Happy New Year! No PowerShell Live Today

Happy New Year from Jon and Hal!

Just wanted to let you all know not to stay up for us. Hal"™s wife was admitted to the hospital so of course our schedule will be out of whack for a little bit. But don"™t worry, we haven"™t gone anywhere.  In fact, we"™ve got plans for some new stuff that we"™ll hopefully get out soon.

And in case you are curious, Hal"™s wife is fine, she just needs some help to keep a l"™il baby inside until it"™s done cooking.

No PowerScripting Live This Thursday

For what should be an obvious reason, we won"™t be recording this Thursday.  🙂

Merry Christmas!

Episode 53 – Jeffrey Snover and Bruce Payette!

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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We have a great "CTP3 show" lined up for you today. Our special guests are Jeffrey Snover and Bruce Payette from Microsoft.

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Quest:

Getting ready for the big show

We"™ll be giving away two copies each of these wonderful PowerShell books"”but only to those who ask questions during the interview.

Big show coming this Thursday!

Coming up on the PowerScripting Live show this Thursday will be Jeffrey Snover, the architect for PowerShell as I"™m sure you all know, and he"™ll be accompanied by none other than Bruce Payette, author of PowerShell in Action and a core developer on the PowerShell team.

We"™re excited and we hope you can make it this Thursday at 9pm EST!

Episode 52 – CloudBerry Labs

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we interview Michael Farnia from CloudBerry Labs. Plus our usual news, resources, and tips.

News





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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. *

Episode 51 – Doug Finke

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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In This Episode





Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we interview Doug Finke, software developer and blogger. Plus our usual news, resources, and tips.

News





*What can you really do with PowerShell?  With Admin Script Editor the question becomes what ****can't**** you do with PowerShell?  Besides all the advanced code generating tools this is the only tool offering a true PowerShell Forms Designer.  To illustrate what can be done the guys at iTripoli created a full-featured MP3/Podcast player written entirely in PowerShell and delivered as a single script.  Check it out at *[*adminscripteditor.com/player*](http://adminscripteditor.com/player)*.*





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    Version 2 will have inline help for your functions, just like a cmdlet! You can see what the syntax looks like on [

this post ](http://blogs.msdn.com/mediaandmicrocode/archive/2008/12/01/microcode-powershell-scripting-tricks-scripting-the-web-part-1-get-web.aspx)

Introductory and Advanced PowerShell Webcasts

We just noticed this today on mow"™s blog. It"™s too late to really get it in a podcast, so here are the details for you today:

TechNet Webcasts about PowerShell

TechNet Webcast: Introduction to Windows PowerShell (Level 200)

Language(s):
English.

Product(s):
Windows Server 2008.

Audience(s):
IT Professional.

Duration:
90 Minutes

Start Date:

Monday, December 08, 2008 11:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Event Overview

In this webcast, we provide an introduction to Windows PowerShell for IT professionals and show how to automate client administrative activities in the Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista operating systems. We explore the features and capabilities of Windows PowerShell, describe customer scenarios to manage day-to-day server and client administration activities, and discuss command-line syntax usage.
Presenters: John Baker, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation, and Yung Chou, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation

Tomorrow on the PowerScripting Podcast

Our special guest will be Doug Finke.

Doug has been doing software development for more than 25 years. He started on the Mainframe as a Basic Assembly Language developer. The first scripting languages he encountered were REXX and CLIST. He saw how productive these approaches were and sought them out in each new environment he worked with. He has played with Lua, Tcl/tk, Ruby, Python, Groovy and PowerShell since it was called Monad. Doug currently works at Lab49 a technology consulting firm that
builds advanced solutions for the financial services industry in NY and London.

Coming Up Next on the PowerScripting Podcast

• Episode 51: interview with developer, author, and blogger Doug Finke (http://dougfinke.com/blog/). Record date: Dec 4th
  • Episode 5x: Jeffrey Snover (and possibly others from the PowerShell dev team) will join us to talk all about the new PowerShell 2 release (which we assume will be called CTP3). Record date: “December”

We"™re also working on finding a resource at Microsoft to talk about Data Protection Manager and the PowerShell support contained therein. This topic was suggested by a listener. If you have suggestions for the show, please let us know by emailing feedback@powerscripting.net.