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-...
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powershell
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...
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.”
automation
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...
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.”
scripting
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...
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.”
windowspowershell
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...
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...
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...
module
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...
powershellcore
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!
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 ...
ps6
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!
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 ...
pscore
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!
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 ...
psspeedtest
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...
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...
pester
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...
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...
iperf
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...
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...
knowledge
Why I Created this Blog
A recent struggle of mine has been the feeling that I’m “behind the curve.”
learning
Why I Created this Blog
A recent struggle of mine has been the feeling that I’m “behind the curve.”
abilities
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...
gamedev
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...
passion
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...
programming
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...
skills
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...
sysadmin
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...
environment
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...
openssh
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...
profile
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...
windbg
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...
ports
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...
printerlogic
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...
printers
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...
wsd
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...
configmgr
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...
configurationmanager
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...
sccm
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...
systemcenter
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...
psgallery
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...
invokebuild
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...
plaster
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...
psdepend
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...
psdeploy
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...
posh
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...
speedtest
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...
github
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...
jamf
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...
pull request
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...
json
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...
onramp
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...
pshsummit
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...
testing
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...
basics
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-...
homelab
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...
PowerShell
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...
DSC
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...
AWS
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...
SSM
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...
EC2
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...