Don Jones on PowerShell v3 and Button Monkeys!

Randy Roffey from Silect Software on MP Studio and if you stay tuned until the very end you will hear a special bonus interview with Hal's wife.

Jason Helmick on learning and teaching PowerShell

Alan Renouf on PowerCLI!

Brandon Shell on Splunk and life after system administration

Jim Hofer and Kirk Munro with Devfarm Software

Jim Truher from Microsoft on the history of PowerShell and System Center Service Manager!

Mike Pfeiffer on PowerShell training, Exchange and the Arizona PowerShell user group

Gaurav Mantri from Cerebrata on their Azure Management Cmdlets

Boe Prox on PoshPAIG

Tome Tanasovski on regular expressions, the NYC PowerShell User Group, and more!

Phil Haack and Andrew Nurse from Microsoft about Nuget and PSGet

Steven Murawski on CommandAssist

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Brandon Shell about PowerShell, The Cloud and VDI.

James Brundage, Joel Bennett and Doug Finke about Show-UI

News

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• PowerGUI 3.0 has been released!
• PoshPAIG 1.6 has been released
• The Singapore PowerShell User Group is having their first event July 30th!
• You can now edit PowerShell scripts from you iPad

Interview

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Links:

• http://showui.codeplex.com/
• http://huddledmasses.org/ - Joel Bennett
• http://dougfinke.com/blog/ - Doug Finke
• http://blog.start-automating.com/ - James Brundage
• http://www.Show-UI.com

Questions:

First Computer: Doug - IBM 360 (Mainframe)
     Joel - Atari 800XL (8-bit goodness)
     James - Mac Finder?

Josh Heller from Cisco on their Unified Computing System and managing it with PowerShell

Spencer Brown from /n software on PowerShell Inside!

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• Congratulations to our three new PowerShell MVPs. Total worldwide is now 50 people!
• Chad Miller (mvp profile)
• Rolf Masuch
• Yuriy Lebedev
• PoshBoard beta IV now available for download
• ShowUI 1.1 is out already
• Central Ohio PowerShell Users Group welcomes Ed Wilson on July 21st!
• What’s new and changed in SharePoint 2010 SP1 PowerShell

Interview

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Links:

• PowerShellInside

Buzz from the Chatroom:

Alexandair: ## what are the advantages of using PowerShell Server compared to PowerShell v2 remoting?

Questions:

Superhero Matt from Heroes

Resources

• Great list of free PowerShell eBooks
• Doug Finke has an article on MSDN mag titled, Secrets to Building a WPF Application in Windows PowerShell
• James Brundage just shipped ScriptCop
• Glenn Sizemore shows off his PowerPack for NetApp
• The recent PowerCLI reference book has a ton of great scripts on the official Sybex page
• Fun with get-random
• Trevor Sullivan has a huge article on extending SCCM’s hardware inventory
• Translate foreign languages with PowerShell

Tips

• Stop a service on a remote computer
• Quickly work with “today’s files”
• Hal’s one-liner: dir | ? { $_.lastwritetime -ge (get-date).date }
• Barry’s rebuttal on Twitter, titled Get-Dirty
• Joel Bennett’s WASP project is still a classic tool

Alex and David from Sapien on PrimalForms 2011

Jeremy Kelly from Microsoft on Script Explorer!

Glenn Sizemore on NetApp and their latest PowerShell projects