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• Eli Hess
PowerShell for Admins

Executing LINQ Queries in PowerShell – Part 1

Greetings PowerShellers! Lately, I’ve been itching to write something up on Microsoft’s Language-Integrated Query (LINQ). You’ve likely encountered it if you’ve done any development in C#. LINQ is an incredibly powerful querying tool for performing look-ups, joins, ordering, and other common tasks on large data sets. We have a few similar cmdlets built into PowerShell, but other than the ‘.Where()’ method on collection objects nothing that comes close to the speed at which LINQ operates.

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• pscookiemonster
PowerShell for Admins

2018 Community Lightning Demos

Rambling Last year’s PowerShell + Devops Global Summit was a roller coaster. On one hand, I spoke for the first time - it was terrifying. Getting up in front of a local user group had helped, but it’s not quite the same as a room full of PowerShell-ers, including MVPs and PowerShell team members - eek! On the other hand, I was lucky enough to host the Community Lightning Demos. We managed to give 22 folks the chance to get up in front of the PowerShell community and give a quick, low-pressure ~10 minute demo.

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• Don Jones
PowerShell for Admins

Help us Recognize Amazing PowerShell Contributors!

First: Please share this as widely as possible in your social media channels, so we can get the most number of suggestions possible!
We’re working with the PowerShell team at Microsoft to identify individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the PowerShell community. Perhaps they’ve written blog posts that really helped you conquer a PowerShell challenge, or maybe they’ve contributed code (on GitHub or elsewhere) that you rely on. Maybe they’re an amazing teacher, or perhaps they’re an awesome coder. Whatever their contribution, if it’s been notable and helpful to you, we’d like to hear from you.

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• Duffney
PowerShell for Admins

PowerShell Story Continued Becoming a Craftsman

My journey started off by figuring out how to automate a daily disk space report on the mailserver, which ran most of the company, and emailing the report to my boss at the time. After PowerShell sent that first email, something clicked. I sat back in my chair and thought to myself, “Wow, I don’t have to do this anymore”. I can still feel how exciting and relieving that thought was.

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• Don Jones
News

Can We Talk About PowerShell Core 6.0?

Microsoft recently announced the General Availability (that is, a non-beta release) of PowerShell Core 6.0. A companion document detailing breaking changes, along with some of the language in the announcement, has led to more than a few inquiries in my mailbox. Most take the tone of, “have I been wasting my time learning PowerShell?!?!?” because, at first glance, PowerShell Core looks deeply less functional than its predecessor. Let me tell you what I think.

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• Mark Wragg
Announcements

PSCore 6 – Jeffrey Snover and the PowerShell Team hosting AMA on 11th Jan 9am PT

PowerShell Core 6 is scheduled for General Availability release tomorrow (10th January). As such Jeffrey Snover and the PowerShell Team are hosting an AMA (Ask Me Anything) event on the 11th January from 9am - 10am PT. “This is going to be a historical week for PowerShell Core 6 🙂 …Join the PowerShell team and @jsnover{.twitter-atreply.pretty-link.js-nav} this Thursday for the PowerShell AMA” Add it to your calendar here. Due to the timing I expect that the team are mostly hoping for questions related to the release of PS Core, although in the spirit of an AMA anything goes :).

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• Alex Aymonier
PowerShell for Admins

Dealing with redundancy in an IT world

So you’re working for a company that’s going well (or not) and you start to hear rumours of parts of the business being sold off, the project you’re working on is being pulled or worse the business is closing down. Before you know it your x amount of years at said company have come to an end and you’re now redundant. The following Dilbert comic is a possible scenario you may have to deal with.

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• Don Jones
PowerShell for Admins

PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2018 Scholarship Recipient

Congratulations to Andrew Pla, winner of our PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2018 scholarship. Andrew submitted a stellar application to our review panel, and perfectly fit our profile for someone who’s just peeking out of the “beginner” realm, and who’s demonstrably used PowerShell to help bootstrap their IT career. If you’re attending Summit, be sure to keep an eye out for Andrew and say hi!

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• Liam Kemp
PowerShell for Admins

Putting it all out there

Yesterday I pushed my first real project to a public repository on GitHub. It’s small right now though I hope to flesh it out over time, and it is very niche, but I hope it helps others who come across it. Regardless I’m proud of it. If you like, you can check it out here, I’d love your feedback, but that’s not the reason I’m writing this. I’m here to tell you why I did it.

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