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Arizona PowerShell User Group - From PowerShell Function to Serverless code with Azure Functions

Arizona PowerShell User Group – From PowerShell Function to Serverless code with Azure Functions

Yesterday I was asked to speak at the Arizona PowerShell User Group, I picked the subject of moving your code into Azure Functions. Although PowerShell might not seem like the obvious choice, there are some definite benefits to be had from having a subset of your code run in Azure Functions. Providing you with the benefits of serverless, no operational management and almost infinite scalability.

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During the summer period there is always a bit of downtime in the conference season. That gives some time to prepare new sessions, explore new technologies or new combinations of technology that can be used to create new content.

But because not being able to talk about anything at all I did attend a number of events, All Access Amsterdam, Tuga IT and Kulendayz. At these events I delivered the following presentations:

Automate Everything with PowerShell

Automate Anything with Microsoft Flow

Bridge the gap with Chat Automation

Discover Microsoft’s Cloud Automation Suite

Kulendayz after my session with attendees and Rubrik swag

Kulendayz after my session with attendees and Rubrik swag

In between session at All Access IT

Because just sharing the photos is obviously only half the work, I have also shared the code on GitHub in my Events repository:

All Access content

Tuga IT content

KulenDayz content

GitHub Events Repository

I also shared the slides I used and my other presentations on SlideShare:

KulenDayz, TugaIT and All Access - Event Recap During the summer period there is always a bit of downtime in the conference season. That gives some time to prepare new sessions, explore new technologies or new combinations of technology that can be used to create new content.

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Awesome!! Awarded Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP Award 2018/19

This month I have been awarded as a Microsoft MVP Cloud and Datacenter Management for 2018/19. I am both honored and humbled to have received this award. The other MVPs are rockstars in their fields and I feel it is fantastic that I am a part of this group of highly talented individuals in the global technical community. I look forward to another year of sharing and creating great content!

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Earlier this week the largest IT Pro community event in the Netherlands was held once again in Pathe Ede. This event never fails to draw in a big crowd and as always was jam-packed with great speakers from around the globe.

Experts Live is a non-profit organization based in The Netherlands that has a mission to “enable sharing of knowledge and experience about Microsoft technologies worldwide” and was founded by Maarten Goet (MVP, RD).

Setting up the room

Dive into some PowerShell and PoshBot

Jaap and Daan

Keynote @ ExpertsLive 2018

Mark Scholman & Colin on Azure Stack

Azure Security Center

Prepping the demos

The code has been shared on GitHub in my Events repository: Automate yourself out of a job – Use ChatOps

For anyone interested to learn more about Chat Automation beyond what was covered in this session, Brandon Olin, is currently writing a book on Chat Automation: ChatOps the Easy Way, which is shaping up to be a great resource for anyone interested in ChatOps!

I also shared the slides I used and my other presentations on SlideShare:

ExpertsLive 2018 - Automate yourself out of a job: Use ChatOps! Earlier this week the largest IT Pro community event in the Netherlands was held once again in Pathe Ede.

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Over the past two weeks I have presented at both the New York PowerShell User Group as well as the Dutch PowerShell User Group. It was a great opportunity for me to present on two fresh technologies in the Microsoft stack, Microsoft Flow and Azure Functions. Both topics spurred lively discussions among the crowd and it was great to see the different view points of how the technology could be used.

This is one of the benefits of both speaking and attending technical user groups, people speaking and attending have an interest in the same technology but utilize it in varying ways. It is a great way to expose yourself different perspectives.

I would like to thank Rubrik for sponsoring the swag I got to give away at both events. To give an idea of what user groups are like I have attached some pictures to give an impression of both events:

Awesome Azure Functions

Kenneth Hansen and Steve Robert presenting at DuPSUG

Daniel Silva presenting remotely

Ben Gelens Swag Winner

Microsoft Flow Slide

NYC – Crowd Picture

NYC – Swag winner

NYC – Jaap Flow

The code has been shared on GitHub in the Events repository:

NYCPSUG – Microsoft Flow and PowerShell combined to automate everything

DuPSUG – Create Awesome Azure Functions with PowerShell

I also shared the slides I used and my other presentations on SlideShare:

PowerShell User Groups - From New York to Almere - Flow & Azure Functions Over the past two weeks I have presented at both the New York PowerShell User Group…

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New York PowerShell User Group - Microsoft Flow

New York PowerShell User Group – Microsoft Flow

At the end of May I will be speaking at the New York PowerShell User Group about using Microsoft Flow to automate your personal work at the Microsoft Offices in New York. If you are in the New York area and interested in Microsoft Flow, PowerShell or automation in general be sure to sign up and drop by on the 31st of May.

https://www.meetup.com/NycPowershellMeetup/events/250101206/

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The last two weeks I had the opportunity to speak at a number of events. The PowerShell Conference Europe in Hanover and technical user groups in the UK. This post is intended to provide information about the various events and is intended to share the information in regard to the sessions.

Last week, 17-20 April, the PowerShell Conference Europe was held again. This event was once again a great success, with sessions presented by the PowerShell Team and experts from their respective fields. Enthusiasts gathered from all over the Europe, and the world, to participate in this event. There were plenty of lively interactions between attendees and speakers and the PowerShell team, which is something that really helps build the overall atmosphere at the conference.

The location of the conference, unchanged for 3 years now, housed the 300+ attendees easily. In contrast to last year the rooms in which the sessions were held were located more conveniently so that limited the amount of walking around the venue. On the last day of the conference an German X-Factor event was being held in the same venue, so this resulted an interesting mix of people in- and around the venue. I could not mention this years PowerShell Conference without at least mentioning the fact that #SadJoey hashtag was a trending topic at the conference. Due to an excellent picture tweeted by PowerShell team member, Steve Lee.

To give you and impression of the event I have shared some pictures of the PowerShell Conference Europe here:

Speakers in opening ceremony

Go with the Flow!

PowerShell Conference Asia team #PSConfAsia

@alexandair @jaap_brasser @danielhbohannon

Opening ceremony at PSConfEU

I presented the following three topics, so head over to my GitHub account to grab the slides and code, as always it is stored in the Events repository:

Navigate around the edge with PowerShell – Jaap Brasser

Using Chat Automation – Jaap Brasser

Go with the Flow – Rob Sewell & Jaap Brasser

All presentations and accompanying code can be found in the PSConfEU GitHub repository here. All sessions have been recorded and this post will be updated with the links to the videos once it becomes available.

The week following the PowerShell Conference I left for the UK to speak at various PowerShell, WinOps and Cloud Infrastructure user groups. The theme of the topics was mostly focused on Cloud Automation using Azure Functions and Microsoft Flow in combination with several other products of the Office 365 suite.

As the sessions in the UK were in the week after the PowerShell Conference, Tobias Weltner was so kind to gift two PSConfEU shirts for the user groups in the UK. The best question was rewarded with the polo with the PSConfEU logo embroidered on it. This was of course a tough call, and for the second shirt I opted for the always reliable Get-Random cmdlet.

It was impressive to see everyone everyone turn up for the technical meetups, as all of them took place in the evenings and the Microsoft Flow workshop was held on Saturday. There are a lot of people with passion for their jobs and the technologies they work with. It was great to meet you all, thanks for your interest and the engaging discussions, both after as well as during the sessions.

WinOps

Presenting on Flow at Southampton PowerShell user group

Slide down to WinOps meetup

Winner of PSConfEU polo at London PowerShell User Group

Presenting on Azure Functions

Explaining Flow

The slidedecks, labs and code I have used are stored into my GitHub account in the Events repository:

Automate it with Azure Functions

Automating everything with Microsoft Flow

Using Microsoft Flow for IT Professionals

Automate it with Azure Functions – PS London

Workshop – Automating with Microsoft Flow

The big take away for me is that fueling this passion in the technical communities is important and sharing ideas is what drives this. By doing so we are able to learn from each other and improve our technical abilities. This would of course not be possible without the support of all the sponsors, and in my case my employer Rubrik, as they make it possible for me to participate and contribute to the technical communities.

I also put the slides up on SlideShare to make it easier to view and share:

PowerShell Conference and Cloud Automation The last two weeks I had the opportunity to speak at a number of events. The PowerShell Conference Europe in Hanover and technical user groups in the UK.

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Microsoft DevDays Beijing

This March the DevDays Beijing were held at the Microsoft Headquarters. This event focused on developers and integration with Azure and its many services. With engineers and team members from the respective product teams on site to deliver presentations and answer questions. For more information about the event head over to the Microsoft DevDays Beijing site. Microsoft DevDays is coming to…

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Cloud Automation and PowerShell at UK User Groups

After a busy week at the PowerShell Conference Europe last week, blog post about this event is coming up soon! This week will be all about cloud based automation in both the form of Azure Functions as well as Microsoft Flow. I will be speaking about this at the UK Cloud Infrastructure User Group, PowerShell Southampton, WinOps, PowerShell London UK and a collaboration between the Scottish…

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Event

For us at DuPSUG, the Dutch PowerShell user group, 2018 is our sixth year and to start off the year we organized our first iteration of DuPSUG this Wednesday at Tools4ever in Baarn.

At the Dutch PowerShell User Group we are ready to kick off 2018 in style, by organizing another iteration of our user group. We have an evening crammed with sessions ready for you, and we look forward at seeing you there.

Speakers

For this event we had the following three speakers:

Jaap Brasser

Sander Stad

Tjeerd Seinen

BEGIN END SPEAKER TITLE 18:30 19:00 Jaap Brasser Implementing Chat Automation with PowerShell 19:00 19:30 Sander Stad Simplifying Log Shipping using dbatools 20:00 20:30 Tjeerd Seinen

Photos

To give you an impression of the event, here are some photos we have taken during the event and gathered from social media:

DuPSUG kickoff

Jaap Brasser Demo

Tjeerd speaking

Sander presenting

Tjeerd presenting

  Slides & Code

The code and presentations have been shared on the DuPSUG GitHub in the DuPSUG 11 repository: DuPSUG 11 – New Year edition

Recap of DuPSUG 11 – New Year edition Event For us at DuPSUG, the Dutch PowerShell user group, 2018 is our sixth year and to start off the year we organized our first iteration of DuPSUG this Wednesday at Tools4ever in Baarn.

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Apply Chat Automation today - Work smarter tomorrow

Draft Post for Conference visits

The past two weeks I have been asked to speak at both the Mississippi and the Munich PowerShell user groups to share my thoughts on how to apply Chat Automation. For those of you who have been following my blog you know this has not been the first time talking on this subject. The code has been shared on GitHub in my Events repository: Mississippi PowerShell User Group The code has been shared on…

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A week in Singapore - DevOps Days and PowerShell Conference Asia

A week in Singapore – DevOps Days and PowerShell Conference Asia

Last week was a very busy for us over in Singapore, together with the PowerShell Conference Asia team we organized a 3-day conference in Singapore. In the same week the DevOps Days Singapore team hosted their conference and I was a speaker at this event as well. This year marked the third year of being a part of PSConfAsia, the first two years I was a speaker there, this year I joined the…

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Earlier this week I was invited to attend and speak at the Chinese MVP event, China MVP Community Connection in Hangzhou. As a foreign MVP at a local event it was a very interesting experience to discuss the common issues they ran into and compare that to the struggle and challenges we face back over at Europe.

To paraphrase the description of the MVP CC:

2017 Microsoft’s MVP China Summit – China MVP Community Connection will be held in Hangzhou, China on October 20-21, 2017. The Microsoft MVP team is here to invite you to participate in this fall summit, with hundreds of MVPs from all over the country gathered together to discuss the future direction in which we are headed.

There have been some photos taken at the event which are available here:

Presenting on PowerShell

MVPs all gathered

Always time for a selfie

MVPs gathered together

My session was called Paint it blue with PowerShell, a session about implementing PowerShell in your workflow to prevent context switching. For engineers and developers working on a diverse range of operating systems and cloud platform having a uniform scripting language can be beneficial and I highlighted the benefits in this presention. The slides have been shared on GitHub in my Events repository:

China MVP Community Connection 2017

I also shared the slides I used and my other presentations on SlideShare:

Paint it blue with PowerShell – China MVP Community Connection Earlier this week I was invited to attend and speak at the Chinese MVP event, China MVP Community Connection in Hangzhou.

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Tonight I was invited to speak at the EIC Inspiration event, located in Groningen. It was my first time attending, and as a result, speaking at this event. If you living in the neighborhood or if you are interested in the events they host have a look over here:

IEC Inspiration

There was a photographer present, when the photos are released I will link to those in this post. To get an impression of the event here is a first impression based on the photos on Twitter:

Why chat?

Introduction

All the code and slides are as always available in my Events GitHub repository:

EIC Inspiration 2017 – Chat Automation in Modern IT Environment

I also shared the slides I used and my other presentations on SlideShare:

EIC Inspiration Night – Chat Ops session Tonight I was invited to speak at the EIC Inspiration event, located in Groningen. It was my first time attending, and as a result, speaking at this event.

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It had already been well over a year since the first iteration of the DuPSUG Basics day, but yesterday we finally had the opportunity to host our second day of basic PowerShell training. This time we were hosted at the Sogeti office in Vianen.

BEGIN END SPEAKER TITLE 09:15 10:30 Mark van de Waarsenburg Powershell basics 10:40 11:25 Erik Heeres Powershell Remoting 11:30 12:15 Jaap Brasser [MVP] Manage your infrastructure with PowerShell 13:15 14:00 Robert Prust Improving your scripts 14:00 14:45 Ralph Eckhard Powershell for Office 365 Administrators 15:20 16:05 Jeff Wouters [MVP] Tips and tricks 16:10 16:45 DuPSUG Speakers Ask us (almost) anything

The Dutch PowerShell User Group has a GitHub repository where all the demos and slides of the presenters will be gathered:

Dutch PowerShell User Group – Basics Deux

To give you an impression of the event I have included the following photos:

DuPSUG Banner

Jaap Brasser

Ralph Eckhart

DuPSUG Registration

Robert Prust

Erik Heeres

The code and the presentation has been shared on GitHub in my Events repository: Manage your Infrastructure with PowerShell

I also shared the slides I used and my other presentations on SlideShare:

Dutch PowerShell User Group – Basics part Deux It had already been well over a year since the first iteration of the DuPSUG Basics day, but yesterday we finally had the opportunity to host our second day of basic PowerShell training.

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Last week I had the pleasure of presenting for the Austin PowerShell UG, this is a group run by Ricc Babbitt. During this session I presented the following topic:

Reach the next level with PowerShell

During this presentation I walked the audience through the process of developing a short script to gather information from a system. I pinpointed a number of steps that you can take while developing a script and how to combine the output from different sources in order to get a complete picture of what is running in your environment.

Austin PowerShell UG Flyer

On the big screen

The code has been shared on GitHub in my Events repository:

Reach the next level with PowerShell

I also shared the slides I used and my other presentations on SlideShare:

Austin PowerShell Users Group – Slides and Code Last week I had the pleasure of presenting for the Austin PowerShell UG, this is a group run by 

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Decipher obfuscated URLs with PowerShell

Decipher obfuscated URLs with PowerShell

I recently received a message on Skype from a friend I had not talked to for a while, I was happy to see it was spam. Not because it was spam, but because it was using an encoded Url. After taking a quick look at the structure I thought, this is definitely something I can decode. To me this looked like hexadecimal code, and I quickly threw together a PowerShell one-liners to decode to decode…