​If your coming across to this blog then hopefully you are aware of the new features coming to SharePoint 2016 and in this case I’ll be looking at the new Min Role feature. Now in essance this is a good thing however there is the seen arguement that this really will be for the Large Scale farms of anywhere between 10 - 100 SharePoint Servers. The ease of being able to configure a New farm server - perhaps to replace another failing server or just to provide that additional capacity - and to from configuration tell it what role to perform has been available by utilising PowerShell Desired State Configuration or even using AutoSPInstaller and although this seems to have a similar purpose there are some fundamental differences

Well it had been an interesting few weeks and in my current house we have just had a new housemate move in who fits in really well with the rest of us. We discussed in the initial few weeks what we all did and naturally it brought up that I work within IT and enjoy (when I can) to have a few games on the 360 - Mainly Call Of Duty and a few others (Guitar Hero is another favourite)

Note: I seriously recommend you look into the PNP.PowerShell module instead of SPPS (now SPCSPS) for any CSOM PowerShell, however the code is still available for reference if needed I have seen some small confusion with SPPS and the background requirements? needed for it to run - So I have built an extensible set of Virtual Machines for me to further investigate this So………. Basically if you are Running any of the older Systems Windows XP Server 2003 or Vista then unless you update to at least PowerShell v2 then unfortunately SPPS will not be able to run.

I was very lucky to be able to give a presentation on how SharePoint can be used to help facilitate a Kanban board for detailing what tasks people are working on and it is something that is in use within my current team For me the ability to put up exactly what work is going on (or needs to be planned for) was a big win and I am tweeking and reworking it almost on a Daily Basis to be a fully representative model for my team to work with

I was getting rather fed up with using National Rails IOS App to get the latest train times as it kept crashing on me so i wrote a small PowerShell function that will do the work for me :-) This uses the 3 character code for Manchester Piccadilly and Macclesfield and then creates a new instance of Internet explorer with the results - I did look to make use of Invoke-WebRequest but felt that this was the “quicker and dirtier” solution