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• pscookiemonster
PowerShell for Admins

Survey Results: Source Control for the IT Professional

First off - thank you to everyone who participated in the version control survey! We’ve had a fun few weeks - Somehow the PowerShell Summit, Build, and Ignite were scheduled back-to-back-to-back. Among a host of other announcements and tidbits, we found that Microsoft has open sourced the DSC resources on GitHub, that Pester will be included in Windows, and saw a cool demonstration from Steven Murawski on using Test Kitchen to test DSC resources.

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• Don Jones
PowerShell Summit

What's it Like at PowerShell Summit?

Ever wonder what it’s like to attend PowerShell Summit? Attendee Tommy Maynard blogged about his entire experience - including the build-up anticipation prior to the event - and it’s a great set of reads. Check it out.

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• Mike F Robbins

Mississippi PowerShell User Group Virtual Meeting – May 12th 2015

Join us virtually on Tuesday, May 12th at 8:30pm Central Time when PowerShell MVP Kirk Munro will present “A peek inside the Poshoholic’s toolbelt”. It’s easy to get excited about all of the new technologies that are being talked about these days. PowerShell 5. Windows 10. Nano server. .NET Core. But none of these technologies have been released yet, and even when they are released, it will be some time before we can fully adopt them in our organizations.

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• pscookiemonster
PowerShell for Admins

Survey: Source Control for the IT Professional [Results in]

Edit: The results are in. I was watching Don and Jeffrey’s PowerShell Unplugged session from Ignite the other day, and something stood out. At 30 minutes in, Don asked the crowd whether they were using source control. Based on the video, the crowd wasn’t big on source control. I work in IT. If I asked that same question at work, I would likely get a similar response. Why is that? Source control is incredibly important and can drive a number of other processes, yet it seems to be an afterthought for many IT professionals.

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• Sunny Chakraborty

NYC User Group Restart!

After a long hiatus, NYC Powershell User-group is back. Tome and Sunny will be presenting 2 sessions This is the inaugural series of Tome’s 1-year residency on Powershell Concepts (Beginner to Advanced) Tome Tanasovski: Concept of Objects Object Characterization Everything is an object Sorting, Grouping, Counting Where-Object and ForEach Language Fundamentals Operators, Variables. Arrays and Hashtables Loop structures Conditional Structures Useful rules to know. Tome is an executive for a market-leading global financial services firm in New York City where he focuses on automation, private cloud, and distributed computing.

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• David Jones
PowerShell for Admins

Setting up the PowerShell.org DSC tools from Github

I have created a short blog series about how to setup the DSC tooling from the PowerShell.org DSC repository. With the mindset of contributing changes. Test-HomeLab -InputObject ‘The Plan’ Get-Posh-Git | Test-Lab Get-DSCFramework | Test-Lab Invoke-DscBuild | Test-Lab Test-Lab | Update-GitHub -David Jones

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• pscookiemonster
PowerShell for Admins

Dealing with the Click-Next-Admin

I had a good deal of yard work to do this weekend; I see yard work in a similar way that a click-next-admin sees Windows PowerShell. I want no part in it. So I wrote a quick bit on how we can deal with the click-next-admin. Jeffrey Snover recently gave a TechDays Online session where he candidly asked us to “make today the last day you hire a click next admin.

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• Don Jones
PowerShell for Admins

Why is Remoting Enabled by Default on Windows Server?

There was a brief and lively discussion on Twitter recently stemming from someone asking for advice on how to convince management to turn on Remoting.
“Fire Management, if they have to ask” was apparently not an option, although it should have been. I mean, at this stage, you either know the value of PowerShell and its Remoting technology, or you’re being willfully ignorant.
But that wasn’t where the discussion got lively.

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• Will Anderson

PowerShellTO's Next Meeting – May 6th, 2015

Join us on Wednesday, May 6th for our second Toronto PowerShell User’s Group meeting.  This time you get to take the wheel!  Send us some of your PowerShell related challenges and we’ll pick the top ones to work out in a group together!  We’ll also be talking about some of the things learned at PowerShell Summit – North America, and more!

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