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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Fred Baptiste, author of PolyMon and PolyMonRT
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- PowerShell is now available as an optional download on Microsoft Update
- Microsoft TechDays live virtual event April 1st. PowerShell MVP and PSVUG leader Marco Shaw is presenting the only PowerShell session. You can find more about it on his blog.
- Veeam just released some cmdlets to go with their VMware reporting product. But they flubbed the cmdlet names–and apologized . Listen for the full story.
- Quest is about to release version 1.2 of the AD Cmdlets
- Hal’s book, Managing VMware Infrastructure with PowerShell: TFM is available for pre-order this week!
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PolyMon
PolyMonRT
- spowser : ## I had a coworker ask me how active the Polymon project is since the last release was May 2008
- ChadMiller : ##Is Polymon closer to Spotlight than MOM/SCOM?
- StevenMurawski : ##Is the next release of PolyMon going to use the PowerShell runtime as it’s engine? Â (make all monitors cmdlets?)
- Â spowser : ## I saw there was a note about a web interface, is there an ETA on that?
- EBGreen : ##I haven’t investigated this myself but how extensible is PolymonRT? Specifically adding new display widgets.
- EBGreen : ##How does it compare to Power Gadgets (other than price 🙂 )?
- glnsize : ## when did you find powershell, and what made you integrate it into polymon
- ChadMiller : ##What about alert supression?
- glnsize : ## what’s the performace of a powershell monitor
- glnsize : ## what is the difference of pollymonrt vs pollymon
- PolyMon Controls:Â http://www.codeplex.com/PolyMonControls
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- PowerShell 0-60Â in One Evening
- Sergei Antonov’s IIS blog
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FatBeard put up a list of snapins, some of which you may not have seen.
- Don Jones has put up a new series (5 parts so far) called Practical PowerShell
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- Using Get-Member -Static (from Stack Overflow)
- Using Unicode function names (from Doug Finke)
- “Why is my [vmware powershell toolkit] code so slow?” (from VI PowerShell blog)
One-Liner
PS > Get-ChildItem env:Use*
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