Windows PowerShell Virtual User Group #10--UPDATE ON VIDEO

Well, I have the raw video from meeting #10, I just haven't had the chance to write down the timing for each presenter.

I will have it done next week though.

I've been pretty quiet of late, but I'm still planning on having other virtual user group meetings starting likely in September 2009.

Windows PowerShell Virtual User Group Meeting #10--UPDATED

Windows PowerShell Virtual User Group Meeting #10
Time: May 7th, 2009 at 8PM EST (New York time)
Place: Online via Live Meeting 2007

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To sign up:
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Registration site: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=137921
Event Code: 137921
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This is our tenth virtual event. Invited speakers that will talk about various
PowerShell-related topics: Bart De Smet (Microsoft), Sergei Anotonov (Microsoft), Glenn Sizemore.

Agenda (EST/New York time):
8:00PM-8:10PM: Introduction (Marco)
8:10PM-8:40PM: Glenn Sizemore
8:40PM-9:10PM: Sergei Antonov (Microsoft)
9:10PM-9:40PM: Bart De Smet (Microsoft)
9:40PM-9:50PM: Closing (Marco)

Speaker topics:
*Glenn Sizemore: NetApp administration using PowerShell (http://www.get-admin.com).
*Sergei Anotonov (Microsoft): IIS PowerShell Snap-in functionality (http://blogs.iis.net/sergeia/).
*Bart De Smet (Microsoft): Using LINQ from PowerShell (http://bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/).

To join:
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/winserver_usergroup/join?id=4FB8CN&role=attend&pw=8%5E-%5CzqX

Video:
Video will be delivered via the Microsoft Live Meeting client
Audio:
For attendees, audio will be delivered via the Internet using your computer's speakers. There
will not be a call-in number for this meeting.

Unable to join the meeting? Follow these steps:
1.Copy this address and paste into your web browser:
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/winserver_usergroup/join
2.Copy and paste the required information:
Meeting ID: 4FB8CN
Entry Code: 8^-\zqX

Windows PowerShell Virtual User Group #9--UPDATE

Unfortunately, the video recording of my 9th PowerShell user group meeting held recently has been lost.

My sincere apologies to everyone. Chad Miller has agreed to redo his presentation on his SQL Server PowerShell extensions, so I'll be working with him some time next week to redo his part.

Windows PowerShell Virtual User Group Meeting #9

**Update 1: The date is Wednesday, February 18th. I had incorrectly put Thursday, February 19th originally.**
**Update 2: It is Chad Miller (and not Chris Miller).**
**Update 3: The date is 2009, and not 2008.**

Windows PowerShell Virtual User Group Meeting #9

Time: February 18th, 2009 at 8PM EST (New York time)
Place: Online via Live Meeting 2007

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To sign up:
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Registration site: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=135834
Event Code: 135834
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This is our ninth virtual event. Invited speakers that will talk about various

PowerShell-related topics: Doug Finke, Chad Miller and James Brundage (Microsoft).

To join:
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/winserver_usergroup/join?id=J5DPR3&role=attend&pw=8%5E-%5CzqX

Video:
Video will be delivered via the Microsoft Live Meeting client

Audio:
For attendees, audio will be delivered via the Internet using your computer's speakers. There

will not be a call-in number for this meeting.

Unable to join the meeting? Follow these steps:
1.Copy this address and paste into your web browser:
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/winserver_usergroup/join
2.Copy and paste the required information:
Meeting ID: J5DPR3
Entry Code: 8^-\zqX

Agenda (EST/New York time):
8:00PM-8:10PM: Introduction (Marco)
8:10PM-8:40PM: Doug Finke
8:40PM-9:10PM: Chad Miller
9:10PM-9:40PM: James Brundage (Microsoft)
9:40PM-9:50PM: Closing (Marco)

Speaker topics:
*Doug Finke: Data visualization in PowerShell (http://www.dougfinke.com/blog).
*Chad Miller: SQL Server PowerShell Extensions (http://www.codeplex.com/SQLPSX).
*James Brundage: Using WPF from PowerShell (http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell).

Windows PowerShell Virtual User Group Meeting #8--UPDATE

I first announced my 8th meeting coming this Thursday HERE.

Update:
James O'Neill has been added to the list of speakers. He's going to be talking about his PowerShell library for managing Hyper-V.

Fredericton .NET User Group presentation

I put on a PowerShell presentation this past Wednesday night for the Fredericton .NET User Group.

It was a blast! Using Live Meeting is a very cool way for me to extend the reach of giving out PowerShell presentations.

I would be willing to give such a presentation to any user group. Just send out a feeler email to your members if there's any interested, and let me know via a comment here (leave an email address) or email me at marcoDOTshaw_AT_gmailDOTcom.

I do all of my PowerShell virtual user group meetings via Live Meeting.

Windows PowerShell Virtual User Group #8--IN THE WORKS

Plans are underway for meeting #8. Looks like it will be January 29th at noon EST (New York time).

Tentative speakers/topics:
Jeffrey Snover (Microsoft): PowerShell v2 news.
June Blender (Microsoft): New PowerShell help features.

I may do a small presentation also... Not sure yet. If there's anything you'd like to see demo'd, leave a comment!

I may invite Compellent (www.compellent.com/powershell) to do a live demo of their new PowerShell cmdlets.

Windows PowerShell Virtual User Group #7--UPDATE

I blogged it HERE: I don't have the #7 recordings ready for download yet. I'm sorry...

I promise to have something in the next 24 hours.

Windows PowerShell Virtual User Group--NEW HOME

Thanks to the System Center Virtual User Group for providing a new home for the Windows PowerShell Virtual User Group HERE.

Previously, everything was this personal blog site, and posted on www.powershellcommunity.org, but this new site provides me with some new opportunities do market my group, and help others.

I will still post updates here, but will be referring to blog posts on the new site mostly.

I will be announcing the new date for meeting #7 in the next few hours (cancelled due to Live Meeting server problems).

Windows PowerShell Virtual User Group Meeting #7--POSTPONED

I was to have my latest PowerShell virtual user group meeting earlier today, which was announced HERE.

Microsoft is currently having Live Meeting server problems. So the event will be rescheduled to a later date.

I may try to have it at the same time on Thursday, November 20th. That will depend on speaker availability.

I will try to decide in the next 24 hours whether next Thursday will be possible.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Virtual user group update

I just announced my seventh meeting of my PowerShell virtual user group HERE. I'll be trying to spread the word this week that the event is coming up.

In July, I had announced HERE that the user group was alive and strong.

It has been about one year since my first online meeting. Live attendance has been steadily decreasing. I haven't found the extra time to figure out a mechanism to log downloads of my recorded sessions to determine whether these are actually useful/in use.

A few months ago, I was considering moving on to other things. Responses to my requests for presenters was about a 20% "yes, I'll do it" rate, which just isn't high enough for me.

I need to come up with a better marketing strategy, and get a few other things together to determine if this is something that brings a real value to a large enough number of people.

I will definitely try to have one more user group meeting around mid-December before I finally decide what things might look like in 2009.

Thanks for reading.

UK User Group presentation: NetCmdlets

I'll be (remotely) presenting /n software NetCmdlets at the next UK PowerShell UG meeting.

Date: July 29th, 2008
Time: 2PM EST (New York time)

Connection details:
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=JQ5754&role=present&pw=qP%2C%7Cf%2F9%7Cm

If the link above isn't working, follow these steps:
1. Copy this address and paste it into your web browser:
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join
2. Copy and paste the required information:
Meeting ID: JQ5754
Entry Code: qP,|f/9|m
Location: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups

This will be done via the Internet (so the audio will be streaming over the Internet also). There won't be telephone dial-in access.

Windows PowerShell Virtual User Group #6--VIDEOS

Finally, I'm posting the videos and slides from my sixth user group meeting announced HERE.

I'm limited to 20-25MB/file for my SkyDrive account. I have problems uploading files if they are bigger than that. Sorry!

*Marco Shaw introduction.

*Bruce Payette (Microsoft): PowerShell v2 modules.


*Wassim Fayed (Microsoft): PowerShell v2 remoting.



*Hal Rottenberg: Managing VMware Infrastructure using PowerShell.



*Marco Shaw closing.

Operations Manager 2007 and PowerShell recording

I did a presentation on Operations Manager 2007 and PowerShell, aka Command Shell for the System Center Virtual User Group's inaugural meeting announced HERE.

Here's is the roughly 50 minutes session that I did HERE (75MB/49 minutes 36 seconds).

Now, I've split up the recording into smaller sections for individual downloading:
1. Introducing myself (0.7MB/30 seconds).
2. General introduction to Windows PowerShell (14MB/8 minutes).
3. My upcoming TechNet article on Operations Manager and PowerShell (2MB/ 1 minute 35 seconds).
4. Operations Manager Command Shell (34MB/18 minutes).
5. A brief discussion of objects in .NET (12MB/7 minutes 22 seconds)
6. Customizing Operations Manager alerts (13MB/5 minutes 42 seconds).
7. Creating Command Shell scripts (2.5MB/1 minute 13 seconds).
8. Creating custom Command Shell reports (2.7MB/2 minutes).
9. Getting Command Shell help (1.5MB/1 minute 12 seconds).

Please don't hesitate to leave comments. I really appreciate them!

Windows PowerShell Virtual User Group--UPDATE

*We had about 35 attendees last night.
*Things went mostly well.
*I'll have some information posted tomorrow, and the recordings edited probably for Tuesday next week.

Master post - WPVUG

This is a master post for information specific to my PowerShell virtual user group.

Meeting #10 (May 2009):
*Speakers/topics:
Glenn Sizemore: NetApp administration using PowerShell (http://www.get-admin.com).
Sergei Anotonov (Microsoft): IIS PowerShell Snap-in functionality (http://blogs.iis.net/sergeia/).
Bart De Smet (Microsoft): Using LINQ from PowerShell (http://bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/).
*Live Meeting Recording

Meeting #9 (February 2009):
*Speakers/topics:
Doug Finke: Data visualization in PowerShell.
Chad Miller: SQL Server PowerShell Extensions.
James Brundage (Microsoft): Using WPF from PowerShell.
**Unfortunately, the video for this meeting is not available.**

Meeting #8 (January 2009):
*Speakers/topcis:
June Blender (Microsoft): "Exciting new help features in PowerShell v2".
Compellent (vendor): Data Center management: System Center Command Set for Windows PowerShell.
James O'Neill (Microsoft): His PowerShell library for managing Hyper-V.
*Live Meeting recording

Meeting #7 (December 2008):
*Speakers/topcis:
Nathan Winters (MVP): "Exchange 2007 from PowerShell"
Joel (Jaykul) Bennett: "PowerShell tools for the Huddled Masses"
Idera (vendor): "PowerShellPlus graphical script editor"
*Live Meeting recordings

Meeting #6 (June 2008):
*Speakers/topics:
Bruce Payette (Microsoft): "PowerShell v2 modules"
Wassim Fayed (Microsoft): "PowerShell v2 remoting"
Hal Rottenberg: "Managing VMware Infrastructure using PowerShell"
*Live Meeting recordings
*Bruce Payette PowerPoint: v2 modules
*Hal Rottenberg PowerPoint: VMware and PowerShell

Meeting #5 (April 2008):
*Speakers/topics:
Bart De Smet (Microsoft): "Focus on extensibility (cmdlets and providers) and discuss v2 features: script cmdlets and internationalization"
Steven Nelson (Microsoft): "MSDN/SDK PowerShell documentation"
*Live Meeting recordings

Meeting #4 (February 2008):
Speakers/topics:
Darren Mar-Elia (MVP): "Managing Group Policy with PowerShell"
Richard Siddaway (MVP): "Windows Server 2008 and WMI"
*Live Meeting recordings

Meeting #3 (January 2008):
*Speakers/topics:
Lee Holmes (Microsoft): "PowerShell: Pragmatic Programming, and Everyday Automation"
Karl Prosser (MVP): "Embrace the Admin Development model with agility by using tools and workflow that produce efficient, consistent results"
Brandon Shell (MVP): "Custom Objects in PowerShell"
*Live Meeting recordings

Meeting #2 (December 2007):
*Speakers/topics:
Don Jones (MVP): "New PowerShell Community site, Sapien's 2nd edition of PowerShell: TFM, and Sapien's PowerShell training"
Oisin Grehan (MVP): "PowerShell Community Extensions and project on Codeplex called PSEventing"
Jeffrey Snover (Microsoft): "The new PowerShell 2.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP)"
*Live Meeting recordings

Meeting #1 (October 2007):
*Speakers/topics:
Keith Hill (MVP): "PowerShell Community Extensions"
PowerGadgets (vendor): "PowerGadgets snap-in"
Marc van Orsouw (MVP): "PowerTab"
*Live Meeting recordings

PowerShell virtual user group--TONIGHT!

Reminder... PowerShell virtual user group meeting tonight. See details HERE.

You can't miss it: Bruce Payette! Wassim Fayed! Hal Rottenberg!

System Center Virtual User Group presentation

I'll be presenting on Thursday, June 26th, at the new System Center Virtual User Group announced HERE.

I'll be doing a presentation on the Operations Manager Command Shell, which is basically PowerShell with a few customizations specific to Operatations Manager (a snap-in is loaded, a .ps1 is also loaded at launch for additional customizations).

I'm going to be doing a quick PowerShell intro, then present some tips and tricks when using the Command Shell.

PowerShell workshop in Fredericton, NB

I'm working with UNB and the Fredericton .NET user group to possibly put on a one-day PowerShell workshop in early October.

It could possibly be a 4 to 6 hour workshop during business hours. If people aren't able to attend the day session, I maybe put on another 1 hour talk at the .NET user group that evening.

New System Center Virtual User Group

A new System Center Virtual User Group has started up HERE recently.

The first meeting is tentatively planned for June 26th at noon CST.

I will be doing a 20-30 minute presentation on using PowerShell within System Center Operations Manager 2007 (aka Command Shell).

I'm planning to do a quick overview of PowerShell within OpsMgr, then talk about creating reports from the Command Shell.