Episode 30 "“ TechEd Report

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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We have a ton of stuff for you today.  Our interview is with Thorbjörn Sjövold from Special Operations Software.  Also on tap: news (yes we have some today), resources, tips and even a gotcha.

News

The news is brought to you by Sapien Technologies.

• SDM Software - Group Policy Health cmdlet
• Portable PowerShell? Karl Prosser has a way to do it.
• Citrix has released a tech preview of their new Workflow Studio product.  To download a copy, go to the download page, but realize you have to have a My Citrix account (to which you can sign up for free).
• PowerGUI won the “Breakthrough Product of 2008” award at TechEd.  Congrats, guys!
• Dmitry blogs about a new MS Office Communication Server PowerGUI Powerpack
• We may see a new PowerShell V2 CTP drop in November to be timed with IT Forum Barcelona (the EU version of TechEd).  Jeffrey Snover also hints at a release date on his blog.

Interview

Our interview today is brought to you by Quest Software.
For a limited time, Quest is offering Powerscripting Podcast listeners a free copy of Jeffery Hicks upcoming book, Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM from Sapien Press.
Go to www.quest.com/powerscripting to register for your copy and download their free graphical user interface, script editor and Active Directory commands.

PowerScripting Podcast – Bonus Episode – TechEd Day1

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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Hal gives us an update from day 1 of TechEd08. Enjoy!

Episode 29 "“ Exchange with Ilse Van Criekinge

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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• Today we’ll be speaking to noted Exchange MVP, trainer, and author Ilse van Criekinge.  Also on tap: news, resources, and a bunch of PowerShell tips for you.

News

The news is brought to you by Sapien Technologies.

• From the GPOGUY we get two new cmdlets get-SDMADTombstone and restore-SDMADTombstone - blog post: PowerShell Hits the Morgue
• PowerShell sill be big at TechEd next week
• Oisin has released a new Codeplex project he has been working on called PSMobile.  This is a PowerShell provider for your Windows Mobile phone.  Features include:
  • Copy, Move, Delete items between folders on your device (including Storage Card) with standard PowerShell Cmdlets
  • Move/Copy files to/from your device and your desktop with ConvertTo-WMFile and ConvertFrom-WMFile
  • Get device information and manipulate and explore the registry with a rich device object returned from Get-WMDevice

Interview

Our interview today is brought to you by Quest Software.

Episode 28 – Jeffrey Snover talks about WinRM

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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In This Episode

We have a great show for you guys today.  Several weeks back we had Jeffrey Snover on the show.  We had teased at the time that there was a third portion to the interview that deals with WinRM and WS-MGMT.  We’re going to play that today for you.  Also on tap: news, resources, and a bunch of PowerShell tips for you.

Episode 27 – Darren Mar-Elia talks about Group Policy

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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We have an interview this week with noted group policy expert, Darren Mar-Elia.  And we have no news for you today, but a lot of resources, tips, and one-liners to ease your scripting pains.  And don’t forget about Quest’s excellent book giveaway offer.  Keep listening for details on that.

Interview

Interview sponsored by iTripoli.
Admin Script Editor provides a true integrated scripting environment for PowerShell.  Advanced features include an integrated PowerShell debugger, advanced code generating tools for Active Directory, Databases, XML files and more.  Let’s not forget about the exclusive PowerShell forms designer. What’s coming up? Soon its innovative and feature-rich ScriptPackger tool will offer support for the dynamic installation of cmdlets! Come see for yourself– Admin Script Editor v3.5 is availble for a 45 day trial at AdminScriptEditor.com.
Be sure to listen to the show for the interview, it’s a great one!

Episode 26 – Keith Hill

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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We’ve got a great show lined up for you today.  I am really pleased to announce our guest: Keith Hill, a well-known developer in the PowerShell Community.  Also, as we hinted during the last show, your participation and support makes advertisers happy, and when they’re happy, they give away stuff.  This one is cool because many will enter–and many will win!  Stay tuned for details.  And as usual, we’ve got a bunch of news, tips, and resources to share.

Episode 25 – CTP 2: The Return of CTP

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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In This Episode

• We have a great show lined up for you today.  Don Jones from Sapien is here.  [applause]  He’ll be giving us a taste of the trade show circuit, going into CTP2, and other goings-on in the PowerShell world.  And of course we have tips and resources and whatever else we can throw in.
• We will be announcing the winner of our Vista Ultimate giveaway on Show 26 next week.  If you haven’t entered yet, now is the time!  It’s really easy, just send feedback about the show to and you are in the running.

News

The News today is sponsored by SDM Software.
“SDM Software provides innovative solutions that combine PowerShell and Group Policy to help reduce the complexity of managing your Windows systems.  Their unique GPExpert Scripting Toolkit for PowerShell, provides the means to automate the management of your Group Policy Objects. To get more information about these products and download trial copies,
visit sdmsoftware.com/powerscripting.php.”

Show Us Your Cmdlets!

This little one-liner will show the most common verbs among all the cmdlets installed in the current PowerShell session.

1: PS > gcm -CommandType cmdlet | Group Verb | Sort Count -Descending | Select -First 102: 3: Count Name Group4: —– —- —–5: 128 Get {Get-Acl, Get-ADObject, Get-Alias, Get-Authentico...6: 46 Set {Set-Acl, Set-Alias, Set-AuthenticodeSignature, S…7: 36 New {New-Alias, New-CDDrive, New-Client, New-Cluster,...8: 34 Remove {Remove-CDDrive, Remove-Cluster, Remove-CustomFie…9: 15 Send {Send-Email, Send-FTP, Send-IM, Send-Mail, Send-M...10: 14 Write {Write-BZip2, Write-Clipboard, Write-Debug, Write…11: 13 Invoke {Invoke-Command, Invoke-Expression, Invoke-Histor...12: 11 Out {Out-Chart, Out-Clipboard, Out-Default, Out-File,…13: 10 Add {Add-Contact, Add-Content, Add-History, Add-Membe...14: 10 Move {Move-Cluster, Move-Datacenter, Move-Folder, Move… `I just realized the above is the CLI equivalent of looking at a screenshot of someone"™s Windows desktop and wondering what all those tray icons do.  🙂
What snapins do you think I have installed?  What about you guys?

Episode 24 – Admin Script Editor

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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• Today we’ll be speaking to Steven Behrns from iTripoli, the developers who brought you Admin Script Editor. Also on tap: news, resources, and a bunch of PowerShell tips for you. In addition, we’ve got a product giveaway, the first of many! But you have to listen to find out how to enter. 🙂

News

The News today is sponsored by SDM Software.
Before we go into the spiel, I’d like to mention that we’ve gotten some great feedback from Quest already, so thanks to everyone who has done a clickthrough and filled out the form. You do keep doing that, and we keep the advertisers happy, and that allows US to do more for you. You will start to see the results of that in this very show!
“SDM Software provides innovative solutions that combine PowerShell and Group Policy to help reduce the complexity of managing your Windows systems. Their unique GPExpert Scripting Toolkit for PowerShell, provides the means to automate the management of your Group Policy Objects.
To get more information about these products and download trial copies,
visit sdmsoftware.com/powerscripting.php.”

Episode 23 – IIS7 Special

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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In This Episode

• Today we’ve got an interview with a senior program manager from the IIS team at Microsoft.  We’ve also got news, resources, and a bunch of PowerShell tips for you.

News

The News today is sponsored by SDM Software:
“SDM Software provides innovative solutions that combine PowerShell and Group Policy to help reduce the complexity of managing your Windows systems.  Their unique GPExpert Scripting Toolkit for PowerShell, provides the means to automate the management of your Group Policy Objects. To get more information about these products and download trial copies, visit sdmsoftware.com/powerscripting.php.”