Episode 139 – Brian and Ben from DevFarm

February 14, 2011| PowerScripting Podcast

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Brian and Ben from DevFarm about PowerWF and PowerSE

News

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Links:

PowerWF:Â http://powerwf.com/
PowerSE:Â http://powerwf.com/products/powerse.aspx

Chatroom Buzz:

21:47 <RavikanthChaganti> ##Can we extend the editor features? Is there a public SDK?

21:48 <Start-Automating> ## If you’re using SE, can you update the workflow? Â Can you use this to split up tough pipelines into eaiser chunks?

22:13 <ihunger> ## Ask Ben how VEEAM got their name, that will get you going

Resources

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Profiles in PowerShell
Shay (re)found a very cool PowerShell sidebar gadget
Cool script toÂ remove local profiles
Dmitry links to a video showing how to change VMware attributes using PowerGUI
Another one from Shay: Netstat for PowerShell
Ravikanth Chaganti has release a free eBook WMI Query Language via PowerShell

Feedback

I have written my first script.Â From Jerry Lee Ford Jrâ€™s book, the script is the knock knock joke.Â And when I run it I get the message â€œexecution of scripts is disabled on this system.Â Please see get-help about-signingâ€.
So of course I want to run the script right away and so I type â€œget-executionpolicyâ€Â and I see that it is restricted. So I â€œset-executionpolicy remotesignedâ€.
Â So finally my question, can I leave â€œexecutionpolicy remotesignedâ€ ? Â Do I need to be concerned about security?Â Would I be better off to sign all my scripts?
Â Thanks,
Bob