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PhillyPoSH 11/07/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials

John Mello gave a presentation on a script that searches a mailbox for an email by subject and downloads any attachments it may contain. A copy of his scripts can be obtained here. Jason Helmick, Senior Technologist at Concentrated Tech and Windows PowerShell MVP, gave a presentation on “Understanding the Pipeline ““ Getting your one-liners to work!” A copy of his script can be found here. A recording of Jason Helmick"™s presentation can be found on our YouTube channel.

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PhillyPoSH 10/03/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials

John Mello gave a presentation on creating HTML reports in PowerShell, a copy of his presentation and scripts can be found here TJ Turner gave a presentation on Community Defined Best Practices, a copy of his presentation can be found here We had user error audio issues with Lync throughout the meeting so a recording will not be posted to our YouTube channel, We celebrated our 1st anniversary!

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PhillyPoSH 09/05/2013 meeting summary

Author, Scripting Games 2013 winner, and founder of the Mississippi PowerShell User Group, Mike Robbins, gave a presentation entitled “Using CIM Cmdlets and CIM Sessions” via Lync. Afterwards various group members participated in script and tell. A recording of the meeting is available on our YouTube channel, please note that half way through our script club we had an issue with a duplicate audio track.

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PhillyPoSH 08/01/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials

John Mello gave a presentation on Tips and Tricks learned from the 2013 Scripting Games, a copy of his presentation and scripts can be obtained here Various group members contributed to a Script and Tell, scripts and participant names are forthcoming. A recording of the meeting is available on our YouTube channel, please note that the recording ends about 5 minutes before our meeting was done.

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PhillyPoSH 07/11/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials

Active Directory SDK team member and former Senior Programing writer for the Windows PowerShell team, Jun Blender gave a presentation on The Hidden Charms of Windows PowerShell 3.0 via Lync. You can get a copy of her presentation here and see a recording of the Lync meeting on our YouTube channel Microsoft Technology Evangelist Yung Chou gave demonstration on how to use the PowerShell Azure cmdlets to automate data center deployments You can try doing the same and test server 2012 R2 out with a free 1-month trial of Windows Azure General Announcements The Microsoft Virtual Academy is hosting 2 separate day long PowerShell learning sessions that will be taught by the lead Architect of PowerShell Jeffery Snover and PowerShell.

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PhillyPoSH 05/02/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials

Jeff Wouters gave an excellent presentation via Lync on: Avoiding the pipeline - Improving your learning curve - Improving your teaching curve John Mello gave a presentation and demo of script that uses Exchange multi-valued custom attributes to store information on when to remove users from a security group after a specified amount of days. Standalone meeting material links [PhillyPosh_2013-05-02_ScriptClub](https://powershell.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/PhillyPosh_2013-05-02_ScriptClub.zip) PhillyPosh_2013-05-02_Presentation_JeffWouters

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PhillyPoSH 04/04/2013 meeting summary

Jason Helmick remotely gave a demo of Sapien"™s Powershell Studio Ed Wilson, The Scripting Guy, gave a presentation on the different ways to remotely manage a Windows 8 workstation (remotely via the Charlotte PowerShell User Group) Announcements The Scripting games start on 04/25/2013, make sure to sign up! We plan on doing a post mortem once the games are done just like we did with the Winter Scripting Camp Check out the Mississippi PowerShell User, which meets virtually every 2nd Tuesday.

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PhillyPoSH 03/07/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials

John Mello gave a brief overview of the history of the Scripting Games and an overview of the beginner events from the 2013 Winter Scripting Camp. A copy of his presentation and 2013 Winter Scripting Camp submissions can be found here. Lido Paglia gave an overview of the advanced events from the 2013 Winter Scripting Camp in addition to doing an in-depth review of Don Jones“™ Winter Scripting Camp Post Mortem.

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PhillyPoSH 02/07/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials

Jeff Hicks (Microsoft MVP and Author) gave a presentation on “Getting Started with PowerShell Advanced Functions”. You can download the presentation and example scripts here and watch a recording of the presentation below on our YouTube channel. [youtube_sc url=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77VbOO14DFE&feature=youtu.be”] You can keep up with Jeff at his blog, on Twitter, and on Google Plus We would also like to thank Interfacett and Powershell.org for providing funding for this meeting!

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PhillyPoSH 01/03/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials

User group member Greg Martin gave a presentation on Active Directory and PowerShell. A copy of his presentation can be found here and included the following topics: Building a copy of your production AD domain Notifying users of expiring passwords Dealing with expired computer accounts User group member Sunny Chakraborty gave a presentation on how to use the techniques of Prof George Poyla and Chess Grandmasters in order to improve your scripting skills.

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