Get-Scripting Podcast Episode 30 - (Jan Ring talks SCVMM)

This is Episode 30 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: VCD Posts on the PowerCLI BlogCisco UCS CmdletsNext week I am at the North Carolina VMUG Jonathan: Working a contract for Citrix via Start-Automating Interview: Jan Ring Blog PowerShell News: Scripting Games have taken place PowerShell and WMI book from Richard Siddaway published PowerShell Resources: PoshChat Convert Images to Text Ascii Art Unofficial vCD Cmdlets PowerShell code cleaner V1 Don Jones - PowerShellbooks.com PowerShell Tips: Escaping a Regex when using -match PS V:\> $TestError = "This is a (test)" ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PS V:\> $RealError = "This is a (test)" ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PS V:\> $TestError -match $RealError False ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PS V:\> $TestError -match [regex]::Escape($RealError) True ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PS V:\> $RealError = "This is a \(test\)" ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PS V:\> $TestError -match $RealError True http://www.vistax64.com/powershell/199639-comparing-string-contains-parenthesis.html Get Index of Item in an Array Multiple Variable Assignment PS C:\> $a,$b = 'apple','pear' ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PS C:\> $a apple ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PS C:\> $b pear or PS C:\> $a,$b = 'apple','pear','banana' ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PS C:\> $a apple ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PS C:\> $b pear banana PowerShell Gotcha Chat with Hal - ValidationSet not working with tab completion, enumeration. Function a { Param ( [parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [ValidateSet("Low", "Average", "High")] [String[]] $Detail ) Process { Write-Host $Detail } } 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