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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Hemant Mahawar from Microsoft about PowerShell v3 Workflows
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Guests - Hemant Mahawar, Microsoft
Links
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http://repository.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/5930/etd-tamu-2006A-CPSC-Mahawar.pdf
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http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/WSV414
The Question -
Superhero: He-Man
Chatroom Banter
ScriptingWife: You all will be so proud. We went ot see Spiderman. AND I loved it.
JonWalz: you said "to release is to ship"
halr9000: aieee
halr9000: doh!
JonWalz: come over to the developer side, we have cookies!
Jaykul: ## Is the workflow endpoint created when you install powershell 3, or when you enable-psremoting?
JuneB: Can I run any command in a workflow?
Vern_Anderson: ## How does it know how to continue or resume even after reboot
Jaykul: ## Have they published examples of using a 3rd party workflow activity?
Vern_Anderson: ## how are variables remembered after a reboot
JuneB: Activity is the unit of work in a workflow
Mike_F_Robbins: “Going forward saying we're not going to use remoting is like saying we're not going to use Ethernet†- Don Jones (TechEd 2012)
JuneB: ## Tell us about Invoke-AsWorkflow
Daniel: ## Are the built-in workflow activities intended be used in PowerShell?
Resources
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Microsoft has released some Quick Reference guides for PowerShell 3.0 and Server Manager
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MVP Max Trinidad has posted some resource links for PowerShell 3.0
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Don Jones talks about the top 3 features in PowerShell 3.0