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Missy Januszko

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Be a Speaker at PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit 2020!

We are so excited for the 2020 PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit! We’re about halfway through the CFP season and are still looking for your awesome submissions. If you are hesitating, please don’t… think seriously about submitting a topic or two. To help you, we’d like to give you some ideas about what makes a submission stand out (and what doesn’t). Something Unique… We’re looking for a new spin or twist on an old (or new) topic.

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PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit 2019 – Post-CFP Thoughts

Now that Warren Frame and I have finally come up for air after reviewing all the submissions for the 2019 PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit, we wanted to send a great big THANK YOU!!! to all who submitted. You all definitely made our job challenging and we think we have a fabulous lineup for this year’s show! Many of you have asked for feedback regarding your submissions, and while we would love to send everyone individualized feedback - with the sheer number of submissions, that just isn’t feasible.

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PowerShell for Admins
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PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit Recap

Now that I’m recovered from the 2017 PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit, I just wanted to take a moment and talk about my experiences at the conference. It was my first time attending this conference and it was also my first time speaking. Both “firsts” contributed to a range of emotions throughout the long and exhausting week. I came in to Seattle late Friday night and expected to go straight to the hotel and to bed.

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PowerShell for Admins
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DevOps: A Career Changer

Once upon a time, there was this woman at a TechMentor conference a few years ago, sitting in the front of the room during the “Don and Jason" show, a not-quite-scripted discussion on various “lightning” topics. The topic at that moment was DevOps, and this woman was asking for advice on being an advocate for DevOps in her company. Her company had just been acquired, she explained, which meant that the atmosphere was ripe for change, but the culture of the company they had been acquired from was very change-resistant.

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PowerShell for Admins
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No "Easy" Button for Configuration Management

A discussion in one of my Slack channels caught my eye today around someone’s reflections in a github repo regarding DSC. The posted comment that introduced the link was titled “DSC from a newbie perspective”, and I thought “Oh? I’m a newbie too, I wonder if we’re thinking the same things.” A little history is probably needed on my “newbie” status with DSC. I went to the Tech Mentor conference in March, where I spent most of my time in sessions learning DSC.

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PowerShell for Admins
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Unit Testing is “Pestering” the Hell Out Of Me

About a week or two before Devops Camp, the attendees were asked how much experience they had using Pester, because another attendee was preparing a discussion on Pester and wanted to gauge the other attendees’ comfort level. Learning Pester had been on my to-do list for a while, but I had procrastinated on it for far longer than I intended. I answered “Beginner” - although “complete and utter newbie” would have been more accurate - and I vowed to spend some quality time looking at Pester before arriving at camp.

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PowerShell for Admins
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Microsoft did WHAT?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last couple of days, you already know that Microsoft announced last Thursday that the shell/scripting language formerly known as “Windows Powershell” is now supported on Linux and MacOS and that Powershell has been open-sourced. And for days, thoughts of “how can I use this?” or “I wonder if ‘x’ will be supported” have been flying through the minds of every system architect as we internally grapple with the possibilities of what could be, while at the same time trying to understand Microsoft’s motivation for this radical change.

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