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 @ VMworldPowerCLIMan - The ReturnAlan on PowerScriptingJonathan:HP WMI ProviderSimple Talk - How to add a GUI front end to your PowerShell scriptsWhat's New In PowerCLI 5.0 at the UK PowerShell User GroupPowerShell V3 Blog SeriesPowerShell News:PowerShell V3 Preview Out as part of Win8 Developer Preview2012 Deep Dive Conference Announced for San DiegoPowerShell Resources:Distributed Switch Cmdlets available as a flingPowerShell scripts to leverage UBERalign for virtual disk alignmentGet-FriendlyUnits from @lucd22Jeffrey Snover has a blogCmdlet of the day podcastPowershell Tips:Copy-Item With Alternate CredentialsNetstat for ESXiSplitting 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 objectPowerShell Gotcha'Set-Service -Status Stopped' fails with "Cannot stop service 'servicename' because it is dependent on other services‏Catching WMI Query Errors with Try / Catch- Workaround: You can make non-terminating errors get thrown by using: - -ErrorAction "Stop"FeedbackSend us feedback atget [dash] scripting [at] hotmail [dot] co [dot] ukor leave a comment here on the blogFollow us on Twitter and join our Facebook Grouphttp://twitter.com/getscriptinghttp://twitter.com/jonathanmeddhttp://twitter.com/alanrenoufGet-Scripting Facebook GroupExtensive list of Powershell Twitterers