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Sep 14, 2015 • Don Jones

PowerShell Summit

Call for Topics Extended: PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit 2016

In light of our recent announcement regarding the future of PowerShell Summit, we are extending the call for topics to the end of October, 2015. We invite speakers to re-visit their existing proposals and indicate the desired length of their session. For example, simply add “[45min]” to the session abstract if you feel your session is suitable for our traditional 45-minute time slot. Or, indicate an alternative of [90min] or [120min].

Sep 14, 2015 • Don Jones

PowerShell Summit

Future of PowerShell Summit in Europe and North America

As we kick off PowerShell Summit Europe 2015, I wanted to share some decisions we’ve made regarding the future of the event. When we first launched PowerShell Summit in 2013, our goal was to be the spiritual successor of the former “PowerShell Deep Dive” events held as part of Quest’s The Experts Conference (TEC) event. Dell’s acquisition of Quest eliminated TEC, and PowerShell.org worked with the PowerShell product team to create the Summit.

Sep 12, 2015 • Matt Laird

PowerShell for Admins

Find Stale Accounts in Active Directory

Find Stale Accounts in Active Directory Everyone who has managed Active Directory knows that keeping it free of “stale” accounts is a tough task. Typically no one cares about this until it’s time for the Microsoft True Up. Then we’ve got to hustle to get rid of all these unused accounts before we have to pay for them again! Pre-PowerShell it was tough because well… you didn’t have POWERSHELL! Now the hardest part about finding these accounts is defining what stale means to your company.

Sep 11, 2015 • Jonas Sommer Nielsen

PowerShell for Admins

Working with PowershellGallery

After my two first posts (Multithreading using jobs, List users logged on to your machines) where I mentioned PowershellGallery.com a few times and after Warren talked about the Gallery a few days ago I felt like digging a little deeper to see if I was actually doing it right. So I wrote them an email and this was their reply: ————————– “Hi Jonas – The “limited preview” designation on the PowerShell Gallery is because we are doing significant development to the site.

Sep 11, 2015 • Don Jones

PowerShell for Admins

DevOps: A Practical Example

If you look at DevOps as a means of removing hurdles between coders and users, there’s almost no better real-world, practical example than Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. If you’re not familiar with EBS, look into it - it’s kinda cool. EBS isn’t suitable for every situation, to be sure. It’s mainly useful for Linux VMs, running Web sites, in fact, which isn’t 100% of your workloads. But the idea is pretty awesome.

Sep 8, 2015 • Thomas Rayner, MVP

PowerShell for Admins

Where Are My FSMO Roles?

Hello, PowerShell people! I’ve never posted on PowerShell.org before and so I feel as though I owe you a quick introduction before we dive into the tip I’d like to share with you. My name is Thomas Rayner and I am a Microsoft MVP for Windows PowerShell. I’m also a systems administrator and degree program instructor. I volunteer a fair bit of time as the President of the Edmonton Microsoft User Group (EMUG).

Sep 8, 2015 • Matt Laird

PowerShell for Admins

Find Location of Locked Out Accounts

I’m Locked Out, Help! If you’ve been a sys admin for more than a week you’ve probably heard this…“I’m locked-out, help!”. Normally the user has made their way to your cube and is impatiently tapping their foot waiting for you to magically solve there problem. So you find their account, reset their password and everything is right with the world…Or is it? Two minutes later they show up again because their account was locked-out before they even got back to their desk.

Sep 6, 2015 • pscookiemonster

PowerShell for Admins

Writing and Publishing PowerShell Modules

Earlier in August we mentioned that modularity and abstraction are quite helpful. PowerShell modules can help enable these concepts. You might ask “Modules… why can’t I just write a function?” There are a number of benefits to bundling your functions into modules: Simplify code organization Group related functions together Share state between functions, but not with the user Re-use “helper functions” that you don’t want exposed to the user Improve discoverability: Find-Module MyModuleGet-Command -Module MyModule * Simplify distribution: Install-Module MyModule `Where does that last bullet come from?

Sep 5, 2015 • Don Jones

Scripting Games

20115-September Scripting Games Puzzle

Our September 2015 puzzle is another one-liner, to help get you out of Summer Mood and back into Work Mode. This time, it’s a pretty real-world scenario, designed to test your understanding of the pipeline and how data can be manipulated within it. You’ll need to really grasp pipeline parameter binding to make this work in the shortest command possible.

Sep 4, 2015 • Mike F Robbins

#MSPSUG Virtual Meeting: The Art of #PowerShell Runspaces – September 8th 2015

Join the Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtually on Tuesday, September 8th at 8:30pm Central Time when PowerShell MVP Boe Prox will present “The Art of PowerShell Runspaces”. PowerShell runspaces are a known but little documented area that can help to provide performance improvements in your scripts. Besides just using this for performance gains, you can use this to provide a snappier approach to building GUIs in PowerShell. This presentation will show you examples of using Runspaces, RunspacePools as well as utilizing shared variables that can be viewed and modified in multiple runspaces during runtime.

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