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pscookiemonster
PowerShell for Admins

Survey Results: Source Control for the IT Professional

First off - thank you to everyone who participated in the version control survey! We’ve had a fun few weeks - Somehow the PowerShell Summit, Build, and Ignite were scheduled back-to-back-to-back. Among a host of other announcements and tidbits, we found that Microsoft has open sourced the DSC …

Don Jones
PowerShell Summit

What's it Like at PowerShell Summit?

Ever wonder what it’s like to attend PowerShell Summit? Attendee Tommy Maynard blogged about his entire experience - including the build-up anticipation prior to the event - and it’s a great set of reads. Check it out.

Sunny Chakraborty

NYC User Group Restart!

After a long hiatus, NYC Powershell User-group is back. Tome and Sunny will be presenting 2 sessions This is the inaugural series of Tome’s 1-year residency on Powershell Concepts (Beginner to Advanced) Tome Tanasovski: Concept of Objects Object Characterization Everything is an object …

David Jones
PowerShell for Admins

Setting up the PowerShell.org DSC tools from Github

I have created a short blog series about how to setup the DSC tooling from the PowerShell.org DSC repository. With the mindset of contributing changes. Test-HomeLab -InputObject ‘The Plan’ Get-Posh-Git | Test-Lab Get-DSCFramework | Test-Lab Invoke-DscBuild | Test-Lab Test-Lab | Update-GitHub -David …

pscookiemonster
PowerShell for Admins

Dealing with the Click-Next-Admin

I had a good deal of yard work to do this weekend; I see yard work in a similar way that a click-next-admin sees Windows PowerShell. I want no part in it. So I wrote a quick bit on how we can deal with the click-next-admin. Jeffrey Snover recently gave a TechDays Online session where he candidly …

Don Jones
PowerShell for Admins

Why is Remoting Enabled by Default on Windows Server?

There was a brief and lively discussion on Twitter recently stemming from someone asking for advice on how to convince management to turn on Remoting. “Fire Management, if they have to ask” was apparently not an option, although it should have been. I mean, at this stage, you either know …

Will Anderson

PowerShellTO's Next Meeting – May 6th, 2015

Join us on Wednesday, May 6th for our second Toronto PowerShell User’s Group meeting. This time you get to take the wheel! Send us some of your PowerShell related challenges and we’ll pick the top ones to work out in a group together! We’ll also be talking about some of the things learned at …