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In This Episode

• 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

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• 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

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On Skype with us today is Ilse van Criekinge.  Ilse is the founder of Pro-Exchange, a resource for Belgian Exchange professionals.  She is the co-author of "Exchange Server 2007 Messaging Design and Deployment Study Guide", and author of Exchange Management Shell: TFM.  She was given a Microsoft MVP award for her work in the Exchange Server community.  Ilse is currently a trainer at Global Knowledge where she teaches classes on Exchange and other MS products.

Here are some rough notes from the interview:

• Background
  • Pro Exchange
    • founded 2.5 years ago
    • user group for exchange & Office Comm Server
    • forum, news, events
• Exchange Management Shell
  • Count mailboxes – get-mailbox | measure-object
  • Mass change: move mailbox stores, quotas
  • 248 cmdlets
• Resources for Exchange Admins
  • Books
    • Exchange Management Shell: TFM
    • Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: Tony Redmond’s Guide to Successful Implementation
    • Professional Windows PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (Programmer to Programmer)

  • ExchangeNinjas.com
  • Blogroll
    • http://communicationsserverteam.com/
    • http://msexchangeteam.com/
    • http://www.exchangeninjas.com/
    • http://gsexdev.blogspot.com/
  • 45-day VM appliance with Exchange and DC (VMware compatible)
  • Get-Help
  • Microsoft’s EMS book
• Global Knowledge is a global training center for MS and other vendor products.
• Will be speaking at IT Professional (was IT Forum) in November
• You can find Ilse at Pro-Exchange or contact her by email: ilse.vancriekinge AT globalknowledge.be.

Resources

• PowerShellCommunity.org / PowerShellCentral.com script repository

• Here’s a blog post that will allow you to search the script repository from within Powershell
• And a set of scripts within the repository itself on the same.
• RSS feed now available (thanks Joel)
• Bruce Payette has released a new PowerShell Quick Reference Card for Developer Zone.
• PowerShell blogrolls from Hal and Jeffrey Hicks at Sapien.

Tips

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• Hal’s struggle with untruncated strings

  • "ls | ft Mode, LastWriteTime, Length, FullName -auto |out-file test.txt -width 1000000"
    As long as you put -auto on the format-table, it doesn’t space-pad the lines to the full width, so the file size is only as big as it needs to be to make the data fit in the columns

• Working with type extensions
  • From Hal:PowerShell Tip: Get page count of Word docs
  • From the extremely well written about_Types help file included with PowerShell (and available online): ADDING AN AGE MEMBER TO FILEINFO OBJECTS
• From Hal: PowerShell + VMware Script: Get-HostHealth.ps1
• From the $cript Fanatic blog we learn that it’s faster to select and then sort

Gotcha

• From Dmitry’s PowerBlog – Compare-Object issues

Closing

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