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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Brandon Shell about virtualization, VDI, and his new BSonPoshPowerShell module.
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- Go grab PowerShellPlus 3.1 beta
- Brandon Shell's PowerShell Module goes Beta
- Seattle PowerShell Script Club – Thurs Nov 19th
- Sapien Press is taking pre-orders for PowerShell 2.0: TFM
- CodePlex news:
Interview
This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.
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Questions
- AaronHoover: How does management with Hyper-V compare to that with VMware?
- jeffculb: ##memory overcomit does ok in vmware... vCPU density is the killer
- aerodevil: ##does hyperv thin provision?
- glnsize: ##have you used PCoIP
- sepeck: ## did I miss the difference between this and the activeroles cmdlets or Microsofts R2 release?
- aerodevil: ##get-RebootTime. What does that provide specifically.
- jtruman0917: ## so would this also push toward Mobile PoSH
Resources
- Jaykul has put out a very cool PowerShell Twitter client that uses PSJobs to refresh data in the background and Growl to make "toaster" popups.
- Virtu-Al PowerPack for VMware
- PowerShell resources from Channel9
- Jonathan Medd has started a new series:Â PowerShell 2.0: One Cmdlet at a Time
Tips
[stackoverflow / serverfault ad]
- Rich Siddaway put up an example of Register-WMIEvent
- And another from Rich, this one is a wrapper for Microsoft's Security Essentials
- James Brundage shows us how to use splatting and a couple of his new cmdlets to send mail in a scheduled task
