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ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 8-February-2019

Mark Roloff
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Topics include adrenaline for your AKS deployments, Azure Pipelines, Universal Dashboard, and more.

Content scoured by Brett Bunker, Robin Dadswell, and Mark Roloff.

Deploying a production-ready Azure Kubernetes (AKS) cluster with PSAksDeployment

by Mathieu Buisson on February 4th

Deploying AKS the officially documented way? Give this a read. Mathieu gives a great look into using this souped-up module to do some heavy lifting for you.

PowerShell Function to Connect to All Office 365 Services With Support For MFA

by Brad Wyatt on February 5th

Say goodbye to your ugly “Log-into-too-many-PowerShell-cloud-services” script and say hello to Brad’s one-stop function. I can already think of a few places to start using this.

The top 6 PowerShell commands you need to know to manage Office 365

by Steve Goodman on February 5th

If you’re managing O365 and are new to PowerShell, this is a great little intro to the language from that perspective.

Retry Commands in PowerShell

by Prateek Singh on February 1st

Prateek has thrown together a very nice function that’s tailor-made to handle all of your retry logic. Give it a whirl in your next script!

How I Failed My Way to Success with Azure Pipelines - Part 1: Build

by Josh King on February 7th

If you’ve got a public PowerShell project, consider hooking it up with in a release pipeline. Josh’s first experiences with that will be a helpful guide in figuring that out.

Tweet of the Week

I love RDCMan, so I was pretty stoked to find out that there’s a module for generating its config files. Thanks, Brett!

AZPosh: PowerShell Universal Dashboard

Curious about Universal Dashboard? Adam Driscoll gives a tour of this awesome tool to the Arizona PSUG.

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