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Dec 3, 2015 • David Wilson

Announcements

Join us for the PowerShell Editor Services Hack Week, Dec 6-13!

Do you wish your favorite editor had better PowerShell editing support? Do you have a great idea for a new feature for the PowerShell extension in Visual Studio Code? We’re dedicating next week, December 6th through 13th (Sunday through next Sunday), to hacking together on new features to enable better PowerShell support in any editor! Here’s the plan: On Sunday, December 6th at 11AM-12PM PST (7-8PM GMT) I’ll host a Crowdcast event to give an overview of PowerShell Editor Services, the PowerShell extension for VS Code, and other general ideas for contributions that people can make.

Nov 30, 2015 • Adam Bertram

Announcements

The Popular Week of PowerShell Blogging is back! #PSBlogWeek

Back by popular demand is the week-long coordination of blog posts on a single PowerShell topic known as #PSBlogWeek! This week, 5 hand-picked bloggers will be writing informative content around the topic of logging. The daily schedule for this week is as follows: Monday (Jason Wasser @wasserja) - Building Readable Text Log Files Tuesay (Thom Schumacher @driberif) - Slicing and Dicing Text Log Files Wednesday (Jaap Brasser @jaap_brasser) - PowerShell Logging in the Windows Event Log

Nov 24, 2015 • Steve Parankewich

PowerShell for Admins

Keeping Windows PowerShell Help Up To Date

After a two week hiatus I am back this week with a quick write up on how to automate the updating of PowerShell help. Update-Help should be one of the first things typed in PowerShell on a new workstation build. I jump into the topic and demonstrate how to automate the updating of the help files from the Internet or from a local network share. You can view the full article over at PowerShellBlogger.

Nov 19, 2015 • Stephen Owen

Atlanta PowerShell User's Group Meeting – December 8th with June Blender

UPDATE: The new venue will not be ready until next months’ meeting, so please meet us instead at the Microsoft office in Alpharetta, Microsoft Corporation 1125 Sanctuary Pkwy Ste 300, Alpharetta Join us on Tuesday, December 8th when June Blender will be giving a talk on PowerShell Events! This will be in our brand-new venue and meeting place, Microsoft’s new Innovation Center, in the famous Atlanta Flat Iron building. Wear your Santa hats for a special door prize!

Nov 18, 2015 • John Mello

Philadelphia PowerShell User Group Meeting – December 3rd 2015 with Adam Bertram

Join us on Thursday, December 3rd when Adam Bertram will be giving a talk called a “Top 10 PowerShell mistakes " About Adam Bertram Adam Bertram is an independent consultant, technical writer, trainer and presenter. Adam specializes in consulting and evangelizing all things IT automation mainly focused around Windows PowerShell. Adam is a Microsoft Windows PowerShell MVP, 2015 powershell.org PowerShell hero and has numerous Microsoft IT pro certifications. He authors IT pro course content for Pluralsight, is a regular contributor to numerous print and online publications and presents at various user groups and conferences.

Nov 14, 2015 • Richard Siddaway

PowerShell Summit

PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2016 – the agenda

We’ve finalised the agenda and we’re starting to publish session information on the web site at https://eventloom.com/event/login/PSNA16 There are a handful of sessions on the site at present. The rest will be added over the next week or so. Keep checking back to see who’s been added. Registration opens 1 December 2015

Nov 13, 2015 • Don Jones

Announcements

PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2016 Info

Here’s everything that’s fit to print regarding Summit 2016, running April 3-4-5-6 in Bellevue, WA! You can also download: Brochure-PowerShell and DevOps Summit 2016 to share with your boss and team. Registration Registration for Summit will open December 1, 2015, and run through March 1, 2016. Visit the registration website for more details. Registration will be limited to about 200 attendees. Initially, we will only offer registration for a 4-day event, which includes full-day pre-conference sessions on April 3rd, 2016.

Nov 7, 2015 • Don Jones

Scripting Games

2015-November Scripting Games Puzzle

Our November 2015 puzzle comes from PowerShell.org user [Tim Curwick][1], who created the puzzle based on a challenge he ran across at work. There’s nothing more real-world than this!

Nov 1, 2015 • Richard Siddaway

Announcements

Summit 2016 – Call for topics is closed

The Call for Topics for the 2016 Summit is now closed. We’ve had an amazing number of top quality submissions. We’d like to thank everyone who took the time to submit a proposal for a session at the Summit. We’ll be working through the submissions over the next few days as we put the agenda together for what looks to be a superb Summit. We’ll publish the schedule as soon as we can.

Oct 30, 2015 • Steve Parankewich

PowerShell for Admins

Join Computer to Domain with Specified Computer Name and OU

I addressed a reader requested script for my article this week. PowerShell gives you the ability to add computers to Active Directory right from the command line with the built in PowerShell commandlets. This was introduced with PowerShell version 3 and can be used to automate imaging processes or to prompt an agent for the desired computer name and organizational unit. This is useful since a lot of organizations will use specific OUs for computers according to location or department.

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