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ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 1-November-2019
Topics include Teams, Scheduled Jobs, Halloween fun and more
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ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 25-October-2019
Topics include RepAdmin, Certificates and Testing Teams connections.
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ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 18-October-2019
Topics include idempotency, Jenkins, PowerShell for beginners and more.
Announcements
Last Call for Summit 2020 CFP
So! Proposals for the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2020 are due in less than two weeks, on October 1st. We have some solid talks lined up, but we’re still behind where we were last year, and need more proposals! We’ve heard a lot of questions - What topics are you looking for?, I …
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The Ternary Cometh
Developers are likely to be familiar with ternary conditional operators as they’re legal in many languages (Ruby, Python, C++, etc). They’re also often used in coding interviews to test an applicant as they can be a familiar source of code errors. While some developers couldn’t …
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Quick ProTip: Negotiate TLS Connections In Powershell With A Minimum TLS Version Requirement
Synopsis This is a quick post to highlight the nuances of Powershell and protocol management in regard to TLS connections. If you’ve ever attempted to make a secure connection (for example, an API request) to a service with certain net security requirements, you might have run into this …
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Learn To Use Verbose Output Streams In Your Pester Tests
I’m going to file this under “Either I’m a genius, or there’s a much better way and everyone knows it except for me.” I recently began adding a suite of Pester tests to one of my projects and I found myself needing to mock some unit tests against a particular function …
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Secure Your Powershell Session with JEA and Constrained Endpoints
Index What is a Constrained Endpoint and Why Would I Need One? Setup and Configuration Using our Endpoint What is a constrained endpoint and why would I need one? Powershell constrained endpoints are a means of interacting with powershell in a manner consistent with the principal of least privilege. …
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Running Universal Dashboard with Ubuntu and Nginx (With HTTPS!)
A basic UniversalDashboard running on nginx Index Prerequisites Configuration HTTPS (Optional) Prerequisites For this writeup, I’m using Ubuntu 18.04. Software packages are geared toward using that version. First, we’ll need to install our dependencies There are several ways to install …
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Tips for Writing Cross-Platform PowerShell Code
I just spent a month updating one of our PowerShell modules to support Linux and MacOS. I learned a lot that I wanted to share with the community as cross-platform support becomes more and more important. Use “Environment” Class Properties Instead of “env:” Drive Environment …