PowerShell

PDC Conf - Automation Showdown: Imperative vs Declarative PDC Conf - Automation Showdown: Imperative vs Declarative Aug 23, 2021 - 1 min read
Ignite - Ask the Experts: PowerShell Ignite is Microsoft’s annual conference. This year was the first time I had ever been able to attend, but I also had the pleasure to sit on an “Ask the Experts” panel. Sep 23, 2020 - 1 min read
vBrownBag - Python for PowerShellers The good folks at vBrownbag always have some really good series. The current series is around using Python and applying its usage to DevOps concepts and principles. I was asked to present one of the sessions and decided to cover a few tips and tricks for folks with an existing knowledge of PowerShell and how they can translate directly to Python usage. Aug 8, 2019 - 1 min read
PSConfEU - vSphere Security Compliance in a DevOps World PSConfEU is Europe’s largest PowerShell conference and this year I had the distinct pleasure of not only attending, but also presenting! It is 4 days of non-stop PowerShell knowledge bombs in just about every area you can think of and I had a blast! Jul 15, 2019 - 1 min read
PSConfEU - Manage vSphere with PowerCLI DSC Resources, Finally! PSConfEU is Europe’s largest PowerShell conference and this year I had the distinct pleasure of not only attending, but also presenting! It is 4 days of non-stop PowerShell knowledge bombs in just about every area you can think of and I had a blast! Jul 14, 2019 - 1 min read
PowerCLI - Accurately Sorting VMTool Versions Keeping a VM’s VMware Tools up-to-date is an important role to anyone whom administers a VMware environment. VMware Tools provide the latest and greatest drivers and provides easy access in order to interact with the underlying guest OS, like performing power options gracefully. Jun 12, 2019 - 2 min read
PowerCLI - Disk Space Utilization - .NET Object Referencing documentation is one of those things that seems overwhelming at first, but ends up becoming fundamental. I’m working on a series of posts where I take specific tasks and show how to refer to the documentation to accomplish the task. Feb 24, 2019 - 3 min read
PowerCLI - Disk Space Utilization - vSphere Object Referencing documentation is one of those things that seems overwhelming at first, but ends up becoming fundamental. I’m working on a series of posts where I take specific tasks and show how to refer to the documentation to accomplish the task. Feb 24, 2019 - 5 min read
PowerCLI - Documentation Overview Documentation is an important part of the automation and development process. When I first started using PowerCLI, I found the docs to be overwhelming and confusing. As my PowerCLI knowledge grew, I started to use them more and more. Feb 24, 2019 - 4 min read
PowerCLI - Datastore Cluster Migrations I found something interesting the other day, from someone that mentioned it to me, you can’t move a datastore cluster between folders in the UI! No worries, PowerCLI to the rescue! Feb 14, 2019 - 1 min read