Looking to learn how to get started in Azure? Have you considered Serverless apps? Be not afraid. They're easy to build and allow you get started without needing a degree in programming.... Our speaker, Jeremy Brown, will walk through the basics of serverless apps, build a simple app AND put it online in 45 minutes! Jeremy is an IT veteran with 20+ yrs in the IT industry. His PowerShell experience goes all the way back to v1 as a Microsoft Trainer. Once he began with PowerShell, he fell in love and has used PowerShell as his primary tool since that time. Jeremy currently works as a sysadmin and cloud ops pro automating Azure and Office 365 in a hybrid environment for the NC Judicial Branch. Come take a look at the mystery and wonder of using someone else's computer to do your work. We'll explore using REST APIs and Azure Functions together. By the end of our meeting, you will learn how easy and cheap it is to make that other person’s computer do your bidding. Find Jeremy on:Twitter: @banana_JamaGithub: https://github.com/BananaJama

Join us as Friedrich Weinmann (Twitter: @FredWeinmann), Customer Engineer at Microsoft, dives into the topic of PSFramework. Following is the description of what Fred would cover: Scripting takes quite a bit of time and the time pressure is always there.So often enough, we have to sacrifice some of the features we'd like, trade-off code quality or skip some user quality-of-life aspects we would like to do but just don't have the time for.If only there were a way to make user-friendly, high-quality code the least path of resistance… Introducing the PSFramework module:• Reduce cost of User experience features• Eliminate common scripting aspects – such as logging – from your to-do list when you code• Backport several features from PowerShell Core to Windows PowerShell• Streamline your code flow and simplify supporting "expensive" PowerShell features such as ShouldProcess• … Empower your coding, while saving time