{"id":13751,"date":"2011-06-02T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2011\/06\/02\/download-teched-sessions-automatically-by-using-powershell\/"},"modified":"2011-06-02T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T00:01:00","slug":"download-teched-sessions-automatically-by-using-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/download-teched-sessions-automatically-by-using-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"Download TechEd Sessions Automatically by Using PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Microsoft Windows PowerShell MVP, Marco Shaw, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to automatically download TechEd sessions.<\/p>\n

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. Today we have a guest blogger: Microsoft Windows PowerShell MVP, Marco Shaw. <\/p>\n

Downloading Microsoft TechEd sessions automatically<\/h3>\n

Microsoft’s TechEd conference is the best conference for getting up to speed on Microsoft’s entire product line. This is the latest information about Microsoft products, delivered by subject matter experts. Sometimes the sessions are delivered by actual members of the product teams, and other sessions are delivered by Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs). There are sessions designed for all levels, including ITPros and developers. There’s usually two conferences per year, one in the United States and one in Europe.<\/p>\n

In 2010, Microsoft started posting online videos from the sessions for the public to view for free. You can’t beat free! <\/p>\n

TechEd 2011 was in Atlanta this year, and it just wrapped up a few weeks ago. What is super cool this year is that Microsoft posted the videos online within 24-48 hours after a session completed. There are over 450 downloadable sessions that cover all kinds of technologies. So you better start downloading…<\/p>\n

Better yet, let’s let Windows PowerShell do all the hard work for us.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Microsoft has made the session data available by using the Open Data Protocol (OData) to allow for any source to be able to query the session data using the HTTP protocol.<\/p>\n

Windows PowerShell 2.0 doesn’t have any out-of-the-box ability to understand the OData protocol, but fortunately, Doug Finke comes to the rescue with a Windows PowerShell module for OData<\/a>! I’m not going to go through how to download and install the module here, so if you’ve never done anything with non-Microsoft modules, you may have to do a bit of searching.<\/p>\n

I wanted to implement a few things in my code:<\/p>\n