PhillyPoSH 11/07/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials

1. 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.
2. 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.
   1. A recording of Jason Helmick”™s presentation can be found on our YouTube channel. Due to audio issues, John Mello"™s portion is not included in the recording.
3. Announcements
   1. Tickets are still available for the 2014 PowerShell Summit North America, if you"™re going then make sure to say hi to Lido Paglia!
   2. We are still trying to arrange for a PowerShell Saturday sometime in 2014, if you are interested in presenting please let us know!
4. We are assigning homework this week! Hopefully this will be a fun task that we can discuss during our next meeting, so try your hand at the following problem:

Title: On This Day in Pictures

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!

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.

PhillyPoSH 08/01/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials

1. 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
2. Various group members contributed to a Script and Tell, scripts and participant names are forthcoming.
3. 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.

PhillyPoSH 07/11/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials

1. 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
2. Microsoft Technology Evangelist Yung Chou gave demonstration on how to use the PowerShell Azure cmdlets to automate data center deployments
   1. You can try doing the same and test server 2012 R2 out with a free 1-month trial of Windows Azure
3. General Announcements
   1. 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.org board member Jason Helmick. Link to the sessions are as follows:
      1. Getting Started with PowerShell 3.0 : 7/18/2013 9AM-5PM PDT
      2. Advanced Tools & Scripting with PowerShell 3.0: 8/1/2013 9AM-5PM PDT
   2. The PowerScript Podcast is looking for show ideas
   3. In the wake of the 2013 scripting games there are many entries in the “Great Debates” series, in which the community discusses the differing techniques that the community used during the games
      1. Speaking of the scripting games, the winners were on the PowerScritping Podcast this week
      2. Mike Robbins, the winner of the advanced category, will be presenting for us in September!
         1. Mike also runs the virtual Mississippi PowerShell User Group and makes his meetings available to everyone.
   4. Last month"™s speaker, Rohn Edwards, has recently blogged about how to use some of the functions included in his PowerShellAccessControl Module
   5. Check out Chocolatey which is a Machine Package Manager, somewhat like apt-get, but built with Windows and PowerShell in mind.

PhillyPoSH 05/02/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials

• Jeff Wouters gave an excellent presentation via Lync on:

    Avoiding the pipeline
  
  
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    Improving your learning curve
  
  
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    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

PhillyPoSH 04/04/2013 meeting summary

1. Jason Helmick remotely gave a demo of Sapien"™s Powershell Studio
2. 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)
3. Announcements
   1. 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
   2. Check out the Mississippi PowerShell User, which meets virtually every 2nd Tuesday. Take a look at their schedule which is filled with great speakers.

PhillyPoSH 03/07/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials

1. 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.
2. 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. A copy of his 2013 Winter Scripting Camp submissions can be found here.
3. Various other information worth mentioning:
   1. Group member Greg Martin presented a problem he ran into creating a COM object in PowerShell to hold an instance of Internet Explorer which he would then use to open a page. Stepping through the script worked fine, but running the script failed.  The issue was that the object would more often than not be blank when he tried to reference it. The group offered some
      suggestions and ideas to work around the issue which later helped Greg find the root cause. A breakdown of the problem and final solution can be found on Greg"™s Blog
   2. Need help making sure your script is not using aliases? Take a look at Jeff Hicks convert to Alias function!
   3. Following up on Lido Paglia"™s discussion of Don Jones"™ Winter Scripting Camp Post Mortem, here is a list of approved verbs and naming conventions for PowerShell directly from Microsoft:
      1. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms714428(v=vs.85).aspx
      2. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms714395(v=vs.85).aspx
   4. The PowerShell Mississippi User Group is offering a series of online meetings every 2nd Tuesday of the month at 8:30PM CST for the rest of 2013. The speaker line-up is an impressive who"™s who of PowerShell MVPs!
   5. Check out the Windows 7 Resource Kit PowerShell Pack, which contains over 800 scripts in 10 different modules. For example :
      1. ISE shortcuts
      2. Task Scheduler
      3. PowerShell Image manipulation
      4. And many more!
4. Post Meeting announcement
   1. Lido Paglia came in 2nd place in the 2013 Winter Scripting Camp! Give him a high five next time you see him!

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.
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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!

PhillyPoSH 01/03/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials

1. 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:
   1. Building a copy of your production AD domain
   2. Notifying users of expiring passwords
   3. Dealing with expired computer accounts
2. 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. A copy of his presentation materials can be found here.
3. Various other information worth mentioning
   1. User group member Sunny Chakraborty submitted a list of PowerShell commands to retrieve Dell specific WMI objects. A copy of that list can be found here.
   2. Another group member (Name forthcoming!) submitted a list of PowerShell commands to retrieve HP Insight manager WMI Objects. A copy of that list can be found here.
   3. Do not install Windows Management Framework 3.0 (PowerShell 3.0) on the following systems, if you have please uninstall it so that you do not run into any issues with subsequent patches.
      1. System Center 2012 Configuration Manager running on any Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 version
      2. System Center Virtual Machine Manager running on any Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 version
      3. Microsoft Exchange 2007 or 2010 running on any Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 version
      4. Microsoft SharePoint 2010 running on any Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 version
      5. Windows Small Business Server 2008 or 2011
   4. On Twitter? Follow the #PowerShell hashtag or check our Lido Paglia"™s Powershell Twitter List.
   5. On Google+? Join the PowerShell community.
   6. Still haven"™t purchased a copy of Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches or any other PowerShell book on Manning Publications? Signup for their deal of the day newsletter or check the front page every day to see when it"™s on sale!
   7. If you"™re looking for .NET assembly browser and decomplier, take a look at Sunny Chakraborty"™s favorite utility: ILSpy.

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