Force Multiplication through IT Automation
Jason Hofferle
Last week I attended the 2013 PowerShell Summit in Redmond, and it exceeded my expectations in every way. This was an event that felt like a three day user group meeting where PowerShell enthusiasts from all over the world decided to show up. I’ve never been to Seattle, and I have to thank Aaron Nelson [...]
This week I was selected as an Honorary Scripting Guy. The list includes some of the top authors and trainers in the PowerShell world, and it’s a real honor to be included among them. Many of us spend a lot of time blogging, writing articles, or speaking about PowerShell, often on our own time. It’s [...]
I will be presenting PowerShell for Beginners at the Tampa IT Pro Camp on September 22. My session will be the first of an entire track dedicated to PowerShell that includes presentations by two PowerShell MVPs and a Microsoft senior premier field engineer. This is an excellent opportunity to get some free training and network [...]
I will be presenting PowerShell for Beginners at SQL Saturday #151 in Orlando, Florida on September 29. This session will cover the fundamentals for anyone interested in getting started with Windows PowerShell. SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. This event will be held Sep [...]
This week I’m the guest blogger for the Microsoft Hey, Scripting Guy! blog. The five-part series will focus on PowerShell Remoting. An Introduction to PowerShell Remoting: Part One An Introduction to PowerShell Remoting Part Two: Configuring PowerShell Remoting An Introduction to PowerShell Remoting Part Three: Interactive and Fan-Out Remoting An Introduction to PowerShell Remoting Part [...]
It was great meeting so many new people interested in PowerShell at the Jacksonville IT Pro Camp last weekend. All of the presenters at these events are volunteers, so it’s an awesome feeling to have people come up and say “thank you for your session, it was really useful!” The IT Pro Camps are an [...]
I want to thank everyone that attended my PowerShell session at SQL Saturday #130 in Jacksonville. It was a great opportunity to demonstrate some PowerShell fundamentals, and I hope everyone learned something they can use. I really didn’t have much for slides, but a transcript of my session is available, which is a text record [...]
Every IT Professional runs into situations where there isn’t a utility available for handing a particular task. My first large-scale vbscript fixed a failed upgrade of the Novell Netware Client on thousands of workstations that was preventing users from logging in. Automation technologies like PowerShell excel during those times when something needs to be happen [...]
This weekend was my first SQL Saturday, and I was very happy to have my session on PowerShell remoting selected. The SQL community is an amazing bunch of people, and I’m glad these opportunities for sharing knowledge and making friends exist. I want to thank Pam Shaw and all the other organizers, volunteers, sponsors, and [...]
PowerShell is particularly good for automating tasks that need to be performed on multiple computers, and many cmdlets are designed to allow multiple computer names to be specified. In many cases, the most difficult task is getting together a list of computers to use with some of the cmdlets and scripts available. There are several [...]
