A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. In This EpisodeLots of news and tipsWe missed JonathanOur first contest--with actual prizes! NewsThe PowerShell team blog brings us the news that "PowerShell continues to win awards with Redmond Magazineâs 2008 Editorâs âSlickest Time Saving Toolâ co-winner to go along with PSâs Best of Tech-Ed Attendees award and Best of Tech-Ed Client awards."Kirk Munro covers PowerGUI on DNR.tv .NET Rocks! and RunAsRadio.Karl Prosser (admin frameworks MVP and PowerShell Analyzer architect) was interviewed on the "A Couple of Admins" podcast Episode 35. The interview lasts for almost an hour and I really enjoyed it.Shay@Isreal (The $cript Fanatic blog) put together a cool PowerShell toolbarAdmin Frameworks MVP Brandon Shell was interviewed on the CS Techcast podcast. Hal listened to it on the way home the other day and he thought it was a really good interview.VMware's VI-Toolkit open beta is expected in March Over 70 new cmdletsThis example would create a snapshot of every VM:get-vm | new-snapshot Dale Lane, author of the IBM Websphere MQ PowerShell snapin is considering writing another tool, this time a PowerShell library for the IBM DB/2 RDBMS.  He is seeking feedback, so if you or someone you know might be interested, please visit this blog post and leave feedback.New Video Podcast: PowerShell-Basics.com This is created by Steve from the A Couple of Admins Podcast.  He wanted to create a screencast-only video podcast.  His first show should be out by the time you hear this. TipsThere's a ton of Scripting Guys stuff we meant to cover in the interview show last time that we never got around to: PowerShell Graphical Help (which we've mentioned before)PowerShell Scripting ToolboxTons of categorized examples in their script repository"Hey, Scripting Guy!" help columns on the website and in Technet MagazineAnd here's a link to the Scirpitng Games we talked about in the last show. This was used as part of a script Jonathan helped a co-worker with to batch sign ActiveX controls. Thanks to Joel for help on this one. [Diagnostics.Process]::Start("cmd.exe","/C $robocopycmd")Hal talks about renaming multiple files which end in an underscore:$files | %{Rename-Item -Path $_.FullName -NewName ($_.Name -replace '_$')} Jonathan talks about grabbing just the first few lines of a huge log file: get-content *.log -totalCount 5Hal parried, then riposted with: get-content | select-object -first 5PowerScripting / A Couple of Admins Cmdlet ContestContest Rules: Three cmdlets announced on each show.Contest entries will be a PowerShell script using all six cmdlets.Entries can be submitted to contest@acoupleofadmins.comSubmissions will be taken until February 14thTwo winners will be drawn from the entries - one random, one for best script as decided by Steve, Hal, and Jonathan.Prize - commercial license for PowerShell Analyzer (donated by Shell Tools)Prize - commercial license for the NetCmdlets (donated by /n Software) What are the cmdlets?  You have to listen to find out.  ;) Thanks again to all of you listeners out there!  Your feedback makes it all worthwhile, keep that rolling in.  Our email address is powerscripting@gmail.com, or you can comment on this very blog post.  Also find us on Facebook here (Jonathan), here (Hal),  and here (PowerScripting Podcast group).  Our group needs more members!  The Scripting guys are ahead by a teensy bit.

In This EpisodeGreg and Jean "The Scripting Guys" themselves are our special guests. Head over to the Script Center! Ways to interact with us: Facebook: PowerScripting Podcast groupEmail: powerscripting@gmail.comVote or write a review for us in iTunesLeave comments on the blog See you next time!

In This EpisodeSpecial guest this episode is scripting guru Don Jones, the well-known author of several books, presenter and trainer at conferences and in webcasts and a lot more.Several interesting tips for your scripting ResourcesWe go into the history of PowerShellCommunity.org and future plans for the site. We also go into detail on the sections of the website and the mission of the non-profit organization behind it all.Don gives the last holdouts a really hard sell for learning PowerShell. TipsHuddledmasses.org: Editing Media Tags from PowerShell This started out as a question on the #PowerShell IRC channel (irc.freenode.net) about how to edit tags on mp3 files, but we quickly discovered TagLib#, which lets you access and edit tags on not only mp3s, but on everything from asf and avi to wma... PowerShell Team: Supporting -Whatif, -Confirm, -Verbose â In SCRIPTS!J. Snover: "This is a super-important issue so you should definitely start using this in your scripts that you share with others (that have side effects on the system). Please try it out and blog about it to others so that it becomes a community norm." $cript Fanatic: Creating and managing processes in PowerShellShay covers several ways to create and manage processes. WMI, .NET and more. Good stuff. We ran long with Don, so combined with the slow news cycle for the holidays we just skipped the news this time. Don't forget--we love feedback. In particular we'd like to know if you like the guests, or do you like more of the one vs. one approach? It's a lot of fun to have guests on the show and to do the special interviews and segments. Please let us know if this is getting to be too much or any other thoughts you may have. If you have ideas on guests you'd like to hear, let us know. Ways to interact with us: Facebook: PowerScripting Podcast groupEmail: powerscripting@gmail.comVote or write a review for us in iTunesLeave comments on the blog See you next time!

Today we have an interview with Joel Bennett aka "Jaykul" from HuddledMasses.org we also cover a couple of cool resources. For full shownotes check out http://PowerScripting.net. Thanks for listening!

We cover New-Object and a script from Hal where he used PowerShell to do some benchmarking, a gotcha about WMI, info about software and books. Full show notes at PowerScripting.net Thanks for listening!

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