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Jonathan Walz

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Episode 11 – A new PowerShell community

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: Introduction Big thanks to Shay and his PowerShell Radio post. 🙂 News PowerShell Community (powershellcommunity.org) “Real” non-profit organization created by corporate sponsors including Microsoft, Quest, Sapien, and ShellTools. Event calendar, blog hosting, forums, etc. Still under construction. PowerShell Central (powershellcentral.com) Hosted by BSonPosh and lots of help contributed by Jaykul. “All PowerShell bloggers” aggregate news feed, very cool script repository, news, etc. Still under construction.

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Episode 10 – WinRM will power PowerShell Remoting in V2

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: Introduction We’ve had over 5,400 downloads so far! Thanks, everyone! News PowerShell remoting will work via WinRM according to thisfrom the Scripting NewsWire “Something else to consider. Sometime before the end of the year an upgraded CTP (Community Technology Preview) version of Windows PowerShell will be released, an upgrade that will enable you to run most Windows PowerShell cmdlets against remote computers. The catch? This new version of Windows PowerShell also relies on WinRM as its remote transport protocol.

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Episode 9 – PowerShell V2 news is coming in November

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: Introduction Thanks to //o// and Kirk at Poshoholic for mentioning us on their blogs. We loved Kirk’s post about namespaces with the Star Trek references. That’s the Trouble with Tribbles! News According to Bruce Payette in this post, details of PowerShell V2’s upcoming features will be released in November at ITForum! From <$hay@Israel’> s blog: There is a new book titled “Windows PowerShell in Practice" that is being worked on by Jim Truher and //o//.

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Episode 8 – Meet Hal Rottenberg!

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. - **Introduction** Welcome to Hal Rottenberg! Check out his [blog](http://halr9000.com/) - **News** Jeffery Snover interview - VMWare “gets it”! VI PowerShell blog ex: Get-VM | where { $_.state -eq “poweredOn” } | Stop-VM - Post from $hay@Israel’s $cript Fanatic blog about Sapien - Cmdlet of the week select-object - BSonPoSH’s article on creating custom objects and a follow up article - ** Resources ** //o//’s blog post about the Channel 9 videos

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Episode 7 – Don't Forget What You Already Know

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. - News PowerShell Google group - Cmdlets of the week New-item - Test-path - Get-WMIObject MSDN WMI Reference - Resource Windows PowerShell and WMI - Technet webcast w/ Don Jones - “Active Directory Management Made Easy with PowerShell” from Quest Software, link to Dmitry’s post - Great [blog post](http://www.leadfollowmove.com/powershell-toolbox/) listing PowerShell tools - Tips On remoting /n software “PowerShell Remoting” beta SSH Terminal session to remote server (requires agent install)

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Episode 6 – User Groups are Starting to Sprout

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. - Introduction Thank you for all of the great feedback - Jeffery Snover did a post about the podcast! - News - PowerShell Analyzer can be pre-ordered for $59 and it will be $129 - Next update new-qaduser will require samAccountname - “The PowerShell Guy” wants to start a Dutch PowerShell User group http://shrinkster.com/q3r - Marco Shaw wants to start a Canadian PowerShell User Group http://shrinkster.

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Episode 5 – PowerShell Hits a Million

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. - Introduction Shout-out to Mark Allen for answering the challenge - News New AD cmdlets - the one step account creation works great - From the ScriptingNewswire, May 2007 Windows PowerShell guide for beginners - Downloadable and cmdlet-accessible graphical help for Windows PowerShell - /n software will be releasing NetCmdlets at TechEd next week They are giving away free PowerShell stickers - Ed Wilson’s book Microsoft Windows PowerShell Step By Step - Jeffery Snover said in a blog post that PowerShell has had almost a million downloads in the first six months!

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Episode 4 – Get Data and Format the Output

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. News - New PowerShell book in the works “Windows PowerShell: The Definitive Guide” by Lee Holmes’ (a developer on the PowerShell team) from O’Reilly they have an early access program http://shrinkster.com/p8l - Windows Server 2008 - AD Cmdlets 1.0.2 released - http://shrinkster.com/p8e Support for Vista and Server 2008 - You now have the ability to create enabled user accounts - Dmitry’s PowerBlog - http://shrinkster.com/p8d Cmdlets of the week

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PowerShell video posted

News I found out today from //o//’s The PowerShell Guy blog (fantastic blog) that there is a new Channel 9 video called: Windows PowerShell: Origin and Future with Bruce Payette and Jeffery Snover.  I’m hoping to have the next podcast posted on Thursday.

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Episode 3 – Select, Set, Measure

A podcast about Windows PowerShell. News - Quest Software has released some beta cmdlets for managing Active Directory - PowerShell Analyzer RC1 has been released In this show I discussed the cmdlets: - Select-String - Set-Content - Measure-Command Resources: PowerShell newsgroup Quest Software’s PowerShell cmdlets for AD management Tips: - Quoting rules - Double quotes - variables are expanded and can contain text right after it - Uses of backtick or backquote `

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