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Nathaniel Webb (ArtisanByteCrafter)
PowerShell for Admins

Universal Dashboard Templates – Scaffolding a New UD Project with Powershell

All code from this article is freely available on Github as a template repository. Just click “Use this template” on the repository page here: https://github.com/ArtisanByteCrafter/ud-template Index What are the advantages of project scaffolding How does ud-template work The Why Why should you consider scaffolding a new project? While we’re here, what exactly is scaffolding? Much like the term’s origin a project scaffold is meant to build a consistent framework and design that you can use to build your projects with.

Mark Roloff
PowerShell for Admins

PowerShell Summit: A First Time Experience

It’s been a few weeks since Summit and I feel like my mind has finally started to settle from all of the ideas that I came back with. Plus, being away from home for a week means I had a lot of domestic work and daddy time to catch up on. When Will asked for volunteers to write about their first time experience, I decided to see if I could offer my take on the matter considering gulf between what I expected to get and what I ended up getting.

Mark Roloff
PowerShell for Admins

ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 17-May-2019

Topics include working with the Graph API, Chocolatey, jazzing up your functions with pipeline support, and shrinking VMDKs. Special thanks to Robin Dadswell, Prasoon Karunan V, and Mark Roloff. How to shrink VMDK with a couple of PowerShell scripts? by Kevin Soltow on May 8th Not just a set of useful scripts for anyone still working in a space-constrained environment, but a great bit of interesting detail has also gone into this.

Mark Roloff
PowerShell for Admins

ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 10-May-2019

Topics include PowerShell Summit, finding account lockouts, certs, and learning PS via Pester. Content curated by Robin Dadswell, Prasoon Karunan, and Mark Roloff. Takeaways from the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2019 by Matt Bobke on May 2nd If you couldn’t make it to Summit, fret not! While waiting for videos you can read about it from attendees, like Matt, whom participated in the OnRamp track. Execute a script block accepting pipeline input and show your progress by Yves Rosius on May 5th

Will Anderson
Announcements

Summit 2020 – A New Addition

Last week at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit, we announced the dates for next year’s summit. The event will again be held at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington on April 27th to April 30th. DevOps + Automation Summit - Nashville We are also proud to announce that our flagship summit event would be getting a new addition to the family in the form of the DevOps + Automation Summit being held on October 21st to October 23rd, 2020 at the Renaissance Hotel in Downtown Nashville!