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Oct 18, 2016 • Don Jones

PowerShell Summit

PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2017: Session Acceptance

We’re in the process of emailing speaker invitations to those whose sessions were accepted for the 2017 agenda. **Please check your email and promptly follow the instructions to complete registration. ** In the event that a speaker is unable to confirm their invitation in time, we will move on to other speakers and sessions - that’s why, if you haven’t presently received an invitation, you still might. Once we’ve confirmed everyone, we’ll send out notices to any speakers who were not selected, so that you’re in the loop.

Oct 14, 2016 • Don Jones

Announcements

Be an Azure Consultant for PowerShell.org!

So, after our nearly-2-day outage, which was due to a still-not-fully-explained Apache fail, we’re looking to make some changes. We need to migrate PowerShell.org to a different Azure subscription anyway, so this is a good time to change the kind of service we’re using. First, using Azure is non-negotiable. If your expert opinion is to use something else, please just don’t ;). **Update: **This might be changing. AWS could be an option.

Oct 13, 2016 • Richard Siddaway

Announcements

Apologies for the delay

Due to unforeseen circumstances we’re a bit late getting out notifications of the sessions accepted for the 2017 Summit. Apologies to everyone who submitted sessions. We hope to have the notifications out in the next few days

Oct 12, 2016 • Missy Januszko

PowerShell for Admins

No "Easy" Button for Configuration Management

A discussion in one of my Slack channels caught my eye today around someone’s reflections in a github repo regarding DSC. The posted comment that introduced the link was titled “DSC from a newbie perspective”, and I thought “Oh? I’m a newbie too, I wonder if we’re thinking the same things.” A little history is probably needed on my “newbie” status with DSC. I went to the Tech Mentor conference in March, where I spent most of my time in sessions learning DSC.

Oct 11, 2016 • Don Jones

PowerShell for Admins

DSC ConfigurationData Blocks in a World of Cattle

As you may know, Jeffrey Snover and I have, for some time, been on a “servers are cattle, not pets” kick. Meaning, servers shouldn’t be special, individualized snowflakes. They should be, in many regards, appliances. One dies, you eat it and make another. They don’t have names - that you know of. They don’t have IP addresses - that you know of. Oh, I mean, they have them, but you don’t know them and don’t care.

Oct 4, 2016 • Duffney

PowerShell for Admins

A Practical Guide for Using Regex in PowerShell

Regular Expressions is often referred to as wizardry or magic and for that reason I stayed away from it for most of my career. I used it only when I had to and most of the time just reused examples that I found online. There’s nothing wrong with that of course, but I never took the time to learn it. I thought it was reserved for the elite. Turns out that it’s not that complicated and that I had been using it for years without knowing it.

Oct 3, 2016 • Richard Siddaway

Announcements

Call for topics – Summit closed but European conference open

The deadline for the submission of proposals for the 2017 has passed. We are NOT taking any new submissions. if you’ve been in communication regarding a submission thats fine its still under consideration and I’ll be in touch. On the positive side the call for speakers for the European PowerShell conference has opened - http://www.powertheshell.com/psconfeu/

Sep 27, 2016 • Jaap Brasser

Events

Recap of DuPSUG PowerShell Saturday 2016

Last weekend we hosted our second PowerShell Saturday, this time the event was hosted by IPsoft in Amsterdam. During this event members of the Dutch PowerShell User Group gathered together to view a number of presentations and to engage in lively discussions on the various new developments in the PowerShell world. For more information about PowerShell Saturday, the Dutch PowerShell User Group or the slides and code used in the presentations please head over to the recap blog post here:

Sep 22, 2016 • Don Jones

Announcements

PowerShell Happenings at Ignite 2016

With Ignite fast-approaching, here’s what’s up - and this is intended to be a “community post,” meaning I’d love it if you could add your own PowerShell At Ignite notes in the comments, including sessions you’re looking forward to! On **Sunday evening, **while not officially a PowerShell event, a lot of PowerShell glitterati will be at The Krewe’s annual gathering from 8pm. On **Monday evening, **the Atlanta PowerShell User Group is kindly hosting a meet-and-greet with myself, Jeff Hicks, and Jason Helmick.

Sep 22, 2016 • Don Jones

Announcements

Changing of the Guard at PowerShell.org

It’s a bit of a sad day at The DevOps Collective, which is the nonprofit that runs PowerShell.org. One of our Board of Directors members, Dave Wyatt, will be stepping down from his Director position this week. He wants to focus on his personal life a bit more, although he’s still going to be responsible for our public Build Service, and he’s going to continue contributing to the Pester project, so the community isn’t losing him entirely.

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