Last week I did a presentation at the PowerShell Deep Dive in Frankfurt about turning command line tools into PowerShell tools. A video recording should be posted later. But in the meantime, here is a copy of my slide deck, in PDF and a zip file with my demos and scripts. I have some followup…
Category: Conferences
Scenes from the Powershell Deep Div…
Scenes from the Powershell Deep Dive in Frankfurt as part of The Experts Conference. This was posted on Google+…
PowerShell Deep Dive Europe
I’m happy to report that I will be presenting a session at the PowerShell Deep Dive in Frankfurt this October as part of The Experts Conference. The conference in Las Vegas this past April was amazing, intense and the most fun I think I’ve ever had. If you can make it to this show you…
TechEd Atlanta – Managing the Registry with PowerShell
My second TechEd talk was about managing the registry with Windows PowerShell. If you were in the session you know that I stressed heavily using the PowerShell provider and cmdlets. For remote computers, leverage PowerShell’s remoting infrastructure. But I also discussed using the “raw” .NET classes as well as WMI (if you are really desperate…
TechEd Atlanta – Troubleshooting with RSoP
I thought my session on troubleshooting with Group Policy and Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) went rather well. I got some great questions and some nice feedback. The session was recorded and you can watch it on the TechEd North America site, even if you didn’t attend. Click here for the session page and video….
Deep Dive Formatting and Type Extensions
At the PowerShell Deep Dive, I did a short presentation on using format and type extensions. There was a lot of demo crunched into a very short period of time. Needless to say this is a complex topic that we could spend a lot of time on. But for now, let me share my slide…
PowerShell Deep Dive Treasure
Without a doubt the PowerShell Deep Dive conference was one of the best meetings I’ve ever attended and I wanted to share one tidbit I came away with that I find immensely useful and never knew. During one of Bruce Payette’s talks he tossed out, practically as an aside, a reference to searching command line…
Techmentor Orlando 2011 Decks and Demos
As promised, I have put together the most current versions of my slide decks and demos. A word of caution on the demos: many of them were designed to be used with my Start-Demo function, which essentially steps through the demo file one line at a time. The AD demos do include a few scripts…
Convert Transcript to Script
During my PowerShell scripting best practices at Techmentor last week I mentioned a function I had to convert a PowerShell transcript to a script file. Since there’s very little difference between an interactive session and a script, parsing the transcript can yield 80% or more of a script very quickly. I wrote such a function…
Friday Fun Virtual Demos
I’ve been prepping my demo scripts for Techmentor using the ubiquitous Start-Demo, and realized I could take things further. I mean, why do I have to do all the talking? Windows 7 has a terrific text to speech engine so why not take advantage of it. With a little work I could create a virtual…
PowerShell Deep Dive Formatting and Extensions
I just found out I will be presenting at the PowerShell Deep Dive April 18-19 that is part of TEC 2011. This promises to be THE PowerShell event everyone has been waiting for. I’ll be presenting on format and type extensions. Mastering Format and Type Extensions Windows PowerShell is designed with administrators in mind. The…
Join Me in Atlanta for TechEd 2011
I’m very excited to be presenting at Microsoft TechEd North America 2011, this year in Atlanta, GA. I’ll be presenting two breakout sessions and will likely be there most of the week so there will be plenty of time to connect with people. I have what I hope are some very interesting sessions.
Join Me in Orlando
I will be presenting 3 sessions at Techmentor Orlando 2011. The conference runs March 14-18, 2011 at the Disney Yacht Club. My sessions are all on Wednesday March 16. In addition to all the other fabulous material at the conference I will be presenting the following:
TechEd Berlin Paradigm Shift Demos
I had a great time in Berlin at TechEd and want to thank everybody who came to my presentation. I hope you found it valuable and worth your time. As promised, you can download my demo files here. The .txt files are my demo files which are really just a list of PowerShell commands. They…
TechEd 2010 VBScript to PowerShell
Last week I posted my demo slides as well as my demo videos. As promised, I’ve gone through and expanded a bit on my original slide deck. TechEdNA-2010-Hicks-ParadigmShift is a 3MB PDF of my expanded PowerPoint slide deck. If you have any questions about the content or what it takes to get your head from…