Sunny writes: If one needs to read more on PowerShell under the hood, for example how powershell interact with the .NET framework where can we start? I hope you’ll ask a question, too! Visit here for info. And here’s the list of everything asked so far.
Verne checks in with a bevy of questions: 1. What do you really think of Microsoft’s new direction? They’ve essentially told their loyal SysAds that there days are numbered and it’s all about the DEVS! 2. Have you yourself really switched to PowerShell 6 and or Visual Studio code? Or are you old school? 3. …
Jeremy writes: I’m curious what the DSC “tipping point” is… I’m currently rebuilding / updating our Microsoft Server infrastructure, and am very interested in DSC. A few years ago I began working with Powershell very frequently, and DSC aligns much better with the way I think, and the way I want our infrastructure to look. …
Andy asks: Is there anything you wouldn’t use PowerShell for? I hope you’ll ask a question, too!
Svilen writes: First of all thanks for all the work you do in the PS world. I love your books. However, I do have a question, which is not that technical. You are a speaker on a lot of conferences and in front of many people? How did that start for you? Did you ever …
JC writes: One item that hasn’t been quite clear to me: Why after all of the time spent focusing on mouse-based navigation and visual controls did Microsoft choose to go back to a text-based interface? Don’t get me wrong, I love PowerShell but I already loved scripting so for me it was just the new …
Stephen asks: When I worked for a huge leading IT company, I was often tasked with writing “quick n dirty” scripts to collect data reports. These problem areas would be fixed with either new scripts or GPOs. Along side this, some of these reports lead into compliance reports for external auditing. Now I have a …
Although I guess technically it’s Amazon vs HomeKit or something. Anyway, I’ve recently been “dual-homing” most of my condo’s smart devices so I could control them in either Alexa or Siri. If you’ve not taken the plunge on one or the other, I thought I’d share the main difference between them.
I’ve been getting a lot of questions recently around configuration management, and I wanted to jump in with something more comprehensive. A lot of us mean different things when we say “configuration management,” too, so I wanted to try and holistically address the whole spectrum.
Javier writes: Suppose I have a Windows service in a productive environment that does some kind of work. It’s secured and everything, and I have a very limited way of interact with it to maybe adjust its configuration or perform a maintenance work on it. I thought it would be awesome if I could use …
