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I’ve written this up on the new website for our Rochester PowerShell group and on the old blog, and on UGSS Facebook and Twitter … and now that there’s only two days left, it’s time to mention it again, on my blog

This Wednesday, January 20, 2010 – 6:00pm

It’s a new year, and a new opportunity to get started with PowerShell. With the new year, we’re going to put a renewed focus on trying to make our meetings valuable to everyone. With that in mind, the first Rochester meeting of the upstate New York PowerShell users group in 2010 will feature two separate presentations:

Getting Started: The PowerShell Pipeline (100 Level)

• Different types of commands in PowerShell
• Variable assignment and Pipeline arguments
• Understanding the Pipe
• Why PowerShell’s pipeline is different

• Exploiting pipelines for fun and profit

Creating PowerShell script Modules (300 Level)

• Turning your script or function into a module
• What makes a function an “advanced function”
• Providing in-line help for functions
• Controlling what functions and variables your module exports

• Why you should use Module Metadata files

Everyone is welcome, from beginners to pros! Bring a friend and introduce them to PowerShell. As always, our meeting will be at New Horizons’ in Henrietta, 50 Methodist Hill Drive, Suite 50.

In order to keep things on time, we’ll be starting our presentations at 6:30 exactly, after a short pizza, wings, and networking time starting at 6pm. We only ask that if you can come early for the food you let us know ahead of time and come ready to pitch in a few dollars to help cover the cost.

PS: There will be swag. We have several books, an Arc Mouse, and copies of Windows 7 and Office 2007 to give away…

[new] Man! See if I ever mention these things again. They’ve changed the date for the UK PowerShell user group meeting from July 29th to July 31st …

But Marco Shaw will still be presenting about the /n software NetCmdlets. These are the (free for personal non-commercial use) cmdlets which let you tackle everything from IMAP to SSH from PowerShell …

Anyway, if you’ve been curious about them, the presentation will be at 7pm UK (UTC) time and 2pm New York time … and will be available via Live Meeting — I attended the last of the UK user group meetings via live meeting and they did a fairly good job of making the presentations accessible to us virtually, and it was definitely worth the effort.