Episode 211 – Osama Sajid from Microsoft on CIM and WMI

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Osama Sajid from Microsoft about CIM and WMI!
 

News

• User Group news:

  • Indy PowerShell User Group: new website (indypowershell.org), and they have their first meeting coming up March 6th. Topic is Powershell v3 overview

  • Pittsburgh – Jan 15th

  • Dallas – Jan 19th, building XAML interface for a PowerShell script

  • Michigan – Jan 24th

• New PowerShell MVPs!

  • Adam Driscoll

  • Grzegorz  GaÅ‚Ä™zowski

• Dell AppAssure now has PowerShell support

• MEAP available for “PowerShell Deep Dives”

Interview

Guests – Osama Sajid

Links

 

• @osamasajid

• PowerShell team blog

The Question –

Superpower: Solve world hunger

 

Resources

 

• Mike Robbins writes about targeting downlevel clients with the new CIM cmdlets

• Some PowerShell predictions for 2013 from Don Jones

• New PowerShell community on Google+

• LucD has posted an updated Export-Xlsx function

• Tome wrote a function to list and launch the metro apps installed on your machine

• Install PowerShell 3.0 on Windows Core using v2

• Using default parameter values to prevent accidents