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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Ed Wilson, the Scripting Guy 

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      Jonathan Medd has a great [blog series](http://www.jonathanmedd.net/category/cmdlet-series) titled "One Cmdlet at a Time", he's already up to [#23 Disable-ComputerRestore](http://www.jonathanmedd.net/2009/12/powershell-2-0-one-cmdlet-at-a-time-23-disable-computerrestore.html)


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      Ed Wilson's new book is out! Buy it at Amazon: [Windows PowerShell(TM) 2.0 Best Practices](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735626464?ie=UTF8&tag=techprosaic-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0735626464) (use this referral link to help out the show)

    Interview





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    Links







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        Ed was on last time over a year ago! [Episode 50](http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2008/11/23/episode-50-ed-wilson-microsoft-scripting-guy/)


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        New book: [Windows PowerShell(TM) 2.0 Best Practices](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735626464?ie=UTF8&tag=techprosaic-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0735626464)


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        PS Hyper-V [http://pshyperv.codeplex.com/](http://pshyperv.codeplex.com/)


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        Space Invaders: [http://ps1.soapyfrog.com/2007/01/02/space-invaders/](http://ps1.soapyfrog.com/2007/01/02/space-invaders/)


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        Charting: [http://chadwickmiller.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!EA42395138308430!473.entry](http://chadwickmiller.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!EA42395138308430!473.entry)


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        [Listener Trevor's blog post about using VPro from PowerShell](http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/vproexpert/blog/2008/12/03/stepping-through-vpro-powershell-code)

    Questions





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      ye110wbeard: ## Ed, when you got hired by Microsoft did you jump up and down like a madman yelling "yeeha" 


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      rfoust: ## what other scripting languages do you know and how do you think powershell compares?


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      jtruman0917-1: ## With Microsoft promising that all products after Outlook 2007 would have Powershell Support.  Why would a new automation lang even be a discussion?


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      pcgeek86: What happened to Greg and Jean?


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      rfoust: ## what's the coolest script you've seen and whats the coolest one you've written     


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      Jaykul: ## So if you don't exercise best practices when you write scripts ... where do these best practices come from?


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      [several asked if he would come to their user group]

Resources

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      PoshCode: [Edit file in Notepad++](http://poshcode.org/1541)


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      Dmitry posted a [PowerGUI Overview Video](http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/new-powergui-overview-video/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+DmitrysPowerblog+(Dmitry's+PowerBlog)&utm_content=Google+Reader)


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      Eric Sloof [posted his slides](http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/1359-Eric-Sloof-presented-Managing-VMware-vSphere-4-with-The-Virtualization-EcoShell-at-the-Dutch-VMUG.html) from the recent Dutch VMUG. Topic was managing VMware with vEcoshell.


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      James Brundage's WPK series continues with and [into to containers](http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/philpenn/Windows-PowerShell--A-Brief-Introduction-to-using-WPF-Containers-in-WPK/)


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      Joel Posted a [PowerBoots Gadgets script](http://poshcode.org/1539)


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      James Brundage posted [Test-Spelling](http://blogs.msdn.com/mediaandmicrocode/archive/2009/12/09/test-spelling.aspx)









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      Everybody got silly in the chatroom. So, let's channel that wild energy here with...beer cmdlets! 🙂 Note: these are not guaranteed to actually DO anything. YMMV, BYOB!




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          pcgeek86: Drink-Beer -Amount Lots 


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          ScottMoss: drink-beer -refill 


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          pcgeek86: Drink-Beer -Type GermanPilsner 


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          ScottMoss: drink-beer -Type Sweetwater Bule 


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          jtruman0917-1: Drink-beer -Type DoesItReallyMatter 


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          rfoust: get-beer | giveto-rfoust 


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          jkavanagh58: drink-beer -brand Yuengling -Type Porter -qty Lots 


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          rfoust: while ($true) { get-beer }