The Future of PowerShell's Desired State Configuration
Microsoft recently published a "Future of DSC" post that I thought deserved some independent commentary.
PowerShell for Admins
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Using PowerShell, Azure Automation, and OMS - Part III
It’s been a long road, but we’re almost there! A couple of weeks ago we looked at how we can create an Azure Automation Account and add our own custom modules to the solution to be used in Azure Automation. Last week, we took a deeper dive into configuring a runbook to take in webhook […]
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Using PowerShell, Azure Automation, and OMS - Part II
So last time we learned how to upload our custom modules into Azure Automation so we can start using them in Azure Automation Runbooks. This week we’re going to take a look at configuring a runbook to see what kind of data we can ingest from OMS Webhook data, and how we can leverage that […]
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Using PowerShell, Azure Automation, and OMS - Part I
Microsoft’s Operations Management Suite provides some exceptional tools for monitoring and maintaining your environments in both the cloud and in your datacenter. One of it’s best features, however, is its ability to leverage the tools that you’ve already developed to perform tasks and remediate issues using PowerShell, Azure Automation Runbooks, and OMS Alert triggers. In […]
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Announcing the PowerShell Saturday Booster Program
We’re pleased to announce general availability of our PowerShell Saturday Booster Program, as announced at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2017. The goal of this program is to help enthusiasts build sustainable one-day, small-format technical events worldwide. We can provide organizing advice and assistance, help managing finances, and so on. Full details at https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/powershell-saturday/wiki.
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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 […]
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Colecting Certificates form an Enterprise CA for use with DSC
In a domain environment auto enrollment can be used to get create unique certificates for each node that can be used with DSC. The problem is getting the public cert to the machine that creates the DSC MOF files. I wrote a module last year to collect them directly form the Enterprise CA. If it […]
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Do Anything in One Line of PowerShell
PowerShell provides a tremendous boon to productivity for computer professionals of all types. But, you have to admit: it can be a bit daunting to get up to speed! Indeed, as someone who has a fair amount of experience using it, I still find myself having to look up how to do things–frequently. So I […]
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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 […]
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Pester – Parameters and Hashtable Fun!
I have written a short excerpt on how to pass parameters from an object to a Pester test. I have turned this into a function: Invoke-POVTest. The function is primarily for operational validation tests, where you might have a single operational test but you need to test multiple cases. (Sorry, I am not quite sure […]
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UPDATE / Tug: The Open-Source DSC Pull Server
If you haven't taken a look at Tug, now's a great time. Eugene Bekker has been doing a ton of heavy lifting, taking my .NET Core proof-of-concept code and turning it into a formal ASP.NET MVC project.
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The Key to Understanding PowerShell - on Windows or Linux
I've listened to a few of my Windows-friendly compatriots attempting to explain PowerShell to their Linux colleagues, and it hasn't always gone well. The problem, I think, is that a lot of Windows folks don't actually know why PowerShell exists in the first place. Let me explain.