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Don Jones
Tools

[UPDATED] Review: SAPIEN VersionRecall

I recently played around with SAPIEN’s VersionRecall, and thought I’d share a bit about the experience. As a note, SAPIEN provided me with a license key to use. VersionRecall is advertised as a simple, single-user version control system “for the rest of us.” There are no …

Don Jones
PowerShell Summit

PowerShell Summit N.A. 2014 – Budget

As part of our commitment to being a transparent, community-owned organization, I wanted to share the basic budget for the upcoming Summit. Now that registration is cut off, we have most of our final numbers. Keep in mind that, at live events, things “on the ground” can change quickly - …

Don Jones
PowerShell Summit

PowerShell Summit NA 2014 Shirts Available

If you’re attending PowerShell Summit NA 2014 (or wish you were), we have some new logo items for purchase! Buy ’em now and wear ’em to the Summit, including a baseball jersey and a polo shirt. Visit our Zazzle store to buy (or the Canadian store, to save a bit on shipping if you …

Don Jones
PowerShell Summit

Summit Session Change

Paul Higinbotham’s session on threading in PowerShell has been changed, because his content would have overlapped with other sessions. Instead, Paul will be presenting: PowerShell Debugging Enhancements A number of script debugging enhancements were added to PowerShell 4.0 and the WMF 5.0 …

Don Jones
Books

Massive Update to All Seven Free eBooks at PowerShell.org

We’ve just finished a massive re-do of all 7 PowerShell.org free ebooks. First, they’re now hosted in a public OneDrive folder. This means you can quickly and easily view them online, download a DOCX, or download a PDF. Anytime, anywhere. Second, we’ve had folks go through and make …

ScriptingWife
Events

April 3, 2014 Virtual PowerShell User Group meeting

PowerShell MVP Joel Bennett will present about authoring PowerShell modules, including tips, tricks and best practices for writing modules and functions that work well together (and behave properly in the pipeline) … and… NOTE: if you have QUESTIONS about PowerShell modules which you …

Don Jones
PowerShell for Admins

We Want Your DSC Resource Wish List!

What sorts of things would you want to configure via DSC that don’t already have a resource? NB: Focusing on the core Windows OS and its components only; Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server, and other products are off the table for this discussion. For example, I want a “log file …