Episode 35 – Community Roundtable #2

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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We have a great show lined up for you today.  We'll be talking with Brandon Shell (PowerShell MVP) and Steve Murawski (Mind of Root podcast co-host) in a roundtable discussion.  And of course we have news, tips, resources, and more!

News

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• VMWare is kicking off a PowerShell scripting contest
  • 1st prize: Airfare, hotel and admission to VMWorld 2008 in Las Vegas
  • 2nd prize: Macbook air with VMWare Fusion
  • 3rd prize: XBox 360 Elite
• Marco Shaw is doing NetCmdlets presentation for the UK User group on July 31st
• PowerShell Team Blog : PowerShell Build Environment for Windows SDK - The Windows SDK team would like your feedback on what features you would like most in a future Windows SDK. One of your choices is a PowerShell Build Environment.
• Introducing psake - James Kovacs  - psake is a build automation tool written in PowerShell. It avoids the angle-bracket tax associated with executable XML by leveraging the PowerShell syntax in your build scripts.

Roundtable

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We are speaking tonight to to Brandon Shell from bsonposh.com and Steve Murawski from Mind of Root podcast.
Here are a few notes from the panel discussion:

1. "How to help the IT firefighter learn a new scripting language"
   1. how to make time?
   2. WMI classes
      1. win32_operatingsystem
      2. win32_computersystem
      3. win32_process
      4. win32_services
   3. AD
   4. training classes
2. Covering too much V2?  <sepeck> well, more thaqt there is this whole world of people who still are just discovering that there are basics to cover.
3. XML?
4. Polymon

Resources

• Hal brings us a couple of scripts for saving credentials
• Getting Started with PowerShell 2 - Part 3
• Video of Ben Pearce's session from TechEd about PowerShell and WMI has been posted
• Jeffery Hicks has been busy over at the Sapien blog
  • Fun with History
  • Fun with debug messages

Tips

• noble musings: Spreading Exchange 2007 mailboxes between databases with PowerShell
• Precision Computing - PowerShell Execution Policies in Standard Images - Once in awhile, we get questions about the best practice for PowerShell's execution policy when it is included as part of a standard desktop image. This is one of the main reasons that PowerShell ships with a "Restricted" execution policy.
• PowerShellers: The "#requires" statement