Scripting Guy Ed Wilson on the 2011 Scripting Games

Brian and Ben from DevFarm on PowerWF and PowerSE!

Parind Shah from Dell on EqualLogic and their new PowerShell module!

News

• Marc van Orsouw will be running the PowerShell Script Club in Zurich Feb 1st
• Don Jones is seeking input on his upcoming advanced-level PowerShell book. Leave your comments on his blog!
• PowerWF celebrates a new release: 2.4 just shipped and includes PowerSE, a "Script Editor, console, intellisense, and powerful debugger"
• Idera ships PowerShell Plus v4 beta!
• New to us, /n Software released PowerShell eXplorer to the iTunes Market for IOS devices

Interview

• http://www.equallogic.com/
• http://virtualisedreality.com/2010/12/17/dell-equallogic-powershell-quick-reference-guide/
• http://delltechcenter.com/

Chatroom Buzz:

Superhero: Software X-Ray Vision aka The Debugger aka BugBuster aka RAID!

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• Windows PowerShell Survival Guide
• Create DNS PTR records from PowerShell
• James Brundage made a cool add-on for PowerGUI to control advanced PowerShell options
• Jaykul writes about using parentheses in PowerShell
• The Scripting Guys have an article on parsing the event log using Get-WinEvent
• Aaron Nelson has been posting PowerShell Week at SQL University info. More about SQL University is at SQLChicken.com
• Don Jones has a bunch of PowerShell videos on his YouTube channel!

Tips

• From Ravi: Use Dropbox to share profiles across multiple systems
• Get your logging on:
  • Oisin's script logger module
  • Jaykul's NLog module
  • Doug Finke's PSLog (also an NLog wrapper)
  • Log4Posh: PowerShell Log4Net wrapper
• What the heck is Finally for? (as in Try..Catch..Finally)
• Clear an AD attribute

One-Liner of the Week!

Get-Service | Add-Member ScriptMethod ToString { $this.Name } -Force -PassThru | Group-Object Status

And here is the PS1XML version