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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 …
Long has it been known how to easily document your PowerShell source code simply by embedding properly formatted documentation comments right along side your code, making maintenance relatively painless… But if you advanced to writing your PowerShell cmdlets in C#, you have largely been on …
I love working in AD (Active Directory) with PowerShell. I find that I have had to really dig in to learn some of the syntax nuances that you need to understand to really mine data and change configurations within Active Directory. This puzzle reflects the kind of situation that people have to deal …
We’ve uploaded the results of the Verified Effective: PowerShell Toolmaker exam, which was administered at the recent PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2016. Note that this exam has, for a couple of years now, been available only as an on-site, in-person, proctored experience - we do not offer …
Trying to get your code to look good when reading it later can be tricky For line breaks in function scripts, there are two out-of-the-box options: First, you can break a line after the pipe key, which is an elegant and easy-to-read approach. Second, you can arbitrarily break a line with a back tick …
A couple of weeks ago, DevOps Collective (PowerShell.org’s parent non-profit organization) announced the availability of the ‘GetGoing’ IT Ops Education Program and Scholarship. For those of you who may not have yet heard, DevOps Collective and Pluralsight have partnered together …
Here is the long awaited post of my third installment of where I revisit my script and provide some explanation as to why I did the things I did in regards to synchronizing Active directory groups. As always feedback is welcome. Link is here
