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