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Today we have an interview with Tobias Weltner the developer of PowerShell Plus as well as tips, resources and news. We also have some winners in our review contest.

News





*Quest Software is offering Powerscripting Podcast listeners a free copy of Jeffery Hicks new book, Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM from Sapien Press. Visit [quest.com/powerscripting](http://quest.com/powerscripting) to register for your copy, before they run out. While you"™re there download their free graphical user interface, script editor and Active Directory commands.

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    [Hal is an MVP!!!](http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/mvp-award-renewed/)


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    PowerShellPlus v2 is out of beta and on the shelves.  Also, PowerShell Analyzer is now [100% free](http://karlprosser.com/coder/2008/10/02/powershell-analyzer-now-100-free/)


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    Sapien's PowerShell Boot Camp is [coming to Dallas in February](http://blog.sapien.com/index.php/2008/10/02/powershell-boot-camp-coming-to-dallas/)


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    [

StackOverflow ](http://stackoverflow.com/) by  Joel Spolsky  &  Jeff Atwood

  Interview

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    We had a great time interviewing Tobias Weltner about PowerShellPlus. Hope you enjoy!







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      Resources





      - 
        Specops Remote Admin CTP - Jonathan Medd does a good review over at [Get-Scripting](http://get-scripting.blogspot.com/2008/10/specops-remote-admin-ctp.html)


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        Brad Rutkowski has a great post about [using Invoke-Command to launch a script on a remote computer which connects to network resources](http://blogs.technet.com/brad_rutkowski/archive/2008/09/26/using-invoke-command-to-launch-a-script-on-a-remote-computer-which-connects-to-network-resources.aspx)


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        Brad also brings some good info using [Set-Acl on a registry key](http://blogs.technet.com/brad_rutkowski/archive/2008/09/29/set-acl-on-registry-key.aspx)


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        Hat trick!!! Brad again with a solution to a [problem using Get-WMIObject against Windows 2008](http://blogs.technet.com/brad_rutkowski/archive/2008/09/08/getting-access-denied-when-trying-to-query-root-mscluster-namespace-remotely-against-windows-2008.aspx)

      Tips





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        A question from Phactotum (a fellow IBMer with Hal) about how to take data in a CSV and act on it turned into [a blog post](http://www.ustream.tv/channel/powerscripting-podcast) by Hal.









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            Stack Overflow questions on PowerShell








                [PowerShell functions return behavior](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/149191/powershell-functions-return-behavior)









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                [

Waiting for user input with a timeout ](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/150161/waiting-for-user-input-with-a-timeout)

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             Get-User function [on PoshCode](http://poshcode.org/628)

      Contest





      We're happy to announce the winners of our SAPIEN book giveaway:





      - 
        David Travis wrote a great review in iTunes!


      - 
        [David Moravec](http://powershell-cz.blogspot.com/)  wrote a review on his blog. I thought it was cool to see that we have at least one listener in the Czech Republic!