For our October 13, 2020 Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtual meeting, Josh King will be presenting “Azure Durable Functions: Yes, PowerShell can fan out and in too.” at 7:30 pm Mountain Time. Durable Functions, an extension of Azure Functions, allow you to write serverless stateful functions. All the languages you would expect to see are supported, but one that might surprise is PowerShell. As a PowerShell scripter, why would you want to use durable functions? How do you get started? In Read more [...]

On September 22, 2020 at 7:30 pm Mountain Time, the Mississippi PowerShell User Group will be hosting an Open Discussion. It's the fourth Tuesday of the month, and that means it's time for our monthly Open Discussion meeting! This is an informal discussion about all things PowerShell, and everyone is invited to participate. If you have a particular topic that you would like to discuss, just contact us at our Twitter account to let us know, and we'll add it to the agenda (posted below). If you can't Read more [...]

For our September 8, 2020 Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtual meeting, Alec Clews will be presenting “Git from the PowerShell Prompt” at 7:30 pm Mountain Time. Folks in the IT department use and manage text files of various types all day, every day. For example .ps1 and .psm1 scripts, data of various types (such as config settings stored in JSON or CSV files), and so on. Keeping track of changes, looking back at old revisions, and creating special purpose versions can be unmanageable Read more [...]

For our August 2020 Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtual meeting Anthony Nocentino will be presenting “Containers - You Better Get on Board - PowerShell Edition!” on Tuesday, August 11th at 7:30 pm Mountain Time. Containers are taking over, changing the way systems are developed and deployed…and that’s NOT hyperbole. Just imagine if you could deploy SQL Server or even your whole application stack in just minutes. You can do that, leveraging containers! In this session, we’ll get you Read more [...]