We hope you can join us on the Ustream channel 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*:
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. 🙂
We"™ve long had a group on Facebook, but the funny thing about groups is that they are a real dead-end on Facebook, feature-wise. You can"™t add applications like you can on your own profile, and there"™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 page. 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"™t convert a group to a page, so that means we have to start over.
Please help spread the news as we have our own Windows 7 Launch Party"”just for the part we care about. 🙂 There will be prizes given away to those that show up!
Please copy the below announcement into emails and blog posts, or share this link on Facebook or Twitter! Use the Twitter hashtag #PowerShellLaunchParty
Windows isn’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 PowerScripting Podcast 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’ll be covering what’s new with the tool and why every system administrator on the planet needs to be using it. If you’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.
Hal and Jon have a lot of fun recording the PowerScripting Podcast. It’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’s the release date of Windows 7.
Please click on the link below to vote.
[Will you attend our live stream if we give away a copy of Windows 7?](http://www.twiigs.com/poll/Technology/Internet/41460)
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Yes, I will be there!
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I might make it
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Would love to but I can't make that time
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No, not really interested
Created on Oct 12, 2009
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to developer Sergei Antonov from the IIS team
News
*Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge "“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks"™ e-book, "Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell," learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You"™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.*
*Don"™t wait "“ 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.*
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The November meeting of the [Central Ohio PowerShell User's Group](http://centralohiopug.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/november-copug-meeting/) will be November 12th
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Hal will be presenting to the [Atlanta VMware User Group](http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmug/us-southeast/atlanta) along with Scott Herold of Vizioncore on Nov 5th
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James Brundage [has been doing videos for Channel 9](http://channel9.msdn.com/Search/?Term=James%20Brundage)
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[SharePoint 2010 brings on the PowerShell](http://consultingblogs.emc.com/michaelciba/archive/2009/07/19/powershell-marches-into-sharepoint-2010.aspx)
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CodePlex review:
[PowerShell Glass](http://powershellglass.codeplex.com/)
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[SQL Server Community Projects & Samples](http://sqlserversamples.codeplex.com/)
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[YamlSerializer](http://yamlserializer.codeplex.com/)
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[Visio Automation](http://visioautomation.codeplex.com/)
Hey, we have our own philosphy now! Here is another as-seen-on-Twitter:
Need to write up a blogpost on the Powerscripting approach I am using. Learned a lot about this in the last coupla weeksabout 1 hour ago from Digsby / TheoMoore
Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to developer Jason Shirk from the PowerShell team.
News
*Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge "“ and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks"™ e-book, "Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell," learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You"™ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.*
*Don"™t wait "“ 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.*
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We'd like to congratulate returning PowerShell MVPs and the newest MVP Antoine Habart (author of [PoshBoard](http://www.poshboard.com/))
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[PoshBoard v2.0 just released](http://www.poshboard.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19:poshboard-20-available&catid=1:poshboard&Itemid=3&lang=en)
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PowerShell Cookbook [now available on the iPhone](http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/PowerShellCookbookNowAvailableOnIPhone.aspx)
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The Exchange team blogs about [PowerShell changes coming in E2010](http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/09/10/452423.aspx)
Questions
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finked: ## what was your first scripting language?
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palen: ## Did you spend much time on performance in the parser, or was that largely v1 kind of stuff?
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glnsize: ## as a comment... I don't write anything without implementing cmdlet bindings
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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
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finked: ## what other areas might get performance boosts in the future?
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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...
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palen: ## Wait, an API for the PowerShell tokenizer?
Saw these recently, thought we"™d pass them along. 🙂
cybersylum: Listening to Epsiode 85 of PowerScripting podcast (http://bit.ly/mLlzy), If they won’t send me to training, I’ll bring it in on my ipod… Thursday, October 1st at 17:19:16
stimmel: Finge, CSI, Office, Community, powerscripting podcast. #schedulingfail Friday, October 2nd at 00:02:3