Jeffrey Snover on RunAs Radio
RunAs Radio is a weekly Internet audio talk show for IT Professionals working with Microsoft products. The full range of IT topics is covered from a Microsoft-centric viewpoint. In the visit site to...
View ArticleGit for IT Professionals: Getting Started
In this series so far: Part 1 – Git for IT Professionals: Getting Started (this article) Part 2 – Git for IT Professionals: Working with … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleGit for IT Professionals: Working with Repositories
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View ArticleGit for IT Professionals: Life Cycle of Repository Files
In this series so far, Part 1 – Git for IT Professionals: Getting Started Part 2 – Git for IT … [visit site to read more]
View ArticlePester Explained: Should
This article is a part of a larger series on Pester. Last time we looked at the theory of assertions and what mechanisms they use to fail our tests. We’ve also written two assertions of … [visit site...
View ArticlePester Explained: Describe, Context, and It Blocks
This article is a part of a larger series on Pester. Last time, we looked at how assertions work in theory, and how they are implemented in Pester. This gave us the foundation to … [visit site to read...
View ArticleDevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and PowerShell DSC: The Introduction
Posts in this seriesDevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and PowerShell DSC: The IntroductionDevOps is the new cool thing (at least in the Windows world) everyone is talking about and the IT professionals...
View ArticleDevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and PowerShell DSC: Infrastructure Blueprints
This part of the series is long due after the first post on DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and PowerShell DSC. Thanks to … [visit site to read more]
View ArticlePSRemotely – Framework to Enable Remote Operations Validation
Before we get started with what is PSRemotely, here is some background. As part of my work in an engineering team, I am tasked with writing scripts which will validate the underlying infrastructure...
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Infrastructure Blueprints – An Easier and Better Way to Share #PSDSC...
A while ago, I wrote an article to introduce Infrastructure Blueprints. Today’s post is about a more refined version of that project. These infrastructure blueprints are the starting point for a bigger...
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#PSDSC Doing It Right – Resource Granularity
This is the first article in the #PSDSC Doing It Right series. This series of articles will introduce you to some of the best practices we have learned through some real-world implementations of...
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#PSDSC Doing It Right – Configuration vs Orchestration
In the last part of this series, we looked at why resource granularity is important. In this part, we will see the difference between configuration items and orchestration steps. When using any...
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Infrastructure Blueprints – Adding Pre-deployment Validations
In one of my earlier articles here, I wrote about the Infrastructure Blueprints project. Over the weekend, I published an update this project. Renamed Hyper-VConfigurations composite resource module to...
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PSRemotely – Authoring workflow (Part 1)
Introduction After setting up the context in the previous post, it is time to look at how the authoring workflow looks like when using Pester for writing operations validation tests, to begin with, and...
View Article#PSDSC Configuration Versioning in a Deployment Pipeline
When we talk about applications or software deployed in the infrastructure, we simply refer to the version of the application or software running in the infrastructure. At any point in time, we can...
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Converting a PowerShell Project to use Azure DevOps Pipelines
Introduction Continuous Integration (CI) is the process of integrating code into a source code repository several times a day. Each time code is pushed into the repository an automated process runs to...
View ArticlePowerShell DSC Resource Module to Install and Configure Windows Admin Center
Windows Admin Center (WAC) is the new web-based management application for managing Windows Servers, Failover Clusters, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) clusters, and Windows 10 PCs. This is a...
View ArticlePodcast – A vision for Continuously Integrated Data Center
I was recently featured on the Latest Shiny Podcast (@l8istsh9y) hosted by Rob Hirschfeld and Stephen Spector. I came across their podcast a while ago and listened to their last two episodes. A few...
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Pester Result Reporting With Suggestions And XSL Support
I believe there is no introduction required for pester in PowerShell community. If you have never heard of Pester, this is the place to go first. This article uses a custom version of Pester which is...
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