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No PowerScripting Live This Week

Jonathan"™s going on vacation this Thursday, so we"™ve decided to record a short show, sans interview on Wednesday evening. We won"™t be making a big fuss about the live show because we don"™t want to steal anyone away from any other live shows which might be happening at the same time, but if you follow Hal or Jon on Twitter we"™ll let you know when we do start recording if you wanted to come hang out.

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Episode 67 – Bob Bobel from Quest Software

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Bob Bobel about Quest's Active Directory cmdlets. And stay tuned to the end of the show for a new contest! News *When it comes to scripting, you"™re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest"™s PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell"™s strength across the enterprise.

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Episode 66 – Scott Herold talks VESI and Vizioncore

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Scott Herold about Vizioncore and VESI. We're also joined in studio by  Scott Moss, VP of the  Southeast Management User Group, a local friend, and fan of the show. News *Want to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and master? Checkout Idera's PowerShellPlus Professional Edition which is now available for download!

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Episode 65 – Lance Robinson from /N Software

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Lance Robinson from /n Software News *This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.* - Hal's book Managing VMware Infrastructure with PowerShell: TFM is now available for pre-order! - Doug Finke is now a PowerShell MVP! - SAPIEN has released a free editor for quick & dirty stuff on the go called PrimalPad.

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Episode 64 – Fred Baptiste brings us PolyMon and PolyMonRT

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Fred Baptiste, author of PolyMon and PolyMonRT News ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * When it comes to scripting, you"™re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!* *For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest"™s PowerGUI. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell"™s strength across the enterprise.

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Up Next: Fred Baptiste Talks about PolyMon & PolyMon RT

Fred Baptiste is the author of a popular open-source network and server monitoring application: PolyMon and its sans-database little brother, PolyMonRT. Of course, this is the PowerScripting Podcast so there has to be a PowerShell hook, and there is. For some time now, Fred"™s product has had the capability for you to integrate PowerShell scripts into the system monitors. Head on over to the CodePlex pages linked above and read up on the feature set.

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Episode 63 – PowerShell MVP Brandon Shell

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Brandon Shell about Active Directory support in PowerShell V2 News ** _ *This segment is brought to you by Idera:* *Want to make Windows PowerShell easier than ever to learn and master? Checkout Idera's PowerShellPlus Professional Edition which is now available for download! The new version has vastly improved code completion and a slick interactive Learning Center.

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Up Next: Lance Robinson from /n software

We"™ve had someone from /n software on the show before, but it was quite some time ago. Lance is also a pretty PowerShell prolific blogger who should have some cool stuff to talk about in addition to what he is working on at /n. Here is his bio: “I’ve been with /n software since 2001, when I started as the Developer Support Manager, assisting software developers with the use of our Internet development components using various programming languages.

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Bonus Episode – The Missing Interviews

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: Today we have a special bonus podcast. We have three interviews for you. -Justin Braun from Compellent -PowerShell MVP Max Trinidad (from the MVP Summit) -PowerShell team member James Brundage with a demo of WPK (from the MVP Summit) Here’s some additional information from Justin’s interview  Worked as a TAM for Microsoft for a couple of years Compellent just went public last year SAN device with some unique maangement tools and features Snapin connects via IP to SAN hardware, no middleware required Snapin also connects to VDS service on remote SAN clients (windows servers) rfoust : ## do you have management packs for OpsMgr?

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Up Next: Brandon Shell talks about Active Directory in PowerShell V2

We"™ve had Brandon on the show before, so you know this will be a good one. This time, Brandon will give us the scoop on what is new from Microsoft on managing Active Directory in PowerShell V2. While Brandon is a PowerShell MVP, Active Directory is his real specialty, so he"™ll be able to go as deep into the details as we let him. We can"™t do this interview alone! We need you to attend PowerScripting Live this Thursday, March 19th at 9pm EDT so that we can pepper Brandon with some great AD questions from the audience.