For our April 2019 Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtual meeting, Tim Warner will be presenting “Transition Your PowerShell Work from the ISE to Visual Studio Code” on Tuesday, April 9th at 8:30pm central time. You might have heard that the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) is no longer under active development. Instead, Microsoft steers its PowerShell scripters to the free, cross-platform, and open-source Visual Studio Code (VSCode). Join Microsoft MVP Tim Warner as Read more [...]

For our March 2019 Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtual meeting, Rohn Edwards will be presenting “Intro to PowerShell's Type System” on Tuesday, March 12th at 8:30pm central time. Join Rohn Edwards as he introduces you to how PowerShell automatically adapts and extends objects by adding members and properties that wouldn't be available without its special type system. After learning about what's going on under the hood, he'll demonstrate how to automatically add your own custom members Read more [...]

For our February 2019 Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtual meeting, Mike F. Robbins will be presenting “PowerShell + SQL Server = Better Together” on Tuesday, February 12th at 8:30pm central time. As a SQL Server professional, are you able to make a rhyme or reason to this thing called PowerShell? Need to accomplish something? Do you use Windows PowerShell or PowerShell Core? How will you interface with PowerShell? With the PowerShell console, the PowerShell ISE, VSCode, SAPIEN PowerShell Read more [...]

The Mississippi PowerShell User Group is currently in the process of having a call for speakers for 2019. Have a PowerShell related topic that you would be interested in presenting for our user group virtually via Skype for Business? See our about page for our email address and send us a title, abstract, and bio along with what month you would like to present. Updates will be posted to this page once accepted. We meet at 8:30pm Central Time on the second Tuesday of each month as shown in the Read more [...]

For our December 2018 Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtual meeting, Josh King will be presenting “Whip Your Scripts into Shape: Optimizing PowerShell for Speed (Redux)” on Tuesday, December 11th at 8:30pm central time. When every second counts, you can’t sit around waiting for your script to finish. With a handful of techniques tucked away in your tool belt your PowerShell code will be running faster than ever. Buckle up for a demo heavy presentation that can’t drop below 50 mph. Josh Read more [...]

For our November 2018 Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtual meeting, Mike Shepard will be presenting “GUIs in PowerShell” on Tuesday, November 13th at 8:30pm central time. This presentation will include an overview of the various methods for displaying graphical user interfaces (GUIs) in Powershell including the WPFBot3000 library, which allows you to write XAML-free WPF apps easily in PowerShell. Mike is a Solutions Architect at Jack Henry & Associates. He's worked as a DBA, Developer, Read more [...]

For our September 2018 Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtual meeting, Mark Kraus will be presenting “Concurrent Programming in PowerShell with the Producer-Consumer Pattern” on Tuesday, September 11th at 8:30pm central time. Some automation requires running multiple tasks at the same time instead of in succession. In PowerShell we have many solutions available to help us accomplish a degree of parallel or concurrent processing. Some tasks, however, are not easily broken down into the same Read more [...]

For our August 2018 Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtual meeting, Rohn Edwards will be presenting “Creating Dynamic Commands with the DatabaseReporter Module” on Tuesday, August 14th at 8:30pm central time. Join Rohn Edwards as he demos the open source DatabaseReporter module, which can be used to create modules of dynamic commands to read data from multiple database stores. By the end of the webcast, you'll be able to transform SQL queries into full featured advanced PowerShell functions Read more [...]