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Where did that toast come from?

This is my third Hacktoberfest, the event that made October one of my favorite months of the year!

Time for a bit of Exchange flavoured spring cleaning?

I get you; you like toast, but you don’t want to put a toaster on 100 desks.

I don’t know if this will help anyone else, and it’s more for future me, but I hope it helps someone out there!

On the fence about becoming a TechSnips contributor?

Spoiler alert: this post didn’t end up the way I expected it to when I started writing…

How do you deal with credentials in your scripts?

We’ve been looking into PowerShell Scheduled Jobs lately, today let’s have a quick look at the “options” available to us.

Much sooner than expected, let’s talk about Windows PowerShell scheduled jobs again.

In an effort to spread my love of Windows PowerShell scheduled jobs, this is the start of series on the subject.

One day my daughter will be putting my code to shame, and I can’t wait.

If you have a PowerShell blog, I can’t overstate how valuable it is to get your feed hooked up to Planet PowerShell!

This morning I was up at 4 AM, live streaming the creation of an auto-tweet script.

This has been sitting as an open issue on the project for a long time and given how quick of a fix it was I’m disappointed that I didn’t get to it sooner.

Didn’t I literally just post about my blogging workflow on GitHub Pages?

TechSnips is a new e-learning service and I’ve been recording content for it, along with many other contributors.

Ever find yourself needing to get an image up on your screen in a timely manner?

I’ve also noticed a number of people saying ‘I want to get into it… but need to figure out x and y first.

CSVs are pretty handy, right?

After another three flights, and 16 hours in the air, I’m back home in New Zealand.

That’s it.

Today was the reason I was able to be here at Summit.

No comments about the plumbing or anything today, having gotten over the initial shock.

Why the hell are American toilets so full?

It gives me a glimpse into how people are using the module and it also focuses my documentation efforts on something that might actually be useful.

Over the last day or so I’ve been setting up a sandbox/virtual lab which leverages our Veeam backups.

If you’re looking for some help, try #PSHelp.

This seems like a decent excuse for a ‘State of the Blog’ post.

This time around, I’ll walk you through how to create your own installer.

I can’t tell you how happy I am to be writing this post.

How the heck did that happen, isn’t the system meant to give me some warning?

There were, and still are, many people frustrated with the fact that Windows 10 would decide to forcibly reboot for updates.

Woah, 2017 flew by.

Given it’s the holiday season, I worked on a PowerShell based Secret Santa Organizer

Sometimes PowerShell just throws the system culture out the window and assumes that you meant to supply the date in the American style.

It was a great event, with five days worth of awesome PowerShell content coming out!

Whether they’re nearly empty, nearly full, or somewhere in-between, it’s helpful to get a quick overview of all your servers’ hard drives.

I hate reducing customizability, just as much as I hate making breaking changes in my projects.

Summits, Blogging, and Hacking make October the ‘hackiest’ month of the year.

There’s one thing that bugs me when scheduling scripts from the prompt, however: Recurrence.

The NIST guidelines struck a chord with me.

It’s been nine months, time to revisit the prevention of Windows Update reboots.

Now that we’ve figured out how to connect to each of the Office 365 services, it’s time to tie a pretty (PowerShell) blue bow on it.

Just like their on-premises counterparts, each of these products has their own PowerShell interface for management.

At first, I figured this wouldn’t cause me much of an issue.

Headers, introduced in the Creators Update, can be used to organize you toasts.

Buttons can look pretty ugly when only using one, so just click your Toast instead!

April saw the release of the Creators Update for Windows 10 which brought with it a handful of new options for toast notifications.

Your business uses two disparate cloud services and needs them to share data, but they don’t integrate natively.