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In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Mark Minasi

News

  The Scripting Games are [coming in April](https://powershell.org/games/)

  May 2-3 Jeff Hicks will be at [TechDays San Francisco](http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/2013/03/techdays-san-francisco/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JeffsScriptingBlogAndMore+%28The+Lonely+Administrator%29#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=techdays-san-francisco)

  PowerShell books are [tops over at Manning](http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/2013/03/powershell-books-rule/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JeffsScriptingBlogAndMore+%28The+Lonely+Administrator%29#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=powershell-books-rule)

  The [Windows PowerShell 3.0 SDK Sample Pack](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/03/17/windows-powershell-3-0-sample-pack.aspx) has been released

  Please send us your events!

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Interview

Guests - Mark Minasi

Links

  [www.minasi.com](http://www.minasi.com/)

  [http://minasiconference.com/](http://minasiconference.wordpress.com/)

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Chatroom Buzz

[21:34:28] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octothorpe

[21:35:41] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day

[22:41:14] Out-GridView -PassThru is my favorite V3 enhancement

[22:43:26] Check out this uptime on a Hyper-V server (production) that runs 2008R2 Server Core: http://mikefrobbins.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/hyperv-uptime-162.jpg

[22:43:45] get-help get-command -showwindow   <– showwindow is my current favorite

[22:44:10] iscsicpl runs (iSCSI Control Panel) on server core

[22:44:16] http://www.ciscopress.com/authors/bio.asp?a=523e2313-3b15-4e8e-b051-c71d7fd6528d

[22:44:27] above is Andrew Mason author page

[22:49:22] I was Ed Wilsons lab partner back when we did the COmpaq ASE training

[22:49:27] i totally think there should be a PowerShell Saturday Antarctica

[22:49:33] it would be the coolest conference ever

[22:49:41] ./rimshot

[22:51:36] http://nooooooooooooooo.com/

[22:52:35] No PowerShell for me tomorrow since I’ll be at the Birmingham Zoo, that is unless some Monkey’s want to learn PowerShell

[22:53:21] my citrix admin is a Button Monkey

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The Question -

  Superpower: Omniscience

Resources

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  Mike Robbins [outlines how to add a new domain controller to an existing forest using PowerShell](http://mikefrobbins.com/2013/03/14/use-powershell-to-add-an-additional-domain-controller-to-an-existing-windows-server-2012-active-directory-domain/)

  We have a new Powershell blogger on the block named Rohn with a [great tip on creating ToString methods on custom objects](http://rohnspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/creating-custom-tostring-methods/)

Here"™s a cool tip to use Office online to create a survey and then PowerShell to select an entry from the resulting spreadsheet**