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Episode 52 – CloudBerry Labs

Jonathan Walz
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Today on the PowerScripting Podcast we interview Michael Farnia from CloudBerry Labs. Plus our usual news, resources, and tips.


News





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    SAN vendor Compellent [has just released](http://www.compellent.com/Products/Solutions/Enterprise-Automation.aspx) a snapin with over 60-cmdlets.


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    SAPIEN's blog has [some details](http://blog.sapien.com/index.php/2008/12/02/objects-in-motion/) about new features coming in 2009. 


        object browser


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        cmdlet tree


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        embedded console






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    Dmitry points us to a post on the [PowerGUI.org](http://powergui.org/) forums with details of version 1.2 of their AD cmdlets. 


        Due Q1 or early Q2 2009


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        "Release would add some additional AD management cmdlets (like tombstone enumeration and un-delete), additional filtering when enumerating group memberships, user-friendly filtering by creation and last modification time, etc. More would come for proxy mode, in particular access to ActiveRoles Server change history storage and approval tasks queue. Also, we are going to make another iteration with performance optimization."






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    Back on Nov 21st, Joel released [a new version of his Get-DNS cmdlet](http://huddledmasses.org/update-to-poshnet-and-get-dns/) which works like dig on Linux.


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            CloudBerry Labs: [http://www.cloudberrylab.com/](http://www.cloudberrylab.com/)


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            The snapin [http://www.cloudberrylab.com/?id=14](http://www.cloudberrylab.com/?id=14)


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            JeffHicks : ##I don't know much about Amazon's S3 service.  What is it  and why would I care as a Windows admin?


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            rfoust : ## how does authentication work?


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            rfoust: ## can you be connected to two accounts at once?


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            rfoust : ## is the powershell support cmdlets or scripts or both?


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            ustreamer-62178 : ## will your cloudberry stuff support Rackspace's cloud?


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            rfoust : ## can it auto recover from failed transfers?


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            cartershanklin : ## Are they looking to do more than storage? Deploy apps to EC2? Or anything else with EC2?


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            JeffHicks : ##do the powershell cmdlets duplicate everything you can do in the GUI? Or ore are the extra features in the GUI or PowerShell onl?


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              cartershanklin : ## No extensibility / API I mean





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            JeffHicks : ##how is their app licensed?


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            sepeck : ## Is this for v1 or v2 and anything related to the cloud computing tools announced with Azure at the MS PDC?


    Resources





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Network troubleshooting script from Thomas Lee: Send-UDPDatagran.ps1. You can also download all of his scripts in one go at his script library.

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The latest RTWA eJournal has an article by Jeff Hicks titled “Practical PowerShell: Managing WMI Events with Windows PowerShell, Part 1”.

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Correlate VMware disk usage withthis script by Hugo Peeters. Goes from VM’s logical disks, to partitions, to vmdks, to datastores.

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The guys at Microsoft’s security vulnerability blog have posted a script that will disable protocol handlers to reduce the attack surface on a PC.

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*Script to download all of the PDC content *

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*PowerShell WMI Wizard from Jeff Hicks *

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Gotcha

        foreach ($OU in $myOUs) {

$myUsers = Get-QADobject -SearchRoot $OU -LdapFilter $myFilter -IncludedProperties mailNickName

$myUsers | Format-Table mailnickname

        }





        out-lineoutput : Object of type "Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.FormatStartData" is not legal or not in the correct sequence. This is likely caused by a user-specified "format-table" command which is conflicting with the default formatting.


        One-Liner

This was modified from an idea originally by the PowerShell Jedi. Go check out his new blog.

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