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Don Jones
DevOps

PowerShell Team Day at IT Transformation Event

At the upcoming “IT Transformation” event in Orlando this month (still time left to register!), members of the PowerShell team will be leading a full-day workshop that’s pretty much a don’t-miss (and no, it isn’t being recorded). Here’s the schedule: Time Speaker Title 09:00am-10:00am Jeffrey Snover Observations on Modern IT Practices and Organization Culture 10:00am-10:15am break 10:15am-12:00pm Michael Greene The Release Pipeline Model 12:00pm-01:00pm lunch 01:00pm-02:45pm Michael Greene Instructor Led Hands-On Lab: Constructing a pipeline for PowerShell Modules using Visual Studio Team Services.

Don Jones
PowerShell for Admins

Announcing the PowerShell Saturday Booster Program

We’re pleased to announce general availability of our PowerShell Saturday Booster Program, as announced at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2017. The goal of this program is to help enthusiasts build sustainable one-day, small-format technical events worldwide. We can provide organizing advice and assistance, help managing finances, and so on. Full details at https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/powershell-saturday/wiki.

Missy Januszko
PowerShell for Admins

PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit Recap

Now that I’m recovered from the 2017 PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit, I just wanted to take a moment and talk about my experiences at the conference. It was my first time attending this conference and it was also my first time speaking. Both “firsts” contributed to a range of emotions throughout the long and exhausting week. I came in to Seattle late Friday night and expected to go straight to the hotel and to bed.

David Jones
DevOps

Colecting Certificates form an Enterprise CA for use with DSC

In a domain environment auto enrollment can be used to get create unique certificates for each node that can be used with DSC. The problem is getting the public cert to the machine that creates the DSC MOF files. I wrote a module last year to collect them directly form the Enterprise CA. If it interests you take a look https://blog.bladefirelight.com/nuggets/collecting-ca-certificates-for-dsc-configuration/

Don Jones
Announcements

Serve on the Board of PowerShell.org!

The DevOps Collective (the nonprofit that owns PowerShell.org) is organized into two main governing bodies. Our Directors - myself, Christopher Gannon, Jason Helmick, Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, and Will Anderson - run the organization on a day-to-day. On Board, which we’re now forming, consists of stakeholders who help advise us on directions, priorities, and so on. We want our Board to be diverse, and include representation from industry as well as community.

Don Jones
Announcements

PowerShell Saturday Booster Program

As announced at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2017, we’re preparing a “PowerShell Saturday Booster Program” to help launch and support local one-day events. Please visit https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/powershell-saturday/wiki to take a look at our draft materials, and use GitHub’s “Issues” feature to submit questions, suggestions for additional content, requests for clarification, and so on. We’ll continue to build this out, but want to make sure we’re doing so in a way that makes sense to the community.

Don Jones
PowerShell Summit

Post-Summit Note

A quick note: We experienced some massive equipment failures this year, almost to the point where we were starting to seriously question our life choices. The end result is that we don’t have as many session recordings as we’d hoped. Jason will be going through what we do have over the next week, splicing together what we can, and posting it to the YouTube channel. We appreciate everyone’s patience and understanding.

msorens
PowerShell for Admins

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 get up to speed! Indeed, as someone who has a fair amount of experience using it, I still find myself having to look up how to do things–frequently. So I started keeping track of the recipes I was using the most. And came up with a list of 400 or so, published in 4 parts.

Richard Siddaway
Announcements

Final agenda

We’ve had to move a few sessions around for various reasons. The online agenda at https://eventloom.com/event/home/summit2017 shows the current final agenda. Please check the agenda carefully to ensure you don’t miss any sessions

Don Jones
PowerShell Summit

Submit Questions for "Ask Me Anything" with Jeffrey Snover

In just a week, we’ll be holding a live “Ask Me Anything” with Jeffrey Snover at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2017. Now’s a great time to Help us queue up questions - drop yours in the comments below! We’ll be doing our level best to record the session, although it will not be live-streamed. We’ll post the recording and let everyone know where it is a week or so after the event.