And we’re back! Ok, so in the last blog we began a conversation about delegates and using LINQ in PowerShell. In today’s post, I’m going to give an example of how it can be incredibly useful. Let’s talk about Joins. Joins In my line of work, I’m constantly running into the need to combine datasets […]
Greetings PowerShellers! Lately, I’ve been itching to write something up on Microsoft’s Language-Integrated Query (LINQ). You’ve likely encountered it if you’ve done any development in C#. LINQ is an incredibly powerful querying tool for performing look-ups, joins, ordering, and other common tasks on large data sets. We have a few similar cmdlets built into PowerShell, […]
Rambling Last year’s PowerShell + Devops Global Summit was a roller coaster. On one hand, I spoke for the first time – it was terrifying. Getting up in front of a local user group had helped, but it’s not quite the same as a room full of PowerShell-ers, including MVPs and PowerShell team members – […]
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This past Friday, Microsoft posted a DSC Update that's worth your attention - and some commentary.
My journey started off by figuring out how to automate a daily disk space report on the mailserver, which ran most of the company, and emailing the report to my boss at the time. After PowerShell sent that first email, something clicked. I sat back in my chair and thought to myself, “Wow, I don’t […]
Microsoft recently announced the General Availability (that is, a non-beta release) of PowerShell Core 6.0. A companion document detailing breaking changes, along with some of the language in the announcement, has led to more than a few inquiries in my mailbox. Most take the tone of, "have I been wasting my time learning PowerShell?!?!?" because, at first glance, PowerShell Core looks deeply less functional than its predecessor. Let me tell you what I think.
PowerShell Core 6 is scheduled for General Availability release tomorrow (10th January). As such Jeffrey Snover and the PowerShell Team are hosting an AMA (Ask Me Anything) event on the 11th January from 9am – 10am PT. “This is going to be a historical week for PowerShell Core 6 🙂 …Join the PowerShell team and […]
So you’re working for a company that’s going well (or not) and you start to hear rumours of parts of the business being sold off, the project you’re working on is being pulled or worse the business is closing down. Before you know it your x amount of years at said company have come to […]
Congratulations to Andrew Pla, winner of our PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2018 scholarship. Andrew submitted a stellar application to our review panel, and perfectly fit our profile for someone who’s just peeking out of the “beginner” realm, and who’s demonstrably used PowerShell to help bootstrap their IT career. If you’re attending Summit, be sure […]
Yesterday I pushed my first real project to a public repository on GitHub. It’s small right now though I hope to flesh it out over time, and it is very niche, but I hope it helps others who come across it. Regardless I’m proud of it. If you like, you can check it out here, […]
So we’ve talked about Azure Automation DSC and the extensive reporting we can get from it. With the pricing as it is, it would be hard to argue as to why you would want to use anything else. But I’m a completionist, and there may be some edge cases that might come up where you […]