PowerShell is Microsoft’s automation scripting language and shell. PowerShell allows the automation of just about any aspect of Windows Server and Microsoft’s enterprise software, including Azure. I’d been wanting to learn PowerShell for some time now, and this spring, I finally dedicated some time to this project. What have I learned?
PowerShell is a programming language but it’s also a shell, which means it’s a bit quirky.
Microsoft has put a lot of effort into making the automation story compelling.
If you want to automate Microsoft stuff, PowerShell is absolutely worth learning.
There were more resources for new administrators than programmers.
If you want to get started with PowerShell, here are my favorite resources:
In honor of Earth Day, I want to share a story about our recent office closing at Matrix Group, and how we tried to do it in the most sustainable, community-minded way possible. Closing our Arlington, VA office was a bittersweet milestone. After years of working fully remotely and knowing that remote work was here to stay for us, it didn’t...
On Monday, March 31st, Matrix Group said goodbye to our office on the 3rd floor of 2611 South Clark Street in Crystal City. We moved into this space in July 2019, a mere nine months before the pandemic began. This new office was light-filled, full of collaborative spaces, decorated with purple splashes and Star Wars toys, and full of the latest...
CEO Joanna Pineda and I have a running joke that whenever we see “delve” and “embark” used in the same paragraph (even better if it’s the same sentence) we wager a lot that AI was involved in the drafting. If you've been using AI tools like ChatGPT for content creation, you’ve probably noticed this, too. AI definitely favors certain words -...
