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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Keith Garner from the Xtreme Consulting Group on MDT 2010

News

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• Want to try PowerShell on a USB key or a system without .NET? Check out Portable PowerShell{#swn_}, now in private beta.
• User Group News!
  • Ed will also be at the SE Michigan PowerShell script club{#lt40} on March 16! Go follow him like a roadie!
  • First meeting of the Indianapolis PowerShell User Group meets April 6th{#kglo}
  • Tampa PSUG - first meeting March 11th!{#tz5q}
  • Atlanta PowerShell User Group - first meeting March 16!{#z2af}
  • New York City PSUG{#x5g2}: New website{#nu02} and new day for the inaugural meeting - now April 12th. Other news: drinks afterwards and first round is on Tome!
• PowerGUI Pro and MobileShell is on sale for $99{#rl30} for a limited time
• Doug Finke will be doing a PowerShell deep dive{#uwre} on March 6th at NYC Code Camp
• You can get a 40% discount{#tnpf} on the forthcoming PowerShell in Practice
• CodePlex news: PowerShell Remote File Explorer{#kmtn} v0.1 just released

 

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Interview

 

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Links

• MS Deployment Toolkit 2010

• Managing INI files from PowerShell

• Keith’s blog

Questions

• stuwee: ## Assuming WinPE is used within MDT, how is powershell used with it?

Hero/Power - Batman

Resources

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies{#zah2}.
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• Joel Bennett has created a Yahoo Pipe that combines PowerShell scripts from several RSS feeds into one Script Pipe{#hqwb}.
• Jeffery Hicks published a whitepaper{#veu6} on PowerShell in the Enterprise
• PowerWF can now deploy workflows to SCOM{#jc4k}
• Chad Miller did a series on Querying Oracle from PowerShell{#kia5}
• New blog: Captain’s PowerShell Blog{#w_ep} (thx @marcoshaw)
• PSTerminalServices - A PowerShell module for Terminal Services{#h26u}
• Tobias and new MVP Aleksandar, and Richard Giles just published their huge 38 pg. Administrator’s Guide to PowerShell Remoting{#f19t} on PowerShell.com

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Tips

 

Our tips are brought to you today by ServerFault and StackOverflow, the best place to find answers to your toughest questions!

 

• Need to prompt a user for information with a GUI dialog box? PowerShell InputBox{#swxq} to the rescue!