Get-Scripting Podcast Episode 28 - (Paul Iddon talks PowerShell and MDT)

This is Episode 28 of the Get-Scripting podcast. Tune in to listen to us talk and interview people about PowerShell.

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Intro:

Alan:


vShield PowerShell Module

Using Console 2

PowerCLI 5.0.1 Release and vCD Cmdlets

vCheck6


Jonathan:

Testing Port Response

Checking Automatic services have started

Configuring HP EVA recommended vSphere settings with PowerCLI

Basic VMware Cluster Capacity Check

2nd place in the London VMUG vBaftas for community presentations in 2011


Interview:

Paul Iddon

Blog

PowerShell News:


PowerShell Deep Dive

Don Jones, Jeffrey Hicks and Richard Siddaway new book

PowerShell Resources:

Using PowerShell to list shared folders and permissions.

ByValue and ByProperty Parameter Binding

Using PowerShell with Internet Explorer

Powershell Tips:

Invoke-Sqlcmd

Alias attribute for advanced function parameters


PowerShell Gotcha

Text file with $false in it, read this into a variable and you have $false

Use it in an If Statement and what do you get (True)

You need to invoke-expression because it has a $ infront of it, so call it with powershell to actually run the powershell code so you can get the results.

[Boolean]$Var = $False
$Var = [System.Convert]::ToBoolean("$True")

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Get-Scripting Podcast Episode 27 - (The One Where They Catch Up and Share Loads of PowerShell Tips and Tricks)

This is Episode 27 of the Get-Scripting podcast. Tune in to listen to us talk and interview people about PowerShell.

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Intro:

Alan:

PowerCLI @ VMworld

PowerCLIMan - The Return

Alan on PowerScripting

Jonathan:

HP WMI Provider

Simple Talk - How to add a GUI front end to your PowerShell scripts

What's New In PowerCLI 5.0 at the UK PowerShell User Group

PowerShell V3 Blog Series


PowerShell News:

PowerShell V3 Preview Out as part of Win8 Developer Preview


2012 Deep Dive Conference Announced for San Diego


PowerShell Resources:

Distributed Switch Cmdlets available as a fling

PowerShell scripts to leverage UBERalign for virtual disk alignment

Get-FriendlyUnits from @lucd22

Jeffrey Snover has a blog

Cmdlet of the day podcast


Powershell Tips:

Copy-Item With Alternate Credentials

Netstat for ESXi

Splitting a string with the split operator containing a ".", e.g. test.test.com

$EscapeTest = [Regex]::Escape("test.test.com")
$EscapeTest.split("\.")

Also [URI]"http://test.com/alan"

How to create a PSCredential object


PowerShell Gotcha

'Set-Service -Status Stopped' fails with "Cannot stop service 'servicename' because it is dependent on other services‏

Catching WMI Query Errors with Try / Catch

- Workaround: You can make non-terminating errors get thrown by using: - -ErrorAction "Stop"


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Get-Scripting Podcast Episode 26 - Ben Vierck and Kirk Munro from Devfarm Software

This is Episode 26 of the Get-Scripting podcast. Tune in to listen to us talk and interview people about PowerShell.

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Intro:

Alan:


PowerCLI Poster

PowerCLIMan

Jonathan:

Available for contract!

Jonathan Walz Tornado Video

Interview:

Ben Vierck - Blog

Kirk Munro - Blog

PowerWF



PowerShell News:

Kirk Munro - New Product Manager for PowerWF and PowerSE

Deep Dive Conference Sessions Announced - still time to register

Build conference upcoming

PowerShell Resources:

Coming soon to a Hey Scripting Guy near you! "Batchman and Cmdlet!"

VIProperty Module

Powershell Tips:


How to Hard Kill a stuck VM with PowerCLI

Test a website availability with PowerShell

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Get-Scripting Podcast Episode 25 - Kirk Munro and PowerGUI 3.0

This is Episode 25 of the Get-Scripting podcast. Tune in to listen to us talk and interview people about PowerShell.

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Intro:

Alan:


vSphere 5 Launch

vRAM License Script

VMworld Sessions


Jonathan:

vExpert 2011

London VMUG Presentation

ESXi upgrade to 4.1 including Dell Agent


Interview:

Kirk Munro - Blog

PowerGUI 3.0 - Download

Statement from Kirk about leaving Quest

PowerGUI Pro and PowerGUI are fantastic products with a great team, and the guys still working on the product deserve all the praise and attention they can get. I still want the recording to be available so that it can help that product grow and prosper, giving back to those guys the support (and hopefully more revenue to help pay for their mortgages) that they so deserve.

For the listeners of this podcast, if you are in need of someone with my skills, either as a Product Manager, a PowerShell MVP, an expert in Windows management (with a strong focus on Active Directory and Exchange although I’ve also gotten deeply involved in virtualization with Hyper-V and VMware as well), a social media/community site manager, or as a freelance writer, my schedule has all of a sudden become much less busy and I’m interested in filling up that time with new work once I come back from vacation, so please get in touch, either through http://poshoholic.com/contact-me/ or through comments on my blog post about my departure from Quest (http://poshoholic.com/2011/07/28/one-for-the-road/).

PowerShell News:

Kindle Version of the PowerCLI book available

European PowerShell Deep Dive Conference - Mon 17th - Tue 18th Oct in Frankfurt



PowerShell Resources:

Using the Cisco UCSM Toolkit with the Cisco UCS Emulator




Powershell Tips:

Automatically elevate a PowerShell script

Download the podcast with PowerShell

$iTunes = New-Object -ComObject iTunes.Application
$itunes.subscribetopodcast("http://feeds.feedburner.com/Get-scripting")


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Get-Scripting Podcast Episode 24 - Jonathan Noble

This is Episode 24 of the Get-Scripting podcast. Tune in to listen to us talk and interview people about PowerShell.

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Intro:

Alan:


PowerShell Deep Dive - Alan and Luc's fans




HA and DRS Audit Script

Primal Forms 2011

Jonathan:

UK PowerShell User Group - Modules

vSoup Podcast

Interview:

Jonathan Noble - Blog

NEBytes

PowerShell Resources:

Ten tips for better PowerShell Functions

Brownbag - PowerCLI 101

NetApp PowerPack



PowerShell News:

PowerShell Available to License

Powershell Tips:

Determine the number of users on Exchange 2010 CAS server

PowerShell Requires

Get-WorldTime Function


PowerShell Gotcha

Problems with PowerShell Comment Based Help



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Get-Scripting Podcast Episode 23 - (PowerCLI Book Special)

This is Episode 23 of the Get-Scripting podcast. Tune in to listen to us talk and interview people about PowerShell.

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Intro:

Alan:

EMC PowerShell Cmdlets

Enabling/Disabling VAAI with PowerCLI

Jonathan:


Interview:

PowerCLI Book authors:

Luc Dekens - Blog

Arnim Van Lieshout - Blog

Glenn Sizemore - Blog

PowerCLI Book Website

PowerShell Resources:

Scripting Guys Webcasts x 5 - Learn PowerShell before its an Emergency!

PowerCLI Training from TrainSignal - Hal Rottenberg


PowerShell News:

Scripting Games - April 4 - 15th

- All links on one page


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Get-Scripting Podcast Episode 22 - Travis Jones (PowerShell Deep Dive Conference)

This is Episode 22 of the Get-Scripting podcast. Tune in to listen to us talk and interview people about PowerShell.

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Intro:

Alan:

EMC PowerShell Cmdlets

PowerCLI Freebies

Jonathan:

Simple-Talk Article on Modules

Interview:

Travis Jones - PowerShell Team Blog

PowerShell Deep Dive Conference

Four more reasons to come to the PowerShell Deep Dive

More Deep Dive Info

PowerShell Resources:

WMI Query Language via PowerShell eBook

PowerGUI Add-Ons

- Script Editor Essentials

- Create your own colour theme

Say Goodbye to Vesi


PowerShell News:

UK PowerCamps with Thomas Lee

- London
- York

Scripting Games - April 4 - 15th

- All links on one page


UK PowerShell User Group

- Regular Expressions with Tome Tanasovski



PowerShell Tips:


Speed up the reading of large text files

Getting registry last write time with PowerShell

Get-Variable Definition


Remoting tip

PS> Invoke-Command –computer XXX { Get-foo |Select-Object a,b,c}


Does the filtering on the remote computer and only transfers the properties you ask for:


PS> Invoke-Command –computer XXX { Get-foo } |Select-Object a,b,c


Returns ALL the properties and filters them locally.


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