Ryan YatesConsultant

Just a dude in his 30's doing things in Tech & trying to break the stigma's around talking about Mental Health
This is the personal blog site of Ryan Yates

In IT - Specialising in PowerShell, Automation, DevOps, Azure & Office 365
Outside of IT - Music, Psychology/Mental Health, Science, Law & Politics
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Getting up and Running with SPPS for PowerShell and SharePoint Usage

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.

Presenting about Dynamic Kanban at Sharepoint User Group & SPPS Codeplex Release

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

Get-NextTrain

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