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I’m looking to hear from folks who attended the PowerShell Summit North America 2013. Specifically, I’d love to hear what you thought of it. What value did you get? If someone were considering attending in 2014, what advice would you offer them? How should they approach the boss? What …
Ok, that post title is deliberately provocative. Twitter and all that. So look, we’re designed this advanced PowerShell class. One of the top five constant suggestions I get whenever I say “advanced” and “PowerShell” is “.NET Framework.” And I get it. When …
As we continue collecting responses to an outline survey about an Advanced PowerShell class, I’ve come up with a couple of questions and would appreciate any feedback you’d care to leave here. Keep in mind that we’re a bit bound by this course being Microsoft Official Curriculum. I …
Ok, let’s get back to creating a DSC configuration. If you haven’t read the last post in this series, go back and do that now, I’ll wait. Now with that out of the way, let’s get back to it… The High Points Overview Configuring the Pull Server (REST version) Creating …
John Mello gave a presentation on creating HTML reports in PowerShell, a copy of his presentation and scripts can be found here TJ Turner gave a presentation on Community Defined Best Practices, a copy of his presentation can be found here We had user error audio issues with Lync throughout the …
I’ve been asked to work on an “advanced” PowerShell class. Now, I don’t like the “advanced” word very much, because it means something different to everyone, depending on their experience. So I’m trying to make the class focus on “powerful, practical …
I got a glance at the “short list” of speakers for the PowerShell Summit North America 2014. While none of these names are guaranteed - these guys haven’t even been contacted to confirm - they’ll definitely receive an invite in the next few days. First up, Mike Pfeiffer. This …
Now that’s a title! We’ve worked through my reasoning as to why I want Desired State Configuration (DSC) and how to build a pull server. Today and in the next post we are going to look at how to create configurations which describe how our target systems are supposed to work. The High …
Quick recap, I’m working through a series of posts about the Desired State Configuration infrastructure that I’m building at Stack Exchange, including some how-to’s. The High Points Overview Configuring the Pull Server (REST version) (this post) Creating Configurations (one of two, …
This is a the kickoff in a series of posts about building a Desired State Configuration (DSC) infrastructure. I’ll be leveraging concepts I’ve been working on as I’ve been building out our DSC deployment at Stack Exchange. The High Points Overview (this post) Configuring the Pull …
