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Episode 208 – Oisin Grehan and Keith Hill talk about the PowerShell Community Extensions

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.** Listen: In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Keith Hill and Oisin Grehan about the PowerShell Community Extensions (PSCX) ** - psexec.exe -s -i powershell_ise.exe - [Get-Culture](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849930.aspx) - [Get-UICulture](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849926.aspx) - about topic: [Logical Operators](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh847789.aspx) - if (Get-Culture -or Get-UIculture -eq "fr*"){#do stuff} this is the WRONG way - if (Get-Culture -eq "fr*" -or Get-UICulture -eq "fr*"){#do stuff} ** ** Interview ** ** Guests - Keith Hill and Oisin Grehan Links ** ** - [http://www.

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Up Next: Todd Klindt and SharePoint

Join us tonight as we talk with Todd Klindt (@ToddKlindt), a SharePoint Administrator at Rackspace and Microsoft MVP, as we talk about SharePoint 2013! Todd has been a professional computer nerd for over 15 years, specializing in SharePoint for the last eight years. His love affair with SharePoint began one slow day at the office when he discovered SharePoint Team Services 1.0 on the Office XP CD that was holding up his coffee cup, and decided to install it.

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Episode 207 – Dave Kennedy on security and the Social-Engineer Toolkit

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.** Listen: In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Dave Kennedy about security and the Social-Engineer Tooklit! ** News ** ** - There is a new [Dutch PowerShell users group](http://powershellgroup.org/dutch) - The [Charlotte PowerShell Users Group](http://powershellgroup.org/charlotte.nc) is meeting on December 6th - [PowerShell People](http://mikefrobbins.com/2012/11/13/meet-the-people-of-powershell-at-powershell-orgpeople-and-powershell-net/) - [Honorary Scripting Guys have been announced](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/11/04/announcing-the-2012-honorary-scripting-guys.aspx) - [Scripting Games info!](https://powershell.org/games/) ** ** Interview ** ** Guest - Dave Kennedy Links ** ** - [Artillery](https://www.

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Dude, where's my podcast?

With Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up I thought I would put up a quick post with a podcast schedule for November. 11/8 - with Dave Kennedy (post production slowed by illness, I’m hoping to post it this week) 11/15 - no show (Hal is traveling) 11/22 - no show (Thanksgiving in the US) 11/29 - Oisin and Keith talk about PSX If that’s not enough PowerShell audio for you please check out the Get-Scripting Podcast if you haven’t already.

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Episode 206 – Michael Niehaus talks about the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.** Listen: In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Michael Niehaus about the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit! ** News ** ** - a reminder to update-help - Don Jones finished [Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches](http://www.manning.com/jones3/) - [PowerShell Plus is now free!](http://www.idera.com/Free-Tools/PowerShell-Plus/?s=BN_PScom_PSP&utm_source=PScom&utm_medium=community&utm_content=BN&utm_campaign=PSP) - [iPowerShell](http://sapien.com/software/ipowershell) Pro now has PowerShell 3.0 support ** ** Interview Guest - Michael Niehaus Links - [Michael"™s blog on Technet](http://blogs.

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Episode 205 – Jeffrey Snover talks about PowerShell 3.0

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.** Listen: In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jeffrey Snover about PowerShell version 3! ** News ** ** - Windows 8, Server 2012, and most importantly, PowerShell v3 were all just officially launched Oct 26th! Go forth and deploy! - Glen Sizemore took home the Iron Scripter honors at PowerShell Saturday #3 - [Philadelphia Meeting - November 1st, 2012 - 6-8pm](http://powershellgroup.org/philadelphia.pa/2012-11-01) - [November 1, 2012 Scripting Game # 5, the Event Log Strikes Back](http://powershellgroup.

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Episode 204 – Santos Martinez on Mastering Configuration Manager 2012

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.** Listen: In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Santos Martinez about Mastering Configuration Manager 2012!**** News ** - The PowerShell 3.0 release party is Thursday! - [PowerShell Saturday #3](http://powershellsaturday.com/003/) is this Saturday in Atlanta! - The Florida PowerShell user group is meeting [virtually on October 26th ](http://powershellgroup.org/Florida/2012-10-26)to talk about SMO - [Shay Levy reports](http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2012/10/20/two-new-powershell-modules-related-to-storage-spaces/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PowershellMagazine+%28PowerShell+Magazine%29) two new modules for Storage Spaces - Microsoft Windows PowerShell 3.

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Up Next: Jeffrey Snover and the PowerShell v3 launch party!

This Thursday, October 25, 2012 on the podcast we welcome back the Father of PowerShell, Microsoft Distinguished Engineer, and lead architect for Windows Server: Jeffrey Snover. Friday is the official launch date of Windows 8 which includes Windows PowerShell V3, but the real launch party that WE care about is Thursday! Be sure to join us live every Thursday at 9:30 PM EDT at live.powerscripting.net!

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What's in a name? (Musing about Windows RT)

So, I was thinking about Windows 8 in the shower this morning. What? No, that’s not weird. I’m sure a lot of people do it. Anyway here’s what I can up with: Windows 4 NT (New Technology?) Windows 5 OT Windows 6 PT Windows 7 QT Windows 8 RT (Re-imagined Technology?) That’s my crazy theory, what’s yours? Why not track me down at PowerShell Saturday this Saturday and tell me? What?