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Tim Curwick

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May 21, 2016 • 2 min read

Getting complex – More line breaks in Powershell

This is a follow up to Jacob Moran’s article Keeping it simple - Line breaks in PowerShell.
I am strongly in the pro backtick camp, but I won’t get into that debate here. Instead, I’ll cover more of the common ground between the two camps.
In addition to after a pipe, there are many, many more places where you can put in a line break without a backtick and without breaking your code.
As a rule of thumb, any spot where the syntax unambiguously must be followed by something more, you can break the line.
As an extreme example, this:

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Tips and Tricks

March 3, 2016 • 1 min read

Microsoft automation platforms – Twin Cities March meeting

Twin Cities PowerShell Automation Group meeting Tuesday, March 8, 2016, at the Microsoft Technology Center in Edina, MN.
Come and learn about the road map for Microsoft’s automation platforms, System Center Orchestrator, Service Management Automation and Azure Automation. Ryan Andorfer will cover the road map for these three products and then dive into how to utilize Azure Automation in the cloud and on premises for both process and configuration automation in an enterprise setting, including strategies around code management, PowerShell Module development and PowerShell DSC management.
Ryan ran the IT-Automation team for General Mills for 6 years, was a Cloud and Datacenter MVP for 3 years and is now a Microsoft Technology Solutions Professional.
This is a secure facility. RSVP with full name is required. If you do not use your full name on meetup, please email us your full name. Please RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/Twin-Cities-PowerShell-User-Group/events/229312191/
Food and networking starts at 4:30. The presentations will start at 5 PM. We’ll keeping talking until 7 PM.

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February 4, 2016 • 1 min read

Microsoft PowerShell team panel – Twin Cities February meeting

Ever wonder just what the heck the Microsoft PowerShell team was thinking? Come find out!
Keith Bankston is the senior program manager for PowerShell. Mark Gray is the senior program manager for DSC. Michael Greene is the program manager responsible for understanding customer feedback and getting it into PowerShell.
Join us for a panel discussion where they will answer all of our questions about PowerShell and we in turn will answer their questions about how we use PowerShell and how we would like to use it in the future.
Target North Campus
7300 Oak Grove Parkway
Brooklyn Park, MN
This is a secure facility. RSVP with full name is required. If you do not use your full name on meetup, please email us your full name. Park in the guest lot to the west of the complex. Check in with security with photo ID. You will be escorted to the meeting room.
Food and networking begin at 4:30. The main meeting will run from 5 to 7.

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