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In This Episode





Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to PowerShell Hero Dave Wyatt

News





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    [The Scripting Games](https://powershell.org/category/announcements/scripting-games/) are going on now!





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    [PowerShell Saturday #007](http://powershellsaturday.com/007/) is on February 8th





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    [PowerShell Saturday #008](http://powershellsaturday.com/008/) is on February 15th

Interview





Guest - Dave Wyatt

Links





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    [free ebooks](https://powershell.org/newsletter/)





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    [https://powershell.org/author/dlwyatt/](https://powershell.org/author/dlwyatt/)





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    [http://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/](http://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/)





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    [https://powershell.org/2013/11/24/saving-passwords-and-preventing-other-processes-from-decrypting-them/](https://powershell.org/2013/11/24/saving-passwords-and-preventing-other-processes-from-decrypting-them/)





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    [http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Enhanced-Script-Logging-27615f85](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Enhanced-Script-Logging-27615f85)





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    [http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Generic-PowerShell-string-e9ccfe73](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Generic-PowerShell-string-e9ccfe73)





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    [https://www.odesk.com/](https://www.odesk.com/)





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    [https://www.elance.com/](https://www.elance.com/)





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    [http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/site/search?f%5B0%5D.Type=User&f%5B0%5D.Value=David%20Wyatt](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/site/search?f%5B0%5D.Type=User&f%5B0%5D.Value=David%20Wyatt)

Chatroom Highlights:





 [http://powerevents.codeplex.com/](http://powerevents.codeplex.com/)





 [https://powershell.org/newsletter/](https://powershell.org/newsletter/)





 [http://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/](http://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/)





 you should check out this post by adam driscoll on automating your de-compiling with powershell [http://csharpening.net/?p=1590](http://csharpening.net/?p=1590)





 [https://powershell.org/2013/11/24/saving-passwords-and-preventing-other-processes-from-decrypting-them/](https://powershell.org/2013/11/24/saving-passwords-and-preventing-other-processes-from-decrypting-them/)





 [http://invisiblebread.com/2014/01/car-problem/](http://invisiblebread.com/2014/01/car-problem/)





 [http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Enhanced-Script-Logging-27615f85](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Enhanced-Script-Logging-27615f85)





 [http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Write-timestamped-output-4ff1565f](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Write-timestamped-output-4ff1565f)





 [https://powershell.org/author/dlwyatt/](https://powershell.org/author/dlwyatt/)





 [https://powershell.org/2014/01/22/automatic-formatting-of-code-for-posting-on-powershell-org-forums/](https://powershell.org/2014/01/22/automatic-formatting-of-code-for-posting-on-powershell-org-forums/)





 [http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Generic-PowerShell-string-e9ccfe73](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Generic-PowerShell-string-e9ccfe73)





 [http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/site/search?f%5B0%5D.Type=User&f%5B0%5D.Value=David%20Wyatt](http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/site/search?f%5B0%5D.Type=User&f%5B0%5D.Value=David%20Wyatt)





 [https://twitter.com/SnookieBjorn](https://twitter.com/SnookieBjorn)





 [http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/archive/2013/09/04/automation-service-management-automation-getting-started-with-sma-runbooks.aspx](http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/archive/2013/09/04/automation-service-management-automation-getting-started-with-sma-runbooks.aspx)





The Question - Hero/Power





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    Jedi mind control

Resources





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    [http://boxstarter.org/](http://boxstarter.org/)





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    Dave’s [Error Handling draft is available](https://powershell.org/2014/02/01/error-handling-draft-available/)





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    Dave blogged about [encrypting credentials with PowerShell](https://powershell.org/author/dlwyatt/)

Tip





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  [Bulk comment in the ISE](http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tips/archive/2014/01/09/using-block-comment-in-the-ise-editor.aspx)