Episode 6 – User Groups are Starting to Sprout

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

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Introduction

Thank you for all of the great feedback

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Jeffery Snover did a post about the podcast!

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News

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PowerShell Analyzer can be pre-ordered for $59 and it will be $129

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Next update new-qaduser will require samAccountname

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“The PowerShell Guy” wants to start a Dutch PowerShell User group

http://shrinkster.com/q3r

Episode 5 – PowerShell Hits a Million

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

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Introduction

Shout-out to Mark Allen for answering the challenge

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News

New AD cmdlets - the one step account creation works great

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From the ScriptingNewswire, May 2007

Windows PowerShell guide for beginners

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Downloadable and cmdlet-accessible graphical help for Windows PowerShell

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/n software will be releasing NetCmdlets at TechEd next week

They are giving away free PowerShell stickers

Episode 4 – Get Data and Format the Output

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell.

News

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New PowerShell book in the works “Windows PowerShell: The Definitive Guide” by Lee Holmes’ (a developer on the PowerShell team) from O’Reilly they have an early access program http://shrinkster.com/p8l

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Windows Server 2008

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AD Cmdlets 1.0.2 released - http://shrinkster.com/p8e

Support for Vista and Server 2008

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You now have the ability to create enabled user accounts

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Dmitry’s PowerBlog - http://shrinkster.com/p8d

Episode 3 – Select, Set, Measure

A podcast about Windows PowerShell.

News

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Quest Software has released some beta cmdlets for managing Active Directory

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PowerShell Analyzer RC1 has been released

In this show I discussed the cmdlets:





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  Select-String


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  Set-Content


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  Measure-Command

Resources: PowerShell newsgroup Quest Software’s PowerShell cmdlets for AD management Tips:

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Quoting rules

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Double quotes - variables are expanded and can contain text right after it

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Uses of backtick or backquote `

Episode 2 – Filtering Cmdlets

A podcast about Windows PowerShell.

News

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Windows Powershell will ship with Longhorn and will be available in Beta 3

  In this show I discussed the cmdlets:





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    Where-Object


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    Sort-Object


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    ForEach-Object

Resources: PowerShell Analyzer An Introduction to Microsoft PowerShell -by Don Jones Tips:

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Gettype()

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Learn Aliases

Get-Alias

  One Liner:





  Select-String *.txt -pattern username | %{$_.line} | set-content username.log

Episode 1 – Fundamental Cmdlets

A podcast about Windows PowerShell.
In this show I discussed the cmdlets Get-Command, Get-Help and Get-Member.
Here is a great video discussion of these cmdlets by Jeffrey Snover. (updated to a newer version)
I also talked about a great Technet video by Don Jones about the PowerShell Pipeline.
For our first PowerShell moment I talked about $f= dir
The one-liner (full version) is:

Get-Content servers.txt | %{$x = net time $_ ; $x[0];If($x2.contains(“Local”)){$x2}} | Add-Content Servertime.txt

Episode 0 – Episode Zero

I have finally posted my first podcast

I started with Episode Zero because all collections in Powershell start with zero. This show is an introduction to the podcast, PowerShell and to scripting. I gave an overview of the segments that will be featured in upcoming podcasts as well as my reasoning behind them.

You can find the Windows PowerShell homepage at http://microsoft.com/powershell.

PowerShell Help 1.1 can be downloaded from http://www.sapien.com/software/communitytools.

I hope you enjoy my first attempt at podcasting. If the link at the right doesn’t work for you to subscribe you can go directly to http://feeds.feedburner.com/Powerscripting and click one of the links or paste the URL in your podcatching software.