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John Mello

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November 18, 2015 • 1 min read

Philadelphia PowerShell User Group Meeting – December 3rd 2015 with Adam Bertram

Join us on Thursday, December 3rd when Adam Bertram will be giving a talk called a “Top 10 PowerShell mistakes " About Adam Bertram Adam Bertram is an independent consultant, technical writer, trainer and presenter. Adam specializes in consulting and evangelizing all things IT automation mainly focused around Windows PowerShell. Adam is a Microsoft Windows PowerShell MVP, 2015 powershell.org PowerShell hero and has numerous Microsoft IT pro certifications. He authors IT pro course content for Pluralsight, is a regular contributor to numerous print and online publications and presents at various user groups and conferences.

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August 18, 2015 • 2 min read

Philadelphia PowerShell User Group Meeting – September 3rd 2015 with Max Trinidad

Join us on Thursday, September 3rd when Maximo Trinidad will be giving a talk called a “Creating a SQL Server Database Report with PowerShell”. As describe by Maximo: This is a deep dive on how to create a SQL Server report using PowerShell and SMO. At the same time, you will learn how to create and work with PowerShell objects, scriptblocks, formatting properties, and generating output results. We’ll be looking into creating a report to identify database properties irregularities.

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July 14, 2015 • 1 min read

PhillyPoSH 07/07/2015 meeting summary and presentation materials

John Mello gave a presentation entitled “ConvertFrom-String Overview and Examples”. A copy of his demo scripts and presentation are available at our GitHub site . TJ Turner’s presentation “What’s in your Toolbox” is available at his blog. A recording of this meeting has been posted to our YouTube channel .

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July 13, 2015 • 2 min read

Philadelphia PowerShell User Group Meeting – August 6th 2015

Join us on Thursday, August 6th when June Blender will be conducting a hands on lab (in person!) called Working with Classes in PowerShell 5.0. To participate in the lab, bring a laptop (or VM) with PowerShell 5.0, but it’s not required! After that, we will review the results of the July Scripting games puzzle . About June June Blender is a technology evangelist for SAPIEN Technologies, Inc. Formerly a Senior Programming Writer at Microsoft Corporation, she is best known for her work with the Windows PowerShell product team from 2006-2012.

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June 17, 2015 • 1 min read

Philadelphia PowerShell User Group Meeting – July 7th 2015

Join us Tuesday, July 7th when PhillyPosh members John Mello and TJ Turner will be presenting. John will be giving a presentation on the new ConvertFrom-String cmdlet in the PowerShell V5 preview. Afterwards TJ Turner will be giving a presentation entitled “What’s in your toolbox?”. Please register if you plan to attend in person or online. The meeting URL to join us remotely will be included in your Eventbrite registration confirmation.

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May 19, 2015 • 1 min read

Philadelphia PowerShell User Group Meeting – June 4th 2015

Join us on Thursday, June 4th when Dave Wyatt, will present The basics of encrypting and decrypting data, including symmetric and public key algorithms, key management / sharing, and digital certificates. This talk will focus on doing so in the .NET Framework and PowerShell. About Dave Dave Wyatt has been in the IT business since 1999 and is currently an Application Operations Engineer at DevOpsGuys. In addition Dave is a Microsoft MVP (PowerShell) and a member of PowerShell.

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March 11, 2015 • 1 min read

PhillyPoSH 03/05/2015 meeting summary and presentation materials

Derek Murawsky gave an excellent presentation entitled “Introducing Chocolatey”. A copy of his demo script and presentation are available here at our GitHub site. A recording of this meeting has been posted to our YouTube channel.

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January 14, 2015 • 1 min read

PhillyPoSH 01/08/2015 meeting summary and presentation materials

John Mello gave a presentation entitled “The ForEach and Where methods in Powershell v4 ”. A copy of his demo script and presentation are available here at our GitHub site. A recording of this meeting has been posted to our YouTube channel.

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October 14, 2014 • 1 min read

PhillyPoSH 10/02/2014 meeting summary and presentation materials

John Mello gave a presentation entitled “Custom Object Creation”. A copy of his demo scripts and presentation are available here at our GitHub site. TJ Turner gave a presentation entitled “Runspace Pools”. A copy of his demo scripts and presentation are available here at our GitHub site. A recording of this meeting has been posted to our YouTube channel

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September 15, 2014 • 1 min read

Philadelphia Meeting – October 2nd 2014

Join us Thursday, October 2nd where [ John Mello ](http://mellositmusings.com/) will be presenting a talk on The different custom object creation methods and their performance tradeoffs. Followed by [ TJ Turner ](http://techguytj.com/bio/) will give a talk entitled Intro to basic run space pools . Please register if you plan to attend in person or online. The meeting URL to join us remotely will be included in your Eventbrite registration confirmation.

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