Episode 34 "“ VMware in the House

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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We have a great show lined up for you today.  We’ll be talking to Carter Shanklin from VMware about their PowerShell Toolkit.  He’s got some exciting NEW news to share with us, so that’s cool.  We’ll also bring you news, resources, tips and whatever else we can scrape up.

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Marco Shaw giving presentation about NetCmdlets

Be sure to add this to your calendars:
From Marco Shaw

“I’ll be (remotely) presenting /n software NetCmdlets at the next UK PowerShell UG meeting. "
http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com/2008/07/uk-powershell-user-group-netcmdlets.html
Date: July 31st, 2008
Time: 2PM EST (New York time)
Connection details:
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=JQ5754&role=attend&pw=6M%2B7p%26KhN
If the link above isn’t working, follow these steps:

1. Copy this address and paste it into your web browser:
   https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join
2. Copy and paste the required information:
   Meeting ID: JQ5754
   Entry Code: 6M+7p&KhN
   Location: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups
   This will be done via the Internet (so the audio will be streaming
   over the Internet also). There won’t be telephone dial-in access.

Seriously Marco, you guys need to get web 2.0 with this stuff.  Evite, upcoming.org, Facebook events”¦something!  🙂

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Episode 33 "“ Cage Match: PowerScripting vs. Quest

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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We have a great show lined up for you today.  With us via Skype will be MVPs Kirk Munro and Dmitry Sotnikov both from Quest.  And no show would be complete without News, Resources, and Tips!

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Episode 32 "“ Citrix does PowerShell

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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We have a great show lined up for you today.  We’re interviewing Peter Schulz with Citrix to talk about their PowerShell product Workflow Studio.  And as always: News, Resources, Tips, and more!

News

Today’s news is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

• Windows PowerShell : IIS7 PowerShell Provider Tech Preview 2.  What’s new with TP2?
  • IIS7 Powershell provider now supports SSL (installing and acquiring a certificate, creating an ssl site binding)
  • Tech Preview 2 ships with 40 new cmdlets.
• PowerGUI hit a major milestone in surpassing 100,000 downloads!
• From the GPO Guy: New Version of GPMC PowerShell Cmdlets Released!
  • This new version represents a significant updgrade to the existing cmdlets. The biggest change is that we incorporated new functionality that became available in the version of GPMC that shipped with Vista, SP1 and Windows Server 2008.
• Sapien has released build 567 of PrimalScript 2007. New features include:
  • PowerShell Debugger now integrated into Professional and Enterprise Editions
  • PrimalSense for PowerShell operators
  • Parameter prompting for PowerShell scripts
• A new version of the GPMC PowerShell Cmdlets has been released

Interview

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Our interview today is with Peter Schulz from Citrix.  Enjoy.  Here’s our notes from the conversation:

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Episode 31 "“ Money for Nothin"™ and Tips for Free

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We have a ton of stuff foryou today.  News, Resources, Tips, and even an old favorite, the Cmdlet of the Week.

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yourself– Admin Script Editor v3.5 is availble for a 45 day trial at
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Episode 30 "“ TechEd Report

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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We have a ton of stuff for you today.  Our interview is with Thorbjörn Sjövold from Special Operations Software.  Also on tap: news (yes we have some today), resources, tips and even a gotcha.

News

The news is brought to you by Sapien Technologies.

• SDM Software - Group Policy Health cmdlet
• Portable PowerShell? Karl Prosser has a way to do it.
• Citrix has released a tech preview of their new Workflow Studio product.  To download a copy, go to the download page, but realize you have to have a My Citrix account (to which you can sign up for free).
• PowerGUI won the “Breakthrough Product of 2008” award at TechEd.  Congrats, guys!
• Dmitry blogs about a new MS Office Communication Server PowerGUI Powerpack
• We may see a new PowerShell V2 CTP drop in November to be timed with IT Forum Barcelona (the EU version of TechEd).  Jeffrey Snover also hints at a release date on his blog.

Interview

Our interview today is brought to you by Quest Software.
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PowerScripting Podcast – Bonus Episode – TechEd Day1

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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Hal gives us an update from day 1 of TechEd08. Enjoy!

Episode 29 "“ Exchange with Ilse Van Criekinge

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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• Today we’ll be speaking to noted Exchange MVP, trainer, and author Ilse van Criekinge.  Also on tap: news, resources, and a bunch of PowerShell tips for you.

News

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• From the GPOGUY we get two new cmdlets get-SDMADTombstone and restore-SDMADTombstone - blog post: PowerShell Hits the Morgue
• PowerShell sill be big at TechEd next week
• Oisin has released a new Codeplex project he has been working on called PSMobile.  This is a PowerShell provider for your Windows Mobile phone.  Features include:
  • Copy, Move, Delete items between folders on your device (including Storage Card) with standard PowerShell Cmdlets
  • Move/Copy files to/from your device and your desktop with ConvertTo-WMFile and ConvertFrom-WMFile
  • Get device information and manipulate and explore the registry with a rich device object returned from Get-WMDevice

Interview

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