Winlogbeat and pipelines and painless scripts, oh my! 
“painless”
Saturday, May 18, 2019
Warren F
Systems Engineer with a penchant for PowerShell, science, cooking, information security, family, cookies, and the Oxford comma.
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2019
Winlogbeat and pipelines and painless scripts, oh my!
2018
So You Want to Go to the Summit 
Just go
Thursday, November 01, 2018
The 2019 PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit CFP 
It's finally over
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Quick hit: PoshBot Useability 
Forget those PowerShell best practices
Thursday, September 13, 2018
2017
Getting Started with PoshBot 
I'm sorry Dave
Sunday, June 25, 2017
Quick Hit: Community Lightning Demos 
Next!
Monday, March 20, 2017
Quick Hit: Fun with Sorting 
@{ e = Get-UglyCode }
Friday, February 24, 2017
PSDepend: PowerShell Dependencies 
One of these peppers, two of those tomatoes
Friday, January 06, 2017
2016
Quick Hit: Extract Scheduled Task Credentials
Sticky notes, on a server
Friday, September 09, 2016
Invoke PowerShell on Azure VMs 
Doing it wrong
Thursday, July 21, 2016
A PowerShell Module Release Pipeline 
I heard you like deployments
Thursday, July 14, 2016
PowerShell and Slack 
:thumbsup:
Saturday, May 21, 2016
PSDeploy: Take Two 
Yet Another DSL
Friday, April 01, 2016
On Learning, Sharing, and My First Tech Job 
Hippie mumbo jumbo
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
PowerShell Is Too Hard 
I'm not a developer!
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Cross Platform PowerShell Remoting 
Still baking
Saturday, February 06, 2016
2015
Finding Evil LDAP Queries 
(|(uid=*)(sAMAccountName=*z))
Friday, October 02, 2015
Building a PowerShell Module 
closed as off topic
Sunday, September 06, 2015
PowerShell Configuration Data 
<B N="Readable">false</B>
Sunday, August 16, 2015
PSDeploy: Simplified PowerShell Based Deployments
More abstraction
Saturday, August 15, 2015
RabbitMQ and PowerShell 
You've got mail
Monday, July 06, 2015
Decorating PowerShell Objects 
Shiny things
Monday, June 22, 2015
Trust, but Verify 
What could go wrong?
Monday, June 08, 2015
Quick Hit: How Can I Verify Column Types? 
Conversion Failed
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Quick Hit: PowerShell, Beyond the Target Audience 
Why not?
Friday, May 22, 2015
Source Control Survey Results 
What's source control?
Monday, May 18, 2015
Dealing with the Click–Next–Admin 
It won't be easy
Sunday, May 03, 2015
Keeping Up With Tools 
A full time job
Saturday, May 02, 2015
PowerShell Summit NA 2015 Wrap 
It was good
Monday, April 20, 2015
PowerShell Summit NA 2015: Day One
Overload
Monday, April 20, 2015
Merging data in PowerShell 
How many Join-Objects do we need?
Friday, April 17, 2015
GitHub for PowerShell Projects 
Yet Another GitHub Walkthrough
Sunday, April 05, 2015
Find and Explore .NET Types and Enums in PowerShell 
Without the fun [] :: () syntax.
Thursday, April 02, 2015
PSExcel: Excel automation without Excel 
Who wants Excel on a server?
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Why PowerShell? 
Because
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Troubleshooting PowerShell Based Scheduled Tasks 
The operation completed successfully
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Invoke-Ping: Testing connectivity in parallel 
Building reusable tools
Monday, March 23, 2015
SQLite and PowerShell 
A simple module for SQLite queries via PowerShell
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Quick Hit: Single or Double Quotes? 
Is differentiating these truly a best practice?
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Moving to GitHub Pages! 
Nothing to see here. What will happen if the excerpt is pretty lengthy? Will it wrap around nicely, or do something evil? Let's find out.
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Testing DSC Configurations with Pester and AppVeyor 
You get a VM! You get a VM! Everyone gets a VM!
Sunday, March 01, 2015
Github, Pester, and AppVeyor: Part Two 
Optimize the yaml
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Querying the Infoblox Web API with PowerShell 
A rant
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Fun with Github, Pester, and AppVeyor 
Better Together
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
How Do I Learn PowerShell? 
Books, practice, and community
Sunday, February 08, 2015
REST, PowerShell, and Infoblox 
More PowerShell modules, please
Saturday, February 07, 2015
2013
Building PowerShell Functions: Best Practices 
That we sometimes break
Sunday, December 08, 2013