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Mark Roloff
PowerShell for Admins

ICYMI: PowerShell Weeks of X-mas & 4-January-2019

Topics include checking SCCM patch compliance, a little regex, some more AoC, a deep dive into $null, and PowerShell…streaming?… You betcha! Content pulled together by Brett Bunker, Robin Dadswell, and Mark Roloff From all of us, we hope you enjoyed your holidays! Our sabbatical is over and things have been understandably quiet the last couple of weeks, so we’re adding a little more this week to help make it up to you.

Mark Roloff
PowerShell for Admins

ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 14-December-2018

Topics include Advent of Code, talking to Teams with the Graph API, AWS tools in PowerShell, and more… Content pulled together by Brett Bunker, Robin Dadswell, and Mark Roloff Speed tweaking Advent of Code Day 8 by HumanEquivalentUnit on December 8th Advent of Code spoilers ahead! This is a fun walk through the thought process of solving some of these code puzzles. Useful if you’re stuck on day 8, and still something to learn here if you’re just curious.

Don Jones
PowerShell Summit

Welcome, New and Returning @PSHSummit Summiteers!

The following was recently posted in the Slack team for PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2018. Yesterday, we invited all current registered Summiteers into the Slack team; if you missed your invitation, please email summit@ (this website’s domain name) with your email address (ideally a personal one, not work) and your Eventbrite order number. We’ll be happy to re-send the invite.
Another reminder for all @here - please go to http://leanpub.com/summiteermanual/ and “buy” the book (for $0, of course), and enable the option to have Leanpub notify you via email of updates. That’s The Summiteer Manual, and it’s our best way to provide a consolidated view of everything that happens at Summit. From understanding how we handle special dietary requests, to understanding what “Iron Scripter” is all about, it’s the best way to take advantage of all that goes on. Summit is a **lot** more than just great breakout sessions, but it’s very easy to “miss out” on things if you don’t know they’re available. We update this a lot as we get closer, and will even be including information (and possible discounts) on stuff around the Puget Sound area for early/late arrivals who want to see some sights. A week or two out, it’s not even a bad idea to make sure your phone/tablet/laptop has a copy to refer to (Leanpub offers PDF/MOBI/EPUB formats), and some folks even print a copy to bring along.

Mark Roloff
PowerShell for Admins

ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 07-December-2018

Topics include watching Bitcoin plummet in the shell, getting maintenance plan info out of SQL, setting up automated access to AWS, and more… Content curated by Brett Bunker, Robin Dadswell, and Mark Roloff Friday Fun With Timely PowerShell Prompts by Jeff Hicks on Novermber 30th Like furnishing a home, decorating your work desk, or building a wardrobe, customizing your shell experience is as much a matter of utility as it is aesthetics.

Mark Roloff
PowerShell for Admins

ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 9-November-2018

ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 9-November-2018 Topics include replacing the MDT final summary, Azure Functions, dumping wifi passwords from your computer, code golf, and more… Curated by Brett Bunker, Robin Dadswell, and Mark Roloff. Transferring Functions with PSRemoting by Joel Francis on November 2nd What do you do when you’re in a remote session and you need to bring a custom function over? You could write it up on the remote side but that sounds a lot like work.