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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Eric Williams from Cisco about the UCS PowerTool

News

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• PowerShell Saturday #2 is coming to Charlotte, NC Sept. 15th 2012

• A Northern California user group is in the works

• Cisco released UCS PowerTool v0.9.8

Interview

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Guests – Eric Williams, Cisco

Links

• Josh Atwell interviews Eric at Cisco Live 2012

• We spoke to Josh Heller from Cisco about UCS back on Ep 154

• @aeroic78 on Twitter

• Cisco Developer Network

• UCS PowerTool homepage

The Question –

Superhero: Superman

Resources

• The Windows Server 2012 Information Experience

• PowerShell tips for bash users

• Hal blogs about PowerCLI and Splunk for VMware

• Setting up a PowerShell help repository

• The Scripting Wife’s guide to setting up a PowerShell user group

Tips

• Change your default shell in Serrver 2012 Core to PowerShell

• How long did that last command take?

• Enable intellisense for custom types by using OutputType (TechNet docs)

• Run PowerShell in V2 with V3 RC installed

• Dive into parametersets with Jan Egil Ring and Will Steele