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In This Episode

****Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Kirk Freiheit from Symantec about Backup Exec 2012 and their new PowerShell module

News

  PowerShell Saturday!



  * [Sept 15 in Charlotte][1]
  * [Oct 27 in Atlanta][2]

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  The Atlanta PowerShell group is [meeting on August 21st](http://powershellgroup.org/content/atlpug-august-meeting)

  Tampa"™s PowerShell User group is [meeting on August 23rd ](http://powershellgroup.org/content/tampa-8232012-rapidly-deploying-sql-server-powershell)

  Central Ohio is [meeting on August 29th](http://powershellgroup.org/content/central-ohio-powershell-users-group-august-2012)

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Interview

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Guests - Kirk Freiheit

Links

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  [History of Backup Exec](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup_Exec)

  [Preparing your Powershell environment to run BEMCLI and scripts](http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/preparing-your-powershell-environment-run-bemcli-and-scripts)

  [BEMCLI documentation](http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=DOC5438)

  [introductory blog post: Get-BEMCLI](http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/get-bemcli)

  [Symantec"™s community site: Connect](http://www.symantec.com/connect/)

The Question -

Superhero: Iron Man

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Chatroom Banter

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FishTender27: I am still making my way from epi zero.  I am on 119 now.

backup exec 2012 screenshot: halr9000: http://photos.pcpro.co.uk/images/front_picture_library_PC_Pro/dir_355/it_photo_177904_52.jpg

backup exec 2010 screenshot: halr9000: BE2010: http://www.it-book.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/setup-backup-exec-r2-selections.jpg

JonWalz: I’ve been freebasing Posh man…

Overwatch: i may do some zip here and there… but i do not freebase posh…

Overwatch: unlimited admin power, itty bitty scripting space… Powershell

justpaul: all the power of Microsoft Bob with the user friendlines of UNiX

justpaul: ## Too many times I have arrived onsite to find that the critical lost data was outside of the backup selection. Ho can BEMCLI be used for auditing your data protection?

zouleous: ## can we expect an update that covers the missed functionality or will we have to wait for the next major version of BE?

MikeFRobbins: ## Why isn’t the BEMCLI module installed when you install the management portion on a workstation? It only installs the GUI.

RichPrescott: ## My home lab with Server 2012 DataCenter is bluescreening and stuck in a boot loop.  Can Symantec BE fix that?

Ed.> The answer was “did you back that up?”

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Resources

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  Mike Robbins is today"™s Weekend Scripter: [Managing Symantec Backup Exec 2012 with PowerShell](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/06/02/weekend-scripter-managing-symantec-backup-exec-2012-with-powershell.aspx)

  Mike also [demos tab expansion features with PowerShell v3"™s Get-CimInstance cmdlet](http://mikefrobbins.com/2012/08/16/working-with-wmi-just-got-a-lot-easier-thanks-to-powershell-version-3/)