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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast have a Windows Server Core discussion with Andrew Mason from MicrosoftÂ
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- 2010 Scripting Games are upon us!
- User Group News
- Atlanta rocked it this past Tuesday. Next meeting is May 18th
- Tampa’s next meeting is May 13th
- New York City – May 10th
- Local conferences
- @SQLVariant is speaking at SQL Saturday in Jacksonville on May 8th
- Codestock in Knoxville TN happens June 25th & 26th and there will be 4 PowerShell sessions including some from Hal and @SQLVariant.
- PowerShell in Bing Visual Search
- New Microsoft Official Curriculum for PowerShell v2
- Open source project news
- DnsShell-Â DnsShell is a Microsoft DNS administration / management module written for PowerShell 2.0.
- AutoSPInstaller - Automated SharePoint 2010 Powershell-based installation script.
- VisioAutomation – VisioAutomation is a .NET Library that simplifies automating Visio from .NET languages such as C#, F#, IronPython and a set of tools that use that library. version 2.5.1 released
- DnsShell-Â DnsShell is a Microsoft DNS administration / management module written for PowerShell 2.0.
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Version 2.1 of PowerWF Studio has just been released. PowerWF is a Visual PowerShell development tool allowing users to build PowerShell scripts as workflows, which are similar to a flowchart or Visio diagram. Once created, workflows can be deployed as applications, run as a scheduled task, or back to PowerShell as a script. You can even push data to System Center with the click of a button. To get your free 30 day trial go to PowerWF.com.
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Questions
- 10:19 meson: ## Any plans for new roles?
- 10:21 meson: Does it support remoting?
Hero/Power –
- Superman
Resources
- Display a PowerShell session’s RAM and CPU utilization in the Title Bar
- New PowerShell blog from Robert Robelo
- Background Job’s $Input gotcha
- PowerShell Loop Labels
- Ricky at VirtualizePlanet.com has posted parts #1 and #2 of his PowerCLI introduction series.
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