Get-Scripting Podcast Episode 9 with Scott Herold

On the Get-Scripting Podcast we recently caught up with Scott Herold from Quest / Vizioncore whom Alan had attempted to record an interview with at the recent VMWorld conference, but unfortunately (or fortunately depending on which way you look at it) they ran out of time because Scott spent so much time demoing his new project the Virtualization EcoShell Initiative since it was proving incredibly popular.

So when they both got home we hooked up over Skype and had a lot of fun recording the interview that way instead. It sounded like a really interesting tool and the initial release has now been made public so I’d definitely recommend you go check it out. Currently it supports the VMWare hypervisor technology, but there are plans to expand this for Hyper-V and other areas too so it could well become your tool of choice for managing virtual environments and guess what – its free! In fact Get-Scripting’s very own Alan Renouf even contributed some of the reporting code so it must be good.

Scott was also on the Powerscripting Podcast last week so there is more for you to find out from Hal and Jonathan’s questions for him too.

Get-Scripting Podcast Episode 6

So we got Episode 6 of the Get-Scripting Podcast out last week. You can get it from here:

Download it here, subscribe in iTunes or via a different feed reader

Normally Alan, Matt and I all arrange to be in the same place to record the show. Given we live in completely different places in the UK this is not easy and is probably the main reason we keep it to one show per month. We could do a Skype type thing, but we prefer to keep it a face-to-face recording. Now though that I work in the same office as Alan this time we took the opportunity to record the show during a lunchtime and I got Matt to post-edit the result when meeting for family time over Christmas.

End result: I think the show was a bit more relaxed because we just let the tape roll and edited afterwards rather than stopping and starting when normally we sometimes re-record bits; logistically much easier; still took about the same time to edit.

The interview with Ben Pearce which I had recorded a few weeks earlier was an absolute blast. Ben is such a fun guy to be around and made for a real easy interview because he doesn’t stop talking; I think we got some great tips from him for Powershell beginners too.

PowerScripting Live CTP3 Special – Thursday 18th Dec

This is a must watch PowerScripting Podcast special – the hint is in the title.

Jeffrey Snover and Bruce Payette are the two guests, it should be an awesome show.

Thursday 18th Dec 9pm EST, which translates to 2am UK time. I think I’m going to have to stay up for it!

Get-Scripting Podcast Episode 5 – (Dmitry Sotnikov – Quest AD cmdlets and PowerGUI)

We had a lot of fun recording the latest episode of the Get-Scripting podcast on Tuesday night. Its been great having Alan join the show, gives the show a much more conversational feel plus I don’t have to come up with all the content.

We had a really interesting interview in this episode with Dmitry Sotnikov talking about the Quest AD cmdlets and PowerGUI – go check it out.

Coming up on the next show in December we have an interview with Ben Pearce from Microsoft. Ben is the guy who recently presented Powershell sessions with Jeffrey Snover at TechEd EMEA, does a lot of Powershell training and is great fun to interview.

Welcome

Welcome to the new home for my blogging. As explained over on the get-scripting podcast blog, I decided to seperate the podcast from my own personal ramblings which will from now on be here, the get-scripting site will be used for podcast stuff only.