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Episode 113 – MVP Brandon Shell Talks Citrix and Other PowerShell Goodness

Jonathan Walz
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Brandon Shell about Citrix!

    News





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      User group news: 


          [The Atlanta group will be meeting next on June 22nd](http://powershellgroup.org/atlanta.ga).






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      Free PowerShell training events 


          June 5th -SQL Saturday #22 - Pensacola

SharePoint 2010 Management with PowerShell

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A PowerShell Cookbook for DBAs

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June 12th - SQL Saturday #43 - Redmond

              [SQL Server and PowerShell](http://www.sqlsaturday.com/viewsession.aspx?sat=43&sessionid=1565)









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      New Software Mentions: 


          Gary Lapointe [has released his SharePoint 2010 PowerShell cmdlets](http://stsadm.blogspot.com/2010/05/announcing-my-sharepoint-2010.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+StsadmCustomExtensions+(SharePoint+Automation)&utm_content=Google+Reader). ([Compare to the OOTB cmdlets](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff621084.aspx).)


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          New release of the [Windows Azure MMC project](http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazuremmc) -- built on PowerShell!


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Links

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      [XenClient](http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=2300325)


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      [Introduction to the XenApp 6 PowerShell SDK](http://community.citrix.com/display/ocb/2010/04/28/Introduction+to+the+XenApp+6+PowerShell+SDK)


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      [BSonPosh module new release coming soon](http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/bsonposh)


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      [PowerGadgets for Mobile](http://www.softwarefx.com/mobile/pgmobile/)

Questions

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       ##Workshifting = to same comcept as a "Vmotion"? Shifting the full session contents to another physical machine??


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       My Linux co-worker keeps talking about KVM where does this fit in







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Resources **

    This segment is brought to you by [SAPIEN Technologies](http://sapien.com/).





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      Joel Bennett recently published a cool [Impersonation Module on PoshCode](http://poshcode.org/1856) (think runas, but in-session) ([blog post](http://huddledmasses.org/using-alternate-credentials-with-the-filesystem-in-powershell))


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      Jeffrey Snover tweeted about a video Doug Finke did on [converting C# to PowerShell](http://dougfinke.com/video/CSharpToPowerShell.html)


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      Aaron Nelson has a webcast on [PowerShell for Data Professionals](http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/geekSpeak.aspx?tab=Webcasts&seriesid=117&webcastid=13364)


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      Don Jones posted an article on [writing Advanced Functions](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff677563.aspx)


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      Shay [published a Set-TopMost function](http://poshcode.org/1837) on PoshCode a few days ago


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      [Document your Citrix environment with PowerShell](http://wagthereal.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/documenting-citrix-with-powershell/)







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Tips **

    This segment is brought to you by [Serverfault.com](http://serverfault.com/)!





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      [Get your IP addresses (thx PowerShell.com)](http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tips/archive/2010/05/17/getting-ipv4-addresses.aspx)


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      [Autosave in PowerShell ISE](http://robertrobelo.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!1D7FE2F4A61D31E1!337.entry)


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      Discussion point: [Why Scripting is Evil](http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/224400823;jsessionid=ENLCKQWCRF03DQE1GHPSKHWATMY32JVN)