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Episode 167 – Jason Helmick on Teaching PowerShell

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jason Helmick about learning and teaching PowerShell

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    [PowerShell v3 CTP 2 is available for download](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2011/12/02/windows-management-framework-3-0-community-technology-preview-ctp-2-available-for-download.aspx)





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    [PowerCLI survey](http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2011/11/vcloud-director-powercli-cmdlets.html)





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    The first meeting of the [Charlotte PowerShell User Group](http://powershellgroup.org/charlotte.nc) is Jan 5th.





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    The first meeting of the [Pittsburgh PowerShell User Group](http://powershellgroup.org/Pittsburgh.PA) is Dec 13th.





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    Ed Wilson is at the [Arizona PowerShell User Group](http://powershellgroup.org/phoenix.az) Dec 7th.





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    [Sean Kearney will present Dec 7th](http://powershellgroup.org/virtual/12-11) for the virtual user group Live Lunch





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    The [MTUG in Norway"™s topic is Lync Management Shell](http://powershellgroup.org/Norway) Dec 15th

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    [@thejasonhelmick](https://twitter.com/#!/@thejasonhelmick)





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    [Jason"™s Bio and blog at Interface](http://www.interfacett.com/instructors/Pages/Jason-Helmick.aspx)





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    [International PowerShell User Group Day](http://ipugd.org/)





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    AZPOSH: [http://www.azposh.com/](http://www.azposh.com/)

Chatroom Buzz





[22:21:10]  get-service | stop-process [Hal: doh, doesn"™t work!]





[22:22:07]  he also mentioned Get-AdComputer | Restart-Computer





[22:26:59]  http://www.manning.com/jones/





[22:30:31]  Brian, the other thing you need to know is I am very Happily married to Ed but if you mentioned Don JOnes I light up and brag for two weeks on him





[22:31:17]  My wife met him at TechEd, I still hear about it...





[22:31:41]  my wife thinks he's hot too...





[22:31:51]  "why can't you dress like don?"





[22:31:55]  *sigh*





[22:32:52]  Don could successfullyplay James Bond





[22:32:58]  totally





[22:33:03]  he can pick up after Craig





[22:33:18]  He would run Craig out of the country





[22:33:27]  Jones, Don Jones 🙂





[22:39:15]  Get-Cmdlet | Where{$_.Type -eq "Magical Candy"}

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