Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 at 6:00 PM New Horizons, East Syracuse

Jeffery Hicks will present PowerShell at Work: Background Jobs Exposed Windows PowerShell 2.0  offers a number of enhancements over the original release. One of them, background jobs, can fundamentally change the way you interact with the shell and ultimately your administrative scripting projects. In this session I'll explain what it takes to put PowerShell 's jobs to work for you. I'll demonstrate how to set up jobs both locally and remotely. You'll learn how to monitor job progress, how to retrieve job results and how to troubleshoot job failures.   This will be a demo-heavy session, but don't worry. Jeff will make a transcript of his PowerShell session and all code samples available. Bio: Jeffery Hicks (MCSE,MCSA,MCT) is a Microsoft MVP in Windows PowerShell and an IT veteran with almost 20 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT consultant specializing in Windows server technologies. He works today as an independent author, trainer and consultant. Jeff is a columnist for MCPMag.com. He has co-authored or authored several books, courseware, and training videos on administrative scripting and automation. His latest book (co-written with Don Jones)  is Windows PowerShell 2.0: TFM (SAPIEN Press 2010). Jeff is a moderator at ScriptingAnswers.com, a subject matter expert at TheExpertsCommunity.com and a frequent contributor to many scripting-related forums.  You can follow Jeff  at  jdhitsolutions.com/blog and twitter.com/jeffhicks. WE HAVE SWAG! 1 MSDN Subscription with MS Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate! 3 certificates for 30 Days of Free TekPub 1 Copy of Telerik Ultimate Collection 1 Copy of Pro C# 2008