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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to author and developer Lee Holmes from the PowerShell team.
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- You can now use the Microsoft AD Cmdlets on your Windows Server 2003 domain
- New from PowerWF:Â convert scripts to workflows, v2 support, UAC, PowerCLI support
- PrimalForms 2009 now has an integrated script editor
- Brandon informs us of a new AD Codeplex project: AD Replication Module
Interview
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Questions
- glnsize: ## what is the provider story? Â Where a couple years in now, where do providers work?
- glnsize: ## wait we can use eventing to handle jobs... i thought this was limited to wmi
- glnsize: ## what scope does the event scriptblock run in?
- palen: ## do events get lost when the powershell.exe host is close?
- aleksandar: ## can we get a blog post in the near future about the eventing in V2. it's new and very powerful feature, but most of the sysadmins are not very familiar with it
- glnsize: ## where are these (ISE) extentions?
- glnsize: ## with providers not your lane, but what do i have to do to get a skydrive provider?
- spowser: ##Is Powershell ISE considered part of Powershell release cycle or can updates be released off-cycle?
- glnsize: ##we're suppose to be migrating to powershell.... did I just hear that I should be using an NT cmd over a powershell core function
- palen: ## Is it in the roadmap to make .ps1 scripts native logon/logoff scripts?
- finked: ## What is the easiest way to list the events in the ISE that you can register for
- glnsize: ##besides the registry where have transactions been implemented?
- spowser: ##What kind of feedback have you got from other teams within Microsoft about V2?
- glnsize: ## softball -> favorite feature of V2...hardball->feature you couldn't get in
- glnsize: ## I think transactions are awesome, but I barley ever modify the registry
- glnsize: ##is there a post that shows me how my advanced functions can support transactions? Â how involoved is this
- finked: ## Will transactions be in the new Cook Book? What is new in the vNext Cook Book?
- glnsize: ## will there be a v 2.1 or will be have to wait till windows 8 for the next posh release... feel free not to answer 😉
- glnsize: ##isn't [execution policy] -scope process a security hole?
Resources
- Brandon dished up a list of the Windows 2008 R2 Group Policy Cmdlets
- Cody Bunch has posted a script to schedule VMware Fault Tolerance
- Lee Holmes shows us the PowerShell equivalent of NET HELPMSG
- Using computed properties in Select-Object
- Carter Shanklin wrote this script to grab h/w serial # data from your ESX servers
Gotcha
One-Liner
- Get-Help New-Object -Parameter property
- $profile | fl * -Force
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(thx Powershell.com):
Get-Process |where-Object {$_.mainWindowTitle} |format-table id,name,mainwindowtitle –AutoSize
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