POWERSCRIPTING LIVE!A COLLABORATIVE PRESENTATION MODERATED

BY HAL ROTTENBERG

WHAT IS THE POWERSCRIPTING PODCAST?

• Website: powerscripting.net

• (hosted by powershell.org)

• First episode: March 2007

• New episodes every week

• Over 800,000 downloads (20,000 a month)

• Hosts

• Jonathan Walz (@jonwalz)

• Hal Rottenberg (@halr9000)

• Find us on Zune, iTunes, Facebook, and Twitter (@powerscripting)

AGENDA

• This is a Birds of a Feather session

• You determine the agenda

• You MUST participate! (or it'll be boring)

• How do you define your career? (based on rant by Don Jones)

• PowerShell Scripting Games

• Need a new job? (Rob with Turner Broadcasting)

• < INSERT YOUR TOPICS HERE >

• Resources and Last Words

HOW DO YOU DEFINE YOUR CAREER?

Don Jones made a rant on Episode 260 (starts at 1:08:38)

"Is your career your company, or is your career

IT?"

POWERSHELL SCRIPTING GAMES

• History

• Scripting Games @ PowerShell.org

• Podcast episodes:

• Episode 260 with Don Jones and Jason Helmick

• Episode 273 with members of the winning team

• Key takeaways

• Enhance your Collaboration skills

• Enhance your Scripting skills

NEED A NEW JOB?

• Rob with Turner Broadcasting

< INSERT YOUR TOPIC HERE >

• Proposed topics

• PowerShell 101?

• DSC?

• Home lab / cloud lab?

RESOURCES - USER GROUPS

• Local

• Atlanta PowerShell User Group - powershellgroup.org/atlanta.ga

• How can I help?

• Virtual

• PowerShell Virtual User Group (Joel Bennett) -powershellgroup.org/virtual

• Mississippi PowerShell User Group (Mike Robbins) - mspsug.com

RESOURCES – Q&A, FORUMS, AND CHAT

• PowerShell.org Forums

• IRC

• Virtual PowerShell User Group: Freenode #powershell (on Freenode)

• PowerScripting Podcast: #powerscriptingpodcast (on Freenode)

• Reddit /r/powershell

• Microsoft Technet Forums - Windows PowerShell

• StackOverflow & ServerFault

THANKS!

Slides will be published to slideshare.net/halr9000