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[Steve] Welcome to the Mind Of Root. I'm Steve Murawski

[Rich] and I'm Rich Niemeier.

[Steve] This is Episode 53 recorded on May 26, 2008.

Chit-Chat - What's going on with you?

[Steve]

  • Wow - it's good to be back.

[Rich]

Housekeeping Items

[Rich]

[Steve]

  • Since Keith is not with us tonight, I just wanted to get out a reminder - The logo contest is running until June 30th. Submit your entries to Contest [at] MindOfRoot.com. The winner gets their choice of either a full retail copy of Microsoft Office 2007 Standard or $25 cash.

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Steve's Topics

-The next version of PowerShell is another step closer to being released.
-The PowerShell team has released a new version of the CTP, which includes updates based in part on user feedback. Now is the time to get in your gripes and complaints with PowerShell, since things can still be changed. When it goes to a beta state, it will be pretty solid.
-Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=60deac2b-975b-41e6-9fa0-c2fd6aa6bc89&displaylang=en
-Link: http://shrinkster.com/yhc
-New Release adds the ability to run script after monitor event.
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-Link: http://www.codeplex.com/polymon
-Link: http://shrinkster.com/yhd
  • OLPC Update [RICH]
- Still ahead of the curve on innovation, but how does this bring the price down?
- Will they team up with Microsoft -Sugar not being very well excepted
-"A Laptop For Everyone
- Intel Classmate PC
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-Microsoft Offers Mega-Discount on WinXP? to Low-Cost Laptop Makers - Gizmodo.com
-link:http://gizmodo.com/389273/microsoft-offers-mega+discount-on-winxp-to-low+cost-laptop-makers
-link:http://shrinkster.com/yhj
-One Laptop Per Child--Version 2.0"
-Andy Greenberg
- Forbes Magazine
-News story http://www.forbes.com/2008/05/20/olpc-laptop-microsoft-tech-personal-cx_ag_0520olpc.html
-Link: http://shrinkster.com/yhg
-Official Website Link: http://laptop.org/
-Link: http://shrinkster.com/yhh
  • Group Policy Preferences [STEVE]
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-Link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=103735
-Link: http://shrinkster.com/yhe
-Richard Siddaway just posted an eloquent description of the state of PowerShell support in the Microsoft camp.
-Difference between the IIS Provider and how the Exchange team implemented their PowerShell support.
-Link: http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!43CFA46A74CF3E96!1363.entry?wa=wsignin1.0
-Link: http://shrinkster.com/yhf
  • Admin Runbook/sysadmin history [STEVE]
-Discussion that came up in #PowerShell today
-Event log vs. SQL vs. Sharepoint vs. PolyMon
-What are you doing?
-Link: http://

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Listener Feedback

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Website Picks

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Steve - http://

Keith - http://

Last Call

Anyone....Anyone....Buehler.....Buehler....

Closing

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