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PhillyPoSH 09/04/2014 meeting summary and presentation materials

Jan Egil Ring gave a presentation entitled “Get Started with Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration”. During his talked Jan went over a series of demos explaining how to use the configuration keyword to define configurations for different resources along with the different configuration modes. A copy of his demo scripts and presentation are available here. A recording of this meeting has been posted to our YouTube channel

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Philadelphia Meeting – September 4th 2014

Join us Thursday, September 4th where Jan Egil RIng will be presenting a talk on Get Started with Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration Jan will explain how to use Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC), which was introduced in Windows PowerShell 4.0, to configure your environment. The purpose of DSC is to provide Deployment, Configuration and Compliance capabilities for Windows resources such as a files, services, roles and features, users, groups and anything that can be managed from PowerShell by using custom resources such as a script.

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PhillyPoSH 07/03/2014 meeting summary and presentation materials

Ferdinand G. Rios gave a presentation entitled “Building PowerShell GUI Tool Solutions" During his talked Ferdinand demonstrated how to use Sapien PowerShell Studio 2014 to easily build GUI applications on top of PowerShell, A recording of this meeting has been posted to our YouTube channel

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PhillyPoSH 06/05/2014 meeting summary and presentation materials

Jeff Hicks gave a presentation entitled “Getting Started with Desired State Configuration (DSC)”. During his talked Jeff gave an overview of DSC and walked through an example of a push mode configuration. A copy of his presentation materials are available here . A recording of this meeting has been posted to our YouTube channel

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PhillyPoSH 05/01/2014 meeting summary and presentation materials

Boe Prox gave a presentation entitled “Managing WSUS with Windows PowerShell”. During his talked Boe went over the various ways you can orchestrate WSUS using PowerShell. A copy of his presentation materials are available here. We then had a group discussion around: Lido Paglia and John Mello discussed their experiences and what they learned at the 2014 PowerShell Summit,, The differences between how Active Directory Users and Computers displays groups when compared to Get-Aduser in regards to primary group membership.

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PhillyPoSH 04/04/2014 meeting summary and presentation materials

Ashley McGlone gave a presentation entitled “Demystifying The PowerShell Scripting Process”. During his talked Ashley broke down the script creation process by starting with a task and working through the cmdlet discovery process to build a repeatable task into a script. A copy of his presentation materials are available on his blog We then had a group discussion around: DSC and how various group members are using/testing it WMF 5.

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PhillyPoSH 03/06/2014 meeting summary and presentation materials

Bartek Bielawski gave a presentation entitled “OMI : PowerShell Everywhere”. During his talk Bartek discussed and gave examples of how to CIM cmdlets and CDXML commands to manage everything in your datacenter. A copy of his presentation materials are available on our GitHub Repository. We then had a script club where various members presented scripts they were working on A recording of this meeting has been posted to our YouTube channel; please note that there are some audio issues near the end of the recording.

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PhillyPoSH 01/09/2014 meeting summary and presentation materials

Lido Paglia gave a presentation entitled “A PowerShell beginner’s guide to using GitHub”. During his talk Lido went over the history of GitHub and how you can use it to manage your scripts and to collaboratively code (e.g. The Winter Scripting games!). A copy of his presentation materials are available on our GitHub Repository. Lido Paglia and John Mello both went over their approach to the homework problem they presented during the 11/07/2013 meeting.

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PhillyPoSH 12/05/2013 meeting summary and presentation materials

Sunny Chakraborty gave an in-depth presentation on WMI Eventing using PowerShell. A copy of his presentation and scripts can be found here, and a recording of his presentation can be found on our YouTube channel. If you want to learn even more about WMI, Sunny recommends checking out Alain Lissoir’s webpage and downloading he WSH and VBS scripts hosted on his site for the two books he was written: “How to exploit the power of Microsoft’s WMI to create mission-critical computing infrastructures” and “Leveraging Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Scripting”

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