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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we interview Quamrul Mina and David Kulwin from Pragma Systems
News
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- PowerShell V2 RC is out for XP and Windows Server 2003
- The official release of PSUnit is now available on Codeplex
- Luc Dekens, Hal's co-presenter at VMworld, now has a blog
- PowerGUI 1.9 now supports v2 modules
- New PowerShell User Group in Australia
Interview
This segment brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies, makers of PrimalScript.
Links / Info
- guests:
- Quamrul Mina, CEO & co-founder of Pragma Systems
- David Kulwin, CTO, co-founder, & lead architect
- in biz since 1990, first product in '97
- http://www.pragmasys.com/
- http://www.pragmasys.com/Pragma_PowerShell_Support.asp
Questions
- We kinda forgot to take note of the questions asked by the audience. Â 🙂
Superheroes: David is Batman, and Quamrul picked Ronald Reagan
Resources
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- Lee Holmes has a great script Invoke-SqlCommand from his Windows PowerShell Cookbook
- Microsoft has a video up on #9with tips on working with PS remoting (runtime: 8:40)
- Joel's got a script to help you change your Windows 7 login screen!
- Bruce Payette did a video series on PowerShell modules
- Richard Siddaway blogged about a Codeplex PowerShell Configurator for Server 2008 R2 Core and HyperV Server R2
- Another from Joel; this script helps you to disable Aero Peekfor a process
Tips
- .NET classes, overloads, constructors (e.g. system.diagnostics.PerformanceCounter)
- check to see if PowerShell is available on a machine
- Interesting article comparing Python and PowerShell for the SQL DBA
One-Liner
Connect-WSman ...
dir *serviceMaxConnections |si -Value 30
Contest
Your quest: Create a PowerShell script to generate fractal images. Bonus points for displaying the generated image using a Winform or WPF.  Get started by reading this thread on PowerShellCommunity.org.
