The first two sessions of the UK PowerShell User Group for 2010 will be online sessions.
The first event will take place on Tuesday 26th Jan 2010 7.30pm GMT. We will be looking at the Windows 2008 R2 cmdlets and provider for Active Directory.
Sign up details are available on Richard Siddaway’s blog.
The second event will take place on Tuesday 9th Feb 2010 7.30pm GMT. We will be looking at WMI and WQL.
After my PowerCLI session at yesterday’s London VMUG a few people asked me for the content. I believe the content from all sessions will soon be posted to http://www.box.net/londonug, but in the meantime you can get my slides from the below link.
PowerCLI Workshop London VMUG.pptx
Thanks to all who chatted to me afterwards, its always nice to know that someone got something out of a session you put on.
So May looks like a great month for some of the user groups I regularly attend.
First up we have the VMware user group in London on Thursday May 14th. This is an excellent event for VMware administrators to attend and has a great mix of vendor and community contributions. In particular this time check out Alan Renouf’s pre-show PowerShell workshop. This is before the usual start time and should be great if you are new to PowerShell or already using the VI Toolkit.
Myself and Alan Renouf from the Get-Scripting Podcast will be presenting this month at the UK Powershell User Group on Thursday 26th March at Microsoft in Reading.
First up on the night will be Richard Siddaway talking to us about using Regular Expressions in Powershell. This was requested at a previous event and I know that Richard is really looking forward to talking about that subject ;-)
Then the Get-Scripting guys will take over:
Today’s UK VMware User Group was a great community content event. Of course there was a sponsor presentation (Veeam) without whom these type of events can’t be put on, but there were also a lot of contributions from people in the group.
We had:
Veeam talking about their reporting and backup products.
Mike Laverick from RTFM education talking about Site Recovery Manager and not the VMware view of it, rather real world struggles - warts and all as he put it.
This is the second meeting of the newly formed UK Active Directory User Group:
The second [ADUG] UK Active Directory User Group meeting will be on the evening of the 11th March at Microsoft’s London (Victoria) Offices. The meeting will co-hosted with the Windows Server User Group.
The draft agenda is:
18:00 for 18:25 Arrival and registration 18:25-18:30 Welcome and introductions 18:30-19:45 James O’Neill takes a quick tour through the new features in Windows Server 2008 R2 (just to whet your appetite).
These are great events if you are able to get to them (unfortunately no webcast for this one):
The Steering Committee are pleased to announce the next UK London VMware User Group meeting, now kindly sponsored by Veeam Software, to be held on Tuesday 10th March 2009. We hope to see you at the meeting, and afterwards for a drink or two.
Our meeting will be held at the Thames Suite, London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 33 Queen Street, London EC4R 1AP, +44 (0)20 7248 4444.
Don’t forget 7pm GMT on Thursday February 26th sees Rolf Masuch presenting a Live Meeting to the UK PowerShell User group. Rolf runs the German PowerShell User Group.
Session abstract:
PowerShell as Active Directory Login Script Loginscript, why? The Script Draft in the form editor Start with PowerGUI Editor The script skeleton The script details Get in running Output of information Formatting of the information Putting the script on the server The path on the domain controller Setting the users login script Running .
As promised to those who attended the MMMUG on Wednesday night my slides from that evening are available on my SkyDrive.
Enjoy.
Coming up in February are two events for the UK Powershell User Group.
Following the Technet Event Managing Windows Servers with Powershell V2 on Feb 10th at Microsoft London there will be a Powershell UserGroup meeting. My good friend Jonathan Noble will be travelling down all the way from the North of England to present for us about using Powershell to automate tasks in the large University environment he works in - well worth turning up for.