I"™m sure the dev side of the house is going to be excited because they already know who our next guest is"”and the IT side needs to listen up because debugging is important for them too!
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’s recognized authorities on debugging, John takes an evil delight in finding and fixing impossible bugs in other people’s programs.
Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Ryan Dunn about managing Azure with PowerShell!
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One of the cool new features of PowerShell v2 is remoting. We"™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 independent 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. The job related cmdlets in PowerShell v2 are these:
Here"™s a bit more about Ryan from his ch9 profile:
Ryan Dunn is the Windows Azure Technical Evangelist and produces the “Cloud Cover” Channel 9 show. Prior to joining Microsoft, Ryan was an MVP for ASP.NET and Directory Services.
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.
Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Brandon Shell about Citrix!
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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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User Group News
Atlanta -Â [May 18th](http://powershellgroup.org/content/atlanta-powershell-user-group-monthly-meeting)
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[NYC - June 14th - guest Ed Wilson](http://powershellgroup.org/content/nyc-powershell-user-group-meeting-june-14th-ed-wilson)
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Local conferences
[Codestock in Knoxville TN](http://codestock.org/Sessions/Default.aspx) happens June 25th & 26th and there will be 4 PowerShell sessions including some from [Hal](http://halr9000.com/) and [@SQLVariant](http://twitter.com/sqlvariant).
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Book news: [Luc Dekens](http://www.lucd.info/) and [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 "VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration".
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[PowerShell Community Extensions](http://pscx.codeplex.com/) v2 is out!
[announcement](http://keithhill.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!5A8D2641E0963A97!7208.entry)
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[download](http://pscx.codeplex.com/releases/view/45101)
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[list of cmdlets](http://keithhill.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!5A8D2641E0963A97!7210.entry)
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[Citrix has released the XenApp 6 PowerShell SDK](http://www.out-web.net/?p=794)
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New suite of PowerShell-related software products from /n Software:Â [PowerShell Inside](http://www.powershellinside.com/)
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[iPowerShell is out for the iPad](http://blog.sapien.com/index.php/2010/05/04/ipowershell-comes-to-ipad/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+SapienBlog+(SAPIEN+Technologies+Blog))
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[Free 2-hour video training class aimed at developers](http://www.jasonhelmick.com/journal/2010/5/11/free-powershell-for-developers.html)
Interview
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rfoust: ## has scripting games been your full time job for the past few weeks
**Resources**
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Richard Siddaway was kind enough to post [a review](http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!43CFA46A74CF3E96!2863.entry) of Hal's VMware PowerCLI book.
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MVP Sean Kearney has a new site up:Â [PowerShell.ca](http://powershell.ca/)
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Don Jones posted a [PowerShell Training Roundup](http://concentratedtech.com/item/view/id/482)
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The Scripting Guys have a great series on [scripting PowerPoint](http://blogs.technet.com/heyscriptingguy/archive/tags/Microsoft+PowerPoint/default.aspx)
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[Don's new PowerShell site on WindowsITPro](http://www.windowsitpro.com/categories/category/Scripting/DonJonesonPowerShell.aspx)
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[IP subnet math in PowerShell](http://www.indented.co.uk/index.php/2010/01/23/powershell-subnet-math/)**
Please join us this Thursday 5/13 @ 9:30 EDT on the live stream 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"™s website, and whatever else YOU come up with. That"™s right"”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.
In This Episode
Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we have Buck Woody from Microsoft to talk about SQL Server and PowerShell.
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