Get-Scripting Podcast Episode 7 - (Thomas Lee - Chief Architect Global Knowledge )

This is Episode 7 of the Get-Scripting podcast. Tune in to listen to us talk and interview people about Powershell.

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Intro:

• Recent UK Powershell Usergroup, Jeremy Pack - Error Handling in Powershell
• Jonathan to present at UK Exchange User Group
• PowerGUI Exchange 2003 Powerpack Webcast
• Upcoming books: Hal's Managing VMware with Powershell, Richard Siddaway - Powershell in Practise, James O'Neill - Scripting Bible

Ways to learn Powershell - Part 7:

• Download Powershell
• Get-ExecutionPolicy, Set-ExecutionPolicy
• Update-Gac.ps1
  
• Powershell Profile

Interview:

Thomas Lee

1. Under the Stairs - a mainly PowerShell blog:
http://tfl09.blogspot.com

2. PowerShell Scripts blog - scripts, scripts and more scripts
http://pshscripts.blogspot.com

3. Chief Architect's corner - related to his work at Global Knowledge.
http://cacorner.blogspot.com

The $20 note Thomas paid up to Jeffrey.

http://www.reskit.net/powershell/swag1.jpg
http://www.reskit.net/powershell/swag2.jpg

Company which offers web services on the cloud

http://www.webservicex.net/WCF/default.aspx


Powershell Tip

Set-PSDebug - strict


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Get-Scripting Podcast Episode 6 - (Ben Pearce - Microsoft Premier Field Engineer)

This is Episode 6 of the Get-Scripting podcast. Tune in to listen to us talk and interview people about Powershell.

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Intro:

• Alan's audit script
• PrimalForms Example (Virtual Center Log)
  

Ways to learn Powershell - Part 6:

1. Powershell TFM book 2nd edition.
2. Powershell releated blogs we read
   

• Dmitry Sotnikov
• Richard Siddaway
• James O'Neill

• Hal Rottenberg
• Hugo Peeters
• Eric Sloof
• VI Toolkit Community

Interview:

Ben Pearce's blog

Ben's 6 tips for learning Powershell:

#1 - Don't use cmd.exe anymore
#2 - Ed Wilson's Powershell Step-by-step book
#3 - Scripting Guy's Powershell Week
#4 - Beginner's Guide to WMI
#5 - Powershell Cheat Sheet
#6 - Channel 9 quick start


Eureka Script:

Add custom fields to VI client


Christmas scripts:

• Powershell Jingle Bells
• Check Amazon Stock
• Count down to Christmas
  

write-host ("Christmas Day in " + ( (get-date -date 25/12/2008) - (get-date)).TotalDays.tostring('0') + " Days")

write-host ("Christmas Day in " + ( (get-date -date 25/12/2008) - (get-date)).TotalMinutes.tostring('0') + " Minutes")

write-host ("Christmas Day in " + ( (get-date -date 25/12/2008) - (get-date)).TotalSeconds.tostring('0') + " Seconds")

Competition:

Win a signed copy of Jeff Hick's book 'Managing Active Directory With Windows Powershell' .

Fill in some of the speech bubbles in the picture below and send your entries to

get [dash] scripting [at] hotmail [dot] co [dot] uk






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Episode 5 - Competition: Win a print copy of Jeff Hicks' Managing AD with Powershell book

In Episode 5 of the podcast we announced details of a competition to fill in some of the speech bubbles above the heads of community members from the Teched Powershell Panel Discussion photo.

Those nice people at Quest have given us a print copy of Jeffrey Hicks' recent book 'Managing Active Directory With Windows Powershell' to give away as a prize - they are also going to get Jeffrey to sign it too.






If you'd like to be in with a chance of winning simply send us some suggestions for what some of the panel members below might be thinking and the one we think is the best will get the book. We've got a few other freebies left over from Teched in the Get-Scripting prize cupboard so there should be a runners up prize too.




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We'll announce the winner in Episode 6 of the podcast which should be recorded mid-December.

Get-Scripting Podcast Episode 5 - (Dmitry Sotnikov - Quest AD cmdlets and PowerGUI)

Episode 5 of the Get-Scripting podcast. Tune in to listen to us talk and interview people about Powershell.

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Intro:

Alan's audit script.

TechEd Powershell Panel Discussion Video:

Download (High res - approx 900MB): http://microsofttech.fr.edgesuite.net/TechEdOnline/Videos/406_high.wmv


Or if you prefer not to crack your monitor / TV screen

Download (Low res): http://microsofttech.fr.edgesuite.net/TechEdOnline/Videos/406_low.wmv

A big thank you goes to PowershellCommunity.org for helping put this discussion panel together. We were joined by:

• Ben Pearce - Microsoft
• Richard Siddaway - Powershell MVP
• Dmitry Sotnikov - Powershell MVP
• James O'Neill - Microsoft
• Tobias Weltner - Powershell MVP
• Jeffrey Snover - Microsoft and Powershell Creator
• MoW - Powershell MVP
  

Teched Powershell Community Dinner photos


Ways to learn Powershell - Part 5:

1. Powershell TFM book 2nd edition.
2. Course 6434 "Automating Windows Server 2008 Administration with Windows Powershell".
   
   

Course slides

Course demos

Interview:

Dmitry's blog

Quest AD cmdlets

Full list of Microsoft's AD cmdlets

PowerGUI



Competition:

Fill in some of the speech bubbles in the picture below and send your entries to

get [dash] scripting [at] hotmail [dot] co [dot] uk

We will announce details of the prize(s) for the best entries ASAP.





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Get-Scripting Podcast Episode 4 - (TechEd EMEA Powershell Panel Discussion )

(aka...The one where we discover Jeffrey is a Kung-Fu master and a Kaiser Chiefs backing singer - ruby, ruby, ruby, ruby!)

Welcome to Episode 4 of the Get-Scripting podcast! Tune in to listen to us talk and interview people about Powershell.

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This episode was recorded live on Tuesday 4th November at TechEd EMEA, Barcelona and features only the recorded Powershell Panel Discussion.

Please bear in mind that it was recorded in a large exhibition hall full of people, so there is a lot of background noise going on during the discussion - the content was so good I decided to get this out as I guess an 'out of band' episode and you never know I might even beat the Teched website for which it was also videoed.

A big thank you goes to PowershellCommunity.org for helping put this discussion panel together. We were joined by:

• Ben Pearce - Microsoft
• Richard Siddaway - Powershell MVP
• Dmitry Sotnikov - Powershell MVP
• James O'Neill - Microsoft
• Tobias Weltner - Powershell MVP
• Jeffrey Snover - Microsoft and Powershell Creator
• Mow - Powershell MVP
  

Thanks for listening!


Update 8th November:

We managed to track down a photo on someone's blog.





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Get-Scripting Podcast Episode 3 - (Richard Siddaway - Powershell MVP)

Welcome to Episode 3 of the Get-Scripting podcast! Tune in to listen to us talk and interview people about Powershell.

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In this episode we welcome long time friend of the show Alan Renouf as our new co-host - you can find out more about Alan via his blog: http://teckinfo.blogspot.com/

Today's interview is with Richard Siddaway - Powershell MVP.

Blog note links:

Ways to learn Powershell:

Go to a Powershell Usergroup.

• UK - Next meeting
• Scandanavia - Website
• Germany - Website

Interview

Richard Siddaway's Blog

Richard's book, Powershell in Practice

How to add SQL 2008 snappin into your own Powershell Profile


Make Powershell talk to you

$SpVoice = New-Object -Com "SAPI.spvoice"

Function Global:Say { $SpVoice.speak("$Args") | Out-Null }

Say "X"

(Thanks to Andrew Tearle for sending this in.)


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My stuff is moving......where and why

So with the imminent arrival of the new podcast co-host I decided it would make sense for me to split off my own posts and leave the Get-Scripting blog for the podcast only.

So you can now find my own postings over at:

http://jonathanmedd.blogspot.com

and from now everything on here will be about the podcast.

Speaking of which we shall be recording Episode 3 tomorrow night Tue 28th Oct, so hopefully should have the show out by the end of this week.