Episode 190- Blain Barton and Chad Miller Talk PowerShell and the IT Pro Camps

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****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Blain Barton and Chad Miller about IT Pro Camp!

News

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  [Microsoft TechEd 2012 videos are all posted to Ch9](http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012). Special mentions to:



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      [Jeffrey and Don"™s #1 session: Windows PowerShell Crash Course](http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/WSV321)



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      [Aaron Nelson - The Dirty Dozen: Windows PowerShell Scripts for the Busy DBA](http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/DBI331)



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      [Travis Jones & Hemant Mahawar - Advanced Automation Using Windows PowerShell 3.0](http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/WSV414)

  We have an [official Windows Azure PowerShell Module](http://trevorsullivan.net/2012/06/07/introducing-microsofts-official-windows-azure-powershell-module/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=introducing-microsofts-official-windows-azure-powershell-module)

  [Jim Christopher announces SeeShell](http://www.beefycode.com/post/Introducing-SeeShell.aspx)

  The Charlotte PowerShell User Group is holding a [Mini Scripting Game Event July 5th](http://powershellgroup.org/content/mini-scripting-game-event-july-5-2012)

  The PowerShell team posted a two part high level architecture of PowerShell Workflow



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      [Part 1](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2012/06/15/high-level-architecture-of-windows-powershell-workflow-part-1.aspx)



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      [Part 2](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2012/06/19/high-level-architecture-of-windows-powershell-workflow-part-2.aspx)

Interview

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Guests - Blain Barton, IT Pro Evangelist from Microsoft and Chad Miller, PS MVP and author of SQL-PSX

Links

  [Blain Barton"™s blog](http://blogs.technet.com/b/blainbar/)

  [TechNet Radio (Video)](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/video/ff832960.aspx)

  [IT Pro Camp](http://itprocamp.com/)

The Question -

Blain (superhero) - Superman

Chad (mars): iPad

Chatroom Banter

Sind0ni: Australia is meh! Canada is cool!

sepeck: building infrastructure is hard

[10:32pm] halr9000: “IT Pro Barbie”?

[10:33pm] Vern_Anderson_: pasty posh barbie

[10:33pm] Vern_Anderson_: never sees the sun

Resources

  Ed Wilson"™s [Top Ten PowerShell Best Practices for IT Pros](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/06/18/the-top-ten-powershell-best-practices-for-it-pros.aspx)

  [Installing PowerShell Web Access on Windows 2012 RC Core](http://www.virtu-al.net/2012/06/05/installing-powershell-web-access-on-windows-2012-rc-core/)

  [Check out ConEmu](http://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/), a console emulator that works great with PowerShell (+ [blog post from Hanselmann](http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ConEmuTheWindowsTerminalConsolePromptWeveBeenWaitingFor.aspx))

  Pulling [current user account info](http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tips/archive/2012/05/22/who-am-i.aspx)

  [Replace diskpart with new storage cmdlets](http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2012/04/replace-diskpart-with-windows-powershell-basic-storage-cmdlets/)

  A great [Windows PowerShell Self-Study Guide](http://blogs.technet.com/b/musings_of_a_technical_tam/archive/2012/06/04/windows-powershell-self-training-guide.aspx)

  [VMware released a vSphere 5.0 security hardening guide](http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2012/06/security-hardening-with-powercli.html) with plenty of PowerCLI!

Tips

  [Create calculated properties using Select-Object](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff730948.aspx)

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