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 [...]

For our July 2018 Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtual meeting, Microsoft MVP Missy Januszko will be presenting “Configuring Active Directory Certificate Services for DSC Credential Encryption” on Tuesday, July 10th at 8:30pm central time. At times it is necessary to specify alternate credentials in DSC Configurations. Encryption is an absolute must for protecting these credentials in any production environment. Encrypting credentials in PowerShell DSC Configurations requires a PKI infrastructure Read more [...]

For our June 2018 Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtual meeting, Josh King will be presenting “Just Scrape off the Black Bits: Using BurntToast to Display Timely Notifications” on Tuesday, June 12th at 8:30pm central time. Toasts are a notification scheme in most, if not all, modern Operating Systems. You’ve seen them everywhere and may not have even known it. Microsoft makes heavy use of them in Windows 10, and so can you! This a crash course in what Toast Notifications are, how Read more [...]