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Putting on an event like the PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit involves a lot of planning. We started the planning process for the 2017 Summit BEFORE the 2016 Summit started! We have to work so far in advance that we’re taking guesses at the topics that will be of high interest next April – …
Having a platform that enables ChatOps can be a game changer. You can quickly see changes, alerts, build status, discussions, emergency chats, and more, all in a single, searchable interface. If you can sift through the gifs. Bots are a hot topic these days, and and it’s well worth checking …
By the time you are using PowerShell to automate an increasing amount of your system administration, database maintenance, or application-lifecycle work, you will likely come to the realization that PowerShell is indeed a first-class programming language and, as such, you need to treat it as such. …
This is a follow up to Jacob Moran’s article Keeping it simple - Line breaks in PowerShell. I am strongly in the pro backtick camp, but I won’t get into that debate here. Instead, I’ll cover more of the common ground between the two camps. In addition to after a pipe, there are …
Hello fellow PowerShell enthusiasts. I have been missing for a few months with a new child that has occupied most of my extra time! I look forward to get back in the blogging gear soon. I just wanted to send out a note that we are hosting our first kick off meeting for the Boston PowerShell User …
Having an understanding of your systems performance is a crucial part of running IT infrastructure. If a user comes to us and says “why is my application running slowly?”, where do we start? Is it their machine? Is it the database server? Is it the file server? The first thing we usually …
In the past few weeks there has been a flurry of activity in the DuPSUG organization. We have been working on organizing the first PowerShell Saturday in the Netherlands and we recently also opened our doors on Slack, with our DuPSUG slack initiative. On Slack we will provide a platform on which we …
After dealing with numerous problems from PenFlip (where our free ebooks are currently located), we’ve decided to try two new hosting providers: GitBook and LeanPub. Both of these are, or can be, based on Git/GitHub, which means the Markdown text of the book will always be open-sourced and …
Join the Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtually on Tuesday, May 10th 2016 at 8:30pm Central Time when Microsoft MVP Steven Murawski will be presenting “Acceptance Testing Desired State Configuration with Test-Kitchen”. DSC is awesome, but only if the resources and configurations do …
OK, we finally have a huge batch of PowerShell.org and DevOpsCollective.org laptop stickers! These are great, heavy-duty, removable stickers for laptop and every day use. Here’s how you can get yours - follow these instructions carefully! United States First, this offer is only valid until …
