I’ve just read the Boe Prox blog post about PowerShell resolution for 2015, and now it’s my turn. 2014 was such a great year for me, I was honored by a PowerShell MVP award, spoke with Carlo Mancini during French Techdays, on BreizhCamp and MUG Ouest in my hometown. As well, the PowerShell Summit…
After the first post of this series, we have now four virtual machines. The goal, now, is to apply Configurations. In order to apply configurations, you must use at least Azure SDK 0.8.6. In order to validate if your version is compatible, you can try this command: Get-AzureVMAvailableExtension -publisher Microsoft.PowerShell This will permit to…
Here is another post about DSC & Pester.. Yes, because they are truly the perfect combo to work with. Just do you script and Pester will test everything you need for you 🙂 (I know i’m repeating myself…) So let’s go build our lab. What is neeeded in order to build my lab: A…
Maybe you already took a look to my previous post about Pester, Git and PowerShell interraction… If not, you really should before read this one. I won’t re-explain why it’s important for your work to use them, now, i will talk about how use them together to get your work done. Actually, i will…
If you follow this blog, or maybe we already met before, you know i’m not a developper, actuallyt, i’m really far away from that 🙂 But, in your life, you can’t be always right, there are (many) times when you need to rethink about the whole situation. that’s exactly what’s happening to me now….
Desired State Configuration is a key feature in PowerShell, even more with the last November preview, available since yesterday ! So, little by little, i’m migrating all my customization steps from powershell scripts to DSC Resources, and today i decided to share a quick one, but a mandatory part of my servers configuration, the monitoring…
Today, it’s a quick post to give you a custom dsc Resource of mine.. Bellow, here is a script that you have to reg in a *.psm1 file to enable you creating very basic unattend.xml file for your installations, it’s very helpfull when building your home lab, or other infras 🙂 Like always with DSC,…
During the European PowerShell summit, the hackaton was focused on 4 subjects, but only one direction: Build a custom DSC resource for the community. It was very intresting, and like after each IT Event, you come home with many many ideas… Your wife still doesn’t like it but… Anyway, if you weren’t at the summit:…
But, sometimes you can’t use it! As i’m working on my script for Rebuild conf. I’m facing terribly issues with Exchange 2013 installation with DSC. I will show you how you can “install” Exchange 2013 remotely mostly with DSC.. First of all, you need to install Windows features and roles.. this is the easy part…
Availables within PowerShell v3, workflows were created to bring you a solution to orchestrate and coordinate your multimachines sequences. Workflows are robust, reliable and handle long running tasks! According my experience, many peoples know about them, but not so many administrators use them. Let’s have a full visit about using them, and building them….
