Tonight, we are pleased to have with us Osama Sajid from Microsoft. For over four years, Osama has served on the PowerShell team as a Senior Program Manager responaible for increasing the managability coverage of PowerShell across the spectrum of Windows Server features. A lof of his work has focused around WMI and CIM, and that’s what he’ll be talking to us about tonight! Don’t forget, you can join us live at live.powerscripting.net. Recording starts around 9:30 PM EST.
Tonight on the podcast, we are talking about MAYHEM! No, it’s not a car insurance commercial, and no, it’s not anything dangerous. Mayhem is a sort of automation engine for Windows that (among very many other things), has the ability to invoke PowerShell scripts when something happens. Join us live in the chatroom tonight at 9:30 PM EST! Here’s the blurb from the Mayhem website:
mayhem
There are a lot of great applications out there. But what do you do when you need to do something, but there isn’t an app for that? Mayhem is an application that lets you connect trigger events to reactions. Unlike writing a program, you simply select an event and a reaction, and then turn on the connection. Voila! No code or app required.
The Question -
Superpower: Keith - Superman
Oisin (first computer) -
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Chatroom Buzz
mwjcomputing: ## Did you have cmdlets that overlapped with Microsoft's base?
**justpaul: ## Is the goal to get the community extentions adopted into official PS cmdlets? Or is there a bit of a post-partem depression?**
Join us tonight as we talk with Todd Klindt (@ToddKlindt), a SharePoint Administrator at Rackspace and Microsoft MVP, as we talk about SharePoint 2013!
Todd
has been a professional
computer nerd for over 15 years, specializing in SharePoint for the last eight years. His love affair with SharePoint began one slow day at the office when he discovered SharePoint Team Services 1.0 on the Office XP
CD that was holding up his coffee cup, and decided to install it. The rest is history. In 2006 he was honored to be awarded the
Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Dave Kennedy about security and the Social-Engineer Tooklit!
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News
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There is a new [Dutch PowerShell users group](http://powershellgroup.org/dutch)
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The [Charlotte PowerShell Users Group](http://powershellgroup.org/charlotte.nc) is meeting on December 6th
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[PowerShell People](http://mikefrobbins.com/2012/11/13/meet-the-people-of-powershell-at-powershell-orgpeople-and-powershell-net/)
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[Honorary Scripting Guys have been announced](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/11/04/announcing-the-2012-honorary-scripting-guys.aspx)
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[Scripting Games info!](https://powershell.org/games/)
Chatroom buzz
<1mwjcomputing> I have to say the live demos of SET's PowerShell Attack vectors were amazing the first time I saw them.
16[2012-11-08 21:39:47] <9ScriptingWife> episode 174 22http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/episode-174-matt-graeber-using-powershell-in-infosec/
16[2012-11-08 21:59:44] <4kobeckman> "Hey, I'm the copier guy."
16[2012-11-08 22:00:01] <1mwjcomputing> PDF Exploits....yum
16[2012-11-08 22:08:10] <5AaronHoover> understatement of the day...
16[2012-11-08 22:09:16] <1mwjcomputing> i think applocker will help the second (fall back) but not the powershell attack
16[2012-11-08 22:09:26] <1mwjcomputing> but i might try that tonight
16[2012-11-08 22:09:58] <1mwjcomputing> pivoting FTW
16[2012-11-08 22:10:19] <4kobeckman> well, it sounds like if you don't have Java, the initial attack fails and then falls back to an executable if I understand correctly
16[2012-11-08 22:10:34] <4ReL1K> yea applocker would stop second attack not first
16[2012-11-08 22:22:53] <9ScriptingWife> BTW last week I said what the carp on Porpoise 🙂
21[2012-11-08 22:28:59] this cold is messing with my brain
21[2012-11-08 22:29:16] I can't get my thoughts together. 🙁
16[2012-11-08 22:29:45] <11mwjcomputing> DefCon 18 VIdeo with ReL1K was good!
16[2012-11-08 22:30:04] <11mwjcomputing> 22http://vimeo.com/15540900
16[2012-11-08 22:30:08] <11mwjcomputing> that is the video
16[2012-11-08 22:38:31] <9ericcourville> SANS.org newsletter is a good resource too
16[2012-11-08 21:54:32] <1mwjcomputing> that is what ReL1K gets for talking about the government.
16[2012-11-08 21:54:36] <2GeekJimmy> lol
16[2012-11-08 21:54:37] <1mwjcomputing> lol
16[2012-11-08 21:54:48] <2GeekJimmy> the black helicopters turned on the jammer!
16[2012-11-08 21:54:56] <2GeekJimmy> **dons tinfoil hat**
With Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up I thought I would put up a quick post with a podcast schedule for November. 11/8 - with Dave Kennedy (post production slowed by illness, I’m hoping to post it this week) 11/15 - no show (Hal is traveling) 11/22 - no show (Thanksgiving in the US) 11/29 - Oisin and Keith talk about PSX If that’s not enough PowerShell audio for you please check out the Get-Scripting Podcast if you haven’t already. Jonathan Medd and Alan Renouf put out some good stuff.
In This Episode
Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Michael Niehaus about the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit!
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News
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a reminder to update-help
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Don Jones finished [Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches](http://www.manning.com/jones3/)
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[PowerShell Plus is now free!](http://www.idera.com/Free-Tools/PowerShell-Plus/?s=BN_PScom_PSP&utm_source=PScom&utm_medium=community&utm_content=BN&utm_campaign=PSP)
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[iPowerShell](http://sapien.com/software/ipowershell) Pro now has PowerShell 3.0 support
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Interview
Guest - Michael Niehaus
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[Michael"™s blog on Technet](http://blogs.technet.com/b/mniehaus/)
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[MDT on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/MicrosoftDeploymentToolkit)
The Question -
Superpower: telepathy
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Chatroom Buzz
RichP: ## Is MDT going to be migrated to PowerShell in the next release?
RichP: ## Will MDT be simplifying itself by using PowerShell workflows in the future?
lizaoreo: ## Is there a reason to integrate MDT and SCCM? What advantages/disadvantages might be involved?
TallPau1: Now WINPE supports PowerShell, will MDT's VBSCRIPT scripts be moved over to PowerShell at any time?
TallPau1: ##Is there anyway to configure the workbench with PowerShell?
lizaoreo: At work now we're using a MDT2010 deployment solution and are moving to SCCM2012, but the dude in charge is wanting to dump all the MDT stuff and start completely from scratch using nothing from SCCM2012, I'm trying to figure out if that makes sense, or if it's better to keep that MDT integration
RichP: ## Being able to package applications to deploy via MDT is another hole in Microsoft's strategy (Orca doesn't count); is Microsoft planning something to fill that gap?
AaronHoover: ## how do customers balance new v3 features and a solid v2 base with remoting? code to v2 lowest common denominator? or if v2 > v2 script, else v3 script
RichP: ## With the MDT Solution Accelerator being the 'deployment' solution, would it not be your team that releases the 'Format-Disk' cmdlets, etc?
TallPau1: ##will the PowerShell help for MDT be updated? not many examples
In This Episode
Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jeffrey Snover about PowerShell version 3!
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News
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Windows 8, Server 2012, and most importantly, PowerShell v3 were all just officially launched Oct 26th! Go forth and deploy!
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Glen Sizemore took home the Iron Scripter honors at PowerShell Saturday #3
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[Philadelphia Meeting - November 1st, 2012 - 6-8pm](http://powershellgroup.org/philadelphia.pa/2012-11-01)
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[November 1, 2012 Scripting Game # 5, the Event Log Strikes Back](http://powershellgroup.org/charlotte.nc/2012-11-01)
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[Creating your first Module - November 8th in Rochester](http://powershellgroup.org/Rochester.NY/2012-11-08)
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[Central Ohio PowerShell Users Group Meeting - November 2012](http://powershellgroup.org/content/central-ohio-powershell-users-group-meeting-november-2012)
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Interview
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Guest - Jeffrey Snover
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[Standards-based management in Windows Server](http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/03/30/standards-based-management-in-windows-server-8.aspx)
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[What is CDXML?](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/jj542520(v=vs.85).aspx)
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[CIM cmdlets in PowerShell v3](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj553783.aspx)
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[Default Parameter Values](http://mcpmag.com/articles/2012/02/07/default-parameter-values-powershell-3.aspx)
The Question -
Favorite books: Nietzsche,
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Chatroom Buzz
JeffHicks: ##What the story on managing non-Windows platforms with PowerShell?
PowershellJedi: Jsnover is a pit fighter
DonJ-MVP: "Server with a GUI" sounds like a crutch. Love it.
beefarino: "Server with security holes"
kobeckman: now if we could just get all the 3rd party software companies to catch up so we can remove the GUI on all our servers
DonJ-MVP: ######### Does the "Made for Windows Server 2012" logo program address GUI/nonGUI in any way, for ISVs?
JeffHicks: ##What is the future of PowerShell workflow? Where do we go next?
beefarino: ## what were the biggest issues getting the individual MS teams to migrate their management to powershell?
alexandair: ## What kind of non-Windows devices can we manage with PowerShell already?
beefarino: ## there seems to be a large gap in powershell coverage for SQL server management; any plans to address?
JasonHelmick: ## have you had a chance to relax and enjoy the success of Server 2012 Core?
Olathemike: ## does Server Manager use workflows or remoting or both to remotely execute code?
alexandair: ## Is there anything in Server Core 2012 that we cannot do remotely with PowerShell?
JasonHelmick: ## In production Server Manager is the most useful GUI tool that MS makes.
DonJ-MVP: ##### What better way than Metro to convince to you remove the GUI from the Server?!?!?
DonJ-MVP: ######### Hal, what's been the uptake on workflow? How much of v3 workflow was intended for internal partner needs? Cuz it doesn't seem as polished as, say Remoting - seems like "we needed this internally so we did it, and we exposed it, and it'll probably evolve."
beefarino: ### can the micro wbem run on an arduino?
DonJ-MVP: (BTW, anyone who isn't aware, the PowerShell community is coming together in April, on-campus at Microsoft - http://www.powershellsummit.org - hope you can join us!)
JeffHicks: ##What PowerShell v3 feature would you want IT Pros to know about that they might not find right away?
glnsize: as the storage guy in the room... Server 2012 + smi-s works great as a general interface. There is always room to improve as SMI-S is a least common toolset but it works just fine.
cmille19: I wonder when we'll see an internal Microsoft team ship a product which relies on Workflow
glnsize: ## how do we combine System Center Orchestrator and Windows 2012? SC2012 is the heart of the MSFT cloud, and SCO is the heart of SC2012. Yet SCO doesn't leverage the V3 workflow engine... infact calling powershell from SCO is still clumbsy at best.
RichP: ## JSnover, do you work with Windows Intune at all? If so, are there any plans to market that to consumers? My family is spread across the country and it would make it much easier to assist them and keep their computers updated.
JeffHicks: ##Does Jeffrey see a day where nobody manages a physical datacenter and everything is "in the cloud"?
alexandair: ## Is there anything in Server Core 2012 that we cannot manage remotely with PowerShell?
Craig: 2012 Sounds good, but don't see my company going there anytime soon. We just got up to 2010
JeffHicks: ##What will be a typical day for an IT Pro/Windows Admin in 5 years? How will this move to the cloud change their job?
JHofferle: ## I want to deploy custom remoting endpoints via group policy...any chance that's coming?
KeithH: Has anybody asked Jeffrey about PowerShell for Windows RT yet? What are the limitations, etc?
JeffHicks: ##Is PowerShell Web Access the solution for mobile PowerShell management?
alexandair: ## Is there anything in Server Core 2012 that we cannot manage remotely with PowerShell?
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Feedback
**(email from Colin)**
In This Episode
Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Santos Martinez about Mastering Configuration Manager 2012!****
News
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The PowerShell 3.0 release party is Thursday!
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[PowerShell Saturday #3](http://powershellsaturday.com/003/) is this Saturday in Atlanta!
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The Florida PowerShell user group is meeting [virtually on October 26th ](http://powershellgroup.org/Florida/2012-10-26)to talk about SMO
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[Shay Levy reports](http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2012/10/20/two-new-powershell-modules-related-to-storage-spaces/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PowershellMagazine+%28PowerShell+Magazine%29) two new modules for Storage Spaces
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Microsoft Windows PowerShell 3.0 First Look [has been released](http://csharpening.net/?p=1337)!
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