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Congratulations to Andrew Pla, winner of our PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2018 scholarship. Andrew submitted a stellar application to our review panel, and perfectly fit our profile for someone who’s just peeking out of the “beginner” realm, and who’s demonstrably used PowerShell to help …
Registration for the 2018 PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit is open. These are the important links you’ll need: Summit information Registration Agenda
Yesterday I pushed my first real project to a public repository on GitHub. It’s small right now though I hope to flesh it out over time, and it is very niche, but I hope it helps others who come across it. Regardless I’m proud of it. If you like, you can check it out here, I’d love …
The schedule for the 2018 Summit still needs a little bit of polishing to finish it but it’s taking shape. I’ve started releasing information on sched.com that we’re using for all our scheduling needs for the Summit. The one and only truth regarding the sessions and their times can …
So we’ve talked about Azure Automation DSC and the extensive reporting we can get from it. With the pricing as it is, it would be hard to argue as to why you would want to use anything else. But I’m a completionist, and there may be some edge cases that might come up where you …
Last week we talked about modifying and uploading our configurations to Azure Automation DSC. We were able to import credentials from Azure’s Automation Account Credential store, and then compile the .mof files in the automation account for deployment. This week, we’ll be looking at how …
The call for topics is closing 1 October at 23:59 GMT. We’ve had a fantastic set of submissions. Creating an agenda for the 2018 Summit is going to be very difficult because we’ve had so many fantastic sessions submitted and I don’t have enough slots to take them all. The call for topics is hosted …
Today we’re going to be talking about adding configurations to your Azure Automation Account. In this article, we’ll be discussing special considerations that we need to take into account when uploading our configurations. Then we’ll talk about compiling the configurations into …
I’ve been wanting to do this series for a while, and with some of the recent changes in Azure Automation DSC, I feel like we can now do a truly complete series. So let’s get started! Compliance is hard as it is. And as companies start moving more workloads into the cloud, they struggle …
Microsoft recently published a “Future of DSC” post that I thought deserved some independent commentary.
