A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Jeff Atwood about technical communities, ServerFault, and StackOverflow
News
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- Don't miss the Seattle Script Club this Thursday the 19th. Watch the PowerShell team blog where the slide deck and maybe a video will be posted afterwards. Focus will be building graphs with Visifire and WPK.
- Project Onyx finally has a public alpha (also see Al Renouf's blog post)
- PowerShell V2 is supported for Exchange 2007 SP2
- TechMentor 2010 is now open for registration, and they have a PowerShell track.
- PowerShell Help 2.0 Community Edition has been released by SAPIEN
Interview
This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.
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Questions
- your background
- Why come up with a new type of Q&A site?
- what have you learned so far?
- tech challenges
- SO vs SF (and the rest). I expect to spend quite a bit of time here, to be sure that my listeners, the majority of which are admins, understand where PowerShell questions fit, given that it _is_ a computer language.
- Who is Rock Hard Awesome? 🙂
Resources
- Rich Siddaway has a script that shows you how to create a scheduled task to clear your temp files using the TaskScheduler module from the PowerShellPack. Rich also has a follow-up article where he goes into more depth on the cmdlets included in the TaskScheduler module.
- Klaus Graefensteiner has a script for un-installing products by name
- Creating word clouds with PowerShell and PowerPoint from James O'Neill
Tips
Please support our sponsor ServerFault.com, the ultimate Q&A site for system administrators!
- MVP Joel Bennett tells how to sign PowerShell scripts automatically
- How do I turn windows features on or off using powershell?
- Ed Wilson gives us a great post showing how to use web services from PowerShell
- Steve Murawski posted a script to pull tables out of Crystal Reports
- powershell v2 remoting - How do you enable unecrypted traffic
One-Liner
As documented recently on the PowerShell team blog:
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