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In This Episode {#tiap}

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to James Brundage about delivering solutions with PowerShell

News

The news is brought to you by Don Jones’ 2011 PowerShell Retreat in Las Vegas

• New MVPs!
  • Jan Egil Ring: http://blog.powershell.no/2011/01/01/microsoft-mvp-award/
  • Tome Tanasovski: http://powertoe.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/mvp-drinks/
  • Shane Hoey: http://powershelldownunder.com/blogs/shane
• Don Jones’ new book project: Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches{#vzeu}. Use coupon code wpslunch40 at checkout for a 40% discount! Here’s Don’s announcement.{#s-.e}
• Let’s get the Scripting Guy to Australia! Care of @ye110wbeard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAJRN9D5gOY
• Automating vSphere Administration news:
  • New website: http://www.powerclibook.com/{#cg_l}
  • PDF with a tentative table of contents{#n2gi}
  • Coming this spring!
• New Get-Scripting Podcast with Jeffrey Snover!{#q3hl}
• User Group News
  • PowerShell UK User Group with Ed Wilson Jan 11th{#vgd0}
  • SE Michigan PowerShell Script Club meeting Jan 11th with Hal Rottenberg{#k8kt}
  • Rochester NY user group meets Jan 18th{#a280} to talk about using PowerShell in C# and Hal’s favorite topic: managing VMware with PowerShell
• HP and Dell are getting into PowerShell!
  • Dell EqualLogic{#w-i7}
  • HP Bladesystem{#s6x3}

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Interview **

This segment is brought to you by [SAPIEN Technologies](http://www.sapien.com/), makers of PrimalScript and PrimalForms.





**Links:** 




  - 
    PowerShellPack: [http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerShellPack](http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerShellPack)


  - 
    Start-Automating: [http://start-automating.com/](http://start-automating.com/)

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Resources **

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





  - 
    [Joel shows us how to invoke PowerShell from C#](http://huddledmasses.org/how-to-invoke-powershell-and-use-the-results-from-csharp/)


  - 
    [Chad frees the OpsMgr Shell with a new module](http://sev17.com/2011/01/making-an-operations-manager-module/)


  - 
    Sean (aka Ye110beard) presents this Technet Webcast: [Windows PowerShell Basics for IT Professionals (Part 2) (Level 200)](https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032473252&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US)


  - 
    Ravikanth has updated his [Layman's guide to PowerShell 2.0 remoting](http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog/?p=1780&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+RavikanthChaganti+(Ravikanth+Chaganti)) 


  - 
    [](http://www.windowsitpro.com/blogs/PowerShellwithaPurpose/tabid/2248/entryid/76024/Splat-Me.aspx)[Ravi brings us an excellent tutorial series](http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog/?p=1845) on using WQL (WMI Query Language) from a PowerShell standpoint


  - 
    [A simple Splatting explanation](http://www.windowsitpro.com/blogs/PowerShellwithaPurpose/tabid/2248/entryid/76024/Splat-Me.aspx) from Don Jones


  - 
    A cool [Matrix-Style Console Screen Saver](http://www.nivot.org/2010/12/18/PowerShell20ImplementingAMatrixStyleConsoleScreenSaver.aspx) from MVP Oisin Grehan]

  Tips





  - 
    [Technique for selectively formatting data in a PowerShell pipeline and output as HTML](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4559233/technique-for-selectively-formatting-data-in-a-powershell-pipeline-and-output-as) 


        [Alternate technique from Jeff Hicks](http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/2010/09/new-event-report/)






  - 
    [Set your current directory properly for .NET](http://huddledmasses.org/powershell-power-user-tips-current-directory/)