Episode 188- PowerShell MVP Brandon Shell on the Deep Dive, Splunk and Server-Based Computing

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Brandon Shell about the PowerShell Deep Dive, Splunk, and server-based computing!

News

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• List of PowerShell sessions at TechEd with great v2 and v3 coverage

• Doug Finke’s new PowerShell for Developers book is in early release

• Bruce Payette will be at the Seattle Script Club on June 13th!

• Tampa’s PowerShell user group is meeting June 21st

• The Boston PowerShell user group is meeting June 27th

Interview

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Guest: Brandon Shell

Links

• Splunk Resource Kit (github source)

• Splunk - get data from TCP ports

• Cloudstack

• Openstack

• Podio

Here’s a screenshot from Brandon’s PowerShell Deep Drive Splunk project:

The Question - Favorite Sci-Fi Movie: The Avengers

Chatroom Banter

ScriptingWife: Brandons music is better