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Episode 133 – Shane Hoey in Australia is Paging Dr. Scripto
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Shane Hoey about building user group communities!
News
Our news is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies, makers of PrimalScript and PrimalForms
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Just released:Â
[PowerEvents](http://powerevents.codeplex.com/)
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[NetCmdlets v3 beta](http://www.nsoftware.com/powershell/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter)
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Dmitry [posted a video of Jeffrey Snover](http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/interview-with-jeffrey-snover/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+DmitrysPowerblog+(Dmitry's+PowerBlog)) recorded at TechEd Europe
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[PowerCLI 4.1.1 is now out](http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2010/12/powercli-411-is-out.html)
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MVP Richard Siddaway is working on his second PowerShell book: [PowerShell and WMI](http://www.manning.com/siddaway2/). You can pre-order now and help him shape the book!
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Interview **
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User group:Â [http://powershelldownunder.com](http://powershelldownunder.com/)
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Twitter:Â [@shanephoey](http://twitter.com/#!/shanephoey)
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Paging Dr. Scripto lyrics:Â [http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/paging-dr-scripto/](http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/paging-dr-scripto/)
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[Paging Dr. Scripto campaign website](http://scriptingguysdownunder.com/)
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[PowerShell UG Leads on LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/groupsDirectory?itemaction=mclk&anetid=3699075&impid=&pgkey=anet_search_results&actpref=anetsrch_name&trk=anetsrch_name&goback=.gdr_1291345376152_2)
**Hero**: Batman
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Resources ** This segment brought to you by ServerFault.com
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[How Can You Obtain PowerShell Training?](http://halr9000.com/article/911)
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Thomas Lee has [even more ways to obtain PowerShell training](http://tfl09.blogspot.com/2010/11/powershell-training.html)
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Boe from the Learn PowerShell blog [recently updated his very comprehensive WSUS Admin module](http://boeprox.wordpress.com/2010/11/14/wsus-administrator-module/)Â ([download link](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ScriptCenter/en-us/ba65fb73-b3b7-483f-9e8f-eda19fd051f8))
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Two from PowerShell.com:
[Reset a network adapter](http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tips/archive/2010/11/30/resetting-network-adapters.aspx)
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[Hide a network adapter](http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tips/archive/2010/12/01/hiding-network-adapter.aspx)
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The [BSonPosh module](http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/bsonposh) also has network adapter functions
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Mark Mitchell [posted a great writeup](http://designandcode.net/2010/10/09/PowershellScriptedGUI.aspx) with resources from his recent Atlanta PowerShell User group about scripted GUIs in PowerShell
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Tips **
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[Convert a string to Proper Case with PowerShell](http://www.jonoble.com/blog/2010/11/19/converting-a-string-to-proper-case-in-powershell.html)
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[Echo Parameters Using psBoundParameters](http://halr9000.com/article/912?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+halr9000+(TechProsaic))Â
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[](http://www.jonoble.com/blog/2010/11/19/converting-a-string-to-proper-case-in-powershell.html)Remembering the syntax for multi-line comments [just got easier](http://www.tellingmachine.com/post/Drawing-battleships-with-PowerShell-block-and-multi-line-comment-literals.aspx)