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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we are joined by PowerShell MVP Oisin Grehan to talk about managing SharePoint with PowerShell.
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- IIS7 PowerShell provider has reached RC1 stage
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This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN TechnologiesOur interview this week is with PowerShell MVP Oishin Grehan and we cover SharePoint
- Questions from the audience
- glnsize : ## do you use the web services or load the assemblies?
- finked : ## Anything new in Excel Services?
- glnsize : ## were do you see powershell fitting into sharepoint? Â dev, admin
- glnsize : ## are you using the new webservices cmdlets in v2?
- rfoust : ## do you have a sharepoint/powershell blog?
- rfoust : ## is there a good "getting started" guide for people new to sharepoint but not new to powershell?
- rfoust : ## any idea where sharepoint/poweshell is going in the future?
- glnsize :Â ## what is involved in "writing a provider"?
- halr9000 : ## what does nivot mean?
- halr9000 : ## Can you go into the BITS module blog post?
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- Show-Menu function: an easy way to create console-based multiple-choice menus.
- Be sure to download the required Scripting module from here first.  Thanks to listener Jason Archer for finding it.
- What is required to use Invoke-VMScript?
- PowerBoots example from Karl Prosser
- Brandon Shell gives us info on functions and why they are important
- Five simple functions for SharePoint
- Richard Siddaway shows us a new way to create hash tables
- Robbie Faust posts his PowerShell RegEx quick reference script
TipsÂ
- Pasting PowerShell scripts into blog posts
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- Lee Holmes'Â Set-ClipboardScript script
- Andy Schneider adds to it with the "thinned html" option in MS Live Writer
- Hal points out the Code Snippet plugin for Live Writer
- Thomas Lee shows us way to run cmd.exe within PowerShell
- V2: Get-Alias -Definition parameter
One-Liner
PS > Get-Module -list | fl name, description
