Paul Long from Microsoft about Message Analyzer

Alan Renouf from VMware on PowerCLI

Matt Wrock from Microsoft about BoxStarter

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Narayanan Lakshmanan from the PowerShell team about DSC

http://powershell.org/wp/community-events/summit/

The PowerShell Portland User Group is meeting April 15th

The Greater Milwaukee Script Club is meeting on April 15th

The Tampa PowerShell User Group is meeting on April 17th

Guest - Narayanan Lakshmanan

WMF5 Preview

DSC Resource Kit

Wave 1

Wave 2

DSC Resource Designer

Wave 3

All modules - download

Don Jones’ - The DSC ebook (free)

TechNet Virtual Lab: Desired State Configuration with Window Server 2012 R2

### for a DSC noob, how well does it compare with Puppet?  Linux guys are pushing and I am not too familiar with it.  Does an IT shop need both?

##DSC noob here too...any suggestions or some practical examples to gain some familiarity?

## when can we expect to get resources written by other product teams?

##Will Test-TargetResource tell you what's deviating if it fails?

## will MS require the various teams to provide DSC resources (aka stop-ship, like they did with powerShell cmdlets)

##When will the DscResourceDesigner's Test-DscResource handle more complex schema.mofs?

##What's failing is the wave resources that you've released fail to validate with Test-DscResource

## How far downlevel will WMF5 be supported?  2008R2?

### What is N for WMF5?

totally unrelated…on win 8.1, how would one get past “access denied” when trying to use location services (like this: http://www.verboon.info/2013/10/powershell-script-get-computergeolocation/)

http://youtu.be/JM7e5tsYOi8

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014

Eric Williams and Jeff Foster on the Cisco UCS PowerTool

Bala Narasimhan from PernixData on FVP

Scott Muc about Pester

Nick Howell from Netapp on the software designed datacenter

PowerShell MVPs Don Jones and Jason Helmick on The Scripting Games and the PowerShell Summit

Jeff Galloway from HP