Issue has become one of those annoying “soft” words that’s intended to take the sting – and all legitimate meaning – out of a conversation. It sounds mean to say, “we have a problem,” and so instead we say, “we have an issue.” But the word has a meaning already, and by misusing it, you’re neutering …
DonTools – this is the sample code I created in my Sunday morning workshop at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2017. Note that the recording will be available on YouTube in a week or so.
…picking up a copy of The PowerShell Scripting and Toolmaking Book? Or from referring someone?
I talk, and write, a lot about how important it is to think about your career. To feed your career. To keep your career foremost in your vision. However. There comes a time when your career is doing pretty well, and you’re comfortable resting for a moment and enjoying what it’s brought you. There may …
So, last month it was in the news that Microsoft is bringing the full Windows desktop experience to ARM chips through an x86 emulation layer. Well, there’s some vagueness around “full” as yet, but here’s why I find this hugely exciting.
As we prepare to say goodbye to 2016, and “yo” to 2017, I wanted to let you know something I’m going to try and do next year. When I started this blog, I made it a point to blog every week something I’d learned about careers in IT, with a hope that it might help …
Adam Bertram has graciously agreed to collaborate with me on The Pester Book, a book we’ll be Agile-publishing on LeanPub, as I’ve done with The DSC Book. A highlight of LeanPub, for me, is that we can publish an initial batch of chapters, and then keep adding to the book over time – and even …
Yaaaaaassss. New-NanoServerImage -MediaPath ‘\\vmware-host\Shared Folders\SSS_X64FRE_EN-US_DV9\’ -Edition ‘Datacenter’ -DeploymentType Host -TargetPath ‘c:\Nano\NanoHost.vhdx’ -MaxSize 8589934592 -InterfaceNameOrIndex ‘2’ -Ipv4Address ‘10.10.10.10’ -Ipv4Dns ‘10.10.10.1’ -Ipv4SubnetMask ‘255.255.255.0’ -Ipv4Gateway ‘10.10.10.1’ -SetupUI (‘NanoServer.Containers’, ‘NanoServer.Compute’, ‘NanoServer.OEM-Drivers’, ‘NanoServer.Guest’, ‘NanoServer.DSC’) -ComputerName ‘NANO’ -SetupCompleteCommand (‘tzutil.exe /s “Pacific Standard Time”‘) -LogPath ‘C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\NanoServerImageBuilder\Logs\2016-11-13 15-26
Here’s the article I’m commenting upon. While I’m a little bit of an Apple fanboy, I’m a critical thinker first and foremost, and I do hate it when people on the blogosphere – even writers I normally enjoy and respect – go off the deep end. Read the article first. Don’t disagree or agree with anything …
Colleague Orin Thomas recently posted a Tweet about all the “Microsoft ❤️ Linux” fervor that’s been running around recently, noting that it’d be easy for a Windows admin to start wondering if they’d gotten on the wrong bus at some point. For me, it’s an interesting discussion.
