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April 2, 2015 • 1 min read

Episode 297 – PowerScripting Podcast -Alan Renouf from VMware on PowerCLI 6

Listen: **** In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Alan Renouf from VMware Interview PowerCLI 6.0 R1 http://vcloud.vmware.com/ http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Platform-Whats-New.pdf Chatroom Highlights http://snag.gy/Cv5eP.jpg http://www.teavana.com/the-teas/black-teas/p/yunnan-golden-pu-erh-tea http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2015/03/powercli-6-0-r1-now-generally-available.html http://vcloud.vmware.com/ http://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-automation http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Platform-Whats-New.pdf http://www.amazon.com/The-Martian-Novel-Andy-Weir-ebook/dp/B00EMXBDMA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ **** **** Question Favorite book:The Davinci Code

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March 6, 2015 • 2 min read

Episode 296 – PowerScripting Podcast – Joe Levy from Microsoft on Azure Automation

Listen: **** In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Joe Levy from Microsoft about Azure Automation Interview Azure Automation blog posts Azure Automation and DSC Channel 9 video Azure Automation getting started guide **** **** Chatroom Highlights Does Azure automation just expose SMA or is it it’s own thing do users find powershell workflows complex and limiting? do people prefer to use portal UI to interact with runbooks or to work in ISE and automate everything?

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February 19, 2015 • 1 min read

Episode 295 – PowerScripting Podcast – June Blender from SAPIEN Technologies

Listen: **** In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to June Blender from SAPIEN Technologies Interview https://www.sapien.com/software http://www.sapien.com/blog/ Chatroom Highlights https://www.sapien.com/software https://www.sapien.com/software/powershell_studio http://www.amazon.com/T-Mobile-Nokia-Lumia-635-Contract/dp/B00LIWB34Q/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1423795422&sr=8-3&keywords=unlocked+lumia+635 https://www.sapien.com/software/powershell_helpwriter List of phones on the testing list for WP10 - http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/02/12/announcing-the-first-build-of-windows-10-technical-preview-for-phones-2/ http://www.sapien.com/blog/ http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education?language=en MIT OpenCourseWare has a lot of good stuff. http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm Stanford’s Engineering Everywhere has some interesting CS stuff also. http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/powershell-azure-resource-manager/ https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn835138.aspx http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Microsoft-Azure/AzureConf-2014/Inside-the-Azure-Resource-Manager https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn654592.aspx http://www.kelake.org/design/apple-baby-mac-1985/ http://memecrunch.com/meme/1YKXW/daaaaamn/image.jpg?w=400&c=1 Is PowerShell Studio strictly PowerShell, or does it have features like syntax highlighting for vbscript, python, etc.

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February 5, 2015 • 1 min read

Episode 294 – PowerScripting Podcast – Michael Greene & Charles Joy from Microsoft

Listen: **** In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Michael Greene & Charles Joy from Microsoft **** **** Interview Building Clouds Blog JEA whitepaper Tenant Provisioning whitepaper Automated Workload Provisioning on the CPS platform Leveraging SMA and JEA for Service Provider Operations SMA resources http://channel9.msdn.com/Search?term=Charles%20Joy#ch9Search http://channel9.msdn.com/Search?term=Service%20Management%20Automation#ch9Search **** **** Chatroom Highlights http://blogs.splunk.com/2014/12/18/splunk-and-microsoft-azure-intro-and-resource-roundup/ http://conf.splunk.com/sessions/2014/conf2014_SWarrington_Microsoft_Business_Analytics.pdf?activity=presentations http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/about blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/ https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Just-Enough-Administration-6b5ad370 found the teched video! http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2014/CDP-B313 ok the JEA episode was back in the summer, #274 https://powershell.

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January 12, 2015 • 1 min read

Episode 293 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVP Brian Ehlert from Citrix

Listen: **** In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Brian Ehlert from Citrix about DSC and XenDesktop **** **** Interview http://blogs.citrix.com/author/brianeh/ http://itproctology.blogspot.com/ http://www.citrix.com/go/xendesktop-for-the-private-cloud.html https://powershell.org/2014/02/12/episode-258-powerscripting-podcast-jim-britt-from-microsoft-on-service-management-automation/ **** **** Chatroom Highlights ##Do you know if Azure Pack is going to be able to provision in Microsoft Azure any time soon? SNover said that even EXEs could be traced http://itproctology.blogspot.com/ https://www.google.com/maps/place/2115+Jep+Wheeler+Rd,+Woodstock,+GA+30188/@34.1491471,-84.416224,617m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x88f571b78f6681b5:0xbd70324994bd2272 http://binged.it/1ANUsvp http://blogs.citrix.com/author/brianeh/ http://ITProctology.blogspot.com (the MVP blog) http://www.thecloudcast.net/ http://www.citrix.com/go/xendesktop-for-the-private-cloud.html here they are: http://mvp.

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January 9, 2015 • 1 min read

Episode 292 – PowerScripting Podcast – News Only

Listen: **** News DSC Resource Kit Wave 9 The PowerShell Summit N.A. 2015 - additional capacity Verified Effective exams will be held at the NA summit Topic Submissions are still open for PowerShell Summit Europe The Mississippi PowerShell User group is meeting January 13th The Twin Cities PowerShell User group is meeting January 13th

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January 5, 2015 • 1 min read

Episode 291 – PowerScripting Podcast – Garrett Serack from Microsoft on OneGet

Listen: **** In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Garrett Serack from Microsoft abount OneGet Interview https://oneget.codeplex.com/ http://www.powershellgallery.com/ **** **** From the Chat room When will PowerShell be open sourced? is powershellget open source (or going to be if not?) will powershellget eventually support a system-wide list of sources (so enterprise defaults can be provided globally)? will oneget be integrated or leveraged through SCCM or other System Center tools?

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December 18, 2014 • 2 min read

Episode 290 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeffrey Snover and John Slack on PowerShell 5.0 (Technical Preview)

Listen: **** In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jeffrey Snover and John Slack from Microsoft Interview https://www.powershellgallery.com/ Jo Ann Snover’s beautiful pictures from Turks & Caicos Here’s a larger set Chatroom Highlights HAL what hair products are you using today? curating code? Any known conflicts with things like Exchange or System Center Operations Manager like previous versions of PowerShell had? or SharePoint??? add on to sepeck Is Microsoft using WMF5 in the Cloud Platform System does the previous Sep release have to be removed prior to installing the Nov release, didn’t see anything in the release notes any discussions of docker support in the near future?

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December 1, 2014 • 1 min read

Episode 289 – PowerScripting Podcast – Mike Hendrickson and Jason Walker from Microsoft on Configuring Exchange With DSC

Listen: **** In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Mike Hendrickson and Jason Walker from Microsoft about their DSC resources for Exchange News Mike’s book: new 4th ed of PowerShell TFM: WMF 5.0 November preview Limited Preview of the PowerShell Gallery Steven Murawaski is doing PowerShell DSC training in LA December 9th and 10th **** **** Interview before: 1000’s of lines of script, harder to read with DSC: 400 lines, easy to read, no config drift blog post: http://blogs.

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November 18, 2014 • 1 min read

Episode 288 – PowerScripting Podcast – Hal and Jon talk about Splunk and DSC troubleshooting

Listen: **** In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, Hal and Jon talk about Splunk and troubleshooting DSC Links http://aka.ms/dscmp here’s my screen. https://www.dropbox.com/s/5bz3jqbghjsh2lx/Screenshot%202014-10-23%2021.42.33.png?dl=0 https://apps.splunk.com/app/1477/ wave 7 shipped https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/DSC-Resource-Kit-All-c449312d wrong link: this one: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/xExchange-PowerShell-1dd18388/ http://blogs.citrix.com/2014/10/09/tech-preview-xendesktop-desired-state-configuration-resource-provider/ They did a series on it a short while back - http://blogs.citrix.com/author/brianeh/ has them I think http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/01/03/using-event-logs-to-diagnose-errors-in-desired-state-configuration.aspx http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog/portfolio/book-windows-powershell-desired-state-configuration-revealed/ https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/xDscDiagnostics-PowerShell-abb6bcaa https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/xDscResourceDesigne-Module-22eddb29 http://blogs.citrix.com/author/brianeh/ Chatroom Highlights: input inot splunk key/value pairs? custom objects? ** ### @JonWalz did you say you have a resource that pushes your PowerShell profile to a remove computer?

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