Configuration IDs - Globally Unique Identifiers, or GUIDs, that DSC nodes use to identify themselves to a pull server - have always been a limiting factor in DSC design and architecture. In the April 2015 preview of WMF5, however, Microsoft has completely overhauled Configuration IDs. If …
If you use F5’s BIG‑IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) for load-balancing, then you may find the new PS module I’ve written helpful. The module uses the REST API in ver. 11.6 of the LTM to query and manipulate an F5 LTM device. You can add and remove members from a pool, enable and disable …
Listen: In This Episode Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Warren Frame Interview Warren’s blog Invoke-Parallel PoshRSJob http://ramblingcookiemonster.github.io/GitHub-For-PowerShell-Projects/#continuous-integration SQLite and PowerShell Chatroom Highlights …
I posted Part 2 of using PowerShell to create small footprint VHDX that are fully patched. Patching and Cleanup via PowerShell
I’m starting a new blog series on using PowerShell to create small footprint VHDX that are fully patched.
First off - thank you to everyone who participated in the version control survey! We’ve had a fun few weeks - Somehow the PowerShell Summit, Build, and Ignite were scheduled back-to-back-to-back. Among a host of other announcements and tidbits, we found that Microsoft has open sourced the DSC …
Edit: The results are in. I was watching Don and Jeffrey’s PowerShell Unplugged session from Ignite the other day, and something stood out. At 30 minutes in, Don asked the crowd whether they were using source control. Based on the video, the crowd wasn’t big on source control. I work in …
I have created a short blog series about how to setup the DSC tooling from the PowerShell.org DSC repository. With the mindset of contributing changes. Test-HomeLab -InputObject ‘The Plan’ Get-Posh-Git | Test-Lab Get-DSCFramework | Test-Lab Invoke-DscBuild | Test-Lab Test-Lab | Update-GitHub -David …
I had a good deal of yard work to do this weekend; I see yard work in a similar way that a click-next-admin sees Windows PowerShell. I want no part in it. So I wrote a quick bit on how we can deal with the click-next-admin. Jeffrey Snover recently gave a TechDays Online session where he candidly …
There was a brief and lively discussion on Twitter recently stemming from someone asking for advice on how to convince management to turn on Remoting. “Fire Management, if they have to ask” was apparently not an option, although it should have been. I mean, at this stage, you either know …
