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Congratulations to our three new PowerShell MVPs. Total worldwide is now 50 people!

Chad Miller (mvp profile)
Rolf Masuch
Yuriy Lebedev

PoshBoard beta IV now available for download
ShowUI 1.1 is out already
Central Ohio PowerShell Users Group welcomes Ed Wilson on July 21st!
What’s new and changed in SharePoint 2010 SP1 PowerShell




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Buzz from the Chatroom:


Alexandair: ## what are the advantages of using PowerShell Server compared to PowerShell v2 remoting?


Questions:

Superhero Matt from Heroes


Resources

Great list of free PowerShell eBooks
Doug Finke has an article on MSDN mag titled, Secrets to Building a WPF Application in Windows PowerShell
James Brundage just shipped ScriptCop
Glenn Sizemore shows off his PowerPack for NetApp
The recent PowerCLI reference book has a ton of great scripts on the official Sybex page
Fun with get-random
Trevor Sullivan has a huge article on extending SCCM’s hardware inventory
Translate foreign languages with PowerShell


Tips

Stop a service on a remote computer
Quickly work with “today’s files”

Hal’s one-liner: dir | ? { $_.lastwritetime -ge (get-date).date }
Barry’s rebuttal on Twitter, titled Get-Dirty

Joel Bennett’s WASP project is still a classic tool