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So, I’ve gotten a two-VM version of PowerShell.org running in Azure. Yay, me! My *nix skills are unaccountably rusty (go fig), but it didn’t take too long. Restoring the WordPress installation was the toughest, as a number of settings had to be tweaked since the site is no longer under …
But I bet they’re okay with Remote Desktop Protocol, right? And all those Remote Procedure Calls? And I bet they never even thought about why every *nix _system, ever, _has SSH enabled by default? But practically nothing else (by default)? Hmm.
This was a fascinating thing to see throughout The Scripting Games this year: _When exactly should you use Write-Verbose, and why? _The same question applies to Write-Debug. “I use Write-Debug to provide developer-level comments in my scripts, since I can turn it on with -Debug to see variable …
I had no idea Azure gives MSDN subscribers a huge free monthly credit - $200 for the first month, and then on the Ultimate subscription level (which is what I get as an MVP) you get $175 per month thereafter. That starts to really justify the MSDN pricing. You want a lab in the cloud? Free Azure! …
When we started PowerShell.org, my company (Concentrated Tech) donated shared hosting space to get the site up and running. We knew it wouldn’t be a permanent solution, but it let us start out for free. We’re coming to the point where a move to dedicated hosting will be desirable, and …
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This weekend, we’ll be conducting maintenance on PowerShell.org. We have several goals: **New visual theme. **We’ll be installing a new visual theme. While we hope to catch everything, you may run across something goofy-looking. Please use the Community Discussion forum to report that, …
Spoke too soon in the morning’s updates; my designer buddies worked last night and took their first stab at the forums pages. They also changed their mind about the big black boxes, which I appreciate ;). The forums material is denser now, meaning more info per page, which should please some …
I wanted to share a quick update on PowerShell.org, Inc. First, a couple of Web designer friends of mine have volunteered to do a visual re-theme of the site. Below is some of their early work, and you’re welcome to comment; I’ll just remind you that they’re volunteers and doing …
In The Scripting Games this year, more than a few folks took the time to write detailed comment-based help. Awesome. No debating it - comment-based help _is a good thing. _ But some folks felt that others took it too far. There were definitely scripts where the authors used, for example, the .NOTES …
