At the upcoming “IT Transformation” event in Orlando this month (still time left to register!), members of the PowerShell team will be leading a full-day workshop that’s pretty much a don’t-miss (and no, it isn’t being recorded). Here’s the schedule:
Time
Speaker
Title
09:00am-10:00am
Jeffrey Snover
Observations on Modern IT Practices and Organization Culture
10:00am-10:15am
break
10:15am-12:00pm
Michael Greene
The Release Pipeline Model
12:00pm-01:00pm
lunch
01:00pm-02:45pm
Michael Greene
Instructor Led Hands-On Lab: Constructing a pipeline for PowerShell Modules using Visual Studio Team Services.
03:00pm-04:00pm
Timothy Warner
Introduction to Azure Automation DSC
04:00pm-05:00pm
Jeffrey Snover
Closing thoughts and AMA
Personally, I’m super-excited. I’ll be presenting a full-day workshop myself (the day before), along with a couple of breakout sessions and a keynote with Jeffrey Snover. Hope to see you there!
We’re pleased to announce general availability of our PowerShell Saturday Booster Program, as announced at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2017. The goal of this program is to help enthusiasts build sustainable one-day, small-format technical events worldwide. We can provide organizing advice and assistance, help managing finances, and so on. Full details at https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/powershell-saturday/wiki.
Now that I’m recovered from the 2017 PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit, I just wanted to take a moment and talk about my experiences at the conference. It was my first time attending this conference and it was also my first time speaking. Both “firsts” contributed to a range of emotions throughout the long and exhausting week.
I came in to Seattle late Friday night and expected to go straight to the hotel and to bed. Being from Eastern Daylight Time makes for a long day and late night when your expected hotel arrival time is 10pm local time (or 1AM your time). However, PowerShell friends and community members, some of whom I knew from previous conferences and some of whom I was just meeting for the first time, greeted me. Some stayed up and waited for me to arrive – even with an already-closed hotel bar and many respective time zone differences. They greeted me with an overwhelming sense of community and friendship, and that was a defining moment that I’ll never forget. Even though I was exhausted, I found myself staying up for a couple more hours chatting with folks who were already there.
In a domain environment auto enrollment can be used to get create unique certificates for each node that can be used with DSC. The problem is getting the public cert to the machine that creates the DSC MOF files. I wrote a module last year to collect them directly form the Enterprise CA. If it interests you take a look https://blog.bladefirelight.com/nuggets/collecting-ca-certificates-for-dsc-configuration/
The DevOps Collective (the nonprofit that owns PowerShell.org) is organized into two main governing bodies. Our Directors - myself, Christopher Gannon, Jason Helmick, Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, and Will Anderson - run the organization on a day-to-day. On Board, which we’re now forming, consists of stakeholders who help advise us on directions, priorities, and so on. We want our Board to be diverse, and include representation from industry as well as community. This is a fairly convention nonprofit governance setup; you’ll find, for example, many Chambers of Commerce organized this way. “Community” has been the bit we’ve struggled with, and so we’ve decided to simply put it to the community to help come up with an answer. We’d like two “at-large” seats, filled by community members on a rotating (annual) basis. The responsibilities are not huge: mainly, we’ll have a virtual meeting once or twice a year to cover our current activities and discuss priorities. On an ongoing basis, the Board is also a way for outside concerns to have a voice within the organization. For our community seats, we want people who are actively engaged with the community on a daily basis. We want to know what’s happening out there with the people who actually use PowerShell, and who are participating in DevOps. We want to be aware of what’s going on in the OSS world, and where we, as an organization, might be able to assist. So if that’s you, reach out to me. Drop an email to DonJ (and the domain is listed right in the address bar of your browser right now). If you know of someone, please reach out to them and have them send me an email. I’d like to know a bit about you, how you’re present in the community on an ongoing basis, and some ideas you have for what The DevOps Collective should be focusing its time and funding on (especially educationally, as that’s our main mission). I look forward to hearing from you!
As announced at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2017, we’re preparing a “PowerShell Saturday Booster Program” to help launch and support local one-day events. Please visit https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/powershell-saturday/wiki to take a look at our draft materials, and use GitHub’s “Issues” feature to submit questions, suggestions for additional content, requests for clarification, and so on. We’ll continue to build this out, but want to make sure we’re doing so in a way that makes sense to the community. Thanks for your input! Our goal is to have this up and running by the end of June, 2017.
A quick note: We experienced some massive equipment failures this year, almost to the point where we were starting to seriously question our life choices. The end result is that we don’t have as many session recordings as we’d hoped. Jason will be going through what we do have over the next week, splicing together what we can, and posting it to the YouTube channel. We appreciate everyone’s patience and understanding.
PowerShell provides a tremendous boon to productivity for computer professionals of all types. But, you have to admit: it can be a bit daunting to get up to speed! Indeed, as someone who has a fair amount of experience using it, I still find myself having to look up how to do things–frequently. So I started keeping track of the recipes I was using the most. And came up with a list of 400 or so, published in 4 parts.
We’ve had to move a few sessions around for various reasons. The online agenda at https://eventloom.com/event/home/summit2017 shows the current final agenda. Please check the agenda carefully to ensure you don’t miss any sessions
In just a week, we’ll be holding a live “Ask Me Anything” with Jeffrey Snover at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2017. Now’s a great time to Help us queue up questions - drop yours in the comments below! We’ll be doing our level best to record the session, although it will not be live-streamed. We’ll post the recording and let everyone know where it is a week or so after the event. **UPDATE: **We’re no longer taking new questions. Thanks to everyone who submitted, and we’ll see you at Summit (where we’ll be taking more questions live).
