Download all of the TechEd videos via PowerShell - and even play them on iOS!

As I mentioned last week, I own a variety of devices on both the PC and Mac/iOS sides of the fence. When travelling, my preferred content consumption device far and away above all other devices is the iPad. That's why I was excicted to see that this awesome script by PowerShell MVP Marco Shaw could be modified with a simple find and replace to swap out all of the "WMV" references with "MP4", and it flawlessly downloaded the whole TechEd repository to be drug over to my iPad right before I leave for vacation!

Many thanks to the folks at TechEd, the PowerShell team, and Marco for setting me up with my in-flight entertainment on this trip!

One gotcha for the those less seasoned in PowerShell - on the line:

  try {Import-Module -Name OData -ErrorAction "Stop"}

You will likely need to point PowerShell to the path of the OData provider referenced in the post, or you'll get an error.

For example:

Import-Module .\MyModule\OData.psm1

or

Import-Module c:\users\myuser\MyModule\OData.psm1

Good luck, and happy viewing!