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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jeff Hicks about managing Active Directory with PowerShell

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    Richard Siddaway [posted a livemeeting recording](http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/04/13/tuesday-s-recording.aspx)on PowerShell and COM objects


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    Jeff Hicks is running a quick one-question survey: [what PowerShell editor do you use?](http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/2011/04/what-made-the-scripting-games-easier/)


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    New release: [AutoSPInstaller for SharePoint 2010](http://autospinstaller.codeplex.com/) v2

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  **Links:**





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    [Jeff's blog](http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/)


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    [Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM®](http://www.sapienpress.com/ad.asp)


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    [ScriptinGeek.com](http://shop.scriptinggeek.com/)

  Chatroom Buzz:





  9:47 marcadamcarter: ## What's jeff's favorite interface for scripting?





  9:52 JHofferle: ## Will the book cover the PS remoting configuration through Group Policy?





  10:01 JHofferle: ## Is there a good way to compare two RSOP reports?





  10:07 marcadamcarter: ## what's jeff's background prior to training/mvp/etc?





  10:07 esacteksab: ##Will an e-book be available?





  10:08 Start-Automating-1: ## What finally got Jeff into the tokenizer and ISE add-ons ?




    **First Computer: first PC: Pentium-200

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Resources

     





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      Starting at the beginning - [How do you install PowerShell](http://www.windowsitpro.com/blogs/powershell-with-a-purpose/entryid/76309/how-do-you-install-powershell)


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      [Shay shows us how to create a "$now" automatic variable](http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/scriptfanatic/archive/2011/04/12/tied-variables-in-powershell.aspx)


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Using -contains to Find More Than One Needle In a Haystack

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      [Cmdlets for the Microsoft iSCSI target](http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2010/09/29/powershell-cmdlets-for-the-microsoft-iscsi-target-3-3-included-in-windows-storage-server-2008-r2.aspx)


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      [Use the ISE to Convert All Aliases](http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/2011/04/powershell-ise-convert-all-aliases/)







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Tips ** This segment brought to you by ServerFault.com

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      [James Brundage has a great tip on optimizing large list operations](http://blog.startautomating.com/post/2011/03/31/Speeding-Up-Scripts-By-Avoiding-the-List-()-Operator.aspx)


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      PowerTip from PowerShell.com: [Enumerate Device Services](http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tips/archive/2011/04/13/enumerate-device-services.aspx)