Dmitry Sotnikov’s view on PowerShell, PowerGUI and everything he sees around
If you are considering participating in the PowerPack Challenge contest (which you should 
) this quick video by Darin will help you get started:
Darin walks you through the process of customizing PowerGUI admin console, exporting the new functionality as a PowerPack, and sharing it on the web.
Check out this video to learn how to start using the most important new features of PowerShell 2.0 including background jobs, modules, advanced functions, and function help (HQ and full screen recommended):
Great job by Kirk Munro! I know I will be now using these features a lot more.
Tags: Demo, PowerGUI, PowerShell, PowerShell v2, Tutorial, Webcast, video
Here’s a new quick tip from Darin on AD exports and imports from within PowerGUI:
As usual, short and to the point.
Using CSV and text files in PowerGUI when managing AD is quite common. For example, I have seen people adding script node like:
Get-Content '\\server\share\users.txt' | Get-QADUser
If users.txt has a bunch of usernames (one per line) this outputs actual user accounts to the PowerGUI grid, which you can then manage with all the actions (disable, reset passwords, and so on.)
Alternatively, some customers are just using
Import-Csv
in a node and then define some actions to perform various activities based on the fields in the grid.
Also, although Darin did not show that, you can create your own export to CSV and use something like
Select Name, samAccountName | Export-Csv
to pick specific columns to be exported.
And there’s whole update from CSV scenario… Man, I could go on and on with these!
Tags: AD, Active Directory, Demo, PowerGUI, PowerShell, Webcast, video
Windows Server 2008 R2 ships with a great new object undelete feature – Active Directory Recycle Bin. The only problem with this feature (apart from requiring 2008 R2 functional level ) is that PowerShell command-line is the only management interface shipped for the feature.
Well, not anymore. Check out the free GUI Kirk has put together with PowerGUI (make sure you click the HD button when watching this and make it full screen):
It keeps amazing me how great PowerGUI is when you need such GUIs on top of anything exposing PowerShell.
Read more about the PowerPack in Kirk’s blog.
Download the PowerPack here.
Quick video from Darin showing a few new (for 1.9) features in the PowerGUI admin console. Check it out:
Kirk has recently published his Org Chart PowerPack which frankly I myself have been using a lot lately.
For anyone working in a medium to large size of company this is just a great tool to navigate your organization and even produce html and Visio reports about it:
Does your HR have anything like that? Send them the link to the demo and get them addicted to PowerShell!
Read more about the PowerPack in Kirk’s blog.
Tags: Active Directory, Demo, PowerGUI, PowerPack, PowerShell, Reporting, Visio, Webcast
Kirk has recently published a PowerPack which adds really nice-looking reports to PowerGUI Admin Console. Once you install the pack you will get these reports for any systems you manage: AD, Exchange, Operations Manager, VMware, Hyper-V – you name it.
See this video for details:
Download the PowerPack here.
Tags: PowerGUI, PowerPack, PowerShell, Reporting, Webcast, video
For those preferring seeing to reading here’s Darin’s video highlighting the major improvements introduced in PowerGUI Admin Console in version 1.8:
If you want to learn more, I also had a few blog posts on 1.8 features on my blog:
Tags: PowerGUI, PowerShell, Webcast, video
Folks at PowerWF are building a design tool which lets you drag-and-drop PowerShell activities into a workflow. What makes their tool even more cool is the ability to run the workflows which you create right from the PowerGUI admin console specifically for the objects you select in the console grid.
Check out this demo:
And obviously visit the PowerWF site to download the beta and provide your feedback.
Tags: Demo, PowerGUI, PowerShell, PowerWF, Webcast, video, workflow
For PowerShell fans who could not make it to the TechEd this year TechEd Online lets you get some of the action from the comfort of you office (or home).
Hal and Kirk sat together and did an online demo of PowerGUI as well as had a general discussion of PowerGUI and PowerShell. Check it out here:
Creating the Customized Administrative Console Using PowerShell: A How-To Guide
(If the link does not work, log into TechEd Online and try the link again.)
Tags: Conferences, Demo, PowerGUI, PowerShell, TechEd, Webcast
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