This is Episode 31 of the Get-Scripting podcast. Tune in to listen to us talk and interview people about PowerShell. Download it here, subscribe in iTunes or via a different feed reader. Intro: Alan: Easily creating PowerShell Quick References Jonathan: PowerShell and XenDesktop at the UK PowerShell User Group Automating MSI Installations with PowerShell Checking 32bit PowerShell Snapins from 64bit PowerShell Interview: Jonathan Noble - Blog http://www.jonoble.com/blog/2012/1/19/whats-new-in-powershell-v3-the-slides.html http://www.virtu-al.net/2012/06/05/installing-powershell-web-access-on-windows-2012-rc-core/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2012/06/14/new-v3-language-features.aspx PowerShell News: Windows Server 2012 Release Preview is out. Full release to ship in August. Then we will be in v3! PowerShell Resources: PowerShell for Network Pen Testing series over on Hey Scripting Guy http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/tags/niklas+goude/ Be efficient – Virtualize & automate your test environment http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2012/06/be-efficient-virtualize-automate-your-test-environment.html PowerShell Gotcha Numeric values as the first character in parameter names: function foo { [cmdletbinding()] param ( [parameter()] [switch]$32bit ) if ($32bit){ "32bit" } } PS c:\> foo -32bit foo : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument '-32bit'. Workaround! - $x86 From the language specification document: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=9706 (no Nd) first-parameter-char: A Unicode character of classes Lu, Ll, Lt, Lm, or Lo _ (The underscore characterU+005F) ? https://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell/feedback/details/753467/using-a-numeric-character-as-the-first-character-of-a-parameter-name-should-produce-a-clearer-error-message-and-be-permitted-if-it-also-contains-non-numeric-characters Feedback Send us feedback at get [dash] scripting [at] hotmail [dot] co [dot] uk or leave a comment here on the blog Follow us on Twitter and join our Facebook Group http://twitter.com/getscripting http://twitter.com/jonathanmedd http://twitter.com/alanrenouf Get-Scripting Facebook Group Extensive list of Powershell Twitterers