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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Parind Shah from Dell about EqualLogic and their new PowerShell module!

News

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• Marc van Orsouw will be running the PowerShell Script Club in Zurich Feb 1st{#vfir}
• Don Jones is seeking input on his upcoming advanced-level PowerShell book{#xvgk}. Leave your comments on his blog!
• PowerWF celebrates a new release{#ew2g}: 2.4 just shipped and includes PowerSE, a “Script Editor, console, intellisense, and powerful debugger”
• Idera ships PowerShell Plus v4 beta!{#n.j5}
• New to us, /n Software released PowerShell eXplorer{#h-3x} to the iTunes Market for IOS devices

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Interview **

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

Links:

• http://www.equallogic.com/
• http://virtualisedreality.com/2010/12/17/dell-equallogic-powershell-quick-reference-guide/{#d8x2}
• http://delltechcenter.com/

Chatroom Buzz:

21:47 ##when is storage monitoring coming to PowerShell?

21:49 ## have your tried to get a consistent PowerShell story with other SAN manufacturers like Compellent?

21:54 # was the top-down part of the push for PowerShell management part of an overall push @ dell?  There are a lot of dell hardware that could use specialized management

21:54 # what do you have in mind for the 2nd release?

22:08 right now there are 13 pages of jobs of PowerShell on LinkedIn

23:44 @ joel, sure, but debug/verbose/warning are the lamest of all streams

Superhero: Software X-Ray Vision aka The Debugger aka BugBuster aka RAID !

** Resources **

This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies{#ke7l}

• Windows PowerShell Survival Guide{#k_-0}
• Create DNS PTR records from PowerShell{#teg9}
• James Brundage made a cool add-on for PowerGUI to control advanced PowerShell options{#xzm1}
• Jaykul writes about using parentheses in PowerShell{#cj00}
• The Scripting Guys have an article on parsing the event log using Get-WinEvent{#j_k7}
• Aaron Nelson has been posting PowerShell Week at SQL University{#iyee} info. More about SQL University is at SQLChicken.com{#c:di}
• Don Jones has a bunch of PowerShell videos on his YouTube channel!{#tm60}

Tips

This segment brought to you by ServerFault.com

• From Ravi: Use Dropbox to share profiles across multiple systems{#q192}
• Get your logging on:
  • Oisin’s script logger module{#r.z.}
  • Jaykul’s NLog module{#e:9j}
  • Doug Finke’s PSLog{#vffa} (also an NLog wrapper)
  • Log4Posh: PowerShell Log4Net wrapper{#q-pz}
• What the heck is Finally for{#k-w.}? (as in Try..Catch..Finally)
• Clear an AD attribute{#n222}

 

One-Liner of the Week!

Get-Service | Add-Member ScriptMethod ToString { $this.Name } -Force -PassThru | Group-Object Status

And here is the PS1XML version{#ghsr}