I’m stupid-excited about PowerShell Cruise. Did you know you can register now for just $500, which is fully refundable up to a point? And that doing so NOW gets you awesome amenities like free Internet minutes or liquor packages? Did you know I’m speaking? Did you…
Wait. You probably have a ton of questions, especially if you’ve never cruised. So on Wednesday July 29, at 4pm Pacific, get your answers. Go to https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4206318439550861826 to register for a webinar. I’ll host, and I’ll be joined by the event organizers, as well as the travel agency that’s handling the bookings. There’s literally no PowerShell Cruise question these brave souls can’t answer.
Part of building a functional test lab is being able to deal with cattle and not pets. With that in mode I’m writing a series about the script necessary to build a production like lab for testing DSC, and be able to to tear it down and rebuild it with little effort.
Part 1 is about bootstrapping DSC for the Root CA. and doing so without using plaintext passwords.
I would welcome some feedback on both my methods and writing style.
Jeffrey Langdon, Doug Finke, and untold others are putting together PoshCruise, a PowerShell Cruise Conference. I wanted to make sure everyone knew about it, because it (A) stands to be a lot of run, and (B) offers some special pricing through this month.
The “conference” itself is free - you just have to pay for your cruise. There’ll be presentations (I’m guessing mainly on the “at sea” days of the 7-day trip, although personally I’ve rented a beach cabana on Great Stirrup Cay and will hold forth on technical topics over tropical cocktails).
Join us on Thursday, August 6th when June Blender will be conducting a hands on lab (in person!) called Working with Classes in PowerShell 5.0. To participate in the lab, bring a laptop (or VM) with PowerShell 5.0, but it’s not required! After that, we will review the results of the
July Scripting games puzzle
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About June
June Blender is a technology evangelist for SAPIEN Technologies, Inc.
Formerly a Senior Programming Writer at Microsoft Corporation, she is best known for her work with the Windows PowerShell product team from 2006-2012. developing the help system and writing the Get-Help help topics for PowerShell 1.0 – 3.0. In other roles, June wrote content for the Azure Active Directory SDK and Azure PowerShell Help, Windows Driver Kits, Windows Support Tools, and Windows Resource Kits.
She lives in magnificent Escalante, Utah, where she works remotely when she’s not out hiking, canyoneering, taking Coursera classes, or convincing lost tourists to try Windows PowerShell.
She is a Windows PowerShell MVP, a PowerShell Hero, an Honorary Scripting Guy, and a frequent contributor to PowerShell.org. Contact her at [
We have an exciting line-up for the July Powershell User-Group meeting.
Powershell MVP, Tome Tanasovski will be presenting a beginner’s track on Powershell covering File Management, and Date/Time manipulations.
We also have Powershell MVP Doug Finke, who will be covering Pester.
AGENDA:
Tome Tanasovski:
File management
- Managing paths
- Reading data from a file
- Finding strings in a collection of files
- XML and CSV file manipulation
- Exporting data to an HTML page
Handling dates and time
Join us virtually on Tuesday, July 14th at 8:30pm Central Time when PowerShell MVP Sean Kearney will present “Introduction to Windows PowerShell”.
Windows PowerShell is not a difficult system to work with however sometimes, like with anything in life, you stare at it and say “Where do I even start?”. In this session we will do a very simple overview of Windows PowerShell and what it is and how to make it useful at very simple level. It comes directly from a person who had Zero time to learn about any technology in his first IT Job, Windows PowerShell MVP, Sean Kearney. You might not master PowerShell after this session, but you certainly should be a little more comfortable to open up the door and play afterwards.
Have you ever needed to communicate between scripts, perhaps running on different servers and in different languages? Did you use a non-standard “messaging” solution like the file system or a SQL database? Did you try to avoid this and squeeze everything into a monolithic, delicate script?
RabbitMQ is a solid messaging solution that happens to have a handy REST API and .NET client, which means we can use PowerShell!
Wrote a quick hit on setting up a simple RabbitMQ deployment and using PowerShell to manage the solution and send and receive messages. Thanks go to Mariusz Wojcik and Chris Duck for writing and sharing the PowerShell modules that were tweaked for this article.
Our July 2015 puzzler is designed to make you really think about the PowerShell parser. Normally, you can more or less ignore the parser, because if you’re typing best-practice, long-form code (no aliases, spell out parameter names, etc), the parser deals really well with everything. But knowing how the parser works is useful, because when you get into tricky syntax, the parser can be harder to work with. So we’re going to test the limits of the parser’s patience - and your skills!
PowerShell.org was never meant to be a small group of people doing good - it was meant to be a place where all of us can do good for each other. And that’s why **everyone is invited to blog here. **
Yup, even you.
If you’d like blogging permissions added to your account, just e-mail webmaster@ with your site username, and we’ll make it so. Now, I do realize that a lot of folks would much rather blog in their own space, and that’s totally, 100% cool. But, if you’d like to blog here, we only have a few rules.
