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Re-Subscribe to New Forums Topic Notifications

Hello, PowerShellers! During our migration and some of the inevitable database resets involved, many of you who were receiving notifications for new forums topics no longer are. You’ll need to re-subscribe. To do so, simply visit the Forums page, click through to the forum(s) of your choice, and poke the “Subscribe” link that’s towards the upper-left-ish of the page. If all you see is an “Unsubscribe” link, then you’re already good to go.

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Announcements
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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.

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PowerShell Summit
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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.

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Announcements
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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.

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PowerShell for Admins
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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.

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Announcements
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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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Announcements
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PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2017 Preview

As a quick reminder, our Call for Topics is still open for a few more days! Summ. Summit is very much intended to be a kind of mega-user group, not a “conference,” so don’t assume all the “professional” speakers have taken up all the speaking slots. We want you to participate! In the meantime, while we’re waiting on the content committee to select topics and before registration opens in early November, I wanted to offer a peek at what we’re planning.

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PowerShell for Admins
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Nearing Last Call for PowerShell Summit Topic Proposals (+ Topic Ideas!)

Remember that our Call for Topics is still open until the end of September, if you’d like to submit. And, from our Summit Alumni Slack channel, here are a few things people said they’d like to see… I would love to see a session on what it takes to build a PKI infrastructure in support of PowerShell operations ( stuff liked passing creds with DSC ) - this is something glossed over all the time as if it is not a big deal but I think it can be quite challenging for a lot of people to implement.

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PowerShell for Admins
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Here's Another Reason to Contribute

Jason Helmick and I were talking last night, and we got onto the topic of expertise and respect. Kind of, “once someone really gets to that expert level, and they surpass their teacher in knowledge, you really respect them.” I disagreed, and said, “no, I respect them the minute they start contributing to the world, and helping others.” We all, at some stage, get “outsider syndrome,” where we think everyone else is so much smarter than us, that we’ve nothing of value to contribute.

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PowerShell for Admins