---
title: "PSPowerHour YouTube Livestream"
url: "https://dbatools.io/pspowerhour/"
tags: ["party", "pspowerhour"]
last_updated: "2025-10-29"
---

# PSPowerHour YouTube Livestream

Last night was the premiere of #PSPowerHour! It featured great speakers and a lot of dbatools content.

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## What is PSPowerHour?

Created by [Michael T Lombardi](https://github.com/michaeltlombardi) and [Warren F](https://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io), PSPowerHour is "like a virtual User Group, with a lightning-demo format, and room for non-PowerShell-specific content. Eight community members will give a demo each PowerHour."

Sessions are proposed and [organized on GitHub](https://github.com/PSPowerHour/PSPowerHour/), which is really cool. Both new and seasoned speakers are invited to propose topics 🙌

## Agenda

| Title | Name |
|-------|------|
| [Default Parameter Values](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDQvdIEda_c&feature=youtu.be&t=20s) | [Chrissy LeMaire](https://github.com/potatoqualitee) |
| [The dime tour: PowerShell + Excel = Better Together](https://youtu.be/fDQvdIEda_c?t=7m20s) | [Doug Finke](https://github.com/dfinke) |
| [Setting Trace Flags as Startup Parameters with dbatools](https://youtu.be/fDQvdIEda_c?t=18m29s) | [Andrew Wickham](https://github.com/awickham10) |
| [Applying SQL Server Data Compression with dbatools](https://youtu.be/fDQvdIEda_c?t=27m28s) | [Jess Pomfret](https://github.com/jpomfret) |
| [Better, Safer SQL Queries from PowerShell](https://youtu.be/fDQvdIEda_c?t=35m15s) | [Andy Levy](https://github.com/alevyinroc) |
| [Easy Desktop Notifications with BurntToast](https://youtu.be/fDQvdIEda_c?t=45m9s) | [Josh King](https://github.com/Windos) |
| [Raspberry Pi with PowerShell and IoT module](https://youtu.be/fDQvdIEda_c?t=54m30s) | [Daniel Silva](https://github.com/DanielSSilva) |

Everyone did such a great job, I love this livestream! As you can see above, the hour was opened up with my session about Default Parameter Values, which I [wrote about earlier](/defaults). Then **Doug Fink** talked about his really amazing module, [ImportExcel](https://github.com/dfinke/ImportExcel).

Next, dbatools contributor **Andrew Wickman** talked about setting SQL Server trace flags using PowerShell. This session also features containers! After Andrew's session, dbatools contributor **Jess Pomfret** talked about her awesome compression commands which make it really easy to enable compression within SQL Server.

Finally for dbatools content, major contributor **Andy Levy** talks discusses safely (and properly!) querying SQL Server using Invoke-DbaSqlQuery.

After that **Josh King** talked about his very impressive and beautiful module [BurntToast](https://github.com/Windos/BurntToast). And the hour is wrapped up by **Daniel Silva** who has a fantastic demo where he controls a Raspberry Pi with PowerShell ❤

## Next Meeting

The next PSPowerHour will happen on August 30. The [meeting's agenda](https://github.com/PSPowerHour/PSPowerHour/issues/35) is already posted and features sessions about ChatOps, VS Code, SQL Server, getters & setters, PSKoans, PowerShell 6.0 and converting code using PowerShell.

Be sure to check it out!

\- Chrissy