Episode 124 – John Fullbright From NetApp

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to John Fullbright from NetApp.

News

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·         Execute queries remotely to determine if services or processes are running
·         Restart services, processes, or entire servers
·         Check mailbox settings
·         Unlock user accounts
·         Reset passwords
·         Run custom scripts
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• Bruce Payette says Windows PowerShell in Action, 2nd ed is almost finished
• Jeff Hicks did a video interview with TrainSignal at TechEd
• PowerShell user group meetings
  • 9/8/2010 - Syracuse - Upstate New York PowerShell User Group
  • Twin Cities - first meeting 10/12/2010
  • Tampa - 9/9/2010 - Moving Exchange 2007 Mailboxes

Interview

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies.

Links

• Data ONTAP PowerShell toolkit
• Get started with POSH4ONTAP
• Create Visio diagram of your storage
• NetApp for Microsoft Environments blog

Notable Comments from the Chatroom

<BrianSt> ## Will the powershell toolkit do what perfstat does?

 

<BrianSt> ## What is planned for the 1.2 update?

 

 

• A cool script from Thomas Lee to get broken hardware
• Joel Bennett helps us understand scope
• Don Jones tells us what VBScripters must forget in PowerShell

Tips

• Fun Tricks with Format-Table and Select