Episode 138 - PowerScripting Podcast - Parind Shah from EqualLogic

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

 

News

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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

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Links:


 


http://www.equallogic.com/


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

http://delltechcenter.com/



 
Chatroom Buzz:

21:47 ##when is storage monitoring coming to PowerShell?


21:49 ## have your tried to get a consistent PowerShell story
with other SAN manufacturers like Compellent?


21:54 # was the top-down part of the push for PowerShell
management part of an overall push @ dell?  There are a lot
of dell hardware that could use specialized management


21:54 # what do you have in mind for the 2nd release?


22:08 right now there are 13 pages of jobs of PowerShell on
LinkedIn


23:44 @ joel, sure, but debug/verbose/warning are the lamest of
all streams



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



Resources


 


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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

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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