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[Steve] Welcome to the Mind Of Root. I'm Steve Murawski. This is Episode 83 streaming live on Ustream.tv on January 14, 2008. Today's show is sponsored by Quest Software; Helping you rule your domain.

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

[Steve]

  • Rich and Keith were both unable to make it tonight. So, I'm joined by a special guest host, Jonathan Walz from the PowerScripting Podcast. Jonathan, thanks for being willing to fill in on short notice and welcome to the show!

Housekeeping Items

[Steve]

  • Not much in housekeeping, as I'm running a bit behind.. I'm running a bit behind today, without my usual co-hosts.

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Steve's Topics

  • Interview With Jeffrey Snover
-WS-Management
-What is it?
-Why should IT Pro's start looking at this?
-What are the advantages/disadvantages over SSH or SNMP?
-What are the requirements (OS, features) to set up WSMAN (on Windows)?
-What are some of the security considerations to opening up desktops (with Vista) to port 80/443 for WS? (which is required to have multiple runspaces/background jobs)
-Link:
-Link: http://www.dmtf.org/standards/wsman/ DMTF Standard
-Link: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/newswire/winrm.mspx ScriptCenter? Intro to WinRM?
-Link: http://www.openwsman.org/ OpenWSMAN?
-Below 15% and you are running out of space for the OS to store critical files.
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-Link: http://http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.08.pulse.aspx
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  • Topic 4
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Jon's Topic's

  • Windows 7
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  • Memtest86
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-Link: http://www.memtest.org
  • Quest vWorkspace (if time permits)
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Website Picks

Steve - http://

Listener - Brad Call [[http://www.ponoko.com] You think of it, they design/build it.

Last Call

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

Closing

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