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I’ve listened to a few of my Windows-friendly compatriots attempting to explain PowerShell to their Linux colleagues, and it hasn’t always gone well. The problem, I think, is that a lot of Windows folks don’t actually know why PowerShell exists in the first place. Let me explain.
You can certainly find a number of articles around that present PowerShell pitfalls that can easily trip you up if you are not careful. I took a different approach in my three-part series, A Plethora of PowerShell Pitfalls. The first two parts are presented in quiz format, together covering the top …
I had a wonderful conversation with some team members around Windows Containers generally, and they had some very cool analogies that I don’t think have been publicized enough. There’s some good technical detail, too, which I think is worth understanding as we move into this brave new …
Registration for the 2017 PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit is now open. Click on Summit and follow the links to register
The agenda for next year’s Summit is almost complete - we’ve notified all speakers as to whether their sessions have been accepted or not. If you haven’t received your notification please check your spam/junk mail. We have a small number of sessions yet to publish - mainly around …
Hello, PowerShellers! During our migration and some of the inevitable database resets involved, many of you who were receiving notifications for new forums topics no longer are. You’ll need to re-subscribe. To do so, simply visit the Forums page, click through to the forum(s) of your choice, …
Pipelining is an important concept in PowerShell. Though the idea did not originate with PowerShell (you can find it used decades earlier in Unix, for example), PowerShell does provide the unique advantage of being able to pipeline not just text, but first-class .NET objects. Pipelining has several …
We’re in the process of emailing speaker invitations to those whose sessions were accepted for the 2017 agenda. **Please check your email and promptly follow the instructions to complete registration. ** In the event that a speaker is unable to confirm their invitation in time, we will move on …
So, after our nearly-2-day outage, which was due to a still-not-fully-explained Apache fail, we’re looking to make some changes. We need to migrate PowerShell.org to a different Azure subscription anyway, so this is a good time to change the kind of service we’re using. First, using …
Due to unforeseen circumstances we’re a bit late getting out notifications of the sessions accepted for the 2017 Summit. Apologies to everyone who submitted sessions. We hope to have the notifications out in the next few days
