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In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Osama Sajid from Microsoft about CIM and WMI!****  

News





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    User Group news:








        Indy PowerShell User Group: new website ([indypowershell.org](http://indypowershell.org/)), and they have their first meeting coming up March 6th. Topic is Powershell v3 overview





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        Pittsburgh - Jan 15th





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        Dallas - Jan 19th, building XAML interface for a PowerShell script





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        Michigan - Jan 24th








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    New PowerShell MVPs!








        [Adam Driscoll](http://csharpening.net/?p=1448)





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        Grzegorz  Gałęzowski








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    Dell AppAssure now has [PowerShell support](http://mikefrobbins.com/2013/01/03/dell-appassure-version-5-3-1-adds-powershell-support/)





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    MEAP available for ["PowerShell Deep Dives"](http://www.manning.com/hicks/)

Interview





Guests - Osama Sajid

Links





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    [@osamasajid](https://twitter.com/osamasajid)





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    [PowerShell team blog](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/)

The Question -





Superpower: Solve world hunger





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Resources





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    [Mike Robbins writes about targeting downlevel clients with the new CIM cmdlets](http://mikefrobbins.com/2012/09/20/targeting-down-level-clients-with-the-get-ciminstance-powershell-cmdlet/)





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    Some [PowerShell predictions for 2013](http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/01/01/new-year-s-powershell-predictions-for-2013.aspx) from Don Jones





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    New [PowerShell community on Google+](https://plus.google.com/communities/114336958783305019912)





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    LucD has posted an [updated Export-Xlsx function](http://www.lucd.info/2013/01/03/export-xls-the-sequel-and-ordered-data/)





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    Tome [wrote a function](https://powertoe.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/get-a-list-of-metro-apps-and-launch-them-in-windows-8-using-powershell/) to list and launch the metro apps installed on your machine





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    [Install PowerShell 3.0 on Windows Core using v2](http://vlasenko.org/2012/12/21/windows-core-install-powershell-3-0-by-using-powershell-2-0/)





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    [Using default parameter values to prevent accidents](http://powerschill.com/uncategorized/using-powershell-default-parameter-values-to-prevent-unfortunate-accidents/)