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Mike Pfeiffer kicked off the afternoon talking about DSC in the AWS cloud.  Using DSC to bootstrap new machines and configuration scripts to complete configuration. This works in push mode but pull servers being experimented with.   Second session was Jim Truher, a founder member of the PowerShell team, talking about Testing Frameworks. Testing frameworks […]

No not a typo. We, at PowerShell.org, will be repeating the European Summit next year. Location hasn’t been finalised but will be Northern Europe.  The Summit will occur at about the same time of year.  Look to PowerShell.org later in the year for more information. We are hoping to be able to put on a […]

After a very successful DSC hackathon on Monday evening we reconvened on Tuesday morning with Steve Murawski delivering his second session on DSC. A brief discussion on devops lead into looking at DSC configurations: Configuration names can’t be hyphenated Circular dependencies are detected Partial named configurations allow multiple configurations working against same machine The morning’s […]

  Mike Pfeiffer started the Monday afternoon session with a demonstration of using PowerShell to manage Amazon Web Services.   Dan Harman, from the PowerShell team, followed with PowerShell Repositories Unleashed. Oneget is a software package manager Oneget has PowerShell cmdlets; a C# API and a WMI provider may follow. Originally released against a Chocolately […]

The Summit started with a walk through the Monad Manifesto by Jeffrey Snover. This covered the history of PowerShell, where it came from, why it came about and the features introduced with the subsequent versions.   A few highlights: DSC is a huge area and will expand ISE will be able to edit files on […]

The PowerShell Summit Europe 2014 began unofficially this eveing with an informal gathering for drinks and converstation – no prizes for guessing the main topic of conversation!!   One of the greatest things about these Summits is the ability to talk to other people about what they are doing with PowerShell and to discover new […]

The final agenda for the PowerShell Summit is available at http://eventmgr.azurewebsites.net/event/home/PSEU14   Circumstances beyond the control of PowerShell.org have meant we’ve had to make a few changes to the agenda from that previously published

A question on the forum asked about extracting the year from the ReleaseDate property returned by Win32_BIOS   They were trying to do this Get-CimInstance Win32_BIOS | Select-Object @{n="ReleaseDate";e={$_.ConvertToDateTime($_.ReleaseDate).year()}}   There are 2 problems with this approach – firstly the objects that Get-CimInstance produces don’t have the ConvertToDateTime method (its added by PowerShell to the […]

For my demo at the PowerShell Summit I wanted to use DHCP for the Linux machine but guarantee that it had a specific IP address.  Time to create a DHCP reservation   The DHCP module in Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 enables you to create a reservation: Add-DhcpServerv4Reservation -ScopeId 10.10.54.0 -IPAddress 10.10.54.2 -ClientId 00155D36C906 […]

With the first European PowerShell Summit rapidly approaching – 11 days and counting – I thought I’d give you a few ideas on how to get the maximum out of the Summit. First – ask questions – lots of questions.  The speakers are masters of their topics and if you need to drill deeper to […]