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4/4/2011
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Recorded: April 3, 2011Your Hosts: Keith Albright and Steve MurawskiShow Length: 1:06:11 Topics/Links: System Center Betas Problems with SP1 Verizon T1 outage Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Sorry, none this week. Listen Now: Download Here
3/28/2011
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Recorded: March 27, 2011Your Hosts: Keith Albright and Steve Murawski Show Length:1:13:33 Topics/Links: Interview with Ed Wilson: The Microsoft Scripting Guy Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog Follow him on Twitter @ScriptingGuys 2011 Scripting Games Upcoming Changes to Microsoft Core CAL’s Making movies with YouTubeDownloader and CamStudio Windows 7 & 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Trials and Tribulations osTicket - Web-based help desk ticket management Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Sorry, none this week. Listen Now: Download Here
3/27/2011
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Recorded: March 20, 2011Your Hosts: Keith Albright and Steve Murawski Show Length:1:16:25 Topics/Links: Interview with Tom Limoncelli, one of the authors of TPOSANA and presenter at the PICC Conference. Grab the book here: The Practice of System and Network Administration (2nd Ed.) Check out his site at Everything Sysadmin Steve is presenting on DirectAccess DirectAccess & Office Communicator configuration woes Limiting your user account abilities Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Sorry, none this week. Listen Now: Download Here
3/14/2011
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Recorded: March 13, 2011Your Hosts: Keith Albright and Steve Murawski (Special Guest Appearance by Keanu Reeves) Show Length:1:06:03 Topics/Links: Interview with Jesse Trucks of LOPSA and the PICC Conference MoR Book Club - Grab the book here: The Practice of System and Network Administration (2nd Ed.) We discuss Chapter 7 - Networking OSI Model Physical/Logical Network Diagrams Designing and maintaining a clean architecture Terminology Protocol selection and vendor interoperability VLAN’s as a security model - Nerd Fight between Keith and Steve - Send in your opinions on the topic to Feedback [at] MindOfRoot.com Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Steve - PICC Conference Listen Now: Download Here
3/7/2011
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Recorded: March 6, 2011Your Hosts: Keith Albright and Steve MurawskiShow Length: 56:01 Topics/Links: Remember the Default Deny rule iSCSI and Hyper-V Troubles VMWare and Windows Server 2008 R2 video problem DNS and Office Communication Server Meeting Room A/V Project What to do when a machine loses secure channel to DC Neighbors Laptop virus woes Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Keith - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14&feature=player_embedded - From DOS 5 to Windows 7 - An Upgrade story Listen Now: Download Here
2/11/2011
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Recorded: February 10, 2011 Your Hosts: Keith Albright and Steve MurawskiShow Length: 1:01:45 Topics/Links: PowerShell Deep Dive Conference CredSSP and PowerShell Remoting Exchange Server Cert problem Sharepoint Credentials Hiccup Migrating Sharepoint Content SPDeploymentWizard Tool WinSXS folder in Windows Vista and 7 Discussion on PC/Laptop hardware and OS standard builds from manufacturers Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Steve - imo.im - Free web-based chat client Keith - http://parrygripp.com/ - Funny songs for viral videos Listen Now: Download Here
2/4/2011
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Recorded: February 3, 2011 Your Hosts: Keith Albright and Steve MurawskiShow Length: 1:12:30 Topics/Links: MoR Book Club - Grab the book here: The Practice of System and Network Administration (2nd Ed.) We discuss Chapter 5 - Services What qualifies as a service? Dependencies Architecting for reliability Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Steve - imo.im - Free web-based chat client Keith - join.me - Free web-based screen sharing app from LogMeIn Listen Now: Download Here
1/5/2011
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Recorded: January 2, 2011 Your Hosts: Keith Albright and Steve MurawskiShow Length: 1:31:54 Topics/Links: MoR Book Club - Grab the book here: The Practice of System and Network Administration (2nd Ed.) We discuss Chapters 4 and 6 - Servers and Data Centers Designing servers for performance and reliability Data Center Design - location, security, racks, wiring, tools, HVAC Killing IPv6 in your LAN environment Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Sorry - none this week Listen Now: Download Here
12/10/2010
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Recorded: December 9, 2010Your Hosts: Keith Albright and Steve MurawskiShow Length: 1:10:20 Topics/Links: MoR Book Club - Grab the book here: The Practice of System and Network Administration (2nd Ed.) We discuss Chapter 3 - Workstations Understanding and knowing the ’state’ of your workstations Automation, automation, automation Maintaining your workstations - patching, application updates, diagnosing, repairing, state changes, etc. Standardizing workstation builds and network configurations OpenFileViewer from Nirsoft 90% answers and when they’re wrong Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Favicon generator Listen Now: Download Here
11/14/2010
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Recorded: November 11, 2010Your Hosts: Keith Albright & Steve MurawskiShow Length: 1:17:43 Topics/Links: MoR Book Club - Grab the book here: The Practice of System and Network Administration (2nd Ed.) We discuss Chapter 2 - Climb Out Of The Hole SiTracker - Support Incident Tracker software TicketDesk - Support ticket software Chapter 3 next to be discussed - date to be announced Debian guest on VMWare - NIC problem solved Exchange 2010 Transition - Several links in the show notes. Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Sorry - None this week. Listen Now: Download Here
11/5/2010
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Recorded: November 4, 2010Your Hosts: Keith AlbrightShow Length: 35:21 Topics/Links: MoR Book Club - Grab the book here: The Practice of System and Network Administration (2nd Ed.) We’ll be starting our discussion with Chapter 2 on the live show Nov.11, 2010. Read ahead and participate in the discussion. Thunderbird email client update PortableApps version of Thunderbird LSASS error on startup - reload registry from System Restore Point is the fix Unable to find eth0 interface in Debian VM on VMWare ESX SQL Records disappearing……possibly solved. Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Sorry - None this week. Listen Now: Download Here
10/29/2010
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Recorded: October 28, 2010Your Hosts: Keith Albright & Steve MurawskiShow Length: 46:31 Topics/Links: MoR Book Club - Grab the book here: The Practice of System and Network Administration (2nd Ed.) We’ll be starting our discussion with Chapter 2 on the live show Nov.11, 2010. Read ahead and participate in the discussion. Everything Sysadmin Blog Tweaking an app using the Borland DB Engine to work in Terminal Services environment Steady State for Windows 7 (NOTE: More resource links in the full show notes) HP PC’s spontaneously powering off Norton Power Eraser - Aggressive Anti-Virus/Malware tool Sys Administrivia Podcasts Stand Alone Sysadmin Blog Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Rescu.Me - Get out of that awkward with an urgent text or phone call. Listen Now: Download Here
10/8/2010
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Recorded: October 7, 2010Your Hosts: Keith Albright & Keith KernShow Length: 36:07 Topics/Links: Problem turning off Outlook Out-Of-Office Assistant Dropbox Blackberry Playbook tablet WSUS registration problem - duplicate SID’s Finding duplicate SID’s Animated GIF’s - love’em or hate’em? Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Sorry - None this week. Listen Now: Download Here
9/24/2010
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Recorded: September 23, 2010Your Host: Keith AlbrightShow Length: 28:54 Topics/Links: Network Design Dilemma - Multiple Gateways Converting DVD to Flash video for website Cryptarithmetic Permutations Macro Google Charts API Android SDK Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Shoot the Bear - funny viral video ad campaign Listen Now: Download Here
9/10/2010
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Recorded: September 9, 2010Your Host: Keith AlbrightShow Length: 26:16 Topics/Links: Promise VessRAID iSCSI Storage Appliance BackupExec problem - Sector size on destination drive causing problems backing up Exchange Logs Main Backup server died - primarily used with DFS to mirror main site Epson Workforce 520 AIO TWAIN SANE Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Sorry - None this week. Listen Now: Download Here
9/3/2010
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Recorded: September 2, 2010Your Host: Keith AlbrightShow Length: 33:47 Topics/Links: Prey Project - PC tracking and recovery Trick to restore iMac from Time Machine backup Deleting Forms Cache in Outlook - solved two problems WSUS Server problems TrueCrypt disk encryption Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Adran Otto’s Blog - Adrian discusses a great new DB platform called /dev/null. Sarcasm added for your enjoyment. Listen Now: Download Here
8/27/2010
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Recorded: August 26, 2010Your Host: Keith AlbrightShow Length: 26:10 Reminder: I’ll be appearing on a special edition of the Mike Tech Show this Saturday, August 28th at 10AM. Go to the Mike Tech Show on UStream.tv to view it live. Topics/Links: Cisco WAP200 VLAN mapping problem iMac Hard Drive failure Outlook RPC over HTTP Intel to acquire McAfee Security Pandigital Novel - color Android e-reader Read the full show notes here. Website Picks http://zeemaps.com/ Kinda like Frappr maps….except this one still works.
8/13/2010
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Recorded: August 12, 2010Your Host: Keith AlbrightShow Length: 40:15 Topics/Links: Belkin Network USB Hub Consulting Gig Mikogo Conferencing and remote support New FiOS installations Mitel VoIP Phone system project Wireless network installation (Cisco WAP200) 3Com Switches Barnes and Noble nook ereader Read the full show notes here. Website Picks http://www.robtex.com Great site to check your MX record configuration. Listen Now: Download Here
4/7/2010
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Recorded: March 24, 2010 Your Host: Steve Murawski and Rich Niemeier Show Length: 53:05 Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools. Topics/Links: Facebook, will they ever charge me, please? Web Platform Installer Microsoft SharedView SQLPSX - V2.2 Coming Up Edit LMHosts so you can manually define the domain server Port Reporter (see what's using your machine's network card) Are AT&T and Time Warner good to be used as separate ISP's for redundancy? Read the full show notes here. Website Picks http://giveupinternet.com/ - blogs about humorous tech and internet topics Listen Now: Download Here
3/15/2010
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Recorded: March 10, 2010Your Host: Steve Murawski and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 1:07:36 Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools. Topics/Links: Backup your configs! Windows Server AppFabric TestDisk Utility Glary Undelete SQLPSX Chad Miller on SQLPSX Two IT Staff placed on leave following school spying case Read the full show notes here.Website Picks Sorry - None this week. Listen Now: Download Here
3/9/2010
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Recorded: March 3, 2010Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 1:00:25 Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools. Topics/Links: XP SP2 Support end fast approaching SQL Server Management Studio reports available for SQL Server Reporting Services Should policies always trump ease-of-use? Terminal Services Security Best Practices - Free EBook available too Rich wants to go Geocaching Sapien iPowerShell reference app for iPhone & iPod Touch Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Keith - Failbooking - (Some NSFW) - When people don’t know how to use the internets….it gets outed here. Listen Now: Download Here
3/1/2010
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Recorded: February 24, 2010Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 1:00:15 Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools. Topics/Links: Working on co-workers kids PC IP camera systems Telecommuting - the need for rules & policies School uses webcam to spy on kids activities at home Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Rich - Maxthon - Another browser to tinker with Keith - ChatRoulette.com - (Probably NSFW) - Interesting experiment gone wrong on the Internets. Listen Now: Download Here
2/22/2010
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Recorded: February 17, 2010Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 1:04:01 Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools. Topics/Links: Dell Inspiron 4100 Power Problem ISORecorder ROBTEX.COM - DNS Info Tool Slow initial Sharepoint page load - One solution ReactOS Google Chromium Clearing ISA 2000 Server Cache - Tool for managig cache entries Dial-Up vs. Ethernet Credit Card machines Keith’s LUABugLight success story Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit - From listener Chris Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Rich - TLBox.com - Useful tools for SysAdmins and Tech Pros Keith - EpicWinFTW.com - Opposite of FailBlog and FreelanceSwitch.com - Calculate your rates as a Freelance consultant Listen Now: Download Here
2/9/2010
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Recorded: February 3, 2010Your Host: Steve Murawski, Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 55:50 Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools. Topics/Links: Microsoft System State Analyzer Keith finally signs up for E-Bay Cisco VPN client on Windows 7 Rich’s new mantra; Document, Document, Document Keith’s new cable plant Sysadmins aren’t programmers….are they? Read the full show notes here. Read the live UStream.tv chat log here. Website Picks Sorry - None this week Listen Now: Download Here
2/1/2010
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Recorded: January 27, 2010Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 54:18 Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools. Topics/Links: Apple iPad Tablet Calibre E-Book manager software Lexcycle - Stanza E-Book software Que E-Reader Losing faith in HP Password Generator website Sharepoint Designer 2007 IE Password Utility New client meeting horror story Read the full show notes here. Read the live UStream.tv chat log here. Website Picks Sorry - None this week
1/18/2010
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Recorded: January 13, 2010Your Host: Steve Murawski and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 1:16:35 Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools. Topics/Links: Interview with Jeffery Hicks - a certified Microsoft professional (MCSE,MCSA,MCT), a Microsoft MVP, and an IT veteran with almost 20 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT consultant specializing in Windows server technologies. He works today as an independent author, trainer and consultant. VMWare ESXi Performance Monitoring and Charting VMWare ESXi Hidden Console IOMEGA V-Clone Make any RSS Feed into a Sharepoint Web Part Quick ways to determine which version of IIS is on a server Exchange 2007 Mail Retention Policies Are forums dying/dead? Read the full show notes here. Read the live UStream.tv chat log here. Website Picks Sorry - None this week Listen Now: Download Here
1/2/2010
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Recorded: December 30th, 2009Your Host: Steve Murawski, Rich Niemeier, and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 1:22:14 Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools. Topics/Links: Norton Family Online - Free security product Steve’s Twitter List Using VMWare Stand-alone Converter to close out a site Enso Launcher Scripting in your organization; should you be a lone wolf Enterprise IT Survivor Syndrome Read the full show notes here. Read the live UStream.tv chat log here. Website Picks Sorry - None this week Listen Now: Download Here
12/30/2009
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Recorded: December 23rd, 2009Your Host: Steve Murawski and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 1:19:14 Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools. Topics/Links: Best (and Worts) Operating Systems of the last ten years Making a product Sysadmin friendly Application Permissions = Profile Problem (Link to LUA; a tool to troubleshoot) RemoteApp for Hyper-V DNS Resource Records - What is a good use for them? Google DNS Blue Collar and White Collar admins Read the full show notes here. Read the live UStream.tv chat log here. Website Picks Sorry - None this week Listen Now: Download Here
12/21/2009
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Recorded: December 16th, 2009Your Host: Steve Murawski, Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 1:23:21 Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools. Topics/Links: New Milwaukee area Script Club End Users taking storage needs into their own hands WIX - Windows Installer XML ATT and the Boy Scouts Powershell - one cmdlet at a time Creative way to manage friendships PAL for performance monitoring Data gathering for crime prevention - When does it impinge on your right to privacy? Read the full show notes here. Read the live UStream.tv chat log here. Website Picks Rich - Track Santa with NORAD Keith - Muppets sing Bohemian Rhapsody
12/11/2009
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Recorded: December 9th, 2009Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 57:14 Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools. Topics/Links: Microsoft Terminal Services or Remote Desktop Services Licensing changes Using thin clients more often Short term thinking - Why change a software package if it’s working? More users requesting remote access Stopping games on Windows desktops Google’s Chrome OS Reunion Website rip-off rant Read the full show notes here. Read the live UStream.tv chat log here. Website Picks Rich - NetBootDisk.com - Old fashioned floppy boot disk Listen Now: Download Here
12/9/2009
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Recorded: December 2, 2009Your Host: Steve Murawski and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 1:11:57 Topics/Links: Modules Make PowerShell even better. Some links to start experimenting: BSonPosh PowerShell Pack PoshCode Power Supply and UPS incompatibility problem Microsoft being helpful? ClearWire Wi-Max testing Where to get PowerShell V2 IP Camera Software block X-Windows. Don't just choose ports at random! Dynatrace - Exploring Internet Explorer NTDETECT problem on laptop PowerShell and Crystal Reports IT Admin loses job searching for aliens Read the full show notes here. Read the live UStream.tv chat log here. Website Picks Sorry - none this week.
11/29/2009
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Recorded: November 25, 2009Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 59:48 Topics/Links: Adjusting PowerPoint to widescreen format to create poor mans digital signage Merging multiple Word documents and preserve formats Online Backup Success Story DNS opens thousands of ports Virtualization progress on VMWare What technologies are you thankful for? Read the full show notes here. Read the live UStream.tv chat log here. Website Picks Rich - 100 Top Film Quotes Keith - Apple History Site
11/23/2009
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Recorded: November 18, 2009Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 55:18 Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools. Topics/Links: Internet Access adds flexibility Testing Wi-Max from Clearwire Winding through IBM 3Com switch problems Symantec Mail Security End-Of-Life Brightmail Virtual Appliance deployment Image-X Utility Fedora 12 Available Pancake Tweet saves man from jail Read the full show notes here. Read the live UStream.tv chat log here. Website Picks Keith - Precocious kid sings about Windows 7
11/16/2009
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Recorded: November 11, 2009Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 56:11 Do you have what it takes to be the ultimate script warrior? Find out with Quest’s PowerPack Challenge ’09. Quest Software is sponsoring a PowerShell Scripting contest where you can test your skills and get paid. Just create some cool PowerShell scripts using Quest’s PowerGUI and then post them to our site. You’ll get a score and our celebrity judges will weigh in as well. Top prize is a cool $1,000 USD to spend on Amazon.com Do you have the muscle to bring home the prize? Check out the details here. Topics/Links: Print media dying…but augmented Pull BackupExec selection lists from SQL DB - Other export methods linked in show notes Sybase DB Corruption issue Outsourcing Support - The good, the bad, the ugly SpywareProtect2009 malware infection PC Boot problem Employee Training Challenges Corrpupted Registry problem and restoration process Read the full show notes here.Read the live UStream.tv chat log here. Website Picks Rich - Interesting Top 10 lists at WindowsSecrets.com Keith - Gutenberg Project - Free e-books Winston Wolf - Hilarious texts people sent at TEXTSfromlastnight.com
10/23/2009
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Recorded: October 21, 2009Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 39:31 Do you have what it takes to be the ultimate script warrior? Find out with Quest’s PowerPack Challenge ’09. Quest Software is sponsoring a PowerShell Scripting contest where you can test your skills and get paid. Just create some cool PowerShell scripts using Quest’s PowerGUI and then post them to our site. You’ll get a score and our celebrity judges will weigh in as well. Top prize is a cool $1,000 USD to spend on Amazon.com Do you have the muscle to bring home the prize? Check out the details here. Topics/Links: Windows 7 Pre-Orders indicate it is doing well Windows 7 Advertisements Sysprep problem - more links in show notes Windows Server 2008 - What’s up with all the questions? Laptop User problem VMWare does have a free converter utility for P2V, V2V VMWare switch architecture and multicast tweaking Vista does not support .HLP files from older apps. There’s a fix for that. Read the full show notes here. Read the live UStream.tv chat log here. Website Picks Rich - File sync utility AllWaySync Keith - FloHClub.com - Florence Henderson promotes her tech support company Listen Now: Download Here
10/19/2009
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Recorded: October 7, 2009Your Host: Keith Albright and Steve MurawskiShow Length: 1:00:46 Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools. Topics/Links: Disk2VHD from Sysinternals Print Logger - for logging printer usage SQL 2000 performance problem - How to on re-indexing MonitoringForge.org - New site that hopes to be THE destination for all topics on systems and network monitoring VideoLan Player - Rich plays with VLC in his digital signage installation. Mark Gibbs’ NWW Article about vendors - Keith concurs on the ‘lack of pricing’ information Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Rich - Simple and delicious recipes - Rich shills for ConAgra part time. Keith - Not Hired.com - Funny anecdotes about potential hires that didn’t make the cut. Listen Now: Download Here
10/8/2009
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Recorded: October 7, 2009Your Host: Keith Albright and Steve MurawskiShow Length: 1:00:46 Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools. Topics/Links: SQL Server Index Fragmentation VMWare Player 3 can now make VM’s…..Will it still be called Player? Adaptec’s new cabling system for RAID controllers Reading Query Plans - ScaryDBA SQL Server Execution Plans by Grant Fritchey (E-Book download, registration required) Random number generation problem for credit card processing Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Steve - Zillow.com - great site for culling real estate information on an area Keith - Lovely Listing - You won’t find these homes on HGTV Listen Now: Download Here
10/5/2009
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Recorded: October 1, 2009Your Host: Keith Albright and Rich NiemeierShow Length: 58:26 Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools. Topics/Links: Boost Mobile Security Fail Verizon FiOS Repair Fail Rich still busy with POS and digital signage install SAV eating up disk space Microsoft Anti-Virus Beta Gigabit cabling problem Error opening Excel workbook from Outlook Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Keith - Free digital IT books at RealTimePublishers.com Listen Now: Download Here
9/23/2009
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Recorded: September 16, 2009Your Host: Keith Albright and Winston WolfShow Length: 1:16:52 Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools. Topics/Links: Interview with Winston Wolf Setting up SQL Replication Troubleshooting connectivity between SQL servers VM-Help website Winston Says: Try VMWare Tape problem -Network is down SLAMD64 distro Slackware 64 distro Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM) - more links in show notes ZeroShell Build your own math test for kids Find all evidence button Read the full show notes here. Podcamp Philly is coming up. October 3rd and 4th at Temple University in Philadelphia. Visit the PodcampPhilly website to register and get the details. Website Picks Keith - Emails from crazy people Winston - Escapist Magazine and e-myths
9/15/2009
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Recorded: September 9, 2009Your Host: Rich Niemeier, Keith Albright and Rob DowellShow Length: 1:16:52 Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools. Topics/Links: Wireless vs. wired - Making the correct choice Problems reading registry value in script OLE Server error Problems with Citrix and InfoPath Check you BIOS settings for OS Install flag Handling automatic updates for productions servers IT Contractors Read the full show notes here. Podcamp Philly is coming up. October 3rd and 4th at Temple University in Philadelphia. Visit the PodcampPhilly website to register and get the details. Website Picks Keith - Cake Wrecks and 6 Fonts That Piss People Off Rob - Stack Overflow and ServerFault and SuperUser Listen Now: Download Here
9/4/2009
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Recorded: September 2, 2009Your Host: Keith Albright and Brian MalanowskyShow Length: 46:31 Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools. Topics/Links: Text Exchange connectivity for Outlook Anywhere Configuring Exchange for Outlook Anywhere Outlook Anywhere - continually prompts for password Error printing shared calendar in Outlook BackupExec - Access Denied error on System State EXE files not associated and won’t run - side effect of repairing malware infection Doug Knox’ repository of Reg files to fix file associations Arcimbolder - Cool photo manipulation tool IE 6 crashing when printing Read the full show notes here. Podcamp Philly is coming up. October 3rd and 4th at Temple University in Philadelphia. Visit the PodcampPhilly website to register and get the details. Website Picks Keith - Board Of Wisdom…..especially Geek Wisdom Brian - Item Not As Described
8/28/2009
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Recorded: August 26, 2009Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 49:06 Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools. Topics/Links: Another sister....another virus call Adventures with ESXi BackupExec 12.5 - Exchange 2007 issue - Symantec troubleshooting guide & Specific error related info Article on Bare Metal Client Hypervisor technology Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Sorry - None this week
8/25/2009
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Recorded: August 19, 2009Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 1:22:05 Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools. Topics/Links: Interview with Beth Lynn Eicher of the Ohio LinuxFest Problems printing in Excel Odd video problem Great site for MS Dynamics Tips & Tricks Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Sorry - None this week
8/16/2009
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Recorded: August 12, 2009Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 1:00:48 Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory. Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools. Topics/Links: Digital Signage Project Article on cheap ways to get trained/certified Application Performance Troubleshooting Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Rich - Funkyjunk.com Keith - ClicheWeb - More cliche’s than you can shake a stick at.
8/9/2009
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Recorded: August 5, 2009Your Host: Steve Murawski, Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 1:07:28 Topics/Links: Steve Starts His New Job Windows Server 2008 R2 and PowerShell WSUS DB Problem License Problem Threatens Skype Web-based Project Management Software (See Wiki for links to all software) Shields Law of Technology Fanboyism (Discussion) Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Rich - DLink TV Keith - Item Not As Described - A look at some of the weirder/funnier posts on Craigslist.
7/31/2009
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Recorded: July 28, 2009Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 57:11 Topics/Links: More on SQL Reporting Services Windows 7 Ultimate Cracked with OEM Master Key MS Issues Out-Of-Band Critical Patch Personal Anti-Virus Strikes Again Will IE Fail Because It Is Not Standards Compliant? Exchange 2007 Resource Mailboxes (More links in Show Notes) Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Rich - Unkown Highway - Some weird/interesting stuff (NOTE: Some NSFW) Keith - Totally Looks Like and Wall Stats
7/25/2009
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Recorded: July22, 2009Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 57:49 Topics/Links: Spooler service crashing on Vista when installing printer Configuring Windows Time Service Managing FSMO Roles in AD Technet - Configuring Windows Time Service Technet - Identify the PDC Emulator in AD Iomega UltraMaxPlus 1TB MS Submits To Linux Project (Code, that is) SQL Report Builder 2.0 - For SQL Reporting Services Compare Editions of SQL Server 2008 See what is included in versions of SQL Server 2008 (Like reporting services) Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Rich - Failblog.org - Awesome failures for your enjoyment Keith - CorruptedFiles.com - Get out of trouble with a corrupted file.
7/15/2009
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Recorded: July 8, 2009Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 33:03 My apologies for taking so long to post this episode. Life and work sometimes get in the way of the show. Topics/Links: TJX Credit Card Breach Settlement Virus Problem - Personal Antivirus IE Zero Day Exploit IO Gear USB KVM Switch for laptops BOOT.INI missing from Vista and Windows 7 (More links in the show notes) Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Keith - Need just a sheet of graph paper? Print your own here.
7/3/2009
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Recorded: July 1, 2009Your Host: Steve Murawski and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 1:05:34 This show is brought to you by Quest Software. When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today. Don’t forget to send in your resume for the Resume peer review. Send to resume [at] mindofroot [dot] com. Topics/Links: Making PowerPacks in PowerGUI Windows 7 - Feature Comparison Chart Upgrading to Windows 7 Perfmon - Processor Queue Length PAL - Performance Analysis Of Logs Get-Scripting Podcast Windows Registry Structure Windows 2000 Registry Repair Utility Sugar OS - New version available WS-Man Protocol Definitions WS-Man Protocol Definitions (PDF) Native SSH on WS-Man The problem with Excel - creating data silos (More article links in show notes here.) Steve’s article in Real Time Windows Administration magazine Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Steve - Open Government Data Initiative Keith - Data.Gov
6/29/2009
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Recorded: June 24, 2009Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 51:23 This show is brought to you by Quest Software. When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today. Don’t forget to send in your resume for the Resume peer review. Send to resume [at] mindofroot [dot] com. Topics/Links: Getting rid of ISA 2000 Proxy server Geeks, logic, and superstition. Crystal Reports CSV export problem Why do users hate giving up old systems APC monitoring software - doesn’t work like it should Working on co-workers PC’s Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Keith - Miniature Wonderland
6/21/2009
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Recorded: June 17, 2009Your Host: Steve Murawski and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 1:15:40 This show is brought to you by Quest Software. When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today. Don’t forget to send in your resume for the Resume peer review. Send to resume [at] mindofroot [dot] com. Topics/Links: SQL Server Data Mining Data Mining the Stack Overflow database Microsoft Data Mining Add-ins Find a Stored Procedure in a database See Keith and Steve’s version of the query on the wiki Scripting Games Info - Come here if you are lost Scripting Games - 100 Meter Dash Solutions Perfmon - Processor\% Interupt Time Virtual PC - no 64-bit love Outlook profile creation error Kindle Source Code Released Kindle Source Code Release - what does it mean? MacOS X Snow Leopard to have native Exchange support Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Sorry - None this week
6/15/2009
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Recorded: June 10, 2009Your Host: Steve Murawski and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 57:26 This show is brought to you by Quest Software. When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today. Don’t forget to send in your resume for the Resume peer review. Send to resume [at] mindofroot [dot] com. Topics/Links: NetMotion Wireless VPN Client In-car camera System Scripting Games Events Announced Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Perfmon Processor\% User Time Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Keith - Urban Dictionary - Find the meaning of that new slang word. (Some content NSFW)
5/31/2009
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Recorded: May 27, 2009Your Host: Steve Murawski, Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 57:09 This show is brought to you by Quest Software. When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today. Don’t forget to send in your resume for the Resume peer review. Send to resume [at] mindofroot [dot] com. Topics/Links: Resume Peer Review - Get’em in! Virtual PC Beta TicketDesk Windows Vista SP2 Available HP Laptop hard drive crash Controlling Cyber Slacking Perfmon Processor analysis WinMerge HxD Hex Editor CSVed CSV Editor Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Keith - Awkward Family Photos - Laughing at people is wrong….unless you do it anonymously over the Internet.
5/24/2009
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Recorded: May 20, 2009Your Host: Steve Murawski, Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 1:10:39 This show is brought to you by Quest Software. When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today. Don’t forget to send in your resume for the Resume peer review. Send to resume [at] mindofroot [dot] com. Links: Scripting Games Perfmon - Memory\Pages per second Outlook Problem Dept. of Labor Fair Labor Standards Act (A Guide) Foxmarks FireFTP DownloadThemAll NoScript Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Keith - Illusion Contest - Lots of cool visual illusions
5/16/2009
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Recorded: May 13, 2009Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 1:02:26 This show is brought to you by Quest Software. When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today. Links: Windows Live Mesh Kodak Zi6 Video Camera SolarWinds IP Address Tracker GRC Shields Up GRC Perfect Passwords Offline Updater Secunia Vulnerability Scanner RunScanner Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Rich - Geekologie Keith - Fullbooks.com
5/8/2009
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Recorded: May 6, 2009Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 1:00:34 This show is brought to you by Quest Software. When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today. Links: ImageX GUI Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) Reference List of Project Management Software GanttProject software Subnet calculator website Kiwi CatTools Putty connection Manager Kixtart Manuals Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Keith - Left Handed Toons
5/1/2009
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Recorded: April 29, 2009Your Host: Steve Murawski and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 1:08:56 This show is brought to you by Sapien Technologies and Quest Software. When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today. Links: Steve’s new Dell iSCSI server MS Tech Ed Direct Access Windows 7 XP Mode Vista SP2 RTM Steve’s likin’ IE 8….sorta….kinda Perfmon - Memory Pooled Page Counts Wisconsin Area VM User Group The VESI John D. Cook’s Blog John D. Cooks PowerShell Booklet ScriptLogic Desktop Authority AutoIT Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Keith - TwtPoll and How LCD Panels work SAPIEN Technologies is out to make scripting — whether you’re working with Web scripts, Flash scripts, Windows administrative scripts, or related technologies — simpler.Find out how Sapien can simplify your scripting.
4/27/2009
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Recorded: April 22, 2009Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 51:52 This show is brought to you by Sapien Technologies and Quest Software. SAPIEN Technologies is out to make scripting — whether you’re working with Web scripts, Flash scripts, Windows administrative scripts, or related technologies — simpler.Find out how Sapien can simplify your scripting. Links: Inkscape Copying SQL DB table structure and data to an Access DB Virus problem - XP auto logs off Error opening attachments in Outlook 2003…..More here Kixtart scripting language Problems accessing drive w/UBCD Intel’s AHCI technology Microsoft’s ImageX Utility Teamviewer DimDim Online Meeting software Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Rich - Bitlet - Web-based bittorrent client Keith - Monoprice - Great site for video cables When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today.
4/17/2009
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Recorded: April 15, 2009Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 42:59 This show is brought to you by Sapien Technologies and Quest Software. When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today. Links: Outlook NK2 file Info Debunk tool Nirsoft NK2 file utility SQL Replication error SP_CHANGEDISTRIBUTOR_PROPERTY stored procedure Troubeshooting SQL deadlocks More on SQL deadlocks Jing Project Faststone Image Capture…download the last freeware version here Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Rich - What is your Hobbit Name? Keith - Murphy’s Laws Reference SAPIEN Technologies is out to make scripting — whether you’re working with Web scripts, Flash scripts, Windows administrative scripts, or related technologies — simpler.Find out how Sapien can simplify your scripting.
4/11/2009
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Recorded: April 8, 2009Your Host: Steve Murawski and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 44:30 This show is brought to you by Sapien Technologies and Quest Software. SAPIEN Technologies is out to make scripting — whether you’re working with Web scripts, Flash scripts, Windows administrative scripts, or related technologies — simpler.Find out how Sapien can simplify your scripting. Links: Mac Forensics PoSHCode - Creating Stored Procedures Turn Stored Procedures Into PowerShell Functions Meta-Programming with PowerShell and RegEx WMI Team Blog Legislation would give President permission to shut down networks LanSweeper Event Log Monitor Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Keith - The Venus Project When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today.
3/28/2009
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Recorded: March 25, 2009Your Host: Steve Murawski, Rich Niemeier, and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 1:06:08 This show is brought to you by Sapien Technologies and Quest Software. When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today. Links: Avast Anti-Virus DBF Manager (Trial) SPF Record Wizard OpenSPF Website Windows : Problem Steps Recorder Managing Memory In PowerShell Cisco UCS Hardware Desktop Central: Free Windows Tools Using Common Table Expressions Recursive Query Example Facebook Marketing Tactics Restaurant uses Facebook marketing Twitter fiasco for Cisco employment candidate Tips for safe Social Networking Ketarin Utility Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Keith - Eyeballing Measurements Test Rich - GeekCulture.com SAPIEN Technologies is out to make scripting — whether you’re working with Web scripts, Flash scripts, Windows administrative scripts, or related technologies — simpler.Find out how Sapien can simplify your scripting.
3/21/2009
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Recorded: March 18, 2009Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 51:11 This show is brought to you by Sapien Technologies and Quest Software. SAPIEN Technologies is out to make scripting — whether you’re working with Web scripts, Flash scripts, Windows administrative scripts, or related technologies — simpler.Find out how Sapien can simplify your scripting. Links: Rich’s pocket D-Link AP/Router YAWCAM Webcam software Critical Thinking Highliter - Log review tool (From Jason at FantasticFreeware.com) Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Keith - Diseno-Art.com Great collection of cool concept and production vehicles. Get on the fast track to PowerShell scripting success with PowerGUI Join PowerShell MVPs Dmitry Sotnikov and Kirk Munro for a live chat at Quest Connect, a free, on-demand virtual tradeshow where you can get the answers you need to solve your toughest PowerShell challenges. Visit www.quest.com/poshchat today to learn more and to register
3/14/2009
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Recorded: March 11, 2009Your Host: Steve Murawski and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 55:30 This show is brought to you by Sapien Technologies and Quest Software. Get on the fast track to PowerShell scripting success with PowerGUI Join PowerShell MVPs Dmitry Sotnikov and Kirk Munro for a live chat at Quest Connect, a free, on-demand virtual tradeshow where you can get the answers you need to solve your toughest PowerShell challenges. Visit www.quest.com/poshchat today to learn more and to register Links: Eventracker Pulse - Google your logs with this app Server naming conventions - funny results InstEdit - similar to Orca MSI editor Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Sorry - None this week SAPIEN Technologies is out to make scripting — whether you’re working with Web scripts, Flash scripts, Windows administrative scripts, or related technologies — simpler.Find out how Sapien can simplify your scripting.
3/7/2009
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Recorded: March 4, 2009Your Host: Steve Murawski, Rich Niemeier, and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 52:19 This show is brought to you by Sapien Technologies and Quest Software. SAPIEN Technologies is out to make scripting — whether you’re working with Web scripts, Flash scripts, Windows administrative scripts, or related technologies — simpler.Find out how Sapien can simplify your scripting. Links: Rich’s favorite new toy tool TechNet Perfmon article Top Ten Perfmon Counters Making BackTrack4 boot disk changes persistent Installing BackTrack4 on an EeePC UNetBootin Bootable USB drive utility XVI32 Hex Editor - editing an executable The Experts Community Cahoots Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Rich - AppScout - application review website Keith - Linux Starter Pack Get on the fast track to PowerShell scripting success with PowerGUI Join PowerShell MVPs Dmitry Sotnikov and Kirk Munro for a live chat at Quest Connect, a free, on-demand virtual tradeshow where you can get the answers you need to solve your toughest PowerShell challenges. Visit www.quest.com/poshchat today to learn more and to register
2/28/2009
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Recorded: February 25, 2009Your Host: Steve Murawski, Rich Niemeier, and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 48:42 This show is brought to you by Sapien Technologies and Quest Software. Get on the fast track to PowerShell scripting success with PowerGUI Join PowerShell MVPs Dmitry Sotnikov and Kirk Munro for a live chat at Quest Connect, a free, on-demand virtual tradeshow where you can get the answers you need to solve your toughest PowerShell challenges. Visit www.quest.com/poshchat today to learn more and to register Links: PCInspector File Recovery Software MS TCP/IP Host Name Resolution Order Doodle 4 Google bMail Command Line SMTP Mailer NETSH command syntax in Firewall context Advanced NETSH Firewall context commands in Vista and Server 2008 Twitter Etiquette Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Rich - CPU ID Utility and blow pictures up to poster size Keith - Logotournament.com Cool place to go to get a logo design. SAPIEN Technologies is out to make scripting — whether you’re working with Web scripts, Flash scripts, Windows administrative scripts, or related technologies — simpler.Find out how Sapien can simplify your scripting.
2/20/2009
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Recorded: February 18, 2009Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 39:56 This show is brought to you by Sapien Technologies and Quest Software. When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today. Links: Windows Vista and Windows 7 .HLP file support Windows Fundamentals Windows Steady State Reference on Windows Steady State MS Whitepaper comparing AD performance on 64-bit vs. 32-bit DC’s Sander Berkouwer’s blog post on the MS Whitepaper What’s new in Windows Server 2008 R2 Tech Library on Windows Server 2008 R2 New Bluetooth spec……still no mention of security Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Rich - Manofest.com - A site for men on full testosterone. (NOTE: NSFW) Keith - Nicecritic.com - The polite well to tell your co-worker they stink. SAPIEN Technologies is out to make scripting — whether you’re working with Web scripts, Flash scripts, Windows administrative scripts, or related technologies — simpler.Find out how Sapien can simplify your scripting.
2/13/2009
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Recorded: February 11, 2009Your Host: Steve Murawski, Rich Niemeier, and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 44:12 This show is brought to you by Sapien Technologies and Quest Software. SAPIEN Technologies is out to make scripting — whether you’re working with Web scripts, Flash scripts, Windows administrative scripts, or related technologies — simpler.Find out how Sapien can simplify your scripting. Links: Tweeter Tags hMailServer Cisco Network Emergency Response Vehicle Generating Self-signed cert in Exchange 2007 Assigning Cert to SMTP Service Perfmon - Troubleshooting Memory Issues SQL Server - Single vs. multiple instances Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Keith - Cool tech/robot foldable projects When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today.
2/6/2009
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Recorded: February 4, 2009Your Host: Steve Murawski, and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 43:08 This show is brought to you by Quest Software. When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today. Links: Repairing Windows Registry Chkdsk reference Examining & tuning disk performance Enable SMTP logging on Exchange 2007 Exchange Log Parser Setting up Exchange 2007 Send and Receive connectors Removing Public Folder via Exchange Management Shell Get-PublicFolderDatabase cmdlet Deciphering SMTP error codes PDF reference doc on SMTP error codes What the heck is PendingRenewalDeletion.com Cahoots Project Concentrated Tech Cahoots Beta Info Concentrated Tech Cahoots Beta/Test site Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Sorry, none this week. SAPIEN Technologies is out to make scripting — whether you’re working with Web scripts, Flash scripts, Windows administrative scripts, or related technologies — simpler. Find out how Sapien can simplify your scripting.
1/30/2009
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Recorded: January 28, 2009Your Host: Rich Niemeier, Steve Murawski, and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 1:09:29 This show is brought to you by Quest Software. When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today. Links: Internet Explorer 8 RC1 Available Perfmon How-To Physical Disk Object monitoring in Perfmon Exchange Problem caused by DNS patch One Laptop Per Child…..when? Removing offline DC and AD site - Technet How-To Metadata Cleanup How-To Nice walk-through on Metadata Cleanup Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Rich - Volcano Simulator Keith - Planimeter using Google Map
1/24/2009
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Recorded: January 21, 2009Your Host: Rich Niemeier, Steve Murawski, and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 52:08 This show is brought to you by Quest Software. When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today. Links: Nortel files for bankruptcy Taking Your Servers Pulse Perfmon and tuning disk performance Kidaro - Microsoft acquisition turned into MED-V MED-V: Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization Beta Microsoft may be force to remove IE from Windows in Europe Adito - Fork of original SSL-Explorer project - From listener Tony C. Using PSEXEC to launch Control Panel - From listener Cd-MaN Read the full show notes here. Read the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Rich - Presently: internal Twitter-like application
1/19/2009
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Recorded: January 14, 2009Your Hosts: Steve Murawski and Jonathan WalzShow Length: 1:18:22This show is brought to you by Quest Software.When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools!For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use,PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever.Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today.Links: DMTF Standard for WS-MAN Intro to WinRM (Script Center) OpenWSMAN Taking Your Server's Pulse (Technet Magazine) Memtest86Read the full show notes here.Website PicksBrad Call (Listener) - www.ponoko.com Listen Now: Download Here
1/10/2009
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Recorded: January 7, 2009Your Host: Rich Niemeier, Steve Murawski, and Keith AlbrightShow Length: This show is brought to you by Quest Software. When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today. Links: PowerGUI 1.6 released SQL Server podcast Perfmon - Taking your server's pulse Perfmon - Monitoring your file system cache Is Cisco a Monopoly? Kiwi CatTools Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Rich - Odd Todd Winston Wolf (Listener) - SYDI Network Documentation Project
1/3/2009
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Recorded: December 31, 2008Your Host: Steve Murawski and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 42:11 This show is brought to you by Quest Software. When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today. Links: PowerShell CTP3 WinRM CTP3 PowerShell Blog NetCmdlets VMWare Infrastructure PowerPak Visio Stencils - More links in Show Notes Windows XP & 2003 System File Checker Utility Cryptographic Service Reg key Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Steve - John Cleese’s Blog and podcast Keith - Kelly’s XP Korner - Site with numerous XP reg keys and tweaks
12/27/2008
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Just a little something goofy I put together for the holiday season. I had hoped to release this before the Christmas holiday, but things got hectic around the Albright homestead. I hope you enjoy. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all of us at the Mind Of Root podcast.
12/18/2008
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Recorded: December 17, 2008Your Host: Steve Murawski and Keith AlbrightShow Length: 1:26:52 This show is brought to you by Quest and Idera. When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today. Links: Interview with Richard Campbell of DotNetRocks and RunAsRadio Zero-Day exploit for Internet Explorer Investing in your skillset SSLExplorer gobbled up by Barracuda Networks Symantec’s horrible solution to preventing their product from getting you blacklisted AD Mapping with PowerShell and NodeXL Read the full show notes here. NEW! View the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Keith - TED - Technology Entertainment Design - Great videos by smart people on fascinating topics. Automate your admin tasks FAST with Idera’s PowerShellPlus - THE Power Tool for PowerShell. Download a free 14-day trial at www.Idera.com/PowerShellPlus
12/11/2008
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Recorded: December 10, 2008Your Host: Keith Albright, and Rich NiemeierShow Length: 55:46 This show is brought to you by Quest and Idera. Automate your admin tasks FAST with Idera’s PowerShellPlus - THE Power Tool for PowerShell. Download a free 14-day trial at www.Idera.com/PowerShellPlus Links: Crapware removal System Uptime on Windows Excel View problem Rebuilding a Windows Profile Query MAC address to determine device manufacturer HP Easy Printer Care Software PC Decrapifier Network webcams Read the full show notes here. NEW! View the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Rich - Netlingo - Learn what your kids are saying in their text messages Keith - Stack The Memory music video More geek music goodness. When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today.
12/4/2008
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Recorded: December 3, 2008Your Host: Steve Murawski, Keith Albright, and Rich NiemeierShow Length: 1:12:48 This show is brought to you by Quest and Idera. When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today. Links: Snarl Does email scale? 10 Things never to write in an email Windows Automated Installation ImageX tool Trellia Mobile Client Management Mobile Office Article MS Exchange 2007 32-Bit Installer download OpenFiler SAN MS iSCSI Initiator MS ISA 2000 on Windows Server 2003 Read the full show notes here. NEW! View the UStream chat log here. Website Picks Sorry, none this week. Automate your admin tasks FAST with Idera’s PowerShellPlus - THE Power Tool for PowerShell. Download a free 14-day trial at www.Idera.com/PowerShellPlus
11/29/2008
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Recorded: November 26, 2008Your Host: Keith Albright and Steve MurawskiShow Length: 1:18:15 This show is brought to you by Quest and Idera. Automate your admin tasks FAST with Idera’s PowerShellPlus - THE Power Tool for PowerShell. Download a free 14-day trial at www.Idera.com/PowerShellPlus Links: Brent Ozar’s Blog Microsoft Drops OneCare Microsoft Cleans A Million PC’s of malware Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Keith - The Linux Fund When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today.
11/21/2008
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Recorded: November 19, 2008Your Host: Steve Murawski, Keith Albright, and Rich NiemeierShow Length: 58:06 This show is brought to you by Quest and Idera. When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today. Links: Dilbert Files Symantec ends NT 4.0 support in BackupExec NetWitness Investigator Perfmon Goodness for SQL Server IBM Redbooks Cool KVM solution…still not perfect Tips for new DBA’s and SysAdmins WebApp Installer InSSIDer Wireless Tool Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Steve - Twitter Terms and Utilities Automate your admin tasks FAST with Idera’s PowerShellPlus - THE Power Tool for PowerShell. Download a free 14-day trial at www.Idera.com/PowerShellPlus
11/13/2008
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Recorded: November 12, 2008Your Host: Keith Albright, Rich Niemeier, and Steve MurawskiShow Length: 58:47 This show is brought to you by Quest and Idera. Automate your admin tasks FAST with Idera’s PowerShellPlus - THE Power Tool for PowerShell. Download a free 14-day trial at www.Idera.com/PowerShellPlus Links: MPC Corp files for bankruptcy Cisco teams up with the Yankees Top 100 Security Tools WPA Hacked - sorta Security Auditors Research Assistant (SARA) Read the full show notes here. Website Picks Keith - Tag Galaxy and Windows XP runs the Matrix When it comes to scripting, you’re a warrior. But mighty warriors need mighty tools! For awesome PowerShell scripting, nothing matches the might of Quest’s PowerGUI?. Versatile and easy to use, PowerGUI? helps you build commanding scripts that leverage PowerShell’s strength across the enterprise. Now, ruling your domain is easier than ever. Is your scripting might equal to the challenge? Put the power in your hands. Download PowerGUI today. Wanna see me poking Steve’s head with a pencil? Check out the video on UStream.TV Follow us on Twitter

