Episode 80 – Klaus Graefensteiner - PowerShell.org

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we interview Klaus Graefensteiner, a software tester for Rockwell

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    - 
      Seattle PowerShell Script Club #2

is coming up 9/3/2009

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of the new feature(s).

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              Links





              - 
                [TellingMachine.com](http://tellingmachine.com/)


              - 
                [Working with netmon & PowerShell](http://tellingmachine.com/post/2009/04/Extreme-Mesh-Up-using-NUnit2c-PSExec2c-PowerShell-and-NetMon-32-to-automate-http-traffic-monitoring.aspx)


              - 
                [VRTA](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=119F3477-DCED-41E3-A0E7-D8B5CAE893A3&displaylang=en)


              - 
                [PSUnit](http://www.psunit.org/)


              - 
                [Getting Started Guide](http://tellingmachine.com/post/2009/08/PSUnit-PowerShell-Unit-Testing-Framework-ndash3b-Getting-Started-Guide-ndash3b-Running-Unit-Tests-ndash3b-Version-2-Beta-1.aspx)


              - 
                [When PowerShell hash table magic backfires](http://www.tellingmachine.com/post/2009/01/When-PowerShell-hash-table-magic-backfires.aspx)


              - 
                [Darth Enumerator](http://www.tellingmachine.com/post/2009/04/Introducing-Darth-Enumerator-PowerShell-TIE-Fighter-Operator.aspx)


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                [Limitatinos of PS V2 advanced function validation rules](http://www.tellingmachine.com/post/2009/06/Limitations-of-PowerShell-20-Parameter-Validation-Attributes.aspx)


              -

Downloading historical weather station data using Advanced PowerShell functions

              - 
                [Twitter.com/senf](http://twitter.com/senf)









                Questions





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                  lmrobins: ## Can you categorize tests the same way you can with nunit? Â When running the tests, can you run only specific categories or exclude specific categories?


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                  jasonmarcher: ## Can PSUnit return the test results as objects? Â Like TestName, Result, Description


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                  lmrobins: ## Your work is a .net shop? Â How do you plan to integrate the framework into that? Â Create instances of your C# classes inside ps?


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                  glnsize: ## i see multiple validatescript blocks on some params... how does that work?

Resources

                - 
                  PowerShell/PowerCLI

help for beginners

                - 
                  [Finding old or unused accounts in Active Directory](http://blog.securitywhole.com/2009/08/12/finding-old-or-unused-accounts-with-powershell-v2.aspx)

Securitywhole.com

              - 
                C[reating subnets in AD with PowerShell](http://blogs.msdn.com/adpowershell/archive/2009/08/11/active-directory-powershell-to-manage-sites-and-subnets-part-2-new-xadsubnet.aspx)


              - 
                [Convert PowerShell objects to JSON](http://dougfinke.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/12/easily-convert-powershell-objects-to-json/)


              - 
                Brandon Shell

shares some AD functions

                - 
                  [Get-ExchangeWhiteSpace](http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/scriptfanatic/archive/2009/08/13/exchange-white-space.aspx) from Shay

                Tips







                  - 
                    [Creating an XPath document in PowerShell](http://powershellcommunity.org/Forums/tabid/54/aff/19/aft/4119/afv/topic/afpgj/1/Default.aspx#5968)

PowerShellCommunity.org

                - 
                  [Working with WMI dates](http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/08/12/get-systemuptime-and-working-with-the-wmi-date-format.aspx)

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