Episode 10 – WinRM will power PowerShell Remoting in V2

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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Introduction

• We’ve had over 5,400 downloads so far! Thanks, everyone!

News

• PowerShell remoting will work via WinRM according to thisfrom the Scripting NewsWire
  • “Something else to consider. 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”™re interested in using Windows PowerShell to manage remote computers you"™ll need to download and install WinRM on your Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 machines."
• New Blog: PowerShell Pro
  • “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.”
  • Lots of content. Nice format.
• Powershell “Yahoo Pipe”created by Jaykul.
  • Aggregate RSS feed containing articles from tons of PowerShell blogs.
• Another company “Gets it”: IBM
  • Dale Lane in the UK has written on his blog about PowerShell Cmdlets he’s developing for IBM WebSphere.
• Overview of next PS Virtual User’s Group - Dec 4th
  • Oisin presenting talk about cmdlet development, new foundations in pscx, and touching on providers
    and paths in PowerShell

Cmdlet of the week: Set-PSDebug
Check out Keith Hill’s article on Set-PSDebug: Effective PowerShell Item 5: Use Set-PSDebug -Strict In Your Scripts - Religiously

Episode 9 – PowerShell V2 news is coming in November

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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Introduction

• Thanks to //o// and Kirk at Poshoholic for mentioning us on their blogs. We loved Kirk’s post about namespaces with the Star Trek references.  That’s the Trouble with Tribbles!

News

• According to Bruce Payette in this post, details of PowerShell V2’s upcoming features will be released in November at ITForum!
• From <$hay@Israel’> s blog: There is a new book titled “Windows PowerShell in Practice" that is being worked on by Jim Truher and //o//.  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.
• Citrix, Citrix, and more Citrix!  Brandon Shell has gifted us with a veritable cornucopia of sixteen (16!) Citrix management functions such as:
  • Get-CitrixFarm
  • Publish-CitrixApplication
• Keith Hill and //o// will be a guest speaker in the first Windows PowerShell Virtual User Group Meeting (From Marco Shaw’s blog)
  • Keith will talk about PSCX (PowerShell Community Extensions) and open source development
  • //o// will talk about PowerTab
  • October 3rd noon EST Online via Live Meeting 2007 (Microsoft is hosting so you need to use your Live ID)
• Phoul from the #Powershell IRC channel has a new blog up(http://insecure-complexity.com/).  In his own words:
  • “Especially to the new PowerShell users. I’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.”

Cmdlet of the week

Episode 8 – Meet Hal Rottenberg!

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

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    **Introduction**








        Welcome to Hal Rottenberg! Check out his [blog](http://halr9000.com/)








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    **News**

Jeffery Snover interview

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VMWare “gets it”! VI PowerShell blog

ex: Get-VM | where { $_.state -eq “poweredOn” } | Stop-VM

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Post from $hay@Israel’s $cript Fanatic blog about Sapien

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Cmdlet of the week

select-object - BSonPoSH’s article on creating custom objects

and a follow up article

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Resources **

Episode 7 – Don't Forget What You Already Know

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

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News

PowerShell Google group

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Cmdlets of the week

New-item

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Test-path

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Get-WMIObject

MSDN WMI Reference

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Resource

Windows PowerShell and WMI - Technet webcast w/ Don Jones

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“Active Directory Management Made Easy with PowerShell” from Quest Software, link to Dmitry’s post

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      Great [blog post](http://www.leadfollowmove.com/powershell-toolbox/) listing PowerShell tools







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Tips

Episode 6 – User Groups are Starting to Sprout

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

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Introduction

Thank you for all of the great feedback

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Jeffery Snover did a post about the podcast!

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News

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PowerShell Analyzer can be pre-ordered for $59 and it will be $129

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Next update new-qaduser will require samAccountname

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“The PowerShell Guy” wants to start a Dutch PowerShell User group

http://shrinkster.com/q3r

Episode 5 – PowerShell Hits a Million

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

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Introduction

Shout-out to Mark Allen for answering the challenge

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News

New AD cmdlets - the one step account creation works great

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From the ScriptingNewswire, May 2007

Windows PowerShell guide for beginners

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Downloadable and cmdlet-accessible graphical help for Windows PowerShell

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/n software will be releasing NetCmdlets at TechEd next week

They are giving away free PowerShell stickers

Episode 4 – Get Data and Format the Output

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

News

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New PowerShell book in the works “Windows PowerShell: The Definitive Guide” by Lee Holmes’ (a developer on the PowerShell team) from O’Reilly they have an early access program http://shrinkster.com/p8l

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Windows Server 2008

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AD Cmdlets 1.0.2 released - http://shrinkster.com/p8e

Support for Vista and Server 2008

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You now have the ability to create enabled user accounts

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Dmitry’s PowerBlog - http://shrinkster.com/p8d

PowerShell video posted

News

I found out today from //o//’s The PowerShell Guy blog (fantastic blog) that there is a new Channel 9 video called: Windows PowerShell: Origin and Future with Bruce Payette and Jeffery Snover.
 I’m hoping to have the next podcast posted on Thursday.

Episode 3 – Select, Set, Measure

A podcast about Windows PowerShell.

News

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Quest Software has released some beta cmdlets for managing Active Directory

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PowerShell Analyzer RC1 has been released

In this show I discussed the cmdlets:





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  Select-String


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  Set-Content


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  Measure-Command

Resources: PowerShell newsgroup Quest Software’s PowerShell cmdlets for AD management Tips:

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Quoting rules

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Double quotes - variables are expanded and can contain text right after it

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Uses of backtick or backquote `

Episode 2 – Filtering Cmdlets

A podcast about Windows PowerShell.

News

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Windows Powershell will ship with Longhorn and will be available in Beta 3

  In this show I discussed the cmdlets:





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    Where-Object


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    Sort-Object


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    ForEach-Object

Resources: PowerShell Analyzer An Introduction to Microsoft PowerShell -by Don Jones Tips:

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Gettype()

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Learn Aliases

Get-Alias

  One Liner:





  Select-String *.txt -pattern username | %{$_.line} | set-content username.log