Get-Scripting Podcast Episode 27 - (The One Where They Catch Up and Share Loads of PowerShell Tips and Tricks)

This is Episode 27 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: PowerCLI @ VMworld PowerCLIMan - The Return Alan on PowerScripting Jonathan: HP WMI Provider Simple Talk - How to add a GUI front end to your PowerShell scripts What's New In PowerCLI 5.0 at the UK PowerShell User Group PowerShell V3 Blog Series PowerShell News: PowerShell V3 Preview Out as part of Win8 Developer Preview 2012 Deep Dive Conference Announced for San Diego PowerShell Resources: Distributed Switch Cmdlets available as a fling PowerShell scripts to leverage UBERalign for virtual disk alignment Get-FriendlyUnits from @lucd22 Jeffrey Snover has a blog Cmdlet of the day podcast Powershell Tips: Copy-Item With Alternate Credentials Netstat for ESXi Splitting a string with the split operator containing a ".", e.g. test.test.com $EscapeTest = [Regex]::Escape("test.test.com") $EscapeTest.split("\.") Also [URI]"http://test.com/alan" How to create a PSCredential object PowerShell Gotcha 'Set-Service -Status Stopped' fails with "Cannot stop service 'servicename' because it is dependent on other services‏ Catching WMI Query Errors with Try / Catch - Workaround: You can make non-terminating errors get thrown by using: - -ErrorAction "Stop" 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