-216.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Jake Robinson and Damian Karlson about PowerCLI!**
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- 
 The Arizona PowerShell user group is [meeting March 6th](http://www.azposh.com/2013/02/dont-forget-to-join-us-wed-2613-330pm/)


- 
 The Philadelphia PowerShell user group is [meeting March 7th](http://powershellgroup.org/philadelphia.pa/2013-03-07)


- 
 [SQLSaturday#220](http://www.sqlsaturday.com/220/eventhome.aspx) in Atlanta May 18th will have a PowerShell track


- 
 The [Events](https://powershell.org/events/) page over at PowerShell.org is a great tool
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Guests - Jake Robinson and Damian Karlson
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Links





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 [http://damiankarlson.com/2012/11/15/aws-glacier-sns-powershell-cmdlets/](http://damiankarlson.com/2012/11/15/aws-glacier-sns-powershell-cmdlets/)





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 [http://damiankarlson.com/](http://damiankarlson.com/)





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 [http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLIforTenants/PowerCLIforTenants51/html/index.html](http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLIforTenants/PowerCLIforTenants51/html/index.html)





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 [http://professionalvmware.com/](http://professionalvmware.com/)





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 [http://www.labguides.com/autolab/](http://www.labguides.com/autolab/)





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 [http://geekafterfive.com/](http://geekafterfive.com/)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Question -





Jake superhero - Link from Legend of Zelda





Damian superhero - Gandalf
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>Advanced Functions webcast</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-25-advanced-functions-webcast/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:30:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-25-advanced-functions-webcast/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Quick reminder that the UK PowerShell group is hosting a Live Meeting webcast on PowerShell Advanced functions tomorrow &amp;ldquo;“ details from&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/uk-powershell-groupadvanced-functions/" title="http://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/uk-powershell-groupadvanced-functions/"&gt;http://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/uk-powershell-groupadvanced-functions/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2810/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2810/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2810&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell in Depth"“nearly there</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-25-powershell-in-depth-nearly-there/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:26:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-25-powershell-in-depth-nearly-there/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;PowerShell in Depth is rapidly approaching its publication date &amp;ldquo;“ see &lt;a href="http://www.manning.com/jones2"&gt;www.manning.com/jones2&lt;/a&gt; for details&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2809/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2809/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2809&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>New book</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-25-new-book/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:57:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-25-new-book/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;My latest book has been released on the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP). Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches takes the newcomer to AD through the tasks they need to perform to manage their organization&amp;quot;™s AD.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;it assumes no knowledge of AD and shows how to perform the common management tasks from the GUI (AD Administrative Center &amp;amp; the venerable AD Users &amp;amp; Computers) as well as PowerShell (using the Microsoft cmdlets).&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>VERIFIED EFFECTIVE for PowerShell 3.0 Toolmaking now live</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-24-verified-effective-for-powershell-3-0-toolmaking-now-live/</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:10:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-24-verified-effective-for-powershell-3-0-toolmaking-now-live/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://donjones.com/verified" title="Creating a Windows 2012 Domain Controller"&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s now available globally&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
I suggest downloading the Program Guide, which includes the agreement and directions for enrolling. There&amp;rsquo;s also a specific guide for the PowerShell 3.0 Toolmaking examination, which you should read prior to paying.&lt;br&gt;
Once you&amp;rsquo;ve paid, and sent in the necessary signed paperwork, you&amp;rsquo;ll get your exam info via e-mail. You can log in at any time to download your exam scenario and begin working. From the time of your first login, the clock starts ticking and you have 24 hours to upload your results. After uploading your results, you&amp;rsquo;ll hear back within 5 business days - these are graded by a human, not a machine, so be patient.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Creating a Windows 2012 Domain Controller</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-21-creating-a-windows-2012-domain-controller/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:50:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-21-creating-a-windows-2012-domain-controller/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I decided to replace one of the DCs in my test environment with a Windows 2012 Server Core machine. Server Core has really come of age in Windows 2012 &amp;ldquo;“ its easy to configure.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rdquo;™ve covered configuring a server before but to recap:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Rename the machine &amp;ldquo;“ use Rename-Computer&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Set Network &amp;ldquo;“ use Set-NetIPInterface (address) &amp;amp; et-DnsClientServerAddress( dns address) &amp;amp; Rename-netAdapter&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Join to domain &amp;ldquo;“ use Add-Computer&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To create the domain controller use the ADDSDeployment module. You&amp;rdquo;™ll only find this on servers where you&amp;rdquo;™ve installed the AD Domain Services feature which you do like this:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 215 – Lee Holmes from the PowerShell team talks about his new book</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-02-18-episode-215-lee-holmes-from-the-powershell-team-talks-about-his-new-book/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 03:37:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-02-18-episode-215-lee-holmes-from-the-powershell-team-talks-about-his-new-book/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;** Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-215.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Lee Holmes from Microsoft about his new book!**
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Interview





Guests - Lee Holmes
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Links





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 [Windows PowerShell Cookbook, 3rd Ed](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024132.do)





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 Selected recipes from the cookbook!








 [Supply default values for parameters](http://www.powershellcookbook.com/recipe/OzeI/supply-default-values-for-parameters)





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 [Send an email](http://www.powershellcookbook.com/recipe/yzfh/send-an-email)





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 [Interact with REST based web APIs](http://www.powershellcookbook.com/recipe/Vlhv/interact-with-rest-based-web-apis)





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 [Interactively View and Explore Objects (show-object)](http://www.powershellcookbook.com/recipe/bpqU/program-interactively-view-and-explore-objects)





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 [Manage PowerShell security in an enterprise](http://www.powershellcookbook.com/recipe/sOup/manage-powershell-security-in-an-enterprise)





 - 






- 


 Featured script: PowerShell + HTML5 prototype. Needs audio. Run ([source](http://www.leeholmes.com/projects/ps_html5/Invoke-PSHtml5.ps1)):








 iex (New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadString(&amp;quot;[http://bit.ly/e0Mw9w](http://bit.ly/e0Mw9w)&amp;quot;)








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 Book recommendations:








 [Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches](http://www.manning.com/jones3/)





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 [The Elements of Computing Systems](http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-Building-Principles/dp/0262640686)








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 Lee&amp;quot;™s 3D printing models:








 [PowerShell logo](http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:19711)





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 [Kitchen Aid ice cream paddle adapter](http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:26835)








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 [Twitter: @Lee_Holmes](https://twitter.com/Lee_Holmes)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Question -





Computer: Apple ][e





Mission to Mars: minecraft
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>CIM cmdlets and remote access</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-18-cim-cmdlets-and-remote-access/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:33:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-18-cim-cmdlets-and-remote-access/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;When you used the WMI cmdlets&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_logicalDisk -ComputerName RSLAPTOP01&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You were using DCOM to access the remote machine. Even if you accessed the local machine you were using DCOM.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This changes in PowerShell v3 when using the CIM cmdlets.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you don&amp;quot;™t use a computername&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_logicalDisk&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You use DCOM to access the local machine.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you use &amp;ldquo;“computername&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_logicalDisk -ComputerName RSLAPTOP01&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You use WSMAN to access the machine named &amp;ldquo;“ irrespective of if it is local or remote&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>UK PowerShell Group"“Advanced functions</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-18-uk-powershell-group-advanced-functions/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:57:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-18-uk-powershell-group-advanced-functions/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;When: Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 7:30 PM (GMT)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Where: Virtual&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*&lt;del&gt;*&lt;/del&gt;*&lt;del&gt;*&lt;/del&gt;*&lt;del&gt;*&lt;/del&gt;*&lt;del&gt;*&lt;/del&gt;*~*&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Advanced functions give you ability to create functions that act like cmdlets. Learn how to get the most from this powerful part of the PowerShell functionality&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Notes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Richard Siddaway has invited you to attend an online meeting using Live Meeting.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=G79DNP&amp;amp;role=attend&amp;amp;pw=9%24t%23%26PK%238"&gt;Join the meeting.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Audio Information&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Computer Audio&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
To use computer audio, you need speakers and microphone, or a headset.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;First Time Users:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
To save time before the meeting, &lt;a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=90703"&gt;check your system&lt;/a&gt; to make sure it is ready to use Microsoft Office Live Meeting.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Troubleshooting&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Unable to join the meeting? Follow these steps:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Filtering</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-18-filtering/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:38:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-18-filtering/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;quot;™ve been grading the scripts in the warm up events for the Scripting Games and noticed a lot of people doing this:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_LogicalDisk | where {$_.DriveType -eq 3}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ok now it works but there are a couple of things wrong with this approach.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Firstly, you are ignoring the built in capabilities of the get-wmiobject cmdlet&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PS&amp;gt; Get-Command Get-WmiObject -Syntax&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get-WmiObject [-Class] [[-Property] ] &lt;strong&gt;[-Filter ]&lt;/strong&gt; [-Amended] [-DirectRead] [-AsJob]&lt;br&gt;
[-Impersonation ] [-Authentication ] [-Locale ]&lt;br&gt;
[-EnableAllPrivileges] [-Authority ] [-Credential
] [-ThrottleLimit ] [-ComputerName&lt;br&gt;
] [-Namespace ] []&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>"Verified Effective" About Ready to Go Live</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-18-verified-effective-about-ready-to-go-live/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:01:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-18-verified-effective-about-ready-to-go-live/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Before the verification exam becomes available to the public, I need ONE OR TWO people to be the first through the complete program. This is not a &amp;ldquo;beta;&amp;rdquo; the exam is finalized and you will have to pay for your verification. The first one or two people will be semi-automated as I nail down the final payment integration bits, and then we&amp;rsquo;ll throw it open to the public.&lt;br&gt;
If you&amp;rsquo;re interested, contact me at don at Concentrated Tech.com. First come, first served.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 02/07/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-16-phillyposh-02072013-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 02:04:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-16-phillyposh-02072013-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://jdhitsolutions.com/"&gt;Jeff Hicks&lt;/a&gt; (Microsoft MVP and &lt;a href="http://www.manning.com/search/results?cx=008207406337866288189%3Avej9zumcdec&amp;amp;cof=FORID%3A9&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;q=Jeffery+Hicks&amp;amp;sa=Search"&gt;Author&lt;/a&gt;) gave a presentation on &amp;ldquo;Getting Started with PowerShell Advanced Functions&amp;rdquo;. You can download the presentation and example scripts &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/PhillyPosh_2013-02-07_Presentations.zip"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and watch a recording of the presentation below on our &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAc_ow5FIJtRpvew__9Iqzg?feature=watch"&gt;YouTube channel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
[youtube_sc url=&amp;ldquo;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77VbOO14DFE&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;rdquo;]&lt;br&gt;
You can keep up with Jeff at his &lt;a href="http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;, on &lt;a href="twitter.com/jeffhicks"&gt;Twitter,Â &lt;/a&gt;and on &lt;a href="http:/gplus.to/JeffHicks"&gt;Google Plus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
We would also like to thank &lt;a href="http://www.interfacett.com/"&gt;Interfacett&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/"&gt;Powershell.org&lt;/a&gt; for providing funding for this meeting!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Workflow"“the complete series</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-13-powershell-workflow-the-complete-series/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:34:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-13-powershell-workflow-the-complete-series/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The series of articles on PowerShell workflows that are appearing on the Scripting Guy blog is now complete.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The articles in the series that have been published are:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/12/26/powershell-workflows-the-basics.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/12/26/powershell-workflows-the-basics.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/02/powershell-workflows-restrictions.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/02/powershell-workflows-restrictions.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/09/powershell-workflows-nesting.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/09/powershell-workflows-nesting.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/16/powershell-workflows-job-engine.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/16/powershell-workflows-job-engine.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/23/powershell-workflows-restarting-the-computer.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/23/powershell-workflows-restarting-the-computer.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/30/powershell-workflows-using-parameters.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/30/powershell-workflows-using-parameters.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/02/06/powershell-workflows-design-considerations.aspx" title="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/02/06/powershell-workflows-design-considerations.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/02/06/powershell-workflows-design-considerations.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/02/13/powershell-workflows-a-practical-example.aspx" title="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/02/13/powershell-workflows-a-practical-example.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/02/13/powershell-workflows-a-practical-example.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The series is complete for now but as workflow is such a new topic expect more on it in the future.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Until then Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2803/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2803/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2803&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Winter Scripting Camp: The Post Mortem</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-11-winter-scripting-camp-the-post-mortem/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:51:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-11-winter-scripting-camp-the-post-mortem/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Ok, aftermath time. In Winter Scripting Camp I saw some very cool stuff, but I know folks want to learn from this event too, so I want to call out some stuff that I didn&amp;rsquo;t like so much, and explain why. I&amp;rsquo;m keeping these brief - if you&amp;rsquo;d like a longer explanation, hit me up in the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/discuss/"&gt;PowerShell Q&amp;amp;A forum&lt;/a&gt;. BTW, none of the discussion below implies anything about the grade I awarded the entry. I considered a much broader range of criteria and opinions in awarding grades.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Microsoft Scripting Guy and author Ed Wilson talks about his latest book and more!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-02-11-up-next-microsoft-scripting-guy-and-author-ed-wilson-talks-about-his-latest-book-and-more/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:38:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-02-11-up-next-microsoft-scripting-guy-and-author-ed-wilson-talks-about-his-latest-book-and-more/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/51ggzohsrfl-_sy300_.jpeg" alt=""&gt;We took a week off, but we are back in the saddle today with the Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, to talk about his most recent book, &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Windows-PowerShell-3-0-Step/dp/0735663394/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1360348780&amp;amp;sr=8-5&amp;amp;keywords=ed+wilson"&gt;Windows PowerShell 3.0 Step by Step&lt;/a&gt; and other things going on in the Hey Scripting Guy world. Join us in the chatroom or just listen in on Thursday Feb 21, 2013 at 9:30PM EST &lt;a href="http://powerscriptinglive.blogspot.com/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Damian Karlson and Jake Robinson talk about managing a VMware Cloud with PowerShell!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-02-05-up-next-damian-karlson-and-jake-robinson-talk-about-managing-a-vmware-cloud-with-powershell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:22:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-02-05-up-next-damian-karlson-and-jake-robinson-talk-about-managing-a-vmware-cloud-with-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This week, Thursday Feb 7th, we will have as our guests &lt;a href="http://damiankarlson.com/"&gt;Damian Karlson&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/sixfootdad"&gt;@sixfootdad&lt;/a&gt;) and &lt;a href="http://geekafterfive.com/"&gt;Jake Robinson&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/jakerobinson"&gt;@jakerobinson)&lt;/a&gt;. Topics to cover on the show include managing VMware vCloud Director with PowerShell, plus whatever ideas YOU ALL come up with during the live show!&lt;br&gt;
As always, join us live at 9:30 PM EST Thursdays at &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;http://live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Want to be VERIFIED EFFECTIVE for PowerShell? Here's what to expect.</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-05-want-to-be-verified-effective-for-powershell-heres-what-to-expect/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:24:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-05-want-to-be-verified-effective-for-powershell-heres-what-to-expect/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re well into our beta for the VERIFIED EFFECTIVEâ„¢ Windows PowerShell 3.0 Toolmaker exam, and expect the program to go live in March or April of 2013. There&amp;rsquo;s a good bit of information on the &lt;a href="http://donjones.com/verified"&gt;program home page&lt;/a&gt; that you should review if you&amp;rsquo;re interested in getting verified.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[As a note, once the program goes live, it&amp;rsquo;ll be available to anyone worldwide - although the exam will only be available in English for the foreseeable future; we don&amp;rsquo;t have the resources at this time to offer localized versions]
I should point out first that we&amp;rsquo;re doing this program through my company, rather than directly through PowerShell.org, mainly because of some legalities. My company (Concentrated Tech) has the insurance and other items in place needed to do something like this, and I didn&amp;rsquo;t want PowerShell.org, Inc., to have to pay for those things. That said, a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of folks have been involved in vetting and designing the exam scenarios. Another advantage of using Concentrated Tech is that the company is set up to do a lot of the interviewing and statistical analysis needed to make a relevant exam.
The cost is the second thing I&amp;rsquo;ll discuss: at $150/person, I know it&amp;rsquo;s not cheap. But at least two human beings look at each person&amp;rsquo;s work - there&amp;rsquo;s no machine grading - and they gotta get paid. We also need to recoup some of the substantial investment that went into the exam design. Over a 3-year period, it&amp;rsquo;ll hopefully be about break-even. We&amp;rsquo;ll see.
On to the exam itself. There are a variety of &amp;ldquo;forms&amp;rdquo; for the exam, meaning everyone isn&amp;rsquo;t getting the same assignment. That said, the approach for each form is pretty much the same. You&amp;rsquo;ll get 2-3 &amp;ldquo;assignments&amp;rdquo; to complete, all of which involve writing scripts and/or commands. You get a specified amount of time to complete your assignments.
(as an aside, making multiple different exams that all test substantially the same skills is really tough, which is one reason we did a lot of testing and statistical analysis - to ensure the equivalency of each form - as part of the development process).
Some assignments are straightforward: write a script that does this, this, and that. You&amp;rsquo;re given a bunch of criteria and just have to spew out the commands. There&amp;rsquo;s room for creativity - so long as you (a) meet all the criteria and (b) comply with the stated best practices, you pass. &amp;ldquo;Extra&amp;rdquo; stuff doesn&amp;rsquo;t count against you, and the exact approach you use isn&amp;rsquo;t graded - so long as you achieve all of the results and comply with all of the stated criteria.
The &amp;ldquo;main&amp;rdquo; assignment in each form is harder. You&amp;rsquo;re given a shell transcript, and you&amp;rsquo;re asked to look at it and duplicate the tools you see used in it. For example:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Games warm up</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-05-scripting-games-warm-up/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:47:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-05-scripting-games-warm-up/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As a warm up for this years Scripting Games a two event Winter Scripting Camp has been organised. Details from &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/games/" title="https://powershell.org/games/"&gt;https://powershell.org/games/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2802/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2802/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2802&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 214 – David Davis from TrainSignal on technical training and certifications</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-02-04-episode-214-david-davis-from-trainsignal-on-technical-training-and-certifications/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 04:27:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-02-04-episode-214-david-davis-from-trainsignal-on-technical-training-and-certifications/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;** Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-214.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to David Davis from TrainSignal about technical training and certifications!**** 
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 [PowerShell Web Access and Restricted Remoting Endpoints](http://powershellgroup.org/Rochester.NY/2013-02-07) -Thursday, February 7, 2013 -18:00 - 20:30


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 [Philadelphia Meeting &amp;quot;“ Feb 7th, 2013 &amp;quot;“ 6-8pm](http://powershellgroup.org/philadelphia.pa/2013-02-07) - Thursday, February 7, 2013 -18:00 - 20:00


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 [Tampa-2/11/2013-Windows Azure/PowerShell Workshop &amp;quot;“ IT Pro](http://powershellgroup.org/Tampa.Fl/2013-02-11) -Monday, February 11, 2013 -18:00 - 21:00


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 Microsoft has posted the [Windows PowerShell Language Specification Version 3.0](http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36389)


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 Lee Holmes&amp;quot;™ new book is out! [PowerShell Cookbook V3](http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/2013/01/22/powershell-cookbook-v3-now-available/?utm_source=rss&amp;amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;amp;utm_campaign=powershell-cookbook-v3-now-available)


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 The PowerShell Team gives us an [update on updateable help](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/01/17/updatable-help-speaks-only-english-whats-up-with-that.aspx)







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 [VMwareVideos.com](http://www.vmwarevideos.com/)





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 [Autolab](http://www.labguides.com/autolab/)
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Superhero: Batman
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 [Find Exoplanets with PowerShell](http://www.powershell.nu/2013/01/23/nasas-alien-planet-archive-using-powershell/)





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 [Build a Hyper-V test lab with Windows 8](http://tfl09.blogspot.com/2013/01/building-hyper-v-test-lab-on-windows-8.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;amp;utm_medium=twitter)





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 [Block and Unblock keyboard and mouse input](http://www.powershell.nu/2012/10/08/block-and-unblock-keyboard-mouse-input-using-powershell/) with PowerShell





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 [Using PowerShell to Manage SharePoint 2013 Online](http://blog.falchionconsulting.com/index.php/2013/01/using-powershell-to-manage-sharepoint-2013-online/?utm_source=blog&amp;amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AutomatingSharePoint+%28SharePoint+Automation%29)





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 [31 Days of Windows Servers in Azure blog series](http://blogs.technet.com/b/bobh/archive/2013/01/02/31-days-of-windows-servers-vms-in-the-cloud-series-for-the-it-pro.aspx)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>VERIFIED EFFECTIVE PowerShell "certification" program now ready for beta</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-02-verified-effective-powershell-certification-program-now-ready-for-beta/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 23:43:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-02-verified-effective-powershell-certification-program-now-ready-for-beta/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; As of 4th February, we&amp;rsquo;re full up for the beta. Check back later this year for the program launch.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m ready to begin a formal beta test of the new VERIFIED EFFECTIVEâ„¢ examination program, which we&amp;rsquo;d previously referred to as &amp;ldquo;PowerShell Verified.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Participation in the beta will be free, and if you pass it &amp;ldquo;counts.&amp;rdquo; If you&amp;rsquo;re interested, please &lt;a href="http://donjones.com/verified/ProgramGuide.pdf"&gt;download the Program Guide&lt;/a&gt; before February 10th, 2013.
You must agree to perform you examination on February 11th or 12th
. Complete the Program License Agreement found in the Guide, and return it, with photo ID, as indicated. Be sure to indicate either Feb 11th or 12th as your desired exam date. Materials will be sent to you via e-mail, and you will have 24 hours to complete the assignment. A qualified candidate should need no more than 4-5 hours.&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;ve &lt;a href="http://donjones.com/verified"&gt;posted a complete set of information about the program&lt;/a&gt; in general and the PowerShell exam in particular.&lt;br&gt;
At this time, I can only accept participants who are USA residents (more on that below). International expansion will happen when the program formally launches later this year. &lt;strong&gt;I will only be accepting 2-3 beta participants.&lt;/strong&gt; If you submit your Program License Agreement but don&amp;rsquo;t hear back the same day, then you weren&amp;rsquo;t selected for participation.&lt;br&gt;
The final examination will be $150, and will be a human-graded assignment not a machine-graded exam. A certificate for passing scores will be delivered electronically, and you may order a physical certificate for a nominal fee.&lt;br&gt;
The first exam will be &lt;strong&gt;PowerShell 3.0 Toolmaking&lt;/strong&gt;. You should be able to pass if you know how to write advanced functions, including dealing with pipeline input, ShouldProcess support, and parameter attributes and validation. You will also need to know how to create custom formatting views and type extensions, and how to create script and manifest modules. You will need to be familiar with Windows PowerShell remoting and remoting configuration, and know how to create custom remoting endpoints (session configurations) having a specified configuration. You also need to know how to write proxy functions. You should know how to connect to SQL Server databases from within PowerShell, and how to issue queries to retrieve and manipulate database data. Note that not all of these topics may be included on every examination, but you should be prepared to perform all of them.&lt;br&gt;
I look forward to hearing from you!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Winter Scripting Camp Opened to the Public</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-01-winter-scripting-camp-opened-to-the-public/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:45:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-02-01-winter-scripting-camp-opened-to-the-public/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Everything&amp;rsquo;s been going pretty smoothly, so we&amp;rsquo;ve decided to open Winter Scripting Camp to everyone! Read everything below carefully for the best camping experience!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Scripting Camp is a precursor to the Scripting Games, which will kick off in late April. During Camp, you&amp;rsquo;ll have the opportunity to participate in two events. We aren&amp;rsquo;t offering any prizes, but we will announce winners in the PowerShell.org blog, on Twitter, and so on. Camp is really a way for us to kick the tires on our new software platform.&lt;br&gt;
If you want to participate, here&amp;rsquo;s how:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 213 – Glenn Sizemore from NetApp on Enterprise Storage</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-01-30-episode-213-glenn-sizemore-from-netapp-on-enterprise-storage/</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:21:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-01-30-episode-213-glenn-sizemore-from-netapp-on-enterprise-storage/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;** Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-213.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Glenn Sizemore from NetApp about Enterprise storage**** 
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 A [new version of PowerGUI](http://powergui.org/) has been released 3.5





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 PowerShell has been named one of [Infoworld&amp;quot;™s 2013 Technology of the Year Award](http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/80986/infoworlds-2013-technology-of-the-year-award-winners-210419#slide24) winners
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Question - Mars Mission: XBox
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell and Active Directory recording</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-30-powershell-and-active-directory-recording/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:05:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-30-powershell-and-active-directory-recording/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The recording, slides and demo script from yesterday&amp;quot;™s PowerShell and Active Directory session can be found here:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=43cfa46a74cf3e96#cid=43CFA46A74CF3E96&amp;amp;id=43CFA46A74CF3E96%2140563" title="https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=43cfa46a74cf3e96#cid=43CFA46A74CF3E96&amp;amp;id=43CFA46A74CF3E96%2140563"&gt;https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=43cfa46a74cf3e96#cid=43CFA46A74CF3E96&amp;amp;id=43CFA46A74CF3E96%2140563&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2801/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2801/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2801&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell workflows"“now we are six</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-30-powershell-workflows-now-we-are-six/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:11:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-30-powershell-workflows-now-we-are-six/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The sixth in the series of articles on PowerShell workflows that are appearing on the Scripting Guy blog has been published.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The articles in the series that have been published are:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/12/26/powershell-workflows-the-basics.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/12/26/powershell-workflows-the-basics.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/02/powershell-workflows-restrictions.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/02/powershell-workflows-restrictions.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/09/powershell-workflows-nesting.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/09/powershell-workflows-nesting.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/16/powershell-workflows-job-engine.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/16/powershell-workflows-job-engine.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/23/powershell-workflows-restarting-the-computer.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/23/powershell-workflows-restarting-the-computer.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/30/powershell-workflows-using-parameters.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/30/powershell-workflows-using-parameters.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Look for the next article in one weeks time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Until then Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2800/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2800/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2800&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Lee Holmes!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-01-29-up-next-lee-holmes/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:06:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-01-29-up-next-lee-holmes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/0636920024132.gif" alt=""&gt;We are very pleasd to have &lt;a href="http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/"&gt;Lee Holmes&lt;/a&gt; on the show once again! Lee, as many know, is a long-time member of the PowerShell development team at Microsoft, and the author of the &lt;a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024132.do"&gt;PowerShell Cookbook&lt;/a&gt; which is now in its recently released third edition. Here&amp;rsquo;s more from his bio:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Lee Holmes is a developer on the Microsoft Windows PowerShell team, and has been an authoritative source of information about PowerShell since its earliest betas. His vast experience with Windows PowerShell enables him to integrate both the 'how' and the 'why' into discussions. Lee's involvement with the PowerShell and administration community (via newsgroups, mailing lists, and blogs) gives him a great deal of insight into the problems faced by all levels of administrators and PowerShell users alike.
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&lt;p&gt;As always, join us live at 9:30 PM EST Thursdays at &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net" title="live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The 2013 Winter Scripting Camp</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-28-the-2013-winter-scripting-camp/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:56:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-28-the-2013-winter-scripting-camp/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ll be announcing Winter Scripting Camp the first week of February. This is a special invite-only event that will be open to subscribers of the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/newsletter/" title="First German PowerShell Community Conference"&gt;PowerShell.org TechLetter&lt;/a&gt;. It will work just like the Scripting Games, but will feature only a couple of events and will not include any prizes. We will, however, announce the top scorers.&lt;br&gt;
Scripting Camp is primarily an opportunity for us to audition our new platform, to kick the tires, and make sure everything&amp;rsquo;s ready for the official Games, which will kick off in April at the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/summit/"&gt;PowerShell Summit 2013 North America&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
If you&amp;rsquo;re interested in Camping with us, please sign up for the TechLetter this week (prior to Feb 1st). We&amp;rsquo;ll be sending out a special notification to the TechLetter subscriber list with sign-up instructions.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell and Active Directory"“reminder</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-28-powershell-and-active-directory-reminder/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:14:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-28-powershell-and-active-directory-reminder/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Quick reminder for tomorrow&amp;quot;™s session from the UK PowerShell group. Details from:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2013/01/16/uk-powershell-group-29-january-2013.aspx" title="http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2013/01/16/uk-powershell-group-29-january-2013.aspx"&gt;http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2013/01/16/uk-powershell-group-29-january-2013.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2799/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2799/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2799&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 212 – Glenn Block from Microsoft Manages Azure with PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-01-22-episode-212-glenn-block-from-microsoft-manages-azure-with-powershell/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:24:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-01-22-episode-212-glenn-block-from-microsoft-manages-azure-with-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;** Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-212.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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alexandair1: # does Azure PowerShell team have a close collaboration with PowerShell team?





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 Magnanimous Software Net Cast - [Glenn Block on Windows Azure PowerShell CmdLets](http://msnetcast.com/0001/glenn-block-windowsazure-powershell)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: David Davis from TrainSignal</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-01-21-up-next-david-davis-from-trainsignal/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:51:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-01-21-up-next-david-davis-from-trainsignal/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/imgres.jpeg" alt=""&gt;Today we are joined by Virtaulization Evangelist at TrainSignal and VMware vExpert, &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/davidmdavis"&gt;David Davis&lt;/a&gt;!
He holds several certifications including VCP5, VCAP-DCA, and CCIE #9369. He has been awarded the VMware vExpert award 3 years running. Additionally, David has spoken at major conferences like VMworld and authored hundreds of articles for websites and print publications, mostly around virtualization, for respected publications like Virtualization Review and ComputerWorld.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As always, join us live at 9:30 PM EST Thursdays at
&lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;http://live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;
!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Piping between functions</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-19-piping-between-functions/</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:04:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-19-piping-between-functions/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A question came up about piping between advanced functions. The input to the second function might be an array. To illustrate how this works imagine a function that gets disk information &amp;ldquo;“ or better still use this one.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;`function&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;get-mydisk&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;{&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CmdletBinding&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;param&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[string]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$computername&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;=&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;$env:COMPUTERNAME&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BEGIN&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;{&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;#begin&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PROCESS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;{&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get-WmiObject&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-Class&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Win32_LogicalDisk&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-ComputerName&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$computername&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;|&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;foreach&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;{&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;New-Object&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-TypeName&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PSObject&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-Property&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;@{&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Disk&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;=&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$_&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DeviceID&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Free&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;=&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$_&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FreeSpace&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Size&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;=&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$_&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Size&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;#process&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;END&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Starting virtual machines for WSUS</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-17-starting-virtual-machines-for-wsus/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:50:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-17-starting-virtual-machines-for-wsus/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;My test environment usually has a dozen or so machines at any one time. Some of these are short lived and used for a particular piece of testing &amp;ldquo;“ others are kept for years. I decided that I wanted to keep up to date on the patching of these virtual machines so installed WSUS on a Windows 2012 box.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One issue is that if a VM isn&amp;rdquo;™t started for 10 days WSUS starts complaining that it hasn&amp;quot;™t been contacted and if you run the WSUS clean up wizard the non-reporting servers may be removed. Checking the WSUS console for which machines haven&amp;quot;™t sync&amp;quot;™d recently is a chore.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Account SIDs"“hopefully my last word</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-17-account-sids-hopefully-my-last-word/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:25:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-17-account-sids-hopefully-my-last-word/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Ok the embarrassing moral of this story is that you shouldn&amp;rsquo;t answer questions in a hurry at the end of the evening. 5 minutes after shutting down I realised that there is a far, far simpler way to get the info. Win32_AccountSID is a WMI linking class. It links Win32_SystemAccount and Win32_SID classes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_SystemAccount | select Caption, Domain, Name, SID, LocalAccount&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;gets you all you need&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2796/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2796/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2796&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Account SIDs revisited</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-16-account-sids-revisited/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:48:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-16-account-sids-revisited/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I realised there is an easier way to get the data&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;`function&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;get-SID&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;{&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;param&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[string]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$computername&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;=&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$env:COMPUTERNAME&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get-WmiObject&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-Class&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Win32_AccountSID&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-ComputerName&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$computername&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;foreach&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;{&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$exp&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;=&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Element&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;'&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Invoke-Expression&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-Command&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$exp&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;|&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;select&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Domain&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Name&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SID&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;LocalAccount&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;`Use the wmi type accelerator with the path from the Element and you can just select the data you want. As a bonus you can discover if the account is local or not&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Passing function names</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-16-passing-function-names/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:32:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-16-passing-function-names/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A question asked about passing a function name into another function which then called the function. It sounds worse than it is. if you need to pass the name of a command and then call it try using invoke-expression&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;`function&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ffour&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;{&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get-Random&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;function&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;fthree&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;{&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get-Date&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;function&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ftwo&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;{&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;param&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[string]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$fname&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Invoke-Expression&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$fname&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;date&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ftwo&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;fthree&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;random&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ftwo&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ffour&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;`&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2794/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2794/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2794&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Account SIDs</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-16-account-sids/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:22:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-16-account-sids/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A question on the forum asked about finding the accounts and SIDs on the local machine.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;`function&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;get-SID&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;{&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;param&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[string]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$computername&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;=&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$env:COMPUTERNAME&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get-WmiObject&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-Class&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Win32_AccountSID&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-ComputerName&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$computername&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;|&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;foreach&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;{&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$da&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;=&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$_&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Element&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Split&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Split&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;,&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$sid&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;=&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$_&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Setting&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-split&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;=&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;`Pass a computer name into the function &amp;ldquo;“ default is local machine.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>UK PowerShell group "“ 29 January 2013</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-16-uk-powershell-group-29-january-2013/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:28:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-16-uk-powershell-group-29-january-2013/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;`**When: Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 7:30 PM (GMT)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Where: virtual&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
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&lt;p&gt;`Active Directory is one of the commonest automation targets for administrators. This session will covert the basics of automating your AD admin – scripts and the Microsoft cmdlets. The new features in PowerShell for Windows 2012 AD will also be covered&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Notes**`Richard Siddaway has invited you to attend an online meeting using Live Meeting.**[Join the meeting.](https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=RCRWH3&amp;amp;role=attend&amp;amp;pw=5p7%24%7DS_%21h)****Audio Information****Computer Audio****To use computer audio, you need speakers and microphone, or a headset. 
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&lt;p&gt;First Time Users:&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To save time before the meeting, &lt;a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=90703"&gt;check your system &lt;/a&gt;to make sure it is ready to use Microsoft Office Live Meeting.
Troubleshooting&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Unable to join the meeting? Follow these steps:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell wins award</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-16-powershell-wins-award/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:19:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-16-powershell-wins-award/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;PowerShell has won one on InfoWorld&amp;quot;™s Technology of the Year awards for 2013&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/80986/infoworlds-2013-technology-of-the-year-award-winners-210419#slide24"&gt;http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/80986/infoworlds-2013-technology-of-the-year-award-winners-210419#slide24&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;for details&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2791/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2791/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2791&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Workflow article 4</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-16-workflow-article-4/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:03:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-16-workflow-article-4/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The next in the series of articles on PowerShell workflows that are appearing on the Scripting Guy blog has been published.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The articles in the series that have been published are:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/12/26/powershell-workflows-the-basics.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/12/26/powershell-workflows-the-basics.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/02/powershell-workflows-restrictions.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/02/powershell-workflows-restrictions.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/09/powershell-workflows-nesting.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/09/powershell-workflows-nesting.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/16/powershell-workflows-job-engine.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/16/powershell-workflows-job-engine.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Look for the next article in one weeks time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Until then Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2790/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2790/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2790&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Updating Help on PowerShell v3</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-15-updating-help-on-powershell-v3/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:37:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-15-updating-help-on-powershell-v3/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;One of the new features in PowerShell v3 is the capability to update the help files. In fact you have to do this because PowerShell v3 doesn&amp;quot;™t ship with any help files. Since Windows 8 RTM&amp;quot;™d there have been a succession of new help files released.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I discovered one of my netbooks didn&amp;quot;™t have the latest version of the help files installed. So I needed to update them. This got me thinking that it would be better if the machine did this for me.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Glenn Sizemore talks about NetApp Storage Basics</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-01-15-up-next-glenn-sizemore-talks-about-netapp-storage-basics/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:11:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-01-15-up-next-glenn-sizemore-talks-about-netapp-storage-basics/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/netapp_logo.png" alt=""&gt; This Thursday we&amp;rsquo;re having Glenn Sizremore (&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/glnsize"&gt;@glnsize&lt;/a&gt;) back on the show! Glenn works at NetApp as a Technical Marketing Engineer and speaks at events like PowerShell Saturday and NetApp Insight. We&amp;rsquo;ve had Glenn on the show before to talk about their &lt;a href="https://communities.netapp.com/community/products_and_solutions/microsoft/powershell"&gt;Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit&lt;/a&gt;, but this time, we&amp;rsquo;re going to take a step back and talk more generally about NetApp storage systems and what the company has been doing that&amp;rsquo;s interesting in Glenn&amp;rsquo;s area of expertise, which is Microsoft solutions.&lt;br&gt;
As always, join us live at 9:30 PM EST Thursdays at &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;http://live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 211 – Osama Sajid from Microsoft on CIM and WMI</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-01-14-episode-211-osama-sajid-from-microsoft-on-cim-and-wmi/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 04:37:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-01-14-episode-211-osama-sajid-from-microsoft-on-cim-and-wmi/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;** Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-211.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Osama Sajid from Microsoft about CIM and WMI!**** 
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 Indy PowerShell User Group: new website ([indypowershell.org](http://indypowershell.org/)), and they have their first meeting coming up March 6th. Topic is Powershell v3 overview





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 [Adam Driscoll](http://csharpening.net/?p=1448)





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 Grzegorz Â GaÅ‚Ä™zowski








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 Dell AppAssure now has [PowerShell support](http://mikefrobbins.com/2013/01/03/dell-appassure-version-5-3-1-adds-powershell-support/)





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 MEAP available for [&amp;quot;PowerShell Deep Dives&amp;quot;](http://www.manning.com/hicks/)
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 [PowerShell team blog](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/)
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 Some [PowerShell predictions for 2013](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/01/new-year-s-powershell-predictions-for-2013.aspx) from Don Jones





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 New [PowerShell community on Google+](https://plus.google.com/communities/114336958783305019912)





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 LucD has posted an [updated Export-Xlsx function](http://www.lucd.info/2013/01/03/export-xls-the-sequel-and-ordered-data/)





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 Tome [wrote a function](https://powertoe.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/get-a-list-of-metro-apps-and-launch-them-in-windows-8-using-powershell/) to list and launch the metro apps installed on your machine





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 [Using default parameter values to prevent accidents](http://powerschill.com/uncategorized/using-powershell-default-parameter-values-to-prevent-unfortunate-accidents/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>Planning the PowerShell Summit North America 2014</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-12-planning-the-powershell-summit-north-america-2014/</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:35:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-12-planning-the-powershell-summit-north-america-2014/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re already planning for the 2014 Summit&amp;hellip; you have to get way out in front of these things to secure space, plan a budget, and more.&lt;br&gt;
Here&amp;rsquo;s what we know:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ll definitely still be in the Seattle metro area. That&amp;rsquo;s the best way to ensure participation from the PowerShell team, since it doesn&amp;rsquo;t require them to leave town for days at a time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ll be in April 2014. We&amp;rsquo;re going to try for April 14-16 to avoid Easter, or April 28-30.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ll be in a bigger venue. We hope to support a crowd of up to 300, although we&amp;rsquo;re still aiming for a smaller group. That&amp;rsquo;ll give us more flexibility in session planning, along with the possibility of on-site evening events.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We willÂ &lt;strong&gt;open up early bird ticketing&lt;/strong&gt; for 2013 alumni the week of April 29-May 3. 50 tickets will be available. If there are any of those tickets left after May 3, they&amp;rsquo;ll be offered to the public May 6 through 10. Any remaining early bird tickets will be converted to full-price tickets after May 10, when general sales will begin. Early bird pricing will be in the $650 range. Full pricing will be around $850. This is more than 2013, but will help us (a) fully reimburse speaker travel expenses, which we couldn&amp;rsquo;t do in 2013, (b) pay for the larger conference venue, (c) offer a full hot breakfast every day and beverages throughout the day, and (d) allow for bussing to the event venue (see below). Early Bird tickets will be fully refundable until the end of 2013.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We are going to try and hold a percentage of our full-price tickets for release in January 2014. That way, people who can&amp;rsquo;t get budget until the year-of will still have a shot at tickets. This will be a small block of tickets, though - probably less than 30 - so if you can get budget to buy your tickets in 2013, do it.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We will offer bussing fromÂ &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; hotel complex to the event venue in the mornings, with return busses at night. It will be crucial that you book your hotel as soon as possible once we announce, so that you can lock in a room. This can help eliminate the need for a rental car, and lower your trip expenses. At least one hotel option at around $100-$110 a night will be offered, although it may be a limited room block. For folks in the US, you should be able to attend for about $2,000 including air, hotel, and registration. Add in dinners (which we don&amp;rsquo;t provide) and you should be able to attend for under $2500 including expenses. Not bad!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As you can see, we&amp;rsquo;re still trying to keep things as affordable and accessible as possible, in keeping with the nature of a community-owned event. We&amp;rsquo;re also trying to build this event into one that can support itself and continue to grow.&lt;br&gt;
I know a lot of folks who wanted to come in 2013 missed out&amp;hellip; so that&amp;rsquo;s why I&amp;rsquo;m giving you as much heads-up as possible. Start getting the boss on board. Get purchasing on board. Start planning to have the credit card ready in April 2013. We&amp;rsquo;ll get as many folks as we can into the 2014 Summit!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Select-string "“ keeping in context</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-11-select-string-keeping-in-context/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:43:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-11-select-string-keeping-in-context/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Today&amp;quot;™s question involves using the Context parameter:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*It&amp;rsquo;s probably just me, but I&amp;rsquo;ve never gotten the switch &amp;lsquo;-context 5 *&lt;em&gt;or -context 2, 7′ to work predictably – where 5 lines before and after or 2
before and 7 after will come out – have you?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;quot;™s start by looking at the default behaviour of select-string using the search pattern you&amp;quot;™ve seen previously:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PS&amp;gt; Select-String -Path c:\test*.txt -Pattern &amp;ldquo;\A\w{5}ABCD&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;C:\test\fixedcol.txt:1:12345ABCD123451234512345&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;C:\test\fixedcol.txt:3:12345ABCD123451234512345&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Windows PowerShell V3 Language Specification Posted</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-11-windows-powershell-v3-language-specification-posted/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:52:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-11-windows-powershell-v3-language-specification-posted/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;You can download it &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36389"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/rkeithhill.wordpress.com/275/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/rkeithhill.wordpress.com/275/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rkeithhill.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=18780344&amp;amp;%23038;post=275&amp;amp;%23038;subd=rkeithhill&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Writing 10961A: The Damn Variables</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-10-writing-10961a-the-damn-variables/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:51:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-10-writing-10961a-the-damn-variables/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;When I wrote Microsoft course 10325A, their original 5-day Windows PowerShell course, I saved variables until Module 11. My thought at the time was to focus on teaching just what students needed for what they were about to do - and no more. &amp;ldquo;Just in time learning&amp;rdquo; can be effective, because it lets you immediately experiment with whatever you&amp;rsquo;ve just learned, and helps minimize the need to store up concepts for later use. I&amp;rsquo;d also had a lot of class experiences where bringing up variables too soon engaged a defensive mechanism in some students: &amp;ldquo;I&amp;rsquo;m not a programmer, variables are programming, and I&amp;rsquo;m shutting down right now.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;
The biggest piece of MCT feedback from 10325A was, &amp;ldquo;don&amp;rsquo;t do that.&amp;rdquo; Trainers told me they were often teaching module 11 much sooner. Jeff Hicks had what I think is the best explanation for why: Without variables, you&amp;rsquo;re locked into the one-liner approach in PowerShell. While one-liners are &lt;em&gt;neat,&lt;/em&gt; and effective, they aren&amp;rsquo;t always easy to read or to mentally de-construct. Using variables earlier in the course, Jeff argued, let you break things down into smaller logical chunks.&lt;br&gt;
Now, one thing I&amp;rsquo;ve had to accept in writing 10961A is that I can&amp;rsquo;t please everyone. The feedback on 10325A is incredibly contradictory. Some MCTs want more programming, others want none at all. Some want classes to run 9am-4pm; others want 8am-6pm. Some want less content on the slides (actually, most wanted that). So what I decided to do is try and provide the material to accommodate what it felt like everyone was asking for, and rely on MCT&amp;rsquo;s ability to mix things up as needed for their classes.&lt;br&gt;
(As an aside, I do think some MCTs jump into the &amp;ldquo;programming&amp;rdquo; aspect of PowerShell too quickly. It&amp;rsquo;s fine if you&amp;rsquo;ve got a room of people with programming experience, but it keeps students from learning some valuable fundamentals and turns the class into a &amp;ldquo;scripting&amp;rdquo; class awfully quickly. I&amp;rsquo;m not sure every MCT has done a really thorough cognitive analysis of their class results to determine if the programming-first approach is best; my experience with &lt;em&gt;Month of Lunches&lt;/em&gt; readers suggest it isn&amp;rsquo;t.)&lt;br&gt;
But I still didn&amp;rsquo;t want to do the full deep-dive on variables super-early in the course. So here&amp;rsquo;s what I think I&amp;rsquo;m doing: early in the course, you&amp;rsquo;ll be exposed to variables, in a very simplistic sense. They&amp;rsquo;re described as a named place to store objects, and used to de-construct a complex one-liner into a multi-line series of logical steps. Early in the course, I don&amp;rsquo;t go into naming rules, the double quotes tricks, or anything else. You learn exactly enough about variables for the task at hand - and no more.&lt;br&gt;
In module 7, which is right before the module where you turn a command-line into a parameterized script, I cover variables more formally. I cover their rules, usage, double quotes, all that stuff. So you learn a wee bit about variables early, and then learn the full details later - &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; before you need to use variables more seriously in a script. So, keeping with the just-in-time learning.&lt;br&gt;
The variables material is broken out into its own lesson in module 7, so an MCT hell-bent on teaching everything about variables right up-front can do so.While the feedback from 10325A suggests that MCTs think every course should be designed for the way &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; teach, I&amp;rsquo;m not sure they all realize how &lt;em&gt;differently&lt;/em&gt; they all teach. The best I can do is provide the material in standalone chunks that MCTs can rearrange as needed. After all, the whole point of having a live instructor, as opposed to a recording, is the instructor&amp;rsquo;s ability to teach to your specific needs. So MCTs will have to be happy rearranging the material a bit as-needed; my outline is the &lt;em&gt;recommnded&lt;/em&gt; approach that will work best across the broadest array of students, but it isn&amp;rsquo;t perfect for &lt;em&gt;everyone.&lt;/em&gt; Nothing could be.&lt;br&gt;
As a point of reference, 10961A doesn&amp;rsquo;t dive into scripting as deeply as 10325A did. PowerShell 3.0 has enough new, extra stuff that a 5-day course doesn&amp;rsquo;t allow for deep programming topics. You do take a command and walk it through to being a script module, so you &lt;em&gt;see&lt;/em&gt; the range of scripting options, but you don&amp;rsquo;t &lt;em&gt;practice&lt;/em&gt; them in depth. It&amp;rsquo;s inch-deep, mile-wide coverage of scripting, as opposed to something deeper and more focused. I&amp;rsquo;m hoping Microsoft can find budget for a full-on &amp;ldquo;scripting/toolmaking&amp;rdquo; class in the future, but 10961A ain&amp;rsquo;t it.&lt;br&gt;
So&amp;hellip; what do you think of this approach?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Select-String "“ finding the first and last matches</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-09-select-string-finding-the-first-and-last-matches/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:55:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-09-select-string-finding-the-first-and-last-matches/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Today&amp;rsquo;s question concerns finding the first and last matches in a file&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, I need to make two passes at seeking content in this file, once for the first occurrence; and a second grep for obtaining the last occurrence of a phrase. After the second pass, I figure placing the values into an array is the best way, then need to combine first and last values onto one output line {somewhere else}.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Workflow article 3</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-09-workflow-article-3/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:19:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-09-workflow-article-3/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The next in the series of articles on PowerShell workflows that are appearing on the Scripting Guy blog has been published.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The articles in the series that have been published are:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/12/26/powershell-workflows-the-basics.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/12/26/powershell-workflows-the-basics.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/02/powershell-workflows-restrictions.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/02/powershell-workflows-restrictions.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/09/powershell-workflows-nesting.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/09/powershell-workflows-nesting.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Look for the next article in one weeks time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Until then Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2786/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2786/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2786&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 210 – Eli White makes Mayhem</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-01-09-episode-210-eli-white-makes-mayhem/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 05:49:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-01-09-episode-210-eli-white-makes-mayhem/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;** Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-210.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Superpower: Instant answer to any question**
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>Select-String"“information on matching files</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-08-select-string-information-on-matching-files/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:31:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-08-select-string-information-on-matching-files/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Following on from yesterday&amp;quot;™s post this is the second question:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Since I&amp;rsquo;m recursively searching thru files to find matching phrases, how can I obtain other directory service information about the matching files file(s) – this is more of a methodology technique question because I realize there are multiple ways of achieving this?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You could do something like this&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;foreach ($find in Select-String -Path c:\test*.txt -Pattern &amp;ldquo;\A\w{5}ABCD&amp;rdquo; -List){&lt;br&gt;
Get-ChildItem -Path $find.Path&lt;br&gt;
}&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>3 Updated Free PowerShell eBooks in January 2013!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-08-3-updated-free-powershell-ebooks-in-january-2013/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:06:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-08-3-updated-free-powershell-ebooks-in-january-2013/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve been working to update my three free PowerShell ebooks for this month:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Secrets of PowerShell Remoting&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Creating HTML Reports in PowerShell&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Making Historical and Trend Reports in PowerShell&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The updated versions will be made available to subscribers of the PowerShell.org TechLetter on January 15th. If you&amp;rsquo;re not already signed up to receive this, you can [sign up right now][1]. The January issue will also feature a walkthrough article of how I started creating a new, better ConvertTo-HTML command, which gets used in the ebook on HTML reporting. Going forward, I&amp;rsquo;ll be making updated ebooks available primarily through the TechLetter.&lt;br&gt;
If you&amp;rsquo;re not a subscriber and don&amp;rsquo;t want to be, well fine. I&amp;rsquo;ll just take my ball and go play in someone else&amp;rsquo;s sandbox. Kidding . I&amp;rsquo;ll post the updates at the end of January. However, right now access to the books still requires a subscription to the newsletter, although you can immediately unsubscribe if you want to. I had to put that &amp;ldquo;hurdle&amp;rdquo; in the way because we were losing a ton of bandwidth to people direct-linking the download files. Mostly from China, for some reason. You&amp;rsquo;re welcome to host the files on your own server, if you want to (they&amp;rsquo;re licensed for that), but bandwidth costs me money, so I&amp;rsquo;m trying to conserve a bit.&lt;br&gt;
Anyway, keep an eye out for the TechLetter in your inbox on Jan 15th. Check those spam filters, and make sure &lt;a href="mailto:newsletter@powershell.org"&gt;newsletter@powershell.org&lt;/a&gt; is in your address book, so that your mail server will know it&amp;rsquo;s a legitimate sender.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Select-String scenarios "“ fixed columns</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-07-select-string-scenarios-fixed-columns/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:43:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-07-select-string-scenarios-fixed-columns/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I had some questions come in after mu recent post regarding select-string. I&amp;quot;™ll answer them as a series of posts. First off:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m recursively searching thru many files, and want to pull out specific data in &amp;lsquo;fixed column&amp;rsquo; positions from the line(s) that match the phrase I&amp;rsquo;m seeking, i.e. position 10 thru 15 of the line or position 6 thru the end of the line (which might be unknown).&lt;br&gt;
What is your preferred method for handling this situation?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 01/03/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-07-phillyposh-01032013-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:23:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-07-phillyposh-01032013-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</guid><description>&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;User group memberÂ &lt;a href="http://tiki.gmartin.org/" title="Greg's blog"&gt;Greg Martin&lt;/a&gt; gave a presentation on Active Directory and PowerShell. A copy of his presentation can be found &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PhillyPosh_2013-01-03_Presentations.zip"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and included the following topics:
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Building a copy of your production AD domain&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Notifying users of expiring passwords&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dealing with expired computer accounts&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;User group member &lt;a href="http://tekout.wordpress.com/"&gt;Sunny Chakraborty&lt;/a&gt; gave a presentation on how to use the techniques of Prof &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_P%C3%B3lya"&gt;George Poyla&lt;/a&gt; and Chess Grandmasters in order to improve your scripting skills. A copy of his presentation materials can be found &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PhillyPosh_2013-01-03_Presentations.zip"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Various other information worth mentioning
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;User group member &lt;a href="http://tekout.wordpress.com/"&gt;Sunny Chakraborty&lt;/a&gt; submitted a list of PowerShell commands to retrieve Dell specific WMI objects. A copy of that list can be found &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PhillyPosh_2013-01-03_Extras.zip"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Another group member (Name forthcoming!) submitted a list of PowerShell commands to retrieve HP Insight manager WMI Objects. A copy of that list can be found &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PhillyPosh_2013-01-03_Extras.zip"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2012/12/20/windows-management-framework-3-0-compatibility-update.aspx"&gt;Do not install Windows Management Framework 3.0 (PowerShell 3.0) on the following systems&lt;/a&gt;, if you have please uninstall it so that you do not run into any issues with subsequent patches.
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;System Center 2012 Configuration Manager running on any Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 version&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;System Center Virtual Machine Manager running on any Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 version&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Microsoft Exchange 2007 or 2010 running on any Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 version&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Microsoft SharePoint 2010 running on any Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 version&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Windows Small Business Server 2008 or 2011&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;Still haven&amp;quot;™t purchased a copy of &lt;a href="http://www.manning.com/jones3/"&gt;Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches&lt;/a&gt; or any other PowerShell book on &lt;a href="http://www.manning.com/"&gt;Manning Publications&lt;/a&gt;? Signup for their &lt;a href="http://www.manning.com/free/dotd.html"&gt;deal of the day&lt;/a&gt; newsletter or check the front page every day to see when it&amp;quot;™s on sale!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;If you&amp;quot;™re looking for .NET assembly browser and decomplier, take a look at &lt;a href="http://tekout.wordpress.com/"&gt;Sunny Chakraborty&amp;quot;™s&lt;/a&gt; favorite utility: &lt;a href="http://ilspy.net/"&gt;ILSpy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Attachments:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Select-String confusion</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-05-select-string-confusion/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 13:08:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-05-select-string-confusion/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I have seen a lot of confusion recently over the use of Select-String.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One mis-conception is that you need to use Get-Content to pipe the file contents into Select-String. Not so. Select-String will read the file for you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you just want to scan the files in a single folder to find a specific string then Select-String can do the work for you&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Select-String -Path C:\Test*.txt -Pattern &amp;ldquo;trial&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;“SimpleMatch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you need to work through a folder structure add get-ChildItem to the pipeline&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Number of processors in a box</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-05-number-of-processors-in-a-box/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:21:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-05-number-of-processors-in-a-box/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;WMI enables you find the number of processors in your system:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PS&amp;gt; Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem | fl Number*&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NumberOfLogicalProcessors : 2&lt;br&gt;
NumberOfProcessors : 1&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This works fine for Windows Vista/Windows 2008 and above.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Earlier versions of Windows mis-report the number of processors &amp;ldquo;“ it counts the number of logical processors reports it as the number of physical processors.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Win32_Processor has the same problem on Windows 2003 and below.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is a hotfix available from &lt;a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932370" title="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932370"&gt;http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932370&lt;/a&gt; that will correct the behaviour of these two WMI classes so that they report correctly&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Finding the domain controller that authenticated you</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-04-finding-the-domain-controller-that-authenticated-you/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:57:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-04-finding-the-domain-controller-that-authenticated-you/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A question on my blog asked how do you know which domain controller you are running against when you search Active Directory. Unless you explicitly instruct your script to use a specific domain controller it will use the one to which you authenticated.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can find the DC to which you authenticated with this simple function&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;function get-logonserver{&lt;br&gt;
$env:LOGONSERVER -replace &amp;ldquo;\&amp;rdquo;, &amp;quot;&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;
}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2781/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2781/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2781&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Writing 10961: Trademarks</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-04-writing-10961-trademarks/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:09:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-04-writing-10961-trademarks/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s a big company, and that makes it a big target for lawsuits. We all know that. But what doesn&amp;rsquo;t always sink in is how careful the company has to be.&lt;br&gt;
For example, in Microsoft Official Curriculum course 10961, Automating Administration with Windows PowerShell 3.0, I have to type &lt;em&gt;Windows PowerShell&lt;/em&gt; every single time. I&amp;rsquo;ve actually been using &amp;ldquo;the shell&amp;rdquo; a lot, just to break things up a bit. We all casually refer to the shell as &lt;em&gt;PowerShell,&lt;/em&gt; but Microsoft never does. Their trademark is on &lt;em&gt;Windows&lt;/em&gt; PowerShell, and believe it or not someone has a trademark on &lt;em&gt;PowerShell.&lt;/em&gt; I think it&amp;rsquo;s a sporting equipment manufacturer.&lt;br&gt;
As I&amp;rsquo;m writing the course, I started using &lt;em&gt;Windows PowerShell&lt;/em&gt; on first reference, and then naturally - for me, at least - used just &lt;em&gt;PowerShell&lt;/em&gt; from then on. Nope. Had to go fix &amp;rsquo;em all.&lt;br&gt;
Weird, huh?&lt;br&gt;
I mean, technically&amp;hellip; legally&amp;hellip; you don&amp;rsquo;t trademark an entire word. You trademark it for use in a particular field. So it&amp;rsquo;s theoretically possible for Microsoft to own the trademark &lt;em&gt;PowerShell&lt;/em&gt; in the world of computer software, and another company to own the same trademark for making backpacks or ski boots or whatever. But&amp;hellip; I get it. You gotta be careful, and it&amp;rsquo;s easier just to not overlap with someone else&amp;rsquo;s trademark.&lt;br&gt;
Maybe they should have named it FrabulouShellâ„¢ instead, just to be really sure.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Displaying data from multiple servers as HTML</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-03-displaying-data-from-multiple-servers-as-html/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:12:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-03-displaying-data-from-multiple-servers-as-html/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A forum question regarding retrieving WMI based data from multiple servers and displaying it as HTML was interesting. I would approach it like this&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;`$servers&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;=&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get-Content&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-Path&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;C:\scripts\servers.txt&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$data&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;=&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;@(&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;foreach&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$server&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;in&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$servers&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;{&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$compdata&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;=&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;New-Object&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-TypeName&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PSObject&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-Property&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;@{&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Computer&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;=&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$server&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Contactable&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;=&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$false&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;LastBootTime&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;=&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AllowTSConnections&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;=&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$false&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;if&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Test-Connection&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-ComputerName&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$server&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-Quiet&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-Count&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;{&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$compdata&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Contactable&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;=&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$true&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$os&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;=&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get-WmiObject&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-Class&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Win32_OperatingSystem&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-ComputerName&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$server&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$compdata&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;LastBootTime&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;=&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$os&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ConvertToDateTime&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$os&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;LastBootUpTime&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$ts&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Ensuring that parameter values are passed to your function</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-03-ensuring-that-parameter-values-are-passed-to-your-function/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:46:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-03-ensuring-that-parameter-values-are-passed-to-your-function/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A question on the forum about a function had me thinking. The user had defined two parameters for the function and then used Read-Host to get the values.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NO&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Much better way is to use an advanced function and make the parameters mandatory&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;`function&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Getuserdetails&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;{&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CmdletBinding&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;param&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;parameter&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mandatory&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;=&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$true&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[string]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$Givenname&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;parameter&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mandatory&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;=&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$true&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[string]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$Surname&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get-ADUser&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-properties&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;telephonenumber&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;office&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-Filter&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;{&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;GivenName&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-eq&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$Givenname&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-and&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Surname&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-eq&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$Surname&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;`If you call the function and don&amp;quot;™t give values for the parameters you will be prompted for them&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Osama Sajid from Microsoft talks about CIM!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-01-03-up-next-osama-sajid-from-microsoft-talks-about-cim/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:49:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-01-03-up-next-osama-sajid-from-microsoft-talks-about-cim/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Tonight, we are pleased to have with us &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/osamasajid"&gt;Osama Sajid&lt;/a&gt; from Microsoft. For over four years, Osama has served on the PowerShell team as a Senior Program Manager responaible for increasing the managability coverage of PowerShell across the spectrum of Windows Server features. A lof of his work has focused around WMI and CIM, and that&amp;rsquo;s what he&amp;rsquo;ll be talking to us about tonight!&lt;br&gt;
Don&amp;rsquo;t forget, you can join us live at &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;. Recording starts around 9:30 PM EST.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell workflow articles</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-03-powershell-workflow-articles/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:01:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2013-01-03-powershell-workflow-articles/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;quot;™ve written a series of articles on PowerShell workflows that are appearing on the Scripting Guy blog. The first two in the series have been published at:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/12/26/powershell-workflows-the-basics.aspx" title="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/12/26/powershell-workflows-the-basics.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/12/26/powershell-workflows-the-basics.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/02/powershell-workflows-restrictions.aspx" title="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/02/powershell-workflows-restrictions.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/02/powershell-workflows-restrictions.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Enjoy&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2778/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2778/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2778&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 209 – Todd Klindt talks about SharePoint 2013</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-01-01-episode-209-todd-klindt-talks-about-sharepoint-2013/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 04:05:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2013-01-01-episode-209-todd-klindt-talks-about-sharepoint-2013/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;** Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-209.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>Writing 10961: First Module in For Review</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-12-24-writing-10961-first-module-in-for-review/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 15:28:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-12-24-writing-10961-first-module-in-for-review/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Microsoft course 10961, which will be a 5-day course on PowerShell 3.0, is officially in development! We received signoff on the outline this week, and I&amp;rsquo;ve submitted a first module for review. A big part of that review is making sure I&amp;rsquo;m using the template properly, as the authoring tool is fairly complex. It does, however, offer (more-or-less) one-touch publishing of the student manual, instructor slide deck, OneNote trainer pack, Lab Answer Key, and other documents, so it&amp;rsquo;s worth a bit of complexity.&lt;br&gt;
The outline process, along with the actual details of the writing, has been challenging. I pored through the feedback for 10325A, and the only consistent thing I took away was a general feeling that students and instructors worldwide are &lt;em&gt;really, really&lt;/em&gt; different!&lt;br&gt;
Some European instructors cautioned against running class longer than 3 or 4pm. US instructors pointed out that a short day ending at 3pm often left students feeling shortchanged. Er. To try and accommodate both crowds, most days in 10961A will end in a significant lab, letting folks kind of free-form the end of the day however they want.&lt;br&gt;
Many folks pointed out that they liked to get into variables early in the course, not so much for scripting purposes but to simplify command-line stuff. Other instructors suggested I avoid variables too early, since they created the impression of a programming course, which scared off some students. Again&amp;hellip; er. So I&amp;rsquo;m officially waffling on that one: I don&amp;rsquo;t &lt;em&gt;formally&lt;/em&gt; cover variables until fairly late in the course (well, midway), but I &lt;em&gt;introduce&lt;/em&gt; them quite early. It means students can potentially see and use variables on day 1, although I don&amp;rsquo;t get into all the details about how they work, naming rules, and so on. The way I&amp;rsquo;m writing them in, instructors also have the option to just gloss over them or skip them entirely if their students aren&amp;rsquo;t ready.&lt;br&gt;
I asked a few MCTs to look over some of my draft material and give me a delivery time estimate. I had pacing ranging from 2 minutes per slide to almost 8. Er. So I&amp;rsquo;m going with fairly simple slides that have minimal bullets (always, in most folks&amp;rsquo; opinion, the right thing to do). Instructors can then decide how deeply they&amp;rsquo;ll cover the material based on their class&amp;rsquo; needs. It does mean the instructor will need to be familiar with the material in advance - this will be a tough course to just pick up and teach ad-hoc. As, I believe, it should be.&lt;br&gt;
If there&amp;rsquo;s a theme here, it&amp;rsquo;s that &lt;em&gt;you need a good instructor&lt;/em&gt; teaching you. As a courseware author, all I can really do is provide raw material, and an instructional design that leads &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; students through a sensible learning progression. But the instructor&amp;rsquo;s value-add is to be able to switch things up to meet the specific needs of their class. Every time an instructor tells me, &amp;ldquo;oh, I always move Module 11 to the second day of class,&amp;rdquo; I don&amp;rsquo;t take it as a sign of bad instructional design - I take it as the sign of a good instructor who hopefully is making the change to benefit his class. But classes vary widely, and I kind of have to write for the worst-case scenario. That can sometimes make a course seem overly timid - but that&amp;rsquo;s why the instructor is there, to add their own value, experience, examples, and demonstrations to further instruct and clarify.&lt;br&gt;
So the one thing I&amp;rsquo;m keeping in mind as I write 10961 is to &lt;em&gt;leave room for the instructor to shine.&lt;/em&gt; Don&amp;rsquo;t fill the course so full of information that the instructor has no wiggle room. Give the instructor the ability to go slowly and less deep for classes that need it, and to go faster and deeper for classes that need &lt;em&gt;that.&lt;/em&gt; Provide instructors with notes on what can be skipped if necessary, and what&amp;rsquo;s absolutely critical, so that they can triage. I&amp;rsquo;ll be doing a prep video to help provide even more context to instructors in that regard, and to let them know that customizing the delivery is absolutely okay, provided they&amp;rsquo;re doing so with an understanding of the original instructional design.&lt;br&gt;
Fingers crossed.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell.org: Our First Year in Review</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-12-21-powershell-org-our-first-year-in-review/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:28:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-12-21-powershell-org-our-first-year-in-review/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In September 2012, we incorporated PowerShell.org, Inc., and founded PowerShell.org. Our goal was to provide a solid Q&amp;amp;A forum, and to act as a portal to the rest of the PowerShell community.&lt;br&gt;
By any measure, we&amp;rsquo;ve had a great first showing.&lt;br&gt;
We have more than a dozen shareholders in PowerShell.org, Inc., making this the first community-owned PowerShell organization ever. We&amp;rsquo;ve signed on three Platinum sponsors - &lt;a href="http://cbtnuggets.com"&gt;CBT Nuggets&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://sapien.com" title="Writing 10961: Remoting"&gt;SAPIEN Technologies&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://interfacett.com"&gt;Interface Technical Training&lt;/a&gt;. We&amp;rsquo;re now funded for 2-3 years of operation, including providing (upon request), gift cards to help local user groups pay for pizza and other monthly meeting expenses.&lt;br&gt;
PowerShell.org is now taking an average of 18,000 visits per month from more than 12,000 unique visitors, with a total of almost 57,000 monthly page views. Our forums have helped more than 760 people answer more than 850 questions.&lt;br&gt;
Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, has handed off the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/games/"&gt;Scripting Games for 2013&lt;/a&gt;, and we&amp;rsquo;re preparing for a small-scale &amp;ldquo;Winter Scripting Camp&amp;rdquo; trial run that will include a purpose-built platform for reviewing events, submitting entries, and judging. And by the looks of things, that platform will run on PowerShell itself.&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;ve announced our first &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/summit/"&gt;PowerShell Summit North America&lt;/a&gt;, and have completely sold out. We&amp;rsquo;re already doing initial planning for 2014, aiming for a larger venue and hoping to accommodate twice as many attendees, and to fully cover speaker travel expenses.&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;ve launched &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/people/"&gt;PowerShell People&lt;/a&gt;, accessible via PowerShell.net, where you can write a PowerShell script to create and post your own profile and &amp;ldquo;brag&amp;rdquo; page about your PowerShell activities and accomplishments.&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;ve launched three free PowerShell.org-branded &lt;a href="http://powershellbooks.com"&gt;ebooks&lt;/a&gt;, and are preparing to launch our &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/newsletter/"&gt;PowerShell.org TechLetter&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;monthly&lt;/em&gt; (!!!) e-mail newsletter complete with feature articles, news updates, and more. That&amp;rsquo;s by (free) subscription only, so &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/newsletter/"&gt;sign up&lt;/a&gt; if you haven&amp;rsquo;t done so already! We&amp;rsquo;ve also had help from &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/jhofferle"&gt;Jason Hofferle&lt;/a&gt; on our new Books page, rounding up all the free and commercial PowerShell books out there.&lt;br&gt;
It&amp;rsquo;s been a whirlwind year, and it&amp;rsquo;s all thanks to you for supporting it. By asking questions in the forums, offering answers, creating your People page, registering for the Summit, signing up for the Newsletter - all of these little activities spur us all on to new heights, and we appreciate all the feedback you&amp;rsquo;ve offered. There will be more to come - follow the &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/powershellorg"&gt;community on Twitter&lt;/a&gt; (and the &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/PSHSummit"&gt;Summit&lt;/a&gt; too, while you&amp;rsquo;re at it) for the latest announcements.If you&amp;rsquo;d like to contribute, just drop a note in the Suggestion Box &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/discuss/"&gt;forum&lt;/a&gt; - whether you want to help monitor a discussion forum, write book reviews, or whatever, there&amp;rsquo;s always room to contribute.&lt;br&gt;
There have been some setbacks. &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/pen_test"&gt;Will Steele&lt;/a&gt;, who had volunteered to populate our Events page, has had to step down due to health problems. Will has been a great contributor to the site and to the overall community, and we miss him. Our thoughts are with him and his family this holiday season.&lt;br&gt;
As we all wind down and look forward to the New Year, I wanted to personally express my gratitude to everyone who&amp;rsquo;s helped make all of this happen. Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, and I&amp;rsquo;ll see you again in 2013!&lt;br&gt;
Don Jones&lt;br&gt;
President and CEO, PowerShell.org, Inc.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Writing 10961: Remoting</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-12-21-writing-10961-remoting/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:26:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-12-21-writing-10961-remoting/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As I write this, we&amp;rsquo;re close to sign-off on the outline of 10961A, which is a new 5-day Microsoft course on PowerShell v3. I sat down yesterday and starting doing some detailed-level design work on the proposed Module 9, which will cover PowerShell Remoting.&lt;br&gt;
I &lt;em&gt;love&lt;/em&gt; Remoting (and yes, I capitalize the &amp;ldquo;R&amp;rdquo; when referring to the specific feature, much as I would for Workflow). And although I&amp;rsquo;ve taught Remoting over and over and over since it was introduced in v2, although with this course I&amp;rsquo;m trying something a bit new.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;m going to start by covering the basics: What Remoting is, what WS-MAN is (and yes, I know it&amp;rsquo;s formally called WS-Management, but you never see it referred to that way in-product), what WinRM is, and so on. I cover Invoke-Command and Enter-PSSession. Then I get into some advanced stuff, primarily covering how to pass arguments to Invoke-Command via its -ArgumentList parameter and an in-scriptblock Param() block. Surprisingly, &lt;em&gt;this isn&amp;rsquo;t covered in the examples of Invoke-Command in the help.&lt;/em&gt; I was shocked to discover that. I need to use that technique in Module 10, so I&amp;rsquo;m covering it in 9.&lt;br&gt;
Then I get into sessions, and I also cover disconnected sessions. Then the cool begins.&lt;br&gt;
I cover both implicit remoting (which is tons easier to do in v3) and delegated administration via custom session configurations (also vastly easier in v3). In the penultimate lab for the module, students will create a Remoting endpoint that contains a single command (Set-ADAccountPassword), have that command run under Domain Admin credentials, and restrict the endpoint to members of a HelpDesk domain user group. Voila, delegated administration! We don&amp;rsquo;t go so far as to build a GUI tool atop it all, but that would be out of scope for this course. As-is, the lab covers an &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; real-world use of PowerShell and Remoting, and does it in a very practical and production-ready way. I think it&amp;rsquo;s gonna be awesome.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>UK PowerShell Group sessions for 2013</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-12-20-uk-powershell-group-sessions-for-2013/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:17:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-12-20-uk-powershell-group-sessions-for-2013/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This is the list of proposed sessions for 2013. It is subject to change depending on circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;All sessions are delivered by Live Meeting on Tuesdays at 7:30 UK time&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;29 January – PowerShell and Active Directory&lt;br&gt;
26 February – PowerShell Advanced Functions&lt;br&gt;
26 March – PowerShell cmdlets for Hyper-V&lt;br&gt;
30 April – Notes from the PowerShell summit (may be changed)&lt;br&gt;
21 May – Powershell Web Access&lt;br&gt;
25 June – guest speaker PowerShell MVP Max Trinidad&lt;br&gt;
30 July – Lessons from the Scripting Games&lt;br&gt;
27 August – PowerShell eventing engine&lt;br&gt;
24 September – CIM – cmdlets and sessions&lt;br&gt;
29 October – PowerShell and XML&lt;br&gt;
26 November – PowerShell type system – formatting and types files&lt;br&gt;
17 December – PowerShell error handling&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>WMF compatibility</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-12-20-wmf-compatibility/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:18:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-12-20-wmf-compatibility/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The Windows Management Framework 3.0 has been released as a Windows update.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However there are some compatibility issues as documented on the PowerShell team blog. if you haven&amp;quot;™t see the post it here&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2012/12/20/windows-management-framework-3-0-compatibility-update.aspx" title="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2012/12/20/windows-management-framework-3-0-compatibility-update.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2012/12/20/windows-management-framework-3-0-compatibility-update.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2775/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2775/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2775&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Renaming a user</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-12-19-renaming-a-user/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:45:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-12-19-renaming-a-user/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I was asked about searching a user name for a string and replacing it so that the object is renamed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is a three stage activity. First get the user. Two modify the name. Three rename the object. In active directory the name attribute has the LDAP name of cn but the Microsoft AD cmdlets treta it as name. So we end up with this code:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;`$user&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;=&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get-ADUser&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-Filter&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;cn&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Writing 10961: The Ultimate Lab</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-12-18-writing-10961-the-ultimate-lab/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:50:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-12-18-writing-10961-the-ultimate-lab/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;My company has been contracted by Microsoft to design and author Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) course 10961A, Automating Administration with Windows PowerShell v3. While there is no announced release date I can share, I did want to share some of the experience.&lt;br&gt;
As I write this, 10961A&amp;rsquo;s proposed outline is going through several review cycles. In the meantime, I wanted to sit down and start doing some detail-level design on some of the more complex labs in the course - the most complex of which is a proposed Module 10, consisting of little more than a big, 2-hour lab where you write a script to provision a newly installed Server Core computer.&lt;br&gt;
This, for me, is the ultimate lab. It&amp;rsquo;s practical, meaning it focuses on a scenario that&amp;rsquo;s extremely real-world. It&amp;rsquo;s also not &amp;ldquo;perfect,&amp;rdquo; meaning it doesn&amp;rsquo;t throw you into an everything-just-works environment and hand-hold you though a few self-guided demos. Initiating communications between a domain client and a non-domain machine is tricky in PowerShell, and automating that is not entirely straightforward.&lt;br&gt;
The approach I&amp;rsquo;m planning to take will break down all the major sub-tasks, and then walk students through some of the considerations for each. What commands will you need? What information will you need up front in order to run them? Where will you get that information - and how? I think it&amp;rsquo;ll be a very nice &amp;ldquo;putting it all together&amp;rdquo; module (although there are two modules after it, so it isn&amp;rsquo;t exactly the end of the course). It should occupy the entire afternoon of the course&amp;rsquo;s fourth day (Thursday), which makes for a nice open-ended wrap to that day (meaning faster students can finish and leave early, while leaving time for slower students to work through everything without feeling rushed).&lt;br&gt;
In the lab, you&amp;rsquo;ll write a parameterized script that saves off your old Remoting TrustedHosts list, queries DHCP for the new server&amp;rsquo;s IP address, and saves that IP address into your TrustedHosts. You&amp;rsquo;ll make a Remoting connection to the new machine and have it join itself to the domain while renaming itself, wait for it to reboot, and then add a role (IIS) to it. You wrap by putting TrustedHosts back to where it came from.&lt;br&gt;
This is actually a trimmed-down, more methodical version of a workshop I just did last week at Live! 360 in Orlando. That workshop took four hours, which I don&amp;rsquo;t have in the class&amp;rsquo; time budget, so I trimmed out a few things that were cool, but not entirely necessary, such as testing to see if a DHCP reservation already exists before creating one (without testing, you can potentially get an error, but it&amp;rsquo;s non-tragic).&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;m looking forward to getting into the actual writing of the module once the outline is approved; I think this&amp;rsquo;ll really be the highlight of the course. It replaces a module in the older 10325A course (which I also wrote) where you break down a script &lt;em&gt;someone else wrote,&lt;/em&gt; customizing it to run in your environment. While I think that&amp;rsquo;s a useful skill, the feedback I got was that it wasn&amp;rsquo;t the most interesting lab possible, and that the script I provided (written by Jeffery Hicks, actually) was pretty complex given the time allotted. This new lab provides the same beginning-to-end scripting opportunity, but hopefully folks will find it to be a lot more practical and useful, both educationally and when they get back to the office.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Deep Dives</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-12-18-powershell-deep-dives/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:23:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-12-18-powershell-deep-dives/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Deep Dives is a book put together by the PowerShell community. I&amp;quot;™m editing one of the sections and have contributed some of the chapters. Manning have just started releasing it on their MEAP program. The full book will hopefully be ready in the spring.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Best of all the royalties are being donated to worthwhile cause.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Check it out – &lt;a href="http://manning.com/hicks/" title="http://manning.com/hicks/"&gt;http://manning.com/hicks/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2772/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2772/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com&amp;amp;blog=16267735&amp;amp;%23038;post=2772&amp;amp;%23038;subd=richardspowershellblog&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Eli White Makes Mayhem!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-12-18-up-next-eli-white-makes-mayhem/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:42:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-12-18-up-next-eli-white-makes-mayhem/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the podcast, we are talking about MAYHEM! No, it&amp;rsquo;s not a car insurance commercial, and no, it&amp;rsquo;s not anything dangerous. Mayhem is a sort of automation engine for Windows that (among very many other things), has the ability to invoke PowerShell scripts when something happens. Join us live &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;in the chatroom&lt;/a&gt; tonight at 9:30 PM EST!&lt;br&gt;
Here&amp;rsquo;s the blurb from the &lt;a href="http://makemayhem.com/"&gt;Mayhem website&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://mayhem.codeplex.com/releases/view/82086#DownloadId=340745"&gt;
mayhem
&lt;/a&gt;
There are a lot of great applications out there. But what do you do when you need to do something, but there isn’t an app for that? Mayhem is an application that lets you connect trigger events to reactions. Unlike writing a program, you simply select an event and a reaction, and then turn on the connection. Voila! No code or app required.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 208 – Oisin Grehan and Keith Hill talk about the PowerShell Community Extensions</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-12-17-episode-208-oisin-grehan-and-keith-hill-talk-about-the-powershell-community-extensions/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 03:21:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-12-17-episode-208-oisin-grehan-and-keith-hill-talk-about-the-powershell-community-extensions/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;** Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-208.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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mwjcomputing: ## Did you have cmdlets that overlapped with Microsoft's base?





**justpaul: ## Is the goal to get the community extentions adopted into official PS cmdlets? Or is there a bit of a post-partem depression?**
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Todd Klindt and SharePoint</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-12-11-up-next-todd-klindt-and-sharepoint/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:39:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-12-11-up-next-todd-klindt-and-sharepoint/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Join us tonight as we talk with &lt;a href="http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/default.aspx"&gt;Todd Klindt&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ToddKlindt"&gt;@ToddKlindt&lt;/a&gt;), a SharePoint Administrator at Rackspace and Microsoft MVP, as we talk about SharePoint 2013!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Todd&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;has been a professional&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;computer nerd for over 15 years, specializing in SharePoint for the last eight years. His love affair with SharePoint began one slow day at the office when he discovered SharePoint Team Services 1.0 on the Office XP&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CD that was holding up his coffee cup, and decided to install it. The rest is history. In 2006 he was honored to be awarded the&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 12/06/2012 meeting summary and presentation materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-12-10-phillyposh-12062012-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:52:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-12-10-phillyposh-12062012-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</guid><description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://mellositmusings.com/"&gt;John Mello&lt;/a&gt;Â gave aÂ presentation entitled &amp;ldquo;Intro to PowerShell&amp;rsquo;s Pipeline, Part 1&amp;rdquo;.Â A copy of his slide deck and code examples are availableÂ &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/PhillyPosh_2012-12-05_Presentations.zip"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Script Club :&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;John R. Nahrgang and [Lido Paglia](http://paglia.org/)Â presented a work in progress script that returns all the members of the Local Administrators Group on a filtered list of Active Directory PCs. A copy of the script is available [here](https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/PhillyPosh_2012-12-05_ScriptClub.zip).
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&lt;p&gt;Various other information worth mentioning.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In response to [last month's script club](https://powershell.org/2012/11/08/phillyposh-11012012-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/),Â Carl LarsonÂ submittedÂ a script that splits an Active Directory users' *distinguishedName* into an array and then put's it back together so that you can get the Parent OU.Â This script is meant as a jumping offÂ pointÂ for [John Mello's](http://mellositmusings.com/)Â expressed difficulty trying to pull a user name from a full Active Directory path. A copy of the script isÂ availableÂ [here](https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/PhillyPosh_2012-12-05_Extras.zip).
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&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>What To Do If You Don't Score a PowerShell Summit Ticket</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-11-24-what-to-do-if-you-dont-score-a-powershell-summit-ticket/</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:46:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-11-24-what-to-do-if-you-dont-score-a-powershell-summit-ticket/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As I write this, we&amp;rsquo;re down to one ticket for the &lt;a href="http://powershellsummit.org"&gt;PowerShell Summit North America 2013&lt;/a&gt;. So what do you do if you really wanted to go, but miss that last, golden ticket?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="cry-a-little"&gt;Cry a Little&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;rsquo;s face it, this was totally avoidable. It&amp;rsquo;s probably your boss&amp;rsquo; fault for not approving the expense, and so some subtle retribution may be in order. Burn the coffee for a week. Reboot domain controllers randomly. You know, just sulk.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 207 – Dave Kennedy on security and the Social-Engineer Toolkit</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-11-21-episode-207-dave-kennedy-on-security-and-the-social-engineer-toolkit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:01:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-11-21-episode-207-dave-kennedy-on-security-and-the-social-engineer-toolkit/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;** Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-207.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Dave Kennedy about security and the Social-Engineer Tooklit!
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&lt;p&gt;**&lt;/p&gt;
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 There is a new [Dutch PowerShell users group](http://powershellgroup.org/dutch)





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 The [Charlotte PowerShell Users Group](http://powershellgroup.org/charlotte.nc) is meeting on December 6th





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 [PowerShell People](http://mikefrobbins.com/2012/11/13/meet-the-people-of-powershell-at-powershell-orgpeople-and-powershell-net/)





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 [Honorary Scripting Guys have been announced](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/11/04/announcing-the-2012-honorary-scripting-guys.aspx)





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 [Scripting Games info!](https://powershell.org/games/)
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 [Artillery](https://www.trustedsec.com/downloads/artillery/)





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 [Social-Engineer Toolkit](https://www.trustedsec.com/downloads/social-engineer-toolkit/)





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 [http://pentest-standard.org](http://pentest-standard.org/)





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 [backtrack-linux](http://www.backtrack-linux.org/)





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 [Mimikatz](http://blog.gentilkiwi.com/mimikatz)





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 http://www.offensive-security.com/





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 [http://trustedsec.com](http://trustedsec.com/)





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 [Metasploit: The Penetration Tester's Guide](http://www.amazon.com/Metasploit-Penetration-Testers-David-Kennedy/dp/159327288X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1353529508&amp;amp;sr=1-1&amp;amp;keywords=metasploit)





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 [@trustedsec](https://twitter.com/trustedsec)





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 [@dave_rel1k](https://twitter.com/dave_rel1k)
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&amp;lt;1mwjcomputing&amp;gt; I have to say the live demos of SET's PowerShell Attack vectors were amazing the first time I saw them.





16[2012-11-08 21:39:47] &amp;lt;9ScriptingWife&amp;gt; episode 174 22http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/episode-174-matt-graeber-using-powershell-in-infosec/





16[2012-11-08 21:59:44] &amp;lt;4kobeckman&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Hey, I'm the copier guy.&amp;quot;





16[2012-11-08 22:00:01] &amp;lt;1mwjcomputing&amp;gt; PDF Exploits....yum





16[2012-11-08 22:08:10] &amp;lt;5AaronHoover&amp;gt; understatement of the day...





16[2012-11-08 22:09:16] &amp;lt;1mwjcomputing&amp;gt; i think applocker will help the second (fall back) but not the powershell attack





16[2012-11-08 22:09:26] &amp;lt;1mwjcomputing&amp;gt; but i might try that tonight





16[2012-11-08 22:09:58] &amp;lt;1mwjcomputing&amp;gt; pivoting FTW





16[2012-11-08 22:10:19] &amp;lt;4kobeckman&amp;gt; well, it sounds like if you don't have Java, the initial attack fails and then falls back to an executable if I understand correctly





16[2012-11-08 22:10:34] &amp;lt;4ReL1K&amp;gt; yea applocker would stop second attack not first





16[2012-11-08 22:22:53] &amp;lt;9ScriptingWife&amp;gt; BTW last week I said what the carp on Porpoise 🙂





21[2012-11-08 22:28:59] this cold is messing with my brain





21[2012-11-08 22:29:16] I can't get my thoughts together. 🙁





16[2012-11-08 22:29:45] &amp;lt;11mwjcomputing&amp;gt; DefCon 18 VIdeo with ReL1K was good!





16[2012-11-08 22:30:04] &amp;lt;11mwjcomputing&amp;gt; Â 22http://vimeo.com/15540900





16[2012-11-08 22:30:08] &amp;lt;11mwjcomputing&amp;gt; that is the video





16[2012-11-08 22:38:31] &amp;lt;9ericcourville&amp;gt; SANS.org newsletter is a good resource too





16[2012-11-08 21:54:32] &amp;lt;1mwjcomputing&amp;gt; that is what ReL1K gets for talking about the government.





16[2012-11-08 21:54:36] &amp;lt;2GeekJimmy&amp;gt; lol





16[2012-11-08 21:54:37] &amp;lt;1mwjcomputing&amp;gt; lol





16[2012-11-08 21:54:48] &amp;lt;2GeekJimmy&amp;gt; the black helicopters turned on the jammer!





16[2012-11-08 21:54:56] &amp;lt;2GeekJimmy&amp;gt; **dons tinfoil hat**
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Question - Mission to Mars - MacBook Pro
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>Help Beta-Test a New Free eBook on PowerShell Reporting</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-11-18-help-beta-test-a-new-free-ebook-on-powershell-reporting/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 18:11:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-11-18-help-beta-test-a-new-free-ebook-on-powershell-reporting/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2012/11/16/charts-in-powershell-generated-reports/" title="Charts in PowerShell-Generated Reports"&gt;written previously&lt;/a&gt; about my frustration with reporting in PowerShell - how I see admins struggle with ugly, low-level COM code to manipulate Excel spreadsheets, just so they can get nice-looking reports with a degree of automation.&lt;br&gt;
Enough.&lt;br&gt;
The &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; thing to do is put your data in SQL Server, and use SQL Server Reporting Services to generate &lt;em&gt;awesome&lt;/em&gt; looking reports, complete with charts and graphs. With the right setup, you can completely automate data collection, report generation, and delivery. And it doesn&amp;rsquo;t have to cost &lt;em&gt;a single dime.&lt;/em&gt; Plus, the learning curve isn&amp;rsquo;t too steep, and the skills you&amp;rsquo;ll learn along the way will be &lt;em&gt;massively&lt;/em&gt; beneficial to you over the long haul - far more so than the time sunk into becoming an Excel jockey.&lt;br&gt;
So I&amp;rsquo;ve written a little book about it, which you&amp;rsquo;ll find on at &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/ebooks"&gt;https://powershell.org/ebooks&lt;/a&gt;, entitled &lt;em&gt;Making Historical and Trend Reports in PowerShell.&lt;/em&gt; Unlike my earlier book on HTML reporting, which was mainly around producing inventory reports, this one&amp;rsquo;s specifically designed to make reports based on collected-over-time data, like disk utilization, performance, and so on. And I&amp;rsquo;ve bundled in a PowerShell module that should make this &lt;em&gt;easy,&lt;/em&gt; insulating you from 99% of the SQL Server-related stuff.&lt;br&gt;
Right now (November 2012) I&amp;rsquo;m looking for folks to test stuff out and let me know (via comments here) if you find any problems. I want to make sure that what I&amp;rsquo;ve got in here works and is understandable. Final publication is scheduled for January 2013, after which I&amp;rsquo;ll start taking suggestions for stuff to add to the book.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Charts in PowerShell-Generated Reports</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-11-16-charts-in-powershell-generated-reports/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:09:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-11-16-charts-in-powershell-generated-reports/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;So, as you may know, I have an ongoing hobby project called _Creating HTML Reports in PowerShell. _I&amp;rsquo;m working on an update for next year, and one of the things I&amp;rsquo;ve been looking at are embedded charts within the report.&lt;br&gt;
Problem is, I don&amp;rsquo;t know what people would actually chart. Now&amp;hellip; I&amp;rsquo;m going to ask you for ideas, but you need to read this whole post before you go popping a comment in. Because there are some restrictions.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;First&lt;/strong&gt;, I&amp;rsquo;m 
not talking about historical data or trend reports
. Those require a data store of historical data. If you&amp;rsquo;re not using SQL Server for that (even free SQL Express), learn how. Excel isÂ 
not
your trend database, no matter how little learning it requires (and I bet if you added up all the time you&amp;rsquo;ve spent becoming an Excel jockey, you&amp;rsquo;d be shocked). Once you&amp;rsquo;ve got the data in SQL (even Express), you can use SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) to generate truly kick-butt reports with very little effort. Reports which can be scheduled and e-mailed. Truly, folks, this is worth spending time on - and I may make that my next ebook project.&lt;br&gt;
**Second, **don&amp;rsquo;t tell me &amp;ldquo;disk space.&amp;rdquo; I know that one. Pie and stacked bar charts showing size/free space are a great idea. Got it. Anything else?&lt;br&gt;
**Third, **I&amp;rsquo;m not talking about performance charts. PerfMon does those, and also, see my first point. PowerShell is not a performance monitoring tool. Operations Manager is. Oh, and it dumps data into SQL Server and you can use SSRS to report on it. If your company needs historical performance reports (and most probably do) and is to cheap to get you a real monitoring solution, consider taking drastic measures. I&amp;rsquo;m not suggesting you put Ex-Lax in the boss&amp;rsquo; coffee every time he asks you to re-create OpsMan on your own. He&amp;rsquo;d deserve it, and it might help, but I&amp;rsquo;m not suggesting it.&lt;br&gt;
In keeping with point 3, that means I don&amp;rsquo;t want suggestions like &amp;ldquo;charts showing network throughput.&amp;rdquo; That&amp;rsquo;s performance. I&amp;rsquo;m not suggesting such a thing wouldn&amp;rsquo;t be useful, because I know it would be. I&amp;rsquo;m saying it&amp;rsquo;s out of scope for this particular project. If you give me in-scope suggestions, I&amp;rsquo;ll build you a tool. Fire off out-of-scope stuff and I&amp;rsquo;m just going to go build a kegerator for my beer instead.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;SO&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;hellip; given those restrictions, what sort of data could you query from a computer (say, using WMI/CIM or something) that you&amp;rsquo;d want displayed in chart form? Anything?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Dude, where's my podcast?</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-11-14-dude-wheres-my-podcast/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 03:01:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-11-14-dude-wheres-my-podcast/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;With Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up I thought I would put up a quick post with a podcast schedule for November.&lt;br&gt;
11/8 - with Dave Kennedy (post production slowed by illness, I&amp;rsquo;m hoping to post it this week)&lt;br&gt;
11/15 - no show (Hal is traveling)&lt;br&gt;
11/22 - no show (Thanksgiving in the US)&lt;br&gt;
11/29 -Â Oisin and Keith talk about PSX&lt;br&gt;
If that&amp;rsquo;s not enough PowerShell audio for you please check out the &lt;a href="http://get-scripting.blogspot.com/"&gt;Get-Scripting Podcast&lt;/a&gt;Â if you haven&amp;rsquo;t already. Jonathan Medd and Alan Renouf put out some good stuff.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Verify Your PowerShell Skills</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-11-09-verify-your-powershell-skills/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:58:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-11-09-verify-your-powershell-skills/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A long time ago&amp;hellip; about a year, in fact&amp;hellip; &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/thejasonhelmick"&gt;Jason Helmick&lt;/a&gt;Â and I started talking about a community-owned PowerShell &amp;ldquo;certification.&amp;rdquo; It went nowhere. Well, not very far.&lt;br&gt;
Some background on exams: Microsoft, in my opinion, will &lt;strong&gt;never&lt;/strong&gt; do a PowerShell cert. I say this having been part owner of a company that did outsourced exam development for the company. The deal is that Microsoft tries to certifyÂ _job tasks,Â _notÂ _tools.Â _Nobody (well, maybe me) wakes up thinking, &amp;ldquo;gonna do me some PowerShell today.&amp;rdquo; No, PowerShell is the means to an end: &amp;ldquo;gonna automate me some user creation today&amp;rdquo; is more likely. And Microsoft tries to certify that end. PowerShell&amp;rsquo;s an important tool, and it already shows up on certification exams here and there.&lt;br&gt;
For the most part, I agree with Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s reasoning, there. The argument can be summarized as saying &amp;ldquo;bosses don&amp;rsquo;t hire IT pros based on their ability to operate a low-level tool, they hire them to perform job tasks, whichÂ &lt;em&gt;encompasses&lt;/em&gt; the tool.&amp;rdquo; Except that, in the case of PowerShell, I think it&amp;rsquo;d beÂ &lt;em&gt;tremendously&lt;/em&gt; useful for an employer to use PowerShell expertise as a discriminating factor in hiring. I mean, &amp;ldquo;someone who can automate stuff&amp;rdquo; is more valuable than &amp;ldquo;someone who can only do stuff manually,&amp;rdquo; in any situation.&lt;br&gt;
So &amp;ldquo;PowerShell Verified&amp;rdquo; was intended to be a way for someone to prove - at least to themselves - that they&amp;rsquo;ve taken their PowerShell skillsÂ _to the minimum level necessary to be an effective automator.Â _Not a guru. Not an expert. Not &lt;a href="http://poshoholic.com"&gt;Poshoholic&lt;/a&gt;.Â _Minimally effective,Â _who could then grow from there with experience.&lt;br&gt;
So that&amp;rsquo;s what I&amp;rsquo;m going to put together.&lt;br&gt;
I want to explain why I&amp;rsquo;m not using the word &amp;ldquo;Certification,&amp;rdquo; though. In my mind, certifications come from, mainly, first-parties like Microsoft. Microsoft has to jump through a lot of hoops to make sure their exam content is accurate, legally defensible, blah blah blah. They worry about security, brain dumps, and other stuff that diminishes the value of the certification. I don&amp;rsquo;t have that kind of bandwidth or their resources, so in many ways my little program will be less effective than a &amp;ldquo;real&amp;rdquo; certification. Plus, few bosses will give a rat&amp;rsquo;s patooty what that Don Jones guy said about your skillz (I can&amp;rsquo;t even convince bosses to buy you guys 12-core 64GB workstations for your desk). So my &amp;ldquo;Verified&amp;rdquo; program is going to beÂ _low stakes,Â _meaning you take it to prove something toÂ _
yourself
_.&lt;br&gt;
Here&amp;rsquo;s how this is going to go.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 11/01/2012 meeting summary and presentation materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-11-08-phillyposh-11012012-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:49:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-11-08-phillyposh-11012012-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</guid><description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://techguytj.com/"&gt;TJ Turner&lt;/a&gt; gave a demonstration of how to bring &lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh846323(v=vs.85).aspx"&gt;Server 2012 Core&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 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.


- 
 A copy of his slide deck is available [here](https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/2012_11_01-PhillyPoSH.zip)
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&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://paglia.org/"&gt;Lido Paglia&lt;/a&gt; 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 &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/2012_11_01-PhillyPoSH.zip"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Script Club :&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 206 – Michael Niehaus talks about the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-11-06-episode-206-michael-niehaus-talks-about-the-microsoft-deployment-toolkit/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 03:45:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-11-06-episode-206-michael-niehaus-talks-about-the-microsoft-deployment-toolkit/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;** Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-206.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Michael Niehaus about the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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 a reminder to update-help





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 Don Jones finished [Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches](http://www.manning.com/jones3/)





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 [PowerShell Plus is now free!](http://www.idera.com/Free-Tools/PowerShell-Plus/?s=BN_PScom_PSP&amp;amp;utm_source=PScom&amp;amp;utm_medium=community&amp;amp;utm_content=BN&amp;amp;utm_campaign=PSP)





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 [iPowerShell](http://sapien.com/software/ipowershell) Pro now has PowerShell 3.0 support









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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Interview





Guest - Michael Niehaus
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 [MDT on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/MicrosoftDeploymentToolkit)
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Question -





Superpower: telepathy





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Chatroom Buzz





RichP: ## Is MDT going to be migrated to PowerShell in the next release?





RichP: ## Will MDT be simplifying itself by using PowerShell workflows in the future?





lizaoreo: ## Is there a reason to integrate MDT and SCCM? What advantages/disadvantages might be involved?





TallPau1: Now WINPE supports PowerShell, will MDT's VBSCRIPT scripts be moved over to PowerShell at any time?





TallPau1: ##Is there anyway to configure the workbench with PowerShell?





lizaoreo: At work now we're using a MDT2010 deployment solution and are moving to SCCM2012, but the dude in charge is wanting to dump all the MDT stuff and start completely from scratch using nothing from SCCM2012, I'm trying to figure out if that makes sense, or if it's better to keep that MDT integration





RichP: ## Being able to package applications to deploy via MDT is another hole in Microsoft's strategy (Orca doesn't count); is Microsoft planning something to fill that gap?





AaronHoover: ## how do customers balance new v3 features and a solid v2 base with remoting? code to v2 lowest common denominator? or if v2 &amp;gt; v2 script, else v3 script





RichP: ## With the MDT Solution Accelerator being the 'deployment' solution, would it not be your team that releases the 'Format-Disk' cmdlets, etc?





TallPau1: ##will the PowerShell help for MDT be updated? not many examples
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>Hands-on Workshop at the 2013 PowerShell Summit</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-11-06-hands-on-workshop-at-the-2013-powershell-summit/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:43:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-11-06-hands-on-workshop-at-the-2013-powershell-summit/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Special PowerShell Team Workshop to be Held at PowerShell Summit N.A. 2013</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-11-06-special-powershell-team-workshop-to-be-held-at-powershell-summit-n-a-2013/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:32:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-11-06-special-powershell-team-workshop-to-be-held-at-powershell-summit-n-a-2013/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit Community Sessions List [Updated]</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-11-02-powershell-summit-community-sessions-list/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 19:19:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-11-02-powershell-summit-community-sessions-list/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[Update: April 19, 2013] &lt;strong&gt;Important Note:&lt;/strong&gt; 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 &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/2013/04/19/powershell-summit-2013-conference-schedule/"&gt;https://powershell.org/2013/04/19/powershell-summit-2013-conference-schedule/&lt;/a&gt;{.vt-p}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After almost 100 people voted for the sessions they would like to see the most at the &lt;a href="http://powershellsummit.org/"&gt;2013 PowerShell Summit&lt;/a&gt;{.vt-p}, the results are in!Â  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).&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Final Ticket Inventory for PowerShell Summit NA 2013 Released!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-11-02-final-ticket-inventory-for-powershell-summit-na-2013-released/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:24:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-11-02-final-ticket-inventory-for-powershell-summit-na-2013-released/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As we&amp;rsquo;ve been finalizing our speaker and session collection, we&amp;rsquo;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&amp;rsquo;s unsold tickets back into the general admission pool as well.&lt;br&gt;
As it stands, the G.A. pool now has 57 tickets, of which we&amp;rsquo;ve sold 24. That leaves 33 tickets left for the April 22-24 event at Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s corporate headquarters in Redmond, WA.&lt;br&gt;
We currently have a total of 57 attendees, including speakers. That doesn&amp;rsquo;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.&lt;br&gt;
If you&amp;rsquo;re thinking of coming to the Summit,Â **now is the time to register.Â **We&amp;rsquo;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&amp;rsquo;ll have the opportunity to go on a waitlist, where you&amp;rsquo;ll be notified if anyone cancels.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t miss your chance to be a part of this first-ever community-owned and -operated event!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 205 – Jeffrey Snover talks about PowerShell 3.0</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-10-30-episode-205-jeffrey-snover-talks-about-powershell-3-0/</link><pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:48:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-10-30-episode-205-jeffrey-snover-talks-about-powershell-3-0/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;** Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-205.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jeffrey Snover about PowerShell version 3!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News





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 Windows 8, Server 2012, and most importantly, PowerShell v3 were all just officially launched Oct 26th! Go forth and deploy!





- 


 Glen Sizemore took home the Iron Scripter honors at PowerShell Saturday #3





- 


 [Philadelphia Meeting - November 1st, 2012 - 6-8pm](http://powershellgroup.org/philadelphia.pa/2012-11-01)





- 


 [November 1, 2012 Scripting Game # 5, the Event Log Strikes Back](http://powershellgroup.org/charlotte.nc/2012-11-01)





- 


 [Creating your first Module - November 8th in Rochester](http://powershellgroup.org/Rochester.NY/2012-11-08)





- 


 [Central Ohio PowerShell Users Group Meeting - November 2012](http://powershellgroup.org/content/central-ohio-powershell-users-group-meeting-november-2012)









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&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Interview





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Guest - Jeffrey Snover
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Links





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- 


 [Standards-based management in Windows Server](http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/03/30/standards-based-management-in-windows-server-8.aspx)





- 


 [What is CDXML?](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/jj542520(v=vs.85).aspx)





- 


 [CIM cmdlets in PowerShell v3](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj553783.aspx)





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 [Default Parameter Values](http://mcpmag.com/articles/2012/02/07/default-parameter-values-powershell-3.aspx)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Question -





Favorite books: Nietzsche,





**Â **





Chatroom Buzz





JeffHicks: ##What the story on managing non-Windows platforms with PowerShell?





PowershellJedi: Jsnover is a pit fighter





DonJ-MVP: &amp;quot;Server with a GUI&amp;quot; sounds like a crutch. Love it.





beefarino: &amp;quot;Server with security holes&amp;quot;





kobeckman: now if we could just get all the 3rd party software companies to catch up so we can remove the GUI on all our servers





DonJ-MVP: ######### Does the &amp;quot;Made for Windows Server 2012&amp;quot; logo program address GUI/nonGUI in any way, for ISVs?





JeffHicks: ##What is the future of PowerShell workflow? Where do we go next?





beefarino: ## what were the biggest issues getting the individual MS teams to migrate their management to powershell?





alexandair: ## What kind of non-Windows devices can we manage with PowerShell already?





beefarino: ## there seems to be a large gap in powershell coverage for SQL server management; any plans to address?





JasonHelmick: ## have you had a chance to relax and enjoy the success of Server 2012 Core?





Olathemike: ## does Server Manager use workflows or remoting or both to remotely execute code?





alexandair: ## Is there anything in Server Core 2012 that we cannot do remotely with PowerShell?





JasonHelmick: ## In production Server Manager is the most useful GUI tool that MS makes.





DonJ-MVP: ##### What better way than Metro to convince to you remove the GUI from the Server?!?!?





DonJ-MVP: ######### Hal, what's been the uptake on workflow? How much of v3 workflow was intended for internal partner needs? Cuz it doesn't seem as polished as, say Remoting - seems like &amp;quot;we needed this internally so we did it, and we exposed it, and it'll probably evolve.&amp;quot;





beefarino: ### can the micro wbem run on an arduino?





DonJ-MVP: (BTW, anyone who isn't aware, the PowerShell community is coming together in April, on-campus at Microsoft - http://www.powershellsummit.org - hope you can join us!)





JeffHicks: ##What PowerShell v3 feature would you want IT Pros to know about that they might not find right away?





glnsize: as the storage guy in the room... Server 2012 + smi-s works great Â as a general interface. Â There is always room to improve as SMI-S is a least common toolset but it works just fine.





cmille19: I wonder when we'll see an internal Microsoft team ship a product which relies on Workflow





glnsize: ## how do we combine System Center Orchestrator and Windows 2012? Â SC2012 is the heart of the MSFT cloud, and SCO is the heart of SC2012. Â Yet SCO doesn't leverage the V3 workflow engine... infact calling powershell from SCO is still clumbsy at best.





RichP: ## JSnover, do you work with Windows Intune at all? Â If so, are there any plans to market that to consumers? Â My family is spread across the country and it would make it much easier to assist them and keep their computers updated.





JeffHicks: ##Does Jeffrey see a day where nobody manages a physical datacenter and everything is &amp;quot;in the cloud&amp;quot;?





alexandair: ## Is there anything in Server Core 2012 that we cannot manage remotely with PowerShell?





Craig: 2012 Sounds good, but don't see my company going there anytime soon. Â We just got up to 2010





JeffHicks: ##What will be a typical day for an IT Pro/Windows Admin in 5 years? How will this move to the cloud change their job?





JHofferle: ## I want to deploy custom remoting endpoints via group policy...any chance that's coming?





KeithH: Has anybody asked Jeffrey about PowerShell for Windows RT yet? Â What are the limitations, etc?





JeffHicks: ##Is PowerShell Web Access the solution for mobile PowerShell management?





alexandair: ## Is there anything in Server Core 2012 that we cannot manage remotely with PowerShell?





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Feedback





**(email from Colin)**
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>Idera's PowerShell Plus Editor Now Free for All</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-10-28-ideras-powershell-plus-editor-now-free-for-all/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:30:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-10-28-ideras-powershell-plus-editor-now-free-for-all/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Idera&amp;rsquo;s gone and made PowerShell Plus free. Given that it&amp;rsquo;s been updated to support PowerShell v3, this will probably become many folks&amp;rsquo; go-to editor (PowerGUI, the former champ, is more or less out of development and hasn&amp;rsquo;t been updated for v3).&lt;br&gt;
Idera says:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;Idera is dedicated to providing products that help our customers and community members be successful in their jobs,&amp;rdquo; said Rick Pleczko, CEO of Idera. &amp;ldquo;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.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title/><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-10-26-powershell-v3s-new-simplified-syntax/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:02:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-10-26-powershell-v3s-new-simplified-syntax/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;One of the ballyhooed new features in PowerShell v3 is the new &amp;ldquo;simplified&amp;rdquo; syntax for Where-Object and ForEach-Object. I&amp;rsquo;m going to focus on the former for this article. In essence, instead of doing this:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Get-Service | Where-Object { $_.Status -eq 'Running' } &lt;/code&gt;You can now do this also:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Get-Service | Where Status -eq Running &lt;/code&gt;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&amp;rsquo;d felt awesome about the new syntax&amp;hellip; now I&amp;rsquo;m conflicted.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>If you haven't *watched* the PowerScripting Podcast…</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-10-26-if-you-havent-watched-the-powerscripting-podcast/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:11:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-10-26-if-you-havent-watched-the-powerscripting-podcast/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;For more than 200 weeks now (there&amp;rsquo;s an episode a week), Jon Walz and Hal Rottenberg have been bringing us the &lt;a href="http://powerscripting.wordpress.com"&gt;PowerScripting Podcast&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;rsquo;s become an almost official &amp;ldquo;voice&amp;rdquo; of and for the PowerShell community. In it, the two don&amp;rsquo;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 aÂ &lt;em&gt;face&lt;/em&gt; on the community. One week you&amp;rsquo;re talking to the inventor of PowerShell, the next to a local user group leader who&amp;rsquo;s helping educate folks in his area, and the next an ISV who&amp;rsquo;s building PowerShell into their products. It&amp;rsquo;s Larry King Does PowerShell.&lt;br&gt;
If you&amp;rsquo;ve listened to the podcast, you know what I&amp;rsquo;m talking about here. But, if you&amp;rsquo;veÂ &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; listened to the podcast, you&amp;rsquo;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.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ColloquyScreenSnapz001.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ColloquyScreenSnapz001-300x117.png" alt=""&gt;
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&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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 &amp;ldquo;hello!&amp;rdquo; It&amp;rsquo;s a weekly clubhouse of sorts, where the chatroom conversations parallel the webcast, but also diverge onto tangents. It&amp;rsquo;s where you can offer up questions for the current speaker. It&amp;rsquo;s where you play drinking games (anytime Snover says &amp;ldquo;ecosystem,&amp;rdquo; drink!). And, when I&amp;rsquo;m the featured speaker, as I&amp;rsquo;m privileged to be a couple of times a year, it&amp;rsquo;s where you egg me on in my rant-of-the-season.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ColloquyScreenSnapz002.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ColloquyScreenSnapz002-300x117.png" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;m going to share a little secret that most software developers already know:Â _Community counts.Â _It isn&amp;rsquo;t just a word, or some marketing slogan. The ability to make connections with people in a similar boat - via Twitter, e-mail, &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/discuss"&gt;forums&lt;/a&gt;, or a podcast recording - is important. For many IT pros, IT per se isn&amp;rsquo;t our personal passion. It&amp;rsquo;s a job. And so it&amp;rsquo;s easy, at the end of the workday, to go home and do ourÂ &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; passion - be with family, play Xbox, or whatever. So IT pro communities have traditionally never been as robust as developer communities. ButÂ _make the effort.Â _Community is how you&amp;rsquo;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, yourÂ _meta-career,Â _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.&lt;br&gt;
In fact, PowerShell.org itself wouldn&amp;rsquo;t exist without the strong community connections Kirk Munro and I have made over the years.&lt;br&gt;
Giving up an evening with the family to go to a local user group meeting can be tough, if there&amp;rsquo;s even one in your area. You should do it anyway. But if you can&amp;rsquo;t, Hal and Jon have created a sort of virtual user group where you can connect withÂ _people,Â _not just learn about technology. Trust me, the first time someone like Jeffrey Snover recognized me in-person and said &amp;ldquo;hi,&amp;rdquo; 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.&lt;br&gt;
Hope to see you in the chatroom!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Free eBook: Creating HTML Reports in PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-10-24-free-ebook-creating-html-reports-in-powershell/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 19:52:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-10-24-free-ebook-creating-html-reports-in-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve written a new, short, totally free eBook that explains how to build multi-sectional HTML reports in Windows PowerShell. This is something I&amp;rsquo;ll be building on in the future, as I have time, to add additional formatting capabilities, and even interactivity. But what&amp;rsquo;s there now should be a great start! Check it out and let me know what you think.&lt;br&gt;
It&amp;rsquo;s on the free ebook list at &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/ebooks"&gt;https://powershell.org/ebooks&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 204 – Santos Martinez on Mastering Configuration Manager 2012</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-10-23-episode-204-santos-martinez-on-mastering-configuration-manager-2012/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:01:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-10-23-episode-204-santos-martinez-on-mastering-configuration-manager-2012/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;** Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-204.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Santos Martinez about Mastering Configuration Manager 2012!**** 
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&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News
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&lt;p&gt;**&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- 


 The PowerShell 3.0 release party is Thursday!





- 


 [PowerShell Saturday #3](http://powershellsaturday.com/003/) is this Saturday in Atlanta!





- 


 The Florida PowerShell user group is meeting [virtually on October 26th ](http://powershellgroup.org/Florida/2012-10-26)to talk about SMO





- 


 [Shay Levy reports](http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2012/10/20/two-new-powershell-modules-related-to-storage-spaces/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PowershellMagazine+%28PowerShell+Magazine%29) two new modules for Storage Spaces





- 


 Microsoft Windows PowerShell 3.0 First Look [has been released](http://csharpening.net/?p=1337)!









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&lt;p&gt;**&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Jeffrey Snover and the PowerShell v3 launch party!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-10-23-up-next-jeffrey-snover-and-the-powershell-v3-launch-party/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:13:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-10-23-up-next-jeffrey-snover-and-the-powershell-v3-launch-party/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/2012-10-22_11-19-23.png" alt=""&gt;This Thursday, October 25, 2012 on the podcast we welcome back the Father of PowerShell, Microsoft Distinguished Engineer, and lead architect for Windows Server: Jeffrey Snover. Friday is the official launch date of Windows 8 which includes Windows PowerShell V3, but the real launch party that WE care about is Thursday!&lt;br&gt;
Be sure to join us live every Thursday at 9:30 PM EDT at &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>"Secrets of PowerShell Remoting" Updated – Help Check the Beta!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-10-23-secrets-of-powershell-remoting-updated-help-check-the-beta/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:35:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-10-23-secrets-of-powershell-remoting-updated-help-check-the-beta/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve finished updating a new revision ofÂ _Secrets of PowerShell Remoting;Â _you&amp;rsquo;ll find PDF and EPUB versions attached to this post in a ZIP file. Note that these are &amp;ldquo;check builds,&amp;rdquo; meaning I&amp;rsquo;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.&lt;br&gt;
[The book is now live onÂ &lt;a href="http://PowerShellBooks.com"&gt;http://PowerShellBooks.com&lt;/a&gt;.]&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>What's in a name? (Musing about Windows RT)</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-10-23-whats-in-a-name-musing-about-windows-rt/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:31:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-10-23-whats-in-a-name-musing-about-windows-rt/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;So, I was thinking about Windows 8 in the shower this morning. What? No, that&amp;rsquo;s not weird. I&amp;rsquo;m sure a lot of people do it. Anyway here&amp;rsquo;s what I can up with:&lt;br&gt;
Windows 4 NT (New Technology?)&lt;br&gt;
Windows 5 OT&lt;br&gt;
Windows 6 PT&lt;br&gt;
Windows 7 QT&lt;br&gt;
Windows 8 RT (Re-imagined Technology?)&lt;br&gt;
That&amp;rsquo;s my crazy theory, what&amp;rsquo;s yours? Why not track me down at &lt;a href="http://powershellsaturday.com/003/"&gt;PowerShell Saturday&lt;/a&gt;Â this Saturday and tell me? What? You&amp;rsquo;re not going to be there? Bummer&amp;hellip;well, I guess you could leave a comment.&lt;br&gt;
-Jonathan&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Santos Martinez to talk about System Center Configuration Manager 2012</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-10-17-up-next-santos-martinez-to-talk-about-system-center-configuration-manager-2012/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-10-17-up-next-santos-martinez-to-talk-about-system-center-configuration-manager-2012/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;amp;ASIN=1118128982&amp;amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;amp;WS=1&amp;amp;tag=techprosaic-20" alt=""&gt;This Thursday, October 18, 2012 we’ll be speaking to Santos Martinez (&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ConfigNinja"&gt;@ConfigNinja&lt;/a&gt;), a Premier Field Engineer from Microsoft, to talk about his book, &lt;a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1118128982/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=techprosaic-20&amp;amp;camp=0&amp;amp;creative=0&amp;amp;linkCode=as4&amp;amp;creativeASIN=1118128982&amp;amp;adid=08KFWCGHMB1VMT641EYM&amp;amp;"&gt;Mastering System Center Configuration Manager 2012&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=techprosaic-20&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=1118128982" alt=""&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Be sure to join us live every Thursday at 9:30 PM EDT at &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Voting for the 2013 PowerShell Summit sessions is now open!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-10-15-voting-for-the-2013-powershell-summit-sessions-is-now-open-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 03:29:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-10-15-voting-for-the-2013-powershell-summit-sessions-is-now-open-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Voting is now open!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As of this morning you can vote for the sessions that you want to see at the 2013 PowerShell Summit!  We have 97 session proposals (see below), plus additional content from the PowerShell Team.  Your vote is really important, so please take some time to indicate what you would like to see from a PowerShell-specific conference with deep technical depth.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;quot;™s what you need to do:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Session Voting for the PowerShell Summit North America 2013</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-10-15-session-voting-for-the-powershell-summit-north-america-2013/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:09:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-10-15-session-voting-for-the-powershell-summit-north-america-2013/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Voting is open!&lt;br&gt;
As you know, theÂ &lt;strong&gt;PowerShell Summit North America 2013&lt;/strong&gt; is coming in April 2013, and we&amp;rsquo;re relying onÂ &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; to tell us what sessions you&amp;rsquo;d like to see there. We&amp;rsquo;ve already accepted dozens of proposed sessions, and we&amp;rsquo;re ready for you to vote.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://674004.polldaddy.com/s/powershell-summit-na-2013-session-voting"&gt;Go ahead and take the survey now.&lt;/a&gt;Â (opens in a new window/tab)&lt;br&gt;
While voting, you can technically choose as many sessions as you want - but remember that we can&amp;rsquo;t present them all, so try to pick no more than 20 sessions as your &amp;ldquo;favorites.&amp;rdquo; Also note that the Summit will include additional, to-be-announced sessions presented by Microsoft employees and PowerShell product team members.&lt;br&gt;
You can &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/discuss/viewforum.php?f=22"&gt;read the session proposals&amp;rsquo; descriptions in our forums&lt;/a&gt;; we suggest having that open in another window right next to the survey itself. That way, you can read through the abstracts, decide if you like a session, and vote on it in the survey. Sorry for having the information in two places - we&amp;rsquo;re gonna work on something cleaner for 2014 ;).&lt;br&gt;
**You have until midnight October 28th, 2012, to vote.Â **And if you&amp;rsquo;re asking, &amp;ldquo;midnight in what time zone,&amp;rdquo; then we suggest you stop procrastinating and vote already!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PhillyPoSH 10/04/2012 meeting summary and presentation materials</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-10-10-10042012-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:08:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-10-10-10042012-meeting-summary-and-presentation-materials/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Our inaugural meeting was as follows:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;10 minute demo from &lt;a href="http://www.jamsscheduler.com/"&gt;MVP Systems&lt;/a&gt; about how &lt;a href="http://www.jamsscheduler.com/PowerShell.aspx"&gt;JAMS Scheduler works with PowerShell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Presentation on what Remoting is and how it works
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;See the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/PhillyPosh_2012-1004.zip"&gt;zip file&lt;/a&gt; in the post for the PowerPoint with speaking notes&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pizza break!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Live remoting demo
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;See the zip file in the post for a text file of the PowerShell demo&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On the topic of deploying a GPO to set your script execution policy, &lt;a href="http://www.bhargavs.com/"&gt;BhargavÂ Shukla&lt;/a&gt; from the &lt;a href="http://www.ehlougphila.com/"&gt;Philadelphia Exchange User Group&lt;/a&gt; brought to our attention &lt;a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2467565"&gt;KB2467565&lt;/a&gt; which address the following issue:Â  Â &amp;ldquo;You cannot install an update rollup for Exchange Server 2010 with a deployed GPO that defines a PowerShell execution policy for the server to be updated&amp;rdquo;. So if you do set the script execution policy through group policy don&amp;quot;™t apply it to your Exchange 2010 servers!&lt;br&gt;
Meeting materials zip file: &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/PhillyPosh_2012-1004.zip"&gt;PhillyPosh_2012-1004&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>No show tonight!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-10-04-no-show-tonight-5/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:37:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-10-04-no-show-tonight-5/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Sorry everyone, but wet need to cancel tonight&amp;rsquo;s show due to unforeseen stuff. We promise that we will be rescheduling Dave Kennedy (whom we are really excited to have on again).&lt;br&gt;
We know it will be hard, but do try to enjoy your evening despite this horrible blow to your plans.&lt;br&gt;
Our sincere apologies, and talk to you next week!&lt;br&gt;
Hal and Jon&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 203 – June Blender from Microsoft talks about getting help!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-10-02-episode-203-june-blender-from-microsoft-talks-about-getting-help/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 03:40:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-10-02-episode-203-june-blender-from-microsoft-talks-about-getting-help/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-203.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to June Blender from Microsoft about Getting Help!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://powershellgroup.org/content/october-philadelphia-powershell-user-group-meeting"&gt;October Philadelphia PowerShell User Group Meeting&lt;/a&gt; - Thursday, October 4, 2012 -17:30 - 20:00&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://powershellgroup.org/content/october-meeting-special-date-october-11-2012"&gt;October meeting on special date, October 11, 2012&lt;/a&gt; - Thursday, October 11, 2012 -18:00 - 20:30&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://powershellgroup.org/content/october-pittsburgh-powershell-users-group-meeting"&gt;October Pittsburgh PowerShell Users Group Meeting -&lt;/a&gt; Tuesday, October 16, 2012 -18:00 - 19:30&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://powershellsaturday.com/003"&gt;PowerShell Saturday #3&lt;/a&gt; in Atlanta, GA October 27, 2012&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: June Blender talks about finding help in PowerShell!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-09-26-up-next-june-blender-talks-about-finding-help-in-powershell/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:01:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-09-26-up-next-june-blender-talks-about-finding-help-in-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Be sure to join us live tomorrow night (9/27) at 9:30 PM EDT as we chat with &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/juneb_get_help"&gt;June Blender&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/xrhoge6u8x9rvg4ao5h3.jpeg" alt=""&gt; from Microsoft! June has been with Microsoft on the PowerShell team for many years, working as a Senior Programming Writer. We have a lot to talk about with all of the changes to the PowerShell help subsystem with version 3, and the greatly increased number of cmdlets.&lt;br&gt;
But we can&amp;rsquo;t do it alone! We need for YOU to come to the chatroom and bring your questions for June, and to hang out with your fellow PowerShellers. You can find us at &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;http://live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt; (and #PowerScriptingPodcast on Freenode).&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 202 – Antoine Habert talks about PoshBoard</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-09-25-episode-202-antoine-habert-talks-about-poshboard/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 02:47:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-09-25-episode-202-antoine-habert-talks-about-poshboard/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-202.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Antoine Habert about PoshBoard!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Learn PowerShell 3.0 [in a day](http://techdays.org/2012/07/learn-powershell-3-0-in-a-day-pleasant-hilldvc/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; PSCX 2.1 and 3.0 RC [have been posted](http://rkeithhill.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/pscx-2-1-and-3-0-release-candidates-posted/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The PowerCLI 5.1 poster [is out](http://psvmware.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/powercli-5-1-poster-is-out-goodies/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [PowerShell support](http://www.david-obrien.de/www/blog/?p=442) for SCCM 2012 SP1
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [What&amp;quot;™s New in PowerCLI 5.1](http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2012/09/powercli-5-1-whats-new.html)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The RSAT [tools for Windows 8](http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28972) are out
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; PrimalPad 2012 [gets script signing](http://www.sapien.com/blog/2012/08/09/primalpad-2012-gets-script-signing/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guests - Antoine Habert&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 201 – Jason Helmick talks about the PowerShell Summit and his upcoming IIS book</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-09-18-episode-201-jason-helmick-talks-about-the-powershell-summit-and-his-upcoming-iis-book/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 02:31:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-09-18-episode-201-jason-helmick-talks-about-the-powershell-summit-and-his-upcoming-iis-book/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-201.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jason Helmick about the PowerShell Summit and his upcoming IIS book and then we have a surprise visit from Kirk Munro.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; PowerShell Summit [call for content](http://poshoholic.com/2012/09/13/powershell-summit-north-america-2013-call-for-content/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guests - Jason Helmick and Kirk Munro&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="links"&gt;Links&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [http://www.manning.com/helmick/](http://www.manning.com/helmick/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [https://twitter.com/theJasonHelmick](https://twitter.com/theJasonHelmick)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [http://poshoholic.com/2012/09/13/powershell-summit-north-america-2013-call-for-content/](http://poshoholic.com/2012/09/13/powershell-summit-north-america-2013-call-for-content/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4 id="the-question--"&gt;The Question -&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First PC: IBM PC1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Antoine Habert talks about Poshboard</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-09-18-up-next-antoine-habert-talks-about-poshboard/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:05:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-09-18-up-next-antoine-habert-talks-about-poshboard/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This Thursday we&amp;quot;™ll be speaking to Antoine Habert to talk about &lt;a href="http://www.poshboard.com/"&gt;http://www.poshboard.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Be sure to join us live every Thursday at 9:30 PM EDT at &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PSCX 2.1 and 3.0 Release Candidates Posted</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-09-15-pscx-2-1-and-3-0-release-candidates-posted/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 02:45:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-09-15-pscx-2-1-and-3-0-release-candidates-posted/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Oisin and I have been busy prepping the PowerShell Community Extensions to support Windows PowerShell 3.0. With this release, we are providing two packages. There is a &lt;a href="http://pscx.codeplex.com/releases/view/93945"&gt;Pscx-2.1.0-RC.zip&lt;/a&gt; that is xcopy deployable just like PSCX 2.0. Just remember to unblock the ZIP before extracting it otherwise you&amp;quot;™ll get errors when you try to import the module. Pscx 2.1 can be used to target both Windows PowerShell 2.0 and 3.0. In order to do this, Pscx 2.1 is still compiled against .NET 2.0 and it can&amp;quot;™t take advantage of any Windows PowerShell 3.0 specific features.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit North America 2013 Call for Content</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-09-13-powershell-summit-north-america-2013-call-for-content/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:04:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-09-13-powershell-summit-north-america-2013-call-for-content/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In case you haven&amp;quot;™t heard already, there is a great opportunity to learn a lot more about PowerShell coming up next year.  It&amp;quot;™s the PowerShell Summit North America 2013 conference, and it is held on Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA from April 22 to 24, 2013.  This conference is run by the PowerShell.org community, and it will present a ton of deep technical content on anything to do with PowerShell.  What content will be covered, you ask?  Well, that&amp;quot;™s up to you.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Summit: Best Conference Deal Ever!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-09-11-powershell-summit-best-conference-deal-ever/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:55:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-09-11-powershell-summit-best-conference-deal-ever/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;What&amp;rsquo;s the average tech conference cost these days? $1500? $2000? And that&amp;rsquo;s just to get in, to say nothing of hotel, air, food, and whatnot.&lt;br&gt;
The &lt;a href="http://powershellsummit.org"&gt;PowerShell Summit North America 2013&lt;/a&gt; has an idea. Lets do a community-owned event, with a goal of breaking even and supporting an annual event, but not worry about a profit.&lt;br&gt;
Lets say you live in the US. A ticket to Seattle in April will run you $500-700 after taxes. Maybe less if you can get on a discount carrier like Southwest - they fly to SEA. Hotel will run you under $450 for three nights. Say you decide to splurge on a car for four days, probably for under $200 (including all the ridiculous taxes on rental cars). Toss in another $250 for food? That takes you to under $1600. PowerShell Summit only costs $550 - less if you register during one of the Early Bird tiers; as low us $450, in fact. That&amp;rsquo;s $2100-2200 total, or just a bit over what some conferences charge for their registration fee alone!&lt;br&gt;
What about quality? Well, you&amp;rsquo;ll get the same food Microsoft employees get. So that can&amp;rsquo;t be all bad. You&amp;rsquo;ll attend sessions delivered by Microsoft product team members, along with independent experts. You&amp;rsquo;ll interact directly with PowerShell team managers, too, in a small-event format that lets you provide product feedback directly to them. Heck, with under 100 fellow attendees, you&amp;rsquo;ll get plenty of face time with everyone.&lt;br&gt;
It&amp;rsquo;s going to be a great event, and it will definitely be affordable. It&amp;rsquo;s being run by members of the community, not a conference company. This will hopefully become OUR event, an annual gathering of PowerShell enthusiasts, experts, and team members. A chance to network, to learn, to share, and to grow.&lt;br&gt;
I hope you&amp;rsquo;ll be able to join us!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 200 – Doug Finke talks about his new book Windows PowerShell for Developers</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-09-10-episode-200-doug-finke-talks-about-his-new-book-windows-powershell-for-developers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 03:09:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-09-10-episode-200-doug-finke-talks-about-his-new-book-windows-powershell-for-developers/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-200.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Doug Finke about his new book, Windows PowerShell for Developers!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [PowerShell 3.0 is out](http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34595) for Win7 and Windows Server 2008!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; PowerShell Saturday!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [Sept 15 in Charlotte](http://powershellsaturday.com/002/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [Oct 27 in Atlanta](http://powershellsaturday.com/003/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [First PhillyPosh meeting is Oct 4th at the Microsoft campus in Malvern, PA](http://powershellgroup.org/content/first-phillyposh-meeting-october)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; A PowerShell Summit is [in the works](https://powershell.org/summit/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [The PowerShell.org forum is now live](https://powershell.org/discuss/)!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; There is a new [#PowerCLI IRC channel](http://communities.vmware.com/message/2102642#2102642)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Own a Piece of the Community: Buy Shares in PowerShell.org, Inc.!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-09-10-own-a-piece-of-the-community-buy-shares-in-powershell-org-inc/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:35:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-09-10-own-a-piece-of-the-community-buy-shares-in-powershell-org-inc/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;When Kirk Munro and I set this site up, and started redirecting traffic from the old PowerShellCommunity.org, one of our main goals was to make this a trulyÂ &lt;em&gt;community-owned&lt;/em&gt; resource. We wanted it hosted independently (my company, Concentrated Tech, is being paid to host the site, so we get pretty good service and total control). We didn&amp;rsquo;t want to be beholden to anyone&amp;rsquo;s commercial interests or whims (companies do get distracted by their real jobs from time to time, after all).&lt;br&gt;
When we started talking to Microsoft about holding a &lt;a href="http://powershellsummit.org"&gt;PowerShell Summit&lt;/a&gt;, we wanted that to be community-owned too, and not tied to a commercial interest - in part so that we could keep the price low, but also so that Microsoft would be able to support us without getting into any possible conflicts of interest with any of its ISV partners.&lt;br&gt;
Today, our intention becomes legally realized. PowerShell.org., Inc., a Nevada corporation, is born - and we&amp;rsquo;re offering ownership shares to help raise capital. This capital will be used to pay for necessities like bookkeeping, and also to help bootstrap the Summit event. Shareholders areÂ _legal owners of the corporation,Â _and will vote for its Board of Directors - who in turn appoint the Officers that make things happen. Our first Board will consist of &lt;a href="http://donjones.com"&gt;myself&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/poshoholic"&gt;Kirk&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/jeffhicks"&gt;Jeffery Hicks&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/rsiddaway"&gt;Richard Siddaway&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/thejasonhelmick"&gt;Jason Helmick&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
**Want to become a community owner?Â **You&amp;rsquo;ll want to start with our &amp;ldquo;Shareholder Brochure,&amp;rdquo; which is available in &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/discuss/viewforum.php?f=26"&gt;the new &amp;ldquo;PowerShell.org, Inc.&amp;rdquo; forum&lt;/a&gt; on this site. That forum will also get you our Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation; the Brochure will outline the purpose of the corporation, and explain what it means to be a shareholder. The forum also contains the Share Purchase Order form, which you can use to purchase shares, and contains documents that outline our initial Board of Directors and Officer lineup and other important details.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Jason Helmick on the 2013 PowerShell Summit and his upcoming IIS book!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-09-10-up-next-jason-helmick-on-the-2013-powershell-summit-and-his-upcoming-iis-book/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:29:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-09-10-up-next-jason-helmick-on-the-2013-powershell-summit-and-his-upcoming-iis-book/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/helmick_cover150.jpeg" alt=""&gt;This Thursday we&amp;rsquo;ll be speaking to &lt;a href="http://www.jasonhelmick.com/"&gt;Jason Helmick&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://www.interfacett.com/instructors/jason-helmick"&gt;Interface Technical Training&lt;/a&gt; about his upcoming book from Manning Press which is titled, &lt;a href="http://www.manning.com/helmick/"&gt;Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches&lt;/a&gt;. The book won&amp;rsquo;t ship until the Spring of 2013, but you can get early access from Manning today.&lt;br&gt;
Also on the agenda, Jason is going to announce plans for the &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/summit/"&gt;2013 PowerShell Summit&lt;/a&gt; which is the community-organized succession to the very popular PowerShell Deep Dive summits from the past two years.&lt;br&gt;
Be sure to join us live every Thursday at 9:30 PM EDT at &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/powershell-summit-logo.png" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title/><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-09-09-powershell-summit-im-feeling-lucky-tickets-on-sale-400-each/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:55:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-09-09-powershell-summit-im-feeling-lucky-tickets-on-sale-400-each/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;That&amp;rsquo;s right, for just $400 you can guarantee yourself a seat at the PowerShell Summit North America 2013, to be held at Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s campus in Redmond, WA. Just 10 tickets will be made available at this low-low-low price, which is $150 off the normal registration rate.&lt;br&gt;
Why so low? Why are they called &amp;ldquo;I&amp;rsquo;m Feeling Lucky&amp;rdquo; tickets? Because while we&amp;rsquo;re committed to an April 2013 date, we haven&amp;rsquo;t actually locked in dates with Microsoft, yet. So to purchase these, you&amp;rsquo;ve got to be feeling flexible&amp;hellip; or lucky!&lt;br&gt;
But it&amp;rsquo;s not a marriage. The tickets are completely refundable, up to 30 days prior to the event. So if we manage to lock in the three dates &lt;em&gt;you can&amp;rsquo;t attend,&lt;/em&gt; we&amp;rsquo;ll give you your money back. You can also transfer the ticket to someone else, at any time (although they&amp;rsquo;ll be paying you directly for the ticket, and we won&amp;rsquo;t get involved in that transaction).&lt;br&gt;
Once these sell out, or we lock in our dates, we&amp;rsquo;ll commence the Early Bird period, with a rate of $475 and just 30 tickets available. That rate will be good through the end of December, unless we sell out. Full rate of $550 kicks in after that, when we&amp;rsquo;ll sell the remaining tickets to fill our roughly 100-person venue.&lt;br&gt;
Thinking about presenting? Start &lt;a href="https://powershell.org/discuss/viewforum.php?f=21"&gt;submitting topics in the Forums&lt;/a&gt;! You can get all the other juicy details on the &lt;a href="http://powershellsummit.org"&gt;Summit&amp;rsquo;s dedicated site&lt;/a&gt;, and catch the &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/PSHSummit"&gt;Summit&amp;rsquo;s Twitter feed&lt;/a&gt; for ongoing announcements.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 199 – Rob Reynolds talks PowerShell and Chocolatey</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-09-07-episode-199-rob-reynolds-talks-powershell-and-chocolatey/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:15:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-09-07-episode-199-rob-reynolds-talks-powershell-and-chocolatey/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-199.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Rob Reynolds about Chocolatey&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guests - Rob Reynolds&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="links"&gt;Links&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [http://chocolatey.org](http://chocolatey.org/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [http://github.com/chucknorris](http://github.com/chucknorris)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [http://devlicio.us/blogs/rob_reynolds](http://devlicio.us/blogs/rob_reynolds)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [http://ferventcoder.com](http://ferventcoder.com/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [http://twitter.com/ferventcoder](http://twitter.com/ferventcoder)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [http://octopusdeploy.com](http://octopusdeploy.com/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [http://www.myget.org](http://www.myget.org/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [http://nuget.org](http://nuget.org/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4 id="the-question--"&gt;The Question -&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Superhero: Hiro&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Chatroom Banter&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Tonight we talk to Doug Finke, author of "Windows PowerShell for Developers"!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-09-06-up-next-tonight-we-talk-to-doug-finke-author-of-windows-powershell-for-developers/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:09:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-09-06-up-next-tonight-we-talk-to-doug-finke-author-of-windows-powershell-for-developers/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/0636920024491.gif" alt=""&gt;Sorry for the late notice, but yes, we are podcasting tonight! Be sure and tune in to the usual place at &lt;a href="http://powerscriptinglive.blogspot.com/"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt; tonight at 9:30 PM EST. On the show, we&amp;rsquo;ll be talking with &lt;a href="http://www.dougfinke.com/blog/"&gt;Doug Finke&lt;/a&gt;, PowerShell MVP and now a published author! His new book is titled &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Windows-PowerShell-Developers-Douglas-Finke/dp/1449322700/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1343492940&amp;amp;sr=8-1&amp;amp;keywords=douglas+finke"&gt;Windows PowerShell for Developers&lt;/a&gt; and he&amp;rsquo;ll tell us all about it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One lucky person in the chatroom will win a copy
, but if you can&amp;rsquo;t make the live show, we&amp;rsquo;ll save a copy for our olffline listeners as well. 🙂&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>No podcast tonight!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-08-30-no-podcast-tonight/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 01:16:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-08-30-no-podcast-tonight/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We let Jonathan go on vacation every once in a while, and tonight is that night. New episodes will be posted soon!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell Workflow: When Should You Use It?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-08-30-powershell-workflow-when-should-you-use-it/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:29:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-08-30-powershell-workflow-when-should-you-use-it/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Microsoft recently posted the online help for PowerShell v3 Workflow (&lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134242)"&gt;http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134242)&lt;/a&gt;, and I wanted to take an opportunity to explore some of what the help says - and perhaps offer an outsider&amp;rsquo;s perspective.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="what-is-workflow"&gt;What is Workflow?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Workflow is a set of technologies included with PowerShell v3, and is available on any computer running v3 (which can include Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012). A workflow is a special kind of PowerShell script that looks a lot like a function. When run, however, PowerShell translates the workflow to Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) code, and hands it off to WWF to execute. That means the contents of a workflow are a bit different than the contents of a script.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 198 – Kirk Freiheit from Symantec on Backup Exec 2012 and their PowerShell module</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-08-22-episode-198-kirk-freiheit-from-symantec-about-backup-exec-2012-and-their-powershell-module/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:22:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-08-22-episode-198-kirk-freiheit-from-symantec-about-backup-exec-2012-and-their-powershell-module/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-198.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Kirk Freiheit from Symantec about Backup Exec 2012 and their new PowerShell module&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; PowerShell Saturday!



 * [Sept 15 in Charlotte][1]
 * [Oct 27 in Atlanta][2]
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The Atlanta PowerShell group is [meeting on August 21st](http://powershellgroup.org/content/atlpug-august-meeting)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Tampa&amp;quot;™s PowerShell User group is [meeting on August 23rd ](http://powershellgroup.org/content/tampa-8232012-rapidly-deploying-sql-server-powershell)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Central Ohio is [meeting on August 29th](http://powershellgroup.org/content/central-ohio-powershell-users-group-august-2012)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Rob Reynolds talks about Chocolatey!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-08-21-up-next-rob-reynolds-talks-about-chocolatey/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:20:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-08-21-up-next-rob-reynolds-talks-about-chocolatey/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/1176943763/IMG_3766_reasonably_small.JPG" alt=""&gt;Our guest on the podcast this week is &lt;a href="http://geekswithblogs.net/robz/Default.aspx"&gt;Rob Reynolds&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ferventcoder"&gt;@ferventcoder&lt;/a&gt;) to talk about &lt;a href="http://ferventcoder.com/archive/2011/10/07/letrsquos-get-chocolatey-kind-of-like-apt-get-for-windows.aspx"&gt;Chocolatey&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
Chocolatey NuGet is a Machine Package Manager, somewhat like apt-get, but built with Windows in mind. Want to learn more? Read the &lt;a href="https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey/wiki/ChocolateyFAQs"&gt;Chocolately FAQs&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/nugetlogo.png" alt=""&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Please join us &lt;strong&gt;Thursday August 23rd&lt;/strong&gt; at 9:30 pm EDT (GMT -4) at our new live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Rob Reynolds talks about Chocolatey!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-08-21-up-next-rob-reynolds-talks-about-chocolatey-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:16:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-08-21-up-next-rob-reynolds-talks-about-chocolatey-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/1176943763/IMG_3766_reasonably_small.JPG" alt=""&gt;Our guest on the podcast this week is &lt;a href="http://geekswithblogs.net/robz/Default.aspx"&gt;Rob Reynolds&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ferventcoder"&gt;@ferventcoder&lt;/a&gt;) to talk about &lt;a href="http://ferventcoder.com/archive/2011/10/07/letrsquos-get-chocolatey-kind-of-like-apt-get-for-windows.aspx"&gt;Chocolatey&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
Chocolatey NuGet is a Machine Package Manager, somewhat like apt-get, but built with Windows in mind. Want to learn more? Read the &lt;a href="https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey/wiki/ChocolateyFAQs"&gt;Chocolately FAQs&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/nugetlogo.png" alt=""&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Please join us &lt;strong&gt;Thursday August 23rd&lt;/strong&gt; at 9:30 pm EDT (GMT -4) at our new live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Kirk Freiheit from Symantec Talks about Managing Backup Exec with PowerShell!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-08-14-up-next-kirk-freiheit-from-symantec-talks-about-managing-backup-exec-with-powershell/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 03:10:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-08-14-up-next-kirk-freiheit-from-symantec-talks-about-managing-backup-exec-with-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/symantec-better-backup-header.jpeg" alt=""&gt;Guest on the podcast this week is Kirk Freiheit from &lt;a href="http://www.symantec.com"&gt;Symantec&lt;/a&gt; to talk about BEMCLI, the PowerShell module for managing &lt;a href="http://www.symantec.com/theme.jsp?themeid=backupexec-family"&gt;Backup Exec 2012&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;br&gt;
Here are some intro links to get you started:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/preparing-your-powershell-environment-run-bemcli-and-scripts"&gt;Preparing your Powershell environment to run BEMCLI and scripts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/using-bemcli-speed-tasks"&gt;Using BEMCLI to speed up tasks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please join us &lt;strong&gt;Thursday August 16th&lt;/strong&gt; at 9:30 pm EDT (GMT -4) at our new live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 197 – Vaibhav Bhandari about Microsoft Health Vault and HVPosh</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-08-13-episode-197-vaibhav-bhandari-about-microsoft-health-vault-and-hvposh/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 03:18:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-08-13-episode-197-vaibhav-bhandari-about-microsoft-health-vault-and-hvposh/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-197.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Vaibhav Bhandari about Microsoft Health Vault and HVPosh&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Don Jones and Kirk Munro launched a new site [https://powershell.org](https://powershell.org/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; PowerShell Saturday!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [Sept 15 in Charlotte](http://powershellsaturday.com/002/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [Oct 27 in Atlanta](http://powershellsaturday.com/003/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The Tampa PowerShell group [is meeting 8/23/2012](http://powershellgroup.org/content/tampa-8232012-rapidly-deploying-sql-server-powershell)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The UK has a new &lt;a href="http://www.powershellgroup.org/uksoutheast"&gt;Southeast user group&lt;/a&gt;. No dates set yet, contact the leader to get involved!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [Cincinnati UG first meeting is 8/28 with speaker Ed Wilson!](http://www.powershellgroup.org/cincinnati.oh)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Vaibhav Bhandari Talks about Automating Health with Microsoft HealthVault and PowerShell!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-08-09-up-next-vaibhav-bhandari-talks-about-automating-health-with-microsoft-healthvault-and-powershell/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:25:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-08-09-up-next-vaibhav-bhandari-talks-about-automating-health-with-microsoft-healthvault-and-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/default.gif" alt=""&gt;Join us tonight (sorry for the late notice!) as we talk to &lt;a href="http://www.vitraag.com/cv/"&gt;Vaibhav Bhandari&lt;/a&gt;. He&amp;rsquo;ll be telling us about Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/healthvault/"&gt;HealthVault&lt;/a&gt; cloud-based health management product, and how you can automate it using &lt;a href="https://github.com/vaibhavb/HvPosh"&gt;HvPosh&lt;/a&gt;, his PowerShell module. Be sure to check out &lt;a href="http://healthblog.vitraag.com/2011/10/healthvault-powershell-module-the-beginnings/"&gt;Vaibhav&amp;rsquo;s intro blog post&lt;/a&gt;, this is what we&amp;rsquo;ll be talking about!&lt;br&gt;
Also, he is author of the O&amp;rsquo;Reilly book - &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449316565/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=1449316565&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;tag=techprosaic-20"&gt;Enabling Programmable Self with HealthVault&lt;/a&gt;. The companion website to the book is &lt;a href="http://www.enablingprogrammableself.com/"&gt;EnablingProgrammableSelf.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/cover.png" alt=""&gt;&lt;br&gt;
The action starts tonight&amp;ndash;&lt;strong&gt;Thursday August 9th&lt;/strong&gt; at 9:30 pm EDT (GMT -4) at our new live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 196 – Ferdinand Rios and David Corrales on SAPIEN's 2012 lineup</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-08-06-episode-196-ferdinand-rios-and-david-corrales-on-sapiens-2012-lineup/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:12:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-08-06-episode-196-ferdinand-rios-and-david-corrales-on-sapiens-2012-lineup/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-196.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Ferdinand Rios and David Corrales from SAPIEN Technologies about their 2012 lineup!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [Windows 8 and Server 2012...RTM!](http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/08/01/windows-server-2012-released-to-manufacturing.aspx)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; PowerShell Saturday!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [Sept 15 in Charlotte](http://powershellsaturday.com/002/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [Oct 27 in Atlanta](http://powershellsaturday.com/003/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The Tampa PowerShell group [is meeting 8/23/2012](http://powershellgroup.org/content/tampa-8232012-rapidly-deploying-sql-server-powershell)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Jeffrey Snover [talkes DevOps on RunAs Radio](http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2012/08/01/jeffrey-snover-on-runas-radio/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PowershellMagazine+%28PowerShell+Magazine%29)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jonoble.com/blog/2012/7/25/powershell-v3-on-the-get-scripting-podcast.html"&gt;Jonathan Noble joins Alan Renouf and Jonathan Medd to talk PS V3 on the Get-Scripting Podcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [PSCX v3 beta is now open!](http://rkeithhill.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/pscx-3-0-beta-released/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>eBook: Secrets of PowerShell Remoting</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-08-06-ebook-secrets-of-powershell-remoting/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:22:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-08-06-ebook-secrets-of-powershell-remoting/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This is a free e-book that covers PowerShell Remoting. There&amp;rsquo;s a brief overview and tutorial of actually using Remoting, but that part isn&amp;rsquo;t in-depth. What this e-book provides, that you won&amp;rsquo;t find elsewhere, is step-by-step, screenshot-based instructions for configuring Remoting for any imaginable scenario. You&amp;rsquo;ll also find troubleshooting tutorials and examples, and even information on how to explain Remoting to your corporate IT security team. It&amp;rsquo;s all the stuff that isn&amp;rsquo;t documented in PowerShell&amp;rsquo;s own help - and it&amp;rsquo;s completely free. You don&amp;rsquo;t even need to register to download the file!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Dr. Ferdinand Rios and David Corrales from Sapien</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-07-31-up-next-dr-ferdinand-rios-and-david-corrales-from-sapien/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:50:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-07-31-up-next-dr-ferdinand-rios-and-david-corrales-from-sapien/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.sapien.com/assets/img/software/primalscript.png" alt=""&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.sapien.com/assets/img/software/powershellstudio.png" alt=""&gt;Guests on the podcast this week are &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/sapiendavid"&gt;David Corrales&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.sapien.com/blog/"&gt;Dr. Ferdinand Rios&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://www.sapien.com/software/primalscript"&gt;Sapien&lt;/a&gt; to talk about their latest product releases. Please join us &lt;strong&gt;Thursday August 2nd&lt;/strong&gt; at 9:30 pm EDT (GMT -4) at our new live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 195 – MVP Jim Christopher on SeeShell and PowerShell Saturday #002</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-07-30-episode-195-mvp-jim-christopher-on-seeshell-and-powershell-saturday-002/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 02:33:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-07-30-episode-195-mvp-jim-christopher-on-seeshell-and-powershell-saturday-002/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-195.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jim &amp;ldquo;Beefarino&amp;rdquo; Christopher about SeeShell and PowerShell Saturday #002&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; PowerShell MVP Kirk Munro is [looking for a new position](http://poshoholic.com/2012/07/18/kirk-munro-product-manager-architect-and-powershell-mvp-for-hire/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Kirk released [WMIX! ](http://wmix.codeplex.com/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; PowerShell Saturday!



 * [Sept 15 in Charlotte][1]
 * [Oct 27 in Atlanta][2]
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Don Jones and Jeff Hicks are doing a [PowerShell &amp;quot;HangOut&amp;quot; August 2nd](http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/donjones/archive/2012/07/24/join-jeff-and-i-for-a-live-powershell-video-chat-cast.aspx)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; The July UK meeting [has been cancelled](http://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/uk-powershell-group-session31-july-2012-cancelled/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Darren Mar-Elia&amp;quot;™s Group Policy Health Reports [is back as freeware!](http://www.sdmsoftware.com/cool-new-products/the-return-of-group-policy-health-reporter/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Â ****&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Want to Contribute?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-07-29-want-to-contribute/</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2012 19:51:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-07-29-want-to-contribute/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re looking for a few good PowerShell contributors! You don&amp;rsquo;t need to be a PowerShell expert in order to make a valuable contribution to this community - there are a number of ways in which you can help.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The New PowerShell Community</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-07-29-the-new-community/</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2012 16:54:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-07-29-the-new-community/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the new community!&lt;br&gt;
This site represents an evolution of the old PowerShellCommunity.org (also accessible at PoshComm.org). We&amp;rsquo;ve moved the site off of the old DotNetNuke software, and are now using a combination of WordPress (for community-hosted blogs) and Vanilla 2 (for the forums and for blog comments).&lt;br&gt;
Why the new site? A couple of reasons. For one, we desperately wanted to get out of the DotNetNuke software, which has proven somewhat difficult to work with since none of us are experts with it. We also needed to get the site out of it&amp;rsquo;s home in a Quest datacenter. Quest was awesome for providing that hosting, but they&amp;rsquo;re moving on to bigger and better things, and we wanted to get a bit more control over the site. We also wanted to trim the site down a bit, to focus mainly on providing a blogging platform and aggregation point, and the all-important Q&amp;amp;A forums that folks rely on.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PSCX 3.0 Beta Released</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-07-26-pscx-3-0-beta-released/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 04:12:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-07-26-pscx-3-0-beta-released/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;quot;™ve just released a &lt;a href="http://pscx.codeplex.com/releases/view/91403"&gt;beta of the PowerShell Community Extensions 3.0&lt;/a&gt; which targets PowerShell 3.0 specifically. This new version uses a WiX based installer. We may look at providing an xcopy deployable ZIP file but we had so many users get burned by not unblocking the ZIP file that the move back to MSI seemed warranted. The MSI really doesn&amp;quot;™t do much other than copy files into the Program Files dir and add a path to the PSModulePath environment variable.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Join Jeff and I for a live PowerShell video chat cast!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-07-24-join-jeff-and-i-for-a-live-powershell-video-chat-cast/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:19:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-07-24-join-jeff-and-i-for-a-live-powershell-video-chat-cast/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Jeff and I are going to be hosting a LiveMeeting-based &amp;ldquo;hangout.&amp;rdquo; We&amp;rsquo;ll start with a discussion on PowerShell v3 Workflows just to get things moving, but we&amp;rsquo;re relying on you to bring your questions! We&amp;rsquo;ll have PowerShell v3 available for demos&amp;hellip; hope you can attend!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s the LiveMeeting details. Note that **only VoIP audio will be provided - there will be no dial-up number. **&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When: Thursday, Aug 2, 2012 10:00 AM (PDT)&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Comparing "Lunches:" v2 to v3</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-07-24-comparing-lunches-v2-to-v3/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:24:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-07-24-comparing-lunches-v2-to-v3/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve been getting a few questions like this in my inbox:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;I love &amp;quot;PowerShell in a Month of Lunches&amp;quot; and I'm wondering how much of





the 3.0 book that is coming out soon will overlap with the one I have





now? In other words, how much of the new book is catching us up to speed





on what's new in 3.0?
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&lt;p&gt;First of all - thanks for the love! Now, here&amp;rsquo;s the lowdown:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Jim Christopher talks about SeeShell and PowerShell Saturday</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-07-24-up-next-jim-christopher-talks-about-seeshell-and-powershell-saturday/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:50:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-07-24-up-next-jim-christopher-talks-about-seeshell-and-powershell-saturday/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Guest on the podcast this week is Jim Christopher (&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/beefarino"&gt;@beefarino&lt;/a&gt;) to talk about his latest project: &lt;a href="http://codeowls.com/SeeShell"&gt;SeeShell&lt;/a&gt;. Jim is also going to talk about &lt;a href="http://powershellsaturday.com/002/"&gt;PowerShell Saturday 002&lt;/a&gt; in Charlotte.&lt;br&gt;
Please join us &lt;strong&gt;Thursday July 26th&lt;/strong&gt; at 9:30 pm EDT (GMT -4) at our new live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;###&lt;img src="http://codeowls.com/Content/images/slide1.png" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 194 – MVP Don Jones on his new books and more</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-07-23-episode-194-mvp-don-jones-on-his-new-books-and-more/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 03:15:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-07-23-episode-194-mvp-don-jones-on-his-new-books-and-more/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-194.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Don Jones about PowerShell toolmaking and more!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment is brought to you by TrainSignal&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get online computer based training for you and your whole staff from TrainSignal. TrainSignal offers more than 80 IT training courses in the areas of Security, Network Administration, Virtualization, PowerShell and more. With 24/7 online access, TrainSignal&amp;quot;™s training courses are accessible on almost any device including PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android smartphones, and more. Â For more info and a list of courses, visit&lt;a href="http://trainsignal.com/"&gt; TrainSignal.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Measure PowerShell Performance</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-07-19-measure-powershell-performance/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:10:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-07-19-measure-powershell-performance/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m often asked by folks if there&amp;rsquo;s a &amp;ldquo;better way&amp;rdquo; to do something in a script. Often times, they&amp;rsquo;re looking for a better procedural approach - following best practices like object-based output, for example. But sometimes, they&amp;rsquo;re looking for better performance from a script or command. Well, the good news is that PowerShell itself can help with that.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;rsquo;s consider two short scripts that produce almost identical output. Here&amp;rsquo;s the first:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Kirk Munro, Product Manager, Architect, and PowerShell MVP for hire</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-07-18-kirk-munro-product-manager-architect-and-powershell-mvp-for-hire/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:01:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-07-18-kirk-munro-product-manager-architect-and-powershell-mvp-for-hire/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;While I have loved working at Devfarm Software for the past 11 months, circumstances have unfortunately forced us to part ways and as a result I am a free agent now and looking for a new place to hang my hat.  Working with Ben Vierck and Brian Butler at Devfarm has been a fantastic experience, and if it wasn&amp;quot;™t for the small yet annoying detail that there isn&amp;quot;™t enough money in the company to continue to pay my salary and keep the business going full steam ahead, I&amp;quot;™d still be working with them today.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 193 – Hemant Mahawar from Microsoft on PowerShell v3 Workflows</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-07-17-episode-193-hemant-mahawar-from-microsoft-on-powershell-v3-workflows/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 03:52:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-07-17-episode-193-hemant-mahawar-from-microsoft-on-powershell-v3-workflows/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-193.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





**Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Hemant Mahawar from Microsoft about PowerShell v3 Workflows
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News





This segment is brought to you by TrainSignal





Get online computer based training for you and your whole staff from TrainSignal. TrainSignal offers more than 80 IT training courses in the areas of Security, Network Administration, Virtualization, PowerShell and more. With 24/7 online access, TrainSignal&amp;quot;™s training courses are accessible on almost any device including PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android smartphones, and more. Â For more info and a list of courses, visit[ TrainSignal.com](http://trainsignal.com/).





**
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&lt;p&gt;**&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Note: PowerShell Book Limited Edition Preorders ONLY AVAILABLE as Preorders!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-07-17-note-powershell-book-limited-edition-preorders-only-available-as-preorders/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:28:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-07-17-note-powershell-book-limited-edition-preorders-only-available-as-preorders/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, and I wanted to offer a quick clarification on our book preorders. First, the &lt;em&gt;PowerShell In Depth&lt;/em&gt; preorder is &lt;a href="http://store.concentratedtech.com/indepth.php"&gt;currently available&lt;/a&gt;, and there are up to 200 units offered through this preorder. You get a signed-by-all-three-of-us book and an exclusive video companion disc. The &lt;em&gt;Month of Lunches&lt;/em&gt; bundle preorder &lt;a href="http://store.concentratedtech.com/lunchesbundle.php"&gt;will go on sale August 1st&lt;/a&gt;, and will be limited to 100 units. It gets you two autographed books, resources disc, and a fun lunch bag.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Jones, Don Jones!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-07-16-up-next-jones-don-jones/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:01:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-07-16-up-next-jones-don-jones/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://manning.com/jones3/jones3_cover150.jpg" alt=""&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Guest on the podcast this week is Jones, &lt;a href="http://www.donjones.com/tech/"&gt;Don Jones&lt;/a&gt; to talk about his &lt;a href="http://morelunches.com/"&gt;upcoming books&lt;/a&gt; and other projects.&lt;br&gt;
Please join us &lt;strong&gt;Thursday July 19th&lt;/strong&gt; at 9:30 pm EDT (GMT -4) at our new live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Hemant Mahawar from Microsoft talks about PowerShell v3 Workflows!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-07-10-up-next-hemant-mahawar-from-microsoft-talks-about-powershell-v3-workflows/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:54:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-07-10-up-next-hemant-mahawar-from-microsoft-talks-about-powershell-v3-workflows/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/149152b7-5976-e111-94ad-001ec953730b.jpeg" alt=""&gt;Hemant Mahawar is a Senior Program Manager in the Windows Server Division. He is responsible for various Windows PowerShell features, that makes the foundation for Automation Platform for Windows Server.&lt;br&gt;
For Windows PowerShell 2.0, Hemant drove PowerShell&amp;rsquo;s remoting capability that allows easy remote managment as well as was responsible for PowerShell&amp;rsquo;s rich API surface. In Windows 8, as part of Windows PowerShell 3.0, Hemant is driving the multi-machine management effort in Windows PowerShell via integration with Windows Workflow Foundation.&lt;br&gt;
Hemant joined Microsoft in 2006 as a Program Manager on the Windows PowerShell team. Hemant holds a Master&amp;rsquo;s and Doctorate degree in Computer Science from the Texas A&amp;amp;M University as well as a Bacholer&amp;rsquo;s in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. In his spare time, Hemant enjoys spending time with friends and engaging in sports, specially Cricket&lt;br&gt;
Please join us &lt;strong&gt;Thursday July 12th&lt;/strong&gt; at 9:30 pm EDT (GMT -4) at our new live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 192 – Eric Williams from Cisco on the UCS PowerTool</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-07-09-episode-192-eric-williams-from-cisco-on-the-ucs-powertool/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 03:30:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-07-09-episode-192-eric-williams-from-cisco-on-the-ucs-powertool/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-192.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Eric Williams from Cisco about the UCS PowerTool&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment is brought to you by TrainSignal&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get online computer based training for you and your whole staff from TrainSignal. TrainSignal offers more than 80 IT training courses in the areas of Security, Network Administration, Virtualization, PowerShell and more. With 24/7 online access, TrainSignal&amp;quot;™s training courses are accessible on almost any device including PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android smartphones, and more. Â For more info and a list of courses, visit&lt;a href="http://trainsignal.com/"&gt; TrainSignal.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Release Dates for PowerShell 3 announced!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-07-09-release-dates-for-powershell-3-announced/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:25:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-07-09-release-dates-for-powershell-3-announced/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Microsoft has just announced, at its Worldwide Partner Conference, that Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 are on track to hit &amp;ldquo;Release to Manufacturing&amp;rdquo; the first week of August, with general product availability in October. That means PowerShell v3 will start becoming available in August-September; we can expect v3 to be available as a Web download for older versions of Windows probably by December (based on past performance; it could actually be sooner or a bit later). That&amp;rsquo;ll include Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2, but notably will &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; include Windows Vista (does anyone mind?). v3 will not ship for Windows XP or Windows Server 2003; those ships have sailed and it&amp;rsquo;s time to move on!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>[JULY 25 UPDATE] "PowerShell In Depth" Limited Edition Pre-Orders… as they stand…</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-07-08-july-25-update-powershell-in-depth-limited-edition-pre-orders-as-they-stand/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:24:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-07-08-july-25-update-powershell-in-depth-limited-edition-pre-orders-as-they-stand/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As most of you know, co-authors Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, and myself are offering a limited edition pre-order of our new &lt;em&gt;PowerShell in Depth&lt;/em&gt; book. You can &lt;a href="http://store.concentratedtech.com/indepth.php"&gt;order from my company&amp;rsquo;s online store&lt;/a&gt;; you&amp;rsquo;re pre-ordering a book autographed by the three of us and bundled with a disc chock full of demo videos timed by us. This isn&amp;rsquo;t the same as the publisher&amp;rsquo;s MEAP preview - you won&amp;rsquo;t get the book ahead of time. The disc is exclusive to this 200-unit edition, and each book is part of a 400-unit edition and is hand-numbered.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 191- Daniel Moran from IBM and Our Live Show From SQL Saturday</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-07-02-episode-191-daniel-moren-from-ibm-and-our-live-show-from-sql-saturday/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 02:51:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-07-02-episode-191-daniel-moren-from-ibm-and-our-live-show-from-sql-saturday/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-191.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Daniel Moran from IBM about PowerShell and Tivoli Endpoint Manager&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment is brought to you by TrainSignal&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get online computer based training for you and your whole staff from TrainSignal. TrainSignal offers more than 80 IT training courses in the areas of Security, Network Administration, Virtualization, PowerShell and more. With 24/7 online access, TrainSignal&amp;quot;™s training courses are accessible on almost any device including PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android smartphones, and more. Â For more info and a list of courses, visit&lt;a href="http://trainsignal.com/"&gt; TrainSignal.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Eric Williams from Cisco talks with us about the UCS PowerTool!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-07-02-up-next-eric-williams-from-cisco-talks-with-us-about-the-ucs-powertool/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-07-02-up-next-eric-williams-from-cisco-talks-with-us-about-the-ucs-powertool/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Eric Williams is the guest this week to talk about managing your Cisco UCS environment with PowerShell using their &lt;a href="http://developer.cisco.com/web/unifiedcomputing/pshell-download"&gt;UCS PowerTool&lt;/a&gt; module.&lt;br&gt;
Please join us &lt;strong&gt;Thursday July 5th&lt;/strong&gt; at 9:30 pm EDT (GMT -4) at our new live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/image_gallery.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Upcoming PowerShell Books and How to Get Them</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-06-26-upcoming-powershell-books-and-how-to-get-them/</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:29:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-06-26-upcoming-powershell-books-and-how-to-get-them/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;My co-authors and I have no less than three new PowerShell books coming out&amp;hellip; and a couple of different way to get them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="powershell-in-depth"&gt;PowerShell In Depth&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is meant to be a comprehensive, administrator-focused reference on all things PowerShell v3. &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/Psh3InDepth"&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s available directly from the publisher as part of their Manning Early Access Program (MEAP)&lt;/a&gt;. Under that program, you get all available chapters now in PDF format. As new chapters are released, you get those too. When the book is done, you get your choice of ebook format and, optionally, the printed book.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 190- Blain Barton and Chad Miller Talk PowerShell and the IT Pro Camps</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-06-25-episode-190-blain-barton-and-chad-miller-talk-powershell-and-the-it-pro-camps/</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 03:32:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-06-25-episode-190-blain-barton-and-chad-miller-talk-powershell-and-the-it-pro-camps/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-190.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Blain Barton and Chad Miller about IT Pro Camp!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment is brought to you by TrainSignal&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get online computer based training for you and your whole staff from TrainSignal. TrainSignal offers more than 80 IT training courses in the areas of Security, Network Administration, Virtualization, PowerShell and more. With 24/7 online access, TrainSignal&amp;quot;™s training courses are accessible on almost any device including PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android smartphones, and more. Â For more info and a list of courses, visit&lt;a href="http://trainsignal.com/"&gt; TrainSignal.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Daniel Moran talks about PowerShell Management Library for Tivoli Endpoint Manager!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-06-25-up-next-daniel-moran-talks-about-powershell-management-library-for-tivoli-endpoint-manager/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:11:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-06-25-up-next-daniel-moran-talks-about-powershell-management-library-for-tivoli-endpoint-manager/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Daniel Moran is the guest this week to talk about &lt;a href="http://pstem.codeplex.com/"&gt;PowerShell Management Library for TEM&lt;/a&gt; (Tivoli Endpoint Manager).&lt;br&gt;
Please join us &lt;strong&gt;WEDNESDAY&lt;/strong&gt; June 27th(our summer schedule is Wednesday not Thursday) at 9:30 pm EDT (GMT -4) at our new live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/tem_530x160.jpeg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 189- PowerShell MVP Kirk Munro on WMIX</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-06-19-episode-189-powershell-mvp-kirk-munro-on-wmix/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:52:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-06-19-episode-189-powershell-mvp-kirk-munro-on-wmix/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-189.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Kirk Munro about WMIX&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment brought to you by Start-Automating&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Start Scripting to Your Fullest Potential. Â At Start-Automating, we can help you unleash the full Power of PowerShell V2. Â You can use our deep PowerShell expertise to build rich PowerShell solutions, or we can train you to use PowerShell like a pro. Isn&amp;quot;™t it time you Save-Time, Save-Money, and Start-Automating? Â Find out more at &lt;a href="http://start-automating.com/"&gt;Start-Automating.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>[UPDATED] Snover School: FANCY Wildcards</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-06-19-updated-snover-school-fancy-wildcards/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:13:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-06-19-updated-snover-school-fancy-wildcards/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;So, I&amp;rsquo;d previously posted about a cool trick Jeffrey Snover demonstrated at TechEd:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get-Service -Name [a-b]*&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This will return a list of all services whose names start with A or B. Now for me, this was a cool trick: I didn&amp;rsquo;t realize that wildcards could be more than * or ?! And Snover described these as &amp;ldquo;rich regular expressions.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well, not exactly. We&amp;rsquo;ve corresponded, and what&amp;rsquo;s actually happening is that PowerShell&amp;rsquo;s wildcard support is essentially a dumbed-down set of the regex syntax. Specifically, read the about_wildcards help topic and you&amp;rsquo;ll learn that you can use ranges like [a-b], the * and ? characters, or a set of characters like [abeft] - but not much else. So it looks like a regex at first blush, but isn&amp;rsquo;t, really.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>TechEd PowerShell Sessions</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-06-19-teched-powershell-sessions/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:21:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-06-19-teched-powershell-sessions/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Many sessions are now available on Channel 9 as recordings&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First, mine:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/WSV321-R"&gt;Crash Course w/Jeffrey Snover&lt;/a&gt; (one of the conference&amp;rsquo;s top-rated overall sessions)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/WSV321"&gt;Crash Course repeat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/WCL404"&gt;Building Reusable PowerShell Tools&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/WCL403"&gt;Remoting in Depth&lt;/a&gt; (another top-rated session!)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But wait, there&amp;rsquo;s more!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- 
 [App-V 5 and PowerShell](http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/WCL201)


- 
 [Win2012 Multi-Server Management](http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/WSV306)


- 
 [Advanced Automation in PSH 3](http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/WSV414)







I'll caution you that the videos haven't yet been posted on all of these, so poke around until you find 'em all. With hundreds of sessions to sort through, I imagine they're prioritizing the production process. 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://powershell.com/cs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=17125" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Chad Miller and Blain Barton talk about IT Pro Camp!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-06-18-up-next-chad-miller-and-blain-barton-to-talk-about-it-pro-camp/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:46:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-06-18-up-next-chad-miller-and-blain-barton-to-talk-about-it-pro-camp/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/otDR2tJjJEijwfy9UQtrBvWiKL55MzLPTaS_YxGcZKzDv8ZOAgcg5s-nt-hIDbB3t4shamB_ilgxxOLE" alt=""&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/cmille19"&gt;Chad Miller&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/blainbar/"&gt;Blain Barton&lt;/a&gt; are our guests this week to talk about the &lt;a href="http://itprocamp.com/it-pro-camp/"&gt;IT Pro Camps&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
Please join us &lt;strong&gt;WEDNESDAY&lt;/strong&gt; June 20th(our summer schedule is Wednesday not Thursday) at 9:30 pm EDT (GMT -4) at our new live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>How To Use Write-Host Without Endangering Puppies (or, A Manifesto for Modularizing PowerShell Scripts)</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-06-14-how-to-use-write-host-without-endangering-puppies-or-a-manifesto-for-modularizing-powershell-scripts/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 01:04:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-06-14-how-to-use-write-host-without-endangering-puppies-or-a-manifesto-for-modularizing-powershell-scripts/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;At this week&amp;rsquo;s TechEd, I was speaking with Jeffrey Snover in the hallway on Wednesday when he remarked, &amp;ldquo;you know, Write-Host isn&amp;rsquo;t all bad.&amp;rdquo; After he got someone to come around with smelling salts to revive me, he elaborated, &amp;ldquo;so long as your verb is Show.&amp;rdquo; I started to object - and then a subtle, yet brilliant light came upon me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He&amp;rsquo;s write. Heh.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But, seriously, if you do three simple things, you can&amp;rsquo;t go wrong when you write a PowerShell script or function - and this goes further than just Write-Host. Ask yourself:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Sample Code from my TechEd "Building Reusable PowerShell Tools" Session</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-06-14-sample-code-from-my-teched-building-reusable-powershell-tools-session/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:48:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-06-14-sample-code-from-my-teched-building-reusable-powershell-tools-session/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hey, all! I was looking over the script I&amp;rsquo;d saved from this TechEd session, and realized I could offer something better.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://morelunches.com/toolmaking.html"&gt;Go to the Web page for my upcoming &amp;ldquo;Toolmaking&amp;rdquo; book&lt;/a&gt;. In the Downloads section, grab the book&amp;rsquo;s code samples. You&amp;rsquo;ll actually get a &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; example than I showed in class, and it goes &lt;em&gt;further.&lt;/em&gt; The listings for Chapter 13 pretty much put you where that session wraps up.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now, these haven&amp;rsquo;t been totally tech-edited yet, so if you find any bugs - please let me know! The book itself should go into &amp;ldquo;Early Access Preview&amp;rdquo; in a couple of months, I&amp;rsquo;m hoping. Stay tuned!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 188- PowerShell MVP Brandon Shell on the Deep Dive, Splunk and Server-Based Computing</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-06-12-episode-188-powershell-mvp-brandon-shell-on-the-deep-dive-splunk-and-server-based-computing/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:15:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-06-12-episode-188-powershell-mvp-brandon-shell-on-the-deep-dive-splunk-and-server-based-computing/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-188.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="internal-source-marker_0.7293067797889268"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Brandon Shell about the PowerShell Deep Dive, Splunk, and server-based computing!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment is brought to you by TrainSignal&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get online computer based training for you and your whole staff from TrainSignal. TrainSignal offers more than 80 IT training courses in the areas of Security, Network Administration, Virtualization, PowerShell and more. With 24/7 online access, TrainSignal&amp;quot;™s training courses are accessible on almost any device including PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android smartphones, and more.Â  For more info and a list of courses, visit&lt;a href="http://trainsignal.com/"&gt; TrainSignal.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Using PowerShell to Scrape the Web</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-06-07-using-powershell-to-scrape-the-web/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:22:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-06-07-using-powershell-to-scrape-the-web/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;One of the things administrators often look to do with PowerShell is &amp;ldquo;scrape&amp;rdquo; Web pages. In the past, you had a couple of options: Use Internet Explorer&amp;rsquo;s COM object (which can get a bit fugly), or use the .NET Framework&amp;rsquo;s WebRequest stuff (slightly less fugly, but still a bit).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell v3 to the rescue. Microsoft has wrapped much of the fugly in some cool and simple cmdlets, and given PowerShell a native ability to understand an HTML document&amp;rsquo;s object model (DOM). Note that the ability to parse the HTML document tree is dependent upon IE being installed, which means it won&amp;rsquo;t work on a Server Core system (since IE doesn&amp;rsquo;t exist there). You&amp;rsquo;ll still get some HTML parsing, but it won&amp;rsquo;t be the full, broken-down tree.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>No show this week!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-06-05-no-show-this-week-4/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:15:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-06-05-no-show-this-week-4/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Jonathan is taking a well-deserved vacation, so no show this week (June 6th). Please stay tuned for next week&amp;rsquo;s show with Kirk Munro!&lt;br&gt;
Also watch the feed for past recordings which have not yet been published:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Episode 188 with Brandon Shell&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Two special recordings from the Atlanta Techstravaganza: Ed Wilson and PowerScripting Live with Hal &amp;amp; Jon&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>[UPDATED] Tweaks to PowerShel v3 Updatable Help</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-06-04-updated-tweaks-to-powershel-v3-updatable-help/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 23:58:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-06-04-updated-tweaks-to-powershel-v3-updatable-help/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/donjones/archive/2012/03/02/wait-powershell-v3-doesn-t-come-with-help.aspx"&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve written before about how PowerShell v3 won&amp;rsquo;t come with help&lt;/a&gt; &amp;ldquo;in the box,&amp;rdquo; but will instead require you to download help from Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s servers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ASIDE: Technically, &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; module author can provide updatable help on their own Web server; you just have to tag your module manifest with the appropriate information so that PowerShell can locate your online content and download it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now that Windows PowerShell v3 Release Candidate is out, I&amp;rsquo;ve noticed a slight tweak to the help system. Previously, if you looked at a command&amp;rsquo;s help prior to downloading the help content, you still got the basic syntax and a reminder that you hadn&amp;rsquo;t yet downloaded help. That still occurs, but when you first try to ask for help (if you haven&amp;rsquo;t downloaded it), you actually get an interaction-required Yes/No prompt, reminding you to run Update-Help to get the help content to your computer.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>FInal Outlines for the v3 "Lunches" Books</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-06-03-final-outlines-for-the-v3-lunches-books/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 13:35:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-06-03-final-outlines-for-the-v3-lunches-books/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;1&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I wanted to get these posted for folks&amp;rsquo; reference. The books are proceeding apace, and now that PowerShell v3 is in Release Candidate, we&amp;rsquo;re going to move forward with publication ASAP.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ToC &amp;ndash; &amp;ldquo;Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Before You Begin&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;a. &lt;br&gt;
Why You Can&amp;rsquo;t Afford to Ignore PowerShell&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Looking for a good tech conference? Try this.</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-06-02-looking-for-a-good-tech-conference-try-this/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2012 23:57:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-06-02-looking-for-a-good-tech-conference-try-this/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s called &lt;a href="http://techmentorevents.com/events/microsofthq/home.aspx?utm_source=AttendeeMktg&amp;amp;utm_medium=BannerAd&amp;amp;utm_campaign=TMSK6"&gt;TechMentor&lt;/a&gt;. The next one is in August, &lt;em&gt;at Microsoft campus.&lt;/em&gt; Yup, in Redmond. The mothership. And, unlike larger shows (like TechEd), you won&amp;rsquo;t be one of 15,000 people crammed into a convention center, fighting for lunch space and getting ignored by speakers. TechMentor&amp;rsquo;s a more &amp;ldquo;boutique&amp;rdquo; event, with just a few hundred other IT professionals (and no developers - ew, cooties!). You&amp;rsquo;ll get tons of one-on-one time with expert speakers (like me), and plenty of networking time with your colleagues. And smaller lines for lunches.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next Brandon Shell to talk about Splunk</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-05-29-up-next-brandon-shell-to-talk-about-splunk/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 01:52:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-05-29-up-next-brandon-shell-to-talk-about-splunk/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Brandon Shell (&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#!/bsonposh"&gt;@bsonposh&lt;/a&gt;) is our guest this week to talk about &lt;a href="http://www.splunk.com/company"&gt;Splunk&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href="http://www.theexpertsconference.com/us/2012/powershell-deep-dive/"&gt;PowerShell Deep Dive&lt;/a&gt;, and Server-Based Computing.&lt;br&gt;
Please join us &lt;strong&gt;WEDNESDAY&lt;/strong&gt; May 30th(our summer schedule is Wednesday not Thursday) at 9:30 pm EDT (GMT -4) at our new live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/sqlserver_sql_server_2008_logo.png" alt="
"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 187- Teresa "ScriptingWife" Wilson and Staci "HalsWife" Rottenberg</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-05-28-episode-187-teresa-scriptingwife-wilson-and-staci-halswife-rottenberg/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 15:17:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-05-28-episode-187-teresa-scriptingwife-wilson-and-staci-halswife-rottenberg/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-187.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode-1"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to the two most important women in PowerShell: Teresa &amp;ldquo;ScriptingWife&amp;rdquo; Wilson and Staci &amp;ldquo;HalsWife&amp;rdquo; Rottenberg&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment is brought to you by TrainSignal&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get online computer based training for you and your whole staff from TrainSignal. TrainSignal offers more than 80 IT training courses in the areas of Security, Network Administration, Virtualization, PowerShell and more. With 24/7 online access, TrainSignal&amp;quot;™s training courses are accessible on almost any device including PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android smartphones, and more. Â For more info and a list of courses, visit&lt;a href="http://trainsignal.com/"&gt; TrainSignal.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 186- The Scripting Games Winners with Jeffrey Snover and Ed Wilson</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-05-21-episode-186-the-scripting-games-winners-with-jeffrey-snover-and-ed-wilson/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 02:21:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-05-21-episode-186-the-scripting-games-winners-with-jeffrey-snover-and-ed-wilson/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-186.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to the Scripting Games 2012 winners Rohn and Lido, as well as Jeffrey Snover and Ed Wilson from Microsoft!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment is brought to you by TrainSignal&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get online computer based training for you and your whole staff from TrainSignal. TrainSignal offers more than 80 IT training courses in the areas of Security, Network Administration, Virtualization, PowerShell and more. With 24/7 online access, TrainSignal&amp;quot;™s training courses are accessible on almost any device including PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android smartphones, and more. Â For more info and a list of courses, visit&lt;a href="http://trainsignal.com/"&gt; TrainSignal.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next Staci Rottenberg and Teresa Wilson talk about life as a PowerShell wife</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-05-21-up-next-staci-rottenberg-and-teresa-wilson-talk-about-life-as-a-powershell-wife/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 16:36:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-05-21-up-next-staci-rottenberg-and-teresa-wilson-talk-about-life-as-a-powershell-wife/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This week we have Staci Rottenberg and Teresa Wilson, aka Hals Wife and Scripting Wife to share what its like to be married to two PowerShell gurus and other cool stuff.&lt;br&gt;
Please join us &lt;strong&gt;WEDNESDAY&lt;/strong&gt; May 23rd (our summer schedule is Wednesday not Thursday) at 9:30 pm EDT (GMT -4) at our new live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next The Winners of the 2012 Scripting Games with Jeffrey Snover and Ed Wilson</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-05-15-up-next-the-winners-of-the-2012-scripting-games-with-jeffrey-snover-and-ed-wilson/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-05-15-up-next-the-winners-of-the-2012-scripting-games-with-jeffrey-snover-and-ed-wilson/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This week we have Rohn Edwards and Lido Paglia, the winners of the &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/02/04/the-2012-windows-powershell-scripting-games-all-links-on-one-page.aspx"&gt;2012 Scripting Games&lt;/a&gt;, talking with Jeffrey Snover and Ed Wilson.&lt;br&gt;
Please join us &lt;strong&gt;WEDNESDAY&lt;/strong&gt; May 16th (our summer schedule is Wednesday not Thursday) at 9:30 pm EDT (GMT -4) at our new live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-76-18/8203.hsg_2D00_2_2D00_4_2D00_12_2D00_1.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/150x0/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-76-18/8203.hsg_2D00_2_2D00_4_2D00_12_2D00_1.png" alt="2012 Scripting Games badge"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 185 – Steven Murawski on v3 and Jeffrey Snover's Keynote from the 2012 PowerShell Deep Dive</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-05-14-episode-185-steven-murawski-on-v3-and-jeffrey-snovers-keynote-from-the-2012-powershell-deep-dive/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 03:32:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-05-14-episode-185-steven-murawski-on-v3-and-jeffrey-snovers-keynote-from-the-2012-powershell-deep-dive/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-185.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Steven Murawski and have another treat, Jeffrey Snover&amp;quot;™s Keynote from the PowerShell Deep Dive!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest: &lt;a href="http://blog.usepowershell.com/"&gt;Steven Murawski&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="links"&gt;Links&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [Microsoft TAP program](http://blogs.technet.com/b/wincat/archive/2012/05/02/windows-server-2012-technology-adoption-program-tap.aspx)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/](http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/04/19/smb-2-2-is-now-smb-3-0.aspx](http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/04/19/smb-2-2-is-now-smb-3-0.aspx)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [http://www.powershellmagazine.com/](http://www.powershellmagazine.com/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4 id="the-question"&gt;The Question&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mars Mission: Samsung Windows 8 tablet&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="bonus-jeffrey-snovers-keynote-from-the-powershell-deep-dive"&gt;Bonus: Jeffrey Snover&amp;quot;™s keynote from the PowerShell Deep Dive&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; audio recording from April 30th 2012 (The Experts Conference 2012)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 184 – Michiel Wories from Microsoft talks SQL2012 and PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-05-07-episode-184-michiel-wories-from-microsoft-talks-sql2012-and-powershell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 03:57:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-05-07-episode-184-michiel-wories-from-microsoft-talks-sql2012-and-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-184.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Michiel Wories about SQL 2012 &amp;amp; PowerShell!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment is brought to you by TrainSignal&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get online computer based training for you and your whole staff from TrainSignal. TrainSignal offers more than 80 IT training courses in the areas of Security, Network Administration, Virtualization, PowerShell and more. With 24/7 online access, TrainSignal&amp;quot;™s training courses are accessible on almost any device including PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android smartphones, and more. Â For more info and a list of courses, visit &lt;a href="http://trainsignal.com/"&gt;TrainSignal.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next MVP Steven Murawski talks about PowerShell V3</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-05-07-up-next-mvp-steven-murawski-talks-about-powershell-v3/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 16:13:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-05-07-up-next-mvp-steven-murawski-talks-about-powershell-v3/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.usepowershell.com/"&gt;Steven Murawski&lt;/a&gt; is coming on to the show to talk about PowerShell V3. .&lt;br&gt;
Please join us &lt;strong&gt;WEDNESDAY&lt;/strong&gt; May 9th (our summer schedule is Wednesday not Thursday) at 9:30 pm EDT (GMT -4) at our new live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/sqlserver_sql_server_2008_logo.png" alt="
"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell V3 "“ ObsoleteAttribute</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-04-29-powershell-v3-obsoleteattribute/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:39:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-04-29-powershell-v3-obsoleteattribute/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;PowerShell V3 now supports the ObsoleteAttribute for compiled cmdlets but unfortunately not advanced functions. This is handy to let your users know that a binary cmdlet will be going away in a future release of your binary module.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As we work on PSCX 3.0 there are a few binary cmdlets that we will mark with this attribute to let you know to switch over to PowerShell&amp;quot;™s built-in equivalent before we eliminate the cmdlet completely in the next release. Here&amp;quot;™s a snippet that shows how to apply the ObsoleteAttribute in your source code:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next Michiel Wories and SQL Server 2012</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-04-24-up-next-michiel-wories-and-sql-server-2012/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:34:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-04-24-up-next-michiel-wories-and-sql-server-2012/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/event_sql_hero.jpeg" alt="SQL Server 2012"&gt;This week we have &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mwories/"&gt;Michiel Wories&lt;/a&gt; coming on to the show to talk about SQL Server 2012.&lt;br&gt;
Please join us **
WEDNESDAY
** April 25th (not our normal night!) at 9:30 pm EDT at our new live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/sqlserver_sql_server_2008_logo.png" alt="
"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 183 – Three Guests Who Had a Month of Lunches With Don Jones</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-04-23-episode-183-three-guests-who-had-a-month-of-lunches-with-don-jones/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:55:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-04-23-episode-183-three-guests-who-had-a-month-of-lunches-with-don-jones/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-183.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to students of Don Jones&amp;quot;™ Month of Lunches book&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment is brought to you by TrainSignal&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get online computer based training for you and your whole staff from TrainSignal. TrainSignal offers more than 80 IT training courses in the areas of Security, Network Administration, Virtualization, PowerShell and more. With 24/7 online access, TrainSignal&amp;quot;™s training courses are accessible on almost any device including PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android smartphones, and more. Â For more info and a list of courses, visit &lt;a href="http://trainsignal.com/"&gt;TrainSignal.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 182 – Joel Bennett on PowerShell v3 and PoshCode</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-04-17-episode-182-joel-bennett-on-powershell-v3-and-poshcode/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:55:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-04-17-episode-182-joel-bennett-on-powershell-v3-and-poshcode/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-182.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Joel Bennett about PowerShell V3 and PoshCode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment is brought to you by TrainSignal&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get online computer based training for you and your whole staff from TrainSignal. TrainSignal offers more than 80 IT training courses in the areas of Security, Network Administration, Virtualization, PowerShell and more. With 24/7 online access, TrainSignal&amp;quot;™s training courses are accessible on almost any device including PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android smartphones, and more. Â For more info and a list of courses, visit &lt;a href="http://trainsignal.com/"&gt;TrainSignal.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Questions!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-04-12-the-questions/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 02:45:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-04-12-the-questions/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hal here. I keep forgetting the questions that we ask our guests at the end of the interviews, so I&amp;rsquo;ll just put them down here. 🙂 If you have ideas for more, lave &amp;rsquo;em in the comments!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;If you could be a superhero (or have a superpower) who would you be?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;What was your first personal computer?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;If you were on a mission to Mars, what would you bring?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;What is your favorite sci-fi movie?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;What is your favorite sci-fi book?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next Joel Bennett talks about PowerShell v3 DLR and More!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-04-10-up-next-joel-bennett-talks-about-powershell-v3-dlr-and-more/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-04-10-up-next-joel-bennett-talks-about-powershell-v3-dlr-and-more/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This week we’ve got &lt;a href="http://huddledmasses.org/"&gt;Joel Bennett&lt;/a&gt; (@&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#!/jaykul"&gt;jaykul&lt;/a&gt;) coming on to the show to discuss a few of his favorite things
and concerns
about PowerShell v3. We also might convince the author of &lt;a href="http://poshcode.org"&gt;PoshCode&lt;/a&gt; to update us on that project&amp;ndash;which is proudly hosting scripts for the &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/tags/2012+scripting+games/"&gt;2012 Scripting Games&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br&gt;
Please join us Thursday April 12th at 9:30 pm EDT at our new live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/sqlserver_sql_server_2008_logo.png" alt="
"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 181 – Karl Prosser on Portable PowerShell and v3</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-04-09-episode-181-karl-prosser-on-portable-powershell-and-v3/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:40:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-04-09-episode-181-karl-prosser-on-portable-powershell-and-v3/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-181.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Karl Prosser about Portable PowerShell and PowerShell v3&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment is brought to you by TrainSignal&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get online computer based training for you and your whole staff from TrainSignal. TrainSignal offers more than 80 IT training courses in the areas of Security, Network Administration, Virtualization, PowerShell and more. With 24/7 online access, TrainSignal&amp;quot;™s training courses are accessible on almost any device including PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android smartphones, and more. Â For more info and a list of courses, visit &lt;a href="http://trainsignal.com/"&gt;TrainSignal.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Happy Easter – no show this week</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-04-04-happy-easter-no-show-this-week/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:34:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-04-04-happy-easter-no-show-this-week/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Happy Easter to everyone! We are taking the week off, so you have our permission to spend Thursday evening with your family. 🙂&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/easter-island-rapa-nui-isla-pascua-chi100.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/easter-island-rapa-nui-isla-pascua-chi100.jpeg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>This April is "Learn More About PowerShell" Month with the 2012 Scripting Games, the 2012 Microsoft Management Summit, and the 2012 North American PowerShell Deep Dive!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-03-29-this-april-is-learn-more-about-powershell-month-with-the-2012-scripting-games-the-2012-microsoft-management-summit-and-the-2012-north-american-powershell-deep-dive/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-03-29-this-april-is-learn-more-about-powershell-month-with-the-2012-scripting-games-the-2012-microsoft-management-summit-and-the-2012-north-american-powershell-deep-dive/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;It&amp;quot;™s hard to believe that April is almost here already.  Last week we had record high temperatures reaching 31°C (that&amp;quot;™s 87.8°F for those of you living south of the border), and the night before last it was -16°C (or 3.2°F).  What wonderful consistency.  Maybe that&amp;quot;™s why I like PowerShell so much, because it provides great consistency that just isn&amp;quot;™t apparent in so many other places in life (that&amp;quot;™s a swell tagline: &amp;ldquo;Use PowerShell, because it&amp;rdquo;™s more consistent than the weather&amp;quot;&lt;img src="http://kirkmunro.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/wlemoticon-smile.png?w=595" alt="Smile"&gt; ).  Anyway, I digress&amp;quot;¦back to the topic at hand.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 180 – Rich Prescott is Creating Admin Tools With PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-03-26-episode-180-rich-prescott-is-creating-admin-tools-with-powershell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 03:16:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-03-26-episode-180-rich-prescott-is-creating-admin-tools-with-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-180.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Rich Prescott about creating admin tools with PowerShell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment is brought to you by TrainSignal&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get online computer based training for you and your whole staff from TrainSignal. TrainSignal offers more than 80 IT training courses in the areas of Security, Network Administration, Virtualization, PowerShell and more. With 24/7 online access, TrainSignal&amp;quot;™s training courses are accessible on almost any device including PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android smartphones, and more. Â For more info and a list of courses, visit &lt;a href="http://trainsignal.com/"&gt;TrainSignal.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next Karl Prosser and Portable PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-03-26-up-next-karl-prosser-and-portable-powershell/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-03-26-up-next-karl-prosser-and-portable-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://site.shelltools.net/@api/deki/site/logo.png" alt=""&gt;This week we&amp;quot;™ve got Karl Prosser (@&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#!/karlprosser"&gt;karlprosser&lt;/a&gt;) coming on to the show to discuss &lt;a href="http://site.shelltools.net/Applications/Portable_PowerShell"&gt;Portable PowerShell&lt;/a&gt;. Among other things, Karl is known as one of the original authors of PowerShell Plus and is a long-time PowerShell MVP.&lt;br&gt;
Please join us Thursday March 29nd at 9:30 pm EDT at our new live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/sqlserver_sql_server_2008_logo.png" alt="
"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next Rich Prescott and the Windows System Admin Tool</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-03-20-up-next-rich-prescott-and-the-client-system-admin-tool/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:27:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-03-20-up-next-rich-prescott-and-the-client-system-admin-tool/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This week we&amp;quot;™ve got Rich Prescott (@Rich_Prescott)Â  coming on to the show to discuss the &lt;a href="http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Arposh-Windows-System-a1beb102"&gt;Arposh Windows System Administration Tool 2.0.1&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br&gt;
Please join us Thursday March 22nd at 9:30 pm EDT at our new live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/sqlserver_sql_server_2008_logo.png" alt="
"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 179 – Trevor Sullivan on DevOps and PowerEvents</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-03-19-episode-179-trevor-sullivan-on-devops-and-powerevents/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:35:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-03-19-episode-179-trevor-sullivan-on-devops-and-powerevents/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-179.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Trevor Sullivan about DevOps and WMI events&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment is brought to you by TrainSignal&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get online computer based training for you and your whole staff from TrainSignal. TrainSignal offers more than 80 IT training courses in the areas of Security, Network Administration, Virtualization, PowerShell and more. With 24/7 online access, TrainSignal&amp;quot;™s training courses are accessible on almost any device including PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android smartphones, and more. Â For more info and a list of courses, visit &lt;a href="http://trainsignal.com/"&gt;TrainSignal.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Trevor Sullivan and WMI Eventing</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-03-14-up-next-trevor-sullivan-and-wmi-eventing/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:29:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-03-14-up-next-trevor-sullivan-and-wmi-eventing/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This week we&amp;quot;™ve got &lt;a href="http://trevorsullivan.net/"&gt;Trevor Sullivan&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#!/pcgeek86"&gt;@pcgeek86&lt;/a&gt;) coming on to the show to discuss WMI eventing!&lt;br&gt;
Please join us Thursday March 15th at 9:30 pm EDT at our new live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/sqlserver_sql_server_2008_logo.png" alt="
"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 178 – PowerShell v3 Beta</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-03-11-episode-178-powershell-v3-beta/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 03:30:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-03-11-episode-178-powershell-v3-beta/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-178.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk about PowerShell version 3, now in beta!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment is brought to you by TrainSignal&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get online computer based training for you and your whole staff from TrainSignal. TrainSignal offers more than 80 IT training courses in the areas of Security, Network Administration, Virtualization, PowerShell and more. With 24/7 online access, TrainSignal&amp;quot;™s training courses are accessible on almost any device including PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android smartphones, and more. Â For more info and a list of courses, visit &lt;a href="http://trainsignal.com/"&gt;TrainSignal.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Windows 8"¦reimagined?</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-03-06-windows-8reimagined/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:30:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-03-06-windows-8reimagined/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The series of releases of client versions of Microsoft Windows seems to suffer all too much the same fate as Star Trek movies have in the past.  This concept has already been discussed before, and there are even blog posts about it, such as &lt;a href="http://www.ewanspence.com/blog/2009/01/08/why-windows-7-reminds-me-of-the-star-trek-movies/"&gt;Ewan Spence&amp;quot;™s comparison of Windows releases between versions 3.0 and Windows 7 to the Star Trek movies from &amp;ldquo;The Motion Picture&amp;rdquo; to &amp;ldquo;First Contact&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt;.  Windows 7 did indeed end up being a very impressive version of Windows, much like First Contact was a very impressive movie in the Star Trek franchise, and now we&amp;quot;™re watching with anticipation since Windows 8 Consumer Preview is now available and Microsoft is marching steadfast towards its release.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Greg Stemp talks about PowerShell and Lync!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-03-06-up-next-greg-stemp-talks-about-powershell-and-lync/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:31:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-03-06-up-next-greg-stemp-talks-about-powershell-and-lync/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/csps/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/avatar.jpg?w=150" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Greg Stemp joins us to talk about Microsoft Lync Server and how you can manage it with PowerShell. Greg (a former Microsoft Scripting Guy and guest on the podcast) writes for the &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/csps/"&gt;Lync PowerShell blog&lt;/a&gt; on Technet.&lt;br&gt;
Please join us Thursday March 8th at 9:30 pm EDT at our new and permanent live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell V3 Beta"“Better NTFS Alternate Data Stream Handling</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-03-04-powershell-v3-beta-better-ntfs-alternate-data-stream-handling/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 04:37:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-03-04-powershell-v3-beta-better-ntfs-alternate-data-stream-handling/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;One of the many new features in Windows PowerShell V3 is better support for alternate data streams (ADS) in NTFS files.Â  ADS allows an NTFS file to contain additional data that is not part of the &amp;ldquo;main&amp;rdquo; stream i.e. the file&amp;quot;™s primary content.Â  Tools like Windows Explorer or even PowerShell&amp;quot;™s &lt;strong&gt;Get-ChildItem&lt;/strong&gt; cmdlet don&amp;quot;™t show these extra data streams.Â  In fact the file size reported by both of these tools does not take into account the data stored in the alternate streams.Â  For more information on ADS check out the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Alternate_data_streams_.28ADS.29"&gt;NTFS topic on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 177A – Don Jones at the ATLPSUG in September on PowerShell v3</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-03-02-episode-177a-scripting-guy-ed-wilson-on-the-2012-powershell-scripting-games/</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 04:37:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-03-02-episode-177a-scripting-guy-ed-wilson-on-the-2012-powershell-scripting-games/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-177A.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A bonus podcast with Don Jones recorded in September 2011 at the Atlanta PowerShell User Group talking about PowerShell v3.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>No Show this week due to the MVP Summit</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-03-01-no-show-this-week-due-to-the-mvp-summit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:19:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-03-01-no-show-this-week-due-to-the-mvp-summit/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;No show again this week while Hal is at the MVP Summit learning super secret stuff. We&amp;rsquo;ll be back with a live show next week (March 8th) when we will welcome Greg Stemp. If you think you&amp;rsquo;ve heard that name before in a scripting context it may be because Greg is a former Scripting Guy. Now he&amp;rsquo;s doing cool stuff with PowerShell and Lync. Please join us next week to learn more.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Reminder- No live show tonight!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-02-23-reminder-no-live-show-tonight/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:02:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-02-23-reminder-no-live-show-tonight/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Just to remind you that we will not be doing a live show this week. I may be releasing some audio from Don Jones on v3 though so stay tuned.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 177 – Scripting Guy Ed Wilson on the 2012 PowerShell Scripting Games</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-02-21-episode-177-scripting-guy-ed-wilson-on-the-2012-powershell-scripting-games/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:22:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-02-21-episode-177-scripting-guy-ed-wilson-on-the-2012-powershell-scripting-games/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-177.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Ed Wilson (The Scripting Guy) about the 2012 Scripting Games.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment brought to you by Start-Automating&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Start Scripting to Your Fullest Potential. Â At Start-Automating, we can help you unleash the full Power of PowerShell V2. Â You can use our deep PowerShell expertise to build rich PowerShell solutions, or we can train you to use PowerShell like a pro. Isn&amp;quot;™t it time you Save-Time, Save-Money, and Start-Automating? Â Find out more atÂ &lt;a href="http://start-automating.com/"&gt;Start-Automating.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson and the 2012 Scripting Games +</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-02-15-up-next-microsoft-scripting-guy-ed-wilson-and-the-2012-scripting-games/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:07:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-02-15-up-next-microsoft-scripting-guy-ed-wilson-and-the-2012-scripting-games/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, joins us to talk about some upcoming events for PowerShell. Next is &lt;a href="http://powershellgroup.org/content/powershell-saturday"&gt;PowerShell Saturday&lt;/a&gt; in Columbus OH on March 10th. Followed by &lt;a href="http://ipugd.org/"&gt;IPUGD&lt;/a&gt; on March 19th and the&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/02/04/the-2012-windows-powershell-scripting-games-all-links-on-one-page.aspx"&gt;2012 Scripting Games&lt;/a&gt; from April 2-13, 2012. Please join us Thursday February 16th at 9:30 pm EDT at our new and permanent live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net!&lt;/a&gt;  And Hal won&amp;quot;™t be there so it will be the Jon and Ed show&amp;quot;¦&amp;quot;¦&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-76-18/2047.Scripting_2D00_Games_2D00_2012_5F00_compete.png" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 176 – James Brundage on PowerShell Pipeworks</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-02-13-episode-176-james-brundage-on-powershell-pipeworks/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:18:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-02-13-episode-176-james-brundage-on-powershell-pipeworks/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-176.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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**Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to James Brundage about building websites with PowerShell Pipeworks
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 March 19th is the [International PowerShell User Group Day](http://ipugd.org/)





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 Adam Driscoll is writing [Microsoft Windows PowerShell 3.0 Firstlook](http://csharpening.net/?p=897) which should be out in May





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 [Sarasota has its first IT Pro Camp Feb 18th](http://itprocamp.com/sarasota/) with several PowerShell sessions!





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 [Techstravaganza](http://techstravaganza.wordpress.com/) is coming March 30th





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 James Brundage will present at the [Atlanta PowerShell User Group on Feb 21st ](http://powershellgroup.org/content/atlanta-powershell-user-group-february-meeting)





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 The Rochester PowerShell usergroup is also [meeting on Feb 21st ](http://powershellgroup.org/Rochester.NY/February2012)





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 The UK PowerShell group [meets on Feb 28th](http://powershellgroup.org/content/february-meeting-uk-powershell-group-sql-server-and-powershell)





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 [Mark Minasi&amp;quot;™s 6th annual conference is coming](http://minasiconference.wordpress.com/minasi-2012-timetable/) week of April 29th and will be featuring Ed Wilson and Don Jones
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&lt;p&gt;**&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 175 – Mike Wells on SQLSpade</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-02-06-episode-175-mike-wells-on-sqlspade/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:44:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-02-06-episode-175-mike-wells-on-sqlspade/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-175.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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**Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Mike Wells about SQL 2012 and SQLSpade
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 The 2012 Scripting Games [have been announced!](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/01/30/scripting-guys-announce-the-2012-powershell-scripting-games.aspx)





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 [PowerShell Saturday is happening!](http://powershellgroup.org/content/powershell-saturday)





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 It&amp;quot;™s time for another [PowerShell Deep Dive](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2012/01/27/it-s-time-for-another-powershell-deep-dive.aspx)





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 [New PowerShell user group is starting up in Boston, MA](http://powershellgroup.org/boston.ma)





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 The [SQL Server 2012 Special Ops Tour](http://specialops.sqlpass.org/#fbid=1HZqTDNh6DA) kicks off in Atlanta March 5th





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 Jan Egil Ring posted his PowerShell [sessions from the NIC conference](http://blog.powershell.no/2012/01/22/demos-slides-and-videos-from-nordic-infrastructure-conference-2012-sessions/)





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 PowerShell PowerCamp








 [Helsinki March 10-11](http://tfl09.blogspot.com/2012/02/windows-powershell-powercamphelsinki.html)





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 [London April 21-22](http://tfl09.blogspot.com/2012/01/powershell-powercamp-weekendlondonapril.html)








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 The PowerScripting Podcast will be at [SQLSaturday #111](http://www.sqlsaturday.com/111/eventhome.aspx) in Atlanta on Apr 14th!





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 [New version of the Cisco UCSPowerTool v 0.9.6 recently shipped](http://www.vtesseract.com/post/16935246673/ucspowertool-new-build-0-9-6-0-released) and it has 1400 cmdlets!





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 Also new from NetApp: [Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit v 1.7 was just released](https://communities.netapp.com/community/netapp-blogs/msenviro/blog/2012/02/02/data-ontap-powershell-toolkit-17-released-962-cmdlets) (962 cmdlets)
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&lt;p&gt;**&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next Michael Wells and SQL SPADE</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-02-02-up-next-michael-wells-and-sql-spade/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:01:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-02-02-up-next-michael-wells-and-sql-spade/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/sqlserver_sql_server_2008_logo.png"&gt;
&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/sqlserver_sql_server_2008_logo.png?w=300" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Tonight we&amp;rsquo;ve got &lt;a href="http://sqltechmike.com/"&gt;Michael Wells&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#!/SqlTechMike"&gt;@sqltechmike&lt;/a&gt;) coming on to the show to discuss his Codeplex project: &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://sqlspade.codeplex.com/"&gt;Scripted PowerShell Automated Deployment Engine (SPADE) for SQL Server&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br&gt;
Please join us TONIGHT at 9:30 pm EDT at our new live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/sqlserver_sql_server_2008_logo.png" alt="
"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 174 – Matt Graeber using PowerShell in Infosec</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-01-31-episode-174-matt-graeber-using-powershell-in-infosec/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:17:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-01-31-episode-174-matt-graeber-using-powershell-in-infosec/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-174.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 **Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Matt Graeber about using PowerShell in the Infosec industry
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 Columbus, OH gets the world&amp;quot;™s first PowerShell Saturday event! Block out March 10th on your calendar. Details [will be announced here soon](http://powershellgroup.org/central.oh)!





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 Version 2.7 of PowerWF and PowerSE [are now available](http://poshoholic.com/2012/01/24/powerwf-and-powerse-2-7-are-now-available/)





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 Version 1.1 of the [iLO PowerShell Library is out](http://practicaladmin.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/ilo-powershell-library-1-1-update/)
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 Matt&amp;quot;™s blog: [http://www.exploit-monday.com/](http://www.exploit-monday.com/)
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&lt;p&gt;**&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next Matt Graeber and PowerSyringe</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-01-26-up-next-matt-graeber-and-powersyringe/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:22:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-01-26-up-next-matt-graeber-and-powersyringe/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Matt Graeber (&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#!/mattifestation"&gt;@mattifestation&lt;/a&gt;), an aspiring security researcher, Â joins us to talk about PowerSyringe. &lt;a href="http://www.exploit-monday.com/2011/11/powersyringe-powershell-based-codedll.html"&gt;PowerSyringe&lt;/a&gt; is PowerShell-Based Code/DLL Injection Utility. Please join us Thursday January 26th at 9:30 pm EDT at our new and permanent live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/powersyringe.png?w=300" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerSE 2.7 KB: PowerShell profile does not load on startup</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-01-25-powerse-2-7-kb-powershell-profile-does-not-load-on-startup/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:01:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-01-25-powerse-2-7-kb-powershell-profile-does-not-load-on-startup/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Note: This blog post refers to an issue identified in PowerSE 2.7.0. It has been corrected in PowerSE 2.7.1, which is now available.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With the release we published yesterday, both &lt;a href="http://powerwf.com/products/powerse.aspx"&gt;PowerSE&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://powerwf.com/products/powerwf.aspx"&gt;PowerWF&lt;/a&gt; received a new feature: product-specific profiles.  This feature allows you to have profile scripts that you only want run in PowerSE or PowerWF run there so that you don&amp;quot;™t have to use if statements to check the host name in your profile scripts.  With this feature we also created the initial PowerSE and PowerWF profile scripts such that they dot-source the native PowerShell profile script by default so that what runs in PowerShell also runs in PowerSE.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerWF and PowerSE 2.7 are now available</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-01-24-powerwf-and-powerse-2-7-are-now-available/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:44:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-01-24-powerwf-and-powerse-2-7-are-now-available/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This morning &lt;a href="http://powerwf.com/products/powerwf.aspx"&gt;PowerWF&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://powerwf.com/products/powerse.aspx"&gt;PowerSE&lt;/a&gt; 2.7 were released to the web and they can now be downloaded from &lt;a href="http://www.powerwf.com/"&gt;http://www.powerwf.com&lt;/a&gt;.  These releases offer a lot of new value to PowerWF and PowerSE users, as follows:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="powerwf-27-highlights"&gt;PowerWF 2.7 Highlights&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New Start Page with New Workflows&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The start page in PowerWF has been completely redesigned to provide immediate value out of the box for PowerWF customers.  The new design highlights the Workflow Library that is included with PowerWF, allowing customers to play workflows in the library without opening a workflow or script document.  Users can also customize the workflows on the start page and add their own groups of workflows for easier runbook automation.  This immediate out of the box value is included for PowerWF customers to allow them to leverage the power of Workflows and PowerShell in their environments without requiring any knowledge of PowerShell or Workflows.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 173 – Greg Shields and the IT Industry in 2012</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-01-23-episode-173-greg-shields-and-the-it-industry-in-2012/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:28:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-01-23-episode-173-greg-shields-and-the-it-industry-in-2012/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-173.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 Don Jones is [looking for a few good learners](http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/donjones/archive/2012/01/16/looking-for-a-few-good-learners.aspx)





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 [Welcome PowerShellGroup Sweden!](http://powershellgroup.org/sweden)





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 [PowerCLI Android and iOS Apps](http://www.virtu-al.net/2012/01/19/powercli-android-app/)





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 [http://ipugd.org/](http://ipugd.org/) coming on March 19th!





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 The Scripting Wife [blogged about it too](http://scriptingwife.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/international-powershell-user-group-day-march-19-2012/)





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 Idera has a new PowerShell webcast coming up Jan 26th: [Tobias Weltner - &amp;quot;PowerShell Essentials - Become a PowerShell Wiz, Too!&amp;quot;](http://www.idera.com/Education/PowerShell-Webcasts/?s=sm_twitter_pswc)





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 [Live Lunch Meeting with Jeff Hicks](http://powershellgroup.org/virtual/2-12) -Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 13:00 - 14:00







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&lt;p&gt;**&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next MVP Greg Shields from Concentrated Technology</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-01-18-up-next-mvp-greg-shields-from-concentrated-technology/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:28:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-01-18-up-next-mvp-greg-shields-from-concentrated-technology/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://concentratedtech.com/about/greg-shields.php"&gt;Greg Shields&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://concentratedtech.com/"&gt;Concentrated Technology&lt;/a&gt; joins us to talk about current and future technology, as well as what part he sees PowerShell playing in 2012.Â  Please join us Thursday January 19th at 9:30 pm EDT at our new and permanent live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Here&amp;rsquo;s more about Greg from his &lt;a href="http://concentratedtech.com/about/greg-shields.php"&gt;bio page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br&gt;
**&lt;img src="http://concentratedtech.com/about/greg.png" alt=""&gt;Greg ShieldsÂ **is an independent author, speaker, and IT consultant, as well as a Partner and Principal Technologist with Concentrated Technology. With 15 years in information technology, Greg has developed extensive experience in systems administration, engineering, and architecture specializing in Microsoft OS, remote application, systems management, and virtualization technologies.&lt;br&gt;
Greg is a multiple-year recipient of Microsoft &amp;ldquo;Most Valuable Professional&amp;rdquo; award with a specialization in Remote Desktop Services as well as VMware&amp;rsquo;s vExpert award for his contributions to the virtualization community at large.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 172 – vCenter Orchestrator</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-01-16-episode-172-vcenter-orchestrator/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:57:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-01-16-episode-172-vcenter-orchestrator/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-172.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 SQL Saturday #111 comes to Atlanta, and the [PowerScripting Podcast is going to be there](http://www.sqlsaturday.com/viewsession.aspx?sat=111&amp;amp;sessionid=6880)!


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 Joel Bennett posted about the[ DLR and PowerShell v3](http://huddledmasses.org/powershell-3-finally-on-the-dlr/)


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 Code golf contest is on from PowershellMag! Your task: [Find an unused drive letter with PowerShell](http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2012/01/12/find-an-unused-drive-letter/)


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 Trevor Sullivan has[ updated the PowerEvents Module](http://trevorsullivan.net/2012/01/11/powershell-powerevents-module-update-to-0-3-alpha/)


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 Boe Prox has[ released PoshWSUS 2.0](http://learn-powershell.net/2011/12/30/poshwsus-2-0-released/)





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 Congrats to MCC Rich Prescott for hitting 10,000 downloads on the Technet Script Gallery. He&amp;quot;™s done a [guest blog post ](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/01/06/powershell-community-and-the-windows-system-administration-tool.aspx)and was [interviewed recently](http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2012/01/09/interview-with-a-wiki-ninja-rich-prescott-mcc-powershell-amp-windows-engineering.aspx) on microsoft.com





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 Don Jones [announces that the Windows Server GUI is coming to an end](http://redmondmag.com/blogs/it-decision-maker/2012/01/the-gui-on-the-way-out.aspx)!









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&lt;p&gt;**&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Alan Renouf and Thomas Corfmat talk about VMware vCenter Orchestrator</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-01-12-up-next-alan-renouf-and-thomas-corfmat-talk-about-vmware-vcenter-orchestrator/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:54:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-01-12-up-next-alan-renouf-and-thomas-corfmat-talk-about-vmware-vcenter-orchestrator/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Alan Renouf is back with us again, and this time he&amp;rsquo;s bringing a friend along from VMware to talk with us about how vCenter Orchestrator uses PowerShell. Have a look at the &lt;a href="http://blogs.vmware.com/orchestrator/"&gt;vCenter Orchestrator blog&lt;/a&gt; to see what they are up to, and especially check out the post titledÂ &lt;a href="http://blogs.vmware.com/orchestrator/2011/12/vco-powershell-plug-in.html"&gt;vCO PowerShell plug-in&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
Here&amp;rsquo;s a screenshot example:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.vmware.com/orchestrator/2011/12/vco-powershell-plug-in.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.vmware.com/.a/6a00d8341c328153ef0162fde2b396970d-800wi" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
We&amp;rsquo;ll be covering this TONIGHT at 9:30pm EST at our usual live stream: &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 171 – Listener Call-In</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-01-09-episode-171-listener-call-in/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:24:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-01-09-episode-171-listener-call-in/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;**Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we have our first listener call-in show!
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 Alexander Chebotov





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 Jae Hoon Kim





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 [Steven Murawski!](http://blog.usepowershell.com/2012/01/starting-2012-with-a-bang/)





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 Yusuf Ozturk








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 MVP Jim Christopher [has released version 1.2 of his StudioShell project](http://www.beefycode.com/post/StudioShell-12-Released.aspx)





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 Don Jones posted a [PowerShell ISE comparison paper](http://library.concentratedtech.com/)





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 [NYC Meeting 1/9/11 - Oisin Grehan - PowerShell Providers ](http://powershellgroup.org/content/nyc-meeting-1911-oisin-grehan-powershell-providers)Monday, January 9, 2012 -18:00 - 20:00





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 [Midlands PASS](http://midlands.sqlpass.org/) with The Scripting Guy January 10, 2012





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 [January Pittsburgh Powershell User Group Meeting ](http://powershellgroup.org/content/january-pittsburgh-powershell-user-group-meeting)Tuesday, January 17, 2012 -18:00 - 19:30





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 [The PowerShell Code Snippet Monthly Session #5 ](http://powershellgroup.org/content/powershell-code-snippet-monthly-session-5)Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 11:30 - 12:00





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 [UK PowerShell Group&amp;quot;“January 2012 - PowerShell v3 ](http://powershellgroup.org/content/uk-powershell-group%E2%80%93january-2012-powershell-v3)Tuesday, January 24, 2012 -19:30 - 20:30












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 Orlando has a [full-day IT Pro Camp](http://itprocamp.com/orlando/) coming up on Saturday, Jan 21st with 5 tracks of content!
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&lt;p&gt;**&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Essential PowerShell: To alias, or not to alias, that is the question</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-01-05-essential-powershell-to-alias-or-not-to-alias-that-is-the-question/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-01-05-essential-powershell-to-alias-or-not-to-alias-that-is-the-question/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Recently there was a discussion between community experts and a product team about a module they are working on.  The topic being discussed was cmdlet aliases: whether or not they should provide aliases for their cmdlets out of the box and if so, how they should be provided.  Aliases are great for ad-hoc PowerShell work, which is what most PowerShell users do at this point, and incredibly useful when you&amp;quot;™re trying to put out a fire and managing your infrastructure using PowerShell.  However, there are many important things that module authors need to consider when planning aliases for their cmdlets, as follows:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell MVP for 2012</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-01-04-powershell-mvp-for-2012/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:51:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-01-04-powershell-mvp-for-2012/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Every year around Christmas I anxiously await the New Year to see if I receive the Microsoft MVP award again that year.  Well that email came on January 1, 2012, and I&amp;quot;™m quite thrilled about this one because it&amp;quot;™s a milestone this time (year 5 as a PowerShell MVP).  Thanks to the community for being so great to work with, and thanks to Microsoft both for recognizing individual efforts with the MVP program and for creating such great products like Windows PowerShell!  Work has never been so much fun!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: YOU!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-01-03-up-next-you/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:28:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-01-03-up-next-you/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Well, we had our guests this week reschedule on us. So, we are going to try something a little different. We are going to try a &amp;ldquo;call in&amp;rdquo; show! What does that mean? You have an opportunity to get on the podcast and share your &amp;ldquo;tips for beginners.&amp;rdquo; Â You have two options if you want to be on the show. Download Skype and set it up (hopefully with a decent headset) and add &amp;ldquo;PowerScripting&amp;rdquo; as a contact. If you want your video on the stream please go ahead and test it so everyone can see your face.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/listener.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/listener.png" alt="Get-Listener -Awesome | Out-Podcast -name PowerScripting"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
The second option is to email us your phone number and we&amp;rsquo;ll call you. We will start around 9:30PM EST this Thursday January 5th. If you have time please send us an email with your Skype ID or phone number, if that doesn&amp;rsquo;t work out you can let us know the night of the recording in the chat room. We hope to see you there!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 170 – Jeffery Hicks Manages Windows Server with PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-01-02-episode-170-jeffery-hicks-manages-windows-server-with-powershell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:25:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2012-01-02-episode-170-jeffery-hicks-manages-windows-server-with-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-170.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 The PowerShell Team has [gifted us with &amp;quot;Getting Started with PowerShell Workflow&amp;quot;](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2011/12/22/another-holiday-gift-from-the-powershell-team-powershell-3-0-ctp2-getting-started-with-windows-powershell-workflow.aspx)





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 The PowerShell ISE [Script Explorer](http://tfl09.blogspot.com/2011/12/powershell-ise-script-explorerget-it.html) is finally out (sort of)








 [Alternate invite code from James](https://connect.microsoft.com/site1064/InvitationUse.aspx?ProgramID=7431&amp;amp;InvitationID=JB10-WFVG-87RJ)








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 VMware releases a [PowerShell plugin for vCenter Orchestrator](http://blogs.vmware.com/orchestrator/2011/12/vco-powershell-plug-in.html)





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 The Arposh Windows System Administration tool 2.0 [has been released](http://blog.richprescott.com/2011/12/arposh-windows-system-administration.html)





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 ATLSMUG [meets Jan 19th ](http://om2012.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/atlsmug-meeting-jan-19th-2012/)to talk about System Center 2012 releases
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&lt;p&gt;**&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell V3 CTP2 Provides Better Argument Passing to EXEs</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-01-02-powershell-v3-ctp2-provides-better-argument-passing-to-exes/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:56:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2012-01-02-powershell-v3-ctp2-provides-better-argument-passing-to-exes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Within PowerShell it has always been easy to pass &amp;ldquo;simple&amp;rdquo; arguments to an EXE e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;C:\PS&amp;gt; ipconfig -all &lt;/code&gt;However passing arguments to certain exes can become surprising difficult when their command line parameter syntax is complex i.e. they require quotes and use special PowerShell characters such as @ $ ;.Â  A lot of these problems can be solved by placing single or double quotes in the right places or by escaping PowerShell&amp;quot;™s special characters e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next Jeffery Hicks joins us to talk about PowerShell Fundamentals</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-12-21-up-next-jeffery-hicks-joins-us-to-talk-about-powershell-fundamentals/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:41:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-12-21-up-next-jeffery-hicks-joins-us-to-talk-about-powershell-fundamentals/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This week our guest will be Windows PowerShell MVP Jeffery Hicks to talk about his latest training DVD from &lt;a href="http://www.trainsignal.com"&gt;Train Signal&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.trainsignal.com/Windows-PowerShell-Training.aspx"&gt;Windows PowerShell Fundamentals&lt;/a&gt;. Jeff will give us some great tips and techniques for PowerShell beginners, and we&amp;rsquo;ll get his take on PowerShell v3 as well.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&amp;ndash; Update @ 9:08AM &amp;ndash;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
We forgot that Jeff has an &lt;a href="http://www.trainsignal.com/Windows-Server-2008-PowerShell-Training.aspx"&gt;EVEN NEWER and BETTER course&lt;/a&gt; out that builds on the previous one. It&amp;rsquo;s all about managing Windows Server with PowerShell and we&amp;rsquo;ll be covering it as well. But you know how our interviews go? They go how you want them to go! If you show up to the live stream and ask us questions about PowerShell fundamentals&amp;ndash;that&amp;rsquo;s what we&amp;rsquo;ll talk about. You want to know more about using remoting in an enterprise environment? Come on by and let us know! In fact, feedback of any kind is what we thrive on. Leave comments on THIS POST letting us know what you&amp;rsquo;d like to hear.&lt;br&gt;
Of course, the show is not the same without YOU, so be sure toÂ join us as we live stream! Â The time is this Thursday December 22nd at 9:30 pm EST at our new and permanent live chat location &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://www.trainsignal.com/Assets/ProductImages/Windows_PowerShell_Fundamentals_Training.jpg" alt="Windows PowerShell Fundamentals Training"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 169 – Don Jones on PowerShell v3 and Button Monkeys</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-12-18-episode-169-don-jones-on-powershell-v3-and-button-monkeys/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:59:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-12-18-episode-169-don-jones-on-powershell-v3-and-button-monkeys/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-169.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Don Jones about PowerShell v3 and Button Monkeys!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News





This segment brought to you by Start-Automating
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Start Scripting to Your Fullest Potential. Â At Start-Automating, we can help you unleash the full Power of PowerShell V2. Â You can use our deep PowerShell expertise to build rich PowerShell solutions, or we can train you to use PowerShell like a pro. Isn&amp;quot;™t it time you Save-Time, Save-Money, and Start-Automating? Â Find out more atÂ &lt;a href="http://start-automating.com/"&gt;Start-Automating.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next Don Jones is back to talk about Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches and more</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-12-14-up-next-don-jones-is-back-to-talk-about-learn-powershell-in-a-month-of-lunches-and-more-2/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:40:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-12-14-up-next-don-jones-is-back-to-talk-about-learn-powershell-in-a-month-of-lunches-and-more-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/don-jones1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/don-jones1.jpg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This week our guest will be Don Jones to talk about his latest book &lt;a href="http://www.manning.com/jones/"&gt;Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches&lt;/a&gt;Â and whatever else he wants to talk about. If you&amp;rsquo;ve heard Don speak, you already know that you don&amp;rsquo;t want to miss it. If you haven&amp;rsquo;t heard Don speak, let me assure you, you don&amp;rsquo;t want to miss it. Please join us Thursday December 15th at 9:30 pm EDT at our new and permanent live chat locationÂ &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net!&lt;/a&gt;Â Don is one of our most popular guests so I&amp;rsquo;m sure the chat room will be a lot of fun. You may want to set a reminder on your phone so you don&amp;rsquo;t miss out!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 168 – Randy Roffey on MP Studio and a Bonus Interview</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-12-13-episode-168-randy-roffey-on-mp-studio-and-a-bonus-interview/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:13:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-12-13-episode-168-randy-roffey-on-mp-studio-and-a-bonus-interview/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-168.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Randy Roffey from Silect Software about MP Studio. Stay tuned until the end to hear a bonus interview with Hal's wife!
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 Try PowerShell V3 CTP2 now, [says Jeffrey Snover on Twitter](https://twitter.com/#!/jsnover/status/142820683553046528). Link roundup:







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 [Download it](http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27548)





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 [Table of fixes and changes from Jonathan Medd](http://www.jonathanmedd.net/2011/12/powershell-v3-ctp2-now-available.html)





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 [First impressions from Thomas Lee](http://tfl09.blogspot.com/2011/12/powershell-30-ctp2-released-for-windows.html)





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 [ISE screenshot on Jason Helmick&amp;quot;™s blog](http://www.jasonhelmick.com/2011/12/03/powershell-v3-ctp2-ise-wow/)







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 [PowerShellMagazine.com Call for Writers and giveaway](http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2011/11/29/call-for-writers-share-your-experiences-and-help-new-users/)





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 [Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0 Expert Cookbook](http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog/?p=2353&amp;amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RavikanthChaganti+%28From+Ravikanth%27s+Blog%29)





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 [Ravikanth is presenting a PowerShell 3.0 first look](http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog/?p=2371&amp;amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RavikanthChaganti+%28From+Ravikanth%27s+Blog%29) on December 15th
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Interview





 This segment brought to you by Start-Automating
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Start Scripting to Your Fullest Potential. Â At Start-Automating, we can help you unleash the full Power of PowerShell V2. Â You can use our deep PowerShell expertise to build rich PowerShell solutions, or we can train you to use PowerShell like a pro. Isn&amp;quot;™t it time you Save-Time, Save-Money, and Start-Automating? Â Find out more atÂ &lt;a href="http://start-automating.com/"&gt;Start-Automating.com&lt;/a&gt;.
Links:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>This is how we roll in PowerShellLand</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-12-09-this-is-how-we-roll-in-powershellland/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:37:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-12-09-this-is-how-we-roll-in-powershellland/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;ScriptingWife don&amp;rsquo;t mess around!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/wp_000019.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/wp_000019.jpg?w=1014" alt="Image"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next Randy Roffey from Silect Software talks about MP Studio for OpsMgr</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-12-07-up-next-randy-roffey-from-silect-software-talks-about-mp-studio-for-opsmgr/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:35:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-12-07-up-next-randy-roffey-from-silect-software-talks-about-mp-studio-for-opsmgr/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/www-silect.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/www-silect.png" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This week our guest will be Randy Roffey from &lt;a href="http://www.silect.com/"&gt;Silect Software&lt;/a&gt;. Among other things, we&amp;rsquo;ll talk about how their product MP Studio uses PowerShell to automate the deployment of management packs into Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. Please join us Thursday December 8th at 9:30 pm EDT at our new and permanent live chat location which is &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/12-7-2011-3-36-35-pm.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/12-7-2011-3-36-35-pm.png" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 167 – Jason Helmick on Teaching PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-12-06-episode-167-jason-helmick-on-teaching-powershell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:09:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-12-06-episode-167-jason-helmick-on-teaching-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-167.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jason Helmick about learning and teaching PowerShell
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News





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 [PowerShell v3 CTP 2 is available for download](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2011/12/02/windows-management-framework-3-0-community-technology-preview-ctp-2-available-for-download.aspx)





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 [PowerCLI survey](http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2011/11/vcloud-director-powercli-cmdlets.html)





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 The first meeting of the [Charlotte PowerShell User Group](http://powershellgroup.org/charlotte.nc) is Jan 5th.





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 The first meeting of the [Pittsburgh PowerShell User Group](http://powershellgroup.org/Pittsburgh.PA) is Dec 13th.





- 


 Ed Wilson is at the [Arizona PowerShell User Group](http://powershellgroup.org/phoenix.az) Dec 7th.





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 [Sean Kearney will present Dec 7th](http://powershellgroup.org/virtual/12-11) for the virtual user group Live Lunch





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 The [MTUG in Norway&amp;quot;™s topic is Lync Management Shell](http://powershellgroup.org/Norway) Dec 15th
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Interview





This segment brought to you by Start-Automating
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Start Scripting to Your Fullest Potential. Â At Start-Automating, we can help you unleash the full Power of PowerShell V2. Â You can use our deep PowerShell expertise to build rich PowerShell solutions, or we can train you to use PowerShell like a pro. Isn&amp;quot;™t it time you Save-Time, Save-Money, and Start-Automating? Â Find out more atÂ &lt;a href="http://start-automating.com/"&gt;Start-Automating.com&lt;/a&gt;.
Links:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Microsoft Windows PowerShell V3 CTP2 Available for Download</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-12-05-microsoft-windows-powershell-v3-ctp2-available-for-download/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:40:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-12-05-microsoft-windows-powershell-v3-ctp2-available-for-download/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;You can grab the bits from &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27548"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. If you have V3 CTP1 installed, please uninstall it first or you can get your machine into a bad state.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So far my favorite two features new to this drop are both in the Integrated Scripting Editor (ISE). The first is the &amp;ldquo;most recently opened files list&amp;rdquo; on the File menu and second is the switch to a two pane ISE (combines the output and command panes into one). Oh yeah, there isn&amp;quot;™t much in the help system until you run Update-Help from an elevated prompt.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Jason Helmick talks about PowerShell in the Real World!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-12-01-up-next-jason-helmick-talks-about-powershell-in-the-real-world/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:30:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-12-01-up-next-jason-helmick-talks-about-powershell-in-the-real-world/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.interfacett.com/instructors/Instructor%20Asset%20Library/jason.png" alt=""&gt;From &lt;a href="http://www.interfacett.com/instructors/Pages/Jason-Helmick.aspx"&gt;his site&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jason Helmick has over 20 years in IT as an enterprise consultant and teacher.Â He works with many domain specific technologies, however has a passion for PowerShell. Since its initial release, Jason has authored courseware, taught and written articles about PowerShell and its affect on the industry.&lt;br&gt;
Jason teaches with a &amp;ldquo;Real-world&amp;rdquo; view and is one of the founding designers of Interface&amp;rsquo;s Hard Hat course series. Â The philosophy of the series is learn by solving business problems, not a step-by-step feature crawl. His favorite phrase, &amp;ldquo;You should be able to do the job on Monday&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br&gt;
Jason, along with Mike Pfeiffer, are the co-founders and co-leaders of one of the top PowerShell user groups known as AZPOSH.&amp;quot;‹&amp;quot;‹&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 166 – Alan Renouf talks PowerCLI</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-11-28-episode-166-alan-renouf-talks-powercli/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:32:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-11-28-episode-166-alan-renouf-talks-powercli/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-166.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Alan Renouf about PowerCLI!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Interview





This segment brought to you by Start-Automating
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Start Scripting to Your Fullest Potential. Â At Start-Automating, we can help you unleash the full Power of PowerShell V2. Â You can use our deep PowerShell expertise to build rich PowerShell solutions, or we can train you to use PowerShell like a pro. Isn&amp;quot;™t it time you Save-Time, Save-Money, and Start-Automating? Â Find out more atÂ &lt;a href="http://start-automating.com/"&gt;Start-Automating.com&lt;/a&gt;.
Links:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 165 – Brandon Shell talks Splunk</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-11-14-episode-165-brandon-shell-talks-splunk/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:03:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-11-14-episode-165-brandon-shell-talks-splunk/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-165.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Brandon Shell about Splunk and life after system administration
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment brought to you by Start-Automating
Start Scripting to Your Fullest Potential. Â At Start-Automating, we can help you unleash the full Power of PowerShell V2. Â You can use our deep PowerShell expertise to build rich PowerShell solutions, or we can train you to use PowerShell like a pro. Isn&amp;quot;™t it time you Save-Time, Save-Money, and Start-Automating? Â Find out more atÂ &lt;a href="http://start-automating.com/"&gt;Start-Automating.com&lt;/a&gt;.
News&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>No show today</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-11-10-no-show-today-2/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:46:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-11-10-no-show-today-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We are taking this week off, but will be back next week with more PowerShell goodness!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next Don Jones is back to talk about Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches and more</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-11-07-up-next-don-jones-is-back-to-talk-about-learn-powershell-in-a-month-of-lunches-and-more/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-11-07-up-next-don-jones-is-back-to-talk-about-learn-powershell-in-a-month-of-lunches-and-more/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/don-jones1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/don-jones1.jpg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This week our guest will be Don Jones to talk about his latest book &lt;a href="http://www.manning.com/jones/"&gt;Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches&lt;/a&gt;Â and whatever else he wants to talk about. If you&amp;rsquo;ve heard Don speak, you already know that you don&amp;rsquo;t want to miss it. If you haven&amp;rsquo;t heard Don speak, let me assure you, you don&amp;rsquo;t want to miss it. Please join us Thursday December 15th at 9:30 pm EDT at our new and permanent live chat locationÂ &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net!&lt;/a&gt;Â Don is one of our most popular guests so I&amp;rsquo;m sure the chat room will be a lot of fun. You may want to set a reminder on your phone so you don&amp;rsquo;t miss out!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Brandon Shell talks about Splunk</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-11-01-up-next-brandon-shell-talks-about-splunk/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:57:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-11-01-up-next-brandon-shell-talks-about-splunk/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/logo_big_splunk.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/logo_big_splunk.png" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This week our guest will be Brandon Shell to tell us about &lt;a href="https://github.com/splunk/splunk-reskit-powershell"&gt;Splunk&lt;/a&gt;Â and their &lt;a href="http://dev.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAADRU"&gt;PowerShell Resource Kit&lt;/a&gt;. Please join us Thursday November 3rd at 9:30 pm EDT at our new live chat locationÂ &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 164 – Jim Hofer and Kirk Munro from Devfarm</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-10-30-episode-164-jim-hofer-and-kirk-munro-from-devfarm/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:24:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-10-30-episode-164-jim-hofer-and-kirk-munro-from-devfarm/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-164.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jim Hofer and Kirk Munro with Devfarm Software
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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News&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next Kirk Munro and Jim Hofer Talk about PowerWF and PowerSE</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-10-25-up-next-kirk-munro-and-jim-hofer-talk-about-powerwf-and-powerse/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:34:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-10-25-up-next-kirk-munro-and-jim-hofer-talk-about-powerwf-and-powerse/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerwf.com/media/6624/powerse-icon.png" alt=""&gt;This week our guest will be Kirk Munro and Jim Hofer from &lt;a href="http://powerwf.com/"&gt;DevFarm Software&lt;/a&gt;Â to talk about PowerSE and PowerWF. Please join us Thursday October 27th at 9:30 pm EDT at our new and permanent live chat location which is &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Sorry, we have to reschedule. No show tonight</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-10-20-sorry-we-have-to-reschedule-no-show-tonight/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:07:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-10-20-sorry-we-have-to-reschedule-no-show-tonight/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I wanted to let you know that due to an emergency we are not going to record tonight. We hope that Jason will be willing to join us soon for an interview. We hope to see you next week!&lt;br&gt;
-Jonathan&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 163 – Jim Truher on PowerShell History and SCSM</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-10-19-episode-163-jim-truher-on-powershell-history-and-scsm/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:09:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-10-19-episode-163-jim-truher-on-powershell-history-and-scsm/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-163.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jim Truher from Microsoft about the history of PowerShell and System Center Service Manager!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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News&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Windows PowerShell Version 3 Simplified Syntax</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-10-19-windows-powershell-version-3-simplified-syntax/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:44:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-10-19-windows-powershell-version-3-simplified-syntax/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Windows PowerShell version 3 introduces a simplified syntax for the Where-Object and Foreach-Object cmdlets. The simplified syntax shown below, eliminates the curly braces as well as the need for the special variable $_.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;C:\PS&amp;gt; Get-Process | Where PM -gt 100MB ... C:\PS&amp;gt; Get-Process | Foreach Name ... &lt;/code&gt;The intent of this &amp;ldquo;syntax&amp;rdquo; is to make it easier for folks get started with PowerShell. Compared to the commands below, I can see the value of the simplified syntax:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 162 – Mike Pfeiffer from Interface Technical Training</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-10-17-episode-162-mike-pfeiffer-from-interface-technical-training/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:21:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-10-17-episode-162-mike-pfeiffer-from-interface-technical-training/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-162.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Mike Pfeiffer about PowerShell training, Exchange and the Arizona PowerShell user group
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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Resources&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerSE 2.5.3 is now available</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-10-14-powerse-2-5-3-is-now-available/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:02:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-10-14-powerse-2-5-3-is-now-available/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A little over a week ago we released &lt;a href="http://powerwf.com/products/powerse.aspx"&gt;PowerSE 2.5.3&lt;/a&gt; to the web.  You can download the latest release &lt;a href="http://powerwf.com/products/powerse.aspx"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  This release includes many great improvements to the &lt;a href="http://powerwf.com/products/powerse.aspx"&gt;PowerSE&lt;/a&gt; product, many of which were requested by you, so thanks for your feedback and please keep it coming!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="no-time-limit-for-freeware"&gt;No time limit for freeware&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With this release, we&amp;quot;™ve removed the requirement to re-download this product every 60 days.  This was our number one feature request since we made &lt;a href="http://powerwf.com/products/powerse.aspx"&gt;PowerSE&lt;/a&gt; a freeware product.  Now when you download &lt;a href="http://powerwf.com/products/powerse.aspx"&gt;PowerSE&lt;/a&gt; 2.5.3, it is truly freeware and you can use it as long as you like!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 161 – Gaurav Mantri on Azure Management with PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-10-06-episode-161-gaurav-mantri-on-azure-management-with-powershell/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:18:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-10-06-episode-161-gaurav-mantri-on-azure-management-with-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-161.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Gaurav Mantri from Cerebrata about their Azure Management Cmdlets
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;**News**





This segment brought to you by Start-Automating
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&lt;p&gt;Start Scripting to Your Fullest Potential. Â At Start-Automating, we can help you unleash the full Power of PowerShell V2. Â You can use our deep PowerShell expertise to build rich PowerShell solutions, or we can train you to use PowerShell like a pro. Isn&amp;quot;™t it time you Save-Time, Save-Money, and Start-Automating? Â Find out more atÂ &lt;a href="http://start-automating.com/"&gt;Start-Automating.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next Gaurav Mantri talks about Azure Management cmdlets</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-09-28-up-next-gaurav-mantri-talks-about-azure-management-cmdlets/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-09-28-up-next-gaurav-mantri-talks-about-azure-management-cmdlets/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This week our guest will be Gaurav Mantri from &lt;a href="http://www.cerebrata.com/Default.aspx"&gt;Cerebrata Software&lt;/a&gt; to talk about theirÂ &lt;a href="http://www.cerebrata.com/Products/AzureManagementCmdlets/default.aspx?r=ESIG"&gt;Azure Managememt cmdlets&lt;/a&gt;. Please join us Thursday September 29th at 9:30 pm EDT at our new and permanent live chat location which is &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.cerebrata.com/Products/AzureManagementCmdlets/default.aspx?r=ESIG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.cerebrata.com/Images/AzureManagementCmdlets.png" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 160 – Boe Prox on PoshPAIG</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-09-25-episode-160-boe-prox-on-poshpaig/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 04:21:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-09-25-episode-160-boe-prox-on-poshpaig/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-160.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; In This Episode





 Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Boe Prox about PoshPAIG
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment brought to you by Start-Automating
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This week&lt;/strong&gt;, Hal and Jon plan on recording some finishing bits for the interview we did with Boe Prox a few weeks ago, and we still need to give away that Jeff Hicks Train Signal video, so if you&amp;quot;™d like to come hang out in the &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live chatroom&lt;/a&gt; (always at &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;), you ought to be able to find us this Thursday sometime between 9 and 11PM EDT.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PSCX 2.1 Beta 1 Available for Download</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-09-18-pscx-2-1-beta-1-available-for-download/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 04:17:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-09-18-pscx-2-1-beta-1-available-for-download/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I just uploaded beta 1 for the PowerShell Community Extensions version 2.1. This beta drop adds better support for Windows PowerShell V3 that is in the Windows 8 Developer Preview. There are a number of bug fixes in this drop:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;28023 Read-Archive : Cannot bind parameter &amp;lsquo;Path&amp;rsquo;. Cannot convert the &amp;hellip; value of type &amp;ldquo;System.String&amp;rdquo; to type &amp;ldquo;Pscx.IO.PscxPathInfo&amp;rdquo;.
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;28198 Test-XML not validating xml against schema correctly
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;28964 Get-FileTail access conflict
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;29255 Get-HttpResource Timeout Bug
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;29598 String – PscxPathInfo ParameterBindingException
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;30169 Invoke-Ternary example doesn&amp;rsquo;t work&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tips, Tricks, &amp; Resources until we return</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-09-12-tips-tricks-resources-until-we-return/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:45:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-09-12-tips-tricks-resources-until-we-return/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The PowerScripting Podcast Studio and Headquarters (also known as Jonathan&amp;quot;™s basement) is in great working order. However, the roof and other related components of the domicile attached to this basement are still being repaired following the recent visitation by a tornado spawned by tropical storm Lee. That means no show again this week, but we see the light at the end of the tunnel!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To keep you going until we return, here are a few items from Twitter and blogs that we&amp;quot;™re watching:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Seasons of change: new Product Manager for PowerWFâ„¢ and PowerSE at Devfarm Software</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-09-06-seasons-of-change-new-product-manager-for-powerwf-and-powerse-at-devfarm-software/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:24:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-09-06-seasons-of-change-new-product-manager-for-powerwf-and-powerse-at-devfarm-software/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I always enjoy this time of year.  There is something about the transition that happens over Labour Day weekend that always gets me excited.  Maybe it&amp;quot;™s a lingering feeling of anticipation over the new year at school or university from years gone by, a feeling that I can still appreciate these days as I watch my kids getting excited about their education and the new activities they will sign up for this fall.  Regardless, it&amp;quot;™s always a fun time of year for me.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Show cancelled this week!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-09-06-show-cancelled-this-week/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:03:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-09-06-show-cancelled-this-week/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/archives/2011/h2011_Lee.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/584524main_LEE-GOES-226x170.jpg" alt="GOES image of Lee"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Sorry all, but I have bad news to report. You see, by the time that hurricanes get to Georgia, the leftovers often turn into big storms. Sometimes, as they did this weekend, they turn into tornadoes. Jon&amp;quot;™s house experienced some damage, but everyone is safe. The damage to his house isn&amp;quot;™t severe, but he is understandably shaken up, and the family has some bigger things to think about this week than the podcast.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>UP Next: Boe Prox talks about PoshPAIG</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-08-29-up-next-boe-prox-talks-about-poshpaig/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:33:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-08-29-up-next-boe-prox-talks-about-poshpaig/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This week our guest will be Boe Prox to talk about &lt;a href="http://learn-powershell.net/2011/08/13/guest-blogger-on-hey-scripting-guy-for-poshpaig/"&gt;PoshPAIG&lt;/a&gt;. Please join us Thursday September 1st at 9:30 pm EDT at our new and permanent live chat location which is &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 159 – Tome Tanasovski on Regular Expressions and More</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-08-23-episode-159-tome-tanasovski-on-regular-expressions-and-more/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:00:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-08-23-episode-159-tome-tanasovski-on-regular-expressions-and-more/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-159.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk toÂ Tome Tanasovski on regular expressions, the NYC PowerShell User Group, and more!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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News&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: No Show this week. Be back next week on Sept 1st</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-08-22-up-next-no-show-this-week-be-back-next-week-on-sept-1st/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:26:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-08-22-up-next-no-show-this-week-be-back-next-week-on-sept-1st/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This week we will not have a show. Our guest next week will be Boe Prox to talk about &lt;a href="http://learn-powershell.net/2011/08/13/guest-blogger-on-hey-scripting-guy-for-poshpaig/"&gt;PAIG&lt;/a&gt;.Â  Please join us Thursday Sept 1st at 9:30 pm EDT at our new and permanent live chat location which is &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Win a copy of Windows PowerShell Fundamentals Training Thursday.</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-08-22-win-a-copy-of-windows-powershell-fundamentals-training-thursday/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:38:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-08-22-win-a-copy-of-windows-powershell-fundamentals-training-thursday/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you would like to win a copy of the &lt;a href="http://www.trainsignal.com/Windows-PowerShell-Fundamentals.aspx"&gt;Windows PowerShell Fundamentals Training&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://jdhitsolutions.com/"&gt;Jeff Hicks&lt;/a&gt; through &lt;a href="http://www.trainsignal.com/Default.aspx"&gt;Train Signal&lt;/a&gt;, then all you have to do is leave a comment or follow &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/powerscripting"&gt;@powerscripting&lt;/a&gt; and retweet this story&amp;quot;™s link! We have two copies that we will give away on Thursday September 1st during the PowerScripting Podcast live show. You don&amp;quot;™t need to be present at the incredibly fun and &lt;a href="http://powerscriptinglive.blogspot.com/"&gt;informative live stream that we do every Thursday at 9:30pm EST&lt;/a&gt; to win (but we&amp;quot;™d love to see you!). Obviously we have to be able to contact you via email or twitter to obtain your shipping address, so follow us on twitter so we can DM you, or leave your email address when you comment on this blog post.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://www.trainsignal.com/Assets/ProductImages/Windows_PowerShell_Fundamentals_Training.jpg" alt="Windows PowerShell Fundamentals Training"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>UP NEXT: Tome Tanasovski on regular expressions.</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-08-17-up-next-tome-tanasovski-on-regular-expressions/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:21:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-08-17-up-next-tome-tanasovski-on-regular-expressions/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This week our guest will be Tome Tanasovski (@toenuff) to talk about regular expressions.  Please join us Thursday August 18th at 9:30 pm EDT at our new and permanent live chat location which is &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 158 – Phil Haack and Andrew Nurse from Microsoft about NuGet and PSGet</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-08-16-episode-158-phil-haack-and-andrew-nurse-from-microsoft-about-nuget-and-psget/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:07:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-08-16-episode-158-phil-haack-and-andrew-nurse-from-microsoft-about-nuget-and-psget/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-158.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; In This Episode





 Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Phil Haack and Andrew Nurse from Microsoft about NuGet and PSGet
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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News&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 157 – Steven Murawski on CommandAssist</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-08-08-episode-157-steven-murawski-on-commandassist/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 04:21:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-08-08-episode-157-steven-murawski-on-commandassist/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-157.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Steven Murawski about CommandAssist
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&lt;p&gt;This segment brought to you by Start-Automating
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News&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>UP NEXT: NuGet discussion with Phil Haack and Andrew Nurse from Microsoft</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-08-08-up-next-nuget-discussion-with-phil-haack-and-andrew-nurse-from-microsoft/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-08-08-up-next-nuget-discussion-with-phil-haack-and-andrew-nurse-from-microsoft/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://nuget.org/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://download.codeplex.com/Project/Download/FileDownload.aspx?ProjectName=nuget&amp;amp;DownloadId=162974&amp;amp;Build=17950" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This week our guests will be &lt;a href="http://haacked.com/"&gt;Phil Haack&lt;/a&gt;Â (&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/#!/haacked"&gt;@haacked&lt;/a&gt;) and &lt;a href="http://vibrantcode.com/"&gt;Andrew Nurse&lt;/a&gt;Â (&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/#!/anurse"&gt;@anurse&lt;/a&gt;) from Microsoft to talk about &lt;a href="http://nuget.org/"&gt;NuGet&lt;/a&gt;. Please join us Thursday August 11th at 9:30 pm EDT at our new and permanent live chat location which is &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 156 – Brandon Shell on The Cloud, Bunnies and VDI</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-08-01-episode-156-brandon-shell-on-the-coud-bunnies-and-vdi/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:31:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-08-01-episode-156-brandon-shell-on-the-coud-bunnies-and-vdi/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-156.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Brandon Shell about PowerShell, The Cloud and VDI.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News





This segment brought to you by Start-Automating
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&lt;p&gt;Start Scripting to Your Fullest Potential. Â At Start-Automating, we can help you unleash the full Power of PowerShell V2. Â You can use our deep PowerShell expertise to build rich PowerShell solutions, or we can train you to use PowerShell like a pro. Isn&amp;quot;™t it time you Save-Time, Save-Money, and Start-Automating? Â Find out more atÂ &lt;a href="http://start-automating.com/"&gt;Start-Automating.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Steven Murawski</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-08-01-up-next-steven-murawski/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-08-01-up-next-steven-murawski/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This week we start back on our regular Thursday night schedule,  we will have Steven Murawski , founder of the Greater Milwaukee Script Club with us. Please join us Thursday August 4th at 9:30 pm EDT at our new and permanent live chat location which is &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>One for the road: Stepping away from PowerGUIÂ®</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-07-28-one-for-the-road-stepping-away-from-powergui/</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:01:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-07-28-one-for-the-road-stepping-away-from-powergui/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Today was one of my most difficult days in my 7Â½+ year career at Quest Software.  The same week that I was given a performance raise (I got that email on Monday), this afternoon I got a phone call from the director over my business unit letting me know that my position has been cut effective immediately.  Part of a book balancing effort it seems –  funny (or not so much) how life works sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Brandon Shell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-07-27-up-next-brandon-shell/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:36:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-07-27-up-next-brandon-shell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Tonight we will have our good friend of the show and Powershell MVP Brandon Shell with us. Please join us at 9:30 pm EDT at our new and permanent live chat location which is &lt;a href="http://live.powerscripting.net"&gt;live.powerscripting.net!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As always, the show is best when we have a lively chat room with you guys asking lots of questions. Come help us kick the tires on the new chat system!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 155 – Doug Finke, Joel Bennett and James Brundage on Show-UI</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-07-25-episode-155-doug-finke-joel-bennett-and-james-brundage-on-show-ui/</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:03:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-07-25-episode-155-doug-finke-joel-bennett-and-james-brundage-on-show-ui/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-155.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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 Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to James Brundage, Joel Bennett and Doug Finke about Show-UI
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&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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 This segment is brought to you byÂ PowerGUI Pro with MobileShell, Version Control, and Easy Remote Script Execution.
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&lt;p&gt;At Quest we are passionate about Windows PowerShell. PowerGUI Pro enables organizations to harness the power of PowerShell without the expense of training and custom scripts and applications. PowerGUI Pro solves issues regardless of the time and place by using MobileShell to remotely manage your infrastructure. Ensure scripting best practices by leveraging integration with popular Version Control systems. Automate against thousands of computers using Easy Remote Script Execution.Â &lt;a href="http://www.quest.com/PowerGUIPro/"&gt;Get PowerGUI Pro at &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://quest.com/powerguipro"&gt;quest.com/powerguipro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Looking for the live stream?</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-07-20-looking-for-the-live-stream/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 01:28:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-07-20-looking-for-the-live-stream/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s this weeks linkÂ &lt;a href="http://bambuser.com/v/1835100"&gt;http://bambuser.com/v/1835100&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerGUIÂ® 3.0 Hotfix: Double-clicking on a ps1, psm1, or psd1 file to open the Script Editor shows the Start Page as the active page in the Script Editor</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-07-20-powergui-3-0-hotfix-double-clicking-on-a-ps1-psm1-or-psd1-file-to-open-the-script-editor-shows-the-start-page-as-the-active-page-in-the-script-editor/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:11:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-07-20-powergui-3-0-hotfix-double-clicking-on-a-ps1-psm1-or-psd1-file-to-open-the-script-editor-shows-the-start-page-as-the-active-page-in-the-script-editor/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This article describes an issue that was introduced into both &lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/" title="PowerGUI.org"&gt;PowerGUI&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.powerguipro.com/" title="PowerGUI Pro"&gt;PowerGUI Pro&lt;/a&gt; when version 3.0 was released and provides a recommended solution to that issue.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="problem"&gt;Problem&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While the &lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/" title="PowerGUI.org"&gt;PowerGUI&lt;/a&gt; Script Editor is closed, double-clicking on a ps1, psm1 or psd1 file or right-clicking on one of those file types and selecting &amp;ldquo;Open with PowerGUI Script Editor&amp;rdquo; will open the file you selected in the Script Editor as expected; however the Start Page will appear as the active tab in the Script Editor instead of the file you opened.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 154 – Josh Heller from Cisco on UCS and PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-07-18-episode-154-josh-heller-from-cisco-on-ucs-and-powershell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:36:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-07-18-episode-154-josh-heller-from-cisco-on-ucs-and-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-154.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Josh Heller from Cisco about their Unified Computing System and managing it with PowerShell
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This segment is brought to you byÂ PowerGUI Pro with MobileShell, Version Control, and Easy Remote Script Execution.
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&lt;p&gt;At Quest we are passionate about Windows PowerShell. PowerGUI Pro enables organizations to harness the power of PowerShell without the expense of training and custom scripts and applications. PowerGUI Pro solves issues regardless of the time and place by using MobileShell to remotely manage your infrastructure. Ensure scripting best practices by leveraging integration with popular Version Control systems. Automate against thousands of computers using Easy Remote Script Execution.Â &lt;a href="http://www.quest.com/PowerGUIPro/"&gt;Get PowerGUI Pro at quest.com/powerguipro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerGUIÂ® Pro 3.0: Mobile Systems Management Using MobileShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-07-18-powergui-pro-3-0-mobile-systems-management-using-mobileshell/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:18:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-07-18-powergui-pro-3-0-mobile-systems-management-using-mobileshell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In case you missed the announcement last Friday, [&lt;a href="http://www.powerguipro.com/" title="PowerGUI Pro"&gt;PowerGUI Pro&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/" title="PowerGUI.org"&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;3.0 was released to the web.  With this release we included a new feature that I&amp;quot;™m really excited about: Mobile Systems Management Using MobileShell.  We&amp;quot;™ve had MobileShell for quite a while, but prior to this release you could only use it to invoke your favorite scripts or commands from modules associated with your user account as well as ad hoc commands you wanted to run.  Here&amp;quot;™s a screenshot tour showing you what this interface would look like on a handheld device:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>UP Next: Show UI with Doug Finke, Joel Bennett and James Brundage</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-07-18-up-next-show-ui-with-doug-finke-joel-bennett-and-james-brundage/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:11:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-07-18-up-next-show-ui-with-doug-finke-joel-bennett-and-james-brundage/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;On this week&amp;quot;™s show (7/20/11 @ 9:30pm EST right here on Justin.tv!), we&amp;quot;™ll be talking to Doug Finke, Joel Bennett and James Brundage to talk about their ShowUI module. Be sure to drop by &lt;a href="http://www.justin.tv/powerscripting"&gt;the chatroom&lt;/a&gt; Wednesday so that you can post questions and interact with your fellow PowerShellers!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;quot;™re not able to join us live, but you have questions you&amp;quot;™d like to see answered, please let us know! You can leave comments on this blog post and we&amp;quot;™ll weave them into the conversation.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerGUIÂ® Pro and PowerGUIÂ® 3.0 are now available</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-07-15-powergui-pro-and-powergui-3-0-are-now-available/</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:49:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-07-15-powergui-pro-and-powergui-3-0-are-now-available/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Today&amp;quot;™s an exciting day because I&amp;quot;™ve finished releasing &lt;a href="http://www.powerguipro.com/" title="PowerGUI Pro"&gt;PowerGUI Pro&lt;/a&gt; 3.0 and &lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/" title="PowerGUI.org"&gt;PowerGUI&lt;/a&gt; 3.0 to the web!  This release is something we&amp;quot;™ve been working on for a long time, and it has a ton of new goodies for you to play with.  You can learn more about the individual features in this release in the highlights below.  When reviewing these features, anything that is only available in PowerGUI Pro will be marked as a Pro feature.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 153 – Spencer Brown from /n software on PowerShell Inside</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-07-11-episode-153-spencer-brown-from-n-software-on-powershell-inside/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 02:14:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-07-11-episode-153-spencer-brown-from-n-software-on-powershell-inside/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-153.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="internal-source-marker_0.3269016579724848"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Spencer Brown from /n software about PowerShell Inside!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment brought to you by Start-Automating&lt;br&gt;
Start Scripting to Your Fullest Potential. Â At Start-Automating, we can help you unleash the full Power of PowerShell V2. Â You can use our deep PowerShell expertise to build rich PowerShell solutions, or we can train you to use PowerShell like a pro. Isn&amp;quot;™t it time you Save-Time, Save-Money, and Start-Automating? Â Find out more atÂ &lt;a href="http://start-automating.com/"&gt;Start-Automating.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Josh Heller from Cisco!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-07-11-up-next-josh-heller-from-cisco/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-07-11-up-next-josh-heller-from-cisco/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.cisco.com/web/offer/18788/images/CiscoLogo.jpg" alt=""&gt;On this week&amp;quot;™s show (7/13/11 @ 9:30pm EST right here on Justin.tv!), we&amp;quot;™ll be talking to Josh Heller from Cisco to talk about their Â &lt;a href="http://developer.cisco.com/web/unifiedcomputing/pshell-download"&gt;UCS PowerShell Toolkit&lt;/a&gt;. Be sure to drop by &lt;a href="http://www.justin.tv/powerscripting"&gt;the chatroom&lt;/a&gt; Wednesday so that you can post questions to the Josh and interact with your fellow PowerShellers!&lt;br&gt;
If you&amp;rsquo;re not able to join us live, but you have questions you&amp;rsquo;d like to see answered, please let us know! You can leave comments on this blog post and we&amp;rsquo;ll weave them into the conversation.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://developer.cisco.com/image/image_gallery?uuid=fc0770b2-e725-45ae-a695-2d7ca4db22c0&amp;amp;groupId=2897605&amp;amp;t=1307673830035" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 152 – PrimalForms 2011 with Alex and David</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-07-07-episode-152-primalforms-2011-with-alex-and-david/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 03:18:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-07-07-episode-152-primalforms-2011-with-alex-and-david/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-152.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Alex and David from Sapien about PrimalForms 2011
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News





This segment brought to you by Start-Automating
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&lt;p&gt;Start Scripting to Your Fullest Potential. Â At Start-Automating, we can help you unleash the full Power of PowerShell V2. Â You can use our deep PowerShell expertise to build rich PowerShell solutions, or we can train you to use PowerShell like a pro. Isn&amp;quot;™t it time you Save-Time, Save-Money, and Start-Automating? Â Find out more atÂ &lt;a href="http://start-automating.com/"&gt;Start-Automating.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next Spencer Brown from nSoftware</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-07-04-up-next-spencer-brown-from-nsoftware-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 02:04:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-07-04-up-next-spencer-brown-from-nsoftware-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;On this week&amp;quot;™s show (7/6/11 @ 9:30pm EST right here on Justin.tv!), we&amp;quot;™ll be talking to Spencer Brown from nSoftware. Be sure to drop by &lt;a href="http://www.justin.tv/powerscripting"&gt;the chatroom&lt;/a&gt; Wednesday so that you can post questions to the Spencer and interact with your fellow PowerShellers!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>vWorkspace PowerPack: A great example of the power and flexibility you get from PowerShell and PowerGUIÂ®</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-06-28-vworkspace-powerpack-a-great-example-of-the-power-and-flexibility-you-get-from-powershell-and-powergui/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:13:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-06-28-vworkspace-powerpack-a-great-example-of-the-power-and-flexibility-you-get-from-powershell-and-powergui/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Last week, the &lt;a href="http://www.quest.com/vworkspace/" title="Quest vWorkspace"&gt;Quest vWorkspace&lt;/a&gt; guys showed their prowess once again when they released the first version of the &lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/entry.jspa?categoryID=290&amp;amp;externalID=3561" title="vWorkspace PowerPack"&gt;vWorkspace PowerPack&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href="http://www.powerguipro.com/" title="PowerGUI Pro"&gt;PowerGUIÂ® Pro&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/" title="PowerGUI.org"&gt;PowerGUI&lt;/a&gt;Â®.  I love this PowerPack because it really demonstrates how PowerGUI is so complementary to PowerShell.  To see what I mean, take a look at the following screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://kirkmunro.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/image.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://kirkmunro.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/image_thumb.png?w=604&amp;amp;h=364" alt="vWorkspace PowerPack - multi-farm management"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This screenshot shows two major improvements to the vWorkspace management experience by demonstrating how you can use the &lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/entry.jspa?categoryID=290&amp;amp;externalID=3561" title="vWorkspace PowerPack"&gt;vWorkspace PowerPack&lt;/a&gt; to perform management tasks across all farms, and by demonstrating how you can use the &lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/entry.jspa?categoryID=290&amp;amp;externalID=3561" title="vWorkspace PowerPack"&gt;vWorkspace PowerPack&lt;/a&gt; to perform management tasks across all locations in a single farm or across all locations in all farms.  In the native vWorkspace management user interface, you can only work with one farm at a time, and you can only work with one location at a time.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 151 – Jeremy Kelly Announces Script Explorer</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-06-27-episode-151-jeremy-kelly-announces-script-explorer/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 03:14:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-06-27-episode-151-jeremy-kelly-announces-script-explorer/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-151.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="internal-source-marker_0.0999345990462065"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jeremy Kelly from Microsoft about Script Explorer!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment brought to you by Start-Automating&lt;br&gt;
Start Scripting to Your Fullest Potential.Â  At Start-Automating, we can help you unleash the full Power of PowerShell V2.Â  You can use our deep PowerShell expertise to build rich PowerShell solutions, or we can train you to use PowerShell like a pro. Isn&amp;quot;™t it time you Save-Time, Save-Money, and Start-Automating?Â  Find out more at &lt;a href="http://start-automating.com/"&gt;Start-Automating.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Alexander Riedel and David Corrales from Sapien</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-06-27-up-next-alexander-riedel-and-david-corrales-from-sapien/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:20:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-06-27-up-next-alexander-riedel-and-david-corrales-from-sapien/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.sapien.com/assets/img/logo3.png" alt=""&gt;On this week&amp;quot;™s show (6/29/11 @ 9:30pm EST right here on Justin.tv!), we&amp;quot;™ll be talking to David Corrales and Alex Riedel from Sapien about the newest &lt;a href="http://www.sapien.com/software/primalforms"&gt;PrimalForms 2011&lt;/a&gt;. Be sure to drop by &lt;a href="http://www.justin.tv/powerscripting"&gt;the chatroom&lt;/a&gt; Wednesday so that you can post questions to the guys and interact with your fellow PowerShellers!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Jason Hogg, Jeremy Kelly and Joshy Joseph Talk About Script Explorer</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-06-21-up-next-jason-hogg-jeremy-kelly-and-joshy-joseph-talk-about-script-explorer/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:59:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-06-21-up-next-jason-hogg-jeremy-kelly-and-joshy-joseph-talk-about-script-explorer/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;On this week&amp;quot;™s show (6/22/11 @ 9:30pm EST right here on Justin.tv!), we&amp;quot;™ll be talking to Jason Hogg, Jeremy Kelly and Joshy Joseph from Microsoft about the new Script Explorer. Be sure to drop by &lt;a href="http://www.justin.tv/powerscripting"&gt;the chatroom&lt;/a&gt; Wednesday so that you can post questions to the guys and interact with your fellow PowerShellers!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 150 – Glenn Sizemore on NetApp and PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-06-20-episode-150-glenn-sizemore-on-netapp-and-powershell/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:19:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-06-20-episode-150-glenn-sizemore-on-netapp-and-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-150.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Glenn Sizemore about NetApp and their latest PowerShell projects
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&lt;p&gt;Start Scripting to Your Fullest Potential. Â At Start-Automating, we can help you unleash the full Power of PowerShell V2. Â You can use our deep PowerShell expertise to build rich PowerShell solutions, or we can train you to use PowerShell like a pro. Isn&amp;quot;™t it time you Save-Time, Save-Money, and Start-Automating? Â Find out more atÂ &lt;a href="http://start-automating.com/"&gt;Start-Automating.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerGUI ProÂ® 3.0 Beta 2 is now available</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-06-17-powergui-pro-3-0-beta-2-is-now-available/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:21:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-06-17-powergui-pro-3-0-beta-2-is-now-available/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hot on the heels of our first beta cycle for &lt;a href="http://www.powerguipro.com/" title="PowerGUI Pro"&gt;PowerGUI Pro&lt;/a&gt; 3.0, today we released beta 2 of PowerGUI Pro 3.0 to the web.  This release includes a lot of fixes and improvements based on the feedback we&amp;quot;™ve received from you during our first beta cycle, so thank you for that feedback!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some details about the improvements that have been made in the 2nd beta of PowerGUI Pro 3.0:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Follow Up Survey About Azure Access Control Service</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-06-14-follow-up-survey-about-azure-access-control-service/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:41:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-06-14-follow-up-survey-about-azure-access-control-service/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Vittorio, our guest from show 149, has asked that PowerScripting listeners please fill out &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/acssurvey"&gt;this very short survey&lt;/a&gt; about Windows Azure Access Control  Service. Everybody who fills out the survey wins, absolutely free, one unit of good karma! Seriously, it&amp;quot;™s super-short. Please go do that real quick, won&amp;quot;™t take long, we swear!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 149 – Vittorio Bertocci on Windows Azure Control Services</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-06-13-episode-149-vittorio-bertocci-on-windows-azure-control-services/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:05:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-06-13-episode-149-vittorio-bertocci-on-windows-azure-control-services/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-149.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="internal-source-marker_0.5936883237018817"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Vittorio Bertocci about Windows Azure Access Control Services&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment brought to you by Start-Automating&lt;br&gt;
Start Scripting to Your Fullest Potential.Â  At Start-Automating, we can help you unleash the full Power of PowerShell V2.Â  You can use our deep PowerShell expertise to build rich PowerShell solutions, or we can train you to use PowerShell like a pro. Isn&amp;quot;™t it time you Save-Time, Save-Money, and Start-Automating?Â  Find out more at &lt;a href="http://start-automating.com/"&gt;Start-Automating.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Glenn Sizemore from NetApp</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-06-13-up-next-glenn-sizemore-from-netapp/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:07:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-06-13-up-next-glenn-sizemore-from-netapp/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;On this week&amp;quot;™s show (6/15/11 @ 9:30pm EST right here on Justin.tv!), we&amp;quot;™ll be talking to Glenn Sizemore from NetApp about his latest PowerShell stuff announced and demo&amp;rsquo;d recently at TechEd. Be sure to drop by &lt;a href="http://www.justin.tv/powerscripting"&gt;the chatroom&lt;/a&gt; Wednesday so that you can post questions to Glenn and interact with your fellow PowerShellers!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Vittorio Bertocci will talk about AppFabric cmdlets</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-06-06-up-next-vittorio-bertocci-will-talk-about-appfabric-cmdlets/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-06-06-up-next-vittorio-bertocci-will-talk-about-appfabric-cmdlets/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;On this week&amp;quot;™s show (6/8/11 @ 9:30pm EST right here on Ustream!), we&amp;quot;™ll be talking to Vittorio Bertocci about Azure, AppFabric, and his &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbertocci/archive/2011/05/17/announcing-sample-acs-cmdlets-for-the-windows-azure-appfabric-access-control-service.aspx"&gt;Access Control Service cmdlets&lt;/a&gt;. Be sure to drop by &lt;a href="http://www.justin.tv/powerscripting"&gt;the chatroom&lt;/a&gt;Â Wednesday so that you can post questions to Vittorio and interact with your fellow PowerShellers!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>New Summer Schedule for the Live Show! (no show tonight)</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-06-02-new-summer-schedule-for-the-live-show-no-show-tonight/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:27:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-06-02-new-summer-schedule-for-the-live-show-no-show-tonight/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hey listeners! We want to let you know that we are shifting to a new night for the PowerScripting Live show, just for the summer. Our live streams will be on Wednesdays during June and July as we work around family schedules. The time will remain at 9:30PM EDT.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also, there will be no show tonight because of course, Hal forgot that he had a Thursday event until this morning! $cohost.Punish()&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 148 – Matt Hester and Sarah Dutkiewicz</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-05-31-episode-148-matt-hester-and-sarah-dutkiewicz/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 03:50:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-05-31-episode-148-matt-hester-and-sarah-dutkiewicz/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-148.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="internal-source-marker_0.18370755323694188"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Matt Hester and Sarah Dutkiewicz about&lt;br&gt;
their new PowerShell book!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment brought to you by Start-Automating&lt;br&gt;
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unleash the full Power of PowerShell V2.Â  You can use our deep PowerShell&lt;br&gt;
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Start-Automating?Â  Find out more at &lt;a href="http://start-automating.com/"&gt;Start-Automating.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Win a copy of Automating Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Windows PowerShell 2.0 TODAY!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-05-31-win-a-copy-of-automating-microsoft-windows-server-2008-r2-with-windows-powershell-2-0-today/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 13:42:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-05-31-win-a-copy-of-automating-microsoft-windows-server-2008-r2-with-windows-powershell-2-0-today/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you would like to win a copy of the book titled &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Automating-Microsoft-Windows-Server-PowerShell/dp/1118013867/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1306697104&amp;amp;sr=1-3"&gt;Automating Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Windows PowerShell 2.0&lt;/a&gt; by Matthew Hester and Sarah Dutkiewicz, then all you have to do is leave a comment or follow &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/powerscripting"&gt;@powerscripting&lt;/a&gt; and retweet this story&amp;quot;™s link! We will give away one (physical) copy TODAY. You don&amp;quot;™t need to be present at the &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;incredibly fun and informative live stream that we do every Thursday at 9:30pm EST on Ustream&lt;/a&gt; to win (but we&amp;quot;™d love to see you!). Obviously we have to be able to contact you via email or twitter to obtain your shipping address, so follow us on twitter so we can DM you, or leave your email address when you comment on this blog post.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Matthew Hester and Sarah Dutkiewicz talk about their new PowerShell book!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-05-24-up-next-matthew-hester-and-sarah-dutkiewicz-talk-about-their-new-powershell-book/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 16:08:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-05-24-up-next-matthew-hester-and-sarah-dutkiewicz-talk-about-their-new-powershell-book/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://amzn.to/kBVg8r"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/book-cover-image-for-buy-automating-microsoft-windows-server-2008-r2-with-windows-powershell-2.jpg?w=237" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;On this week&amp;quot;™s show (5/26/11 @ 9:30pm EST right here on Ustream!), we&amp;quot;™ll be talking to the authors of Windows Server 2008 R2 Administration with Windows PowerShell 2.0 Be sure to drop by &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;the Ustream channel&lt;/a&gt; Thursday so that you can post questions to Matthew and Sarah andÂ  interact with your fellow PowerShellers!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Bonus Episode from Tech-Ed with Kirk Munro on PowerGUI 3.0</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-05-19-bonus-episode-from-tech-ed-with-kirk-munro-on-powergui-3-0/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 03:00:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-05-19-bonus-episode-from-tech-ed-with-kirk-munro-on-powergui-3-0/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-PowerGui.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here is a special bonus episode that Hal recorded at Tech-Ed 2011 with Kirk Munro about the new beta for PowerGUI 3.0&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://poshoholic.com/2011/05/17/try-the-powergui-pro-3-0-beta-today/"&gt;http://poshoholic.com/2011/05/17/try-the-powergui-pro-3-0-beta-today/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Configuring RBAC for MobileShell in PowerGUI Pro 3.0</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-05-18-configuring-rbac-for-mobileshell-in-powergui-pro-3-0/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 05:07:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-05-18-configuring-rbac-for-mobileshell-in-powergui-pro-3-0/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Yesterday we released the public &lt;a href="http://poshoholic.com/2011/05/17/try-the-powergui-pro-3-0-beta-today/" title="PowerGUI Pro 3.0 Beta"&gt;beta of PowerGUIÂ® Pro 3.0&lt;/a&gt;, which comes with all sorts of cool new features for &lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/" title="PowerGUI.org"&gt;PowerGUI&lt;/a&gt; users.Â  My favorite feature is definitely the new management interface for MobileShell.Â  With this interface, you can perform systems management from your handheld device very easily.Â  Here&amp;quot;™s what that might look like from your webkit-enabled web browser:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://kirkmunro.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/mobileshell-actions1.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://kirkmunro.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/mobileshell-actions_thumb.png?w=354&amp;amp;h=640" alt="MobileShell.Actions"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Since this is only a beta release, it doesn&amp;quot;™t necessarily have everything fully polished just yet.Â  One thing that we didn&amp;quot;™t get to include in the beta release was a management console allowing you to associate PowerPacks with AD users and groups as well as instructions describing how you set up MobileShell to use this new interface with the beta.Â  The PowerPack that will be used to do that will come later.Â  In the meantime, this post will give you the necessary instructions to get started.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Try the PowerGUI ProÂ® 3.0 Beta today!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-05-17-try-the-powergui-pro-3-0-beta-today/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-05-17-try-the-powergui-pro-3-0-beta-today/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Today marks another exciting milestone for &lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/" title="PowerGUI.org"&gt;PowerGUI&lt;/a&gt;, as we release a &lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/entry.jspa?externalID=3523" title="PowerGUI Pro 3.0 Public Beta"&gt;public beta&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://www.powerguipro.com/" title="PowerGUI Pro"&gt;PowerGUI Pro&lt;/a&gt; 3.0 to the web.Â  We&amp;quot;™ve been working very hard on this release, and it includes a lot of new and improved features.Â Â  The highlights of this release are shown below.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="mobileshell-now-supports-powerpack-rendering"&gt;MobileShell Now Supports PowerPack Rendering&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A lot of our customers have been requesting this feature for a while (myself included!).Â  With PowerGUI Pro 3.0, you can now expose PowerPacks to MobileShell users!Â  An xml document is used to provide role-based access control (RBAC) to PowerGUI PowerPacks.Â  You simply associate PowerPack files with Active Directory users or groups, and when a user logs in they will see the PowerPacks that are configured for them!Â  Here&amp;quot;™s a screenshot showing the top level of MobileShell, where you can see the PowerPacks that have been exposed to this user:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Exciting PowerGUIÂ® news at TechEd 2011 next week!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-05-13-exciting-powergui-news-at-teched-2011-next-week/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 20:23:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-05-13-exciting-powergui-news-at-teched-2011-next-week/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Next week I&amp;quot;™ll be at the TechEd 2011 conference in Atlanta.  During this event I&amp;quot;™ll be doing an Ask the Experts session on &lt;strong&gt;Tuesday, May 17, 2011&lt;/strong&gt; in the Quest Software booth from &lt;strong&gt;12:30-1:00PM&lt;/strong&gt;.  If you want to get the latest news on &lt;a href="http://www.powerguipro.com/" title="PowerGUI Pro"&gt;PowerGUIÂ® Pro&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/" title="PowerGUI.org"&gt;PowerGUI&lt;/a&gt;Â®, come to that session!  I have some really cool things I&amp;quot;™ve been dying to show you, so please stop by and say Hello!  If you can&amp;quot;™t make that session, we&amp;quot;™ll be demoing &lt;a href="http://www.powerguipro.com/" title="PowerGUI Pro"&gt;PowerGUI Pro&lt;/a&gt; all week in the Quest booth, so stop by if you want a quick look at what we&amp;quot;™ve been working on.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>No Show Tonight!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-05-12-no-show-tonight-4/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 00:03:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-05-12-no-show-tonight-4/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Sorry guys and gals, we have to reschedule tonight&amp;quot;™s podcast because SOMEBODY didn&amp;quot;™t buy a SOMETHING which caused THIS OTHER THING to not work during a UNSPECIFIED BAD THING which meant that Hal is stuck at work all evening cleaning up the mess.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oh, and Jon&amp;quot;™s busy too.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;quot;™t worry, we shall reschedule tonight&amp;quot;™s guest from /n Software because I know we all want to see what cool PowerShelly stuff those guys are working on.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 147 – The 2011 Scripting Games Champions</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-05-11-episode-147-the-2011-scripting-games-champions/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 04:02:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-05-11-episode-147-the-2011-scripting-games-champions/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-147.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to the winners of the 2011 Scripting Games as well as Ed Wilson and Jeffrey Snover!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.powershellinside.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nsoftware.com/powershell/banner.png" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Â Be sure to drop by &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;the Ustream channel&lt;/a&gt; Thursday so that you can post questions to Spencer and interact with your fellow PowerShellers!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 146 – Directors from PowerShellCommunity.org</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-05-04-episode-146-directors-from-powershellcommunity-org/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 01:53:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-05-04-episode-146-directors-from-powershellcommunity-org/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-146.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to the directors of PowerShellCommunity.org&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;At Quest we are passionate about Windows PowerShell. PowerGUI Pro enables organizations to harness the power of PowerShell without the expense of training and custom scripts and applications. PowerGUI Pro solves issues regardless of the time and place by using MobileShell to remotely manage your infrastructure. Ensure scripting best practices by leveraging integration with popular Version Control systems. Automate against thousands of computers using Easy Remote Script Execution.Â &lt;a href="http://www.quest.com/PowerGUIPro/"&gt;Get PowerGUI Pro at quest.com/powerguipro&lt;/a&gt;*&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: 2011 Scripting Games winners talk with Jeffrey Snover</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-05-04-up-next-2011-scripting-games-winners-talk-with-jeffrey-snover/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 20:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-05-04-up-next-2011-scripting-games-winners-talk-with-jeffrey-snover/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;On this week&amp;quot;™s show (5/5/11 @ 9:30pm EST right here on Ustream!), we&amp;quot;™ll be talking to the winners of the 2011 Scripting Games.  Jeffrey Snover and Ed Wilson will be there as well. Be sure to drop by &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;the Ustream channel&lt;/a&gt; Thursday so that you can post questions for the winners, Jeffrey or Ed and interact with your fellow PowerShellers!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Giving Away a Copy of "VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration" TODAY!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-04-28-giving-away-a-copy-of-vmware-vsphere-powercli-reference-automating-vsphere-administration-today/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:51:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-04-28-giving-away-a-copy-of-vmware-vsphere-powercli-reference-automating-vsphere-administration-today/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://amzn.to/logNn6"&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.wiley.com/product_data/coverImage/97/04708907/0470890797.jpg" alt="Cover image for product 0470890797"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;If you would like to win a copy of the excellent new PowerShell &amp;amp; PowerCLI book by Luc Dekens, Alan Renouf, Jonathan Medd, Glenn Sizemore, and Arnim van Lieshout, titled &lt;a href="http://amzn.to/logNn6"&gt;VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration&lt;/a&gt;, then all you have to do is leave a comment or follow &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/powerscripting"&gt;@powerscripting&lt;/a&gt; and retweet this story&amp;quot;™s link! We will give away one (physical) copy tonight during the podcast. You don&amp;quot;™t need to be present at the &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;incredibly fun and informative live stream that we do every Thursday at 9:30pm EST on Ustream&lt;/a&gt; to win (but we&amp;quot;™d love to see you!). Obviously we have to be able to contact you via email or twitter to obtain your shipping address, so follow us on twitter so we can DM you, or leave your email address when you comment on this blog post.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Learn more about PowerShell at TechEd 2011</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-04-28-learn-more-about-powershell-at-teched-2011/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:15:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-04-28-learn-more-about-powershell-at-teched-2011/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://northamerica.msteched.com/default.aspx?fbid=TzKc3Dpyi4d" title="TechEd North America 2011"&gt;TechEd North America 2011&lt;/a&gt; is coming up fast next month, so I wanted to let you know how you can learn more about PowerShell while at the conference.  PowerShell has continually had a great presence at TechEd events, and this year is no exception.  Just searching the TechEd schedule builder using the keyword &amp;ldquo;PowerShell&amp;rdquo; reveals 7 pre-event online webcasts, 2 pre-event virtual labs, 4 pre-con seminars, 2 birds of a feather discussions, 5 interactive discussions, 16 breakouts, and 9 hands-on labs this year!  Those are not all specifically focused on PowerShell, but they definitely show the amount of attention that PowerShell gets at a conference like this.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 145 – Jeff Hicks Managing Active Directory with PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-04-26-episode-145-jeff-hicks-managing-active-directory-with-powershell/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 03:33:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-04-26-episode-145-jeff-hicks-managing-active-directory-with-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-145.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jeff Hicks about managing Active Directory with PowerShell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;At Quest we are passionate about Windows PowerShell. PowerGUI Pro enables organizations to harness the power of PowerShell without the expense of training and custom scripts and applications. PowerGUI Pro solves issues regardless of the time and place by using MobileShell to remotely manage your infrastructure. Ensure scripting best practices by leveraging integration with popular Version Control systems. Automate against thousands of computers using Easy Remote Script Execution.Â &lt;a href="http://www.quest.com/PowerGUIPro/"&gt;Get PowerGUI Pro at quest.com/powerguipro&lt;/a&gt;*&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: PowerShellCommunity.org!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-04-26-up-next-powershellcommunity-org/</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:18:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-04-26-up-next-powershellcommunity-org/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;On this week&amp;quot;™s show (4/28/11 @ 9:30pm EST right here on Ustream!), we&amp;quot;™ll be talking to the minds behind &lt;a href="http://PowerShellCommunity.org"&gt;PowerShellCommunity.org&lt;/a&gt;. We&amp;quot;™ll hear a bit about the current state of the commnity-driven website and where they plan on heading.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="mission-statement"&gt;Mission Statement&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShellCommunity.org is a community-run and vendor-sponsored organization that provides evangelism for all things PowerShell through news, forums, user group outreach, script repository, and other resources.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Be sure to drop by &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;the Ustream channel&lt;/a&gt; Thursday so that you can post questions for the team and interact with your fellow PowerShellers!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Earth Day 2011 "“ PowerGUIÂ® Style!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-04-22-earth-day-2011-powergui-style/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:21:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-04-22-earth-day-2011-powergui-style/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Today is Earth Day 2011, and you can celebrate your green side in style with the latest &lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/" title="PowerGUI.org"&gt;PowerGUI&lt;/a&gt;Â® wallpaper.  As an ecoholic myself, this wallpaper is definitely among my favorites.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/servlet/KbServlet/download/3472-102-5523/1920x1200.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.powergui.org/servlet/KbServlet/download/3472-102-5523/1920x1200.jpg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Show your Earth Day pride, and &lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/servlet/KbServlet/download/3472-102-5523/1920x1200.jpg"&gt;download&lt;/a&gt; this beautiful desktop wallpaper today! If it doesn&amp;quot;™t suit your style, check out the rest of the desktop wallpaper images we have in the &lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=393" title="Wallpaper category on PowerGUI.org"&gt;Wallpaper category on PowerGUI.org&lt;/a&gt;.  There are plenty to choose from!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>No Show This Week!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-04-18-no-show-this-week-3/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:42:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-04-18-no-show-this-week-3/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;quot;™re taking a week off so that Jonathan can enjoy the PowerShell Deep Dive and TEC conference in Las Vegas. Also, we did record a show last Thursday but don&amp;quot;™t look for it to be posted to the site for a few days. Once the audio engineering-half of the show returns from his trip, we&amp;quot;™ll get that show posted.&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/wlemoticon-smile.png" alt="Smile"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Back to our normal schedule next week!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next Jeffery Hicks and his newest book Managing AD with Windows PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-04-13-up-next-jeffery-hicks-and-his-newest-book-managing-ad-with-windows-powershell/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:32:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-04-13-up-next-jeffery-hicks-and-his-newest-book-managing-ad-with-windows-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;On this week&amp;quot;™s show (4/14/11 @ 9:30pm EST right here on Ustream!), we&amp;quot;™ll be talking to Jeffery Hicks about his new book! Learn more about Jeffery on his &lt;a href="http://jdhitsolutions.com/"&gt;webpage&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S3YXwd8hL._SS500_.jpg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Be sure to drop by &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;the Ustream channel&lt;/a&gt; Thursday so that you can post questions for Jeffery and interact with your fellow PowerShellers!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 144 – Kirk Munro from Quest on Automating Visio with PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-04-11-episode-144-kirk-munro-from-quest-on-automating-visio-with-powershell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 02:15:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-04-11-episode-144-kirk-munro-from-quest-on-automating-visio-with-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-144.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Kirk Munro from Quest Software about automating Visio with PowerShell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment brought to you by Start-Automating&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Â &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Start Scripting to Your Fullest Potential. Â At Start-Automating, we can help you unleash the full Power of PowerShell V2. Â You can use our deep PowerShell expertise to build rich PowerShell solutions, or we can train you to use PowerShell like a pro. Isn&amp;quot;™t it time you Save-Time, Save-Money, and Start-Automating? Â Find out more atÂ &lt;a href="http://start-automating.com/"&gt;Start-Automating.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 143 – Chris Harris from Microsoft on SCOM 2012</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-04-07-episode-143-chris-harris-from-microsoft-on-scom-2012/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:41:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-04-07-episode-143-chris-harris-from-microsoft-on-scom-2012/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-143.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Chris Harris from Microsoft about System Center Operations Manager 2012!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment is brought to you byÂ &lt;em&gt;PowerGUI Pro with MobileShell, Version Control, and Easy Remote Script Execution.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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At Quest we are passionate about Windows PowerShell. PowerGUI Pro enables organizations to harness the power of PowerShell without the expense of training and custom scripts and applications. PowerGUI Pro solves issues regardless of the time and place by using MobileShell to remotely manage your infrastructure. Ensure scripting best practices by leveraging integration with popular Version Control systems. Automate against thousands of computers using Easy Remote Script Execution. &lt;a href="http://www.quest.com/PowerGUIPro/" title="Get PowerGUI Pro at quest.com/powerguipro"&gt;Get PowerGUI Pro at quest.com/powerguipro&lt;/a&gt;{#q7ty}_&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The 2011 Scripting Games have begun!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-04-04-the-2011-scripting-games-have-begun/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:54:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-04-04-the-2011-scripting-games-have-begun/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/03/21/support-our-sponsor-quest-software-2011.aspx"&gt;&lt;img src="http://kirkmunro.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/2011_scriptgames_green_sponsor-2.png?w=154&amp;amp;h=187" alt="2011_ScriptGames_GREEN_SPONSOR (2)"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today marks the beginning of Microsoft&amp;quot;™s &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/02/19/2011-scripting-games-all-links-on-one-page.aspx"&gt;2011 Scripting Games&lt;/a&gt;.  The Scripting Games are a great way to have fun learning more about Windows PowerShell.  There are even great prizes available to be won.  There are 10 events, with a beginner and an advanced category for each event.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To participate, all you have to do is:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Familiarize yourself with the information on the &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/02/19/2011-scripting-games-all-links-on-one-page.aspx"&gt;2011 Scripting Games page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Register by signing in to the &lt;a href="http://2011sg.poshcode.org/Auth/LogOn"&gt;2011 Scripting Games page on PoshCode.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Keep your eye on the &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/"&gt;Hey, Scripting Guy! blog&lt;/a&gt; to see when new events are posted (both the beginner and advanced Event 1 details are available now!).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Publish solutions to any events you decide to do on the &lt;a href="http://2011sg.poshcode.org/Scripts/New"&gt;PoshCode.org contribute page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That&amp;quot;™s pretty much all there is to it.  You can participate in both the beginner and the advanced categories, or you can spend all of your time focused on one category.  You can enter solutions for all events in a category, or you can cherry pick the events you have time for and enter only those.  You can start today with the first event, or join in later once the competition is already underway.  There are really no limitations on how much or how little that you have to participate in the Scripting Games.  Some prizes are available for the highest ranking participant, but others can be won simply by participating in a single event, so throw your hat into the ring and learn more about PowerShell while having fun and you might even win something.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next Chris Harris as he will be talking about the release of Operations Manager, SCOM 2012</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-03-29-up-next-chris-harris-as-he-will-be-talking-about-the-release-of-operations-manager-scom-2012/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-03-29-up-next-chris-harris-as-he-will-be-talking-about-the-release-of-operations-manager-scom-2012/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;On this week&amp;quot;™s show (3/31/11 @ 9:30pm EST right here on Ustream!), we&amp;quot;™ll be talking to Chris Harris from Microsoft about the release of System Center Operations Manager 2012!&lt;br&gt;
Be sure to drop by &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;the Ustream channel&lt;/a&gt; Thursday so that you can post questions for Chris and interact with your fellow PowerShellers!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Happy 4th Birthday PowerGUIÂ®!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-03-28-happy-4th-birthday-powergui/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:52:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-03-28-happy-4th-birthday-powergui/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Today is &lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/"&gt;PowerGUI&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;™s 4th birthday, and what would a birthday be without cake?  The awesome graphic artists that provide me with all of our fun desktop wallpaper for PowerGUI have done it again with a new desktop wallpaper image to celebrate PowerGUI&amp;quot;™s birthday.  You can download it from the &lt;a href="http://poshoholic.com/2011/03/28/happy-4th-birthday-powergui/www.powergui.org/downloads.jspa"&gt;downloads page on PowerGUI.org&lt;/a&gt;, or you can click on this picture to download a high-resolution version directly:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/servlet/KbServlet/download/3422-102-5427/1920x1200.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://kirkmunro.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/image2.png?w=504&amp;amp;h=316" alt="image"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It&amp;quot;™s hard to believe it&amp;quot;™s been 4 years already since PowerGUI was first made available for download on March 28, 2007.  What an amazing 4 years it has been too! What started out as a free extensible Administrative Console based on Windows PowerShell has grown into an award winning product that also includes a free extensible Script Editor with tons of useful features like Intellisense, syntax highlighting, script snippets, script signing, and many, many more.  There&amp;quot;™s even a Pro version called &lt;a href="http://poshoholic.com/2011/03/28/happy-4th-birthday-powergui/www.powerguipro.com"&gt;PowerGUIÂ® Pro&lt;/a&gt; that adds Version Control, Easy Remote Script Execution, and a component called MobileShell that allows you to perform systems management from your handheld device!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Sorry, we have to cancel the show for this week</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-03-24-sorry-we-have-to-cancel-the-show-for-this-week/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:57:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-03-24-sorry-we-have-to-cancel-the-show-for-this-week/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Due toÂ unforeseen circumstances in each of our families neither one of us is available to record tonight. We had some great guests lined up that we will be working to reschedule with as soon as we can coordinate schedules.&lt;br&gt;
Hope to see you in the chat next week,&lt;br&gt;
Jonathan&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Adam Driscoll talks about PowerShell and PowerGUIÂ® on .NET Rocks!</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-03-22-adam-driscoll-talks-about-powershell-and-powergui-on-net-rocks/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-03-22-adam-driscoll-talks-about-powershell-and-powergui-on-net-rocks/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Recently Adam Driscoll of &lt;a href="http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/01516103-d487-4a7e-bb40-c15ec709afa3/"&gt;PowerGUI VSX&lt;/a&gt; fame was a guest on the &lt;a href="http://www.dotnetrocks.com/"&gt;.NET Rocks!&lt;/a&gt; podcast show, chatting with Carl and Richard about his TFS plugin for Android, PowerShell, &lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/"&gt;PowerGUI&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/01516103-d487-4a7e-bb40-c15ec709afa3/"&gt;PowerGUI VSX&lt;/a&gt;.  Today that show was made available for download, so head on over to the &lt;a href="http://www.dotnetrocks.com/"&gt;.NET Rocks!&lt;/a&gt; page listen to Adam, Carl and Richard in &lt;a href="http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=647"&gt;Episode 647 of .NET Rocks!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kirk out.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Technorati Tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PowerShell"&gt;PowerShell&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PoSh"&gt;PoSh&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Poshoholic"&gt;Poshoholic&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PowerGUI"&gt;PowerGUI&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PowerGUI+VSX"&gt;PowerGUI VSX&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/podcast"&gt;podcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/kirkmunro.wordpress.com/520/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/kirkmunro.wordpress.com/520/" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=poshoholic.com&amp;amp;blog=1436967&amp;amp;%23038;post=520&amp;amp;%23038;subd=kirkmunro&amp;amp;%23038;ref=&amp;amp;%23038;feed=1" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 142 – Richard Giles from Idera on PowerShell Plus</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-03-21-episode-141-richard-giles-from-idera-on-powershell-plus/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:24:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-03-21-episode-141-richard-giles-from-idera-on-powershell-plus/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-142.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Richard Giles from Idera about PowerShell Plus!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment is brought to you by Start-Automating&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Start Scripting to Your Fullest Potential. Â At Start-Automating, we can help you unleash the full Power of PowerShell V2. Â You can use our deep PowerShell expertise to build rich PowerShell solutions, or we can train you to use PowerShell like a pro. Isn&amp;quot;™t it time you Save-Time, Save-Money, and Start-Automating? Â Find out more at &lt;a href="http://start-automating.com/"&gt;Start-Automating.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerGUIÂ® Spring 2011 Desktop Wallpaper</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-03-21-powergui-spring-2011-desktop-wallpaper/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:44:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-03-21-powergui-spring-2011-desktop-wallpaper/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Spring is here already, and even though it doesn&amp;quot;™t seem like it&amp;quot;™s Spring everywhere just yet (it has been snowing most of the day here in Ottawa), with the change in seasons comes a change in desktop wallpaper.Â  The Spring 2011 wallpaper for &lt;a href="http://www.powerguipro.com/"&gt;PowerGUI Pro&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/"&gt;PowerGUI&lt;/a&gt; is now available:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/servlet/KbServlet/download/3402-102-5388/1920x1200.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.powergui.org/servlet/KbServlet/downloadImage/3402-102-425/thumbnail.jpg" alt="PowerGUI Spring 2011 Wallpaper Thumbnail"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To download this wallpaper, simply visit the &lt;a href="http://powergui.org/downloads.jspa"&gt;PowerGUI downloads page&lt;/a&gt; and scroll down to see all of the sizes and varieties that are available.Â  We have Fall wallpaper there as well for our friends in the southern hemisphere.Â  As always, all of our wallpaper images are stored in the &lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=393"&gt;Wallpaper folder&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.powergui.org/"&gt;PowerGUI.org&lt;/a&gt;, so if you want to use one from a previous year or a different season or holiday, take a look around&amp;quot;¦there are currently 27 different varieties to choose from.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerScripting Podcast with Jeffrey Snover and Kenneth Hansen</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-03-16-powerscripting-podcast-with-jeffrey-snover-and-kenneth-hansen/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:21:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-03-16-powerscripting-podcast-with-jeffrey-snover-and-kenneth-hansen/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Last week &lt;a href="http://www.halr9000.com/"&gt;Hal Rottenberg&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/#!/jonwalz"&gt;Jonathan Walz&lt;/a&gt; recorded another great episode of the &lt;a href="http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/"&gt;PowerScripting Podcast&lt;/a&gt;, this time with Jeffrey Snover and Kenneth Hansen as guests.  Jeffrey and Kenneth talk about PowerShell of course, but also discuss the upcoming &lt;a href="http://www.theexpertsconference.com/us/2011/general-information/2011-powershell-deep-dive/"&gt;PowerShell Deep Dive&lt;/a&gt; event.  You can find the link to listen to the podcast along with the show notes &lt;a href="http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/episode-141-the-powershell-deep-dive-conference-with-jeffrey-snover-and-kenneth-hansen/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This podcast is a great source of PowerShell news and I highly recommend listening to it regularly.  It&amp;quot;™s a great way to pass the time during your daily commute to and from work.  There are 141 episodes so far, with tons of great interviews and content, so check out this podcast when you have some time.  It&amp;quot;™s definitely worth it.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 141 – The PowerShell Deep Dive Conference with Jeffrey Snover and Kenneth Hansen</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-03-14-episode-141-the-powershell-deep-dive-conference-with-jeffrey-snover-and-kenneth-hansen/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 03:42:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-03-14-episode-141-the-powershell-deep-dive-conference-with-jeffrey-snover-and-kenneth-hansen/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-141.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jeffrey Snover and Kenneth Hansen about The PowerShell Deep Dive Conference&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment is brought to you by Start-Automating&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Â &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Start Scripting to Your Fullest Potential. Â At Start-Automating, we can help you unleash the full Power of PowerShell V2. Â You can use our deep PowerShell expertise to build rich PowerShell solutions, or we can train you to use PowerShell like a pro. Isn&amp;quot;™t it time you Save-Time, Save-Money, and Start-Automating? Â Find out more at &lt;a href="http://start-automating.com/"&gt;Start-Automating.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Scripting Games Are Coming!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-03-14-the-scripting-games-are-coming/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:55:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-03-14-the-scripting-games-are-coming/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-00-76-18/8561.hsg_2D00_2_2D00_11_2D00_1_2D00_1.png" alt="2011 Scripting Games badge"&gt;The 2011 Scripting Games begin on April 4, 2011 and run through April 15, 2011. What is the Scripting Games, you may ask? Well simply put, the Scripting Games are the premier learning event of the year for IT Pro&amp;quot;™s and others who wish to master Windows PowerShell. Comprising 10 events, a registered contestant has seven days to create a solution to a scenario driven problem and post their code to a MVP maintained script repository for evaluation by a panel of internationally recognized judges. Daily leaderboards and prize drawings help to maintain the suspense throughout the two-week international event.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>MVP Summit 2011</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-03-09-mvp-summit-2011/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:43:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2011-03-09-mvp-summit-2011/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Testing out my first WordPress blog postÂ after the switch from Windows Live Spaces (sniff, I will miss you) to WordPress.Â  Regarding the MVP Summit last week, I can&amp;quot;™t really talk about much due to just about everything being NDA, NDA, NDA!Â  I will say that I&amp;quot;™m excited about the future of PowerShell!Â  Probably the most fun part was hanging out with the other PowerShell MVPs for a week.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that Microsoft still values their relationship with the MVPs as evidenced by the party they arranged for MVPs last Wednesday:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerScripting Podcast News</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-02-22-powerscripting-podcast-news-2/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 03:26:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-02-22-powerscripting-podcast-news-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi everyone. We just wanted to let you know what our show schedule will be like for the next couple of weeks. There won&amp;quot;™t be a live show this week or next (2/24, 3/3). However&amp;quot;”we will be releasing shows! Hal will be at the Microsoft MVP Summit next week and will be bringing recording gear. Yes, that&amp;quot;™s right, Hal and a bunch of other like-minded geeks in the same room talking about PowerShell.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 140 – Scripting Guy Ed Wilson</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-02-20-episode-140-scripting-guy-ed-wilson/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:35:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-02-20-episode-140-scripting-guy-ed-wilson/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-140.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Scripting Guy Ed Wilson about the 2011 Scripting Games!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment is brought to you by Start-Automating&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Â &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Start Scripting to Your Fullest Potential. Â At Start-Automating, we can help you unleash the full Power of PowerShell V2. Â You can use our deep PowerShell expertise to build rich PowerShell solutions, or we can train you to use PowerShell like a pro. Isn&amp;quot;™t it time you Save-Time, Save-Money, and Start-Automating? Â Find out more at &lt;a href="http://start-automating.com/"&gt;Start-Automating.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 139 – Brian and Ben from DevFarm</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-02-14-episode-139-brian-and-ben-from-devfarm/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 03:39:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-02-14-episode-139-brian-and-ben-from-devfarm/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-139.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Brian and Ben from DevFarm about PowerWF and PowerSE
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News





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- 
 [MVP Sean Kearney just had an interview with Talk Technet](https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&amp;amp;EventID=1032476756)


- 
 The PowerShell team [announces the first ever PowerShell Deep Dive Conference!](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2011/02/04/powershell-deep-dive-conference.aspx)


- 
 Book News: 


 [Automating Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Windows PowerShell 2.0](http://amzn.to/heRNUf)


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 [VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration](http://www.sybex.com/WileyCDA/SybexTitle/VMware-vSphere-PowerCLI-Reference-Automating-vSphere-Administration.productCd-0470890797.html)


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 [Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches](http://www.manning.com/jones/)






- 
 Software news: 


 [PsGet is NuGet for PowerShell modules](http://blog.andrewnurse.net/2011/02/10/NuGetPowerShellAlsoCrazyDelicious.aspx)


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 [Save PowerShell to SharePoint](http://savepstosp.codeplex.com/)


 - 
 [Windows Installer PowerShell Module](http://psmsi.codeplex.com/)






- 
 [The 2011 Scripting Games Study Guide is out](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/02/11/2011-scripting-games-study-guide.aspx)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;**
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interview
**&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerScripting Live Tonight with PowerWF!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-02-10-powerscripting-live-tonight-with-powerwf/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:07:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-02-10-powerscripting-live-tonight-with-powerwf/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We are back after a week off with our friends from &lt;a href="http://vmxbuilder.com/"&gt;Devfarm Software&lt;/a&gt;, the folks behind &lt;a href="http://www.powerwf.com/"&gt;PowerWF&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;quot;™s been a while since Ben and Brian were on the show, and we plan to talk about what they&amp;quot;™ve been up to PowerWF development. If you haven&amp;quot;™t checked out PowerWF before, it&amp;quot;™s a neat visual workflow tool that&amp;quot;™s all PowerShell inside, but feels more like a cross between Visio and Visual Studio. There&amp;quot;™s a lot of compelling features inside, &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;join us live at 9:30 PM EST tonight&lt;/a&gt; to learn more about it!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>No show tonight</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-02-03-no-show-tonight-3/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:29:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-02-03-no-show-tonight-3/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We wanted to let you know that we had to cancel the show for tonight but please join us next week for more PowerShell goodness!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 138 – Parind Shah from EqualLogic</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-01-31-episode-138-parind-shah-from-equallogic/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 02:52:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-01-31-episode-138-parind-shah-from-equallogic/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-138.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Parind Shah from Dell about EqualLogic and their new PowerShell module!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment is brought to you by Start-Automating&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Â &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Start Scripting to Your Fullest Potential. Â At Start-Automating, we can help you unleash the full Power of PowerShell V2. Â You can use our deep PowerShell expertise to build rich PowerShell solutions, or we can train you to use PowerShell like a pro. Isn&amp;quot;™t it time you Save-Time, Save-Money, and Start-Automating? Â Find out more at &lt;a href="http://start-automating.com/"&gt;Start-Automating.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 137 – Adam Driscoll and the New vWorkspace PowerShell Module</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-01-24-episode-135-adam-driscoll-and-the-new-vworkspace-powershell-module/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 03:45:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-01-24-episode-135-adam-driscoll-and-the-new-vworkspace-powershell-module/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-137.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Adam Driscoll with Quest about their new vWorkspace module&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment is brought to you by Start-Automating&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Â &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Start Scripting to Your Fullest Potential. Â Use PowerShell to Automate Your Organization. Â Why wait for a larger company to produce cmdlets? Â Just Start-Automating. Â We can provide training to help unleash the full Power of PowerShell V2, help you on short projects by Solving-It-Together, or build custom PowerShell and .NET solutions for your business. Â Isn&amp;quot;™t it time you Save-Time, Save-Money, and Start-Automating?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Adam Driscoll Returns Tonight!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-01-20-adam-driscoll-returns-tonight/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:57:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-01-20-adam-driscoll-returns-tonight/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Adam Driscoll from Quest software will be on the podcast tonight to discuss the brand new Quest vWorkspace PowerShell Module! You can find out more here &lt;a href="http://wiki.vworkspace.inside.quest.com/index.php/Main_Page"&gt;http://wiki.vworkspace.inside.quest.com/index.php/Main_Page&lt;/a&gt; to whet your appetite and then join us live at 9PM EST.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 136 – Jim Christopher on StudioShell and a Goodbye to Andy</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-01-16-episode-136-jim-christopher-on-studioshell-and-a-goodbye-to-andy/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:04:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-01-16-episode-136-jim-christopher-on-studioshell-and-a-goodbye-to-andy/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-136.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jim Christopher about his Visual Studio add-on: StudioShell. At the end we have included the interview with did with Andy Tearle back on Ep 79.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment is brought to you by Start-Automating&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Start Scripting to Your Fullest Potential. Â Use PowerShell to Automate Your Organization. Â Why wait for a larger company to produce cmdlets? Â Just Start-Automating. Â We can provide training to help unleash the full Power of PowerShell V2, help you on short projects by Solving-It-Together, or build custom PowerShell and .NET solutions for your business. Â Isn&amp;quot;™t it time you Save-Time, Save-Money, and Start-Automating?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>RIP"“Andrew Tearle, the Oldest PowerSheller of Them All!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-01-13-ripandrew-tearle-the-oldest-powersheller-of-them-all/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:02:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-01-13-ripandrew-tearle-the-oldest-powersheller-of-them-all/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Andrew was one of our favorite listeners of the PowerScripting Podcast (and the first one to send feedback to the show), and we are sad to say his death was reported on his Twitter account yesterday:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We are sad to tell you, Andy &amp;ldquo;the most passionate Powersheller&amp;rdquo; passed away on 12th Jan 2011, and wanted us to say goodbye to you&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That was very sweet that his family left that message to his online friends.&lt;br&gt;
Here is a picture of Andrew and his wife, Sheila Rose, enjoying a drink in their garden in New Zealand.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/at.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/at_thumb.jpg" alt="at"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Here&amp;quot;™s a snippet from an email Andrew sent to the show some time back:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Jim Christopher Talks About StudioShell!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-01-13-up-next-jim-christopher-talks-about-studioshell/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:21:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-01-13-up-next-jim-christopher-talks-about-studioshell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;On tonight&amp;quot;™s show (1/13/11 @ 9:30pm EST right &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;here on Ustream&lt;/a&gt;!), we&amp;quot;™ll be talking to &lt;a href="http://www.beefycode.com/"&gt;Jim Christopher&lt;/a&gt;, aka &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/#!/beefarino"&gt;@beefarino&lt;/a&gt; about his newest project: StudioShell. As you can read on his &lt;a href="http://www.beefycode.com/post/Announcing-StudioShell.aspx"&gt;blog post announcement&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;StudioShell is a deeply integrated PowerShell host available inside of Visual Studio 2010 and 2008.  It&amp;rdquo;™s goal is to fundamentally change the way you interact with your IDE and your code. &amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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StudioShell - Extending Visual Studio with PowerShell
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Be sure to drop by the &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;Ustream channel&lt;/a&gt; tonight so that you can post questions for Jim and interact with your fellow PowerShellers!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 135 – James Brundage from Start-Automating</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-01-08-start-automating/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 19:10:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2011-01-08-start-automating/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-135.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to James Brundage about delivering solutions with PowerShell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The news is brought to you by &lt;a href="http://www.windowsitpro.com/blogs/PowerShellwithaPurpose.aspx"&gt;Don Jones&amp;rsquo; 2011 PowerShell Retreat in Las Vegas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;New MVPs!
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jan Egil Ring:Â &lt;a href="http://blog.powershell.no/2011/01/01/microsoft-mvp-award/"&gt;http://blog.powershell.no/2011/01/01/microsoft-mvp-award/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tome Tanasovski:Â &lt;a href="http://powertoe.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/mvp-drinks/"&gt;http://powertoe.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/mvp-drinks/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Shane Hoey:Â &lt;a href="http://powershelldownunder.com/blogs/shane"&gt;http://powershelldownunder.com/blogs/shane&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Don Jones&amp;rsquo; new book project: &lt;a href="http://www.manning.com/jones/" title="Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches"&gt;Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches&lt;/a&gt;{#vzeu}. Use coupon codeÂ &lt;strong&gt;wpslunch40&lt;/strong&gt; at checkout for a 40% discount! &lt;a href="http://www.windowsitpro.com/blogs/PowerShellwithaPurpose/tabid/2248/entryid/75993/My-new-PowerShell-book-is-out-And-its-YOUR-fault.aspx" title="Here's Don's announcement."&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s Don&amp;rsquo;s announcement.&lt;/a&gt;{#s-.e}&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Let&amp;rsquo;s get the Scripting Guy to Australia! Care of @ye110wbeard:Â &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAJRN9D5gOY"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAJRN9D5gOY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Automating vSphere Administration news:
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;New website:Â &lt;a href="http://www.powerclibook.com/" title="http://www.powerclibook.com/"&gt;http://www.powerclibook.com/&lt;/a&gt;{#cg_l}&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vmug.nl/cms/images/stories/vmugevent2010/presentaties/vmugevent2010-powercliisforadministrators.pdf" title="PDF with a tentative table of contents"&gt;PDF with a tentative table of contents&lt;/a&gt;{#n2gi}&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Coming this spring!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://get-scripting.blogspot.com/2010/12/get-scripting-podcast-episode-20.html" title="New Get-Scripting Podcast with Jeffrey Snover!"&gt;New Get-Scripting Podcast with Jeffrey Snover!&lt;/a&gt;{#q3hl}&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;User Group News
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jonoble.com/blog/2011/1/5/powershell-uk-user-group-with-ed-wilson.html" title="PowerShell UK User Group with Ed Wilson Jan 11th"&gt;PowerShell UK User Group with Ed Wilson Jan 11th&lt;/a&gt;{#vgd0}&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;SE Michigan PowerShell Script Club &lt;a href="http://www.michiganpowershell.com/" title="meeting Jan 11th with Hal Rottenberg"&gt;meeting Jan 11th with Hal Rottenberg&lt;/a&gt;{#k8kt}&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://powershellgroup.org/rochester.ny/vmware-powercli-and-calling-powershell-from-csharp" title="Rochester NY user group meets Jan 18th"&gt;Rochester NY user group meets Jan 18th&lt;/a&gt;{#a280} to talk about using PowerShell in C# and Hal&amp;rsquo;s favorite topic: managing VMware with PowerShell&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;HP and Dell are getting into PowerShell!
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://virtualisedreality.com/2010/12/17/dell-equallogic-powershell-quick-reference-guide/" title="Dell EqualLogic"&gt;Dell EqualLogic&lt;/a&gt;{#w-i7}&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://beta.blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/scriptfanatic/archive/2011/01/06/HP-BladeSystem-PowerShell-cmdlets.aspx" title="HP Bladesystem"&gt;HP Bladesystem&lt;/a&gt;{#s6x3}&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="heading"&gt;**&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interview
**&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Giveaway and Discount Offer for Don Jones"™ New PowerShell Book!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-12-29-giveaway-and-discount-offer-for-don-jones-new-powershell-book/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 01:20:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-12-29-giveaway-and-discount-offer-for-don-jones-new-powershell-book/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.manning.com/jones/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.manning.com/jones/jones_cover150.jpg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;As you might have heard, longtime author, speaker, trainer, and PowerShell MVP Don Jones is working on a new book project titled &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://www.manning.com/jones/"&gt;Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo;. The concept is a book to help the non-programmers out there to learn PowerShell in bite-sized chunks. It isn&amp;quot;™t due to be released until Summer of 2011, however, if you are in Manning&amp;quot;™s Early Access Program (MEAP), then you can take a look at the chapters as they are completed, and even give feedback to Don as he writes.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>No Show Tonight!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-12-16-no-show-tonight-2/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:13:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-12-16-no-show-tonight-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Sorry folks, Jon and Hal need to take a night off, so no show tonight. We plan to pick up after Christmas with the next live show on the 30th. Our guest will be (provided he can reshcedule) James Brundage, formerly of the PowerShell team at Microsoft (there&amp;quot;™s a story there, we&amp;quot;™re sure). He&amp;quot;™s been doing some really cool things that we know you will enjoy hearing about.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also, in January, it looks like we&amp;quot;™ll have someone on from the System Center team to talk about their PowerShell support, so stay tuned for that.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 134 – Trevor Sullivan on WMI Events in PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-12-13-episode-134-trevor-sullivan-on-wmi-events-in-powershell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 04:45:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-12-13-episode-134-trevor-sullivan-on-wmi-events-in-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-134.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Trevor Sullivan about working with WMI events in PowerShell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://poshoholic.com/2010/12/09/powergui-pro-and-powergui-2-3-are-now-available/" title="PowerGUI Pro and PowerGUI 2.3 are out!"&gt;PowerGUI Pro and PowerGUI 2.3 are out!&lt;/a&gt;{#v2vp}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tampa - Jan 15th - SQL Saturday #62, featuring SQLVariant talking about &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://www.sqlsaturday.com/viewsession.aspx?sat=62&amp;amp;sessionid=3069" title="SQL Smackdown: SSIS vs. PowerShell"&gt;SQL Smackdown: SSIS vs. PowerShell&lt;/a&gt;{#hbs3}&amp;rdquo;, and The Scripting Guy with &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://www.sqlsaturday.com/viewsession.aspx?sat=62&amp;amp;sessionid=2885" title="Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices for DBA's"&gt;Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices for DBA&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/a&gt;{#w_5o}&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: PowerEvents with Trevor Sullivan!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-12-06-up-next-powerevents-with-trevor-sullivan/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 04:53:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-12-06-up-next-powerevents-with-trevor-sullivan/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This Thursday at 9:30pm EST, Jonathan and Hal will be interviewing &lt;a href="http://trevorsullivan.net/"&gt;Trevor Sullivan&lt;/a&gt; to talk about his recently released &lt;a href="http://powerevents.codeplex.com/"&gt;PowerEvents&lt;/a&gt; Codeplex project. Trevor has put a lot of effort into what looks to be a really interesting project. Do you know what WMI events are? If you want to learn, drop by the &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;live stream&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Trevor Sullivan has 7 years of experience in the Information Technology field, and has worked primarily with Microsoft products such as Active Directory, Group Policy, System Center Configuration Manager 2007, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010, VBscript, Windows PowerShell, and C#/.NET. Trevor is passionate about sharing with community, and is an active community participant in a variety of mailing lists, forums, blogging, Twitter (@pcgeek86), and other social media outlets.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 133 – Shane Hoey in Australia is Paging Dr. Scripto</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-12-06-episode-133-shane-hoey-in-australia-is-paging-dr-scripto/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 03:12:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-12-06-episode-133-shane-hoey-in-australia-is-paging-dr-scripto/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-133.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Shane Hoey about building user group communities!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News





Our news is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies, makers of PrimalScript and PrimalForms





- 
 Just released:Â  


 [PowerEvents](http://powerevents.codeplex.com/)


 - 
 [NetCmdlets v3 beta](http://www.nsoftware.com/powershell/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;amp;utm_medium=twitter)






- 
 Dmitry [posted a video of Jeffrey Snover](http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/interview-with-jeffrey-snover/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+DmitrysPowerblog+(Dmitry's+PowerBlog)) recorded at TechEd Europe


- 
 [PowerCLI 4.1.1 is now out](http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2010/12/powercli-411-is-out.html)


- 
 MVP Richard Siddaway is working on his second PowerShell book: [PowerShell and WMI](http://www.manning.com/siddaway2/). You can pre-order now and help him shape the book!
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&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interview
**&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Paging Dr. Scripto!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-12-02-paging-dr-scripto/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 02:53:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-12-02-paging-dr-scripto/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The Path to the Scripter&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m staring at a screen&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;m needing knowledge, need some wisdom&lt;br&gt;
Look across the waves&lt;br&gt;
I see a man who&amp;rsquo;s word are calling me&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m wandering to a place&lt;br&gt;
We call TechEd oh way Downunder&lt;br&gt;
But we&amp;rsquo;re missing you&lt;br&gt;
We walk about and seek you Scripting Guy&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re calling to you from a land Down Under&lt;br&gt;
To TechEd, come on please release your Thunder&lt;br&gt;
Your knowledge, wisdom, ways we seek to bind us&lt;br&gt;
We need you oh Scripting Guy&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 132 – Aaron Nelson on the PASS Summit</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-11-29-episode-132-aaron-nelson-on-the-pass-summit/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:04:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-11-29-episode-132-aaron-nelson-on-the-pass-summit/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-132.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, weÂ talk to Aaron Nelson about the PASS Summit with special guests Ed Wilson and Mark Mitchell.
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Execute commands and scripts from anywhere including the office and remote locations, as well as from a Web browser or smart phone with PowerGUI Pro from Quest Software. With the MobileShell feature, administrators can quickly run commands to troubleshoot problems or make changes, even when away from your desk! This gives teams more flexibility to work remotely while traveling, and to leverage admins from other offices in case of an emergency.
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&lt;p&gt;Watch this space for the latest show!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 131 – MVP Sean Kearney on the Mic</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-11-14-episode-131-mvp-sean-kearney-on-the-mic/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 01:09:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-11-14-episode-131-mvp-sean-kearney-on-the-mic/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-131.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Â &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we share the mic with Sean Kearney, Canadian PowerShell Evangelist Extraordinaire!
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 Execute commands and scripts from anywhere including the office and remote locations, as well as from a Web browser or smart phone with PowerGUI Pro from Quest Software. With the MobileShell feature, administrators can quickly run commands to troubleshoot problems or make changes, even when away from your desk! This gives teams more flexibility to work remotely while traveling, and to leverage admins from other offices in case of an emergency.





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Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-130.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we have a &amp;quot;core-show&amp;quot; with plenty of news, tips, and resources!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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Execute commands and scripts from anywhere including the office and remote locations, as well as from a Web browser or smart phone with PowerGUI Pro from Quest Software. With the MobileShell feature, administrators can quickly run commands to troubleshoot problems or make changes, even when away from your desk! This gives teams more flexibility to work remotely while traveling, and to leverage admins from other offices in case of an emergency.
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Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-129.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to security ninja Dave Kennedy about ethical hacking using PowerShell.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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Execute commands and scripts from anywhere including the office and remote locations, as well as from a Web browser or smart phone with PowerGUI Pro from Quest Software. With the MobileShell feature, administrators can quickly run commands to troubleshoot problems or make changes, even when away from your desk! This gives teams more flexibility to work remotely while traveling, and to leverage admins from other offices in case of an emergency.
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&lt;p&gt;Come join us for the live chat and pitch your own questions to our guest! As always, you can find us Thursday night at the &lt;a href="http://powerscripting.net"&gt;PowerScripting Podcast&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;Ustream channel&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 128 "“ Kirk Munro from Quest on the 2010 PowerPackÂ Challenge</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-10-14-episode-128-kirk-munro-from-quest-on-the-2010-powerpack-challenge/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 03:50:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-10-14-episode-128-kirk-munro-from-quest-on-the-2010-powerpack-challenge/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-128.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Kirk Munro from Quest Software about PowerGUI Pro and the 2010 PowerPack Challenge!Â 
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&lt;p&gt;Execute commands and scripts from anywhere including the office and remote locations, as well as from a Web browser or smart phone with PowerGUI Pro from Quest Software. With the MobileShell feature, administrators can quickly run commands to troubleshoot problems or make changes, even when away from your desk! This gives teams more flexibility to work remotely while traveling, and to leverage admins from other offices in case of an emergency.&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Reset passwords&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Run custom scripts&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
VisitÂ &lt;a href="http://quest.com/powerguipro" title="quest.com/powerguipro"&gt;quest.com/powerguipro&lt;/a&gt;{#i040}Â and see why PowerShell and Quest PowerGUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 127 – Matt Royer From Intel on vPro PowerShell Support</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-10-05-episode-127-matt-royer-from-intel-on-vpro-powershell-support/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:54:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-10-05-episode-127-matt-royer-from-intel-on-vpro-powershell-support/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-127.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we have Matt Royer from Intel!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Execute commands and scripts from anywhere including the office and remote locations, as well as from a Web browser or smart phone with PowerGUI Pro from Quest Software. With the MobileShell feature, administrators can quickly run commands to troubleshoot problems or make changes, even when away from your desk! This gives teams more flexibility to work remotely while traveling, and to leverage admins from other offices in case of an emergency.&lt;br&gt;
_&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Matt Royer from Intel!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-09-28-up-next-matt-royer-from-intel/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:35:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-09-28-up-next-matt-royer-from-intel/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We are extremely happy to welcome Matt from Intel to talk about their new &lt;a href="http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/vproexpert/blog/2010/07/19/intel-core-vpro-processor-powershell-module--release-introduction"&gt;Intel Core vPro Processor module&lt;/a&gt;. Click through to the blog post to read up on the gory details, but the short version is this: the vPro chipset has an embedded web-services server that shares your onboard NIC and allows you to manage the hardware much like you can with the baseboard management controllers (BMC) in server-class systems. That&amp;quot;™s old news. The new news is that Intel released a PowerShell module that helps you to automate your vPro chips, and Matt will tell us all about it!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Contest Starts Now! Win a Free PowerShell Book!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-09-28-contest-starts-now-win-a-free-powershell-book/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:17:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-09-28-contest-starts-now-win-a-free-powershell-book/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Well, technically, it started last Thursday, but there&amp;quot;™s still plenty of time to win! In case you missed the live show, or haven&amp;quot;™t listened to the &lt;a href="http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/episode-126-just-hal-and-jon/"&gt;last recorded episode&lt;/a&gt;, here&amp;quot;™s who/what/where/when/why:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you would like to be entered to win a copy of Lee Holmes&amp;quot;™ &lt;a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596801502/"&gt;PowerShell Cookbook, 2nd Ed.&lt;/a&gt;, all you have to do is send in your PowerShell tips! We want to hear what YOU think is cool, or what you have in your profile, or some of your favorite one-liners! Send in your entries to &lt;a href="http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/episode-126-just-hal-and-jon/"&gt;feedback@powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;, and tell a friend! We have FIVE copies to give away. Contest ends September 30th, or October 7th, depending on our mood and the wind speed when we next record the show.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 126 – Just Hal and Jon</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-09-26-episode-126-just-hal-and-jon/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 02:29:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-09-26-episode-126-just-hal-and-jon/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-126.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we have tips and resources!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Execute commands and scripts from anywhere including the office and remote locations, as well as from a Web browser or smart phone with PowerGUI Pro from Quest Software. With the MobileShell feature, administrators can quickly run commands to troubleshoot problems or make changes, even when away from your desk! This gives teams more flexibility to work remotely while traveling, and to leverage admins from other offices in case of an emergency.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Exchange with MVP Michael Smith and More!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-09-22-up-next-exchange-with-mvp-michael-smith-and-more/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:18:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-09-22-up-next-exchange-with-mvp-michael-smith-and-more/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This Thursday (9/23/2010), we are happy to have Exchange MVP Michael B. Smith (&lt;a href="http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;) on the show! Michael has a long history as an Exchange consultant and he will be sharing what he knows with lots of PowerShell thrown in.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also on tap are tips and resources as usual!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please join us on &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;the live stream&lt;/a&gt; to join in the conversation!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Make-PS1ExeWrapper</title><link>https://powershell.org/articles/2010-09-21-make-ps1exewrapper/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:39:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/articles/2010-09-21-make-ps1exewrapper/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Occasionally folks want to be able to create an EXE from PoweShell.Â  PowerShell can&amp;quot;™t do this by itself but this can be done with PowerShell script.Â  Essentially what you can do is create a simple console EXE program that embeds the script as a resource and the EXE, upon loading retrieves the script and throws it at a PowerShell runspace to execute.Â  Here&amp;quot;™s the script for a feasibility test of doing this very thing.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>No show this week</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-09-16-no-show-this-week-2/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:08:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-09-16-no-show-this-week-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We have to skip again this week but we&amp;rsquo;ll be back next week with some Exchange goodness so please stay tuned!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 125 – Cooking Up Some PowerShell with Lee Holmes</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-09-13-episode-125-cooking-up-some-powershell-with-lee-holmes/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 03:49:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-09-13-episode-125-cooking-up-some-powershell-with-lee-holmes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-125.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Lee Holmes from the PowerShell team!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Execute commands and scripts from anywhere including the office and remote locations, as well as from a Web browser or smart phone with PowerGUI Pro from Quest Software. With the MobileShell feature, administrators can quickly run commands to troubleshoot problems or make changes, even when away from your desk! This gives teams more flexibility to work remotely while traveling, and to leverage admins from other offices in case of an emergency.&lt;br&gt;
_&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Cooking Up PowerShell with Lee Holmes!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-09-09-up-next-cooking-up-powershell-with-lee-holmes-2/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:22:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-09-09-up-next-cooking-up-powershell-with-lee-holmes-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596801519/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://covers.oreilly.com/images/9780596801519/cat.gif" alt="Book cover of Windows PowerShell Cookbook"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This week&amp;quot;™s show should be really great as we welcome back &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/lee_holmes"&gt;Lee Holmes&lt;/a&gt; from the Microsoft PowerShell team to talk about his book: &lt;a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596801519/"&gt;Windows PowerShell Cookbook, Second Edition&lt;/a&gt;, from O&amp;quot;™Reilly!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We will have several copies of the ebook to give away, so be sure to show up for the &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;live stream&lt;/a&gt; this Thursday at 9:30 PM EDT on &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;ustream&lt;/a&gt;. Once the recorded show hits the blog we will announce how you can win a copy if you can&amp;quot;™t catch us this week.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>No show tonight :(</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-09-02-no-show-tonight/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:10:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-09-02-no-show-tonight/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Sorry everyone,&lt;br&gt;
I was pulled into an emergency upgrade this afternoon and I&amp;rsquo;m still working on it. Hal is also still trying to recover from his illness so we are going to have to reschedule. We hope to have Lee Holmes on as soon as we can because we are all exited to hear more about his new book. Please stay tuned to the blog, Twitter (@PowerScripting) etc. for updates.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 124 – John Fullbright From NetApp</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-08-30-episode-124-john-fullbright-from-netapp/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:40:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-08-30-episode-124-john-fullbright-from-netapp/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-124.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to John Fullbright from NetApp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Execute commands and scripts from anywhere including the office and remote locations, as well as from a Web browser or smart phone with PowerGUI Pro from Quest Software. With the MobileShell feature, administrators can quickly run commands to troubleshoot problems or make changes, even when away from your desk! This gives teams more flexibility to work remotely while traveling, and to leverage admins from other offices in case of an emergency.&lt;br&gt;
_&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: John Fullbright from NetApp!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-08-25-up-next-john-fullbright-from-netapp/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:46:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-08-25-up-next-john-fullbright-from-netapp/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://clairegiordano.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/netapp-logo-new-small.jpg" alt=""&gt;We are very excited to announce our next guest will be John Fullbright from NetApp to talk to us about their &lt;a href="http://communities.netapp.com/community/interfaces_and_tools/data_ontap_powershell_toolkit"&gt;Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit&lt;/a&gt;! Be sure to catch it live at 9;30 PM EDT tomorrow 8/26/2010! As always, we&amp;quot;™ll be hanging out in the &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;Ustream chat room&lt;/a&gt; where you can interact with us and the guest as well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hope to see you there!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 123 – Cezar Ungureanasu and Thomas Lee on OCS</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-08-23-episode-122-cezar-ungureanasu-and-thomas-lee-on-ocs/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:08:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-08-23-episode-122-cezar-ungureanasu-and-thomas-lee-on-ocs/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-123.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to CezarÂ &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ungureanasu and Thomas Lee about Office Communications Server&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Execute commands and scripts from anywhere including the office and remote locations, as well as from a Web browser or smart phone with PowerGUI Pro from Quest Software. With the MobileShell feature, administrators can quickly run commands to troubleshoot problems or make changes, even when away from your desk! This gives teams more flexibility to work remotely while traveling, and to leverage admins from other offices in case of an emergency.&lt;br&gt;
_&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 122 – Don Jones Scripting Editor Shoot-Out</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-08-15-episode-122-don-jones-scripting-editor-shoot-out/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:47:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-08-15-episode-122-don-jones-scripting-editor-shoot-out/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-122.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Don Jones about script editors, and more!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Execute commands and scripts from anywhere including the office and remote locations, as well as from a Web browser or smart phone with PowerGUI Pro from Quest Software. With the MobileShell feature, administrators can quickly run commands to troubleshoot problems or make changes, even when away from your desk! This gives teams more flexibility to work remotely while traveling, and to leverage admins from other offices in case of an emergency.&lt;br&gt;
_&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Don Jones and the Script Editor Showdown!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-08-10-up-next-don-jones-and-the-script-editor-showdown/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:02:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-08-10-up-next-don-jones-and-the-script-editor-showdown/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;quot;™ve been following the show lately, you&amp;quot;™ll know that author, speaker, and PowerShell MVP Don Jones has been writing a ton at his new &lt;a href="http://www.windowsitpro.com/categories/category/Scripting/DonJonesonPowerShell.aspx"&gt;Windows IT Pro Powershell portal&lt;/a&gt;. One of the popular topics lately has been a &lt;a href="http://www.windowsitpro.com/blogs/PowerShellwithaPurpose/tabid/2248/entryid/12951/Default.aspx"&gt;roundup of PowerShell script editors&lt;/a&gt;. We&amp;quot;™ll have Don on the show to talk to that topic, as well as &amp;ldquo;things VBScripters must forget&amp;rdquo;, and anything else we can think up!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please join us for the &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;live show&lt;/a&gt;, Thursday 8/12/2010 @ 9:30pm EDT, or snag us a few days later on the &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;podcast feed&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 121 – Jay Dave on UAC and AppLocker</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-08-10-episode-121-jay-dave-on-uac-and-applocker/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:44:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-08-10-episode-121-jay-dave-on-uac-and-applocker/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-121.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Jay Dave, Program Manager at Microsoft about UAC and AppLocker&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Execute commands and scripts from anywhere including the office and remote locations, as well as from a Web browser or smart phone with PowerGUI Pro from Quest Software. With the MobileShell feature, administrators can quickly run commands to troubleshoot problems or make changes, even when away from your desk! This gives teams more flexibility to work remotely while traveling, and to leverage admins from other offices in case of an emergency.&lt;br&gt;
_&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Next Up: Jay Dave from the Windows Security Team!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-08-03-next-up-jay-dave-from-the-windows-security-team/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:42:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-08-03-next-up-jay-dave-from-the-windows-security-team/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Jay will be talking to us about all the cool things you can do with AppLocker and PowerShell. Here is a bit of information about him:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jay Dave, Program Manager with the Windows Security team in Microsoft. I have been with MS for 5 years and during this time I have worked on a variety of features most notable amongst those are UAC and AppLocker. I have done my MS in Computer Science from SUNY Stonybrook and BE in Computer Engineering from Gujarat University, India.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 120 – Alex Riedel on PrimalScript and Visual PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-08-01-episode-120-alex-riedel-on-primalscript-and-visual-powershell/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 03:56:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-08-01-episode-120-alex-riedel-on-primalscript-and-visual-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-120.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Alex Riedel from SAPIEN about PrimalScript and Visual PowerShell!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment is brought to you by &lt;a href="http://concentratedtech.com/" title="ConcentratedTech.com"&gt;ConcentratedTech.com&lt;/a&gt;{#o28z}.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://halr9000.com/article/906?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+halr9000+(TechProsaic)" title="Hal was interviewed on VIRTUMANIA 20"&gt;Hal was interviewed on VIRTUMANIA 20&lt;/a&gt;{#ks85}&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;CodePlex releases:
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://powerguivsx.codeplex.com/" title="PowerGUI VSX 1.1"&gt;PowerGUI VSX 1.1&lt;/a&gt;{#iip.}, now with debugging!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://smlets.codeplex.com/" title="SCSM PowerShell Cmdlets"&gt;SCSM PowerShell Cmdlets&lt;/a&gt;{#bm4f}&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://powertab.codeplex.com/" title="PowerTab"&gt;PowerTab&lt;/a&gt;{#e7lf}&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://powerquery.codeplex.com/" title="PowerQuery"&gt;PowerQuery&lt;/a&gt;{#bikm}&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://pal.codeplex.com/" title="PAL!"&gt;PAL!&lt;/a&gt;{#g44d}&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://psisolatedstorage.codeplex.com/" title="Isolated Storage"&gt;Isolated Storage&lt;/a&gt;{#a78j}&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://psprovider.codeplex.com/" title="PowerShell Script Provider"&gt;PowerShell Script Provider&lt;/a&gt;{#rglr}&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Be sure to fill out &lt;a href="http://blog.sapien.com/index.php/2010/07/23/backup-survey/" title="SAPIEN's Backup Survey"&gt;SAPIEN&amp;rsquo;s Backup Survey&lt;/a&gt;{#hkli}&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Watch &lt;a href="http://www.secmaniac.com/" title="SecManiac's"&gt;SecManiac&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/a&gt;{#m2-j} blog for news from this year&amp;rsquo;s Blackhat conference&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sqlsaturday.com/28/eventhome.aspx" title="SQL Saturday #28 at LSU is Aug 14th"&gt;SQL Saturday #28 at LSU is Aug 14th&lt;/a&gt;{#dgpo}&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This segment is brought to you by &lt;a href="http://sapien.com/"&gt;SAPIEN Technologies&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Alex Riedel from SAPIEN</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-07-27-up-next-alex-riedel-from-sapien/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:51:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-07-27-up-next-alex-riedel-from-sapien/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We are happy to have Alex back again on the show. Alex is the lead architect at SAPIEN and the brains behind &lt;a href="http://www.primalscript.com/"&gt;PrimalScript&lt;/a&gt;. Topics we plan to cover include:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Source control for administrators&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Moving to 64-bit&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And of course, we&amp;quot;™ll see what sort of tidbits Alex wants to share with us about his upcoming product: &lt;a href="http://blog.sapien.com/index.php/2010/07/06/announcing-visual-powershell-2011-the-dedicated-powershell-editor/"&gt;Visual PowerShell&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Last but not least, I want to say that if you want to contribute to the conversation, you can suggest questions for Alex by leaving them in the comments, &lt;a href="mailto:feedback@powerscripting.net"&gt;sending us an email&lt;/a&gt;, or best yet: show up for the live show!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 119 – Adam Driscoll on PowerGUI Visual Studio Extensions</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-07-26-episode-119-adam-driscoll-on-powergui-visual-studio-extensions/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:43:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-07-26-episode-119-adam-driscoll-on-powergui-visual-studio-extensions/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-119.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Adam Driscoll about PowerGUI Visual Studio Extensions&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Execute commands and scripts from anywhere including the office and remote locations, as well as from a Web browser or smart phone with PowerGUI Pro from Quest Software. With the MobileShell feature, administrators can quickly run commands to troubleshoot problems or make changes, even when away from your desk! This gives teams more flexibility to work remotely while traveling, and to leverage admins from other offices in case of an emergency.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Adam Driscoll with Quest Software</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-07-21-up-next-adam-driscoll-with-quest-software/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:59:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-07-21-up-next-adam-driscoll-with-quest-software/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This week we are talking to Adam about his &lt;a href="http://powerguivsx.codeplex.com/"&gt;PowerGUI Visual Studio Extension&lt;/a&gt; which is available for download on &lt;a href="http://codeplex.com"&gt;Codeplex&lt;/a&gt;.  Here is a bit about Adam in his own words:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/headshot3_thumb.png" alt="headshot3"&gt;](&lt;a href="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/headshot3.png)%22I'm"&gt;http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/headshot3.png)&amp;quot;I'm&lt;/a&gt; a software developer for Quest Software in Madison, WI and have been working here for a little over a year. This is my first professional software development position. I&amp;rsquo;ve only been working with PowerShell for about six months and am actively developing a module for our product vWorkspace. I enjoy keeping active, exploring Madison and staying busy with interesting side projects.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>No show today"¦</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-07-15-no-show-today/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:54:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-07-15-no-show-today/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Due to some schedule conflicts and work commitments, we won&amp;quot;™t be having a show tonight. We will be back next week at the live stream! Also, we plan on getting another bonus episode out to the feed soon, so look for that.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hal &amp;amp; Jon&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 118 – James Hamilton and Thomas Lee on PowerShell Use in the Hotmail Team</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-07-11-episode-118-james-hamilton-and-thomas-lee-on-powershell-use-in-the-hotmail-team/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:33:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-07-11-episode-118-james-hamilton-and-thomas-lee-on-powershell-use-in-the-hotmail-team/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-118.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to James Hamilton of Microsoft and MVP Thomas Lee about using PowerShell on the Hotmail Team.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;ldquo;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;rdquo;™ e-book, &amp;ldquo;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;rdquo; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don&amp;quot;™t wait &amp;ldquo;“ visitÂ &lt;a href="http://quest.com/powershellbook"&gt;quest.com/powershellbook&lt;/a&gt;Â to register for your free copy orÂ &lt;a href="http://quest.com/powerguipro"&gt;quest.com/powerguipro&lt;/a&gt;Â and see why PowerShell and Quest PowerGUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Bonus Episode 2 – PowerShell Discussion at CodeStock</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-07-10-bonus-episode-2-powershell-discussion-at-codestock/</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 03:50:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-07-10-bonus-episode-2-powershell-discussion-at-codestock/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-Extra2.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hal talks PowerShell with a small group during CodeStock 2010.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Bonus Episode – Hal's Live Podcast at CodeStock</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-07-09-bonus-episode-hals-live-podcast-at-codestock/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:27:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-07-09-bonus-episode-hals-live-podcast-at-codestock/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-Extra.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hal recorded a podcast in front of live studio audience at CodeStock in Knoxville, TN on June 26th.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Thomas Lee and the Hotmail Team</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-07-07-up-next-thomas-lee-and-the-hotmail-team/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:00:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-07-07-up-next-thomas-lee-and-the-hotmail-team/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3e/Wlhlogo.png" alt=""&gt;Tomorrow, July 8th, we are pleased to welcome back Thomas Lee, a PowerShell MVP from the UK. Thomas is super-cool and all, but he&amp;quot;™s been on the show already. But guess who has not? The &lt;a href="http://hotmail.com"&gt;Hotmail&lt;/a&gt; team! Thomas is onsite in the Bay Area this week delivering PowerShell training to the very engineers who keep Hotmail afloat, and two of them have agreed to come on the show and talk about how they use PowerShell.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 117 – Bartek Bielawski Chats with Jeffrey Snover and Ed Wilson</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-07-06-episode-117-bartek-bielawski-chats-with-jeffrey-snover-and-ed-wilson/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:21:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-07-06-episode-117-bartek-bielawski-chats-with-jeffrey-snover-and-ed-wilson/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-117.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Jeffrey Snover, Ed Wilson, and Bartek Bielawski, winner of the Scripting Games chat-with-Snover contest!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;ldquo;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;rdquo;™ e-book, &amp;ldquo;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;rdquo; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don&amp;quot;™t wait &amp;ldquo;“ visitÂ &lt;a href="http://quest.com/powershellbook"&gt;quest.com/powershellbook&lt;/a&gt;Â to register for your free copy orÂ &lt;a href="http://quest.com/powerguipro"&gt;quest.com/powerguipro&lt;/a&gt;Â and see why PowerShell and Quest PowerGUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>No Podcast Today</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-06-24-no-podcast-today/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:11:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-06-24-no-podcast-today/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Sorry guys, the live stream will be a lonely place tonight as Jonathan is out of town on business, and Hal is with his kids at a swim meet. We will catch you guys next week with guests Jeffery Snover and Ed Wilson!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Job Listing in Atlanta: System Engineer</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-06-23-job-listing-in-atlanta-system-engineer/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:22:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-06-23-job-listing-in-atlanta-system-engineer/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We are posting this as a service to our listeners in this challenging economy. If you are interested, please see contact instructions below.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We are seeking an experienced systems engineer to join a team of intelligent, hard-working individuals who are passionate about technology and focused on delivering top-notch service to their customers.  This Atlanta based team is responsible for supporting a sales team out in the field around the US.  As new applications are developed and are ready for the market this team is responsible for the planning, coordination, development, configuration, and support of new products on 340 servers (300 are virtual).  In addition, this team is responsible for designing and developing training manuals, system specifications, architectural diagrams, test procedures etc.&lt;br&gt;
What skills do you need to succeed in this role?  A strong background with Windows 2003/2008 Server from an administration standpoint, solid skills with SQL Server 2008, and strong Powershell skills.  Any experience with Citrix or VMWare is a huge plus.&lt;br&gt;
To discuss this phenomenal opportunity please contact Rebecca Hoke at 678-242-1353 or &lt;a href="mailto:r.hoke@aquesst.com"&gt;r.hoke AT aquesst.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 116 – Master Debugger John Robbins</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-06-21-episode-116-master-debugger-john-robbins/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:05:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-06-21-episode-116-master-debugger-john-robbins/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-116.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to John Robbins about Debugging!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerWF is a business process automation tool based on Windows Workflow and fueled by PowerShell.Â  Visualize, Extend and Reuse PowerShell scripts and easily leverage the efforts of your domain experts. Â You can download a 30-day trial today atÂ &lt;a href="http://powerwf.com"&gt;PowerWF.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;_&lt;br&gt;
_&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;User group news:
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://powershellgroup.org/content/july-12th-2010-tome-tanasovski-jobs-and-regular-expressions" title="NYC - July 12th, deep dive into jobs &amp;amp; regular expressions"&gt;NYC - July 12th, deep dive into jobs &amp;amp; regular expressions&lt;/a&gt;{#hjk4}&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kirk Munro give us a heads up about &lt;a href="http://poshoholic.com/2010/06/16/powershell-support-in-visual-studio/" title="forthcoming PowerShell support in Visual Studio"&gt;forthcoming PowerShell support in Visual Studio&lt;/a&gt;{#qcn9}&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://powershell.com/cs/forums/p/4243/6863.aspx#6863" title="Idera has just released PowerShell Plus 3.5 beta to the public"&gt;Idera has just released PowerShell Plus 3.5 beta to the public&lt;/a&gt;{#qiab}&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Oisin just put up a new Codeplex project: &lt;a href="http://psprovider.codeplex.com/" title="PowerShell Script Provider"&gt;PowerShell Script Provider&lt;/a&gt;{#gezw}&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;ldquo;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;rdquo;™ e-book, &amp;ldquo;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;rdquo; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don&amp;quot;™t wait &amp;ldquo;“ visitÂ &lt;a href="http://quest.com/powershellbook"&gt;quest.com/powershellbook&lt;/a&gt;Â to register for your free copy orÂ &lt;a href="http://quest.com/powerguipro"&gt;quest.com/powerguipro&lt;/a&gt;Â and see why PowerShell and Quest PowerGUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 115 – Glenn Sizemore on TechEd 2010</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-06-14-episode-115-glenn-sizemore-on-teched-2010/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:08:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-06-14-episode-115-glenn-sizemore-on-teched-2010/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-115.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#tiap}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Glenn Sizemore about TechEd 2010!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;ldquo;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;rdquo;™ e-book, &amp;ldquo;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;rdquo; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don&amp;quot;™t wait &amp;ldquo;“ visitÂ &lt;a href="http://quest.com/powershellbook"&gt;quest.com/powershellbook&lt;/a&gt;Â to register for your free copy orÂ &lt;a href="http://quest.com/powerguipro"&gt;quest.com/powerguipro&lt;/a&gt;Â and see why PowerShell and Quest PowerGUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: John Robbins talks about PowerShell for Developers and Debugging</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-06-14-up-next-john-robbins-talks-about-powershell-for-developers-and-debugging/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:11:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-06-14-up-next-john-robbins-talks-about-powershell-for-developers-and-debugging/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;quot;™m sure the dev side of the house is going to be excited because they already know who our next guest is&amp;quot;”and the IT side needs to listen up because debugging is important for them too!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;quot;™s a bit about John from &lt;a href="http://www.wintellect.com/TechnicalBioDetail.aspx?Tech=4"&gt;his website&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;John Robbins is a cofounder of Wintellect, where he heads up the consulting and debugging services side of the business. He also travels the world teaching his Mastering .NET Debugging and Mastering Windows Debugging courses so that developers everywhere can learn the techniques he uses to solve the nastiest software problems known to man. As one of the world&amp;rsquo;s recognized authorities on debugging, John takes an evil delight in finding and fixing impossible bugs in other people&amp;rsquo;s programs.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 114 – Ryan Dunn on Azure and PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-06-06-episode-114-ryan-dunn-on-azure-and-powershell/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 01:10:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-06-06-episode-114-ryan-dunn-on-azure-and-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-114.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Ryan Dunn about managing Azure with PowerShell!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;PowerWF is a business process automation tool based on Windows Workflow and fueled by PowerShell.Â  Visualize, Extend and Reuse PowerShell scripts and easily leverage the efforts of your domain experts. Â Get a live demo and meet the PowerWF development team at Tech-Ed.Â  Or download a 30 day trial today atÂ &lt;a href="http://powerwf.com/"&gt;PowerWF.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A look at PowerShell jobs – Part 1</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-06-03-a-look-at-powershell-jobs-part-1/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:16:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-06-03-a-look-at-powershell-jobs-part-1/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;One of the cool new features of PowerShell v2 is remoting. We&amp;quot;™ve talked about it several times on the podcast and it is a huge topic with many facets. One piece of PowerShell remoting is the ability to create jobs. PowerShell jobs are kicked off locally or on remote machines and exist in their own &lt;strong&gt;independent&lt;/strong&gt; runspaces. This allows you to do things like running tasks in parallel to improve efficiency. Traditionally, in PowerShell if you want to perform an action on a list of servers (for example) you loop through the servers one at a time and you have to wait until the task is finished on the 1st server before it starts on the 2nd server and so it progresses in a serial fashion. Jobs allow you to run these tasks simultaneously.&lt;br&gt;
The job related cmdlets in PowerShell v2 are these:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Ryan Dunn Talks about Azure</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-06-03-up-next-ryan-dunn-talks-about-azure/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:05:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-06-03-up-next-ryan-dunn-talks-about-azure/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We are looking forward to this week&amp;quot;™s interview with Ryan Dunn. Ryan caught our eye as the author of the Codeplex projects &lt;a href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazuremmc"&gt;Windows Azure Management  Tool&lt;/a&gt;, and the &lt;a href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/azurecmdlets"&gt;Windows Azure Service Management Cmdlets&lt;/a&gt;. Please join us today at 9:30 EDT on &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;our Ustream channel&lt;/a&gt; if you&amp;quot;™d like to be a part of the discussion!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;quot;™s a bit more about Ryan from his &lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/dunnry/"&gt;ch9 profile&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ryan Dunn is the Windows Azure Technical Evangelist and produces the &amp;ldquo;Cloud Cover&amp;rdquo; Channel 9 show. Prior to joining Microsoft, Ryan was an MVP for &lt;a href="http://ASP.NET"&gt;ASP.NET&lt;/a&gt; and Directory Services.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>This Week: Jeff Hicks is Live in Studio!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-05-26-this-week-jeff-hicks-is-live-in-studio/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 16:20:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-05-26-this-week-jeff-hicks-is-live-in-studio/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We are pleased to be having &lt;a href="http://jdhitsolutions.com/"&gt;Jeff Hicks&lt;/a&gt; live in the studio during tomorrow&amp;quot;™s &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;PowerScripting Podcast live stream on Ustream&lt;/a&gt;. Also note that we plan on starting a little bit early at 9pm.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This should be a great show. As many of you know, Jeff is the author of &lt;a href="http://www.sapienpress.com/ad.asp"&gt;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFMÂ®&lt;/a&gt;, and the co-author of &lt;a href="http://www.sapienpress.com/powershell3.asp"&gt;Windows PowerShell v2.0: TFM&lt;/a&gt;, not to mention his &lt;a href="http://redmondmag.com/columns/article.asp?editorialsid=1520"&gt;monthly column in Redmond Magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As always, we encourage you to show up for the live stream. You get to interact with the guest and your fellow listeners and everyone has a great time.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 113 – MVP Brandon Shell Talks Citrix and Other PowerShell Goodness</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-05-24-episode-113-mvp-brandon-shell-talks-citrix-and-other-powershell-goodness/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 03:17:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-05-24-episode-113-mvp-brandon-shell-talks-citrix-and-other-powershell-goodness/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-113.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Brandon Shell about Citrix!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;PowerWF is a business process automation tool based on Windows Workflow and fueled by PowerShell.Â  Visualize, Extend and Reuse PowerShell scripts and easily leverage the efforts of your domain experts. Â Get a live demo and meet the PowerWF development team at Tech-Ed.Â  Or download a 30 day trial today atÂ &lt;a href="http://powerwf.com/"&gt;PowerWF.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 112 – Scripting Games 2010 Roundup with Ed Wilson and Joel Bennett</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-05-17-episode-112-scripting-games-2010-roundup-with-ed-wilson-and-joel-bennett/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 10:36:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-05-17-episode-112-scripting-games-2010-roundup-with-ed-wilson-and-joel-bennett/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-112.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Ed Wilson and Joel Bennett for a Scripting Games roundup!
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*Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;quot;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;quot;™ e-book, &amp;quot;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;quot; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don&amp;quot;™t wait &amp;quot;“ visitÂ [quest.com/powershellbook](http://quest.com/powershellbook) to register for your free copy orÂ [quest.com/powerguipro](http://quest.com/powerguipro) and see why PowerShell and Quest PowerGUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.*





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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- 
 User Group News 


 Atlanta -Â [May 18th](http://powershellgroup.org/content/atlanta-powershell-user-group-monthly-meeting)


 - 
 [NYC - June 14th - guest Ed Wilson](http://powershellgroup.org/content/nyc-powershell-user-group-meeting-june-14th-ed-wilson)






- 
 Local conferences 


 [Codestock in Knoxville TN](http://codestock.org/Sessions/Default.aspx) happens June 25th &amp;amp; 26th and there will be 4 PowerShell sessions including some fromÂ [Hal](http://halr9000.com/) andÂ [@SQLVariant](http://twitter.com/sqlvariant).






- 
 Book news:Â [Luc Dekens](http://www.lucd.info/) andÂ [Al Renouf](http://www.virtu-al.net/) are writing a PowerCLI book! It is due to be out from Sybex in 1Q 2011 and the title is to be &amp;quot;VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration&amp;quot;.


- 
 [PowerShell Community Extensions](http://pscx.codeplex.com/) v2 is out! 


 [announcement](http://keithhill.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!5A8D2641E0963A97!7208.entry)


 - 
 [download](http://pscx.codeplex.com/releases/view/45101)


 - 
 [list of cmdlets](http://keithhill.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!5A8D2641E0963A97!7210.entry)






- 
 [Citrix has released the XenApp 6 PowerShell SDK](http://www.out-web.net/?p=794)


- 
 New suite of PowerShell-related software products from /n Software:Â [PowerShell Inside](http://www.powershellinside.com/)


- 
 [iPowerShell is out for the iPad](http://blog.sapien.com/index.php/2010/05/04/ipowershell-comes-to-ipad/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+SapienBlog+(SAPIEN+Technologies+Blog))


- 
 [Free 2-hour video training class aimed at developers](http://www.jasonhelmick.com/journal/2010/5/11/free-powershell-for-developers.html)
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*PowerWF is a business process automation tool based on Windows Workflow and fueled by PowerShell.Â  Visualize, Extend and Reuse PowerShell scripts and easily leverage the efforts of your domain experts. Â Get a live demo and meet the PowerWF development team at Tech-Ed.Â  Or download a 30 day trial today atÂ [PowerWF.com](http://powerwf.com/)*
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- 
 Ed's series onÂ [error handling](http://blogs.technet.com/heyscriptingguy/archive/tags/error+handling/default.aspx)


- 
 PoshCode:Â [http://2010sg.poshcode.org/](http://2010sg.poshcode.org/)


- 
 [PowerShellGroup.org](http://powershellgroup.org/)


- 
 Ed's site:Â [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/default.aspx)/


- 
 Joel's blog:Â [http://huddledmasses.org/](http://huddledmasses.org/)
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- 
 rfoust: ## has scripting games been your full time job for the past few weeks







**Resources**





- 
 Richard Siddaway was kind enough to postÂ [a review](http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!43CFA46A74CF3E96!2863.entry) of Hal's VMware PowerCLI book.


- 
 MVP Sean Kearney has a new site up:Â [PowerShell.ca](http://powershell.ca/)


- 
 Don Jones posted aÂ [PowerShell Training Roundup](http://concentratedtech.com/item/view/id/482)


- 
 The Scripting Guys have a great series onÂ [scripting PowerPoint](http://blogs.technet.com/heyscriptingguy/archive/tags/Microsoft+PowerPoint/default.aspx)


- 
 [Don's new PowerShell site on WindowsITPro](http://www.windowsitpro.com/categories/category/Scripting/DonJonesonPowerShell.aspx)


- 
 [IP subnet math in PowerShell](http://www.indented.co.uk/index.php/2010/01/23/powershell-subnet-math/)**
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&lt;p&gt;**&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>This Week"™s Interview: Scripting Games 2010 Roundup</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-05-11-this-weeks-interview-scripting-games-2010-roundup/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 02:13:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-05-11-this-weeks-interview-scripting-games-2010-roundup/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This week on the show we will have:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ed Wilson, &lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/default.aspx"&gt;Microsoft Scripting Guy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Craig Liebendorfer, &lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/default.aspx"&gt;Microsoft Scripting Guy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Joel Bennett, PowerShell MVP and developer of the &lt;a href="http://2010sg.poshcode.org/"&gt;2010SG site&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href="http://PoshCode.org"&gt;PoshCode.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please join us this Thursday 5/13 @ 9:30 EDT on &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;the live stream&lt;/a&gt; as we talk about The 2010 Scripting Games! We will discuss the history of the games, the activity this year, some of the cool features of Joel&amp;quot;™s website, and whatever else YOU come up with. That&amp;quot;™s right&amp;quot;”you can post questions to the guests live during the interview, and chat with your fellow scripters. We hope you can make it, we have a great time.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>No Show Thursday</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-05-05-no-show-thursday/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 02:30:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-05-05-no-show-thursday/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hal and Jon have had a rough week and both need a night off from podcasting. We will resume normal activities next week, 5/13.  Be there!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;P.S. We need more interview ideas! Leave comments or email us please with your suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 111 – Buck Woody from Microsoft on SQL Server and PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-05-03-episode-111-buck-woody-from-microsoft-on-sql-server-and-powershell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 03:10:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-05-03-episode-111-buck-woody-from-microsoft-on-sql-server-and-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-111.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we have Buck Woody from Microsoft to talk about SQL Server and PowerShell.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;PowerWF is a business process automation tool based on Windows Workflow and fueled by PowerShell.Â  Visualize, Extend and Reuse PowerShell scripts and easily leverage the efforts of your domain experts. Â Get a live demo and meet the PowerWF development team at Tech-Ed.Â  Or download a 30 day trial today at PowerWF.com&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 110 – Andrew Mason From Microsoft on Server Core</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-04-25-episode-110-andrew-mason-from-microsoft-on-server-core/</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:13:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-04-25-episode-110-andrew-mason-from-microsoft-on-server-core/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-110.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
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&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast have a Windows Server Core discussion with Andrew Mason from Microsoft
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&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;ldquo;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;rdquo;™ e-book, &amp;ldquo;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;rdquo; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don&amp;quot;™t wait &amp;ldquo;“ visit *&lt;a href="http://quest.com/powershellbook"&gt;&lt;em&gt;quest.com/powershellbook&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;Â to register for your free copy or &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://quest.com/powerguipro"&gt;&lt;em&gt;quest.com/powerguipro&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and see why PowerShell and Quest PowerGUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Server Core Show Coming This Thursday!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-04-20-server-core-show-coming-this-thursday/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:17:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-04-20-server-core-show-coming-this-thursday/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Due to unforeseen circumstances (mostly Jon&amp;quot;™s fault), we weren&amp;quot;™t able to record last week. Not to worry, we will be back soon!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tonight "“ Andrew Mason talks about Windows Server Core</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-04-15-tonight-andrew-mason-talks-about-windows-server-core/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:26:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-04-15-tonight-andrew-mason-talks-about-windows-server-core/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Andrew Mason is a Principal Program Manager Lead in the Windows Server division at Microsoft and has been working on Server Core since the beginning. Andrew has been involved with Windows Server in one way or another since the early days of Windows NT.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We can&amp;quot;™t wait to meet and talk with Andrew and we also hope you join us for &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;the live show&lt;/a&gt;. Be there at 9:30 PM EDT (GMT-5) tonight!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 109 – v2 Expert Panel</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-04-11-episode-109-v2-expert-panel/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:44:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-04-11-episode-109-v2-expert-panel/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-109.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#p13-2}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast have a great panel discussion with tons of experts&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;ldquo;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;rdquo;™ e-book, &amp;ldquo;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;rdquo; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don&amp;quot;™t wait &amp;ldquo;“ visit &lt;a href="http://quest.com/powershellbook" title="quest.com/powershellbook"&gt;quest.com/powershellbook&lt;/a&gt;{#od7t}Â to register for your free copy or &lt;a href="http://quest.com/powerguipro" title="quest.com/powerguipro"&gt;quest.com/powerguipro&lt;/a&gt;{#jqf7} and see why PowerShell and Quest PowerGUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerScripting Live "“ Open PowerShell v2 Panel Tomorrow!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-04-07-powerscripting-live-open-powershell-v2-panel-tomorrow/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:02:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-04-07-powerscripting-live-open-powershell-v2-panel-tomorrow/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Tomorrow (Thursday the 8th of April), we are going to do something new. We will have an open panel where we&amp;quot;™ll discuss such topics as:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;PowerShell 2.0 adoption&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Are you happy with version 2?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Favorite v2 resources: books, bloggers, tools, etc.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;PS v2 Remoting vs administering remote PCs without PowerShell installed (lead into PowerShell myths?)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;And anything else YOU can come up with by show time.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have one or two MVPs who plan on making it, but what I&amp;quot;™d really like to see happen is a couple of listeners with opinions on their minds step up to the mic as well.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 108 – SharePoint 2010 with Gary LaPointe</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-04-05-episode-108-sharepoint-2010-with-gary-lapointe/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:57:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-04-05-episode-108-sharepoint-2010-with-gary-lapointe/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-108.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Gary LaPointe about SharePoint 2010
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&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Version 2.1 of PowerWF Studio has just been released. PowerWF is a Visual PowerShell development tool allowing users to build PowerShell scripts as workflows, which are similar to a flowchart or Visio diagram.Â  Once created, workflows can be deployed as applications, run as a scheduled task, or back to PowerShell as a script.Â  You can even push data to System Center with the click of a button. To get your free 30 day trial go toÂ &lt;a href="http://powerwf.com/" title="PowerWF.com"&gt;PowerWF.com&lt;/a&gt;{#j2hk}.&lt;/em&gt;_&lt;br&gt;
_&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tonight! Sharepoint 2010 with MVP Gary Lapointe</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-04-01-tonight-sharepoint-2010-with-mvp-gary-lapointe/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 23:04:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-04-01-tonight-sharepoint-2010-with-mvp-gary-lapointe/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Be sure to joins us for the live show tonight as we interview Gary Lapointe, Sharepoint MVP. We will be talking about what is new to the platform in general, but of course the main focus will be&amp;ndash;how are the PowerShell cmdlets?&lt;br&gt;
Tonight: 9:30 PM EDT on Ustream! (See sideebar for link).&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 107 – PowerWF v2 with Ben and Brian</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-03-30-episode-107-powerwf-v2-with-ben-and-brian/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:14:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-03-30-episode-107-powerwf-v2-with-ben-and-brian/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/powerscripting/PSPodcast-107.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Â &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Ben and Brian from PowerWF about PowerWF v2!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;ldquo;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;rdquo;™ e-book, &amp;ldquo;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;rdquo; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Posting delayed</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-03-28-posting-delayed/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:04:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-03-28-posting-delayed/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;When I tried to upload the podcast tonight I was greeted with this&amp;hellip;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/libsyn-upgrade.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/libsyn-upgrade.jpg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
I will post the podcast when Libsyn finishes their upgrades. It would have been nice to have known this was going to happen in advance.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 106 – SQL PSX with Chad Miller</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-03-22-episode-106-sql-psx-with-chad-miller/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:01:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-03-22-episode-106-sql-psx-with-chad-miller/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-106.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Chad Miller about SQL PSX
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Version 2.0 of PowerWF Studio has just been released. PowerWF is a Visual PowerShell development tool allowing users to build PowerShell scripts as workflows, which are similar to a flowchart or Visio diagram.Â  Once created, workflows can be deployed as applications, run as a scheduled task, or back to PowerShell as a script.Â  You can even push data to System Center with the click of a button. To get your free 30 day trial go toÂ &lt;a href="http://powerwf.com/" title="PowerWF.com"&gt;PowerWF.com&lt;/a&gt;{#j2hk}.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
_&lt;br&gt;
_&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Version 2 Month on the Podcast</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-03-16-version-2-month-on-the-podcast/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:05:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-03-16-version-2-month-on-the-podcast/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;No I&amp;quot;™m not talking about PowerShell version 2! This month on the podcast we are focusing on version 2 updates from a few different projects or products in the community.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As you have hopefully seen and perhaps listened to by now, we &lt;a href="http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/episode-105-pscx-2-0-with-keith-hill-and-oisin-grehan/"&gt;just put out a podcast&lt;/a&gt; with Keith Hill and Oisin Gerhan to talk about &lt;a href="http://pscx.codeplex.com/"&gt;PSCX&lt;/a&gt; version 2.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Next up this Thursday the 18th is &lt;a href="http://chadwickmiller.spaces.live.com/blog/"&gt;Chad Miller&lt;/a&gt; to talk about &lt;a href="http://www.codeplex.com/SQLPSX"&gt;SQL PSX&lt;/a&gt; version 2. Chad has been on the show once before and we&amp;quot;™re happy to have him on again.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 105 – PSCX 2.0 with Keith Hill and Oisin Grehan</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-03-14-episode-105-pscx-2-0-with-keith-hill-and-oisin-grehan/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:43:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-03-14-episode-105-pscx-2-0-with-keith-hill-and-oisin-grehan/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-105.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Keith Hill &amp;amp; Oisin Grehan about PSCX 2.0
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;ldquo;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;rdquo;™ e-book, &amp;ldquo;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;rdquo; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 104 – Keith Garner on MDT 2010</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-03-07-episode-104-keith-garner-on-mdt-2010/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:34:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-03-07-episode-104-keith-garner-on-mdt-2010/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-104.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Keith Garner from the Xtreme Consulting Group on MDT 2010
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Now a word from our new sponsor, PowerWF.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Version 2.0 of PowerWF Studio has just been released. PowerWF is a Visual PowerShell development tool allowing users to build PowerShell scripts as workflows, which are similar to a flowchart or Visio diagram.Â  Once created, workflows can be deployed as applications, run as a scheduled task, or back to PowerShell as a script.Â  You can even push data to System Center with the click of a button. To get your free 30 day trial go toÂ &lt;a href="http://powerwf.com/" title="PowerWF.com"&gt;PowerWF.com&lt;/a&gt;{#j2hk}.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
_&lt;br&gt;
_&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Windows PowerShell Community Review</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-03-01-windows-powershell-community-review/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:10:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-03-01-windows-powershell-community-review/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Have you ever read Help that wasn&amp;rsquo;t really helpful? Here&amp;rsquo;s your chance to fix it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Windows PowerShell documentation team and &lt;a href="http://PowerShellCommunity.org"&gt;PowerShellCommunity.org&lt;/a&gt; jointly sponsor the &lt;strong&gt;Windows PowerShell Community Doc Review&lt;/strong&gt;. As a member, you&amp;rsquo;ll get to read and comment on the Help docs before they&amp;rsquo;re published, and work with the writers, editors, and the product team to make sure every word is really helpful.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;re looking for users at all experience levels and with all different backgrounds, but we love to have beginners, people with no programming experience, people who know other scripting languages or shells, and people who are not native English speakers. If you&amp;rsquo;re a system admin and you don&amp;rsquo;t really know Windows PowerShell, this is a great way to learn it with help from insiders.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 103 – MVPs Brandon Shell and Oisin Grehan</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-03-01-episode-103-mvps-brandon-shell-and-oisin-grehan/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:02:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-03-01-episode-103-mvps-brandon-shell-and-oisin-grehan/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-103.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Brandon Shell and Oisin Grehan
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;ldquo;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;rdquo;™ e-book, &amp;ldquo;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;rdquo; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>No Show This Week</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-02-18-no-show-this-week/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:34:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-02-18-no-show-this-week/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We are not recording a show this week because Hal is on vacation. We&amp;rsquo;ll be back next week with Keith Hill and Oisín Grehan!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 102 – James Brundage from the PowerShell Team</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-02-16-episode-102-james-brundage-from-the-powershell-team/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:54:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-02-16-episode-102-james-brundage-from-the-powershell-team/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-102.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to James Brundage from Microsoft
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;ldquo;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;rdquo;™ e-book, &amp;ldquo;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;rdquo; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 101 – Matthew Giles from Connect-SMART</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-02-07-episode-101-matthew-giles-from-connect-smart/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:38:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-02-07-episode-101-matthew-giles-from-connect-smart/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-101.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Matthew Giles from Connect-SMART&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News
*Â *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;ldquo;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;rdquo;™ e-book, &amp;ldquo;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;rdquo; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.
*&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 100 – Quest Mobileshell, PowerGui Pro and Your Tips</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-02-02-episode-100-quest-mobileshell-powergui-pro-and-your-tips/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:03:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-02-02-episode-100-quest-mobileshell-powergui-pro-and-your-tips/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-100.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Quest Software about Mobileshell and PowerGUI Pro&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;*
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;ldquo;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;rdquo;™ e-book, &amp;ldquo;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;rdquo; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.
*&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 99 – Shannon Ma on Configuration Management</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-02-01-episode-99-shannon-ma-on-configuration-management/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:15:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-02-01-episode-99-shannon-ma-on-configuration-management/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-099.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Shannon Ma about configuration management&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News
*Â *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;ldquo;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;rdquo;™ e-book, &amp;ldquo;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;rdquo; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.
*&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerScripting Podcast News</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-01-25-powerscripting-podcast-news/</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:55:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-01-25-powerscripting-podcast-news/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi folks! We just wanted to let you know that show 99 is coming up soon. We recorded the interview as usual last Thursday, but afterwards, Hal got paged and had to work late. We are trying to get together to finish the rest of the show and get things up on the website for you as soon as we can.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By the way, don&amp;quot;™t forget to &lt;a href="http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/submit-your-episode-100-tips-win-primalforms/"&gt;submit your tips&lt;/a&gt; for show 100! We are giving away copies of PrimalForms by SAPIEN!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Submit your Episode 100 Tips, Win PrimalForms!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-01-20-submit-your-episode-100-tips-win-primalforms/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:25:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-01-20-submit-your-episode-100-tips-win-primalforms/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Episode 100 is coming&lt;a href="http://www.primaltools.com/products/info.asp?p=PrimalForms"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.primaltools.com/com/img/products/PrimalForms_box.jpg" alt="PrimalForms"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and we need your help! As &lt;a href="http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/we-need-your-tips/"&gt;outlined in our post&lt;/a&gt; from a few days ago, we&amp;quot;™d like to do something special for our 100th show. Please send an MP3 recording of your tip to , or leave voicemail with your tip at (678) 905-1173. All entries are in a random drawing to win a copy of SAPIEN&amp;quot;™s awesome PowerShell GUI designer, PrimalForms 2009! We have two copies to give away, but you have to enter to win!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 98 – Steven Murawsk on PowerShellCommunity.org and Debugging</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-01-18-episode-98-steven-murawsk-on-powershellcommunity-org-and-debugging/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:07:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-01-18-episode-98-steven-murawsk-on-powershellcommunity-org-and-debugging/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-098.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Steven Murawski about PowerShellCommunity.org and debugging PowerShell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News
*Â *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;ldquo;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;rdquo;™ e-book, &amp;ldquo;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;rdquo; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.
*&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>High Praise!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-01-13-high-praise/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:55:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-01-13-high-praise/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We received this from someone on the PowerShell team at Microsoft today. Made us feel mighty fine. 🙂&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;I know running the Podcast is  often a thankless job, but you guys are nailing it. It is absolutely one of the highlights of the PowerShell community &amp;ldquo;“ you guys should be very proud for what you&amp;rdquo;™ve accomplished.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As always, we do love hearing from all of our listeners. Whatever you have to say, please let us know! Also, don&amp;quot;™t forget to send in tips for show 100&amp;quot;”there will be a product giveaway&amp;quot;¦&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>We need your tips!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-01-12-we-need-your-tips/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:26:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-01-12-we-need-your-tips/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Episode 100 is breathing down our necks and we want to do something a little bit different and fun toÂ celebrate. That&amp;rsquo;s where you come in. We would like for you to send us your best/favorite PowerShell tips and tricks. If you can send us an audio file that would be fantastic. We would love to get your voice on the show. If you just want to email them to us that&amp;rsquo;s cool too. If you can send us a video (or a link to one) we will try and stream it during the live show as well as having the audio on the podcast. We know we have a crazy amount of expertise and creativity in our audience and this is a chance for you to share it.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: If creating an audio file isn&amp;rsquo;t convenient, you can also leave a voicemail at Hal&amp;rsquo;s Google Voice number: (678) 905-1173.&lt;br&gt;
Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>This Thursday: Steven Murawski talks about PowerShellCommunity.org and More!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-01-11-this-thursday-steven-murawski-talks-about-powershellcommunity-org-and-more/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:49:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-01-11-this-thursday-steven-murawski-talks-about-powershellcommunity-org-and-more/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;From his &lt;a href="http://blog.usepowershell.com/"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;img src="http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/611925600/twitterProfilePhoto.jpg" alt="Steven Murawski"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;quot;™m the Director for Research and Development for &lt;a href="http://www.prophoenix.com"&gt;ProPhoenix&lt;/a&gt;, a public safety software company. This position allows me to investigate new and existing technologies and incorporate them into our product line, with the end goal being to help public safety agencies to do their jobs more efficiently and safely.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;quot;™m an advocate for PowerShell, as I believe it encourages administrative best practices and allows developers to provide additional access to their applications, without needing to explicitly write code for each administrative feature. Part of my advocacy for PowerShell includes &lt;a href="http://blog.usepowershell.com"&gt;my blog&lt;/a&gt;, appearances on various podcasts, and acting as a Community Director for &lt;a href="http://powershellcommunity.org"&gt;PowerShellCommunity.Org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;quot;™m also a co-host of &lt;a href="http://www.mindofroot.com"&gt;Mind of Root&lt;/a&gt; (a weekly audio podcast about systems administration, tech news, and topics).Â  &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mind-of-root"&gt;We stream our show live on UStream.tv&lt;/a&gt; on Wednesday evening at 8:30 PM CST.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 97 – Clint Huffman and His PAL Project</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-01-10-episode-97-clint-huffman-and-his-pal-project/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:56:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-01-10-episode-97-clint-huffman-and-his-pal-project/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-097.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Premier Field Engineer Clint Huffman&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News
*Â *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;ldquo;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;rdquo;™ e-book, &amp;ldquo;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;rdquo; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.
*&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tonight"™s Guest: Clint Huffman</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-01-07-tonights-guest-clint-huffman/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:21:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2010-01-07-tonights-guest-clint-huffman/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/clinth/WindowsLiveWriter/AbouttheAuthorClintHuffman_C794/ClintHuffman2_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/clinth/WindowsLiveWriter/AbouttheAuthorClintHuffman_C794/ClintHuffman2_thumb.jpg" alt="Clint Huffman"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Originally from Dayton, OH. Clint joined Microsoft in 1999 supporting web technologies, Microsoft load testing tools, and later worked as a Testing Consultant helping people with load testing at the Microsoft Services Labs. There he found a passion for solving Windows performance issues. In 2006, he joined Microsoft Premier Field Engineering (PFE) team to take on BizTalk performance issues only to find that most issues could be diagnosed by analyzing operating system resources. Some may say that performance analysis of Windows is more of an art than a science. Well, Clint strives to make it as much of a science as possible and to bring it to the masses. Clint is probably best known for the &lt;a href="http://pal.codeplex.com/"&gt;Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) tool&lt;/a&gt;, which simplifies the analysis of performance monitor logs. He is an author of many of the BizTalk performance guides on MSDN and recently spoke at Tech Ed 2008 on BizTalk performance analysis. He currently lives in Marysville, WA which is about 40 miles north of Seattle.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 96 – Scripting Guy Ed Wilson on PowerShell Best Practices</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-12-28-episode-96-scripting-guy-ed-wilson-on-powershell-best-practices/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:42:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-12-28-episode-96-scripting-guy-ed-wilson-on-powershell-best-practices/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-096.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Ed Wilson, the Scripting GuyÂ &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News
*Â *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;ldquo;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;rdquo;™ e-book, &amp;ldquo;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;rdquo; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.
*&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 95-Josh Jones From the CS Techcast Talks PowerShell and SQL</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-12-20-episode-95-josh-jones-from-the-cs-techcast-talks-powershell-and-sql/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:54:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-12-20-episode-95-josh-jones-from-the-cs-techcast-talks-powershell-and-sql/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-095.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Josh Jones from the CS TechcastÂ &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News
**&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;ldquo;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;rdquo;™ e-book, &amp;ldquo;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;rdquo; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.
*&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 94- Carter Shanklin from VMware on PowerCLI and Onyx</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-12-06-456-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:10:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-12-06-456-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-094.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Carter Shanklin with VMware about his new product release&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News
**&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;ldquo;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;rdquo;™ e-book, &amp;ldquo;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;rdquo; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.
*&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Getting Started with PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-11-23-getting-started-with-powershell/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:40:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-11-23-getting-started-with-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Reminder, there will be no PowerScripting Live this week due to the US Thanksgiving holiday. Next live show is Dec 1st. This means the next episode won&amp;quot;™t be released on the website/iTunes until Dec 7th.&lt;br&gt;
That said, we don&amp;quot;™t want to leave you hungry! With that in mind, here&amp;quot;™s a couple of resources for the new scripters out there. Even if you aren&amp;quot;™t a newbie, you should check out both of these resources as there are plenty of tips within which you may not have come across before.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 93 – Jeff Atwood tells us Rock Hard Awesome will create teleportation and we talk about ServerFault</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-11-22-episode-93-jeff-atwood-tells-us-rock-hard-awesome-will-create-teleportation-and-we-talk-about-serverfault/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:26:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-11-22-episode-93-jeff-atwood-tells-us-rock-hard-awesome-will-create-teleportation-and-we-talk-about-serverfault/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-093.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Jeff Atwood about technical communities, ServerFault, and StackOverflow
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;*Â *







 - 
 Don't miss the Seattle Script Club this Thursday the 19th. Watch the PowerShell team blog where the slide deck and maybe a video will be posted afterwards. Focus will be building graphs with Visifire and WPK.


 - 
 Project OnyxÂ [finally has a public alpha](http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2009/11/project-onyx-is-here.html)Â (also see Al Renouf'sÂ [blog post](http://www.virtu-al.net/2009/11/16/the-onyx-has-landed/))


 - 
 PowerShell V2 isÂ [supported for Exchange 2007 SP](http://msgoodies.blogspot.com/2009/11/powershell-20-is-supported-for-exchange.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/msgoodies+(msgoodies+RSS))2


 - 
 [TechMentor 2010 is now open for registration](http://www.techmentorevents.com/Events/TechMentor-Spring-2010/Home.aspx), and they have aÂ [PowerShell track](http://techmentorevents.com/events/techmentor-spring-2010/tracks/windows-powershell-focus-topic.aspx).


 - 
 PowerShell Help 2.0 Community EditionÂ [has been released by SAPIEN](http://blog.sapien.com/index.php/2009/11/16/powershell-help-2-0-community-edition/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+SapienBlog+(SAPIEN+Technologies+Blog))
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Interview





 *This segment is brought to you byÂ *[*SAPIEN Technologies*](http://sapien.com/)*.*
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Links







 - 
 [StackOverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/)


 - 
 [ServerFault](http://serverfault.com/)


 - 
 [CodingHorror](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Questions





 - 
 your background


 - 
 Why come up with a new type of Q&amp;amp;A site?


 - 
 what have you learned so far?


 - 
 tech challenges


 - 
 SO vs SF (and the rest). I expect to spend quite a bit of time here, to be sure that my listeners, the majority of which are admins, understand where PowerShell questions fit, given that it _is_ a computer language.


 - 
 Who is Rock Hard Awesome? 🙂
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Resources&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Recording *Tonight* with Jeff Atwood!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-11-17-recording-tonight-with-jeff-atwood/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:46:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-11-17-recording-tonight-with-jeff-atwood/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/images/coding-horror-official-logo-small.png" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; We are very excited to welcome &lt;a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/"&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt;, perhaps better known as &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/codinghorror"&gt;@codinghorror&lt;/a&gt; on Twitter, to the podcast tonight.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeff has an extremely popular blog at &lt;a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/"&gt;CodingHorror.com&lt;/a&gt; where he discusses software development best practices. In addition, he is one of the masterminds behind &lt;a href="http://stackoverflow.com"&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://serverfault.com"&gt;ServerFault&lt;/a&gt;, two very important websites for PowerShell hackers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It should be a great interview, Jeff is a very dynamic speaker as you already know if you listen to the &lt;a href="http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/"&gt;StackOverflow podcast&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 92 – The BSonPosh Module with MVP Brandon Shell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-11-16-episode-92-the-bsonposh-module-with-mvp-brandon-shell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:41:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-11-16-episode-92-the-bsonposh-module-with-mvp-brandon-shell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-092.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Brandon Shell about virtualization, VDI, and his new BSonPoshPowerShell module.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;*Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;quot;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;quot;™ e-book, &amp;quot;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;quot; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. *





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





* * 






 - 
 Go grabÂ [PowerShellPlus 3.1 beta](http://powershell.com/cs/forums/p/2814/3756.aspx#3756)


 - 
 Brandon Shell'sÂ [PowerShell Module goes Beta](http://bsonposh.com/archives/1070?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BsOnPosh+%28BS+on+Posh%29&amp;amp;utm_content=Google+Reader)


 - 
 [Seattle PowerShell Script Club &amp;quot;“ Thurs Nov 19th](http://get-powershell.com/2009/11/06/seattle-powershell-script-club-thurs-nov-19th/)


 - 
 Sapien Press isÂ [taking pre-orders](http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/2009/11/pre-orders-for-windows-powershell-2-0-tfm/#utm_source=feed&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=feed) for PowerShell 2.0: TFM


 - 
 CodePlex news: 


 [PSHBiztalk](http://psbiztalk.codeplex.com/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Interview





 *This segment is brought to you by *[*SAPIEN Technologies*](http://sapien.com/)*.*
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Links







 - 
 [http://bsonposh.com/archives/1070](http://bsonposh.com/archives/1070)


 - 
 [http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/bsonposh](http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/bsonposh)


 - 
 [Virtual Session Indexer](http://www.loginconsultants.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=231&amp;amp;Itemid=128)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Questions







 - 
 AaronHoover: How does management with Hyper-V compare to that with VMware?


 - 
 jeffculb: ##memory overcomit does ok in vmware... vCPU density is the killer


 - 
 aerodevil: ##does hyperv thin provision?


 - 
 glnsize: ##have you used PCoIP


 - 
 sepeck: ## did I miss the difference between this and the activeroles cmdlets or Microsofts R2 release?


 - 
 aerodevil: ##get-RebootTime. What does that provide specifically.


 - 
 jtruman0917: ## so would this also push toward Mobile PoSH
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Resources&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tonight"™s guest: Brandon Shell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-11-12-tonights-guest-brandon-shell/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:59:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-11-12-tonights-guest-brandon-shell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We are continuing what is looking like a series where we dig into PowerShell modules. This time, Brandon Shell, PowerShell MVP and blogger at &lt;a href="http://bsonposh.com"&gt;bsonposh.com&lt;/a&gt;, joins us once more to talk about his BSonPosh module.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;quot;™re near a computer at 9:30pm EST, &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;join the live stream&lt;/a&gt; where you can chat with other listeners and contribute questions as we interview Brandon.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>What are your favorite episodes?</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-11-12-what-are-your-favorite-episodes/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:55:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-11-12-what-are-your-favorite-episodes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hal here. I just had a friend ask if we had a &amp;ldquo;best of&amp;rdquo; list of past episodes. With the possible exception of &lt;a href="http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/episode-89-powershell-v2-launch-party-with-distinguished-engineer-jeffrey-snover/"&gt;Episode 89&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;”which was epic and hard to beat&amp;quot;”they are all my babies, if you know what I mean.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why don&amp;quot;™t you all chip in on this question? Please let us know in the comments what some of your favorite past episodes are.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 91 – Oisin Grehan on Pmodem and Modules</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-11-08-episode-91-oisin-grehan-on-pmodem-and-modules/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:28:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-11-08-episode-91-oisin-grehan-on-pmodem-and-modules/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-091.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Oisin Grehan about Pmodem and PowerShell Modules&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;*
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Do you have what it takes to be the ultimate script warrior?Â  Find out with&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Â Quest&amp;quot;™sÂ &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerPack&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Â Challenge&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
 The guys at Devfarm are really pumping out the tutorials on theirÂ [new blog](http://blog.powerwf.com/). For example: 


 [What is a Workflow](http://blog.powerwf.com/post/212184431)


 - 
 [PowerWF Terminology](http://blog.powerwf.com/post/213802536)






 - 
 [Channel 9 has posted](http://blogs.msdn.com/mediaandmicrocode/archive/2009/10/30/new-wpk-video-online-multitouch-fingerpaint-in-30-lines-of-powershell-script.aspx)Â another one of James Brundage's WPK videos &amp;quot;How to Write a MultiTouch FingerPaint with WPK&amp;quot;


 - 
 Dmitry has a new video out as well, this one is aboutÂ [how to create a PowerGUI powerpack](http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/video-on-creating-a-powerpack/).
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Interview





 *This segment is brought to you byÂ *[*SAPIEN Technologies*](http://sapien.com/)*.*
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Links







 - 
 [http://www.nivot.org/2009/11/02/PowerShell20IntroducingThePModemFileTransferProtocol.aspx](http://www.nivot.org/2009/11/02/PowerShell20IntroducingThePModemFileTransferProtocol.aspx)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Questions







 - 
 ChadMiller: ##Any differences in way I would write a binary module in V2 vs V1 snappin


 - 
 PowershellJedi: ## is the green &amp;amp; yellow progress bar built into powershell v2 i've seen it used in other cmdlets


 - 
 glnsize: ## opinion on winrm and remoting in the realworld... after managing your sp farm.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Resources&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 90 – SCOM with Jeremy Pavleck and Scott Moss with special guest host Jonthan Medd</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-11-01-episode-90-scom-with-jeremy-pavleck-and-scott-moss-with-special-guest-host-jonthan-medd/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:02:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-11-01-episode-90-scom-with-jeremy-pavleck-and-scott-moss-with-special-guest-host-jonthan-medd/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-090.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to MVP Jeremy Pavleck and Scott Moss about System Center Operations Manager with guest host Jonathan Medd&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; *
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Do you have what it takes to be the ultimate script warrior?Â  Find out with&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Quest&amp;quot;™s&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerPack&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Challenge&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;.
*
*
Quest Software is sponsoring&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;a&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Scripting&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;contest where you can test your skills and get paid.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 89 – PowerShell V2 Launch Party with Distinguished Engineer Jeffrey Snover</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-10-25-episode-89-powershell-v2-launch-party-with-distinguished-engineer-jeffrey-snover/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:51:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-10-25-episode-89-powershell-v2-launch-party-with-distinguished-engineer-jeffrey-snover/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-089.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Jeffrey Snover about V2 release!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; A Very Special Thanks to Our Sponsors





 - 
 [PowerShell v2.0 3rd Ed. TFM](http://www.sapienpress.com/powershell3.asp) e-book (Sponsored byÂ [Quest Software](http://www.quest.com/), makers ofÂ [PowerGUI](http://powergui.org/))


 - 
 [SAPIEN PrimalForms 2009](http://www.primaltools.com/products/info.asp?p=PrimalForms)


 - 
 [Idera PowerShell Plus Professional Edition](http://powershellplus.com/)


 - 
 [Train Signal](http://www.trainsignal.com/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;ldquo;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;rdquo;™ e-book, &amp;ldquo;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;rdquo; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tonight is the Night!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-10-22-tonight-is-the-night/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:13:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-10-22-tonight-is-the-night/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Happy PowerShell V2 day!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We hope you can join us on the &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;Ustream channel&lt;/a&gt; at 9:30PM EDT tonight for the PowerShell event of the year! During the live stream, we will be giving away, more or less at random, several of the following gifts*:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.primaltools.com/products/info.asp?p=PrimalForms"&gt;SAPIEN PrimalForms 2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://powershellplus.com/"&gt;Idera PowerShell Plus Professional Edition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.trainsignal.com/"&gt;Videos from Train Signal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sapienpress.com/powershell3.asp"&gt;PowerShell v2.0 3rd Ed. TFM&lt;/a&gt; e-book (Sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.quest.com/"&gt;Quest Software&lt;/a&gt;, makers of &lt;a href="http://powergui.org"&gt;PowerGUI&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We&amp;quot;™ll reserve some copies to give to listeners of the podcast who are unable to make it to the live event, details TBA&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 88 – James Brundage on the Windows 7 Resource Kit PowerPack</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-10-19-episode-88-james-brundage-on-the-windows-7-resource-kit-powerpack/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:46:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-10-19-episode-88-james-brundage-on-the-windows-7-resource-kit-powerpack/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-088.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to developer James Brundge from the PowerShell test team&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; *
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Do you have what it takes to be the ultimate script warrior?Â  Find out with&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Quest&amp;quot;™s&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerPack&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Challenge&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Quest Software is sponsoring&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;a&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Scripting&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;contest where you can test your skills and get paid.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Do you have the muscle to bring home the prize?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>And we"™re on Twitter too"¦</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-10-17-and-were-on-twitter-too/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:41:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-10-17-and-were-on-twitter-too/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Jon and I went back and forth on this for a while and to be honest, I never really did change my mind about it but as Facebook Pages can now link to Twitter IDs it only made sense to make a new Twitter account while I was in there. 🙂&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are the ways you can follow us on Twitter:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jonathan: &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/jonwalz"&gt;twitter.com/jonwalz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hal: &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/halr9000"&gt;twitter.com/halr9000&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;(new) The Show: &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/powerscripting"&gt;twitter.com/powerscripting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This last one will automatically post when Jon posts the show, so this will be a fast way to find out when that happens.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>New Facebook Page!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-10-17-new-facebook-page/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:35:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-10-17-new-facebook-page/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;quot;™ve long had a &lt;em&gt;group&lt;/em&gt; on Facebook, but the funny thing about groups is that they are a real dead-end on Facebook, feature-wise. You can&amp;quot;™t add applications like you can on your own profile, and there&amp;quot;™s really not a lot you can do with them. The new cool on Facebook for the sort of thing that we really want to do is to create a &lt;em&gt;page&lt;/em&gt;. We actually did that a while back also, but never really spent time on how or why to use them as opposed to groups. Not to mention that for some brilliant reason, you can&amp;quot;™t convert a group to a page, so that means we have to start over.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell v2 Virtual Launch Party!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-10-16-powershell-v2-virtual-launch-party/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:28:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-10-16-powershell-v2-virtual-launch-party/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Please help spread the news as we have our own Windows 7 Launch Party&amp;quot;”just for the part we care about. 🙂 There will be prizes given away to those that show up!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please copy the below announcement into emails and blog posts, or share this link on Facebook or Twitter! Use the Twitter hashtag &lt;strong&gt;#PowerShellLaunchParty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Windows isn&amp;rsquo;t just about the GUI. Starting with Windows 7, you have built-in access to PowerShell version 2, an object-oriented scripting language and command shell. Please join &lt;a href="http://powerscripting.net"&gt;PowerScripting Podcast&lt;/a&gt; hosts Jonathan Walz and PowerShell MVP Hal Rottenberg as they interview Distinguished Engineer Jeffrey Snover on launch day! Jeffrey is the chief architect responsible for PowerShell at Microsoft, and he&amp;rsquo;ll be covering what&amp;rsquo;s new with the tool and why every system administrator on the planet needs to be using it. If you&amp;rsquo;ve never attended PowerScripting Live, you are missing out on a great time. The show will be streamed live via Ustream, and viewers can chat with each other, as well as submit questions for the guest.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Poll: Windows 7 Giveaway "“ Interested?</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-10-12-poll-windows-7-giveaway-interested/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:09:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-10-12-poll-windows-7-giveaway-interested/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hal and Jon have a lot of fun recording the PowerScripting Podcast. It&amp;rsquo;s even more fun when people drop by to chat and ask questions of our guests. The show is recorded and streamed live every Thursday at 9:30 PM EST/EDT. We are thinking of doing a special show on Oct 22nd as it&amp;rsquo;s the release date of Windows 7.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please click on the link below to vote.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [Will you attend our live stream if we give away a copy of Windows 7?](http://www.twiigs.com/poll/Technology/Internet/41460)









 - 
 Yes, I will be there!


 - 
 I might make it


 - 
 Would love to but I can't make that time


 - 
 No, not really interested









 Created on Oct 12, 2009









 [View Results](http://www.twiigs.com/poll/Technology/Internet/41460?results=1)


















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[poll by twiigs.com](http://www.twiigs.com/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 87 – Sergei Antonov from Microsoft's IIS team</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-10-11-episode-87-sergei-antonov-from-microsofts-iis-team/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:59:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-10-11-episode-87-sergei-antonov-from-microsofts-iis-team/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-087.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to developer Sergei Antonov from the IIS team&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; *Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;quot;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;quot;™ e-book, &amp;quot;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;quot; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.*





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







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


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


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


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


 - 
 CodePlex review: 


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


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


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


 - 
 [Visio Automation](http://visioautomation.codeplex.com/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Interview
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Links







 - 
 [http://blogs.iis.net/sergeia/](http://blogs.iis.net/sergeia/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Questions
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Resources&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>You Too Can Be a PowerScripter!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-10-09-you-too-can-be-a-powerscripter/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:51:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-10-09-you-too-can-be-a-powerscripter/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;🙂&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hey, we have our own philosphy now! Here is another as-seen-on-Twitter:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/TheoMoore"&gt;&lt;img src="http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/372724752/me_bigger.jpg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Need to write up a blogpost on the Powerscripting approach I am using. Learned a lot about this in the last coupla weeks&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/TheoMoore/status/4740105044"&gt;about 1 hour ago&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://www.digsby.com/"&gt;Digsby&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/TheoMoore"&gt;TheoMoore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 86 – Jason Shirk from the PowerShell team</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-10-04-episode-86-jason-shirk-from-the-powershell-team/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:22:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-10-04-episode-86-jason-shirk-from-the-powershell-team/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-086.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to developer Jason Shirk from the PowerShell team.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; *Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;quot;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;quot;™ e-book, &amp;quot;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;quot; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.*





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







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


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


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


 - 
 The Exchange team blogs aboutÂ [PowerShell changes coming in E2010](http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/09/10/452423.aspx)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Interview
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Links







 - 
 Comment-based help:Â [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd819489.aspx](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd819489.aspx)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Questions







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


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


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


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


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


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


 - 
 palen: ## Wait, an API for the PowerShell tokenizer?
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Resources&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Great Feedback via Twitter</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-10-02-great-feedback-via-twitter/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:13:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-10-02-great-feedback-via-twitter/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Saw these recently, thought we&amp;quot;™d pass them along.  🙂&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/89246947/n825607043_6200_normal.jpg" alt=""&gt; &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/cybersylum"&gt;cybersylum&lt;/a&gt;: Listening to Epsiode 85 of PowerScripting podcast (&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/mLlzy"&gt;http://bit.ly/mLlzy&lt;/a&gt;), If they won&amp;rsquo;t send me to training, I&amp;rsquo;ll bring it in on my ipod&amp;hellip;&lt;br&gt;
Thursday, October 1st at 17:19:16&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/269130380/speakeasy_normal.JPG" alt=""&gt; &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/stimmel"&gt;stimmel&lt;/a&gt;: Finge, CSI, Office, Community, powerscripting podcast. #schedulingfail&lt;br&gt;
Friday, October 2nd at 00:02:3&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Epic!  Thanks guys!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 85 – Lee Holmes talks about v2</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-09-27-episode-85-lee-holmes-talks-about-v2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:23:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-09-27-episode-85-lee-holmes-talks-about-v2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-085.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to author and developer Lee Holmes from the PowerShell team.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; *Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;quot;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;quot;™ e-book, &amp;quot;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;quot; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.*





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







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


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


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


 - 
 BrandonÂ [informs us](http://bsonposh.com/archives/990) of a new AD Codeplex project:Â [AD Replication Module](http://adreplicationmodule.codeplex.com/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Interview
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Links







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


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


 - 
 [http://leeholmes.com/blog](http://leeholmes.com/blog)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Questions







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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


 - 
 glnsize: ## softball -&amp;gt; favorite feature of V2...hardball-&amp;gt;feature you couldn't get in


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


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


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


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


 - 
 glnsize: ##isn't [execution policy] -scope process a security hole?
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Resources&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 84 – Hal and Jonathan talk PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-09-20-episode-84-hal-and-jonathan-talk-powershell/</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:58:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-09-20-episode-84-hal-and-jonathan-talk-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-084.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast Hal and Jon talk about&amp;hellip;PowerShell?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; *Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;quot;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;quot;™ e-book, &amp;quot;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;quot; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.*





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







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


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


 - 
 New CodePlex projects: 


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


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


 - 
 [PowerShell Assistant (PSA) - for Live@Edu](http://psa.codeplex.com/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Resources&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 83 – with Pragma Systems</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-09-13-episode-83-with-pragma-systems/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:36:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-09-13-episode-83-with-pragma-systems/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-083.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;**
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we interview Quamrul Mina and David Kulwin from Pragma Systems&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;ldquo;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;rdquo;™ e-book, &amp;ldquo;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;rdquo; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>No Podcast This Week</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-09-03-no-podcast-this-week/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:42:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-09-03-no-podcast-this-week/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In case you missed it we are not doing a show this week. Hal is at VMworld and from there is taking some vacation. See you next week!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 82 – MVP Russ Kaufmann on PowerShell and Clustering</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-08-30-episode-82-mvp-russ-kaufmann-on-powershell-and-clustering/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:28:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-08-30-episode-82-mvp-russ-kaufmann-on-powershell-and-clustering/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-082.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;**
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we interview Microsoft Cluster MVP Russ Kaufmann&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; *Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;quot;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;quot;™ e-book, &amp;quot;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;quot; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.*





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







 *
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
 Now available for pre-order,
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Windows-PowerShell-2-0-Best-Practices/dp/0735626464"&gt;Ed Wilson&amp;rsquo;s PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 81 – David Warburton talks AutoPowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-08-24-episode-80-david-warburton-talks-autopowershell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:22:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-08-24-episode-80-david-warburton-talks-autopowershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-081.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we interview David Warburton, author of AutoPowerShell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;*This segment brought to you by *





- 
 The Scripting Center has a


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


- 
 Idera just published aÂ [bundle of SQL and AD scripts](http://www.idera.com/Products/Free-Tools/PowerShell-scripts/)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interview&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; *
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Want to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and master? Checkout Idera&amp;rsquo;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 &lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.idera.com/PodcastPeople"&gt;www.idera.com/PodcastPeople*&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; to get your copy today!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 80 – Klaus Graefensteiner</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-08-16-episode-80-klaus-graefensteiner/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:36:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-08-16-episode-80-klaus-graefensteiner/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-080.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we interview Klaus Graefensteiner, a software tester for Rockwell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; *Want to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and master? Checkout Idera's PowerShellPlus Professional Edition which is now available for download! The new version has vastly improved code completion and a slick interactive Learning Center. Go to **[www.idera.com/PodcastPeople*](http://www.idera.com/PodcastPeople)* to get your copy today!*





 - 
 [Vista and Server 2008 - the wait is almost over for V2!](http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/08/14/powershell-2-0-for-windows-vista-and-windows-server-2008-release-candidate.aspx) The RC is
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://connect.microsoft.com/windowsmanagement/Downloads"&gt;now available&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next on the PowerScripting Podcast</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-08-12-up-next-on-the-powerscripting-podcast/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:20:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-08-12-up-next-on-the-powerscripting-podcast/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Tomorrow night brings &lt;a href="http://www.tellingmachine.com/"&gt;Klaus Graefensteiner&lt;/a&gt; to the podcast to talk about his blog and his latest project, &lt;a href="http://www.psunit.org/"&gt;PSUnit&lt;/a&gt;.  PSUnit is a unit testing framework for PowerShell.  Don&amp;quot;™t know what one is?  Don&amp;quot;™t worry, we&amp;quot;™ll break it down for you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In two week&amp;quot;™s time, we&amp;quot;™ll be having &lt;a href="https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=4EDF678C-4FA1-49A7-BAB5-8997CD5A0756"&gt;Russ Kaufman&lt;/a&gt; to the show to talk about clustering, so you know that will be meaty.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Still working on next week&amp;quot;™s guest.  🙂&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We hope to see you in the Ustream chat room, or at least be heard by you sometime soon!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 79 – Listener Interviews</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-08-09-episode-79-listener-interviews/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:33:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-08-09-episode-79-listener-interviews/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-079.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode
{#p13-2}&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we have our first round of listener interviews featuring Rob Dowell, Staci Rottenberg, and Andrew Tearle&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge &amp;ldquo;“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks&amp;rdquo;™ e-book, &amp;ldquo;Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,&amp;rdquo; learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You&amp;quot;™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerScripting Live tonight!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-08-06-powerscripting-live-tonight/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:48:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-08-06-powerscripting-live-tonight/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Do you want to be interviewed on the podcast tonight? Fire up Skype, find your headset and dust off your webcam. Show up at 9:30PM EST ready to answer the question &amp;ldquo;how are you using PowerShell?&amp;rdquo; Don&amp;rsquo;t want to be on the show? That&amp;rsquo;s cool. Come hang out anyway!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/PowerScripting-Podcast"&gt;http://www.ustream.tv/channel/PowerScripting-Podcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 78- PowerShell MVP Kirk Munro</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-07-26-episode-78-powershell-mvp-kirk-munro/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:52:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-07-26-episode-78-powershell-mvp-kirk-munro/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-078.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to PowerShell MVP and software developer Kirk Munro from Quest Software.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*Want to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and master? Checkout Idera&amp;rsquo;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 &lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.idera.com/PodcastPeople"&gt;www.idera.com/PodcastPeople*&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; to get your copy today!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 77 – Edward Haletky Talks About VMware</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-07-19-episode-77-edward-haletky-talks-about-vmware/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:18:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-07-19-episode-77-edward-haletky-talks-about-vmware/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-077.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to VMware vExpert, consultant and author Edward Haletky about his experiences with PowerShell and securing your virtual infrastructure.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;When it comes to scripting, you&amp;quot;™re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;em&gt;For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest&amp;quot;™s PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell&amp;quot;™s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Edward Haletky Talks About VMware</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-07-15-up-next-edward-haletky-talks-about-vmware/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:17:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-07-15-up-next-edward-haletky-talks-about-vmware/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/70187955/img_2096_1.jpg" alt="Texiwill"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One of our favorite topics here at the PowerScripting Podcast is managing VMware products with PowerShell. This week, we&amp;quot;™re tapping a new resource on the topic who has a very different background than Hal and Jon (HE LIKES LINUX) which should make for some interesting conversation. We hope you can make the show this Thursday July 16th @ 9pm EDT, broadcast live on Ustream, or available for download in all the usual ways just a few days later.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 76 – Don Jones on Security</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-07-13-episode-76-don-jones-on-security/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:49:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-07-13-episode-76-don-jones-on-security/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-076.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to PowerShell MVP Don Jones about security
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;When it comes to scripting, you&amp;quot;™re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;em&gt;For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest&amp;quot;™s PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell&amp;quot;™s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 75 – Poshcode with MVPs Joel Bennett and Oisin Grehan</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-07-06-episode-75-poshcode-with-mvps-joel-bennett-and-oisin-grehan/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:02:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-07-06-episode-75-poshcode-with-mvps-joel-bennett-and-oisin-grehan/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-075.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to PowerShell MVPs Joel Bennett and Oisin Grehan&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;When it comes to scripting, you&amp;quot;™re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interview&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*Want to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and master? Checkout Idera&amp;rsquo;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 toÂ *&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Don Jones Talks Security!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-07-05-up-next-don-jones-talks-security/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:40:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-07-05-up-next-don-jones-talks-security/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Please join us this Tuesday night as Hal and Jon talk with well-known speaker, author and consultant &lt;a href="http://concentratedtech.com/"&gt;Don Jones&lt;/a&gt;. Don will share his thoughts, tips, and concerns on security in PowerShell.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As always, this will be a live event with audience participation REQUIRED. You can pose your questions live in the &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;Ustream chat room&lt;/a&gt;, or leave them in the comments of this blog post.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The recorded podcast version of this interview will be made available on our website (powerscripting.net) on July 13th.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 74 – Devfarm Software talks PowerWF</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-06-19-episode-74-devfarm-software-talks-powerwf/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:29:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-06-19-episode-74-devfarm-software-talks-powerwf/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-074.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Devfarm Software about their PowerWF workflow product
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; *When it comes to scripting, you&amp;quot;™re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!*





 *For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest&amp;quot;™s PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell&amp;quot;™s 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 &amp;quot;“Â **[download PowerGUI today](http://quest.com/powerscripting).*
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Â &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Devfarm Software Talks about PowerWF</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-06-14-up-next-devfarm-software-talks-about-powerwf/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:12:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-06-14-up-next-devfarm-software-talks-about-powerwf/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;quot;™re excited to have the CEO and CTO of &lt;a href="http://powerwf.com/"&gt;Devfarm Software&lt;/a&gt; join us this Tuesday on PoewrScripting Live. Please join us to ask your questions about this cool new PowerShell workflow product.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tArvdM-ZI70&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;feature=player_profilepage&amp;amp;fs=1]&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerScripting Live will be???</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-06-09-powerscripting-live-will-be/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:07:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-06-09-powerscripting-live-will-be/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I just wanted to let you know that we are not sure when we will be recording this week. I doubt it will be before Friday but we&amp;rsquo;ll let you know via the normal channels when we have something planned. Thanks for listening!&lt;br&gt;
Jon&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 73 – MVP Michael Smith talks Exchange</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-06-08-episode-73-mvp-michael-smith-talks-exchange/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:34:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-06-08-episode-73-mvp-michael-smith-talks-exchange/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-073.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Exchange MVP Michael Smith about Exchange 2010
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; *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 toÂ *[*www.idera.com/PodcastPeople*](http://www.idera.com/PodcastPeople)*Â to get your copy today!*






 - 
 Brandon Shell let us know that theÂ [Citrix XenApp cmdlets are available](http://bsonposh.com/archives/828)


 - 
 The new PoshCode is now up in beta:Â [http://beta.poshcode.org/](http://beta.poshcode.org/)


 - 
 [PowerGui 1.8 is out](http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/whats-new-in-powergui-1-8/)Â New features includeÂ [improved powerpack management](http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/improved-powerpack-management/)


 - 
 Listener Wes StahlerÂ [posted pics](http://fatbeards.blogspot.com/2009/05/teched-2009-pics.html)Â of Hal &amp;amp; Steve Murawski taken at TechEd 2009.


 - 
 Technet Webcast June 10:Â [How to Manage Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 in Large Enterprises (Level 300)](http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032412446&amp;amp;EventCategory=4&amp;amp;culture=en-US&amp;amp;CountryCode=US)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interview&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 72 – Alex Riedel from SAPIEN talks about PrimalForms</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-06-05-episode-72-alex-ridel-from-sapien-talks-about-primalforms/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:31:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-06-05-episode-72-alex-ridel-from-sapien-talks-about-primalforms/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-072.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Alex Riedel from SAPIEN Technologies about their new PrimalForms product
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; *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 toÂ *[*www.idera.com/PodcastPeople*](http://www.idera.com/PodcastPeople)*Â to get your copy today!*







 - 
 [TechNet Virtual Conference](http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!43CFA46A74CF3E96!2379.entry)Â is coming June 19th


 - 
 System Center Service Manager has aÂ [Test Drive](http://blogs.technet.com/servicemanager/archive/2009/05/06/system-center-service-manager-test-drive-now-available.aspx)Â version available, complete with PowerShell cmdlets


 - 
 A Twitter clientÂ [written in PowerShell](http://www.leporelo.eu/blog.aspx?id=powershell-twitter-identica-reader)


 - 
 AÂ [fix for PowerTab](http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/posh/archive/2009/05/15/powertab-0-99b2-ctp3-fix.aspx)Â is out to make it work with PowerShell V2 CTP3Â 


 - 
 Shay LevyÂ [was interviewed on the Get-Scripting Podcast](http://get-scripting.blogspot.com/2009/05/get-scripting-podcast-episode-10-shay.html)Â 


 - 
 Looking for PowerShell training and in the Ohio area? SAPIEN'sÂ [special forces training is coming to Columbus](http://blog.sapien.com/index.php/2009/05/20/powershell-special-forces-invades-columbus-ohio/)Â end of July.


 - 
 Hal asks you all toÂ [post your profile](http://halr9000.com/article/723)Â 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interview&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 71 – Doug Hazelman from Veeam</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-06-02-episode-71-doug-hazelman-from-veeam/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:20:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-06-02-episode-71-doug-hazelman-from-veeam/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-071.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Doug Hazelman from Veeam&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;*Want to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and master? Checkout Idera's PowerShellPlus Professional Edition which is now available for download! The new version has vastly improved code completion and a slick interactive Learning Center. Go to *[*www.idera.com/PodcastPeople*](http://www.idera.com/PodcastPeople)* to get your copy today!*






 - 
 VMware's VI Toolkit is now called
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2009/05/powercli-is-official-whats-new.html"&gt;PowerCLI&lt;/a&gt;, and they have a&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>New day for PowerScripting Live!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-05-21-new-day-for-powerscripting-live/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 12:43:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-05-21-new-day-for-powerscripting-live/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;At least for the next 8 weeks or so we are moving our Ustream broadcasts to Tuesday nights at 9:00 EST. Tonight&amp;rsquo;s broadcast is still on but next week we will be recording on Tuesday.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 70 – PowerShell BOF Session from TechEd</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-05-18-episode-70-powershell-bof-session-from-teched/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 00:22:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-05-18-episode-70-powershell-bof-session-from-teched/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-070.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This show features the Birds of a Feather session &amp;ldquo;Practical PowerShell: Best Practices from the Field&amp;rdquo; including discussion about:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Function naming&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;PowerShell profiles&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Execution policies and security&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Remoting&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Best practices&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;and more!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please Visit our Sponsors Quest and Idera&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;When it comes to scripting, you&amp;quot;™re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest&amp;quot;™s PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell&amp;quot;™s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands &amp;ldquo;“ &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://quest.com/powerscripting"&gt;&lt;em&gt;download PowerGUI today&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 69 – Jason Gallaugher from Rove</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-05-10-episode-69-james-gallaugher-from-rove/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 03:57:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-05-10-episode-69-james-gallaugher-from-rove/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-069.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Jason Gallaugher from Rove&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News





*This segment is brought to you byÂ *[*SAPIEN Technologies*](http://sapien.com/)*.*












 - 
 Hal's new book
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Â 
&lt;a href="http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2009/05/now-shipping-managing-vmware-infrastructure-with-windows-powershell.html"&gt;has been released and is shipping!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
 PowerShell Plus 3.0
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Â 
&lt;a href="http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/news/archive/2009/05/01/powershellplus-3-0-released.aspx"&gt;has been released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
 Here's a
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Â 
&lt;a href="http://synjunkie.blogspot.com/2009/04/powershell-vs-conficker.html"&gt;script&lt;/a&gt;
Â 
for tracking down the Conficker worm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
 The PowerShell toys we talked about with Lance RobinsonÂ [are now available](http://geekswithblogs.net/Lance/archive/2009/05/04/new-toys-for-powershell.aspx)


 - 
 PowerShell
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Â 
&lt;a href="http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/news/archive/2009/04/23/powershell-roadshow-in-germany.aspx"&gt;roadshow in Germany&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: RoveIT Extends Your IT Reach!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-05-05-up-next-roveit-extends-your-it-reach/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 12:49:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-05-05-up-next-roveit-extends-your-it-reach/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Mobile Admin from &lt;a href="http://www.roveit.com/"&gt;RoveIT&lt;/a&gt; allows IT administrators to manage their entire IT infrastructure from their handheld devices. Users can reset password, restart servers, restart services, view event logs etc. We can also access Powershell with a Powershell plug-in. For a server equipped with Powershell, you will see a Powershell icon appear when you access that server via Mobile Admin. Clicking on the icon will give you a console interface that can be used for Powershell access.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>No PowerScripting Live Today</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-04-30-no-powerscripting-live-today/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:38:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-04-30-no-powerscripting-live-today/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Sorry kiddies, Jonathan is in no shape to record today as he is just returning from a family vacation.  You know how those are with the sex, drugs, and rock &amp;amp; roll and all that.  I&amp;quot;™m sure he&amp;quot;™s all strung out and wouldn&amp;quot;™t look good on camera anyhow.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We&amp;quot;™ll probably record this week&amp;quot;™s show off-schedule again like we did the last one, so be sure to &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/jonwalz"&gt;follow&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/halr9000"&gt;us&lt;/a&gt; on Twitter and you might be able to catch us live despite our flakiness.  The next show will be next Thursday, and the one after that&amp;quot;¦well, we&amp;quot;™ll just have to see how that will work out as Hal will be at TechEd that week.  He has big plans for show content to record while there, so be sure to watch out for that.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 68 – James Brundage from the PowerShell team</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-04-29-episode-68-james-brundage-from-the-powershell-team/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:27:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-04-29-episode-68-james-brundage-from-the-powershell-team/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-068.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to James Brundage from Microsoft.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News





*This segment is brought to you byÂ *[*SAPIEN Technologies*](http://sapien.com/)*.*
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Â &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
 April 30th is the next [PowerShell Virtual User Group meeting](http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com/2009/04/windows-powershell-virtual-user-group.html)Â 


 - 
 The PowerShell teamÂ [is looking for new verbs](http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/04/22/soliciting-new-verbs.aspx)Â 


 - 
 John Cook has published his new e-book titled &amp;quot;[PowerShell Day 1](http://www.johndcook.com/powershellbooklet.html)Â &amp;quot;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Interview





*When it comes to scripting, you&amp;quot;™re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!*




 *Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands &amp;quot;“Â *[*download PowerGUI today*](http://quest.com/powerscripting)*.*







For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest&amp;quot;™s PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell&amp;quot;™s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Â &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 68 will have James Brundage</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-04-24-episode-68-will-have-james-brundage/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:36:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-04-24-episode-68-will-have-james-brundage/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We were lucky to have caught James at a good time and he came on the show for a cool version 2 tips episode.  Jonathan is on vacation, so the show might be posted late next week.  Watch this space!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>No PowerScripting Live This Week</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-04-21-no-powerscripting-live-this-week/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:24:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-04-21-no-powerscripting-live-this-week/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Jonathan&amp;quot;™s going on vacation this Thursday, so we&amp;quot;™ve decided to record a short show, sans interview on Wednesday evening. We won&amp;quot;™t be making a big fuss about the live show because we don&amp;quot;™t want to steal anyone away from any &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mind-of-root"&gt;other live shows&lt;/a&gt; which might be happening at the same time, but if you follow &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/halr9000"&gt;Hal&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/jonwalz"&gt;Jon&lt;/a&gt; on Twitter we&amp;quot;™ll let you know when we do start recording if you wanted to come hang out.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 67 – Bob Bobel from Quest Software</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-04-20-episode-67-bob-bobel-from-quest-software/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:00:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-04-20-episode-67-bob-bobel-from-quest-software/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-067.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Bob Bobel about Quest's Active Directory cmdlets. And stay tuned to the end of the show for a new contest!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News





*When it comes to scripting, you&amp;quot;™re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest&amp;quot;™s PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell&amp;quot;™s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever.
*&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 66 – Scott Herold talks VESI and Vizioncore</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-04-13-304-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:09:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-04-13-304-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-066.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Scott Herold about Vizioncore and VESI. We're also joined in studio by
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 - 
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on Apr 21st&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 65 – Lance Robinson from /N Software</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-04-04-episode-65-lance-robinson-from-n-software/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:13:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-04-04-episode-65-lance-robinson-from-n-software/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-065.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Lance Robinson from /n Software
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://halr9000.com/article/716"&gt;available for pre-order&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://dougfinke.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/01/i-was-presented-with-the-microsoft-mvp-for-powershell/"&gt;now a PowerShell MVP&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.sapien.com/index.php/2009/03/30/sometimes-all-you-need-is-an-editor/"&gt;has released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;a free editor for quick &amp;amp; dirty stuff on the go called PrimalPad. (&lt;a href="http://www.primaltools.com/communitytools/"&gt;download link&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 64 – Fred Baptiste brings us PolyMon and PolyMonRT</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-03-29-episode-64-fred-baptiste-brings-us-polymon-and-polymonrt/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:23:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-03-29-episode-64-fred-baptiste-brings-us-polymon-and-polymonrt/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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 Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Fred Baptiste, author of PolyMon and PolyMonRT
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 - 
 PowerShell is now available as an
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&lt;a href="http://blog.sapien.com/index.php/2009/03/26/microsoft-update-powershell-v10/"&gt;optional download on Microsoft Update&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Fred Baptiste Talks about PolyMon &amp; PolyMon RT</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-03-25-up-next-fred-baptiste-talks-about-polymon-polymon-rt/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:28:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-03-25-up-next-fred-baptiste-talks-about-polymon-polymon-rt/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://i3.codeplex.com/Project/Download/FileDownload.aspx?ProjectName=polymon&amp;amp;DownloadId=8329" alt=""&gt; Fred Baptiste is the author of a popular open-source network and server monitoring application: &lt;a href="http://www.codeplex.com/polymon"&gt;PolyMon&lt;/a&gt; and its sans-database little brother, &lt;a href="http://www.codeplex.com/polymonrt"&gt;PolyMonRT&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Of course, this is the PowerScripting Podcast so there has to be a PowerShell hook, and there is. For some time now, Fred&amp;quot;™s product has had the capability for you to integrate PowerShell scripts into the system monitors.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Head on over to the CodePlex pages linked above and read up on the feature set. Then be sure and join us this Thursday at 9pm EDT when we interview Fred. As always, the audience participation is the best part about doing these interviews and we really like to pack the house.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 63 – PowerShell MVP Brandon Shell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-03-23-episode-63-powershell-mvp-brandon-shell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:39:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-03-23-episode-63-powershell-mvp-brandon-shell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-063.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Brandon Shell about Active Directory support in PowerShell V2&lt;/p&gt;
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together. If you are in his neck of the woods, get in touch!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Lance Robinson from /n software</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-03-23-up-next-lance-robinson-from-n-software/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:15:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-03-23-up-next-lance-robinson-from-n-software/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;quot;™ve had someone from /n software on the show before, but it was quite some time ago. Lance is also a pretty PowerShell prolific blogger who should have some cool stuff to talk about in addition to what he is working on at /n.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here is his bio:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;&lt;img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/16184552/lancer.jpg" alt="Lancer"&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve been with /n software since 2001, when I started as the Developer Support Manager, assisting software developers with the use of our Internet development components using various programming languages. Eventually I moved into my current role as Product Manager, organizing developers and overseeing API design and testing.  Through my blog (&lt;a href="http://www.lancerobinson.net"&gt;www.lancerobinson.net&lt;/a&gt;) and twitter (&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/lmrobins"&gt;twitter.com/lmrobins&lt;/a&gt;), I share a lot of cool things I stumble across as well as information about the wide range of /n software products.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Bonus Episode – The Missing Interviews</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-03-22-bonus-episode-the-missing-interviews/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:42:11 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-03-22-bonus-episode-the-missing-interviews/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-Bonus.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Today we have a special bonus podcast. We have three interviews for you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-Justin Braun from Compellent&lt;br&gt;
-PowerShell MVP Max Trinidad (from the MVP Summit)&lt;br&gt;
-PowerShell team member James Brundage with a demo of WPK (from the MVP Summit)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s some additional information from Justin&amp;rsquo;s interview&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;glnsize : ## what can&amp;rsquo;t you do with your cmdlets&amp;hellip; what % coverage do you have with your cmdlets&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;rfoust : ## will the snapin work with any other vendors hardware, or is it proprietary?&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;website: &lt;a href="http://compellent.com/"&gt;compellent.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Brandon Shell talks about Active Directory in PowerShell V2</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-03-17-up-next-brandon-shell-talks-about-active-directory-in-powershell-v2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:09:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-03-17-up-next-brandon-shell-talks-about-active-directory-in-powershell-v2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v162/65/86/1066444723/n1066444723_8556_7489.jpg" alt=""&gt;We&amp;quot;™ve had Brandon on the show before, so you know this will be a good one.  This time, &lt;a href="http://bsonposh.com"&gt;Brandon&lt;/a&gt; will give us the scoop on what is new from Microsoft on managing Active Directory in PowerShell V2. While Brandon is a PowerShell MVP, Active Directory is his real specialty, so he&amp;quot;™ll be able to go as deep into the details as we let him.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We can&amp;quot;™t do this interview alone! We need you to attend PowerScripting Live this Thursday, March 19th at 9pm EDT so that we can pepper Brandon with some great AD questions from the audience.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 62 – Ferdinand Rios and Jeffery Hicks from Sapien</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-03-15-episode-62-ferdinand-rios-and-jeffery-hicks-from-sapien/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:43:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-03-15-episode-62-ferdinand-rios-and-jeffery-hicks-from-sapien/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-062.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk with Ferdinand Rios and Jeffery Hicks from SAPIEN Technologies.
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 - 
 [PoshCode now Twitters](http://huddledmasses.org/poshcode-now-twitters/)


 - 
 [&amp;quot;I Love PowerShell&amp;quot; ](http://ye110beard.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!952F95CB5DE3F349!1610.entry)song byÂ [ye110beard](http://friendfeed.com/ye110wbeard)


 - 
 A PowerShell V2 book is on the wayÂ [&amp;quot;Windows PowerShell 2.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant&amp;quot;](http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/scriptfanatic/archive/2009/03/05/upcoming-book-windows-powershell-2-0-administrator-s-pocket-consultant.aspx)


 - 
 PowerShellCommunity.org is going to TechEd


 - 
 Thomas Lee has aÂ [link on his blog](http://tfl09.blogspot.com/) to a $50 off deal on PowerShell Plus Professional Edition


 - 
 [PowerShellPlus 2.1 beta 2 released](http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/news/archive/2009/03/09/powershellplus-beta2-available.aspx)


 - 
 TimeTag time series database hasÂ [a new blog](http://blog.timetag.net/) and is[approaching beta release](http://blog.timetag.net/timetag-alpha-13-release/)


 - 
 [PowerGUI VMware PowerPack v2.1.5 released](http://poshoholic.com/2009/03/09/vmware-infrastructure-powerpack-2-1-5-released/) (thxÂ [Virtu-Al](http://www.virtu-al.net/2009/03/09/powergui-vmware-powerpack-215-released/)) 

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 *When it comes to scripting, you&amp;quot;™re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!*
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest&amp;quot;™s PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell&amp;quot;™s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>We Love Feedback</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-03-09-we-love-feedback/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:11:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-03-09-we-love-feedback/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Especially this one! 🙂&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/image1.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/image-thumb1.png" alt="image"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks, John!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: PrimalScript 2009 with Alex &amp; Jeff from SAPIEN</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-03-09-up-next-primalscript-2009-with-alex-jeff-from-sapien/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:42:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-03-09-up-next-primalscript-2009-with-alex-jeff-from-sapien/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Wow, we are so used to twitter, we just said all that needed saying in under 140 characters. 🙂&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On this week&amp;quot;™s show we will have Alex Riedel and Jeffrey Hicks from &lt;a href="http://sapien.com"&gt;SAPIEN&lt;/a&gt; on to talk about PrimalScript 2009 and &lt;a href="http://www.primaltools.com/index.asp"&gt;PrimalTools&lt;/a&gt;. Please join us at the usual Bat-Time of 9 Eastern (we&amp;quot;™re on summer time now, watch out for that) this Thursday.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And lastly, we want to apologize for no show last week.  A combination of things made production difficult, so we decided we had to bail.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 61 – Joe Pruitt from F5 and the ABCs of PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-03-02-episode-61-joe-pruitt-from-f5-and-the-abcs-of-powershell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:25:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-03-02-episode-61-joe-pruitt-from-f5-and-the-abcs-of-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-061.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk with developer and blogger Joe Pruitt from F5 Networks.
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submitted scripts&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Joe Pruitt from F5 Networks</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-02-23-up-next-joe-pruitt-from-f5-networks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:11:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-02-23-up-next-joe-pruitt-from-f5-networks/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://devcentral.f5.com"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/image.png" alt="image"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;I started at &lt;a href="http://www.f5.com/"&gt;F5&lt;/a&gt; in 1998 at about 20 employees and am now #3 in tenure mark with roughly 1700.  I started out in Product Development as a Senior Software Engineer for our core BIG-IP product. I later moved into a Senior Software Architect role focusing on integration technologies.  In 2001 I designed and wrote a web service stack (iControl) on our Networking gear to allow management and monitoring of the devices from SOAP enabled languages.  I wrote and published the SDK for our set of web services (~3000 methods on our BIG-IP Application Delivery Platform).&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 60 – Scripting UI with Joel Bennett and James Brundage</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-02-22-episode-60-scripting-ui-with-joel-bennett-and-james-brundage/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:08:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-02-22-episode-60-scripting-ui-with-joel-bennett-and-james-brundage/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk with Joel Bennett and James Brundage about scriptable user interfaces.
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*&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 59 – Oisin Grehan talks SharePoint</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-02-16-episode-59-oisin-grehan-talks-sharepoint/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:42:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-02-16-episode-59-oisin-grehan-talks-sharepoint/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-059.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we are joined by PowerShell MVP Oisin Grehan to talk about managing SharePoint with PowerShell.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Want to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and master? Checkout Idera&amp;rsquo;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 toÂ &lt;a href="http://idera.com/podcastpeople"&gt;www.idera.com/PodcastPeople&lt;/a&gt;Â to get your copy today!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Oisin Grehan Talks about Sharepoint</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-02-10-up-next-oisin-grehan-talks-about-sharepoint/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:54:03 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-02-10-up-next-oisin-grehan-talks-about-sharepoint/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;quot;™re pleased as punch to announce that &lt;a href="http://www.nivot.org"&gt;Oisin Grehan&lt;/a&gt;, Sharepoint consultant, and PowerShell MVP, will be joining us this Thursday.  Should be a great show for several reasons, not the least of which is his Irish accent.  🙂&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you have questions or topics to cover during the interview, please leave them in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 58 – PowerShell ISE panel</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-02-08-episode-58-powershell-ise-panel/</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:03:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-02-08-episode-58-powershell-ise-panel/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;for the PSUG #8 meeting&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Ask PowerScripting: Accessing Sharepoint database from Server 2008</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-02-03-ask-powerscripting-accessing-sharepoint-database-from-server-2008/</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:47:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-02-03-ask-powerscripting-accessing-sharepoint-database-from-server-2008/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Mark from San Jose California writes:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I have a powershell script currently running on a Windows2003 server.  It acts upon an Access DB (I know &amp;ldquo;“ not ideal but it is the only way I could figure out how to add / manipulate records in a Sharepoint list ( the Access DB is just link tables from SharePoint)) &amp;ldquo;“ via the following Conn String:  $ConnString = &amp;ldquo;Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=$mdb&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When I attempt to run in this our new Windows2008 server, I run into the following error:  Exception calling &amp;ldquo;Open&amp;rdquo; with &amp;ldquo;0&amp;rdquo; argument(s): &amp;ldquo;The &amp;lsquo;Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0&amp;rsquo; provider is not registered on the local machine.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 57 – Carter Shanklin and the VI Toolkit</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-02-01-episode-57-carter-shanklin-and-the-vi-toolkit/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:05:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-02-01-episode-57-carter-shanklin-and-the-vi-toolkit/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-057.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast Carter Shanklin from VMWare joins us to talk about the new version of the VI toolkit for PowerShell.
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&lt;p&gt;Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands &amp;ldquo;“
*&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Win a copy of Managing VMware Infrastructure with PowerShell: TFM on the podcast!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-01-29-win-a-copy-of-managing-vmware-infrastructure-with-powershell-tfm-on-the-podcast/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:01:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-01-29-win-a-copy-of-managing-vmware-infrastructure-with-powershell-tfm-on-the-podcast/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://halr9000.com/stuff/BookCover_10CAB/ManagingVMWareInfrastructurewithWindowsPowerShellcoverLarge_3.jpg" alt="Managing VMware Infrastructure with Windows PowerShell cover (Large)"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can be one of the first to receive a copy of my book when it comes out (not long, I swear!), for free!  Be sure to listen to Episode 57 for details.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And let me give you a tip.  Last time I looked, we had around 1,800 subscribers who listen to the recorded show.  We typically have between 15 and 40 people show up to the live show on our &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;Ustream channel&lt;/a&gt;. We&amp;quot;™ll give away a book or two live, and save some for the &amp;ldquo;regular podcast&amp;rdquo;.  Odds are a bit better if you show up tonight for the live show.  🙂&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Join our Facebook Group</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-01-28-join-our-facebook-group/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:26:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-01-28-join-our-facebook-group/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you were a member of &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7033985478"&gt;our group&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;, you&amp;quot;™d see this today:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/image.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/image-thumb.png" alt="image"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I think we&amp;quot;™ll be doing some sort of promotion with the group in the next month or so, so stay tuned for that.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 56 – James Kovacs talks about PSake</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-01-25-episode-56-james-kovacs-talks-about-psake/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:12:22 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-01-25-episode-56-james-kovacs-talks-about-psake/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-056.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to developer James Kovacs about his PowerShell build tool, psake.
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 Cool post from the PowerShell team talking about the newÂ [Remote Desktop Services provider](http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/01/09/managing-remote-desktop-services-aka-terminal-services-using-windows-powershell.aspx)
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&lt;p&gt;in 2008 R2&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Ustream FAIL.</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-01-22-ustream-fail/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:46:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-01-22-ustream-fail/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;So we got ready to record the show tonight and to start the live stream and&amp;quot;¦Ustream&amp;quot;™s servers were choking.  We ended up doing an on-the-fly move to Stickam to complete the interview which thankfully, worked fine.  But then the stickam stream froze on Jon&amp;quot;™s PC multiple times, and it froze on the end-user side as well for some.  So&amp;quot;¦&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Looks like we need a better live streaming service.  We are open to suggestions.  Here are some that we&amp;quot;™ll check out based on feedback already tonight:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-01-22-tonight-on-the-powerscripting-podcast/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:49:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-01-22-tonight-on-the-powerscripting-podcast/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Tonight on the show we&amp;quot;™re interviewing James Kovacs. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/MvpPhoto.aspx?ID=6C7EDB51-B26B-4CA8-970F-B19616F2B643&amp;amp;ln=en-us" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;br&gt;
You can listen to him and his fellow plumbers, John and Bil on their podcast, Plumbers at Work - &lt;a href="http://www.plumbersatwork.com"&gt;http://www.plumbersatwork.com&lt;/a&gt; - 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 (&lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/01/ManagedLeaks/default.aspx)"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/01/ManagedLeaks/default.aspx)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
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.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 55 – Jeff Hicks in for Hal and an interview with James Brundage</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-01-18-episode-55-jeff-hicks-in-for-hal-and-an-interview-with-james-brundage/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:23:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-01-18-episode-55-jeff-hicks-in-for-hal-and-an-interview-with-james-brundage/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-055.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 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.
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&lt;p&gt;Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands &amp;ldquo;“
*&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 54 – the case of the missing interview</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-01-15-episode-54-the-case-of-the-missing-interview/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:38:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2009-01-15-episode-54-the-case-of-the-missing-interview/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-054.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 PowerShell CTP3Â [was released](http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/12/23/early-christmas-present-from-powershell-team-community-technology-preview-3-ctp3-of-windows-powershell-v2.aspx)!


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&lt;p&gt;Just wanted to let you all know not to stay up for us. Hal&amp;quot;™s wife was admitted to the hospital so of course our schedule will be out of whack for a little bit. But don&amp;quot;™t worry, we haven&amp;quot;™t gone anywhere.  In fact, we&amp;quot;™ve got plans for some new stuff that we&amp;quot;™ll hopefully get out soon.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And in case you are curious, Hal&amp;quot;™s wife is fine, she just needs some help to keep a l&amp;quot;™il baby inside until it&amp;quot;™s done cooking.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>No PowerScripting Live This Thursday</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-12-24-no-powerscripting-live-this-thursday/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:06:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-12-24-no-powerscripting-live-this-thursday/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;For what should be an obvious reason, we won&amp;quot;™t be recording this Thursday.  🙂&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Merry Christmas!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 53 – Jeffrey Snover and Bruce Payette!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-12-22-episode-53-jeffrey-snover-and-bruce-payette/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:19:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-12-22-episode-53-jeffrey-snover-and-bruce-payette/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-053.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





We have a great &amp;quot;CTP3 show&amp;quot; lined up for you today. Our special guests are Jeffrey Snover and Bruce Payette from Microsoft.
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&lt;p&gt;Quest:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Getting ready for the big show</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-12-17-getting-ready-for-the-big-show/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:27:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-12-17-getting-ready-for-the-big-show/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;quot;™ll be giving away two copies each of these wonderful &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx"&gt;PowerShell&lt;/a&gt; books&amp;quot;”but only to those who ask questions during the interview.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://manning.com/payette/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://manning.com/payette/payette_cover150.jpg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sapienpress.com/powershell.asp"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.sapienpress.com/image/powershell-cover.png" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Big show coming this Thursday!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-12-15-big-show-coming-this-thursday/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:11:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-12-15-big-show-coming-this-thursday/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Coming up on the &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;PowerScripting Live&lt;/a&gt; show this Thursday will be &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell"&gt;Jeffrey Snover&lt;/a&gt;, the architect for &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx"&gt;PowerShell&lt;/a&gt; as I&amp;quot;™m sure you all know, and he&amp;quot;™ll be accompanied by none other than Bruce Payette, author of PowerShell in Action and a core developer on the PowerShell team.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We&amp;quot;™re excited and we hope you can make it this Thursday at 9pm EST!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 52 – CloudBerry Labs</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-12-15-209-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:07:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-12-15-209-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-052.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we interviewÂ Michael Farnia from CloudBerry Labs.Â Plus our usual news, resources, and tips.
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*&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 51 – Doug Finke</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-12-08-episode-51-doug-finke/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:35:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-12-08-episode-51-doug-finke/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-051.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we interview Doug Finke, software developer and blogger. Plus our usual news, resources, and tips.
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News





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&lt;p&gt;this post
](&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mediaandmicrocode/archive/2008/12/01/microcode-powershell-scripting-tricks-scripting-the-web-part-1-get-web.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/mediaandmicrocode/archive/2008/12/01/microcode-powershell-scripting-tricks-scripting-the-web-part-1-get-web.aspx&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Introductory and Advanced PowerShell Webcasts</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-12-04-introductory-and-advanced-powershell-webcasts/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:34:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-12-04-introductory-and-advanced-powershell-webcasts/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We just noticed this today on mow&amp;quot;™s blog. It&amp;quot;™s too late to really get it in a podcast, so here are the details for you today:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="technet-webcasts-about-powershell"&gt;TechNet Webcasts about PowerShell&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.feedhub.com/iris/items/107500683/link?c=-9d676c54c449681cd71cfea6b89dcb13dda6fa89a1fb62c87fa36796518bd73&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsevents.microsoft.com%2FCUI%2FEventDetail.aspx%3FEventID%3D1032395109%26EventCategory%3D4%26culture%3Den-US%26CountryCode%3DUS"&gt;TechNet Webcast: Introduction to Windows PowerShell (Level 200)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Language(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
English.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Product(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Windows Server 2008.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Audience(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
IT Professional.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Duration:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
90 Minutes&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Start Date:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Monday, December 08, 2008 11:30 AM Pacific Time (US &amp;amp; Canada)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Event Overview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this webcast, we provide an introduction to Windows PowerShell for IT professionals and show how to automate client administrative activities in the Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista operating systems. We explore the features and capabilities of Windows PowerShell, describe customer scenarios to manage day-to-day server and client administration activities, and discuss command-line syntax usage.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Presenters:&lt;/strong&gt; John Baker, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation, and Yung Chou, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tomorrow on the PowerScripting Podcast</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-12-03-tomorrow-on-the-powerscripting-podcast/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:16:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-12-03-tomorrow-on-the-powerscripting-podcast/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Our special guest will be &lt;a href="http://dougfinke.com/blog/"&gt;Doug Finke&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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 &lt;a href="http://Lab49.com"&gt;Lab49&lt;/a&gt; a technology consulting firm that&lt;br&gt;
builds advanced solutions for the financial services industry in NY and London.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Coming Up Next on the PowerScripting Podcast</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-24-coming-up-next-on-the-powerscripting-podcast/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:11:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-24-coming-up-next-on-the-powerscripting-podcast/</guid><description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Episode 51: interview with developer, author, and blogger &lt;a href="http://dougfinke.com/blog/"&gt;Doug Finke&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://dougfinke.com/blog/"&gt;http://dougfinke.com/blog/&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;strong&gt;Record date&lt;/strong&gt;: Dec 4th
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Episode 5x: &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell"&gt;Jeffrey Snover&lt;/a&gt; (and possibly others from the PowerShell dev team) will join us to talk all about the new &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx"&gt;PowerShell&lt;/a&gt; 2 release (which we assume will be called CTP3). &lt;strong&gt;Record date&lt;/strong&gt;: &amp;ldquo;December&amp;rdquo;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We&amp;quot;™re also working on finding a resource at Microsoft to talk about &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/dataprotectionmanager/"&gt;Data Protection Manager&lt;/a&gt; and the PowerShell support contained therein. This topic was suggested by a listener. If you have suggestions for the show, please let us know by emailing &lt;a href="mailto:feedback@powerscripting.net"&gt;feedback@powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Books All Gone!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-23-books-all-gone/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:39:27 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-23-books-all-gone/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Many thanks to O&amp;quot;™Reilly for providing so many copies of &lt;a href="http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/"&gt;Lee Holmes&lt;/a&gt; books.  We gave away four copies each of the &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx"&gt;PowerShell&lt;/a&gt; Cookbook and the PowerShell Pocket Reference.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also, we wanted to remind you that there&amp;quot;™ll be no show released next week because we&amp;quot;™re taking a break this week for the Thanksgiving holiday in the US. Next &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;PowerScripting Live&lt;/a&gt; will be Dec 4th at 9pm EST. See you there!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 50 – Ed Wilson – Microsoft Scripting Guy!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-23-episode-50-ed-wilson-microsoft-scripting-guy/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:51:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-23-episode-50-ed-wilson-microsoft-scripting-guy/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-050.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today onÂ theÂ PowerScriptingÂ PodcastÂ weÂ interviewÂ EdÂ Wilson,Â authorÂ ofÂ WindowsÂ PowerShellÂ Step-by-StepÂ andÂ newÂ TechnetÂ ScriptingÂ Guy.Â AndÂ asÂ usualÂ we&amp;rsquo;veÂ alsoÂ gotÂ news,Â tips,Â resourcesÂ andÂ more.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This segment is brought to you by Idera:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*Want to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and master? Checkout Idera&amp;rsquo;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 toÂ &lt;a href="http://www.idera.com/PodcastPeople"&gt;
www.idera.com/PodcastPeople
&lt;/a&gt; to get your copy today!*Â 
**&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scripting Guy(s) up Next!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-18-scripting-guys-up-next/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:35:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-18-scripting-guys-up-next/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We will be having Ed Wilson, one of Microsoft&amp;quot;™s Scripting Guys on the show THIS WEDNESDAY Nov 19th @ 9:30PM.  We will start the live broadcast at 9:00 PM.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Live show: &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hope to see you there!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 49 – Susan Bradley the SBS Diva</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-16-episode-49-susan-bradley-the-sbs-diva/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:28:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-16-episode-49-susan-bradley-the-sbs-diva/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-049.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode





Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we interview Susan Bradley, SBS MVP. We also bring you lots of new, tips and resources.
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News





*This segment is brought to you by Idera:*





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&lt;p&gt;Oisin gives us someÂ &lt;a href="http://www.nivot.org/2008/11/14/ChangesFromCTP2InPowerShell20InTheWindows7M3PDCBuild.aspx"&gt;info on new/changed cmdlets in the PDC build&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Aww, you guys"¦ *sniffle*</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-13-aww-you-guys-sniffle/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:28:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-13-aww-you-guys-sniffle/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We just received this feedback from a listener:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;I&amp;rsquo;m young, poor and have a baby coming in a couple months so money is tight and you all give me a wonderful possibility of getting some powershell resources without dipping into my pockets like everything else.  The funny part is, even though that is amazing, it is still not as valuable as the content from your show.  I have been listening to podcasts regularly for several years now and continue to listen to many of them.  This is by far the best podcast I have ever had the pleasure of finding.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerScripting Live is tomorrow!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-12-powerscripting-live-is-tomorrow/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:36:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-12-powerscripting-live-is-tomorrow/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;quot;™re having &lt;a href="http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/Default.aspx"&gt;Susan Bradley&lt;/a&gt; on the show tomorrow.  You guys should all drop on by for the &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;live stream event&lt;/a&gt; so you can pester and try to distract us while we are paying attention to the interviewee.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Note: we&amp;quot;™re going on at 8:30pm EST (GMT-5) which is 30 minutes earlier than normal.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oh&amp;quot;”and by the way, we may have a special guest after Susan.  Let&amp;quot;™s just leave it as a surprise.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 48 – Lee Holmes</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-09-episode-49-lee-holmes/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:22:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-09-episode-49-lee-holmes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-048.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we interview Lee Holmes, author of Windows PowerShell Cookbook and developer on the PowerShell team.Â  And as usual we&amp;rsquo;ve also got news, tips, resources and more.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News**&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When it comes to scripting, you&amp;quot;™re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest&amp;quot;™s PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell&amp;quot;™s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Survey: Help Shape PowerShellCommunity.org Convention Plans</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-09-survey-help-shape-powershellcommunityorg-convention-plans/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:32:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-09-survey-help-shape-powershellcommunityorg-convention-plans/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;d appreciate it if you were to fill out &lt;a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pK60fL5qBA8pe-_giq0ipXw"&gt;this short survey&lt;/a&gt;. It will help &lt;a href="http://powershellcommunity.org"&gt;PowerShellCommunity.org&lt;/a&gt; as a non-commercial organization decide how best to expend time and money to help get the word out about PowerShell and to help people learn PowerShell.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Coming up on the PowerScripting Podcast</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-07-coming-up-on-the-powerscripting-podcast-2/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:05:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-07-coming-up-on-the-powerscripting-podcast-2/</guid><description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Episode 48: &lt;a href="http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/"&gt;Lee Holmes&lt;/a&gt; (we ran out of time, so we&amp;quot;™ll be having him on again for sure)
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Episode 49: &lt;a href="http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/Default.aspx"&gt;Susan Bradley&lt;/a&gt;, Small Business Server MVP (&lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;PowerScripting Live&lt;/a&gt; starts at 8:30 EST @ 11/13)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Episode 50: The Scripting Guys! (PowerScripting Live will be Wednesday the 19th @ 9pm)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerScripting Podcast at TechEd EMEA</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-05-powerscripting-podcast-at-teched-emea/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:46:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-05-powerscripting-podcast-at-teched-emea/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This is very cool! Remote correspondent for &lt;a href="http://powershellcommunity.org/"&gt;PowerShellCommunity&lt;/a&gt;.org and and fellow &lt;a href="http://get-scripting.blogspot.com/"&gt;PowerShell podcaster&lt;/a&gt; Jonathan Medd &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/jonathanmedd/statuses/991636249"&gt;twittered&lt;/a&gt; from TechEd EMEA this morning:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeffrey is playing the Powerscripting podcast in the Powershell player made with the admin script editor!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks, Jeffrey! And thanks as well to &lt;a href="http://www.itripoli.com/"&gt;iTripoli&lt;/a&gt;, a long-time sponsor of the show, for making such a cool tool. 🙂&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We&amp;quot;™ll be highlighting other things from TechEd at our next episode, but while we have you here, be sure not to miss &lt;a href="http://get-scripting.blogspot.com/2008/11/get-scripting-podcast-episode-4-teched.html"&gt;Episode 4 of the Get-Scripting Podcast&lt;/a&gt;. They scored a great panel discussion attended by:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 47 – MVP Systems JAMS</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-03-episode-47-mvp-systems-jams/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:06:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-03-episode-47-mvp-systems-jams/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-047.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we have MVP Systems in the house to talk about JAMS.  And we have a TON of news from PDC to report!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wow! Were do we start? How about &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/10/29/574-reasons-why-we-are-so-proud-and-optimistic-about-w7-and-ws08r2.aspx"&gt;574 cmdlets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Rumor: IBM will be providing cmdlets for hardware management&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Powershell will be &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/10/28/powershell-will-be-installed-by-default-on-windows-server-08-r2-ws08r2-and-windows-7-w7.aspx"&gt;installed by default on Windows Server 2008 R2 and W7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Win a Copy of Lee Holmes"™ Books This Thursday</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-03-win-a-copy-of-lee-holmes-books-this-thursday/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:22:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-03-win-a-copy-of-lee-holmes-books-this-thursday/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;O&amp;quot;™Reilly was kind enough to provide us with several copies of both &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Windows-PowerShell-Cookbook-Exchange-2007/dp/0596528493/techprosaic-20"&gt;Windows PowerShell Cookbook&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Windows-PowerShell-Pocket-Reference-Holmes/dp/0596521782/techprosaic-20"&gt;Windows PowerShell Pocket Reference&lt;/a&gt; to give away on the show. We&amp;quot;™ll give away one or two during this Thursday&amp;quot;™s &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;PowerScripting Live&lt;/a&gt; event (at 8pm this week instead of the usual 9pm), and we may save some to give away to those aren&amp;quot;™t able to watch the live stream.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So please join us this Thursday and ask questions of &lt;a href="http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/"&gt;Lee Holmes&lt;/a&gt; and you may win one of his books!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 48 / PowerScripting Live at 8pm This Thursday</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-03-episode-48-powerscripting-live-at-8pm-this-thursday/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:06:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-11-03-episode-48-powerscripting-live-at-8pm-this-thursday/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Note that our normal time has moved back one hour to accommodate our esteemed guest. I just &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=38434662076"&gt;created an event&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7033985478&amp;amp;ref=ts"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; which you can add to your profile. Please RSVP that way if you plan on attending, we appreciate the metrics just for our own information, and it helps raise the buzz if you know what we mean.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;thanks!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jon + Hal&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 46 – SQL PSX</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-10-28-episode-46-sql-psx/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:44:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-10-28-episode-46-sql-psx/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-046.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we interview Chad Miller, author of the SQL PSX project.Â And ofÂ courseÂ we&amp;rsquo;llÂ throwÂ inÂ ourÂ otherÂ usualÂ goodies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Â &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This segmentÂ isÂ broughtÂ toÂ youÂ byÂ Idera.
WantÂ toÂ makeÂ WindowsÂ PowerShellÂ easierÂ thanÂ everÂ toÂ learnÂ andÂ master?Â CheckoutÂ Idera&amp;rsquo;sÂ PowerShellPlusÂ ProfessionalÂ EditionÂ whichÂ isÂ nowÂ availableÂ forÂ download!Â TheÂ newÂ versionÂ hasÂ vastlyÂ improvedÂ codeÂ completionÂ andÂ aÂ slickÂ interactiveÂ LearningÂ Center.Â GoÂ toÂ &lt;a href="http://www.idera.com/PodcastPeople"&gt;www.idera.com/PodcastPeople&lt;/a&gt;Â toÂ getÂ yourÂ copyÂ today.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>What is Your Favorite Podcast Segment?</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-10-28-what-is-your-favorite-podcast-segment/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:47:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-10-28-what-is-your-favorite-podcast-segment/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve put up a poll which you can see on the right side of &lt;a href="http://powerscripting.net"&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt;. Â If you get a second, please vote for your favorite among:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;news&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;interviews&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;resources&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;roundtables&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;tips&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;gotchas&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>Coming Up on the PowerScripting Podcast</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-10-28-coming-up-on-the-powerscripting-podcast/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:16:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-10-28-coming-up-on-the-powerscripting-podcast/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Confirmed Guests:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Episode 47 &amp;ldquo;“ Scott McCausland with MVP Systems Software about &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx"&gt;PowerShell&lt;/a&gt; support in &lt;a href="http://www.mvpsi.com/PowerShell.aspx"&gt;JAMS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Episode 48 &amp;ldquo;“ PowerShell team superstar and author, &lt;a href="http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/"&gt;Lee Holmes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Episode 49 &amp;ldquo;“ Windows Small Business Server MVP, &lt;a href="http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/Default.aspx"&gt;Susan Bradley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Willing test subjects who have not yet been scheduled:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ed Wilson and Craig Liebendorfer, the new Scripting Guys at Microsoft&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Developer and author &lt;a href="http://dougfinke.com/blog/"&gt;Doug Finke&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rdquo;™ll also be doing more product giveaways as those are arranged, so pay attention to &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/jonwalz"&gt;our&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/halr9000"&gt;tweets&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Next Episode</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-10-27-next-episode/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:05:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-10-27-next-episode/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We have a slight delay in getting show #46 out the door. It will be out soon, probably in the next day or three.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Book Giveaway: Deploying Windows Vista</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-10-17-book-giveaway-deploying-windows-vista/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:21:50 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-10-17-book-giveaway-deploying-windows-vista/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Deploying-Administering-Windows-Vista-Bible/dp/0470180218"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/image.png" alt="image"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Hi everyone.  We just received a copy of &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Deploying-Administering-Windows-Vista-Bible/dp/0470180218"&gt;Deploying and Administering Windows Vista Bible&lt;/a&gt; in the mail and it looks awesome.  We&amp;quot;™re going to give it away to a lucky listener at next Thursday&amp;quot;™s &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;PowerScripting Live&lt;/a&gt; event, so be sure to drop by!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tonight's Podcast Cancelled</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-10-16-tonights-podcast-cancelled/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:43:54 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-10-16-tonights-podcast-cancelled/</guid><description>&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**
Sorry,Â due toÂ a family emergency we have cancelled tonight&amp;quot;™s podcast. As far as I know we will be back next week. Thanks!
**&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Â&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 45 – Rockin' Roundtable</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-10-12-episode-45-rockin-roundtable/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:53:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-10-12-episode-45-rockin-roundtable/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-045.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today we have a rockin&amp;rsquo; roundtable which includes:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- 
 Jeffrey Snover


- 
 Don Jones


- 
 Alex Riedel


- 
 Kirk Munro







And of course we'll throw in our other usual goodies.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News





*The news is brought to you by iTripoli.*




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 - 
 [Sapien has announced](http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/172892/13e80641d0/176000434/c46cbf224d/) 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 UKÂ [PowerShell UG: November 20th in Reading](http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns%2143CFA46A74CF3E96%211806.entry)


 - 
 Dmitry will be presenting some PowerShell sessions atÂ [Quest Connect](http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/quest-connect/) on OctÂ 22nd-23rd.


 - 
 New software release onÂ IIS.net:Â [Microsoft Web Deployment Tool - Beta 1 Go Live](http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&amp;amp;i=1602&amp;amp;g=6)


 - 
 If you'd like to get an early peek at Richard Siddaway's new bookÂ [
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell in Practice
](&lt;a href="http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns%2143CFA46A74CF3E96%211783.entry)"&gt;http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns%2143CFA46A74CF3E96%211783.entry)&lt;/a&gt;, you can do so on Manning&amp;rsquo;s site.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Rocking Roundtable This Thursday!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-10-06-rocking-roundtable-this-thursday/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:28:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-10-06-rocking-roundtable-this-thursday/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Be sure to tune into &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;PowerScripting Live&lt;/a&gt; this Thursday @ 9pm EDT. We&amp;quot;™ve got a great lineup including &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell"&gt;Jeffrey Snover&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://concentratedtech.com" title="Concentrated Technology"&gt;Don Jones&lt;/a&gt;. It looks like at least a couple of others from the &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx"&gt;PowerShell&lt;/a&gt; team will be in attendance as well, so this will definitely be THE place to get any questions you may have answered.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 44 – Tobias Weltner gives an inside look at PowerShell Plus</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-10-05-episode-44-tobias-weltner-gives-an-inside-look-at-powershell-plus/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:14:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-10-05-episode-44-tobias-weltner-gives-an-inside-look-at-powershell-plus/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-044.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;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](http://quest.com/powerscripting) to register for your copy, before they run out. While you&amp;quot;™re there download their free graphical user interface, script editor and Active Directory commands.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
 [Hal is an MVP!!!](http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/mvp-award-renewed/)


 - 
 PowerShellPlus v2 is out of beta and on the shelves. Â Also, PowerShell Analyzer is nowÂ [100% free](http://karlprosser.com/coder/2008/10/02/powershell-analyzer-now-100-free/)


 - 
 Sapien's PowerShell Boot Camp isÂ [coming to Dallas in February](http://blog.sapien.com/index.php/2008/10/02/powershell-boot-camp-coming-to-dallas/)


 - 
 [
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow
](&lt;a href="http://stackoverflow.com/"&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt;) byÂ &lt;a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/"&gt;
JoelÂ Spolsky
&lt;/a&gt; Â &amp;amp;Â &lt;a href="http://codinghorror.com/"&gt;
JeffÂ Atwood
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Coming up on the Podcast</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-10-02-coming-up-on-the-podcast/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:25:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-10-02-coming-up-on-the-podcast/</guid><description>&lt;h4 id="episode-44"&gt;Episode 44&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;recording tonight on ustream&lt;/a&gt;, airing 10/6)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interview with &lt;a href="http://powershell.com" title="author of PowerShellPlus"&gt;Tobias Weltner&lt;/a&gt; of ScriptInternals.com, author of PowershellPlus. (this was pre-recorded 9/21)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="episode-45"&gt;Episode 45&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(recording 10/9, airing 10/13)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Roundtable discussion with &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell" title="PowerShell Team Blog"&gt;Jeffrey Snover&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://poshoholic.com/" title="Poshoholic"&gt;Kirk Munro&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://concentratedtech.com" title="Concentrated Technology"&gt;Don Jones&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.primalscript.com/" title="author of PrimalScript"&gt;Alex Reidel&lt;/a&gt;. Topics will include:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/09/19/a-thousand-things-1-better.aspx"&gt;A Thousand Things 1% Better&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;What&amp;rsquo;s most important for a posh newbie to learn?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://concentratedtech.com/content/index.php/2008/09/weekly-shell-script-vs-shell/"&gt;Script vs. Shell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Coolest use of PowerShell that you&amp;rsquo;ve seen&amp;ndash;and what&amp;rsquo;s to come.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;What third-party software is missing?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Is PowerShell useful for ?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;e.g. cloud computing&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And of course each episode will have our usual complement of news, tips, and resources.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 43 – Brandon Shell is back to talk AD</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-09-28-episode-43-brandon-shell-is-back-to-talk-ad/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:18:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-09-28-episode-43-brandon-shell-is-back-to-talk-ad/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-043.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Â &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I
n This Episode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Brandon Shell, PowerShell MVP and great thinker.
Â &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;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!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;News
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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](http://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.) to register for your copy, before they run out. While you&amp;quot;™re there download their free graphical user interface, script editor and Active Directory commands.
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Â &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Free Book Contest Ends Thursday</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-09-28-free-book-contest-ends-thursday/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:37:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-09-28-free-book-contest-ends-thursday/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;quot;™re still accepting entries (see previous show notes) for the &lt;a href="http://sapienpress.com"&gt;SAPIEN Press&lt;/a&gt; book giveaway until this coming Thursday, Oct 2nd. All you have to do is put up a review of our podcast on iTunes, PodcastAlley, or your blog. Email the URL (or your iTunes display name) to and two people will win the random drawing!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;quot;™s some of the books you can choose:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sapienpress.com/PowerShell3.asp" title="TFMÂ®"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/image.png" alt="image"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.sapienpress.com/ad.asp" title="TFMÂ®"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/image1.png" alt="image"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.sapienpress.com/exchange.asp" title="TFMÂ®"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/image2.png" alt="image"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Submit Your Active Directory &amp; Citrix Questions!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-09-24-submit-your-active-directory-citrix-questions/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:04:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-09-24-submit-your-active-directory-citrix-questions/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Episode 43 will feature frequent guest, &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx"&gt;PowerShell&lt;/a&gt; MVP, and Active Directory &amp;amp; Citrix guru, &lt;a href="http://bsonposh.com"&gt;Brandon Shell&lt;/a&gt;.  If you have any questions you want to see us cover, please leave them in the comments or [email us](mailto:feedback@powerscripting.net?subject=Questions for Episode 43)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also, don&amp;quot;™t forget to read the &lt;a href="http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/episode-42-with-greg-shields/"&gt;Eposide 42 show notes&lt;/a&gt; to see how you can win a free book from &lt;a href="http://sapienpress.com"&gt;SAPIEN press&lt;/a&gt;! (Hint: leave us an iTunes review.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks for listening&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-hal&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 42 – with Greg Shields</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-09-23-episode-42-with-greg-shields/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:40:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-09-23-episode-42-with-greg-shields/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-042.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we are interviewing the author, speaker and IT Pro Greg Shields.Â We&amp;rsquo;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!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;__&lt;br&gt;
_&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Do you have what it takes to be the ultimate script warrior? Find out with Quest&amp;quot;™s PowerPack Challenge &amp;ldquo;™08.Â 
Quest Software is sponsoring a PowerShell Scripting contest where you can test your skills and get paid. Just create some cool PowerShell scripts using Quest&amp;rdquo;™s PowerGUI and then post them to our site. You&amp;quot;™ll 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 detailsÂ &lt;a href="https://quest.com/powerscripting"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.
Â &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Up Next: Don Jones &amp; Greg Shields!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-09-17-up-next-don-jones-greg-shields/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:19:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-09-17-up-next-don-jones-greg-shields/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;quot;™re having Don Jones and Greg Shields on for Episode 42 (which is an auspicious number). These guys have joined forces recently to form &lt;a href="http://concentratedtech.com"&gt;Concentrated Technology&lt;/a&gt; an up-and-coming but already highly respected tech blog and resource site.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I would love it if our awesome fans could send in their questions and/or show up for our usual weekly &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;PowerScripting Live&lt;/a&gt; event (this Thursday at 9pm) to help make this interview as much of an interactive sensation as the last one with Jeff Hicks was. (You guys rock!)&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 41 – Jeff Hicks "I am Ironman"</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-09-15-episode-41-jeff-hicks-i-am-ironman/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:49:35 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-09-15-episode-41-jeff-hicks-i-am-ironman/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Listen: [&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;][1]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we are interviewing Jeffrey Hicks from SAPIEN Technologies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve also got news, resources, and tips!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The news is brought to you today by iTripoli&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;__&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What can you really do with PowerShell?  With Admin Script Editor the question becomes what &lt;strong&gt;can&amp;rsquo;t&lt;/strong&gt; 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 &lt;a href="http://adminscripteditor.com/player"&gt;adminscripteditor.com/player&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Submit Your Active Directory Questions Now!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-09-09-submit-your-active-directory-questions-now/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:48:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-09-09-submit-your-active-directory-questions-now/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We will be having Jeffrey Hicks on the podcast for Episode 41. It would be great to have some questions from the field to ask regarding his latest book, &lt;a href="http://sapienpress.com/ad.asp"&gt;Managing Active Directory with Powershell&lt;/a&gt;. So please submit questions to us either by sending email to , or leaving comments on this post. Also don&amp;quot;™t forget you can attend the interview live on our &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;Ustream&lt;/a&gt; channel this Thursday night.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Everyone who submits a question is entered into a drawing to win a prize. I don&amp;quot;™t know what it will be yet, I&amp;quot;™m thinking a gift certificate of some kind because I&amp;quot;™m running low on sponsor swag. 🙂&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 40 – Poshboard part duex</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-09-07-episode-40-poshboard-part-duex/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:11:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-09-07-episode-40-poshboard-part-duex/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-040.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we have an awesome roundtable discussion with guests &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell"&gt;Jeffrey Snover&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://keithhill.spaces.live.com/"&gt;Keith Hill&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.nivot.org/default.aspx"&gt;Oisin Grehan&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://huddledmasses.org/"&gt;Joel Bennett&lt;/a&gt;. We&amp;rsquo;ve also got news, tips, and some contest winners to announce.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The news is brought to you by Idera&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
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*What&amp;quot;™s better than getting the new version of PowerShellPlus for $79? &amp;hellip;&amp;hellip; Getting it for FREE! &amp;hellip; 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.Â  Idera is offering listeners of *&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>We Have a Winner, and Jeffrey Snover Returns!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-09-03-we-have-a-winner-and-jeffrey-snover-returns/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:41:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-09-03-we-have-a-winner-and-jeffrey-snover-returns/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Stefan D. from Belgium is the winner of our latest contest. He guessed correctly the nationality of our previous guest, Alex from SAPIEN.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Keep listening, I&amp;quot;™m sure we&amp;quot;™ll have more goodies in upcoming shows.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oh and by the way&amp;quot;”&lt;strong&gt;Jeffrey Snover&lt;/strong&gt; among the guests in our next roundtable for Episode 40! You&amp;quot;™ll be able to interact with him and our other guests live this Thursday at 9pm Eastern (UTC-4). You can find the live show details at the top right corner of the side nav bar on  &lt;a href="http://powerscripting.net"&gt;powerscripting.net&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 39 – Alex Riedel talks PrimalScript</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-09-01-episode-39-alex-riedel-talks-primalscript/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:04:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-09-01-episode-39-alex-riedel-talks-primalscript/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-039.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In This Episode
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we will be speaking Alex Riedel, lead developer for PrimalScript at SAPIEN Technologies.Â  While he was on he gave away a bunch of &lt;a href="http://blog.sapien.com/index.php/2008/08/29/podcast-interview-and-prizes/"&gt;great prizes&lt;/a&gt; to the people on Ustream (see what you missed?) We also have a contest for a copy of PrimalScript at the end of the show if you missed it live.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Come Watch PowerScripting Live!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-08-27-come-watch-powerscripting-live/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:16:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-08-27-come-watch-powerscripting-live/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;TonightÂ at 9pm Eastern, Jonathan and I will be streaming live over &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;Ustream&lt;/a&gt;. If you think you&amp;quot;™ll make it, and you use &lt;a href="http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7033985478&amp;amp;ref=ts"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;, I&amp;quot;™d really appreciate it if you sign up for &lt;a href="http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=21571549686&amp;amp;ref=nf"&gt;the event&lt;/a&gt; I created.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 38 "“ PoshCode and PowerShellPlus</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-08-25-episode-38-poshcode-and-powershellplus/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:30:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-08-25-episode-38-poshcode-and-powershellplus/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-038.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we have a special roundtable with guests &lt;a href="http://huddledmasses.org"&gt;Joel Bennett&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/meson3902"&gt;Mark Schill&lt;/a&gt;. We also have the usual cornucopia of of news, tips, and resources. We&amp;rsquo;ll also be announcing the winner of our &lt;a href="http://www.nsoftware.com/"&gt;/n Software&lt;/a&gt; contest from show 36.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This segment is brought to you by iTripoli!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&amp;ldquo;Admin Script Editor (which recently received Windows IT Pro&amp;rsquo;s top award) provides a true integrated scripting environment for PowerShell.Â  The guys at iTripoli haven&amp;rsquo;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.Â  Go to &lt;a href="http://adminscripteditor.com/"&gt;adminscripteditor.com&lt;/a&gt; to find out if you qualify.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerScripting Podcast, now recorded live on UStream</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-08-23-powerscripting-podcast-now-recorded-live-on-ustream/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:43:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-08-23-powerscripting-podcast-now-recorded-live-on-ustream/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.ustream.tv/ufw/images/logo.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Hi everyone. We recorded the upcoming Eposide 38 this past Thursday. We decided to try and stream it live on &lt;a href="http://ustream.tv"&gt;UStream&lt;/a&gt; and wonder of wonders, it worked great. Our success was due mostly to Jonathan and UStream. Hal had nothing to do with it.&lt;br&gt;
Thanks to JPayleck, BrandonF, and Ye11owbeard who helped us test stuff.&lt;br&gt;
So, if you want to get a sneak peek at the upcoming show, or want to chat and interact with us live on air, please drop by. We will be on our &lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast"&gt;UStream channel&lt;/a&gt; every Thursday at 9PM EST.&lt;br&gt;
We have updated our (heretofore unused) public calendar with this weekly event. You can find it these ways: &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/powerscripting.net_s5pcni813kpe6d6kkunqdambu4%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/powerscripting.net/images/xml.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/powerscripting.net_s5pcni813kpe6d6kkunqdambu4%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/powerscripting.net/images/ical.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Vacation Delay</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-08-17-vacation-delay-2/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:22:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-08-17-vacation-delay-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hey boys and girls, we regret to inform you that we won&amp;quot;™t be releasing episode 38 this coming Monday per our normal schedule.Â  I don&amp;quot;™t want to point fingers, but this lapse is totally and exclusively Jonathan&amp;quot;™s fault.&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;quot;™m just teasing&amp;quot;”we&amp;quot;™re both super busy and recording did not happen when we wanted it to. Never fear, we&amp;quot;™ll get a new show out to you the following Monday.&lt;br&gt;
The good news is that this gives you all more time to send in entries for our Netcmdlets giveaway sponsored by /n Software. We have several good ones so far that I can&amp;quot;™t wait to share with everyone.&lt;br&gt;
Talk to you soon!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 37 – Brandon is back</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-08-10-episode-37-brandon-is-back/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:54:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-08-10-episode-37-brandon-is-back/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-037.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we will be speaking with Brandon Shell, PowerShell MVP and all around nice guy.Â  We also have plenty of news, tips, and resources to cover.Â  And be sure to listen till the end to hear how to winÂ  free commercial licenses for /n Software&amp;rsquo;s Net cmdlets!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Today&amp;rsquo;s interview is brought to you by Quest.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
_&lt;br&gt;
_ Do you have what it takes to be the ultimate script warrior? Find out with Quest&amp;quot;™s PowerPack Challenge &amp;ldquo;™08.&lt;br&gt;
Quest Software is sponsoring a PowerShell Scripting contest where you can test your skills and get paid. Just create some cool PowerShell scripts using Quest&amp;rdquo;™s PowerGUI and then post them to our site. You&amp;quot;™ll get a score and our celebrity judges will weigh in as well.&lt;br&gt;
Do you have the muscle to bring home the prize? Check out the details &lt;a href="http://www.quest.com/powerscripting" title="here"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;{#yv1z}.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 36 – Jonathan, Marco, Jonathan, Marco etc…</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-08-03-episode-36-jonathan-marco-jonathan-marco-etc/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:09:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-08-03-episode-36-jonathan-marco-jonathan-marco-etc/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-036.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have a great show lined up for you today.Â  We&amp;rsquo;ll be talking with Eric Madariaga from /n Software. And of course we have news, tips, resources, and more!Â  And be sure to listen till the end when we&amp;rsquo;ll be giving away free commercial licenses for /n Software&amp;rsquo;s Net cmdlets!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.itripoli.com/"&gt;
iTripoli
&lt;/a&gt; for sponsoring this segment.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;ldquo;Admin Script Editor provides a true integrated scripting environment for PowerShell.Â  Advanced features include an integrated PowerShell debugger, advanced code generating tools for Active Directory, Databases, XML files and the exclusive PowerShell forms designer.Â  Come see for yourself&amp;rdquo;“ Admin Script Editor v3.5 is availble for a 45 day trial at AdminScriptEditor.com.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 35 "“ Community Roundtable #2</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-07-31-episode-35-community-roundtable-2/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:43:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-07-31-episode-35-community-roundtable-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-035.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have a great show lined up for you today.Â  We&amp;rsquo;ll be talking with &lt;a href="http://bsonposh.com"&gt;Brandon Shell&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx"&gt;PowerShell&lt;/a&gt; MVP) and &lt;a href="http://mindofroot.com"&gt;Steve Murawski&lt;/a&gt; (Mind of Root podcast co-host) in a roundtable discussion.Â  And of course we have news, tips, resources, and more!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;__&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.itripoli.com/"&gt;iTripoli&lt;/a&gt; for sponsoring this segment.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&amp;ldquo;Admin Script Editor provides a true integrated scripting environment for PowerShell.Â  Advanced features include an integrated PowerShell debugger, advanced code generating tools for Active Directory, Databases, XML files and the exclusive PowerShell forms designer.Â  Come see for yourself&amp;ndash; Admin Script Editor v3.5 is availble for a 45 day trial at AdminScriptEditor.com.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Â &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 34 "“ VMware in the House</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-07-25-episode-34-vmware-in-the-house/</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:07:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-07-25-episode-34-vmware-in-the-house/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-034.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
We have a great show lined up for you today.Â  We&amp;rsquo;ll be talking to Carter Shanklin from VMware about their PowerShell Toolkit.Â  He&amp;rsquo;s got some exciting NEW news to share with us, so that&amp;rsquo;s cool.Â  We&amp;rsquo;ll also bring you news, resources, tips and whatever else we can scrape up.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This segment is brought to you by &lt;a href="http://quest.com/powerscripting"&gt;Quest Software&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
_&lt;br&gt;
_ &lt;em&gt;Do you have what it takes to be the ultimate script warrior? Find out with Quest&amp;quot;™s PowerPack Challenge &amp;ldquo;™08.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Quest Software is sponsoring a PowerShell Scripting contest where you can test your skills and get paid. Just create some cool PowerShell scripts using Quest&amp;rdquo;™s PowerGUI and then post them to our site. You&amp;quot;™ll get a score and our celebrity judges will weigh in as well.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Do you have the muscle to bring home the prize? Check out the details &lt;a href="http://quest.com/powerscripting"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Marco Shaw giving presentation about NetCmdlets</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-07-22-marco-shaw-giving-presentation-about-netcmdlets/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:42:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-07-22-marco-shaw-giving-presentation-about-netcmdlets/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Be sure to add this to your calendars:&lt;br&gt;
From Marco Shaw&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;I&amp;rsquo;ll be &lt;a href="http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com/2008/07/uk-user-group-presentation-netcmdlets.html"&gt;(remotely) presenting /n software NetCmdlets&lt;/a&gt; at the next UK PowerShell UG meeting. &amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com/2008/07/uk-powershell-user-group-netcmdlets.html"&gt;http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com/2008/07/uk-powershell-user-group-netcmdlets.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Date: July 31st, 2008&lt;br&gt;
Time: 2PM EST (New York time)&lt;br&gt;
Connection details:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=JQ5754&amp;amp;role=attend&amp;amp;pw=6M%2B7p%26KhN"&gt;https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=JQ5754&amp;amp;role=attend&amp;amp;pw=6M%2B7p%26KhN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
If the link above isn&amp;rsquo;t working, follow these steps:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Copy this address and paste it into your web browser:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join"&gt;https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Copy and paste the required information:&lt;br&gt;
Meeting ID: JQ5754&lt;br&gt;
Entry Code: 6M+7p&amp;amp;KhN&lt;br&gt;
Location: &lt;a href="https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups"&gt;https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
This will be done via the Internet (so the audio will be streaming&lt;br&gt;
over the Internet also). There won&amp;rsquo;t be telephone dial-in access.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Seriously Marco, you guys need to get web 2.0 with this stuff.Â  Evite, upcoming.org, Facebook events&amp;rdquo;¦something!Â  🙂&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Recent Shows</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-07-21-podcast-to-be-released-on-friday/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:32:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-07-21-podcast-to-be-released-on-friday/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Episode 33 "“ Cage Match: PowerScripting vs. Quest</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-07-13-episode-33-cage-match-powerscripting-vs-quest/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:23:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-07-13-episode-33-cage-match-powerscripting-vs-quest/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-033.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have a great show lined up for you today.Â  With us via Skype will be MVPs Kirk Munro and Dmitry Sotnikov both from Quest.Â  And no show would be complete without News, Resources, and Tips!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Today&amp;rsquo;s news is brought to you by iTripoli.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&amp;ldquo;Admin Script Editor provides a true integrated scripting environment for PowerShell.Â  Advanced features include an integrated PowerShell debugger, advanced code generating tools for Active Directory, Databases, XML files and the exclusive PowerShell forms designer.Â  Come see for yourself&amp;ndash; Admin Script Editor v3.5 is availble for a 45 day trial at AdminScriptEditor.com.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 32 "“ Citrix does PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-07-07-episode-32-citrix-does-powershell/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:19:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-07-07-episode-32-citrix-does-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-032.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have a great show lined up for you today.Â  We&amp;rsquo;re interviewing Peter Schulz with Citrix to talk about their PowerShell product Workflow Studio.Â  And as always: News, Resources, Tips, and more!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Today&amp;rsquo;s news is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/07/03/iis7-powershell-provider-tech-preview-2.aspx"&gt;Windows PowerShell : IIS7 PowerShell Provider Tech Preview 2&lt;/a&gt;.Â  What&amp;rsquo;s new with TP2?
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;IIS7 Powershell provider now supports SSL (installing and acquiring a certificate, creating an ssl site binding)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tech Preview 2 ships with 40 new cmdlets.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;PowerGUI hit a major milestone in &lt;a href="http://poshoholic.com/2008/07/02/powergui-hits-100000-downloads/"&gt;surpassing 100,000 downloads!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;From the GPO Guy: &lt;a href="http://sdmsoftware.com/blog/2008/07/new_version_of_gpmc_powershell.html"&gt;New Version of GPMC PowerShell Cmdlets Released!&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;This new version represents a significant updgrade to the existing cmdlets. The biggest change is that we incorporated new functionality that became available in the version of GPMC that shipped with Vista, SP1 and Windows Server 2008.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sapien has released &lt;a href="http://blog.sapien.com/index.php/2008/06/24/primalscript-build-567-released/"&gt;build 567 of PrimalScript 2007&lt;/a&gt;. New features include:
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;PowerShell Debugger now integrated into Professional and Enterprise Editions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;PrimalSense for PowerShell operators&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Parameter prompting for PowerShell scripts&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A new version of the &lt;a href="http://sdmsoftware.com/blog/2008/07/new_version_of_gpmc_powershell.html"&gt;GPMC PowerShell Cmdlets has been released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;_This interview is brought to you by iTripoli.&lt;br&gt;
&amp;ldquo;Admin Script Editor provides a true integrated scripting environment for PowerShell.Â  Advanced features include an integrated PowerShell debugger, advanced code generating tools for Active Directory, Databases, XML files and the exclusive PowerShell forms designer.Â  Come see for yourself&amp;ndash; Admin Script Editor v3.5 is availble for a 45 day trial at AdminScriptEditor.com.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;
_&lt;br&gt;
Our interview today is with Peter Schulz from Citrix.Â  Enjoy.Â  Here&amp;rsquo;s our notes from the conversation:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>How to Submit Links to the Show"”Quickly!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-07-01-how-to-submit-links-to-the-showquickly/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:03:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-07-01-how-to-submit-links-to-the-showquickly/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;quot;™d like to see us cover a topic discussed on a particular website, there&amp;quot;™s several ways to do so.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Email the link to&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Use &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us"&gt;Del.icio.us&lt;/a&gt; and add these TWO tags: &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/tags/powerscripting+todo"&gt;&amp;ldquo;todo&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;powerscripting&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt;.Â  (Two tags so that we can remove the todo tag to track when something&amp;quot;™s been covered.)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Do you use &lt;a href="http://google.com/reader"&gt;Google Reader&lt;/a&gt;?Â  Add &lt;a href="mailto:JonWalz@gmail.com"&gt;JonWalz AT gmail&lt;/a&gt; as a friend and share the bookmark.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 31 "“ Money for Nothin"™ and Tips for Free</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-06-30-episode-31-money-for-nothin-and-tips-for-free/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:10:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-06-30-episode-31-money-for-nothin-and-tips-for-free/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-031.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have a ton of stuff foryou today.Â  News, Resources, Tips, and even an old favorite, the Cmdlet of the Week.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The news is brought to you by &lt;a href="http://www.itripoli.com/"&gt;iTripoli&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&amp;ldquo;Admin Script Editor provides a true integrated scripting environment for&lt;br&gt;
PowerShell.Â  Advanced features include an integrated PowerShell debugger,&lt;br&gt;
advanced code generating tools for Active Directory, Databases, XML files&lt;br&gt;
and more.Â  Let&amp;rsquo;s not forget about the exclusive PowerShell forms designer.&lt;br&gt;
What&amp;rsquo;s coming up? Soon its innovative and feature-rich ScriptPackger tool&lt;br&gt;
will offer support for the dynamic installation of cmdlets! Come see for&lt;br&gt;
yourself&amp;ndash; Admin Script Editor v3.5 is availble for a 45 day trial at&lt;br&gt;
AdminScriptEditor.com.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 30 "“ TechEd Report</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-06-22-episode-30-teched-report/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:22:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-06-22-episode-30-teched-report/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-030.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
We have a ton of stuff for you today.Â  Our interview is with Thorbjörn Sjövold from &lt;a href="http://www.specopssoft.com/powershell/"&gt;Special Operations Software&lt;/a&gt;.Â  Also on tap: news (yes we have some today), resources, tips and even a gotcha.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The news is brought to you by&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.sapien.com/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sapien Technologies&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;SDM Software - &lt;a href="http://sdmsoftware.com/group_policy_health.php"&gt;Group Policy Health cmdlet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Portable PowerShell? &lt;a href="http://karlprosser.com/coder/2008/06/17/portable-powershell-v1-and-v2-side-by-side-even-on-server-core/"&gt;Karl Prosser has a way to do it.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Citrix has released a tech preview of their new &lt;a href="http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=1297816"&gt;Workflow Studio product&lt;/a&gt;.Â  To download a copy, go to the &lt;a href="http://www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/results.asp?productID=1297816"&gt;download page&lt;/a&gt;, but realize you have to have a My Citrix account (to which you can sign up for free).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;PowerGUI won the &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/breakthrough-product-of-teched-2008/"&gt;Breakthrough Product of 2008&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo; award at TechEd.Â  Congrats, guys!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dmitry &lt;a href="http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/ocs-management-console-on-steroids/"&gt;blogs about&lt;/a&gt; a new MS Office Communication Server PowerGUI Powerpack&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We may see a new PowerShell V2 CTP drop in November to be timed with IT Forum Barcelona (the EU version of TechEd).Â  Jeffrey Snover also &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/06/17/when-will-powershell-v2-ship.aspx"&gt;hints at a release date&lt;/a&gt; on his blog.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Our interview today is brought to you by&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://quest.com/powerscripting"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Quest Software&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;For a limited time, Quest is offering Powerscripting Podcast listeners a free copy of Jeffery Hicks upcoming book, Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM from Sapien Press.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Go to&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.quest.com/powerscripting"&gt;&lt;em&gt;www.quest.com/powerscripting&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;to register for your copy and download their free graphical user interface, script editor and Active Directory commands&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerScripting Podcast – Bonus Episode – TechEd Day1</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-06-11-powerscripting-podcast-bonus-episode-teched-day1/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:20:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-06-11-powerscripting-podcast-bonus-episode-teched-day1/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-TechEd-Day1.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hal gives us an update from day 1 of TechEd08. Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 29 "“ Exchange with Ilse Van Criekinge</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-06-08-episode-29-exchange-with-ilse-van-criekinge/</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:32:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-06-08-episode-29-exchange-with-ilse-van-criekinge/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-029.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Today we&amp;rsquo;ll be speaking to noted Exchange MVP, trainer, and author Ilse van Criekinge.  Also on tap: news, resources, and a bunch of PowerShell tips for you.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The news is brought to you by&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.sapien.com/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sapien Technologies&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;From the GPOGUY we get two new cmdlets get-SDMADTombstone and restore-SDMADTombstone - blog post: &lt;a href="http://sdmsoftware.com/blog/2008/06/powershell_hits_the_morgue.html"&gt;PowerShell Hits the Morgue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx"&gt;PowerShell&lt;/a&gt; sill be big at TechEd next week&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Oisin &lt;a href="http://www.nivot.org/2008/06/06/WindowsMobilePowerShellProvider.aspx"&gt;has released&lt;/a&gt; a new Codeplex project he has been working on called &lt;a href="http://codeplex.com/psmobile"&gt;PSMobile&lt;/a&gt;.  This is a PowerShell provider for your Windows Mobile phone.  Features include:
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Copy, Move, Delete items between folders on your device (including Storage Card) with standard PowerShell Cmdlets&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Move/Copy files to/from your device and your desktop with ConvertTo-WMFile and ConvertFrom-WMFile&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Get device information and manipulate and explore the registry with a rich device object returned from Get-WMDevice&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Our interview today is brought to you by&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://quest.com/powershell"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Quest Software&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 28 – Jeffrey Snover talks about WinRM</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-06-01-powerscripting-podcast-episode-28-jeffrey-snover-talks-about-winrm/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:57:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-06-01-powerscripting-podcast-episode-28-jeffrey-snover-talks-about-winrm/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-028.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have a great show for you guys today.Â  Several weeks back we had Jeffrey Snover on the show.Â  We had teased at the time that there was a third portion to the interview that deals with WinRM and WS-MGMT.Â  We&amp;rsquo;re going to play that today for you.Â  Also on tap: news, resources, and a bunch of PowerShell tips for you.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 27 – Darren Mar-Elia talks about Group Policy</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-05-26-powerscripting-podcast-episode-27-darren-mar-elia-talks-about-group-policy/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 18:04:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-05-26-powerscripting-podcast-episode-27-darren-mar-elia-talks-about-group-policy/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-027.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have an interview this week with noted group policy expert, Darren Mar-Elia.Â  And we have no news for you today, but a lot of resources, tips, and one-liners to ease your scripting pains.Â  And don&amp;rsquo;t forget about Quest&amp;rsquo;s excellent book giveaway offer.Â  Keep listening for details on that.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="interview"&gt;Interview&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Interview sponsored by&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://itripoli.com/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;iTripoli&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Admin Script Editor provides a true integrated scripting environment for PowerShell.Â  Advanced features include an integrated PowerShell debugger, advanced code generating tools for Active Directory, Databases, XML files and more.Â  Let&amp;rsquo;s not forget about the exclusive PowerShell forms designer. What&amp;rsquo;s coming up? Soon its innovative and feature-rich ScriptPackger tool will offer support for the dynamic installation of cmdlets! Come see for yourself&amp;ndash; Admin Script Editor v3.5 is availble for a 45 day trial at&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://AdminScriptEditor.com"&gt;&lt;em&gt;AdminScriptEditor.com&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Be sure to listen to the show for the interview, it&amp;rsquo;s a great one!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 26 – Keith Hill</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-05-18-powerscripting-podcast-episode-26/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 02:00:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-05-18-powerscripting-podcast-episode-26/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-026.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve got a great show lined up for you today.Â  I am really pleased to announce our guest: Keith Hill, a well-known developer in the PowerShell Community.Â  Also, as we hinted during the last show, your participation and support makes advertisers happy, and when they&amp;rsquo;re happy, they give away stuff.Â  This one is cool because many will enter&amp;ndash;and many will win!Â  Stay tuned for details.Â  And as usual, we&amp;rsquo;ve got a bunch of news, tips, and resources to share.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 25 – CTP 2: The Return of CTP</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-05-10-powerscripting-podcast-episode-25-ctp-2-the-return-of-ctp/</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 02:11:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-05-10-powerscripting-podcast-episode-25-ctp-2-the-return-of-ctp/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-025.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We have a great show lined up for you today.Â  Don Jones from Sapien is here.Â  [applause]Â  He&amp;rsquo;ll be giving us a taste of the trade show circuit, going into CTP2, and other goings-on in the PowerShell world.Â  And of course we have tips and resources and whatever else we can throw in.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We will be announcing the winner of our Vista Ultimate giveaway on Show 26 next week.Â  If you haven&amp;rsquo;t entered yet, now is the time!Â  It&amp;rsquo;s really easy, just send feedback about the show to
and you are in the running.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The News today is sponsored by SDM Software.&lt;br&gt;
&amp;ldquo;SDM Software provides innovative solutions that combine PowerShell and Group Policy to help reduce the complexity of managing your Windows systems.Â  Their unique GPExpert Scripting Toolkit for PowerShell, provides the means to automate the management of your Group Policy Objects. To get more information about these products and download trial copies,&lt;br&gt;
visit &lt;a href="http://www.sdmsoftware.com/powerscripting.php"&gt;sdmsoftware.com/powerscripting.php&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Show Us Your Cmdlets!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-05-04-show-us-your-cmdlets/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 02:17:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-05-04-show-us-your-cmdlets/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This little one-liner will show the most common verbs among all the cmdlets installed in the current PowerShell session.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;1: PS &amp;gt; gcm -CommandType cmdlet | Group Verb | Sort Count -Descending | Select -First 10&lt;/code&gt;2:
Â&lt;code&gt;3: Count Name Group&lt;/code&gt;4:
&amp;mdash;&amp;ndash; &amp;mdash;- &amp;mdash;&amp;ndash;&lt;code&gt;5: 128 Get {Get-Acl, Get-ADObject, Get-Alias, Get-Authentico...&lt;/code&gt;6:
46 Set {Set-Acl, Set-Alias, Set-AuthenticodeSignature, S&amp;hellip;&lt;code&gt;7: 36 New {New-Alias, New-CDDrive, New-Client, New-Cluster,...&lt;/code&gt;8:
34 Remove {Remove-CDDrive, Remove-Cluster, Remove-CustomFie&amp;hellip;&lt;code&gt;9: 15 Send {Send-Email, Send-FTP, Send-IM, Send-Mail, Send-M...&lt;/code&gt;10:
14 Write {Write-BZip2, Write-Clipboard, Write-Debug, Write&amp;hellip;&lt;code&gt;11: 13 Invoke {Invoke-Command, Invoke-Expression, Invoke-Histor...&lt;/code&gt;12:
11 Out {Out-Chart, Out-Clipboard, Out-Default, Out-File,&amp;hellip;&lt;code&gt;13: 10 Add {Add-Contact, Add-Content, Add-History, Add-Membe...&lt;/code&gt;14:
10 Move {Move-Cluster, Move-Datacenter, Move-Folder, Move&amp;hellip;
`I just realized the above is the CLI equivalent of looking at a screenshot of someone&amp;quot;™s Windows desktop and wondering what all those tray icons do.Â  🙂&lt;br&gt;
What snapins do you think I have installed?Â  What about you guys?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 24 – Admin Script Editor</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-05-03-powerscripting-podcast-episode-24-admin-script-editor/</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 19:56:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-05-03-powerscripting-podcast-episode-24-admin-script-editor/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-024.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Today we&amp;rsquo;ll be speaking to Steven Behrns from iTripoli, the developers who brought you Admin Script Editor. Also on tap: news, resources, and a bunch of PowerShell tips for you. In addition, we&amp;rsquo;ve got a product giveaway, the first of many! But you have to listen to find out how to enter. 🙂&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h4 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The News today is sponsored by SDM Software.&lt;br&gt;
Before we go into the spiel, I&amp;rsquo;d like to mention that we&amp;rsquo;ve gotten some great feedback from Quest already, so thanks to everyone who has done a clickthrough and filled out the form. You do keep doing that, and we keep the advertisers happy, and that allows US to do more for you. You will start to see the results of that in this very show!&lt;br&gt;
&amp;ldquo;SDM Software provides innovative solutions that combine PowerShell and Group Policy to help reduce the complexity of managing your Windows systems. Their unique GPExpert Scripting Toolkit for PowerShell, provides the means to automate the management of your Group Policy Objects.&lt;br&gt;
To get more information about these products and download trial copies,&lt;br&gt;
visit &lt;a href="http://www.sdmsoftware.com/powerscripting.php"&gt;sdmsoftware.com/powerscripting.php&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 23 – IIS7 Special</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-04-26-powerscripting-podcast-episode-23-iis7-special/</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:16:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-04-26-powerscripting-podcast-episode-23-iis7-special/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-023.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Today we&amp;rsquo;ve got an interview with a senior program manager from the IIS team at Microsoft.Â  We&amp;rsquo;ve also got news, resources, and a bunch of PowerShell tips for you.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The News today is sponsored by SDM Software:&lt;br&gt;
&amp;ldquo;SDM Software provides innovative solutions that combine PowerShell and Group Policy to help reduce the complexity of managing your Windows systems.Â  Their unique GPExpert Scripting Toolkit for PowerShell, provides the means to automate the management of your Group Policy Objects. To get more information about these products and download trial copies, visit &lt;a href="http://www.sdmsoftware.com/powerscripting.php"&gt;sdmsoftware.com/powerscripting.php&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Where did the time go?</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-04-18-where-did-the-time-go/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:14:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-04-18-where-did-the-time-go/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;First, I go on vacation (this is Hal typing). Then, Jonathan has a big project at work which takes up our next available studio slot. Then, my weekend just totally filled up end to end. I&amp;rsquo;m afraid we still haven&amp;rsquo;t gotten Episode 23 out yet, folks! But fear not, this will not become a habit. We were really good about the two-week rotation, we&amp;rsquo;ll get back to it very soon.&lt;br&gt;
In the meantime, let me tell you what we&amp;rsquo;re working on in upcoming episodes:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Vacation delay</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-04-14-vacation-delay/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:55:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-04-14-vacation-delay/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi all. Just wanted to let you know that I was out of town on vacation last week, so Jonathan and I were unable to record the show at our usual time. We&amp;rsquo;re getting together to record again this Thursday with an estimated air date of April 20th.&lt;br&gt;
To make it up for you, we&amp;rsquo;ll try to do several blog posts this week with pointers to cool PowerShell stuff. I&amp;rsquo;ll start it off with this one from a very persistent sysadmin Ken who &lt;a href="http://blogs.yale.edu/roller/page/kjh27?entry=powergadgets_r_cool_but_frustrating"&gt;blogged his techniques&lt;/a&gt; for displaying some sweet PowerGadgets-powered gauges to monitor the CPU and memory utilization on VMware ESX servers. I say persistent because the solution did require a lot of work to get just right, and he goes into detail about those challenges so it makes a great tutorial for those new to PowerGadgets and the VMware VI Toolkit.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://blogs.yale.edu/roller/page/kjh27?entry=powergadgets_r_cool_but_frustrating"&gt;&lt;img src="http://pantheon.yale.edu/~kjh27/img/powergadgets.jpg" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 22 – The One About Brandon</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-03-29-powerscripting-podcast-episode-22-the-one-about-brandon/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:57:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-03-29-powerscripting-podcast-episode-22-the-one-about-brandon/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-022.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today we&amp;rsquo;ll bring you the second half of our interview with Jeffrey Snover. We think this part is even better than the first half. We&amp;rsquo;ve also got some news, resources, and a bunch of PowerShell tips for you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The News today is sponsored by SDM Software:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;ldquo;SDM Software provides innovative solutions that combine PowerShell and Group Policy to help reduce the complexity of managing your Windows systems. Their unique GPExpert Scripting Toolkit for PowerShell, provides the means to automate the management of your Group Policy Objects. To get more information about these products and download trial copies, visit&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.sdmsoftware.com/powerscripting.php"&gt;&lt;em&gt;sdmsoftware.com/powerscripting.php&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Get-Directory Function</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-03-24-get-directory-function/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:02:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-03-24-get-directory-function/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In the olden days (i.e. when I used CMD.EXE), I often did &amp;ldquo;dir *.&amp;rdquo; to quickly get a list of the directories in the current path. PowerShell doesn&amp;rsquo;t work this way (which is good because it would be unexpected), so I had to make a replacement.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;function Get-Directory { ls $Args | ? { $_.PSIsContainer } } &lt;/code&gt;The alias which makes most sense to me for this function is &amp;ldquo;lsd&amp;rdquo;. What, that acronym is already in use? 🙂&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 21 – One-half of Jeffrey Snover</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-03-17-powerscripting-podcast-episode-21-one-half-of-jeffrey-snover/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:31:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-03-17-powerscripting-podcast-episode-21-one-half-of-jeffrey-snover/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-021.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This week, our Intrepid Heroes talk about News in the PowerShell world, bring you fresh Resources from the wild Internet, and share their experiences in the Tips section, with you, the Listener. Oh&amp;ndash;and we also interview JEFFREY SNOVER! In case you don&amp;rsquo;t know who he is, he&amp;rsquo;s basically like the Thomas Edison of scripting.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="interview-with-jeffrey-snover"&gt;Interview with Jeffrey Snover&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And now a word from our sponsor:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 21 coming soon.</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-03-17-episode-21-coming-soon/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:00:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-03-17-episode-21-coming-soon/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I just wanted to let you know that the new podcast should be posted by Tuesday morning. We had a great interview with Jeffery Snover that you don&amp;rsquo;t want to miss!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>One-Liner: Countdown Timer in PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-03-16-one-liner-countdown-timer-in-powershell/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:36:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-03-16-one-liner-countdown-timer-in-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s a quick one for ya. Perfect kitchen timer. Who doesn&amp;rsquo;t have a laptop with PowerShell on it in their kitchen? 🙂&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;start-sleep (60*9); write-host (&amp;quot;&lt;code&gt;a&amp;quot;*4)&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt; Start-Sleep works in seconds, so you see where I've done some quick math to get nine minutes. Not sure if the ()'s were required, but they don't hurt. I didn't know the precedence of parameter parsing versus multiplication off the top of my head. Next is Write-Host with some more multiplication. This one uses &amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt;a&amp;quot; which is the special character&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>One-liner: Pop up a message box</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-03-03-one-liner-pop-up-a-message-box/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:33:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-03-03-one-liner-pop-up-a-message-box/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;You could paste this into a scheduled task or something if you want an annoying reminder to pop up on your screen.Â  :)Â  Now if only schtasks.exe was as easy to use as PowerShell&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;PowerShell -NoProfile -NonInteractive -Command [reflection.assembly]::loadwithpartialname('system.windows.forms'); [system.Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::show('reminder: buy milk') &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 20 – Jeffrey Snover is coming</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-03-03-powerscripting-podcast-episode-20/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:34:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-03-03-powerscripting-podcast-episode-20/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-020.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="please-visit-our-sponsors"&gt;Please visit our sponsors!&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [ShellTools Software](http://powershell.com) - makers of PowerShell Plus and PowerShell Analyzer
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&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [SDM Software ](http://sdmsoftware.com/powerscripting.php)- &amp;quot;Windows Group Policy Management Simplified.&amp;quot;Â Featuring the GPExpert Scripting toolkit for PowerShell
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;h3 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Don Jones gives us a peek at his PowerShell column in the March Technet Magazine:
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&amp;ldquo;March is Progress Reporting - a definitive look at when, why, and how to use Write-Progress to produce&lt;br&gt;
scripts that run for a long time, but don&amp;rsquo;t look hung.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sapien will be announcing their PowerShell training plans very soon.Â  Watch their &lt;a href="http://blog.sapien.com/" title="blog"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;{#xlqg}.Â  They are also seeking input on a possible PowerShell developer class, you can fill out the survey &lt;a href="http://surveys.sapien.com/poll.asp?z=2" title="here"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;{#iu8z}.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jeffery Snover will be joining us on a future podcast so send in your questions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="resources"&gt;Resources&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://runasradio.com/" title="RunAs Radio"&gt;RunAs Radio&lt;/a&gt;{#cyjc} recently featured our very own PowerShell MVP Marco Shaw on their &lt;a href="http://runasradio.com/default.aspx?showNum=46" title="podcast show #46"&gt;podcast show #46&lt;/a&gt;{#rw28} to talk about WMI and IIS7 and several other things.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Windows 2008 Server launch event in Atlanta</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-02-20-windows-2008-server-launch-event-in-atlanta/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:10:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-02-20-windows-2008-server-launch-event-in-atlanta/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you are going, let us know via &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=10571182124"&gt;the event&lt;/a&gt; I just created in Facebook.Â  Details are in the link.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 19 – The Scripting Games are on</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-02-17-powerscripting-podcast-episode-19/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:32:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-02-17-powerscripting-podcast-episode-19/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-019.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h3 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Scripting Games now open by the time you hear us!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=1297816"&gt;
Citrix Workflow Studio
&lt;/a&gt;&amp;ldquo;Workflow Studio, a member of the Citrix Delivery Center product family, is an IT process automation solution that enables you to compose, integrate and orchestrate rule-based workflows across your application delivery infrastructure. Workflow Studio acts as the glue across the IT infrastructure allowing administrators to easily tie technology components together via workflows that enable the system to truly operate as a dynamic delivery platform.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://jdhitsolutions.blogspot.com/2008/02/practical-powershell.html"&gt;
Jeff&amp;rsquo;s Scripting Blog and More: Practical PowerShell
&lt;/a&gt; Jeff Hicks is writing a new monthly column for a new eJournal from RealTime Publishers. &amp;ldquo;The column, Practical PowerShell, will be a regular feature in Windows Administration in Realtime. The eJournal is a free PDF although I think you have to give up an email address.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/02/10/the-semantic-gap.aspx"&gt;
Windows PowerShell : The Semantic Gap
&lt;/a&gt; There are 2 worlds: 1. The world as we think about it. 2. The world as we can manipulate it. The difference between these two is what is called the semantic gap.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="resources"&gt;Resources&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;New Video Podcast: &lt;a href="http://powershell-basics.com/"&gt;
PowerShell-Basics.com
&lt;/a&gt; This is created by Steve from the A Couple of Admins Podcast.Â  He wanted to create a screencast-only video podcast.Â  His first show should be out by the time you hear this.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="cmdlets"&gt;Cmdlets&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Export-Clixml
](&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/msh/cmdlets/export-clixml.mspx"&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/msh/cmdlets/export-clixml.mspx&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 18 – Win Fabulous Prizes!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-02-03-powerscripting-podcast-episode-18-win-fabulous-prizes/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:19:56 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-02-03-powerscripting-podcast-episode-18-win-fabulous-prizes/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-018.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h5 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lots of news and tips&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We missed Jonathan&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Our first contest&amp;ndash;with actual prizes!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/01/25/powershell-gets-redmond-magazine-2008-editor-s-choice-award.aspx"&gt;PowerShell team&lt;/a&gt; blog brings us the news that &amp;ldquo;PowerShell continues to win awards with Redmond Magazine&amp;rdquo;™s 2008 Editor&amp;quot;™s &amp;ldquo;Slickest Time Saving Tool&amp;rdquo; co-winner to go along with PS&amp;quot;™s Best of Tech-Ed Attendees award and Best of Tech-Ed Client awards.&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kirk Munro covers PowerGUI on &lt;a href="http://www.dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showNum=99"&gt;DNR.tv&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=311"&gt;.NET Rocks!&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://runasradio.com/default.aspx?showNum=42"&gt;RunAsRadio&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Karl Prosser (admin frameworks MVP and PowerShell Analyzer architect) was interviewed on the &lt;a href="http://acoupleofadmins.com/"&gt;&amp;ldquo;A Couple of Admins&amp;rdquo; podcast&lt;/a&gt; Episode 35. The interview lasts for almost an hour and I really enjoyed it.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Shay@Isreal (The $cript Fanatic blog) put together a cool &lt;a href="http://scriptolog.blogspot.com/2008/01/powershell-at-tip-of-your-browser.html"&gt;PowerShell toolbar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Admin Frameworks MVP Brandon Shell was interviewed on the &lt;a href="http://www.cstechcast.com/home.aspx?Episode=8"&gt;CS Techcast podcast&lt;/a&gt;. Hal listened to it on the way home the other day and he thought it was a really good interview.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;VMware&amp;rsquo;s VI-Toolkit open beta is expected in March
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Over 70 new cmdlets&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;This example would create a snapshot of every VM:&lt;br&gt;
get-vm | new-snapshot&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/"&gt;Dale Lane&lt;/a&gt;, author of the &lt;a href="http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=171&amp;amp;uid=swg24017698"&gt;IBM Websphere MQ PowerShell snapin&lt;/a&gt; is considering writing another tool, this time a PowerShell library for the IBM DB/2 RDBMS.Â  He is seeking feedback, so if you or someone you know might be interested, please visit this &lt;a href="http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=226"&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; and leave feedback.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;New Video Podcast: &lt;a href="http://powershell-basics.com/"&gt;PowerShell-Basics.com&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;This is created by Steve from the A Couple of Admins Podcast.Â  He wanted to create a screencast-only video podcast.Â  His first show should be out by the time you hear this.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5 id="tips"&gt;Tips&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There&amp;rsquo;s a ton of Scripting Guys stuff we meant to cover in the interview show last time that we never got around to:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 17 – With "The Scripting Guys!"</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-01-21-35-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:54:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-01-21-35-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-017.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Greg and Jean &amp;ldquo;The Scripting Guys&amp;rdquo; themselves are our special guests. Head over to the &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx"&gt;Script Center&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jonathan was out with back problems.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ways to interact with us:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Facebook: &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7033985478"&gt;PowerScripting Podcast group&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Email:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Vote or write a review for us in iTunes&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Leave comments on the blog&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See you next time!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Interviews</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-01-18-interviews/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:11:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-01-18-interviews/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve been doing a lot of interview and guest shows lately.Â  I just wanted to let you all know that with one or two exceptions, we&amp;rsquo;ve interviewed all the people we really wanted to get on the show, and we&amp;rsquo;ll definitely getting back to the more meaty shows in the future.&lt;br&gt;
Once we get the last bit of interviews done, I imagine from time to time we&amp;rsquo;ll still have guests on the show, but it&amp;rsquo;ll be less of a focus and more of a complement.Â  And spaced between these, we will have more interviews when the occasion warrants.Â  For example if a big release of some cool software we like happens, we might have the developer on the show.&lt;br&gt;
Show 17 has already been recorded, so once we (and by we I mean Jonathan) get the editing done that&amp;rsquo;ll get posted.Â  It&amp;rsquo;s an interview show, I think you&amp;rsquo;ll like it.Â  We were really pleased that they deigned to talk to us mere mortals.Â  😉&lt;br&gt;
Thanks for listening, and don&amp;rsquo;t forget to send us feedback&amp;ndash;we like to hear from you!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 16 – Don gives us the Scripting Answers</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-01-06-powerscripting-podcast-episode-16-don-gives-us-the-scripting-answers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:16:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-01-06-powerscripting-podcast-episode-16-don-gives-us-the-scripting-answers/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-016.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Special guest this episode is scripting guru Don Jones, the well-known author of several books, presenter and trainer at conferences and in webcasts and a lot more.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Several interesting tips for your scripting&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="resources"&gt;Resources&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We go into the history of PowerShellCommunity.org and future plans for the site. We also go into detail on the sections of the website and the mission of the non-profit organization behind it all.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Don gives the last holdouts a really hard sell for learning PowerShell.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="tips"&gt;Tips&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Huddledmasses.org: &lt;a href="http://huddledmasses.org/editing-media-tags-from-powershell/"&gt;Editing Media Tags from PowerShell&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;This started out as a question on the #PowerShell IRC channel (irc.freenode.net) about how to edit tags on mp3 files, but we quickly discovered TagLib#, which lets you access and edit tags on not only mp3s, but on everything from asf and avi to wma&amp;hellip;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;PowerShell Team: &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/02/25/supporting-whatif-confirm-verbose-in-scripts.aspx"&gt;Supporting -Whatif, -Confirm, -Verbose &amp;ldquo;“ In SCRIPTS!&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;J. Snover: &amp;ldquo;This is a super-important issue so you should definitely start using this in your scripts that you share with others (that have side effects on the system). Please try it out and blog about it to others so that it becomes a community norm.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;$cript Fanatic: &lt;a href="http://scriptolog.blogspot.com/2007/12/creating-and-managing-processes-in.html"&gt;Creating and managing processes in PowerShell&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Shay covers several ways to create and manage processes. WMI, .NET and more. Good stuff.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We ran long with Don, so combined with the slow news cycle for the holidays we just skipped the news this time.&lt;br&gt;
Don&amp;rsquo;t forget&amp;ndash;we love feedback. In particular we&amp;rsquo;d like to know if you like the guests, or do you like more of the one vs. one approach? It&amp;rsquo;s a lot of fun to have guests on the show and to do the special interviews and segments. Please let us know if this is getting to be too much or any other thoughts you may have. If you have ideas on guests you&amp;rsquo;d like to hear, let us know.&lt;br&gt;
Ways to interact with us:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Specops Command Webinar</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-01-04-specops-command-webinar/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:35:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2008-01-04-specops-command-webinar/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Corey from Special Operations Software wrote to let us know about a webinar demo of Specops Command that&amp;rsquo;s coming up next week. Here&amp;rsquo;s the details:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I wanted to let you know about a webinar we will be doing every Tuesday 1PM EST on the Specops Command &amp;ldquo;PowerShell Remoting through Group Policy&amp;rdquo;. Here are the meeting details if you are interested:&lt;br&gt;
Click &lt;a href="https://specopssoft.webex.com/specopssoft/j.php?ED=102082537&amp;amp;UID=1010820157"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to add the meeting to your calendar.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 15 – Joel Bennett, for the developers in the house</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-12-23-powerscripting-podcast-episode-15-for-the-developers-in-the-house/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:06:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-12-23-powerscripting-podcast-episode-15-for-the-developers-in-the-house/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: [&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;][1]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Special guest this episode, Joel Bennett aka &amp;ldquo;Jaykul&amp;rdquo; from [HuddledMasses.org][2]&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&amp;ldquo;The Developer Show&amp;rdquo;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;New software releases, interviews, other goodies&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;[AD Cmdlets RTM][3] (Dmitry&amp;quot;™s PowerBlog)&amp;ldquo;We kind of kept sticking to the fashion of perpetual betas for quite some time now (since the first 1.0 beta released late March through the RC 1.0.5 this fall) and we feel that the product is now feature rich and stable enough&amp;hellip;&amp;rdquo;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;[Windows PowerShell Holiday Gift Guide: Books][4] (Technet Scripting Center)&amp;ldquo;The Scripting Guys present their first-ever Windows PowerShell Holiday Gift Guide. In this inaugural gift guide we survey some of the best PowerShell software, script editors, cmdlets, and add-ins that money can buy.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;[An Interview with Lee Holmes][5] (Technet Scripting Center)&amp;ldquo;Lee Holmes is a developer on the Windows PowerShell team and author of the new book Windows PowerShell Cookbook (which includes a foreword written by Scripting Guy Dean Tsaltas).&amp;rdquo;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;[An Interview with Lee Holmes][6] (A Couple of Admins Podcast)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;[Cisco opening up IOS][7] (Network World)&amp;ldquo;Cisco&amp;rsquo;s plan to open up its venerable IOS routing software to customers and third-party developers is a bold move designed to further the company&amp;rsquo;s push to make the network the epicenter of the virtual data center.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="resources"&gt;Resources&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;[Expresso Regular Expression Development Tool][8]Very cool tool to create regexes.Â  Free registration required.[&lt;img src="http://halr9000.com/stuff/PowerScriptingPodcastEpisode15Forthedeve_C63E/image.png" alt="image"&gt;][8]&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="tips"&gt;Tips&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Discussion on an email from listener John Cook:&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;I&amp;rsquo;m a programmer, so I don&amp;rsquo;t find PowerShell (or VBScript etc.) difficult as a language. What I find difficult about scripting is scripting itself, such as recognizing when it&amp;rsquo;s worth the effort to write a script. I&amp;rsquo;m a big fan of scripting, but I don&amp;rsquo;t write a lot of scripts because I don&amp;rsquo;t think to do it. Or I&amp;rsquo;m doing something that&amp;rsquo;s not repetitive enough to script.&lt;br&gt;
I would find it interesting to listen to a show about scripting strategy: organizing tasks so they can be scripted, etc.&lt;br&gt;
I would also find it interesting to hear a discussion about testing scripts. I&amp;rsquo;m a fan of test-driven development, but scripts are hard to test. Scripts are full of side effects: creating or deleting files, setting properties, sending email, etc.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Manipulating the Registry with PowerShell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-12-19-manipulating-the-registry-with-powershell/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:10:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-12-19-manipulating-the-registry-with-powershell/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In case you missed it, back in October, &lt;a href="http://scriptolog.blogspot.com"&gt;Shay&lt;/a&gt; wrote a cool &lt;a href="http://www.cube-edit.co.il/shay/Registry.ps1.txt" title="Link to script"&gt;set of functions&lt;/a&gt; for working with the registry. Here&amp;rsquo;s the list:&lt;br&gt;
Get-RegBinary&lt;br&gt;
Get-RegDWord&lt;br&gt;
Get-RegDefault&lt;br&gt;
Get-RegExpandString&lt;br&gt;
Get-RegMultipleString&lt;br&gt;
Get-RegQuadWord&lt;br&gt;
Get-RegString&lt;br&gt;
Get-RegValueKind&lt;br&gt;
New-RegSubKey&lt;br&gt;
Remove-RegSubKey&lt;br&gt;
Remove-RegSubKeyTree&lt;br&gt;
Set-RegBinary&lt;br&gt;
Set-RegDWord&lt;br&gt;
Set-RegDefault&lt;br&gt;
Set-RegExpandString&lt;br&gt;
Set-RegMultipleString&lt;br&gt;
Set-RegQuadWord&lt;br&gt;
Set-RegString&lt;br&gt;
Test-RegSubKey&lt;br&gt;
Test-RegValue&lt;br&gt;
Go read &lt;a href="http://scriptolog.blogspot.com/2007/10/stand-alone-registry-functions-library.html"&gt;his article&lt;/a&gt; as it explains the syntax and gives a bunch of samples. Very useful stuff!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 14 – The IDEs are getting better</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-12-09-powerscripting-podcast-episode-14/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:16:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-12-09-powerscripting-podcast-episode-14/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-014.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="in-this-episode"&gt;In This Episode&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;News: Software updates, books, PS Virtual User Group (recording will be available)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;In Resources, we&amp;rsquo;ll tell you about an interview with Jeffrey Snover, and several pieces of software.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Cmdlet of the Week: New-Object&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;In Tips, we&amp;rsquo;ll talk about Hal&amp;rsquo;s recent blog post involving benchmarking&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve got a one-liner with a GUI.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Gotchas about WMI&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Thanks for feedback from: Mace, John Cook, Justin Stokes&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;PowerShell + &lt;a href="http://powershelllive.com/blogs/pspdev/archive/2007/11/27/free-powershell.aspx"&gt;is now free&lt;/a&gt; for non-commercial use!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.sapien.com/current/2007/11/27/windows-powershell-v10-tfm-2nd-edition-done.html"&gt;PowerShell TFM (2nd Edition)&lt;/a&gt;to be available soon - May be available already from the Sapien site
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Don says Sapien tends to run some insane deals on New Years Eve so it may be worth watching out for that&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com/2007/11/windows-powershell-virtual-user-group.html"&gt;PowerShell Virtual User Group meeting #2&lt;/a&gt; was Dec 4th - This was the second virtual event.Â  Speakers were: Don Jones (MVP), Dmitry Sotnikov (MVP), Oisin Grehan and Jeffrey Snover (Microsoft).Â  Recording is supposed to be available, but as of this moment, Hal can&amp;rsquo;t find a darn thing about it.Â  Watch &lt;a href="http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com"&gt;Marco&amp;rsquo;s blog&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.powershellcommunity.org"&gt;PowerShellCommunity.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="resources"&gt;Resources&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jeffery Snover &lt;a href="http://www.podtech.net/home/4577/powershell-overview-and-remote-update-microsoft-teched-it-forum-2007"&gt;interview at IT Forum&lt;/a&gt; (video from PodTech)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.adminscripteditor.com"&gt;Admin Script Editor&lt;/a&gt;from ITripoli
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hal and Jonathan currently evaluating&amp;ndash;looks extremely cool.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://powergui.org/index.jspa"&gt;PowerGUI&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/new-free-powershell-debugger/"&gt;Version 1.0.12 released&lt;/a&gt;, now includes a debugger and more.Â  Don&amp;rsquo;t forget the &lt;a href="http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/powergui-1012-known-issues-and-the-patch/"&gt;known issues and patch&lt;/a&gt; to work with the CTP.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.specopssoft.com/wiki/index.php/Specopscommand/Overview"&gt;SpecOps Command&lt;/a&gt;- use Group Policy to deploy and manage PowerShell scripts
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Can deploy PowerShell itself using GPO&amp;ndash;as well as your favorite snapins!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Includes new &lt;a href="http://www.specopssoft.com/wiki/index.php/Specopscommand/PowerShellCmdlets"&gt;cmdlets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;All operations that you can perform from the administrative user interfaces you can perform from PowerShell.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="cmdlet-of-the-week"&gt;Cmdlet of the week&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;New-Object
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Creates an instance of a .Net or COM object.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Examples:&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;new-object -comobject InternetExplorer.Application Â new-object -comobject &amp;quot;Shell.Application&amp;quot; &lt;/code&gt;* Also see Appendix E of the new book &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596528493/techprosaic-20?tag=techprosaic-20"&gt;Windows PowerShell Cookbook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 13 – //o// and Marc give us an ITForum report</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-11-26-powerscripting-podcast-episode-13/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:42:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-11-26-powerscripting-podcast-episode-13/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-013.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is a special episode. //o// (ThePowerShellGuy) joins us to give a report on ITForum in Barcelona. Marc tells us about some of the sessions he attended and people he met. I will be adding links in the coming days.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks for listening!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 12 – Our first guest, Brandon Shell</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-11-09-powerscripting-podcast-episode-12/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:04:57 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-11-09-powerscripting-podcast-episode-12/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-012.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="introduction"&gt;Introduction&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jam-packed show today! We ran so long, we had to skip the cmdlet-of-the-week segment!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We have a Special Guest, and in fact our first guest, Brandon Shell, an MVP in Automation and author of the &lt;a href="http://bsonposh.com/modules/wordpress/"&gt;BSonPosh blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CTP!&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Unless you&amp;rsquo;ve been under a rock, you probably heard about the PowerShell 2.0 Community Technology Preview. Go &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=60deac2b-975b-41e6-9fa0-c2fd6aa6bc89&amp;amp;displaylang=en"&gt;download it&lt;/a&gt;! Here is &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/11/06/what-s-new-in-ctp-of-powershell-2-0.aspx"&gt;what&amp;rsquo;s new&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/11/02/ctp-watch-this-space.aspx"&gt;Jeffery&amp;rsquo;s warning CTP -ne Beta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Citrix &amp;ldquo;Gets it&amp;rdquo;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;As &lt;a href="http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/citrix-going-powershell/"&gt;pointed out&lt;/a&gt; by Dmitry and others, &amp;ldquo;From a management standpoint, Citrix is getting high on PowerShell and intend to rewrite the APIs to make everything available from Powershell scripting.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Windows PowerShell Virtual User Group Meeting #2
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Time: December 4th, 2007 at 12PM (noon) EST (New York time)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Registration site:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=122431"&gt;http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=122431&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Event Code:&lt;/strong&gt; 122431&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Guests: Don Jones (MVP), Dmitry Sotnikov (MVP), Oisin Grehan and Jeffrey Snover (Microsoft)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="resource"&gt;Resource&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Windows PowerShell Cookbook - Lee Holmes&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;New &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fefb2572-559a-46fe-978d-5a00490b20fa&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en"&gt;PowerShell Graphical Help File (Version 2)&lt;/a&gt;- with support for CTP
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Seems to crash on exit&amp;ndash;Hal emailed The Scripting Guys, hopefully they&amp;rsquo;ll fix it.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ebook that covers the CTP available November 12th **
(Brandon told us after we finished recording that this ebook is available now)
**&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sapienpress.com/PowerShell3.asp"&gt;PowerShell TFM 3rd Edition&lt;/a&gt; by Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks -&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jeffery&amp;rsquo;s deck from TechEd &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/11/08/teched-what-s-new-for-developers-in-powershell-v2.aspx"&gt;&amp;ldquo;What&amp;rsquo;s New for Developers in PowerShell V2&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="tips"&gt;Tips&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;More VMWare scripting: &lt;a href="http://bsonposh.com/modules/wordpress/?p=60"&gt;Invoke-VmCommand.ps1&lt;/a&gt;from Brandon
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;List VMs and processes, execute arbitrary commands.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Talk about Switch -regex and Brandon&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href="http://bsonposh.com/modules/wordpress/?p=59"&gt;perfect example&lt;/a&gt;of a useful custom object
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Why write a wrapper for this existing utility? (hbainfo)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Using Switch -regex to process text&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Marcus asks (and he &lt;a href="http://marcusoh.blogspot.com/2007/11/misc-dsquery-vs-powershell.html"&gt;blogged about it&lt;/a&gt;),
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&amp;ldquo;How can I fix formatting on a free-form street address field stored in my AD? Can posh help with an output where &amp;hellip; for example, address is split into multiple lines? Like this:&lt;br&gt;
&amp;ldquo;400 crap rd,&lt;br&gt;
suite 150&amp;rdquo;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ended up using calculated properties to get the results into a table easily:&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$a | format-table displayname,samaccountname, @{
Label =&amp;ldquo;Street Address&amp;rdquo; ; Expression = {&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Creating and using custom objects</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-11-01-creating-and-using-custom-objects/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:43:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-11-01-creating-and-using-custom-objects/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listener Mace writes:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve seen this code:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$values = new-object &amp;lsquo;object[,]&amp;rsquo; 5,2&lt;br&gt;
Can you expound on that?&lt;br&gt;
The author fills the array.&lt;br&gt;
$k = 0&lt;br&gt;
foreach ($j in $exchangeserverlist)&lt;br&gt;
{&lt;br&gt;
$perf = New-Object System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter($perfobj1,&lt;br&gt;
$counter1, $instance1, $j.Name)&lt;br&gt;
$values[$k,0] = $j.Name&lt;br&gt;
$values[$k,1] = $perf.RawValue&lt;br&gt;
$k = $k + 1&lt;br&gt;
}&lt;br&gt;
Now, how do you sort the array based on the performance data in the second&lt;br&gt;
column?&lt;br&gt;
I&amp;rsquo;m guessing there&amp;rsquo;s a more &amp;ldquo;powershell&amp;rdquo; was of doing what&amp;rsquo;s needed rather&lt;br&gt;
than resorting to arrays. E.g.,&lt;br&gt;
$p = get-process&lt;br&gt;
$p | sort-object ws&lt;br&gt;
How would you create a collection of custom objects. Each custom object&lt;br&gt;
would have two custom properties &amp;ldquo;exchangeserver&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;perfdata&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br&gt;
{create the custom collection &amp;ndash; somehow}&lt;br&gt;
$co | sort-object perf&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Get free disk space one-liner</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-10-31-get-free-disk-space-one-liner/</link><pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:18:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-10-31-get-free-disk-space-one-liner/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Listener Bill writes,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have been looking at the get-help and get-member cmdlets, but have so far not found one thing I want to have as a &amp;ldquo;one-liner&amp;rdquo; - a command line that will return the free space on a certain drive.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**&amp;quot;&lt;code&gt;&amp;quot;${env:computername}&lt;/code&gt;&amp;quot;,&lt;code&gt;&amp;quot;&amp;quot; + (gwmi -Query &amp;quot;SELECT FreeSpace FROM Win32_LogicalDisk WHERE DeviceID = 'C:'&amp;quot;).FreeSpace / 1GB + '&amp;quot;' | sc my.csv ** Got kinda ugly with the quote escaping. I'll explain... The concept here is to, in one line, build a string and then write it to a log file. First I write a quote to the string, because I chose to create it in CSV style. Had to escape it using the backtick &lt;/code&gt; character. Then I snag the computername from the env: virtual drive (or PSProvider). I had to use the curly braces around it because during variable substitution inside of a string, theÂ colon can be a delimiter for setting scope on a variable so I wanted to tell it explicitly not to do that. We talk about this in Episode 11. Then more quotes and commas for the CSV format. Then I do a Get-WmiObject call. I felt like being fancy so I used a WQL query string which looks a lot like SQL. The query said to grab just one property from the Win32_LogicalDisk class where the ID is &amp;ldquo;C:&amp;rdquo;. Then access that property and divide it by 1 GB and add a closing quote. Pipe the whole thing to Set-Content and Bob&amp;rsquo;s your uncle.&lt;br&gt;
Having said that, I wouldn&amp;rsquo;t do it this way. But it would work, I tested it.&lt;br&gt;
Keep the feedback, and questions coming!&lt;br&gt;
-hal&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 11 – A new PowerShell community</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-10-27-powerscripting-podcast-episode-11/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:34:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-10-27-powerscripting-podcast-episode-11/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-011.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="introduction"&gt;Introduction&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Big thanks to Shay and his &lt;a href="http://scriptolog.blogspot.com/2007/10/powershell-radio.html"&gt;PowerShell Radio post&lt;/a&gt;. 🙂&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="news"&gt;News&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;PowerShell Community (&lt;a href="http://www.powershellcommunity.org/"&gt;powershellcommunity.org&lt;/a&gt;)
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&amp;ldquo;Real&amp;rdquo; non-profit organization created by corporate sponsors including Microsoft, Quest, Sapien, and ShellTools.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Event calendar, blog hosting, forums, etc.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Still under construction.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;PowerShell Central (&lt;a href="http://powershellcentral.com" title="http://powershellcentral.com/"&gt;powershellcentral.com&lt;/a&gt;)
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hosted by BSonPosh and lots of help contributed by Jaykul.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&amp;ldquo;All PowerShell bloggers&amp;rdquo; aggregate news feed, very cool script repository, news, etc.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Still under construction.
*&lt;img src="http://www.powershell.com/blogimages/collectionvisualizer1.png" alt=""&gt; Relaunch and refocus of &lt;a href="http://powershelllive.com/"&gt;Powershell Live&lt;/a&gt; (ShellTools) as well as a new &lt;a href="http://powershelllive.com/blogs/pspdev/"&gt;developer blog&lt;/a&gt;. New features in development like context menus for collections and pipelines.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="resources"&gt;Resources&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/11/PowerShell/?loc=en"&gt;New article in Technet Mag&lt;/a&gt; by Don Jones on working with Regular Expressions in PowerShell.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Another regex article: &lt;a href="http://odin.mdacc.tmc.edu/%7Ecook/regex.html"&gt;Regular Expressions in PowerShell and Perl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="tips"&gt;Tips&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://halr9000.com/article/445"&gt;Get-hVm script&lt;/a&gt;from Hal
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Emits a &lt;a href="http://www.bsonposh.com/modules/wordpress/?p=25"&gt;PSCustomObject&lt;/a&gt; with properties (and perhaps later, methods) that represent every virtual machine which runs on one or more specified VMWare ESX host servers.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://pathologicalscripter.wordpress.com/out-excel/"&gt;Out-Excel script&lt;/a&gt; can be found on the article &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://pathologicalscripter.wordpress.com/2007/07/04/out-this-out-that/"&gt;Out-This, Out-That&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo; article on the Pathalogical Scripter blog.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="cmdlet-of-the-week"&gt;Cmdlet of the week&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Write-Verbose
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Use in parameter section of functions and combine with an If statement to enable or disable verbose logging.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Function Get-Foo {
Param ( [switch] $Verbose )
If ($Verbose) { $VerbosePreference = &amp;ldquo;Continue&amp;rdquo; }
Write-Verbose &amp;ldquo;My verbose stuff goes here
Write-Verbose &amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 10 – WinRM will power PowerShell Remoting in V2</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-10-13-powerscripting-podcast-episode-10/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:57:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-10-13-powerscripting-podcast-episode-10/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-010.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Introduction&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve had over 5,400 downloads so far! Thanks, everyone!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;News&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;PowerShell remoting will work via WinRM according to &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/newswire/winrm.mspx"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;from the Scripting NewsWire
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;ldquo;Something else to consider&lt;/strong&gt;. Sometime before the end of the year an upgraded CTP (Community Technology Preview) version of Windows PowerShell will be released, an upgrade that will enable you to run most Windows PowerShell cmdlets against remote computers. The catch? This new version of Windows PowerShell also relies on WinRM as its remote transport protocol. If you&amp;rdquo;™re interested in using Windows PowerShell to manage remote computers you&amp;quot;™ll need to download and install WinRM on your Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 machines.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;New Blog: &lt;a href="http://www.powershellpro.com/"&gt;PowerShell Pro&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;ldquo;PowerShell Pro is a community devoted to compiling the leading resources needed in achieving that goal. Whether you are an advanced PowerShell user or just starting out, PowerShell Pro is dedicated to presenting information required for your success.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lots of content. Nice format.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://huddledmasses.org/powershell-blog-rss-pipe/"&gt;Powershell &amp;ldquo;Yahoo Pipe&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt;created by Jaykul.
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Aggregate RSS feed containing articles from tons of PowerShell blogs.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Another company &amp;ldquo;Gets it&amp;rdquo;: IBM
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dale Lane in the UK has &lt;a href="http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=185"&gt;written on his blog&lt;/a&gt; about PowerShell Cmdlets he&amp;rsquo;s developing for IBM WebSphere.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Overview of next PS Virtual User&amp;rsquo;s Group - Dec 4th
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Oisin presenting talk about cmdlet development, new foundations in pscx, and touching on providers&lt;br&gt;
and paths in PowerShell&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cmdlet of the week: Set-PSDebug&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Check out Keith Hill&amp;rsquo;s article on Set-PSDebug: &lt;a href="http://keithhill.spaces.live.com/blog/cns%215A8D2641E0963A97%21796.entry"&gt;Effective PowerShell Item 5: Use Set-PSDebug -Strict In Your Scripts - Religiously&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 9 – PowerShell V2 news is coming in November</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-09-29-powerscripting-podcast-episode-9/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:55:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-09-29-powerscripting-podcast-episode-9/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Listen: &lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-009.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Introduction&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Thanks to //o// and Kirk at &lt;a href="http://poshoholic.com/"&gt;Poshoholic&lt;/a&gt; for mentioning us on their blogs.Â We loved Kirk&amp;rsquo;s post about &lt;a href="http://poshoholic.com/2007/09/20/the-trouble-with-the-tribbles/"&gt;namespaces&lt;/a&gt; with the Star Trek references.Â  That&amp;rsquo;s the Trouble with Tribbles!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;News&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;According to Bruce Payette in this &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/09/26/howto-invoking-cmdlets-from-within-a-cmdlet.aspx"&gt;post&lt;/a&gt;, details of PowerShell V2&amp;rsquo;s upcoming features will be released in November at ITForum!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;From &amp;lt;$hay@Israel&amp;rsquo;&amp;gt; s blog:Â &lt;a href="http://scriptolog.blogspot.com/2007/09/windows-powershell-in-practice.html"&gt;There is a new book&lt;/a&gt; titled &amp;ldquo;Windows PowerShell in Practice&amp;quot;Â that is being worked on by &lt;a href="http://jtruher.spaces.live.com/"&gt;Jim Truher&lt;/a&gt;Â and &lt;a href="http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/posh/"&gt;//o//&lt;/a&gt;.Â  It will be published by Manning and will cover topics such as, the PowerShell SDK (writing cmdlets, providers etc) advanced scripting techniques and domain specific examples.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bsonposh.com/modules/wordpress/?p=47"&gt;Citrix, Citrix, and more Citrix&lt;/a&gt;!Â  Brandon Shell has gifted us with a veritable cornucopia of sixteen (16!) Citrix management functions such as:
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Get-CitrixFarm&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Publish-CitrixApplication&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Keith Hill and &lt;a href="http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/posh/"&gt;//o//&lt;/a&gt; will be a guest speaker in the first &lt;a href="http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com/2007/09/windows-powershell-virtual-user-group.html"&gt;Windows PowerShell Virtual User Group Meeting&lt;/a&gt;Â (From Marco Shaw&amp;rsquo;s blog)
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Keith will talk about &lt;a href="http://www.codeplex.com/PowerShellCX"&gt;PSCX (PowerShell Community Extensions)&lt;/a&gt; and open source development&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/posh/"&gt;//o//&lt;/a&gt;Â will talk about &lt;a href="http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/posh/pages/powertab.aspx"&gt;PowerTab&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;October 3rd noon EST Online via Live Meeting 2007 (Microsoft is hosting so you need to use your Live ID)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Phoul from the #Powershell IRC channel has a new blog up(&lt;a href="http://insecure-complexity.com/"&gt;http://insecure-complexity.com/&lt;/a&gt;).Â  In his own words:
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&amp;ldquo;Especially to the new PowerShell users. I&amp;rsquo;m writing a blog that will be focused around my findings in my experience learning PowerShell. It will have scripts and tutorials and some neat tips n tricks after I get a little more acquainted with PowerShell. For now it has a profile example and a useful script for signing your scripts.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cmdlet of the week&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 8 – Meet Hal Rottenberg!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-09-18-powerscripting-podcast-episode-8/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:50:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-09-18-powerscripting-podcast-episode-8/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PSPodcast-008.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- 


 **Introduction**








 Welcome to Hal Rottenberg! Check out his [blog](http://halr9000.com/)








- 


 **News**
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://searchwinit.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid1_gci1270125,00.html"&gt;Jeffery Snover interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;VMWare &amp;ldquo;gets it&amp;rdquo;! &lt;a href="http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/"&gt;VI PowerShell blog &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ex: Get-VM | where { $_.state -eq &amp;ldquo;poweredOn&amp;rdquo; } | Stop-VM&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Post from &lt;a href="mailto:$hay@Israel's"&gt;$hay@Israel&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/a&gt; $cript Fanatic blog about &lt;a href="http://scriptolog.blogspot.com/2007/09/ftp-transfers-automation.html"&gt;Sapien&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cmdlet of the week&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;select-object - &lt;a href="http://bsonposh.com/modules/wordpress/"&gt;BSonPoSH&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/a&gt; article on &lt;a href="http://bsonposh.com/modules/wordpress/?p=25"&gt;creating custom objects&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and a &lt;a href="http://bsonposh.com/modules/wordpress/?p=26"&gt;follow up article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- 
 **
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Resources
**&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 7 – Don't Forget What You Already Know</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-09-03-powerscripting-podcast-episode-7/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:49:24 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-09-03-powerscripting-podcast-episode-7/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PowerScripting_Episode_7.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://groups.google.com/group/powershell-users"&gt;PowerShell Google group&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cmdlets of the week&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;New-item&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Test-path&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get-WMIObject&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa394572.aspx"&gt;MSDN WMI Reference&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Resource&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://shrinkster.com/rpd"&gt;Windows PowerShell and WMI - Technet webcast w/ Don Jones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;Active Directory Management Made Easy with PowerShell&amp;rdquo; from Quest Software, &lt;a href="http://shrinkster.com/rqf"&gt;link to Dmitry&amp;rsquo;s post &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
 Great [blog post](http://www.leadfollowmove.com/powershell-toolbox/) listing PowerShell tools







 - 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tips&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 6 – User Groups are Starting to Sprout</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-06-26-powerscripting-podcast-episode-6/</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:20:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-06-26-powerscripting-podcast-episode-6/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/06_PowerScripting_Podcast.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Introduction&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thank you for all of the great feedback&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeffery Snover did a &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/06/16/powerscripting-podcast.aspx"&gt;post about the podcast!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://powershell.com"&gt;PowerShell Analyzer&lt;/a&gt;Â can be pre-ordered for $59 and it will be $129&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Next update new-qaduser will require samAccountname&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;The PowerShell Guy&amp;rdquo; wants to start a Dutch PowerShell User group&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://shrinkster.com/q3r"&gt;http://shrinkster.com/q3r&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 5 – PowerShell Hits a Million</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-06-08-powerscripting-podcast-episode-5-a-powershell-podcast/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:35:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-06-08-powerscripting-podcast-episode-5-a-powershell-podcast/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PowerScripting_-Episode5.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Introduction&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Shout-out to Mark Allen for answering the challenge&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;News&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;New AD cmdlets - the one step account creation works great&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From the ScriptingNewswire, May 2007&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Windows PowerShell guide for beginners&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Downloadable and cmdlet-accessible graphical help for Windows PowerShell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;/n software will be releasing NetCmdlets at TechEd next week&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They are giving away &lt;a href="http://shrinkster.com/pjo"&gt;free PowerShell stickers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 4 – Get Data and Format the Output</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-05-25-13-2/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 11:32:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-05-25-13-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/04_PowerScripting_Podcast_-_Episode.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;News&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;New PowerShell book in the works &amp;ldquo;Windows PowerShell: The Definitive Guide&amp;rdquo; by Lee Holmes&amp;rsquo; (a developer on the PowerShell team) from O&amp;rsquo;Reilly they have an early access program
&lt;a href="http://shrinkster.com/p8l"&gt;
http://shrinkster.com/p8l
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Windows Server 2008&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AD Cmdlets 1.0.2 released -
&lt;a href="http://shrinkster.com/p8e"&gt;
http://shrinkster.com/p8e
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Support for Vista and Server 2008&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You now have the ability to create enabled user accounts&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dmitry&amp;rsquo;s PowerBlog -
&lt;a href="http://shrinkster.com/p8d"&gt;
http://shrinkster.com/p8d
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell video posted</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-05-23-powershell-video-posted/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 13:43:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-05-23-powershell-video-posted/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;News&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I found out today from //o//&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href="http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/posh/"&gt;The PowerShell Guy&lt;/a&gt; blog (fantastic blog)Â that there is a new Channel 9 video called: &lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=309510#309510"&gt;Windows PowerShell: Origin and Future&lt;/a&gt;Â with Bruce Payette and Jeffery Snover.&lt;br&gt;
Â I&amp;rsquo;m hoping to have the next podcast posted on Thursday.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 3 – Select, Set, Measure</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-05-15-powerscripting-podcast-episode-3/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 16:20:10 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-05-15-powerscripting-podcast-episode-3/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/03_PowerScripting_Podcast.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;News&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Quest Software has released some beta cmdlets for managing Active Directory&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Analyzer RC1 has been released&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In this show I discussed the cmdlets:





- 
 Select-String


- 
 Set-Content


- 
 Measure-Command
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Resources:
&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.powershell"&gt;PowerShell newsgroup&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://shrinkster.com/opb"&gt;Quest Software&amp;rsquo;s PowerShell cmdlets for AD management&lt;/a&gt;
Tips:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Quoting rules&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Double quotes - variables are expanded and can contain text right after it&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Uses of backtick or backquote `&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 2 – Filtering Cmdlets</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-04-20-powerscripting-podcast-episode-2/</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:50:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-04-20-powerscripting-podcast-episode-2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/PowerScripting_-Episode2.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;News&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Windows Powershell will ship with Longhorn and will be available in Beta 3&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; In this show I discussed the cmdlets:





 - 
 Where-Object


 - 
 Sort-Object


 - 
 ForEach-Object
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Resources:
&lt;a href="http://powershellanalyzer.com/"&gt;PowerShell Analyzer&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/EBMPS.htm"&gt;An Introduction to Microsoft PowerShell&lt;/a&gt; -by Don Jones
Tips:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gettype()&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Learn Aliases&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get-Alias&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; One Liner:





 Select-String *.txt -pattern username | %{$_.line} | set-content username.log
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 1 – Fundamental Cmdlets</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-03-26-powerscripting-podcast-episode-1/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:00:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-03-26-powerscripting-podcast-episode-1/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A podcast about Windows PowerShell.&lt;a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/01_PowerScripting_Podcast_about_Win.mp3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/img/podcastIcon.gif" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
In this show I discussed the cmdlets Get-Command, Get-Help and Get-Member.&lt;br&gt;
Here is a great video discussion of these cmdlets by &lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2010/WSV301"&gt;Jeffrey Snover.&lt;/a&gt; (updated to a newer version)&lt;br&gt;
I also talked about a great Technet video by Don Jones about the &lt;a href="http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&amp;amp;EventID=1032321616&amp;amp;CountryCode=US"&gt;PowerShell Pipeline.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
For our first PowerShell moment I talked about $f= dir&lt;br&gt;
The one-liner (full version) is:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get-Content servers.txt | %{$x = net time &lt;a href="/////$_"&gt;$_&lt;/a&gt;
; $x[0];If($x&lt;a href="http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/powershell-one-liner-to-check-the-time-on-a-bunch-of-servers-for-dst/"&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;.contains(&amp;ldquo;Local&amp;rdquo;)){$x&lt;a href="http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/powershell-one-liner-to-check-the-time-on-a-bunch-of-servers-for-dst/"&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;}}
| Add-Content Servertime.txt&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Episode 0 – Episode Zero</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-03-15-episode-zero/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:07:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-03-15-episode-zero/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I have finally posted my first podcast&lt;img src="http://media.libsyn.com/media/powerscripting/Episode_0.mp3" alt=""&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I started with Episode Zero because all collections in Powershell start with zero. This show is an introduction to the podcast, PowerShell and to scripting. I gave an overview of the segments that will be featured in upcoming podcasts as well as my reasoning behind them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can find the Windows PowerShell homepage at &lt;a href="http://microsoft.com/powershell"&gt;http://microsoft.com/powershell&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PowerShell Help 1.1 can be downloaded from &lt;a href="http://www.sapien.com/software/communitytools"&gt;http://www.sapien.com/software/communitytools&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I hope you enjoy my first attempt at podcasting. If the link at the right doesn&amp;rsquo;t work for you to subscribe you can go directly to &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting"&gt;http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting&lt;/a&gt; and click one of the links or paste the URL in your podcatching software.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Powershell one-liner to check the time on a bunch of servers for DST</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-03-09-powershell-one-liner-to-check-the-time-on-a-bunch-of-servers-for-dst/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:26:41 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-03-09-powershell-one-liner-to-check-the-time-on-a-bunch-of-servers-for-dst/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Over the weekend I need to check a bunch of servers (mostly Domain Controllers) to see if the DST (Daylight Savings Time) change occurs correctly.Â  I decided to see how I could do it in Powershell and this is what I came up with:Â &lt;br&gt;
Get-Content servers.txt | %{$x = net time $_; $x[0];If($x[2].contains(&amp;ldquo;Local&amp;rdquo;)){$x[2]}} | Add-Content Servertime.txt&lt;br&gt;
This is a line of Powershell code that will open servers.txt (which is just a list of servers) and for each server it will run the &amp;ldquo;net time&amp;rdquo; command.Â  IÂ pass the first line of theÂ output of the &amp;ldquo;net time&amp;rdquo; commandÂ $x[0] and check to seeÂ if the third line contains &amp;ldquo;Local&amp;rdquo;.Â  If it does I pass that line as well (Â to see the local time on the servers that are not in my timezone.)Â  I then send this to Servername.txt&lt;br&gt;
Quick, easy one line of code.Â  You&amp;rsquo;ve gotta love Powershell!Â  Thanks Microsoft&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>AAArrghhh!!</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-02-23-aaarrghhh/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:36:33 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-02-23-aaarrghhh/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I had an equipment setback. The USB mixer I bought is going back. It was an Alesis MultiMix USB 8 and I was getting some kind of a ground loop when I tried to use the USB interface and monitor from the mixer. I&amp;rsquo;m not the only one who has had &lt;a href="http://www.cubase.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=530928&amp;amp;sid=6ae8bc918a09d1d4dfaa4555d7cc4b66"&gt;this problem&lt;/a&gt;. I ordered a new mixer today and I should have it early next week.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Podcasting gear is on the way</title><link>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-02-07-podcasting-gear-is-on-the-way/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:04:09 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/podcast/2007-02-07-podcasting-gear-is-on-the-way/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m another step closer today to Episode 1.Â  I ordered my mixer, mic etc. today.Â  I should have it in my eager little hands on Friday!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2026</title><link>https://powershell.org/calendar/summit-2026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/calendar/summit-2026/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The premier PowerShell and automation conference. Deep technical sessions, hands-on workshops, and community networking.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>PSConfEU 2026</title><link>https://powershell.org/calendar/psconfeu-2026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/calendar/psconfeu-2026/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Europe&amp;rsquo;s largest PowerShell conference. Expert-led sessions on automation, DevOps, security, and cloud management.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2026</title><link>https://powershell.org/calendar/sql-saturday-2026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://powershell.org/calendar/sql-saturday-2026/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A free community event featuring sessions on SQL Server, PowerShell, and data platform technologies.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>