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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Ed Wilson and Joel Bennett for a Scripting Games roundup!
News
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- User Group News
- Atlanta -Â May 18th
- NYC - June 14th - guest Ed Wilson
- Local conferences
- Codestock in Knoxville TN happens June 25th & 26th and there will be 4 PowerShell sessions including some from Hal and @SQLVariant.
- Book news: Luc Dekens and Al Renouf are writing a PowerCLI book! It is due to be out from Sybex in 1Q 2011 and the title is to be "VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration".
- PowerShell Community Extensions v2 is out!
- Citrix has released the XenApp 6 PowerShell SDK
- New suite of PowerShell-related software products from /n Software:Â PowerShell Inside
- iPowerShell is out for the iPad
- Free 2-hour video training class aimed at developers
Interview
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Links
- Ed's series on error handling
- PoshCode:Â http://2010sg.poshcode.org/
- PowerShellGroup.org
- Ed's site:Â http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/
- Joel's blog:Â http://huddledmasses.org/
Questions
- rfoust: ## has scripting games been your full time job for the past few weeks
Resources
- Richard Siddaway was kind enough to post a review of Hal's VMware PowerCLI book.
- MVP Sean Kearney has a new site up:Â PowerShell.ca
- Don Jones posted a PowerShell Training Roundup
- The Scripting Guys have a great series on scripting PowerPoint
- Don's new PowerShell site on WindowsITPro
- IP subnet math in PowerShell
Tips
- Keith Hill has some examples of PSCX's new cmdlet: Show-Tree
- ExpandProperty
- How do you sign scripts? (thanks to Dave A. for asking)
- Method 1 from Don Jones
- Idera PowerShell Plus has a GUI to help you do it
- Joel has a cool script that signs stuff automatically
- When searching online for how to do something in powershell, try looking for an existing vbscript method
