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Will Anderson

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Summit 2020 – A New Addition

Last week at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit, we announced the dates for next year’s summit. The event will again be held at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington on April 27th to April 30th. DevOps + Automation Summit - Nashville We are also proud to announce that our flagship summit event would be getting a new addition to the family in the form of the DevOps + Automation Summit being held on October 21st to October 23rd, 2020 at the Renaissance Hotel in Downtown Nashville!

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Announcements PowerShell Summit
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Who's Your 2019 PowerShell Community Hero?

Today we’re opening nominations for the 2019 PowerShell Community Heroes! We want to know about those in the community that are doing a wealth of good. Have they written a fantastic script, or posted a blog series that has been exceptionally helpful? Are they doing a mad amount of pull requests in a module or in PowerShell Core? Here is your opportunity to make sure they get the recognition they deserve!

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PowerShell for Admins
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Summit Expansion – Seeking Feedback

Tickets for the 2019 PowerShell + DevOps Summit sold out faster this year than its predecessors by almost exactly a full month. We are all so very excited to see everyone this year at the Meydenbauer in Bellevue, Washington! But as we continue to outpace each year, we also understand that this means that the demand for the content we deliver at Summit is also growing . One of the early goals of the Summit was to keep the event relatively small to provide a more intimate feel.

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PowerShell for Admins
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PowerShell + DevOps Summit 2019 – Call for Speakers

The PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit 2019 will be returning to the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, WA from Monday, April 29 to Thursday, May 2, 2019. Since 2013, PowerShell and DevOps experts from around the world , will once again collaborate and learn how to maximize PowerShell in the workplace through fast-paced, knowledge-packed presentations. The Global Summit is the place for innovators to explore and further their knowledge of DevOps principles and practices in a Windows environment, make new connections, learn new techniques, and offer something to your peers and colleagues back at the office.

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PowerShell for Admins
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What You Missed This Week in PowerShell!

Blogs Keeping PowerShell Modules Up To Date by Thomas Lee on Saturday July 14th, 2018 Learn a simple technique for checking which of your modules from the PowerShell Gallery have an update. When TLS 1.2 Breaks Invoke-WebRequest by Lawrence Hwang on July 15th, 2018 In Windows PowerShell, there’s a limitation with Invoke-WebRequest and sites that only use TLS 1.2. This article covers a workaround for this problem. This issue is not present with Invoke-WebRequest in PowerShell Core.

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PowerShell for Admins
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What You Missed This Week in PowerShell!

This week we’re starting a new series of blog posts called (obviously) ‘What You Missed This Week in PowerShell!’. Our team of volunteers is scouring the web to find interesting articles, and forum posts related to our favourite topic! In the meantime, I want to give a ’thank you’ to everyone that pulled together to make this possible. Many thanks to Greg Tate, Evgeny Fedorov, Patrick Singletary, Brett Bunker, Mark Roloff, and Robin Dadswell for your hard work on getting this started!

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PowerShell for Admins
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Using Azure Desired State Configuration – Part IV

So we’ve talked about Azure Automation DSC and the extensive reporting we can get from it. With the pricing as it is, it would be hard to argue as to why you would want to use anything else. But I’m a completionist, and there may be some edge cases that might come up where you wouldn’t be able to use the pull method for configurations. So let’s talk about how you can use Azure DSC to push a configuration to a virtual machine.

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PowerShell for Admins
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Using Azure Desired State Configuration – Part III

Last week we talked about modifying and uploading our configurations to Azure Automation DSC. We were able to import credentials from Azure’s Automation Account Credential store, and then compile the .mof files in the automation account for deployment. This week, we’ll be looking at how we apply those configurations to existing systems via PowerShell. Then we’ll take a look at some of the reporting available via Azure Automation DSC and send those reports over to Operations Management Suite for dashboarding.

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PowerShell for Admins
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Using Azure Desired State Configuration – Part II

Today we’re going to be talking about adding configurations to your Azure Automation Account. In this article, we’ll be discussing special considerations that we need to take into account when uploading our configurations. Then we’ll talk about compiling the configurations into Managed Object Format (.mof) files, which we’ll be able to use to assign to our systems. Things to Consider When building configurations for Azure DSC (or anything where we are pulling pre-created .

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PowerShell for Admins
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Using Azure Desired State Configuration – Part I

I’ve been wanting to do this series for a while, and with some of the recent changes in Azure Automation DSC, I feel like we can now do a truly complete series. So let’s get started! Compliance is hard as it is. And as companies start moving more workloads into the cloud, they struggle with compliance even more so. Many organizations are moving to Infrastructure-as-a-Service for a multitude of reasons (both good and bad).

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PowerShell for Admins