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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to PowerShell MVP and software developer Kirk Munro from Quest Software.

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• Joel Bennett:  [

Announcing the Microsoft PowerShell User Group of Upstate New York

](http://huddledmasses.org/announcing-the-microsoft-powershell-user-group-of-upstate-new-york/)

• News from the WMI blog:  New default ports for WS-Management and PowerShell remoting

• PowerShell 2.0 RTM!!

• Jan Egil

pointed us

to news from the OCS team that there’s a

PowerShell & OCS book in the works.

• Dmitry gives a little peek at

what’s coming for PowerShell in SharePoint 2010

• Karl Prosser

has a survey up on his site

about possibly making a product out of a PowerShell “portableizer”

Interview

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     [http://powergui.org/tutorials.jspa](http://powergui.org/tutorials.jspa)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
     Questions:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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         ScottMoss: ## PowerPack for SCOM in the works?
  
  
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         meson: ## What powerpacks is the most requested, but does not currently exist?
  
  
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         StevenMurawski: ## Anything new for PowerPack authors in the next version?
  
  
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         JanEgilRing: ## For the upcoming products Exchange 2010 and Sharepoint 2010, will you make powerpacks yourself that ships with PowerGUI or would you like someone from the community to create these?
  
  
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         JanEgilRing: Any hints about whats new in PowerGUI 1.9?
  
  
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         StevenMurawski: ## Will there be tab completion for functions in any upcoming version?
  
  
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         JanEgilRing: Version 1.9 will be fully compatible with both v1 and v2 of PowerShell?
  
  
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         JanEgilRing: the reporting pack works with both Visio 2003 and 2007?
  
  
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         meson: Why doesn't anyone do providers?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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Resources

        - 
          Jeffrey Snover posted some links about

PowerShell remoting protocol documentation

        - 
          Doug Finke wrote a

cool script

to generate pivot tables in Excel

        - 
          And he continues on to

create sparklines

using PowerBoots

        - 
          Tobias has started a series on

using PowerShell in Windows 7

        Gotcha







          - 
            Stack Overflow: 

[

Is there any way to terminate a hung [COM] process in Powershell?

](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1063968/is-there-any-way-to-terminate-a-hung-process-in-powershell)

          - 
            Steve Murawski

reminds us

to watch about for implicit casts!

          - 
            Doug Finke gives us a

workaround for an ISE bug