Last week, Microsoft MVP Missy Januszko presented a session on “Configuring Active Directory Certificate Services for DSC Credential Encryption” for our July 2018 Mississippi PowerShell User Group meeting. The video from that presentation is now available. https://youtu.be/yKtg5s_9DWM More information about Missy and her presentation can be found in the original posting announcing her session. The Mississippi PowerShell User Group Meetings are held online (via Skype for Business) Read more [...]

Earlier this week, Microsoft MVP Anthony Nocentino presented “OpenSSH for PowerShell Pros” for our April 2018 Mississippi PowerShell User Group meeting. The video from that presentation is now available. https://youtu.be/oMUIip_Gn_0 Meet Anthony Nocentino, Enterprise Architect, Founder and President of Centino Systems, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Pluralsight Author, Corporate Problem Solver and a voracious student of the latest computer science technology. Anthony is only satisfied Read more [...]

Last month, Brandon Olin presented “Invoke-ChatOps: Level up and change your culture with chat and PowerShell” for our March 2018 Mississippi PowerShell User Group meeting. The video from that presentation is now available. https://youtu.be/mRiB04fapsQ Brandon is a Cloud Enterprise Architect at Columbia Sportswear focusing on automation, configuration management, Azure, and monitoring. He spends much of his time exploring new technologies to drive the business forward and loves to apply Read more [...]

Two months ago, Josh Duffney presented "Application Provisioning with DSC and Octopus Deploy" for our February 2018 Mississippi PowerShell User Group meeting. The video from that presentation is now available. https://youtu.be/Y5O_Om40W7Y Josh Duffney is a DevOps Engineer who works with automation and orchestration on Windows platforms. Josh is an author of several Pluralsight courses. Including Introduction to Regular Expression and Debugging PowerShell in VS Code. Josh blogs at duffney.io. Read more [...]

Last week, guest speaker and Microsoft MVP Rob Sewell presented “Green is good, Red is bad – Turning your Checklists into Pester Tests” for our December 2017 Mississippi PowerShell User Group meeting. The video from that presentation is now available. https://youtu.be/wCsd6HlMaYw Rob is a consultant with a passion for PowerShell, Azure, Automation, and SQL (PaaS geddit?). He is a Cloud and Data Center MVP and an officer for the PASS PowerShell Virtual Chapter and has spoken at Read more [...]

Earlier this week, guest speaker and Microsoft MVP Jaap Brasser presented a session on “Apply Chat Automation today, work smarter tomorrow!” for our November 2017 Mississippi PowerShell User Group meeting. Today we will look at something different, Chat Automation often also referred to as ChatOps. What is this and why should we care about it? In this session I will take you through the basics, discuss why this is worth our time and how it can help you get more out of your investment of Read more [...]

Last week, guest speaker and Microsoft MVP Kirk Munro presented a session on “Getting Started with Azure Functions” for our October 2017 Mississippi PowerShell User Group meeting. Have you started looking at Azure Functions yet? Does the term “serverless computing” seem like nothing more than an oxymoron to you? Did you know that the Azure Function Apps team added experimental support for Azure Functions written in PowerShell before the product even went GA a year ago? Or that Azure Read more [...]