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. We did this two years ago in Atlanta and it was standing room only.
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 3.0 ebook has been [released in Brazilian Portuguese](http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2013/04/01/free-powershell-3-0-ebook-in-brazilian-portuguese/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PowershellMagazine+(PowerShell+Magazine))
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
Of course, he’s been up to a lot of other cool stuff lately for Microsoft, and we’ll get into that on the show, as well as see what he has to say about PowerShell.
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. He is also a judge for the 2012 Scripting Games. His current projects are PoshPAIG and PoshWSUS, and PoshChat, all available at Codeplex. He has published a several articles for Microsoft’s Hey Scripting Guy! blog. As always, join us live at 9:30 PM EST Thursdays at http://live.powerscripting.net!
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 4.0 and Windows 2000. Ashley spent eight years of his IT career administering a large enterprise where he scripted for Active Directory and thousands of workstations. Today he specializes in Active Directory and PowerShell, helping Microsoft Premier customers reach their full potential through risk assessments and workshops. Ashley’s TechNet blog focuses on real-world solutions for Active Directory using Windows PowerShell.
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.net/?p=1572)
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
This Thursday, April 18, we’re
very, very
excited to be having