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Azure Storage Data Movement Uploader in Five Commits
I have two goals: Learn more about Git and learn about DMLib. Azure Storage Data Movement Library...
Date: 01/11/2016
The Azure $25 Dollar Challenge
With today’s announcement about Visual Studio Dev Essentials I asked, what can you run for $25...
Date: 11/18/2015
Tech404 – Atlanta’s Slack Community
Community is important to me. Community is important to Microsoft and to many other...
Date: 11/14/2015
The Azure Rest API, or Rather Resource Management API
Let’s start with a simple bingle search. Head over to duckduckgo.com and type in “Azure...
Date: 11/03/2015
Deploy to Azure Resource Groups using the SDK
Authentication Start by adding the ADAL nuget package. Install-Package...
Date: 10/31/2015
Azure Logic Apps: Twitter to Blob Storage
In this episode I create a Logic App that uses the Twitter and Blob storage connectors.
Date: 10/14/2015
Windows 10 – Show/Hide Icons in the Notification Area
Why is this hard? All I want to do is decide what icons are shown and what icons are hidden in the...
Date: 10/12/2015
YouTube’s Live Streaming, and the Time it Just Stole from Me!
I haven’t posted in a while. Shame shame shame… Today I am writing to you about...
Date: 10/05/2015
5 Minutes with Kibana – Overview Dashboard
Let’s create some data visualizations using Kibana. Kibana is the “K” in the ELK...
Date: 08/20/2015
Deploying Azure Resource Manager Virtual Machines with Visual Studio for IT Pros
While PowerShell alone is great for deploying Azure Virtual Machines, the newest innovations in...
Date: 08/11/2015
Wallpapers… Because Why Not?
Here are a couple of wallpapers I made…
Date: 07/20/2015
New Ch9 Video: Installing Jenkins in Two Minutes…
I’m working through a complete setup of a DevOps tool chain and figured I’d make some...
Date: 07/15/2015
Authenticate to the Azure Service Management API
So, back in the day we used x509 Certificates to authenticate to Azure’s API. A year or so...
Date: 07/01/2015
Post to Slack from PowerShell
I was working on some reporting/alerting from my deployment and monitoring systems. I want them to...
Date: 06/26/2015
Cloud, Azure, DevOps, Love and Hate
Early in 2007 or 2008, the one and only, DigUnix got back from an overnight hack-a-thon. During this...
Date: 06/23/2015
Changes to Windows 10 Preview – Insider Hub
I use this tool to say up-to-date with what’s going on in Windows 10. The most recent...
Date: 06/23/2015
I Have a New Role at Microsoft
So, I was a Primer Field Engineer, but now I’m a Technology Evangelist. What’s up with...
Date: 06/16/2015
Troubleshooting Azure Resource Manager Failed Messages
So you’re in the new portal and trying to deploy something? It runs for a while and then...
Date: 05/29/2015
The Case of Azure Websites and Continuous Deployment
So this post has a misleading title… Because I’m not going to explain how this works,...
Date: 03/02/2015
Post to Yammer from Azure Automation
This little diddy pulls down the Azure Updates RSS feed, get’s the last days posts (if there...
Date: 02/19/2015
8 Azure Preview Features You Should Look At
Azure… There is plenty to keep up with, just dealing with the features that have been released. With...
Date: 12/28/2014
Azure Web Sites DaaS–Diagnostics as a Service
DaaS for Azure Web Sites is a great tool when “bad things happen to a good site”! It allows you to...
Date: 12/02/2014
New Video: Save Time and Money with Azure Automation
We’ve all seen compute power sitting idle, costing us money... Well no more! Automate the creation,...
Date: 11/18/2014
Windows Azure, Remote PowerShell and the Case of the Unknown Certificate Authority
Recently the folks over on the Azure team released a bunch of improvements to Azure. One of them...
Date: 04/30/2013
How To: Setup Windows Azure PowerShell
A lot of the demos, lab environments, and test I do are in Azure. I try to script everything so that...
Date: 04/20/2013
Script: Check BitLocker Status of a Volume
Recently a customer reached out to me with a challenge. They’d just purchased a number of Surface...
Date: 04/20/2013
Visual Studio 2012 on Surface RT
This is a short video showing my Surface RT running Visual Studio 2012. A how-to is coming soon, so...
Date: 04/20/2013
PowerDNSimple: A PowerShell module for DNSimple.com REST API
This journey started when I was building a test lab on Windows Azure. The goal was to run two...
Date: 04/20/2013
PowerShell and the Kinect
A few months back I wrote a “module” for scripting the Kinect with PowerShell. It’s located at:...
Date: 04/20/2013
Install Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012
Here is a short video showing how to install Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012. I use...
Date: 04/20/2013
A Little Something for your PowerShell Profile: Add Types Directly from the GAC
I was working with one of my customers today. They asked a question… Can we use Add-Type against...
Date: 04/20/2013
How-to: Download VMs From Windows Azure
Today I was trying to download a few of the VMs I have running at azure. After a couple of minutes...
Date: 09/28/2012
10 Useful SharePoint 2013 Preview Downloads
Downloadable eBook: Deployment guide for SharePoint 2013 Preview...
Date: 08/10/2012
SharePoint 2013 Prerequisites and Errors I’ve seen
Like its predecessors, SharePoint 2013 has a whole list of prerequisites to install. Not unexpected,...
Date: 07/27/2012
What are the text file special characters?
Just some notes I have in my PowerShell profile... <# Text File Special Characters # -- `0 -...
Date: 03/19/2012
SharePoint 2010 Solution and Feature Deployment
In SharePoint 2010 PowerShell should be used to deploy solutions and enable features. There are a...
Date: 03/09/2012
Using the ULSViewer and Correlation ID's in SharePoint 2010
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Date: 01/11/2012
Hello World
As I run across interesting stuff, I’ll post.
Date: 09/28/2011