{"id":3492,"date":"2013-06-04T07:22:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/06\/04\/teched-2013-another-day-another-script\/"},"modified":"2013-06-04T07:22:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T07:22:00","slug":"teched-2013-another-day-another-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/teched-2013-another-day-another-script\/","title":{"rendered":"TechEd 2013: Another Day, Another Script"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/strong>: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson talks about TechEd 2013 Day 1, and previews Day 2.<\/p>\n

Monday, Day 1 of TechEd 2013 North America in New Orleans is over, and I am getting ready for Day 2. Last night we were late getting back to our hotel due to the Expo Hall reception and a late night dinner at my favorite New Orleans restaurant. To be honest, I was planning to write this blog post, but I simply crashed, and did not finish rebooting until this morning. Oh well. Here is what went on yesterday afternoon…<\/p>\n

The first thing that happened was the Windows PowerShell Best Practices Birds-of-a-Feather session I did with Windows PowerShell MVP, Hal Rottenberg. The room was packed, and when I left, the lady at the door told me that she had turned away 150 people.<\/p>\n

Note<\/strong>: For those who were turned away, I am doing another Birds-of-a-Feather session with Glenn Sizemore on Wednesday. It will also be a really cool session. Here is a picture of part of the room.<\/p>\n

\"BOF1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And here is a picture of another part of the room. The cool thing is that I turned up 30 minutes early to get set up, and the room was already full. It was a really good discussion, and both Hal and I really enjoyed the session. Several people who attended came by the Scripting Guys booth later and said they got a lot out of the event also. Groovy!!!<\/p>\n

\"BOF2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Following the Birds-of-a-Feather session, I headed back downstairs to the Expo Hall, where I had a book signing at the O’Reilly\/MSPress booth. There again, they told me people had been lined up for more than 30 minutes for the signing. It was great to meet so many people I had met previously, such as a group from Toyota in Kentucky, and people who had competed in the Scripting Games from Columbus, Ohio. It was really a lot of fun. Here are the two who were first in line for the signing.<\/p>\n

\"BookSigning\"<\/a><\/p>\n

After the book signing, it was on to the Scripting Guys booth. This year I am sharing my booth with the people from PowerShell.org, so there were many very talented Scripting People around the booth for the meet-and-greet. At one point, Jeffrey Snover, Don Jones, Jason Helmick, Greg Shields (Concentrated Greg), and Chris Gannon were all hanging out and talking. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"SnoverDonJasonChrisGreg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Later the Scripting Wife, Hal, and Greg were clowning around a bit. In the background you can see Windows PowerShell MVP, Sean Kearney, in his trademarked Tilly hat.<\/p>\n

\"teresaGregHalSean\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Brian Wilhite was showing some of the attendees about using the CIM cmdlets in Windows PowerShell 3.0, and he had a crowd gathered around.<\/p>\n

\"BrianScript\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is the script he was showing and about which he was talking. It is actually pretty cool. It uses the Get-CimClass<\/strong> cmdlet to find WMI classes that have the SupportsUpdate<\/strong> qualifier. The script then produces a list of all classes and updatable properties–very cool, and useful too.<\/p>\n

Get-UpdatableWMIClasses.ps1<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

$CimClasses = Get-CimClass -QualifierName SupportsUpdate
  Foreach ($CimClass in $CimClasses)
     {
         $Write = Get-CimClass -ClassName $CimClass.CimClassName |
             Select-Object -ExpandProperty CimClassProperties |
             Where-Object {$_.Qualifiers -like “*write*”}
         Foreach ($CimPropertyName in $Write.Name)
             {
                 [PSCustomObject]@{
                     CIMClass=$CimClass.CimClassName
                     CIMPropertyName=$CimPropertyName
                     CIMPropertyQualifiers=$Write.Qualifiers
                     }
             }
     }<\/p>\n

So today, Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 2:00, I have a book signing at the TechEd 2013 conference book store. At 5:00 I am doing an Instructor Led Lab on Windows PowerShell 4.0 Desired State Configuration in Hall B Lab #3. Following that at 6:30, I have two Scripting Guys tables set up in the Ask The Experts in Halls G and H. The cool thing about the Ask the Experts is that several program managers from the Windows PowerShell team have agreed to come and answer questions. In addition, I will be there and Don Jones and several other really good Windows PowerShell people. It really will be an ask the experts event.<\/p>\n

I hope you have a great day, and join me later today for more cool Windows PowerShell stuff.<\/p>\n

Ed Wilson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Microsoft Scripting Guy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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