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PowerShell & DevOps Global Summit 2017 agenda
The agenda for next year’s Summit is almost complete - we’ve notified all speakers as to whether their sessions have been accepted or not. If you haven’t received your notification please check your spam/junk mail. We have a small number of sessions yet to publish - mainly around …
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Re-Subscribe to New Forums Topic Notifications
Hello, PowerShellers! During our migration and some of the inevitable database resets involved, many of you who were receiving notifications for new forums topics no longer are. You’ll need to re-subscribe. To do so, simply visit the Forums page, click through to the forum(s) of your choice, …
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msorens
PowerShell for AdminsPitfalls of the Pipeline
Pipelining is an important concept in PowerShell. Though the idea did not originate with PowerShell (you can find it used decades earlier in Unix, for example), PowerShell does provide the unique advantage of being able to pipeline not just text, but first-class .NET objects. Pipelining has several …
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PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2017: Session Acceptance
We’re in the process of emailing speaker invitations to those whose sessions were accepted for the 2017 agenda. **Please check your email and promptly follow the instructions to complete registration. ** In the event that a speaker is unable to confirm their invitation in time, we will move on …
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Be an Azure Consultant for PowerShell.org!
So, after our nearly-2-day outage, which was due to a still-not-fully-explained Apache fail, we’re looking to make some changes. We need to migrate PowerShell.org to a different Azure subscription anyway, so this is a good time to change the kind of service we’re using. First, using …
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Apologies for the delay
Due to unforeseen circumstances we’re a bit late getting out notifications of the sessions accepted for the 2017 Summit. Apologies to everyone who submitted sessions. We hope to have the notifications out in the next few days
PowerShell for Admins
No "Easy" Button for Configuration Management
A discussion in one of my Slack channels caught my eye today around someone’s reflections in a github repo regarding DSC. The posted comment that introduced the link was titled “DSC from a newbie perspective”, and I thought “Oh? I’m a newbie too, I wonder if we’re thinking the same things.” A little …
PowerShell for Admins
DSC ConfigurationData Blocks in a World of Cattle
As you may know, Jeffrey Snover and I have, for some time, been on a “servers are cattle, not pets” kick. Meaning, servers shouldn’t be special, individualized snowflakes. They should be, in many regards, appliances. One dies, you eat it and make another. They don’t have …
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Duffney
PowerShell for AdminsA Practical Guide for Using Regex in PowerShell
Regular Expressions is often referred to as wizardry or magic and for that reason I stayed away from it for most of my career. I used it only when I had to and most of the time just reused examples that I found online. There’s nothing wrong with that of course, but I never took the time to …