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Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we interview Lee Holmes, author of Windows PowerShell Cookbook and developer on the PowerShell team.  And as usual we’ve also got news, tips, resources and more.

News**

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We finally have some release schedule information for PowerShell v2 from Dmitry

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Sapien has released PrimalForms

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The stakes have risen for our PowerShell Challenge with DB4o! - Community News : db4o Powershell Provider Challenge - with prizes

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  Marco Shaw is holding a [PowerShell Virtual User Group meeting](http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com/2008/10/windows-powershell-virtual-user-group.html) on Nov 13th at 12PM EST

Interview







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  We had a great interview with Lee Holmes, be sure to listen. You can find his blog at [leeholmes.com/blog](http://leeholmes.com/blog), and also check out his books!




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      Resources





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          Jonathan Medd posted a cool panel discussion on the [Get-Scripting Podcast Ep4](http://get-scripting.blogspot.com/2008/11/get-scripting-podcast-episode-4-teched.html)


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          Dr. Tobias Weltner is doing an [online powershell book](http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/ebook/archive/2008/10/23/chapter-1-the-powershell-console.aspx)


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          It looks like Microsoft is starting to do some [PowerShell training](http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/11/02/powershell-training-available-through-microsoft.aspx)


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          //o// noticed that The Scripting Guys are [putting out some new PowerShell content](http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/posh/archive/2008/10/05/hey-scripting-guy.aspx)


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          [PowerShell Posters](http://www.drp.co.za/Media/Posters/PostersJPG/tabid/63/Default.aspx) - search for PowerShell


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          Jeffrey's talk from PDC: [ES24: Using PowerShell To Create Manageable Web Services](http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/10/31/es24-using-powershell-to-create-manageable-web-services.aspx)

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Gotcha

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        [Gotcha: MS Data Protection Manager cmdlets don't support -Confirm:$false](http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.powershell/browse_thread/thread/c2de8ea34feeb1a2?ie=UTF-8&pli=1) - Marco Shaw to the rescue! Setting $ConfirmPreference = 'none' prevents the prompt when that is desirable.

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Challenge / Book Giveaway

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            If you'd like to win a copy of one of Lee Holmes books, simply leave us feedback on iTunes, [Podcast Alley](http://podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=48522), or on your own blog. We have four books to giveaway! Send an email to feedback@powerscripting.net letting us know where to see your review.







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            Don't forget our challenge from two shows ago.  If you submit a solution, we'll feature it on the show and the website, and you'll get a little something for your trouble.  🙂  Here is the email from Dale which we forgot to put in last week's show notes:





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“While trying to find a solution to a problem that popped up at work, I stumbled upon an open-source dotnet object-oriented database called Db4o.  It is intended to be used as an embedded database in programs where some persistent storage is needed, but instead of storing data in related tables, it stores objects.

• I’ve tried to access the functions via reflection, but I am just learning Powershell and I don’t know if this is the right technique.  I haven’t gotten very far.*

• I was wondering if you or someone else who listens to the show could take a look at it, and see if it can be useful as an object store in powershell scripts.”*