Blogs Using VSTS for Your Company’s Private PowerShell Library by Justin Rice on July 28th
Interested in sharing your collection of PowerShell tools for your team to use? First-time blogger Justin Rice walks you through publishing a PowerShell module to an internal PSRepository using VSTS.
Creating a Function or Script with PowerShell Dynamic Parameters By Aaron Guilmette on July 30th
Learn how to create parameters with validation data that you can tab-complete prior to runtime.
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.
One of my favorite events at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit is the community lightning demos. It’s a fun format:
For the audience:
Fast paced (max 10 minutes) Many speakers Topic or speaker not what you’re looking for? They’ll change in a few minutes Demos offer enough material to give you ideas and point out where to learn more Content is more likely to have a high signal-to-noise ratio given the time constraints For the speakers:
Blogs PowerShell Core Now Available as a Snap Package by The PowerShell Team on July 20th
Oh, Snap! Core’s support matrix on Linux grows broader with the inclusion of a Snap Package to the line-up. Check out the PS team’s blog for details on what this means and how you can try it out.
PowerShell Modules in Azure Functions by Axel Bøg Andersen on July 22nd
Hit a snag taking your modules to Azure Functions?
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.
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!
We recently re-launched all of our free ebooks at https://leanpub.com/u/devopscollective. These books have all been authored by a variety of people, myself included, and most were originally authors in Word. As we translated them into Markdown (which is what Leanpub uses for its source), a few snafus tend to come up here and there.
I have managed to clear the regulatory hurdles and our OnRamp Scholarship is now open to applicants from outside the US. We will update the application materials and web pages as soon as possible, but there’s no need to wait to submit an application.
There are two caveats:
first, the option to request a laptop as part of your application is not applicable to international applicants at this time.
Second, our airfare limit is $600 USD.
Back in… gosh, 2009, 2010 or so, an Arizona company named NetPro hosted PowerShell Deep Dive, part of their The Experts Conference event (the first was held in Las Vegas for just 50 people). After hosting two years (I think) though, NetPro was purchased by Quest Software, which moved to close down TEC. I may have those years slightly off, but that’s the general sequence.
In 2012, myself, Jeff Hicks, Richard Siddaway, Jason Helmick, and Kirk Munro had formed PowerShell.
And we’re back!
Ok, so in the last blog we began a conversation about delegates and using LINQ in PowerShell. In today’s post, I’m going to give an example of how it can be incredibly useful. Let’s talk about Joins.
Joins In my line of work, I’m constantly running into the need to combine datasets from multiple sources that relate to each other and pull out some specific properties. Say you have two internal services, one which is used to track production status and another which is used to monitor whether machines are online.