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 …
Nicholas asks: how would you use PowerShell for performance monitoring for items such as storage arrays. I hope you’ll ask a question, too!
Jeremy writes: With dsc headed for it’s third major rewrite in nearly as many years, is it something that you think will turn into a fully fleshed out and complete product? Or will it just end up as an interesting footnote that never found its place? Or something different altogether? I hope you’ll ask a …
Bryan asks: What’s your approach on learning new technology or new capabilities in an existing technology? I hope you’ll ask a question, too! Visit here for info.
Patrick writes: As a teacher I often use your phrase “Learn PowerShell or learn do you want fries with that” to underline the importance of PowerShell. That was a few years ago. Do you still think so, or has your opinion changed? I truly believe that all systems will get smaller and smaller over time …
Bryan writes: How can a small, mainly click-next-admin team/culture best get started on the journey toward Infrastructure-as-code, build-test-deploy / Release Pipeline? I see many blogs and books about more mainstream DevOps, but our shop is more like the one referred to in the Microsoft / Chef Release Pipeline whitepaper, where we only create and maintain …
