No show tonight!

Jonathan is taking a vacation break and there will be no show tonight. Be sure to save up your PowerShell energy for May 23rd when we’ll be having Jeff Hicks on the show to talk about the PowerShell Deep Dive book!

Episode 227 – PowerShell MVP Joel Bennett talks about Splunk

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen:

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to PowerShell MVP Joel Bennett!

News

  [The Scripting Games are on](https://powershell.org/category/announcements/scripting-games/)

  The 2013 PowerShell Summit [videos have been posted!](https://powershell.org/2013/05/07/powershell-summit-videos/)

  The NOVA PowerShell Group is having their [first meeting May 8th!](http://powershellgroup.org/NorthernVirginia/2013-05-08)

  MVP Don Jones will be speaking May 14th at the [Mississippi PowerShell User Group](http://mspsug.com/2013/04/23/up-next-powershell-mvp-don-jones/)

  The DFW user group is [meeting on May 24th](http://powershellgroup.org/DallasFtWorth.TX/2013-05-24)

Interview

Guests - Joel Bennett

Episode 226 – The Virtual PC Guy Ben Armstrong talks virtualization and PowerShell

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen:

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Ben Armstrong, the Virtual PC Guy!

News

  [PowerShell version 4.0?](http://withinwindows.com/within-windows/2013/4/7/windows-81-powershell-40-and-new-cmdlets?utm_source=feedly)

  MVP Don Jones will be speaking May 14th at the [Mississippi PowerShell User Group](http://mspsug.com/2013/04/23/up-next-powershell-mvp-don-jones/)

  Don Jones has released ["The Big Book of PowerShell Gotchas"](https://powershell.org/books/the-big-book-of-powershell-gotchas-free/) for free

  [IT Pro Camp comes to Jacksonville, FL on June 15th](http://itprocamp.com/jacksonville/jacksonville-it-pro-camp/)

  [PowerGUI gets PowerShell 3.0 support](http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2013/04/10/powergui-script-editor-gets-full-support-for-powershell-3-0/)

  [Presentation downloads from the PowerShell Summit](https://powershell.org/2013/04/22/summit-downloads/)

  PowerShell Summit 2013 [Thank you video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRdaMoO6UWE&feature=youtu.be)

Interview

Guests - Ben Armstrong

Call to Action: PowerShell Birds of a Feather sessions at MS TechEd in New Orleans

Hey guys. Hal here. I just wanted to let everyone know that there are TWO Birds of a Feather sessions that I have volunteered to moderate at this year’s North America TechEd event in New Orleans. The sessions are:

Getting Started with PowerShell - This session will stick to the 100-200 level topics. I will round up some MVPs (PowerShell and otherwise) to help contribute to the conversation.

PowerScripting: PowerShell Best Practices from the Field with The Scripting Guy - For this session I’ll be joined by Ed Wilson, and we’ll both be taking questions. We did this two years ago in Atlanta and it was standing room only.

Episode 225 – Mark Russinovich talks about Sysinternals, Infosec, and the Cloud

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen:

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Mark Russinovich about Sysinternals, Infosec, and the Cloud!

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News

• The Scripting Games

  [Beginner practice](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/04/18/beginner-practice-for-2013-scripting-games.aspx)

  [Advanced practice](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/04/18/advanced-practice-for-2013-scripting-games.aspx)

  The Tampa PowerShell group is [meeting April 25th](http://powershellgroup.org/Tampa.Fl/2013-04-25)

  The Philadelphia PowerShell User Group is [meeting May 2nd](https://powershell.org/2013/04/06/philadelphia-meeting-may-2nd-2013/)

  [IT Pro Camp comes to Jacksonville, FL on June 15th](http://itprocamp.com/jacksonville/jacksonville-it-pro-camp/)

  Microsoft is [shutting down Script Explorer](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/04/05/microsoft-script-explorer-next-steps.aspx?utm_source=feedly)

  A free PowerShell 3.0 ebook has been [released in Brazilian Portuguese](http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2013/04/01/free-powershell-3-0-ebook-in-brazilian-portuguese/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PowershellMagazine+(PowerShell+Magazine))

Interview

Guests - Mark Russinovich

Episode 224 – Boe Prox talks about PoshWSUS and his other projects

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.** Listen:

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Boe Prox about Windows Software Update Services and PowerShell

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News

  [https://powershell.org/the-scripting-games/](https://powershell.org/the-scripting-games/)

  Delhi User Group has great [PowerShell content on April 20th](http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=1ce3e2a8604cd419d0637a350&id=8292616e0d&e)

  The Philadelphia PowerShell User Group is [meeting May 2nd](https://powershell.org/2013/04/06/philadelphia-meeting-may-2nd-2013/)

Interview

Guests - Boe Prox

Links

  [http://learn-powershell.net/](http://learn-powershell.net/)

  [Test-Port](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/97119ed6-6fb2-446d-98d8-32d823867131)

  [http://poshwsus.codeplex.com/](http://poshwsus.codeplex.com/)

  [http://poshchat.codeplex.com/](http://poshchat.codeplex.com/)

  [http://poshpaig.codeplex.com/](http://poshpaig.codeplex.com/)

  [http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/tags/boe+prox/](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/tags/boe+prox/)

  [http://learn-powershell.net/2012/05/13/using-background-runspaces-instead-of-psjobs-for-better-performance/](http://learn-powershell.net/2012/05/13/using-background-runspaces-instead-of-psjobs-for-better-performance/)

  [http://learn-powershell.net/2012/10/14/powershell-and-wpf-writing-data-to-a-ui-from-a-different-runspace](http://learn-powershell.net/2012/10/14/powershell-and-wpf-writing-data-to-a-ui-from-a-different-runspace)

  [http://powertoe.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/http-post-with-powershell-to-json-rpc-or-how-to-control-xbmc-via-powershell/](http://powertoe.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/http-post-with-powershell-to-json-rpc-or-how-to-control-xbmc-via-powershell/)

  [http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Invoke-Async-Allows-you-to-83b0c9f0](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Invoke-Async-Allows-you-to-83b0c9f0)

Chatroom Buzz

16[2013-04-11 21:32:07] <9mrrothhcloud__> Did you people see that powershell scrip to tweet from powershell

Up Next: Mark Russinovich!

This Thursday, April 18, we’re very, very excited to be having Mark Russinovich on the show! (What? I know, right?) For those of you who don’t know who Mark is: you should be ashamed of yourselves! It’s Mark Russinovich!

• He wrote filemon and regmon and the rest of the NTinternals aka Sysinternals utilities!
• He wrote a ton of books and articles about Windows internals
• He was the guy that found the Sony rootkit
• He’s a two-time novelist of some seriously geeky sci-fi you’d love: Zero Day, and Trojan Horse
• He has his own Wikipedia article.

Of course, he’s been up to a lot of other cool stuff lately for Microsoft, and we’ll get into that on the show, as well as see what he has to say about PowerShell.

Episode 223 – Ashley McGlone talks about Active Directory and Premier Field Engineering

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen:

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Ashley McGlone about Active Directory and Premier Field Engineering!

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News

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  [Tampa PowerShell user group](http://powershellgroup.org/Tampa.Fl/2013-04-25) is meeting on April 24th

  [The Scripting Games schedule is out!](https://powershell.org/2013/04/03/2013-scripting-games-schedule/)

  [Here"™s the Scripting Games Competitor"™s Guide](https://powershell.org/2013/04/02/2013-scripting-games-competitor-guide-for-the-public-too/)

Interview

Guests - Ashley McGlone

Links

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Up Next: Microsoft Community Contributor Boe Prox talks about WSUS and more!

This Thursday, April 11, we’re having Boe Prox, @proxb on the show! Boe is a Microsoft Community Contributor and Honorary Scripting Guy . Here’s his full bio:
Boe Prox is a Senior Windows System Administrator for BAE Systems and has been using PowerShell since 2008.He is also a recipient of the Microsoft Community Contributor Award and is a moderator on the Hey Scripting Guy forum. He is active both in that forum and in the Windows PowerShell forum as well. He is also a judge for the 2012 Scripting Games. His current projects are PoshPAIG and PoshWSUS, and PoshChat, all available at Codeplex.
He has published a several articles for Microsoft’s Hey Scripting Guy! blog.
As always, join us live at 9:30 PM EST Thursdays at http://live.powerscripting.net!

Episode 222 – Don Jones talks about the Scripting Games for 2013 and beyond

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen:

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Don Jones about the 2013 Scripting Games!

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News

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  The Scripting Games are [coming in April](https://powershell.org/games/)

  The Charlotte PowerShell group is [meeting April 4th](https://powershell.org/event/charlotte-april-2013-user-group-meeting/)

  The Philadelphia PowerShell group is also [meeting on April 4th](https://powershell.org/event/philadelphia-powershell-user-group-2013-04-04/)

  [UAE PowerShell group](http://powershellgroup.org/UAE) is meeting on April 6th

  The [Tampa PowerShell user group](http://powershellgroup.org/Tampa.Fl/2013-04-25) is meeting on April 24th

Interview

Guests - MVP Don Jones