Don't Destroy Your Datacenter with Azure DevOps

Using Azure DevOps with your data center in the cloud is amazingly useful and powerful. This power can be good and bad. The key is to know where to put in the guardrails and/or the gatekeepers to keep you or someone else from destroying your infrastructure or your applications and potentially destroying your business. Hyperbole? Attend and find out for yourself.

Taking Automation to Task

The Windows Task Scheduler is used to automate tasks. Some of these jobs are simple and short-running and some are not. Your tasks may be unreliable if you use the default settings for a task. With a bit of work and a bit of PowerShell, the Task Scheduler can be used as an enterprise-grade solution, complete with task status, runtime duration, and even a heatmap to show when your tasks are overlapping and where you may be running into a resource capacity issue. Join me as we delve into the details of the Task Manager and use PowerShell to manage, monitor, and map this automation engine.

Using PowerShell to be a Linux Admin

Is Linux one of the operating systems you must use and support? (Azure Cloud Shell, anyone?) Or maybe you want to learn Linux. PowerShell will help you. This presentation will cover how to transition from being a Windows Administrator to surviving in an organization that has zero Windows Servers. Come learn about some of the key differences you need to be aware of using PowerShell on Linux vs. Windows. It will also cover some skills that you will need to develop to work with Linux. Finally, it will also show you how you can take your knowledge of PowerShell and apply that to Bash, or really any other scripting language.

The Right Write Writes Right, Right?

The Write cmdlets in PowerShell allow you to control the output from your code. However, there are multiple cmdlets that start with "Write-" and you need to know which one to use and how to properly use it. This presentation will show you how and when to properly use each Write cmdlet and help you understand the reasons why you should use them. Please join us for an informative and light-hearted journey into using the Write cmdlets.

Rapidly and securely manage your resources with Azure Cloud Shell

Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, authenticated terminal for managing Azure resources and more by providing access to a range of shells and tools, including bash, PowerShell, Azure PowerShell, and Azure CLI. You will see how Cloud Shell provides immediate management access from any device with a network connection via a browser, container, or mobile application.
Join PowerShell "Affectionado" Steven Judd to quickly manage resources in the cloud and on-premises with Cloud Shell's "always-up-to-date" tools - and more!

Learning is Like Running a Marathon

You don't become an experienced professional in one day. It takes training, a plan, repetition, setbacks, perseverance, and dedication. This presentation will draw similarities between the process of training for a marathon and the process of learning any skill. Plenty of people want to get better at a skill but don't know how to do it. I will draw from my experience as a runner and a lifelong learner to show how anyone can improve their skills and career.

An inspirational presentation on how to learn new technologies and advance your career. First delivered to the PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit On Ramp attendees 2023

How to safely "detonate" suspicious content

As IT professionals, especially if we either dabble or work full-time in Digital Security, there are times when you must check to see if suspicious content is legitimate or malicious. This presentation will discuss and demonstrate three approaches for how to safely check the content, how to implement each approach, and the strengths and weaknesses of each approach.

This talk isn't directly about PowerShell, but PowerShell will be used to speed up the setup and usage of the approaches.

Target audience: people who deal with or want to know about digital security in any fashion.