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  Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Ed Wilson and Joel Bennett for a Scripting Games roundup!

News





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  User Group News 


      Atlanta - [May 18th](http://powershellgroup.org/content/atlanta-powershell-user-group-monthly-meeting)


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      [NYC - June 14th - guest Ed Wilson](http://powershellgroup.org/content/nyc-powershell-user-group-meeting-june-14th-ed-wilson)






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  Local conferences 


      [Codestock in Knoxville TN](http://codestock.org/Sessions/Default.aspx) happens June 25th & 26th and there will be 4 PowerShell sessions including some from [Hal](http://halr9000.com/) and [@SQLVariant](http://twitter.com/sqlvariant).






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  Book news: [Luc Dekens](http://www.lucd.info/) and [Al Renouf](http://www.virtu-al.net/) are writing a PowerCLI book! It is due to be out from Sybex in 1Q 2011 and the title is to be "VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration".


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  [PowerShell Community Extensions](http://pscx.codeplex.com/) v2 is out! 


      [announcement](http://keithhill.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!5A8D2641E0963A97!7208.entry)


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      [download](http://pscx.codeplex.com/releases/view/45101)


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      [list of cmdlets](http://keithhill.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!5A8D2641E0963A97!7210.entry)






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  [Citrix has released the XenApp 6 PowerShell SDK](http://www.out-web.net/?p=794)


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  New suite of PowerShell-related software products from /n Software: [PowerShell Inside](http://www.powershellinside.com/)


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  [iPowerShell is out for the iPad](http://blog.sapien.com/index.php/2010/05/04/ipowershell-comes-to-ipad/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+SapienBlog+(SAPIEN+Technologies+Blog))


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  [Free 2-hour video training class aimed at developers](http://www.jasonhelmick.com/journal/2010/5/11/free-powershell-for-developers.html)

Interview





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Links





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  Ed's series on [error handling](http://blogs.technet.com/heyscriptingguy/archive/tags/error+handling/default.aspx)


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  PoshCode: [http://2010sg.poshcode.org/](http://2010sg.poshcode.org/)


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  [PowerShellGroup.org](http://powershellgroup.org/)


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  Ed's site: [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/default.aspx)/


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  Joel's blog: [http://huddledmasses.org/](http://huddledmasses.org/)

Questions





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  rfoust: ## has scripting games been your full time job for the past few weeks







**Resources**





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  Richard Siddaway was kind enough to post [a review](http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!43CFA46A74CF3E96!2863.entry) of Hal's VMware PowerCLI book.


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  MVP Sean Kearney has a new site up: [PowerShell.ca](http://powershell.ca/)


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  Don Jones posted a [PowerShell Training Roundup](http://concentratedtech.com/item/view/id/482)


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  The Scripting Guys have a great series on [scripting PowerPoint](http://blogs.technet.com/heyscriptingguy/archive/tags/Microsoft+PowerPoint/default.aspx)


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  [Don's new PowerShell site on WindowsITPro](http://www.windowsitpro.com/categories/category/Scripting/DonJonesonPowerShell.aspx)


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  [IP subnet math in PowerShell](http://www.indented.co.uk/index.php/2010/01/23/powershell-subnet-math/)**

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**Tips****

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  Keith Hill [has some examples](http://keithhill.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!5A8D2641E0963A97!7209.entry) of PSCX's new cmdlet: Show-Tree


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  ExpandProperty 


      [http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tips/archive/2010/05/11/expandproperty-rocks-sometimes.aspx](http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tips/archive/2010/05/11/expandproperty-rocks-sometimes.aspx)


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      [http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2010/05/01/a-powershell-wander-toolbox-mindset-expandproperty-dmzs-and-remote-profiles.aspx](http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2010/05/01/a-powershell-wander-toolbox-mindset-expandproperty-dmzs-and-remote-profiles.aspx)






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  How do you sign scripts? (thanks to Dave A. for asking) 


      [Method 1 from Don Jones](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.04.powershell.aspx)


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      Idera PowerShell Plus [has a GUI](http://www.idera.com/Product-Tour/PowerShell-Plus/Code-Signing/) to help you do it


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      [Joel has a cool script that signs stuff automatically](http://huddledmasses.org/signing-powershell-scripts-automatically/)






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  When searching online for how to do something in powershell, try looking for an existing vbscript method