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I’ll be using these examples in my TechEd 2014 session on PowerShell patterns and practices. They won’t make much sense, perhaps, until you see the session (live, or in the recordings - and I believe this session is one of the “Taste of TechEd” ones that will be live-streamed), but here are the scripts. TechEd-NA-2014-Patterns-Examples
Our IndieGoGo Campaign is off to an amazing start, raising over $6,300 (including some offline donations) toward our ultimate $9,000 goal. So far, we’ve raised enough to ensure we can record two tracks of Summit content - enabling us to record speakers’ laptops and voice, and to post the videos on YouTube, for free. Meeting our full $9,000 goal will enable three tracks of recordings, which is what the North American show currently produces.
We’re often asked if the PowerShell Summit sessions will be recorded or live-streamed. The answer, so far, has been “no,” because the equipment needed to do so gets expensive. But we’re willing to give it a go - with crowd funding. Check out our IndieGoGo campaign, where you can contribute to making session recordings a reality - forever. We’ve got about 30 days to reach our goal. So if recorded sessions are important to you - now’s the time to put your money where you mouth is!
We all know that working with WMI/CIM can be frustrating. So little of it is documented, and it can be tough to find the class that has the exact info you need. A long time ago, SAPIEN released a very nice WMI Explorer tool that, recently, was taken offline. The reason is that the company was producing an all-new, from-scratch replacement - and it’s now available. Their new approach is pretty interesting.
I recently played around with SAPIEN’s VersionRecall, and thought I’d share a bit about the experience. As a note, SAPIEN provided me with a license key to use. VersionRecall is advertised as a simple, single-user version control system “for the rest of us.” There are no servers, no databases, and nothing complex, according to the marketing copy. Setup is quick - a 3-screen wizard and you’re done. Installation took under a minute.
As part of our commitment to being a transparent, community-owned organization, I wanted to share the basic budget for the upcoming Summit. Now that registration is cut off, we have most of our final numbers. Keep in mind that, at live events, things “on the ground” can change quickly - so these are, at present, only our expectations “going in.” $113,833.51 in net registration fees. This is after paying credit card transaction fees.
If you’re attending PowerShell Summit NA 2014 (or wish you were), we have some new logo items for purchase! Buy ’em now and wear ’em to the Summit, including a baseball jersey and a polo shirt. Visit our Zazzle store to buy (or the Canadian store, to save a bit on shipping if you live up there). Note that the items may take about 24 hours to become visible, so check on April 15th in the afternoon if you don’t see them immediately.
Paul Higinbotham’s session on threading in PowerShell has been changed, because his content would have overlapped with other sessions. Instead, Paul will be presenting: PowerShell Debugging Enhancements A number of script debugging enhancements were added to PowerShell 4.0 and the WMF 5.0 preview release. In this talk I will discuss these new debugging features and demonstrate how they work. This will include the new support for remote debugging, debugging workflow scripts, debugging PowerShell jobs, ISE enhancements for remote debugging, and the new “Break All” command.
We’ve just finished a massive re-do of all 7 PowerShell.org free ebooks. First, they’re now hosted in a public OneDrive folder. This means you can quickly and easily view them online, download a DOCX, or download a PDF. Anytime, anywhere. Second, we’ve had folks go through and make the formatting more consistent, using a more modern font and somewhat “airier” spacing. Hopefully that translates to “nicer to read.” All the original code is also accessible, and available for one-click downloading.
OSTools - download for my class in Oslo this week. Here’s some more: share