Deploy and Configure an AWS EC2 IIS Web Server with PowerShell and DSC
This past December I gave a talk at the SoCal PowerShell User Group about using the AWSPowerShell module to work with AWS and deploy an IIS web server into a...
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2020
2019
My Current Homelab
I have been married to my wife Amanda since March of this year and part of that process included us moving in to our first apartment together. I took the opp...
My Essential PowerShell Discovery Cmdlets
When I’m doing daily work in the shell, there are a number of cmdlets and associated arguments that I find myself typing often to discover new things and re-...
Pester Test Execution Order CAN Matter!
My most recent update to my PowerShell module PSSpeedTest was to split its Pester test files into separate files for each individual public and private funct...
Takeaways from the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2019
This is my first blog post in a good while and I’m coming back to report on my experience over the past week at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2019! I...
2018
Building a PowerShell Module - Part 3 - JSON Config Files are Awesome
JSON support in PowerShell is a beautiful thing. Creating a configuration file for PSSpeedTest to store default iPerf3 server information in is a breeze with...
JAMFIT’s LDAP Sync Script - Converted from Python 2 to PowerShell
During the time that I spent on a temporary assignment on Blizzard’s End User Computing team, work began on implementing Jamf. Being a global company, Blizza...
Building a PowerShell Module – Part 2 – Inspiration and What Lies Beneath
In my last post in this series, Building a PowerShell Module - Part 1 - Setting up Plaster, I detailed the contents and functionality of my Plaster module te...
Building a PowerShell Module - Part 1 - Setting up Plaster
In this series of blog posts, I’ll be detailing how I went about creating PSSpeedTest, my first publically-released PowerShell module. I want to give immense...
Introducing My First PowerShell Module – PSSpeedTest
Writing a PowerShell module was a goal that I’ve had for myself since I learned of PowerShell Gallery and helper modules such as Plaster, PSDeploy, BuildHelp...
PowerShell Core and Why Bleeding-Edge Isn’t Always Exciting – Part 2
Following up on my last post regarding PowerShell Core, my open pull request with the PowerShell team has been merged and I’m ready to write about it!
Finding Unused SCCM Applications and Packages
In preparation for an SCCM cleanup project, I was tasked with compiling a list of all Applications and Packages that were not being deployed and had no depen...
How I Fixed Printer WSD Hell
One of the most interesting projects that I’ve gotten to work on has been the migration from a Windows print server to PrinterLogic. At Blizzard’s Irvine cam...
PowerShell Core and Why Bleeding-Edge Isn’t Always Exciting - Part 1
When I learned about PowerShell Core, I was a few months into diving deep into Windows PowerShell. I had already written a few scripts that I would consider ...
My PowerShell Environment (For Now)
My roommate and I have both been diving into scripting in our free time, him mostly in Bash and myself in Powershell. A couple months ago, he mentioned to me...
Why I Didn’t Pursue Gamedev
One of the first series of video games that I followed was Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. Skating through locations based all over the world, throwing your characte...
Why I Created this Blog
A recent struggle of mine has been the feeling that I’m “behind the curve.”