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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to PowerShell MVP Don Jones about security
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- The PowerShell team is looking for your feedback
- Community member Cody from Baton Rouge wants to start up a PowerShell script club.  Discuss it at PoshComm.
- Poshoholic Kirk Munro has released a new Advanced Reporting PowerPack for PowerGUI.
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Questions:
- JeffHicks: ##What is the longest PowerShell script you’ve ever written?
- JeffHicks: ##What is the killer feature in PowerShell v2 admins will love?
- meson: ## How can script signing ever become useful if its so hard to get code signing certs?
- slipsec: ## what’s “bypass” Â [enum]::getvalues([Microsoft.PowerShell.ExecutionPolicy])UnrestrictedRemoteSignedAllSignedRestrictedRestrictedBypass
- meson: ## What about the ability to override the executionpolicy via -scope
- finked: ## is there a link for posh on mono?
- Jaykul: ## So would you actually recommend saving the money by installing PowerShell 2 on Vista/XP/Server 2003/2008?
- Sabre9774: ## Will the Powershell 2.0 install for XP/Vista/2003 remove Powershell 1.0 if installed on a machine?
- finked: ## I am a lowly developer. When I hear security, my eyes glaze over.When I demo Posh for developers. Seems likes a huge process to get developers ‘secure’ Posh to try it out.Not sure how to balance it
- Sabre9774: ## that is my concern – we pushed PS 1.0 to all client machines in our enviornment, so would we have to uninstall 1.0 manually first?
- PenPerk: ## Powershell Certification — not for the programmer but SysAdmin level?
Resources
This segment brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies, maker of PrimalScript
- Shay has updated his PowerShell toolbar to include the PowerShell IRC channel
- Lee Holmes shares some insight into PowerShell security
- Jeff Hicks has a new blog:Â http://jdhitsolutions.blogspot.com/
- NetPoint has 20 PowerShell cmdlets to manage their product
- Microsoft has a beta of ADWS for downlevel (Win2003/2008) DCs
- At Citrix’s Synergy conference, PowerShell MVP Brandon Shell debated about PowerShell versus Citrix’s Workflow Studio.
- PowerShell.com tip of the day recently: Encrypting PowerShell Scripts
- Chad Miller posted a library of functions to PoshCode for working with the MS Chart Control
Tips
- ServerFault: PowerShell Quick Start
- Enable PowerShell remoting on Windows 7 (RC)
- Poshoholic: Make sure that array is an array