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We’re in the process of emailing speaker invitations to those whose sessions were accepted for the 2017 agenda. **Please check your email and promptly follow the instructions to complete registration. ** In the event that a speaker is unable to confirm their invitation in time, we will move on …
So, after our nearly-2-day outage, which was due to a still-not-fully-explained Apache fail, we’re looking to make some changes. We need to migrate PowerShell.org to a different Azure subscription anyway, so this is a good time to change the kind of service we’re using. First, using …
As you may know, Jeffrey Snover and I have, for some time, been on a “servers are cattle, not pets” kick. Meaning, servers shouldn’t be special, individualized snowflakes. They should be, in many regards, appliances. One dies, you eat it and make another. They don’t have …
With Ignite fast-approaching, here’s what’s up - and this is intended to be a “community post,” meaning I’d love it if you could add your own PowerShell At Ignite notes in the comments, including sessions you’re looking forward to! On **Sunday evening, **while not …
It’s a bit of a sad day at The DevOps Collective, which is the nonprofit that runs PowerShell.org. One of our Board of Directors members, Dave Wyatt, will be stepping down from his Director position this week. He wants to focus on his personal life a bit more, although he’s still going …
As a quick reminder, our Call for Topics is still open for a few more days! Summ. Summit is very much intended to be a kind of mega-user group, not a “conference,” so don’t assume all the “professional” speakers have taken up all the speaking slots. We want you to …
Remember that our Call for Topics is still open until the end of September, if you’d like to submit. And, from our Summit Alumni Slack channel, here are a few things people said they’d like to see… I would love to see a session on what it takes to build a PKI infrastructure in …
Jason Helmick and I were talking last night, and we got onto the topic of expertise and respect. Kind of, “once someone really gets to that expert level, and they surpass their teacher in knowledge, you really respect them.” I disagreed, and said, “no, I respect them the minute …
As PowerShell begins to move into a cross-platform world, it’s important to really understand “why PowerShell.” What is it, exactly, that sets PowerShell apart? Notice that I do not mean, “what makes it better,” because “better” is something you’ll …
Yesterday, Microsoft announced that Windows PowerShell - which I suppose we’ll just call “PowerShell,” now - has been open-sourced, with PowerShell Core builds being made available for various Linux distros as well as macOS. This is a big deal, but not exactly for the reasons you …
