Rick Taylor
Rick Taylor- DevOps Engineer
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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Rick is a systems architect and has assisted numerous, large companies in their implementations including the US Air Force, Charles Schwab, and Nestle. He is a former Microsoft engineer and has worked on the SharePoint Engineering team as well as the OpsCon division dealing with ITSM and Governance. He is a published author, co-author, and contributing author. His influence within the MCT and SharePoint communities facilitated his being selected to present at the first MCT Community Summit held in Zurich, Switzerland . Rick currently resides in the Phoenix, AZ area.
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PowerShell for SharePoint Online - Making SharePoint Admins feel loved again
Office 365 PowerShell is an incredible tool for SharePoint admins to use in their daily administration of SharePoint Online.
Come to this session to learn:
What's new with PoSh for SPO
How to manage sites, users, groups with O365 PowerShell
The Top Ten cmdlets SP Admins will use
Walk away with ready to use scripts!
DevOps from an ITPro perspective
From an ITPro perspective, the “Dev” in DevOps can be unnerving. This session will give ITPros practical solutions that can be implemented immediately and help them reduce repetitiveness and assuage concerns about development. For years admins have been performing repetitive tasks - even with the advent of PowerShell, they still repeat many tasks over and over.
This session helps ITPros understand the “Dev” in DevOps & understand the CD approach & give them practical guidance they can implement immediately.
Workflows, or Functions, or Scripts ; Oh My !
So many ways to get work done ; but when should I use one over another ? What are the Pros and Cons, use cases ? Come to this session to get it sorted !
Automation Runbooks - From Zero to Hero!
This session will start from the ground and progressively go up! At the end of this session we will have a functioning system that utilizes Azure Automation.
PowerShell and PowerAutomate - match made in heaven
When you combine the versatility of these two powerful tools, the sky is the limit! This session will illustrate a specific case scenario to demonstrate how to implement the two.
Infrastructure As Code (IaC) vs Configuration As Code (CaC)
Configuration management is the management of the configuration of all environments for an application. Both Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration as code fall under configuration management, and both relate to defining or scripting for environments:
• IaC-- entails defining environments, including networks, servers, and other compute resources, as a text file (script or definition) that is checked into version control and used as the base source for creating or updating those environments.
• CaC--In this approach, you define the configuration of your servers, code, and other resources as a text file (script or definition) that is checked into version control and used as the base source for creating or updating those configurations.
Managing Identities with Azure AD
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is Microsoft’s multi-tenant cloud-based directory and identity management service. Come to this session to learn how to how to use Azure AD Connect to integrate their on-premises directories with Azure AD.
DSC for SharePoint
What is Desired State Configuration and what does it have to do with on-premises SharePoint?
PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) allows organization to automate their deployments and make sure that servers stay in that desired state, preventing people from accidentally making a modification that can cause hours of downtime to your users.
Come to this session to see how to keep your downstream environments in configuration sync with upstream environments.
The North American Collaboration Summit 2020 Sessionize Event
The North American Collaboration Summit 2019 Sessionize Event
ITproud Sessionize Event
SharePoint/Office365 Saturday Utah 2018 Sessionize Event
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