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Our call for topics for PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit 2016 is open until November 1st, and I thought I’d share some ideas for the kind of 400-level content we’re looking for. First, to submit abstracts, pre-register as a speaker candidate. Be sure to fill in the brief demographic …
Automation is awesome, but what if you need to run a script with elevated privileges? If you are following security best practices then the account you login with most likely doesn’t have the required elevated privileges. Storing your password in plain text in your scripts is no good either. …
In light of our recent announcement regarding the future of PowerShell Summit, we are extending the call for topics to the end of October, 2015. We invite speakers to re-visit their existing proposals and indicate the desired length of their session. For example, simply add “[45min]” to …
As we kick off PowerShell Summit Europe 2015, I wanted to share some decisions we’ve made regarding the future of the event. When we first launched PowerShell Summit in 2013, our goal was to be the spiritual successor of the former “PowerShell Deep Dive” events held as part of Quest’s The …
Find Stale Accounts in Active Directory Everyone who has managed Active Directory knows that keeping it free of “stale” accounts is a tough task. Typically no one cares about this until it’s time for the Microsoft True Up. Then we’ve got to hustle to get rid of all these unused accounts …
After my two first posts (Multithreading using jobs, List users logged on to your machines) where I mentioned PowershellGallery.com a few times and after Warren talked about the Gallery a few days ago I felt like digging a little deeper to see if I was actually doing it right. So I wrote them an …
If you look at DevOps as a means of removing hurdles between coders and users, there’s almost no better real-world, practical example than Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. If you’re not familiar with EBS, look into it - it’s kinda cool. EBS isn’t suitable for every situation, to be …
Hello, PowerShell people! I’ve never posted on PowerShell.org before and so I feel as though I owe you a quick introduction before we dive into the tip I’d like to share with you. My name is Thomas Rayner and I am a Microsoft MVP for Windows PowerShell. I’m also a systems …
I’m Locked Out, Help! If you’ve been a sys admin for more than a week you’ve probably heard this…“I’m locked-out, help!”. Normally the user has made their way to your cube and is impatiently tapping their foot waiting for you to magically solve there …
Earlier in August we mentioned that modularity and abstraction are quite helpful. PowerShell modules can help enable these concepts. You might ask “Modules… why can’t I just write a function?” There are a number of benefits to bundling your functions into modules: Simplify …
