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This week, Alex Reidel and SAPIEN alumus Don Jones will sit down (virtually speaking) at a roundtable discussion on the PowerScripting Podcast. They will be joined by PowerShell architect Jeffrey Snover, and PowerShell MVP Kirk Munro. Scheduled topics include: A Thousand Things 1% Better What’s most important for a posh newbie to learn? Script vs.

This summer we ran a PowerShell Boot Camp that was very popular and successful. People have been asking when we’re going to hold another one. Your question has been answered. I will be doing the boot camp in Dallas, TX February 9-11, 2009. Now before you get too excited, be warned that this is not your typical instructor led training.

It’s that time of year again when Microsoft announces its newest MVPs. I’m happy to report that Hal Rottenberg has finally received this honor. Not only does Hal hold down a pretty serious day job, he is co-host of the popular PowerScripting Podcast and the community director for PowerShellCommunity.org.

Infrastructure Development & Operations · Windows HPC Server 2008 · Impact of Groove on a Network for TechNet · Microsoft Response Point 1.0 Service Pack 1 · Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB954920) - English · Update for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems (KB954920) · Update for

The other day I showed you how to use ADSI and PowerShell to manage services on remote computers. Since the ADSI type adapter is admittedly “kludgy” at times, I put together a script that you could use like a cmdlet to retrieve service information via ADSI.

Tech Days 2008 Canada: Microsoft Tech Days Canada 2008An early bird special of 50% off the price for either the one day or two day events is on until October 15, 2008. Here are the grids for the two day that I will be attending in Calgary: Microsoft Tech Days Day 1 The two tracks that I will be focused on are the Virtualization and the Infrastructure ones.

In PowerShell v1.0, if you want to manage services on a remote computer, you likely used WMI and the Get-WMIObject cmdlet. But there is another solution using ADSI. If you use the WinNT provider, you can access all of the services on a remote machine in much the same way you would manage local users and groups.

A new version of ActiveXPosh was uploaded to our server. You can download it from http://www.primalscript.com/Free_Tools/index.asp Aside from some minor fixes, it includes a new method on the interface called ‘GetValue’. With that function you can easily get the string value of some variable or property without going through the output buffer.

That was the title of a recent blog post by Jeffery Snover on the PowerShell team blog. I recently had the privilege of sitting down with Jeffery Snover and the PowerShell team and just talk about bits and pieces in PowerShell and PrimalScript.

I wanted to make sure everybody knew about another site in the ScriptingAnswers.com family. We have another area we refer to as our Essentials site. Here we gather tips, best practices, sample scripts and more. Coverage includes not only PowerShell but VBScript as well.