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Scott Muc about Pester

Nick Howell from Netapp on the software designed datacenter

PowerShell MVPs Don Jones and Jason Helmick on The Scripting Games and the PowerShell Summit

Jeff Galloway from HP

Jim Britt from Microsoft on Service Management Automation

PowerShell Hero Dave Wyatt on Error Handling

Ed Wilson (The Scripting Guy) from Microsoft

Steve Roberts from Amazon on AWS and PowerShell

Symon Perriman and Rick Claus from Microsoft on the PowerShell Deployment Toolkit

Jeff Truman

Chris Ashley and Dmitry Petrashev from Dell Software

Josh Swenson on using PowerShell in the real world

Julian Dunn on configuration management and Chef Interview Guests - Julian Dunn Links here's the "marketing" entrypoint for Windows - http://www.opscode.com/solutions/windows/ and here's the "tech person's reference manual entrypoint" to Windows - http://docs.opscode.com/windows.html random chef code example i found on the internet: http://cookingclouds.com/2012/06/23/chef-simple-cookbook-example/ here's another: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Garlic-Chicken/Detail.aspx?evt19=1 http://community.opscode.com/ this article isn't new but seems interesting, talks about when they first went windows. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/24/opscode_chef_does_windows/ https://www.google.com/search?q=decadal&oq=decadal&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.4531j0j7&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=91&ie=UTF-8#es_sm=91&espv=210&q=decadal+definition Chatroom Buzz- ## If DSC and Chef are simular and I haven't used either, why would I learn Chef over DSC at this point? ## tell us more about configuration management of some "non-traditional" nodes like the network and storage hardware that you mentioned earlier ## Do you use PSH within Chef? ## please igonre if already asked.  Does it work with clients or just servers. Does it have a client install piece? ## what about "what clients are supported", XP, Win7 Server 2003 etc... ##As an enterprise why should I consider Chef over Puppet.  Sorry if this has been addressed ## what about cost? ## if you have a run list and one thing fails, how is the admin notified that it failed, how easy is it to recover? ## how many cookbooks exist today and how ofter do new ones get added/updated? ## if the cookbooks are community created/driven, how is the quality of the cookbook verified?  Does anyone validate the cookbook? ## how long has Chef been "in the business".  In other words can I trust it to be around for the long term in light of DSC? ## does it maintain a "state" or is it primarly used for installation of software? ## wait wait.... just kidding The Question - Hero/Power Superman

Jeffrey Snover on PowerShell Version 4