Considerations When an IT Employee Leaves
Recently I've helped clients and even off-boarded IT employees from our own team. There are quite a few considerations you must make when someone in IT leaves a company or...
2014 Archive
Building a Desired State Configuration (DSC) Lab
Recently I presenting at the Indianapolis PowerShell User Group and talked about Desired State Configuration. The presentation was 100% demonstrations, and I decided it would be a good idea to......
PowerShell: Check for user accounts running Windows Services
Recently I worked with a client to validate that if a user account were to be disabled that it wasn't going to break any of their currently running applications. You...
GriffinMonitor Module v1.5 - Additional Functionality
This evening I've decided to add additional functionality to the GriffinMonitor Module. I noticed that I am filling up my storage on my lab server fairly quickly. With that in...
The ever Evolving Career of IT - Reflecting on the last Decade
I've been working professionally in IT for 6 years, and I have been working with computers for over 10. I quickly realized that if I continued down this path for...
Building The New Battle Station
For the last 5 years, I've owned the same desktop computer that I do most of my work from at home. The computer was solid, a Dell XPS 630i. It...
Exploring Windows Management Framework 5.0 May 2014 Preview
The Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview was released in early April, and an update to it was posted during Microsoft TechEd in May. Some major things are changing with PowerShell;...
Monitoring Storage Pool Health - GriffinMonitor Module
There have been times in the past (more than I like to remember) where I've had a hard drive fail, a raid 5 fail, and eventually I am sure I'll...
TechEd 2014 Round Up
TechEd has come, and TechEd has gone... there were some cool announcements and some disappointments in the overall conference. Let's start with the cool announcements and fun things that did...
PowerShell Summit Round Up
I've been fairly distant from my blog for quite a few months... work has been very busy and preparing for the PowerShell Summit really took quite a bit of time....
PowerShell Summit: PowerShell Makes SharePoint oh so Magical - PowerPoint
My second session of the PowerShell Summit 2014 covered Automating the installation of SharePoint 2013 SP1 using multiple community based tools. Once we installed SharePoint we started exploring how...
PowerShell Summit: PowerCLI - Automating Your VMware Environment Reporting - PowerPoint
This morning I presenting PowerCLI - Automating Your VMware Environment Reporting at the PowerShell Summit 2014. Below is the PowerPoint that was used during this presentation, with additional slides...
Learning PowerCLI Book Review
I was recently asked to write a review for [Learning...
New Year New Changes
It's been quite a bit of time since I've made a true blog post. Things have been very exciting in my life lately and I've been chugging along to keep...
IndyPoSh and Indy VMUG PowerShell Basics v3 and v4
Hello everyone! Long time no post; more details surrounding that will be coming! Tonight I would like to share the PowerPoint I used for the IndyPoSh/Indy VMUG presentation I presented...