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Episode 297 – PowerScripting Podcast -Alan Renouf from VMware on PowerCLI 6

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Alan Renouf from VMware
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Chatroom Highlights
http://snag.gy/Cv5eP.jpg
http://www.teavana.com/the-teas/black-teas/p/yunnan-golden-pu-erh-tea
http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2015/03/powercli-6-0-r1-now-generally-available.html
http://vcloud.vmware.com/
http://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-automation
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Platform-Whats-New.pdf
http://www.amazon.com/The-Martian-Novel-Andy-Weir-ebook/dp/B00EMXBDMA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ
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Question

  • Favorite book:The Davinci Code

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Episode 296 – PowerScripting Podcast – Joe Levy from Microsoft on Azure Automation

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Joe Levy from Microsoft about Azure Automation
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Chatroom Highlights

Does Azure automation just expose SMA or is it it’s own thing

do users find powershell workflows complex and limiting?

do people prefer to use portal UI to interact with runbooks or to work in ISE and automate everything?

what are the main pain points for authoring runbooks?

what are the main scenarios you can tackle with SMA and AA?

are there any plans to enable pure PowerShell scripts and not just workflows?

can we run DSC in SMA and AA? are there any differences compared to running DSC from PowerShell hosts?

can he talk a little bit about the actual SMA/AA architecture? (or I missed that)

he had a great demo at TechEd Europe “Get-ThisPartyStarted” where he turned on a disco ball from Azure

can we expect some graphical authoring UI in Azure Automation like we have in Orchestrator?

cross plat (http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Azure-Friday/Azure-Automation-104-managing-Linux-and-creating-Modules-with-Joe-Levy)

can we perform all actions available in portal just by using cmdlets in ISE?

the disco ball demo is worth asking about if you have time.  Joe is a genius…

What language is he primarily coding in?

joe, remind me to give you a converter 🙂

for those of you wondering what the sp handle deal is - slack.poshcode.org http://slack.poshcode.org
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/author/jolevy/
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/automation/
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn469260.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
For the show notes - great session from TEE - http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2014/CDP-B344
Joe’s SMA authoring plugin for ISE - http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/archive/2014/03/27/authoring-sma-runbooks-in-the-powershell-ise.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/08/07/introducing-the-azure-powershell-dsc-desired-state-configuration-extension.aspx
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn457809.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/08/07/introducing-the-azure-powershell-dsc-desired-state-configuration-extension.aspx
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

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Episode 295 – PowerScripting Podcast – June Blender from SAPIEN Technologies

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to June Blender from SAPIEN Technologies
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Chatroom Highlights
https://www.sapien.com/software
https://www.sapien.com/software/powershell_studio
http://www.amazon.com/T-Mobile-Nokia-Lumia-635-Contract/dp/B00LIWB34Q/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1423795422&sr=8-3&keywords=unlocked+lumia+635
https://www.sapien.com/software/powershell_helpwriter
List of phones on the testing list for WP10 - http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/02/12/announcing-the-first-build-of-windows-10-technical-preview-for-phones-2/
http://www.sapien.com/blog/
http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education?language=en
MIT OpenCourseWare has a lot of good stuff. http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
Stanford’s Engineering Everywhere has some interesting CS stuff also. http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/powershell-azure-resource-manager/
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn835138.aspx
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Microsoft-Azure/AzureConf-2014/Inside-the-Azure-Resource-Manager
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn654592.aspx
http://www.kelake.org/design/apple-baby-mac-1985/
http://memecrunch.com/meme/1YKXW/daaaaamn/image.jpg?w=400&c=1

Is PowerShell Studio strictly PowerShell, or does it have features like syntax highlighting for vbscript, python, etc.?

Question

  • First Computer - Baby Mac

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Episode 294 – PowerScripting Podcast – Michael Greene & Charles Joy from Microsoft

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Michael Greene & Charles Joy from Microsoft
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Chatroom Highlights
http://blogs.splunk.com/2014/12/18/splunk-and-microsoft-azure-intro-and-resource-roundup/
http://conf.splunk.com/sessions/2014/conf2014_SWarrington_Microsoft_Business_Analytics.pdf?activity=presentations

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/about
blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Just-Enough-Administration-6b5ad370
found the teched video! http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2014/CDP-B313
ok the JEA episode was back in the summer, #274 https://powershell.org/2014/06/20/episode-274-powerscripting-podcast-microsoft-distinguished-engineer-jeffrey-snover-on-jea/
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/xAzure-PowerShell-Module-7dbf43b4
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/The-New-World-of-Tenant-778b9f40
here’s the mac equiv: https://rogueamoeba.com/freebies/soundflower/
http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2014/10/24/introducing-the-jea-toolkit-helper.aspx
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/powershell-azure-resource-manager/
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2014/CDP-B353
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn790568.aspx (REST AIP for ARM)
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn654592.aspx (cmdlets)
http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2014/04/25/automation-microsoft-azure-automation-the-evolution-of-cloud-automation.aspx (The Evolution of Cloud Automation)
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 (The New World of Tenant Provisioning with Windows Azure Pack (Part 1): Introduction and Table of Contents)
Automated Tenant Deprovisioning with SMA in WAP White Paper: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Automated-Tenant-5f3b83a8
The New World of Tenant Provisioning White Paper: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/The-New-World-of-Tenant-778b9f40
The Evolution of Cloud Automation White Paper: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/The-Evolution-of-Cloud-aef485c1
http://aka.ms/IntroToSMA
http://channel9.msdn.com/Search?term=Charles%20Joy#ch9Search
http://channel9.msdn.com/Search?term=Service%20Management%20Automation#ch9Search
http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/archive/2014/05/01/managing-ssh-enabled-linux-hosts-using-service-management-automation.aspx
http://feedback.azure.com/forums/246290-azure-automation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Monkeys_(TV_series)
https://twitter.com/thanosrules
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIND_MGMT 😉

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Episode 293 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVP Brian Ehlert from Citrix

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Brian Ehlert from Citrix about DSC and XenDesktop
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Interview

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Chatroom Highlights
##Do you know if Azure Pack is going to be able to provision in Microsoft Azure any time soon?

SNover said that even EXEs could be traced

http://itproctology.blogspot.com/
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
http://binged.it/1ANUsvp
http://blogs.citrix.com/author/brianeh/
http://ITProctology.blogspot.com (the MVP blog)
http://www.thecloudcast.net/
http://www.citrix.com/go/xendesktop-for-the-private-cloud.html
here they are: http://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/search-mvp.aspx?ex=Remote+Desktop+Services
https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/cHyper-V
https://powershell.org/2014/02/12/episode-258-powerscripting-podcast-jim-britt-from-microsoft-on-service-management-automation/
http://itproctology.blogspot.com/
http://blogs.citrix.com/author/brianeh/
https://chocolatey.org/packages?q=reaper

Question

  • Superhero/Power - the power to convey understanding

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Episode 291 – PowerScripting Podcast – Garrett Serack from Microsoft on OneGet

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Garrett Serack from Microsoft abount OneGet
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From the Chat room

When will PowerShell be open sourced?

is powershellget open source (or going to be if not?)

will powershellget eventually support a system-wide list of sources (so enterprise defaults can be provided globally)?

will oneget be integrated or leveraged through SCCM or other System Center tools?

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?)

powershellget appears to only save the list of package sources in a per-user profile directory

does oneget leverage powershell remoting in order to manage installs on remote systems?

Are there any plans to make these configurations policy-friendly?  When they’re in XML files, it’s awkward to enforce a list of trusted sources in an enterprise.

Guest74842: we’re trying to revive JPavlecks old ##SCOM channel here on freenode.  I am going back to SCOM after a two year brak.
screencap for the evening http://snag.gy/UrX2V.jpg
links: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/garretts/archive/2014/04/01/my-little-secret-windows-powershell-oneget.aspx
https://oneget.codeplex.com/
https://github.com/OneGet/oneget
https://github.com/OneGet/oneget
http://www.powershellgallery.com/
http://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/xOneGet/
Hunh. http://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/GistProvider/
.NET Core Framework http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/announcing-open-source-of-net-core-framework-net-core-distribution-for-linux-osx-and-free-visual-studio-community-edition
http://oneget.org/weekly/meeting.html
http://halr9000.tumblr.com/post/104672616190/initial-review-of-the-amazon-fire-tv-stick
http://blogs.citrix.com/2014/10/09/tech-preview-xendesktop-desired-state-configuration-resource-provider/
http://blogs.citrix.com/2014/10/07/desired-state-configuration-xendesktop-dsc-resource-and-azure-dsc-vm-extension-part-

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Episode 290 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeffrey Snover and John Slack on PowerShell 5.0 (Technical Preview)

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jeffrey Snover and John Slack from Microsoft
Interview

Chatroom Highlights

HAL what hair products are you using today?

curating code?

Any known conflicts with things like Exchange or System Center Operations Manager like previous versions of PowerShell had?

or SharePoint??? add on to sepeck

Is Microsoft using WMF5 in the Cloud Platform System

does the previous Sep release have to be removed prior to installing the Nov release, didn’t see anything in the release notes

any discussions of docker support in the near future?

Will the “x” ever be removed from the DSC resource names? Are they going to be experimental forever?

RobCannon: use ## in front of questions

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Episode 289 – PowerScripting Podcast – Mike Hendrickson and Jason Walker from Microsoft on Configuring Exchange With DSC

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Mike Hendrickson and Jason Walker from Microsoft about their DSC resources for Exchange
News

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Interview

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Chatroom Highlights
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mhendric/archive/2014/10/17/managing-exchange-2013-with-dsc-part-1-introducing-xexchange.aspx
https://msconfiggallery.cloudapp.net/packages/xExchange/
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mhendric/archive/2014/10/17/managing-exchange-2013-with-dsc-part-1-introducing-xexchange.aspx
DSC Resource Kit Wave 8 : https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/DSC-Resource-Kit-All-c449312d
https://gist.github.com/halr9000/20ab184a91277f3a2438
https://github.com/pester/Pester
Using Pester for Test Driven Development in PowerShell http://mikefrobbins.com/2014/10/09/using-pester-for-test-driven-development-in-powershell/
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/DSC-Resource-Kit-All-c449312d
https://msconfiggallery.cloudapp.net/packages/xExchange/
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/xExchange-PowerShell-1dd18388/view/Discussions#content
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mhendric/archive/2014/10/17/managing-exchange-2013-with-dsc-part-1-introducing-xexchange.aspx
My New Book: Windows PowerShell TFM 4th Edition is now Available! http://mikefrobbins.com/2014/11/13/my-new-book-windows-powershell-tfm-4th-edition-is-now-available/

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Episode 288 – PowerScripting Podcast – Hal and Jon talk about Splunk and DSC troubleshooting

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, Hal and Jon talk about Splunk and troubleshooting DSC
Links
http://aka.ms/dscmp
here’s my screen. https://www.dropbox.com/s/5bz3jqbghjsh2lx/Screenshot%202014-10-23%2021.42.33.png?dl=0
https://apps.splunk.com/app/1477/
wave 7 shipped https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/DSC-Resource-Kit-All-c449312d
wrong link: this one: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/xExchange-PowerShell-1dd18388/
http://blogs.citrix.com/2014/10/09/tech-preview-xendesktop-desired-state-configuration-resource-provider/
They did a series on it a short while back - http://blogs.citrix.com/author/brianeh/ has them I think
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/01/03/using-event-logs-to-diagnose-errors-in-desired-state-configuration.aspx
http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog/portfolio/book-windows-powershell-desired-state-configuration-revealed/
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/xDscDiagnostics-PowerShell-abb6bcaa
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/xDscResourceDesigne-Module-22eddb29
http://blogs.citrix.com/author/brianeh/

Chatroom Highlights:

input inot splunk    key/value pairs?    custom objects?

** ### @JonWalz   did you say you have a resource that pushes your PowerShell profile to a remove computer?**

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