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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jeremy Kelly from Microsoft about Script Explorer!

News

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• PowerWF just announced the acquisition of icomasoft’s VI PowerScripter
• Quest has released a PowerPack for vWorkspace
• Writing is complete on the PowerShell Bible and it should be out in the fall
• New software roundup:
• RoboPowerCopy
• NTFS Security PowerShell Module
• Windows 7 Library Module

Interview

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Links:

• Microsoft International Customer Advisory Board
• ICAB blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/icabblog/
• Send spam to: Jeremyk@microsoft.com
• @jeremyekelly on Twitter

Buzz from the Chatroom:

[21:56] <jhofferle> Clippy for powershell?
[21:58] <xcud> Release date on that?
[22:00] <alexandair> ## would it be possible to search network shares?
[22:00] <jhofferle> ## Can the repositories be a shared network folder or in a source control system?
[22:03] <esacteksab> ## Any vendor relationships with other manufacturer's who have Powershell tools?  Cisco? NetApp? VMware? Citrix? F5?
[22:06] <jhofferle> When do we get the video demo? I want to see this in action.

Superhero: Time travel & telepathy

Resources

• Using PowerShell with Azure
• Idera has posted a nice toolkit of over fifty SQL, SharePoint, Active Directory and Exchange scripts
• The PowerCLI blog just began a “back to basics” series starting with Installing PowerCLI
• Another PowerShell tutorial