Episode 62 – Ferdinand Rios and Jeffery Hicks from Sapien

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk with Ferdinand Rios and Jeffery Hicks from SAPIEN Technologies.

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      [PoshCode now Twitters](http://huddledmasses.org/poshcode-now-twitters/)


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      ["I Love PowerShell" ](http://ye110beard.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!952F95CB5DE3F349!1610.entry)song by [ye110beard](http://friendfeed.com/ye110wbeard)


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      A PowerShell V2 book is on the way ["Windows PowerShell 2.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant"](http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/scriptfanatic/archive/2009/03/05/upcoming-book-windows-powershell-2-0-administrator-s-pocket-consultant.aspx)


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      PowerShellCommunity.org is going to TechEd


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      Thomas Lee has a [link on his blog](http://tfl09.blogspot.com/) to a $50 off deal on PowerShell Plus Professional Edition


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      [PowerShellPlus 2.1 beta 2 released](http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/news/archive/2009/03/09/powershellplus-beta2-available.aspx)


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      TimeTag time series database has [a new blog](http://blog.timetag.net/) and is[approaching beta release](http://blog.timetag.net/timetag-alpha-13-release/)


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      [PowerGUI VMware PowerPack v2.1.5 released](http://poshoholic.com/2009/03/09/vmware-infrastructure-powerpack-2-1-5-released/) (thx [Virtu-Al](http://www.virtu-al.net/2009/03/09/powergui-vmware-powerpack-215-released/)) 

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    *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. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever.

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Up Next: PrimalScript 2009 with Alex & Jeff from SAPIEN

Wow, we are so used to twitter, we just said all that needed saying in under 140 characters. 🙂

On this week"™s show we will have Alex Riedel and Jeffrey Hicks from SAPIEN on to talk about PrimalScript 2009 and PrimalTools. Please join us at the usual Bat-Time of 9 Eastern (we"™re on summer time now, watch out for that) this Thursday.

And lastly, we want to apologize for no show last week.  A combination of things made production difficult, so we decided we had to bail.

Episode 61 – Joe Pruitt from F5 and the ABCs of PowerShell

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk with developer and blogger Joe Pruitt from F5 Networks.

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Up Next: Joe Pruitt from F5 Networks

“I started at F5 in 1998 at about 20 employees and am now #3 in tenure mark with roughly 1700.  I started out in Product Development as a Senior Software Engineer for our core BIG-IP product. I later moved into a Senior Software Architect role focusing on integration technologies.  In 2001 I designed and wrote a web service stack (iControl) on our Networking gear to allow management and monitoring of the devices from SOAP enabled languages.  I wrote and published the SDK for our set of web services (~3000 methods on our BIG-IP Application Delivery Platform).

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Episode 60 – Scripting UI with Joel Bennett and James Brundage

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk with Joel Bennett and James Brundage about scriptable user interfaces.

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Episode 59 – Oisin Grehan talks SharePoint

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we are joined by PowerShell MVP Oisin Grehan to talk about managing SharePoint with PowerShell.

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Up Next: Oisin Grehan Talks about Sharepoint

We"™re pleased as punch to announce that Oisin Grehan, Sharepoint consultant, and PowerShell MVP, will be joining us this Thursday.  Should be a great show for several reasons, not the least of which is his Irish accent.  🙂

If you have questions or topics to cover during the interview, please leave them in the comments.

Episode 58 – PowerShell ISE panel

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we have a panel discussion to discuss the PowerShell Integrated Script Editor. And of course we'll bring you news, tips and resources.

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Ask PowerScripting: Accessing Sharepoint database from Server 2008

Mark from San Jose California writes:

I have a powershell script currently running on a Windows2003 server.  It acts upon an Access DB (I know ““ not ideal but it is the only way I could figure out how to add / manipulate records in a Sharepoint list ( the Access DB is just link tables from SharePoint)) ““ via the following Conn String:  $ConnString = “Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=$mdb”

When I attempt to run in this our new Windows2008 server, I run into the following error:  Exception calling “Open” with “0” argument(s): “The ‘Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0’ provider is not registered on the local machine.”

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