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Nathaniel Webb (ArtisanByteCrafter)
PowerShell for Admins

Quick ProTip: Negotiate TLS Connections In Powershell With A Minimum TLS Version Requirement

Synopsis This is a quick post to highlight the nuances of Powershell and protocol management in regard to TLS connections. If you’ve ever attempted to make a secure connection (for example, an API request) to a service with certain net security requirements, you might have run into this problem. While TLS is negotiated at the highest level existing on both the server and the client, the minimum protocols defined by Powershell may include ones that you explicitly do not want.

Don Jones
PowerShell for Admins

A Farewell, and a Bunch of Hellos

As many of you know, The DevOps Collective recently concluded its 7th US event, PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2019 in Bellevue, WA. Head to the organization’s YouTube page for the breakout session recordings, which are live. I mentioned going into it that this Summit would be bittersweet for me, as it’s the last one I’ll be directly involved with. My career’s simply taking me in a new direction, and it’s much less connected to the day-to-day of technology and more connected with business leadership and strategy.

Nathaniel Webb (ArtisanByteCrafter)
PowerShell for Admins

Universal Dashboard Templates – Scaffolding a New UD Project with Powershell

All code from this article is freely available on Github as a template repository. Just click “Use this template” on the repository page here: https://github.com/ArtisanByteCrafter/ud-template Index What are the advantages of project scaffolding How does ud-template work The Why Why should you consider scaffolding a new project? While we’re here, what exactly is scaffolding? Much like the term’s origin a project scaffold is meant to build a consistent framework and design that you can use to build your projects with.