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• John Mello

PhillyPoSH 07/03/2014 meeting summary and presentation materials

Ferdinand G. Rios gave a presentation entitled “Building PowerShell GUI Tool Solutions" During his talked Ferdinand demonstrated how to use Sapien PowerShell Studio 2014 to easily build GUI applications on top of PowerShell, A recording of this meeting has been posted to our YouTube channel

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• Richard Siddaway
PowerShell Summit

European PowerShell Summit

There seems to have been a bit of confusion regarding the European PowerShell Summit as the site will tell you that registration is currently unavailable. There isn’t a problem and the Summit HAS NOT sold out at this time. WE just haven’t opened registration yet. Registration will open on 15 July 2014 .

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• Jacob Benson

Omaha PowerShell User Group is Filling Up Fast!

The first meeting of the Omaha PowerShell User Group is filling up fast! There are only 16 available seats so make sure you get your spot! Meeting details and sign up information can be found at omahapsug.eventbrite.com

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• Don Jones
Announcements

Free Online Access to TechLetter Back Issues

Did you know that PowerShell.org has, for more than a year now, offered a mostly-monthly TechLetter e-mail newsletter? It’s stuffed with community news, announcements (like our free webinar schedule), feature articles on PowerShell, and much more. It’s a great way to learn a little bit at a time, and it’s truly awesome content. And we keep back issues for your perusal! You can find the back issues online. We post all but the most recent 2-3 issues, but of course you can subscribe and have them delivered right to your inbox around the middle of most months.

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• John Mello

PhillyPoSH 06/05/2014 meeting summary and presentation materials

Jeff Hicks gave a presentation entitled “Getting Started with Desired State Configuration (DSC)”. During his talked Jeff gave an overview of DSC and walked through an example of a push mode configuration. A copy of his presentation materials are available here . A recording of this meeting has been posted to our YouTube channel

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• Don Jones

Wish List: Better Code Formatting in the Forums (Can You Help?)

I know it’s been a “wish” of many folks for our forums to have better code formatting. Well, if you know some PHP and a little about WordPress, you can make it happen. What we need is a WordPress plugin that hooks the action for post displays. The plugin needs to take the post body, and look for anything contained within HTML “code” tags or “pre” tags. Within that content, the plugin needs to strip any further code/pre tags (WordPress has a bit of a glitch where it’ll sometimes nest them).

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• Jacob Benson

Omaha PowerShell User Group is Open!

The Omaha PowerShell User Group is now open for business! If you are in the Omaha-Council Bluffs-Lincoln area and are interested in being a part of it, either let myself, Jacob Benson (@vhusker) or Boe Prox (@proxb) know. We are currently looking for a meeting place and are shooting for having our first meeting the last week in July. In addition to finding out who might be interested in attending, we would also like to know what days/times work best for you and the kinds of things you would like to get out of the meetings.

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• Don Jones
PowerShell for Admins

Quick Tip: WMI vs. CIM Syntax

# List all classes in a namespace Get-CimClass -Namespace root\CIMv2 Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\CIMv2 -List # list all classes containing “service” in their name Get-CimClass -Namespace root\CIMv2 | Where CimClassName -like ‘*service*’ | Sort CimClassName (or) Get-CimClass -Namespace root\CIMv2 -Classname *service* Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\CIMv2 -List | Where Name -like ‘*service*’ | Sort Name # get all class instances Get-CimInstance -Namespace root\CIMv2 -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\CIMv2 -Class Win32_OperatingSystem # filter class instances

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