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Episode 12 – Our first guest, Brandon Shell

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: Introduction Jam-packed show today! We ran so long, we had to skip the cmdlet-of-the-week segment! We have a Special Guest, and in fact our first guest, Brandon Shell, an MVP in Automation and author of the BSonPosh blog. News CTP! Unless you’ve been …

Creating and using custom objects

Listener Mace writes: I’ve seen this code: $values = new-object ‘object[,]’ 5,2 Can you expound on that? The author fills the array. $k = 0 foreach ($j in $exchangeserverlist) { $perf = New-Object System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter($perfobj1, $counter1, $instance1, $j.Name) …

Get free disk space one-liner

Listener Bill writes, I have been looking at the get-help and get-member cmdlets, but have so far not found one thing I want to have as a “one-liner” - a command line that will return the free space on a certain drive. **""${env:computername}","" + (gwmi -Query …

Episode 11 – A new PowerShell community

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: Introduction Big thanks to Shay and his PowerShell Radio post. 🙂 News PowerShell Community (powershellcommunity.org) “Real” non-profit organization created by corporate sponsors including Microsoft, Quest, Sapien, and ShellTools. Event …

Episode 9 – PowerShell V2 news is coming in November

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. Listen: Introduction Thanks to //o// and Kirk at Poshoholic for mentioning us on their blogs. We loved Kirk’s post about namespaces with the Star Trek references. That’s the Trouble with Tribbles! News According to Bruce Payette in this post, details …

Episode 8 – Meet Hal Rottenberg!

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. - **Introduction** Welcome to Hal Rottenberg! Check out his [blog](http://halr9000.com/) - **News** Jeffery Snover interview - VMWare “gets it”! VI PowerShell blog ex: Get-VM | where { $_.state -eq “poweredOn” } | Stop-VM - Post from …

Episode 7 – Don't Forget What You Already Know

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. - News PowerShell Google group - Cmdlets of the week New-item - Test-path - Get-WMIObject MSDN WMI Reference - Resource Windows PowerShell and WMI - Technet webcast w/ Don Jones - “Active Directory Management Made Easy with PowerShell” from Quest …

Episode 6 – User Groups are Starting to Sprout

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. - Introduction Thank you for all of the great feedback - Jeffery Snover did a post about the podcast! - News - PowerShell Analyzer can be pre-ordered for $59 and it will be $129 - Next update new-qaduser will require samAccountname - “The PowerShell …

Episode 5 – PowerShell Hits a Million

A Podcast about Windows PowerShell. - Introduction Shout-out to Mark Allen for answering the challenge - News New AD cmdlets - the one step account creation works great - From the ScriptingNewswire, May 2007 Windows PowerShell guide for beginners - Downloadable and cmdlet-accessible graphical help …

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