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Episode 290 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeffrey Snover and John Slack on PowerShell 5.0 (Technical Preview)

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Jeffrey Snover and John Slack from Microsoft
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Chatroom Highlights

HAL what hair products are you using today?

curating code?

Any known conflicts with things like Exchange or System Center Operations Manager like previous versions of PowerShell had?

or SharePoint??? add on to sepeck

Is Microsoft using WMF5 in the Cloud Platform System

does the previous Sep release have to be removed prior to installing the Nov release, didn’t see anything in the release notes

any discussions of docker support in the near future?

Will the “x” ever be removed from the DSC resource names? Are they going to be experimental forever?

RobCannon: use ## in front of questions

When is the MS Virtual Academy session on PowerShell v5?

upgrade process?

How is the pace of change impacting stuff like PDT?

Given Microsoft’s penchant towards open source these days (like .NET, huzzah!), how about open source PowerShell and PowerShell ISE?

 http://ansible.wikia.com/wiki/Han_Tzu
Did you guys see this?  Pash?  PowerShell on Bash! http://pash.sourceforge.net/
Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview November 2014 is now available http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/11/18/windows-management-framework-5-0-preview-november-2014-is-now-available.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44987
Speaking of OneGet, Garrett will be talking about Pester and also about ProGet tomorrow during the OneGet weekly meeting: https://github.com/OneGet/oneget/issues/81
ProGet is a NuGet package repository that lets you host and manage your own personal or enterprise-wide NuGet feeds. http://inedo.com/proget/overview
I’m trying to figure out how this happened https://www.dropbox.com/s/2vk4n12tht5oqmq/Screenshot%202014-11-20%2021.46.40.png?dl=0
https://www.powershellgallery.com/
http://www.powershellgallery.com/
http://www.boxstarter.org/ strings together chocolatey packages
anyway, the joke *was* http://boxstarter.org/package/nr/rickroll
https://chocolatey.org/packages?q=RickRoll
https://chocolatey.org/packages/Astley
and yes Dave_Wyatt it is in show notes, that’s where i found it https://powershell.org/2014/04/15/episode-266-powerscripting-podcast-matt-wrock-from-microsoft-on-boxstarter/
iex (New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadString(“http://bit.ly/e0Mw9w “)
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/11/19/powershell-break-all-command.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/
https://powershell.org/2012/01/31/episode-174-matt-graeber-using-powershell-in-infosec/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/10/28/powershell-dsc-reskit-wave-8-now-with-100-resources.aspx
http://www.sapien.com/blog/2014/11/14/update-oneget-install-oneget-on-ps-3-0/
@alexandair see the system reqs http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44987
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/10/31/convertfrom-string-example-based-text-parsing.aspx
a Docker pull request from Microsoft on github was merged 5 days ago, so a native docker client for controlling remote host systems should be coming soon! https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/9113
PDT = powershell deployment toolkit - https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/PowerShell-Deployment-f20bb605
RE:PDT  http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2014/10/24/deployment-dsc-resources-for-system-center-deployment.aspx
https://powershell.org/2013/09/08/episode-239-powerscripting-podcast-rob-willis-from-microsoft-on-the-powershell-deployment-toolkit/
Speaking of the PowerShell Summit, tickets for the 2015 North America event are now onsale: https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/
https://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?encType=1&where1=Turks%20and%20Caicos%20Islands&cp=21.7587261199951~-71.7151489257813&qpvt=turks+and+caicos&FORM=MIRE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks_and_Caicos_Islands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks_and_Caicos_Islands
Here is a link to my wife’s reviews of great places in Turks and Caicos http://www.tripadvisor.com/members-citypage/jsnover/g147399
Here are some of my wife’s photos from the Carribean: http://jo-ann-snover.artistwebsites.com/art/all/caribbean/all
http://jo-ann-snover.artistwebsites.com/featured/sun-dips-below-horizon-on-grace-bay-beach-jo-ann-snover.html
http://snag.gy/Sm5TB.jpg
Question

  • John Slack - power to make food appear at will
  • Jeffrey Snover: favorite vacation spot: Turks & Caicos