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Call to Action: PowerShell Birds of a Feather sessions at MS TechEd in New Orleans

Hey guys. Hal here. I just wanted to let everyone know that there are TWO Birds of a Feather sessions that I have volunteered to moderate at this year’s North America TechEd event in New Orleans. The sessions are: Getting Started with PowerShell - This session will stick to the 100-200 level topics. I will round up some MVPs (PowerShell and otherwise) to help contribute to the conversation. PowerScripting: PowerShell Best Practices from the Field with The Scripting Guy - For this session I’ll be joined by Ed Wilson, and we’ll both be taking questions.

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Episode 225 – Mark Russinovich talks about Sysinternals, Infosec, and the Cloud

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: **** In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Mark Russinovich about Sysinternals, Infosec, and the Cloud! **** **** News The Scripting Games [Beginner practice](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/04/18/beginner-practice-for-2013-scripting-games.aspx) [Advanced practice](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/04/18/advanced-practice-for-2013-scripting-games.aspx) The Tampa PowerShell group is [meeting April 25th](http://powershellgroup.org/Tampa.Fl/2013-04-25) The Philadelphia PowerShell User Group is [meeting May 2nd](https://powershell.org/2013/04/06/philadelphia-meeting-may-2nd-2013/) [IT Pro Camp comes to Jacksonville, FL on June 15th](http://itprocamp.com/jacksonville/jacksonville-it-pro-camp/) Microsoft is [shutting down Script Explorer](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/04/05/microsoft-script-explorer-next-steps.aspx?utm_source=feedly) A free PowerShell 3.

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Episode 224 – Boe Prox talks about PoshWSUS and his other projects

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.** Listen: In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Boe Prox about Windows Software Update Services and PowerShell **** **** News [https://powershell.org/the-scripting-games/](https://powershell.org/the-scripting-games/) Delhi User Group has great [PowerShell content on April 20th](http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=1ce3e2a8604cd419d0637a350&id=8292616e0d&e) The Philadelphia PowerShell User Group is [meeting May 2nd](https://powershell.org/2013/04/06/philadelphia-meeting-may-2nd-2013/) Interview Guests - Boe Prox Links [http://learn-powershell.net/](http://learn-powershell.net/) [Test-Port](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/97119ed6-6fb2-446d-98d8-32d823867131) [http://poshwsus.codeplex.com/](http://poshwsus.codeplex.com/) [http://poshchat.codeplex.com/](http://poshchat.codeplex.com/) [http://poshpaig.codeplex.com/](http://poshpaig.codeplex.com/) [http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/tags/boe+prox/](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/tags/boe+prox/) [http://learn-powershell.net/2012/05/13/using-background-runspaces-instead-of-psjobs-for-better-performance/](http://learn-powershell.net/2012/05/13/using-background-runspaces-instead-of-psjobs-for-better-performance/) [http://learn-powershell.net/2012/10/14/powershell-and-wpf-writing-data-to-a-ui-from-a-different-runspace](http://learn-powershell.net/2012/10/14/powershell-and-wpf-writing-data-to-a-ui-from-a-different-runspace) [http://powertoe.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/http-post-with-powershell-to-json-rpc-or-how-to-control-xbmc-via-powershell/](http://powertoe.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/http-post-with-powershell-to-json-rpc-or-how-to-control-xbmc-via-powershell/) [http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Invoke-Async-Allows-you-to-83b0c9f0](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Invoke-Async-Allows-you-to-83b0c9f0) Chatroom Buzz 16[2013-04-11 21:32:07] <9mrrothhcloud__> Did you people see that powershell scrip to tweet from powershell

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Up Next: Mark Russinovich!

This Thursday, April 18, we’re very, very excited to be having Mark Russinovich on the show! (What? I know, right?) For those of you who don’t know who Mark is: you should be ashamed of yourselves! It’s Mark Russinovich! He wrote filemon and regmon and the rest of the NTinternals aka Sysinternals utilities! He wrote a ton of books and articles about Windows internals He was the guy that found the Sony rootkit He’s a two-time novelist of some seriously geeky sci-fi you’d love: Zero Day, and Trojan Horse He has his own Wikipedia article.

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Episode 223 – Ashley McGlone talks about Active Directory and Premier Field Engineering

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: **** In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Ashley McGlone about Active Directory and Premier Field Engineering! **** **** News **** **** [Tampa PowerShell user group](http://powershellgroup.org/Tampa.Fl/2013-04-25) is meeting on April 24th [The Scripting Games schedule is out!](https://powershell.org/2013/04/03/2013-scripting-games-schedule/) [Here"™s the Scripting Games Competitor"™s Guide](https://powershell.org/2013/04/02/2013-scripting-games-competitor-guide-for-the-public-too/) Interview Guests - Ashley McGlone Links **** **** [GoateePFE - Ashley"™s blog](http://blogs.technet.com/b/ashleymcglone/) All Technet PFE blogs: [http://blogs.technet.com/b/mspfe/](http://blogs.technet.com/b/mspfe/) All MSDN PFE blogs: [http://blogs.

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Up Next: Microsoft Community Contributor Boe Prox talks about WSUS and more!

This Thursday, April 11, we’re having Boe Prox, @proxb on the show! Boe is a Microsoft Community Contributor and Honorary Scripting Guy . Here’s his full bio: Boe Prox is a Senior Windows System Administrator for BAE Systems and has been using PowerShell since 2008.He is also a recipient of the Microsoft Community Contributor Award and is a moderator on the Hey Scripting Guy forum. He is active both in that forum and in the Windows PowerShell forum as well.

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Episode 222 – Don Jones talks about the Scripting Games for 2013 and beyond

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: **** In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Don Jones about the 2013 Scripting Games! **** **** News **** **** The Scripting Games are [coming in April](https://powershell.org/games/) The Charlotte PowerShell group is [meeting April 4th](https://powershell.org/event/charlotte-april-2013-user-group-meeting/) The Philadelphia PowerShell group is also [meeting on April 4th](https://powershell.org/event/philadelphia-powershell-user-group-2013-04-04/) [UAE PowerShell group](http://powershellgroup.org/UAE) is meeting on April 6th The [Tampa PowerShell user group](http://powershellgroup.org/Tampa.Fl/2013-04-25) is meeting on April 24th Interview Guests - MVP Don Jones

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Up Next: Microsoft PFE Ashley McGlone talks about Managing Active Directory with PowerShell!

This Thursday, April 4, we’re having Ashley McGlone, @goateePFE on the show! Ashley works as a PFE (Premier Field Engineer) at Microsoft with an emphasis in AD. Ashley has spoken at TechMentor and PowerShell Saturday. Here’s his full bio: Ashley McGlone is a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (PFE). He started writing code on a Commodore VIC20 back in 1982, and he’s been hooked ever since. As a former MCT Ashley used to teach MCSE classes on NT 4.

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Episode 221 – Jeremy Moskowitz on Group Policy

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: **** In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jeremy Moskowitz about Group Policy! News The Scripting Games are [coming in April](https://powershell.org/games/) The Dallas/Fort Worth PowerShell user group is [meeting Thursday the 28th](http://powershellgroup.org/DallasFtWorth.TX/2013-03-28) The UK PowerShell User group meeting has been [moved to April 9th](http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2013/03/21/uk-powershell-group-session-postponement.aspx) Mike Robbins posted the video from his "[PowerShell Fundamentals for Beginners](http://mikefrobbins.com/2013/03/21/florida-powershell-user-group-march-meeting-video-and-presentation-materials/)" session MVP Adam Driscol brings us [PoshExec](http://csharpening.

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Episode 220 – Mark Minasi

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.** Listen: In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Mark Minasi News The Scripting Games are [coming in April](https://powershell.org/games/) May 2-3 Jeff Hicks will be at [TechDays San Francisco](http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/2013/03/techdays-san-francisco/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JeffsScriptingBlogAndMore+%28The+Lonely+Administrator%29#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=techdays-san-francisco) PowerShell books are [tops over at Manning](http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/2013/03/powershell-books-rule/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JeffsScriptingBlogAndMore+%28The+Lonely+Administrator%29#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=powershell-books-rule) The [Windows PowerShell 3.0 SDK Sample Pack](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/03/17/windows-powershell-3-0-sample-pack.aspx) has been released Please send us your events! **** **** Interview Guests - Mark Minasi Links [www.minasi.com](http://www.minasi.com/) [http://minasiconference.com/](http://minasiconference.wordpress.com/) **** ****

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