Index Prerequisites Configuration HTTPS (Optional) Prerequisites For this writeup, I'm using Ubuntu 18.04. Software packages are geared toward using that version. First, we'll need to...
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I just spent a month updating one of our PowerShell modules to support Linux and MacOS. I learned a lot that I wanted to share...
PowerHour: Community Lightning Demos!
One of my favorite events at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit is the community lightning demos. It's a fun format: For the audience: Fast...
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...
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...
PowerShell Gotchas
You can certainly find a number of articles around that present PowerShell pitfalls that can easily trip you up if you are not careful. I...
Pitfalls of the Pipeline
Pipelining is an important concept in PowerShell. Though the idea did not originate with PowerShell (you can find it used decades earlier in Unix, for...
Create Custom Monitors with PowerShell
Sometimes, as a developer, you want to be be able to keep track of free space on a drive, the size of a log, the...
PowerShell is Open Sourced
For those of you that have been at PowerShell Summits over the last few years you’ll have heard Jeffrey Snover state that he wanted to take...
Every pithy witticism begins with quotation marks
"To be or not to be". Without getting into a debate over whether Shakespeare was musing about being a logician, suffice to say that in...