It’s been a while!
I have been absent from the Technical world for a short while, and in that time I have has a few people reach out and advise me that this blog has been down, due to an expired SSL cert. … Continue Reading
MVP award renewal time, my Renewal & New recent MVPs
So this year the MVP program had a bit of a change to how it handled the renewal and awarding process, a change that I fully supported, as it would allow for the program to become, in my own opinion,… Continue Reading
5 out of 6 in 6 Days = A busy week
This week has been a busy week for me with the SQLRelay and SQLSat Munich events. It has been full of fun especially seeing as for SQL Relay we had the fun bus for travels between the different venues all… Continue Reading
PSConfEU call for Speakers is now Open!
Proud to announce that Speaker Submissions are being accepted for PSConfEU 2017 – you can submit your session proposals via the following form A few things to note about this year’s submission and selection process We have a hard… Continue Reading
Speaking at SQL Saturday Munich October 8th!
So last October I attended the first SharePoint Saturday in Munich which was great event and if you want to you can read up about my experience in this previous post. However it seems that in October this year… Continue Reading
#PowerShell Side by Side #ProTip
Today I’m going to share with you a little but simple tip to enable you to do more Side by Side testing of PowerShell v6 with you current installed version in a simpler and less error prone manner. Firstly… Continue Reading
1 Small thing about running PowerShell Core and Windows PowerShell side by side on Windows
*Updated August 23rd 2016 as there was a change between 6.0.0.8 & 6.0.0.9 to PSModulePath that I had missed – I will be blogging about this in more detail in a future post but for now check the updated section… Continue Reading
My Opinion on Open Source PowerShell and what this means to the PowerShell community
If you’ve been under a rock the last few days (or for days/weeks/months depending on when your reading this blog post) then you would have missed that on Thursday August 18th 2016 – Microsoft Open Sourced PowerShell! Not only did… Continue Reading
My Company Re-Digitise website gets a much needed lick of paint
Also over the course of this weekend I have rebuilt the Re-Digitise site from the shell that I threw together on Github Pages to a more modern Site using WordPress as the Backend Please take a few minutes to… Continue Reading
Minor Blog Update – now HTTPS by default!
This Sunday I set out to force my blog hosted on Azure to be Https by Default and I mainly made use of the following Article by Troy Hunt on the underlying implementation which makes use of Cloudflare but I’ve… Continue Reading
Functional / Non-Functional Pester Tests and why I think you really should have a form of both.
So in this blog post I’m going to cover why there is a need to create Functional & Non-Functional Pester Tests for your PowerShell Modules but before I get into the nitty gritty into the whys behind creating both let… Continue Reading
Recap of a Long February, March, April and May – Events Events Events!
I had intended that I would be doing a recap type post at the end of every month however I’ve been very busy so haven’t been able to do so for a number of months – that and I had… Continue Reading
Creating a set of simple Pester Tests for existing or old PowerShell Modules & making them easier to update in future.
I have long thought of a way to Automagically create some Pester Tests for the Functions contained in a module that perhaps was developed before Pester was really well known. At that Point we may have been creating psm1 files… Continue Reading
How to find Local User Groups & events – My Experience
I had a discussion last night via twitter with one of the attendees that I met at the Microsoft Cloud Roadshow in London earlier this year and the outcome of the conversation was that although I find it easy to… Continue Reading
The Pains of Poor/Missing Documentation
There will be a time where you are attempting a new task, whether that is personally or professionally and you find yourself having to resort to the documentation of the product to get to the end goal, whether that be… Continue Reading
Building A Lab using Hyper-V and Lability – The End to End Example
Warning – this post is over 3800 words long and perhaps should have been split into a series – however I felt it best to keep it together – Make sure you have a brew (or 2) to keep you… Continue Reading
Awarded the MVP Award – What this means to me and the future for the community
The MVP Award is defined by Microsoft as the below Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are community leaders who’ve demonstrated an exemplary commitment to helping others get the most out of their experience with Microsoft technologies. They share their… Continue Reading
Fooled Ya! Today I became a MVP!
Well only if you read this post This is an exceptional honour to have been awarded the MVP for Cloud and DataCentre Management and to me this kinda feels like an early birthday present from Microsoft (my birthday is… Continue Reading
Congratulations 2016 Microsoft MVP!
This is just a very quick post to give my Congratulations to all the New and Renewed MVP’s that have and continue to make the community a much better place. I wasn’t one of them this time around but… Continue Reading
Invoking PSScriptAnalyzer in Pester Tests for each Rule
This is a quick walkthrough on how you can get output from PSScriptAnalyzer rules in your Pester tests. So you’ll need Pester ( Version 3.4.0 or above ) PSScriptAnalyzer ( Version 1.4.0 or above ) Please note this is shown… Continue Reading
C’Ya Manchester – Hello Derby!!
After yet more changes in my housing see my previous post for a bit of background link – I have decided to settle in Derby and this has been for a few very good reasons. I’ve got a good group… Continue Reading
Pulling the Community Together to Improve the Quality of PowerShell Modules
In a discussion that started on Twitter a while back with June Blender about the quality of the Modules being posted to the PowerShell Gallery I had an Idea on a way that we could help improve this from the… Continue Reading
The Power of the Humble Pint and the Community when things are difficult!
Disclaimer This isn’t a fun post (to read or to write) and nor is it a technical post – this is a reflection on the last few years and is in its very nature quite a personal post. I expect… Continue Reading
Updated! Quick Win – Install PowerShell Package Management on systems running PowerShell v3 / v4
**Update 9th March 2016 PowerShell Team released an updated version of the PackageManagement modules today and I’ve updated the Script accordingly and will install the latest PackageManagement modules for you with a little verbose output Updated Microsoft blog is at… Continue Reading
Beware where you place Comment based Help
In working on the PSWordPress Module that Stephen Owen (@foxdeploy) has started I came across an interesting issue after running my Pester tests which calls – $ModuleFunction.Definition.Contains(‘.Synopsis’) | Should be True to check for comment based help – and it… Continue Reading