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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Brian and Ben from DevFarm about PowerWF and PowerSE

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- 
  [MVP Sean Kearney just had an interview with Talk Technet](https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032476756)


- 
  The PowerShell team [announces the first ever PowerShell Deep Dive Conference!](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2011/02/04/powershell-deep-dive-conference.aspx)


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  Book News: 


      [Automating Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Windows PowerShell 2.0](http://amzn.to/heRNUf)


    - 
      [VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration](http://www.sybex.com/WileyCDA/SybexTitle/VMware-vSphere-PowerCLI-Reference-Automating-vSphere-Administration.productCd-0470890797.html)


    - 
      [Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches](http://www.manning.com/jones/)






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  Software news: 


      [PsGet is NuGet for PowerShell modules](http://blog.andrewnurse.net/2011/02/10/NuGetPowerShellAlsoCrazyDelicious.aspx)


    - 
      [Save PowerShell to SharePoint](http://savepstosp.codeplex.com/)


    - 
      [Windows Installer PowerShell Module](http://psmsi.codeplex.com/)






- 
  [The 2011 Scripting Games Study Guide is out](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/02/11/2011-scripting-games-study-guide.aspx)

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Interview **

The news is brought to you by [Don Jones' 2011 PowerShell Retreat in Las Vegas](http://www.windowsitpro.com/blogs/PowerShellwithaPurpose.aspx)





 





**Links:**





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  PowerWF: [http://powerwf.com/](http://powerwf.com/)[](http://virtualisedreality.com/2010/12/17/dell-equallogic-powershell-quick-reference-guide/)


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  PowerSE: [http://powerwf.com/products/powerse.aspx](http://powerwf.com/products/powerse.aspx)







 

Chatroom Buzz:





21:47  ##Can we extend the editor features? Is there a public SDK?





21:48  ## If you're using SE, can you update the workflow?  Can you use this to split up tough pipelines into eaiser chunks?





22:13  ## Ask Ben how VEEAM got their name, that will get you going




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Resources **

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





  - 
    [Profiles in PowerShell](http://powershellstation.com/2011/01/21/profiles-in-powershell/)


  - 
    [](http://powershellstation.com/2011/01/21/profiles-in-powershell/)Shay (re)found a [very cool PowerShell sidebar gadget](http://www.gadgetsdownload.com/gallery/PowerShell_Gadget/80/)


  - 
    Cool script to [remove local profiles](http://boeprox.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/use-powershell-to-remove-local-profiles/)


  - 
    [](http://boeprox.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/use-powershell-to-remove-local-profiles/)Dmitry links to a video showing how to [change VMware attributes using PowerGUI](http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/bulk-change-vcenter-custom-attributes/)


  - 
    Another one from Shay: [Netstat for PowerShell](http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/scriptfanatic/archive/2011/02/10/How-to-find-running-processes-and-their-port-number.aspx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+ShayLevy+(Shay+Levy++-+$cript+Fanatic)&utm_content=Twitter)


  - 
    Ravikanth Chaganti has release a free eBook [WMI Query Language via PowerShell](http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog/?p=1979&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+RavikanthChaganti+(Ravikanth+Chaganti))

  Feedback

I have written my first script.  From Jerry Lee Ford Jr"™s book, the script is the knock knock joke.  And when I run it I get the message “execution of scripts is disabled on this system.  Please see get-help about-signing”.

So of course I want to run the script right away and so I type “get-executionpolicy"  and I see that it is restricted. So I “set-executionpolicy remotesigned”.

 

So finally my question, can I leave “executionpolicy remotesigned” ?  Do I need to be concerned about security?  Would I be better off to sign all my scripts?

 

Thanks,

Bob