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• Don Jones
PowerShell for Admins

PowerShell v5: Class Support

This post is based on the September 2014 preview release of WMF 5.0. This is pre-release software, so this information may change. 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’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.

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• John Mello

PhillyPoSH 09/04/2014 meeting summary and presentation materials

Jan Egil Ring 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 here. A recording of this meeting has been posted to our YouTube channel

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• Richard Siddaway
Announcements

LAST CALL for the European PowerShell Summit 2014

This is the last call for attendee registration for the European PowerShell Summit 2014. The Summit is in Amsterdam - 29 September to 1 October 2014. Details from the events page https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/. Due to a change in circumstances beyond our control we have to close public registration on 10 September 2014. 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.

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• Don Jones
PowerShell Summit

PowerShell Summit Europe 2014: Prepare for the DSC Hackathon

We’re hoping that everyone attending the PowerShell Summit Europe 2014 will join our Monday evening **DSC Hackathon, **where we’ll become “product team members for a night” and try to code up some DSC Resources from the team’s own internal wish list! We’ll provide a cash bar as well as finger food for our on-site attendees… but you’re welcome to participate remotely, too! Sometime on September 29th, watch PowerShell.org for a posting that includes the challenges.

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• Richard Siddaway
Announcements

European Summit deadline approaching

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. Hope to see you there

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• JasonMorgan
PowerShell for Admins

DenverPSUG – Keith Hill Presenting

Hello everyone, The Denver PowerShell User Group will be meeting again on September 4th and we will have Keith Hill presenting. Keith has published an ebook, is a repeat Microsoft MVP, and has been heavily involved in writing and maintaining the PowerShell Community Extensions. You can find more information on the event as well as RSVP here: Keith Hill - Effective PowerShell Thursday, Sep 4, 2014, 7:00 PM 899 Logan st

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• John Mello

Philadelphia Meeting – September 4th 2014

Join us Thursday, September 4th where Jan Egil RIng will be presenting a talk on Get Started with Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration 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.

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• Jacob Benson

Registration for August Omaha PowerShell User Group Meeting is Live!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/omaha-powershell-users-group-august-meeting-tickets-12703856577 In the second ever meeting of the Omaha PowerShell User Group we will have PowerShell MVP Bartek Bielawski talking about OMI: PowerShell Everywhere: 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.

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• Jacob Benson

Omaha PowerShell User Group Meeting – 8/26

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. 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!

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• Jacob Benson

Omaha PowerShell User Group Meeting Notes/Video

The first Omaha PowerShell User Group Meeting is in the books! We had a great turnout with 26 people showing up last night. The video Don Jones made for us is available on YouTube here. 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.

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