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The PowerShell Podcast highlights what makes PowerShell so great, the community. Each week we want to highlight people, blogs, videos, and modules that have gone into making PowerShell so great.
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Monday Jun 24, 2024
Monday Jun 24, 2024
In this episode, host Andrew Pla converses with coding enthusiast Josh Hendricks (@joshooaj) about his transformative PowerShell journey - a pathway that led him from avoidance to adoration. The discussion delves into the intricacies of Joshua's PSPushover and MilestonePSTools projects, developing an understanding of their creation process. Additionally, Josh recounts his captivating experience of giving a talk on "Docs" at the prestigious PowerShell Summit. This riveting dialogue remarkably encapsulates a personal journey blending skepticism, discovery, and innovation at the heart of coding.
Guest Bio and links:
Josh is a senior principal engineer at Milestone Systems with 18 years of experience in "figuring it out" in technical support, IT, and software engineering roles. He developed a love for PowerShell in 2019 and discovered the PowerShell community shortly afterward.
https://leanpub.com/powershell-scripting-toolmaking/c/7xNqIw2lUJl8
https://leanpub.com/psprimer/c/e3eAtyEbab43SCT3nWZ2uH4iLPV84jKO
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewplatech/
https://mikefrobbins.com/2024/06/11/understanding-the-clean-block-in-powershell/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27KksfgzhuE
https://www.pdq.com/blog/what-are-event-logs/
https://www.joshooaj.com/blog/2024/03/21/new-pspushover-powershell-module/
https://github.com/devblackops/Stucco
https://powershellexplained.com/
https://www.milestonepstools.com/#getting-started
https://github.com/dfinke/ImportExcel
PowerShell Podcast Home page: https://www.pdq.com/resources/the-powershell-podcast/
PowerShell Pro Tips - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K95ovoMh170
The PowerShell Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Deuyy4iQqgk
Monday Jun 17, 2024
Monday Jun 17, 2024
In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, Andrew starts things off by celebrating his new Microsoft MVP. Then, we hear about all things psconf.eu and what to expect from Christian Ritter and Björn Sundling at PSConf EU. We hear some of the juicy details and key takeaways from their sessions. Then we get an update on some of their projects like PSClippy, AzDM, PSSecretScanner, and much more!
Guest Bio and links:
Christian Ritter - He/Him | Father of two | PowerShell aficionado | Blog author | Speaker
Björn is a PowerShell and DevOps nerd by day, Rockstar by night.
PowerShell Podcast Home page: https://www.pdq.com/resources/the-powershell-podcast/
PowerShell Pro Tips - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K95ovoMh170
The PowerShell Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOgkM2Ws-rs
https://psconf.eu/introducing-poshakucha-a-fusion-of-powershell-and-pechakucha/
https://github.com/HCRitter/PSClippy.FBP.GeneralAdvice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwj6zlS0Yxs
https://sweden.se/culture/celebrations/the-national-day-of-sweden
https://github.com/bjompen/PSSecretScanner
https://github.com/JustinGrote/ScriptFeedbackProvider
https://github.com/HCRitter/PSClippy.FBP.GeneralAdvice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoUWHfh733Y&ab_channel=DualCore
Monday Jun 10, 2024
Monday Jun 10, 2024
In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we are joined by Microsoft MVP, former PowerShell team member, and module maker extraordinaire James Brundage. We hear about his experience at Microsoft Build, learn all docker and kubernetes while discussing his Rocker module, UserGroup updates, implicit interpretation in Pipescript, formatting and types, and so much more. Strap in because we go deep in this one.
Guest Bio and links:
James Brundage is a Microsoft MVP who has been heavily involved in PowerShell for over 17 years. He is a former member of the PowerShell team, working there during v2 and v3. He now works as a consultant with Start-Automating, applying his PowerShell expertise to organizations to help solve large-scale problems all around the world. He also has a lot of great projects on GitHub and regularly shares his knowledge at user groups and conferences.
PowerShell Podcast Home page: https://www.pdq.com/resources/the-powershell-podcast/
PowerShell Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVcelFpsAKs
https://blog.danskingdom.com/A-simple-PowerShell-script-template-I-use-when-creating-new-scripts/
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/tag/v7.5.0-preview.3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5mTb7L44F4&pp=ygUZcG93ZXJzaGVsbCBqYW1lcyBicnVuZGFnZQ%3D%3D
https://github.com/StartAutomating/PSSVG
https://github.com/StartAutomating/ugit
https://github.com/StartAutomating/Splatter
Monday Jun 03, 2024
Monday Jun 03, 2024
In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, host Andrew Pla interviews Microsoft MVP and PowerShell aficionado Justin Grote. They delve into an issue in the Az.Accounts 3.0.0 module, with Justin offering insights and a workaround (use an earlier version of the module). Justin also discusses his innovative ModuleFast project, explaining its architecture and his approach to writing PowerShell scripts and modules. The conversation highlights Justin's passion for APIs and celebrates his contributions as an official PowerShell project contributor. Listeners get a glimpse into Justin's workflow working at a Managed Service Provider (MSP) and how he writes to much PowerShell. He offers valuable advice for those early in their careers. Additionally, Justin shares updates on his PowerHTML (1.2m downloads) project, which originated from a GitHub pull request, showcasing his continuous contributions to the PowerShell community.
Guest Bio and links:
Justin Grote is a Datacenter Solutions Architect, Open-Source Developer, and Microsoft MVP. Justin has built his professional career leveraging PowerShell to solve and automate interesting business problems. Unfortunately, he can't PowerShell his dog to be less aggressive on his face licks.
PowerShell Podcast Home page: https://www.pdq.com/resources/the-powershell-podcast/
PowerShell Podcast on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDGR8LLOiew
https://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/books/9389/powershell-scripting-and-toolmaking/
https://github.com/Azure/azure-powershell/issues/25005
https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/PowerHTML/0.2.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4S7zeeMUOE&list=PLfeA8kIs7CoftSa3hQ9dQseIxdSMBZO_z
Monday May 27, 2024
Monday May 27, 2024
In this celebration-themed episode of the PowerShell Podcast, Steven Judd makes his long-awaited return. We announce the first PowerShell Podcast MVP winner. We share tips about regex and URL encoding and dive deep into PowerShell on Linux, CloudShell, and becoming a lifelong learner. All this and more!
Guest Bio and links:
Steven Judd is a 25+ year IT Pro and most recently an Infrastructure Engineer at Tenstreet LLC.
His previous recent experience includes Enterprise Email Administrator, Digital Security Analyst, and Cloud and DevOps Advisor for cloud-focused solutions and infrastructure.
He has been using PowerShell since 2010 and co-developed a custom training program for PowerShell. Most recently, he was a Senior Editor for the Modern IT Automation with PowerShell book. He is also a co-author and co-editor of the PowerShell Conference Book 3
He loves to help people learn and recognize the value of automation.
He spends his free time learning more about PowerShell, digital security, and cloud technologies, along with creating and telling Dad jokes.
You can find him hanging out on the PowerShell Discord Server, running marathons, playing the cello, plus a handful of other hobbies he can't seem to quit. Please follow him on Twitter, @stevenjudd, read his blog, and review, use, and improve his code on GitHub.
PowerShell Podcast Home page: https://www.pdq.com/resources/the-powershell-podcast/
PowerShell Pro Tips - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K95ovoMh170
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6584540
https://sid-500.com/2024/05/14/hyper-v-enabling-vm-resource-metering/
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/winget-commandnotfound/
https://leanpub.com/modernautomationwithpowershell
https://www.amazon.com/PowerShell-Conference-Book-3/dp/B08MGR749H/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZZM6i8AE1Y
https://twitter.com/stevenjudd/
Judd Song Special:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQIVWhKhwPA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqzXGGld5-c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh-72yBP7sw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEz1qGS0T1Q
Monday May 20, 2024
Monday May 20, 2024
On this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, Andrew is back on the road, attending the MMS 2024 at MOA conference. Andrew catches up with Sven De Groote and Chris Thomas. Andrew and Sven take a dive into the PSAppDeployToolkit. Later in the episode, Andrew and Chris chat about PSADT, Chris’ PowerShell journey, his talk at MMS-MOA, and more.
Links:
PowerShell Podcast Home page: https://www.pdq.com/resources/the-powershell-podcast/
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGBAkXMC4sc
Monday May 13, 2024
Monday May 13, 2024
In this special MMSMOA episode of the PowerShell Podcast, Andrew is joined by Frank Lesniak. We touch base after PowerShell Summit, hear about tracking airplanes with ADS-B and raspberry pi's. Frank talks about classes and how they almost caused him to fall out of love with PowerShell. We also recount what most be the most brutal display of athleticism, curling.
Guest Bio and links:
https://github.com/franklesniak/ads-b-setup
https://twitter.com/FrankLesniak
PowerShell Podcast Home page: https://www.pdq.com/resources/the-powershell-podcast/
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vcyukAb71w
Monday May 06, 2024
Monday May 06, 2024
In this episode of the PowerShell Podcast, I'm joined by Ryan Lancial - Security Engineer at Red Canary. We talk about our shared history, his journey to security, what makes a good company culture, succeeding with no degree, the value of authenticity, and more!
Guest Bio and links:
Ryan Lancial hates bios, used to Powershell and admin and now talks about security.
PowerShell Podcast Home page: https://www.pdq.com/resources/the-powershell-podcast/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlancial/
PowerShell Pro Tips - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K95ovoMh170
https://www.pdq.com/blog/what-are-rest-apis/
https://woshub.com/read-outlook-email-powershell/
https://blog.danskingdom.com/PowerShell-DevOps-Global-Summit-2024-reflections/