During this last year I’ve done quite a few presentations about Powershell and quite often as part of the demo I have included PowerGUI since I find it a great way to reel people in who aren’t quite yet ready to make a jump the whole way to command line scripting.
One of the topics I usually talk about around this is how I (like most people seem to) initially used the PowerGUI script editor for writing my scripts, but didn’t really get what the PowerGUI console was all about.
We had a lot of fun recording the latest episode of the Get-Scripting podcast on Tuesday night. Its been great having Alan join the show, gives the show a much more conversational feel plus I don’t have to come up with all the content. :-)
We had a really interesting interview in this episode with Dmitry Sotnikov talking about the Quest AD cmdlets and PowerGUI - go check it out.
Following on from my last post about WSUS 3.0 and Powershell another thing which bugged me about the WSUS 3.0 GUI is the Cleanup Wizard. This is a really useful tool for keeping your WSUS deployment running efficiently.
It includes the ability to clean out computers which haven’t synched with the WSUS server for over 30 days - unfortunately 30 days is the default value which can’t be changed in the GUI.
Richard has confirmed details of the next UK Powershell User Group Meeting.
Date: Thursday 20th November Time: 6.30 - 9.30pm Location: Memphis Room, Building 3, Microsoft Campus, Thames Valley Park, Reading
Agenda:
Powershell Introduction: Objects and get-member PowerGUI SQL Server Reporting Services powerpack Powershell in SQL Server 2008
If you want to attend please send an email to
[email protected] so that you can have a badge waiting for you on arrival.
Tonight there is a meeting of the Powershell Virtual User Group. I haven’t been able to make one of these before because of the time difference, but this one seems to have been scheduled a little earlier than before so hoping to make it.
Time: November 13th, 2008 at 12PM EST (noon; New York time)
Some really interesting looking content:
*Nathan Winters (MVP): “Exchange 2007 from PowerShell”. Nathan will show how PowerShell can be used with Exchange 2007.
One of the best uses I have found for Powershell is for plugging gaps in holes left by GUI admin tools which don’t do everything that you want. Prior to Powershell you would typically have had to wait for the next service pack / full release / possibly ever before you had the functionality that you wanted.
I had an example of this recently with the GUI tool for WSUS 3.
Just got notification through of the various video available for Powershell Panel Discussion for the Teched Online website:
Download (High res - approx 900MB): http://microsofttech.fr.edgesuite.net/TechEdOnline/Videos/406_high.wmv
Or if you prefer not to crack your monitor / TV screen
Download (Low res): http://microsofttech.fr.edgesuite.net/TechEdOnline/Videos/406_low.wmv
Streaming (Low res): http://mfile.akamai.com/14853/wmv/microsofttec.download.akamai.com/14853/TechEdOnline/Videos/406_low.asx
What you get from the video that you might not have picked up on the audio is that we spent most of the time laughing which just goes to show how much fun everyone had doing it!
If you were at Teched Powershell Community Dinner then you will appreciate these two photos - the dare did actually take place!
After the TechEd Powershell Panel Discussion we all realised that none of us had arranged for a photo to be taken. :-(
We’re still waiting for the video, so thought we could screengrab something of that, but Tobias found that someone else had put a photo they had taken of it on their blog.
From left to right below:
Me, Ben Pearce, Richard Siddaway, Dmitry Sotnikov, James O’Neill, Tobias Weltner, Jeffrey Snover and MoW.
Posting the day after this time, will keep it brief. All you need to know is:
Powershell sessions all day with Jeffrey Snover and the exuberant Ben Pearce. Powershell community dinner, 18 attendees. Jeffrey + MoW = mental evening Got back so late it was time for the live stream of the Powerscripting podcast so thought I might as well stay up late and watch it for the first time - great fun.