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Episode 112 – Scripting Games 2010 Roundup with Ed Wilson and Joel Bennett
A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to Ed Wilson and Joel Bennett for a Scripting Games roundup!
News
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User Group News
Atlanta - [May 18th](http://powershellgroup.org/content/atlanta-powershell-user-group-monthly-meeting)
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[NYC - June 14th - guest Ed Wilson](http://powershellgroup.org/content/nyc-powershell-user-group-meeting-june-14th-ed-wilson)
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Local conferences
[Codestock in Knoxville TN](http://codestock.org/Sessions/Default.aspx) happens June 25th & 26th and there will be 4 PowerShell sessions including some from [Hal](http://halr9000.com/) and [@SQLVariant](http://twitter.com/sqlvariant).
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Book news: [Luc Dekens](http://www.lucd.info/) and [Al Renouf](http://www.virtu-al.net/) are writing a PowerCLI book! It is due to be out from Sybex in 1Q 2011 and the title is to be "VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration".
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[PowerShell Community Extensions](http://pscx.codeplex.com/) v2 is out!
[announcement](http://keithhill.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!5A8D2641E0963A97!7208.entry)
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[download](http://pscx.codeplex.com/releases/view/45101)
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[list of cmdlets](http://keithhill.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!5A8D2641E0963A97!7210.entry)
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[Citrix has released the XenApp 6 PowerShell SDK](http://www.out-web.net/?p=794)
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New suite of PowerShell-related software products from /n Software: [PowerShell Inside](http://www.powershellinside.com/)
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[iPowerShell is out for the iPad](http://blog.sapien.com/index.php/2010/05/04/ipowershell-comes-to-ipad/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+SapienBlog+(SAPIEN+Technologies+Blog))
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[Free 2-hour video training class aimed at developers](http://www.jasonhelmick.com/journal/2010/5/11/free-powershell-for-developers.html)
Interview
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Links
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Ed's series on [error handling](http://blogs.technet.com/heyscriptingguy/archive/tags/error+handling/default.aspx)
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PoshCode: [http://2010sg.poshcode.org/](http://2010sg.poshcode.org/)
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[PowerShellGroup.org](http://powershellgroup.org/)
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Ed's site: [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/default.aspx)/
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Joel's blog: [http://huddledmasses.org/](http://huddledmasses.org/)
Questions
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rfoust: ## has scripting games been your full time job for the past few weeks
**Resources**
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Richard Siddaway was kind enough to post [a review](http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!43CFA46A74CF3E96!2863.entry) of Hal's VMware PowerCLI book.
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MVP Sean Kearney has a new site up: [PowerShell.ca](http://powershell.ca/)
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Don Jones posted a [PowerShell Training Roundup](http://concentratedtech.com/item/view/id/482)
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The Scripting Guys have a great series on [scripting PowerPoint](http://blogs.technet.com/heyscriptingguy/archive/tags/Microsoft+PowerPoint/default.aspx)
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[Don's new PowerShell site on WindowsITPro](http://www.windowsitpro.com/categories/category/Scripting/DonJonesonPowerShell.aspx)
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[IP subnet math in PowerShell](http://www.indented.co.uk/index.php/2010/01/23/powershell-subnet-math/)**
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