We are pleased to inform you about our upcoming User Group meeting, which will be a ‘whole day’-event.
Back in 2012 we had our first meeting, where Ed Wilson (The Microsoft Scripting Guy) did a marvelous session about remote management.
Also Ed’s wife, Teresa Wilson, will be attending.
It just happens that Ed is in our country again on the 2nd of April and was kind enough to offer us his services as a speaker.
Also Bartek Bielawski, MVP Windows PowerShell, will be presenting. For those who don’t know his work, take a look at his blog.
Jeff Wouters, Windows PowerShell MVP and DuPSUG founder, will be doing a session about his Active Directory Health Check PowerShell script.
The content and sessions for this event have been chosen and it will be freakin’ awesome!
Optiver will be our host again and as always, parking is available nearby and the venue is located next to the ‘Amsterdam Zuid’ train station.
In this meeting all sessions will be in English.
08:30 – 09:00 | Reception
09:00 – 09:15 | Welcome, introduction and DuPSUG changes | Jeff Wouters (MVP Windows PowerShell)
09:15 – 10:00 | Using PowerCLI to automate your VMware vSphere environment | Robert van den Nieuwendijk (vExpert)
10:00 – 10:15 | Break
10:15 – 11:15 | A PowerShell Active Directory Health Check | Jeff Wouters (MVP Windows PowerShell)
11:15 – 12:00 | PowerShell Summit, September meeting and debate | DuPSUG
12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch
13:45 – 14:45 | OMI – PowerShell everywhere | Bartek Bielawski (MVP Windows PowerShell)
14:45 – 15:45 | GUI and PowerShell Remoting: better together | Bartek Bielawski (MVP Windows PowerShell)
15:45 – 16:00 | Break
16:00 – 17:00 | Desired State Configuration (DSC) | Ed Wilson (MSFT)
17:00 – 18:00 | PowerShell workflows | Ed Wilson (MSFT)
Title: Using PowerCLI to automate your VMware vSphere environment
Speaker: Robert van den Nieuwendijk
Description: VMware was one of the first companies outside Microsoft who created a PowerShell snap in, called PowerCLI, to manage their software.
Today PowerCLI can be used to manage VMware vSphere, VMware vCloud Director, VMware ImageBuilder, VMware AutoDeploy, VMware vSphere Update Manager, and VMware Horizon View. Robert van den Nieuwendijk, who is the author of the “Learning PowerCLI” book, will show you in this session how to use PowerCLI to manage VMware vSphere.
Some of the topics discussed will be: connecting to a vCenter or an ESXi server, managing vSphere hosts, managing virtual machines, managing clusters, managing virtual networks, using the VMware vSphere API from PowerCLI, using esxcli from PowerCLI, creating a new extension property on a PowerCLI object type, and using the vCheck script to report about problems in your vSphere environment.
Title: A PowerShell Active Directory Health Check
Speaker: Jeff Wouters (MVP Windows PowerShell)
Description: At each new customer there is a single thing I check before starting on a project: Active Directory health.
You wouldn’t believe the problems that you could encounter when AD isn’t feeling that well, and what a headache
it can cause when troubleshooting the issue(s).
Over the last few months I’ve been working on a private PowerShell project: a health check for Active Directory environments.
I’ll show you the bumps in the road taken, the impact that scripting techniques can have on performance,
the difference between choices (i.e. cmdlets vs. LDAP queries) and a first glimpse of the next step…
Title: OMI – PowerShell everywhere
Speaker: Bartek Bielawski
Description: CIM cmdlets and CDXML commands are advertised as technology, that will enable PowerShell users to manage anything in datacenter.
It wouldn’t be possible though without something that we can talk to on the remote end, and that’s were OMI kicks in.
In this presentation I will show you how you can manage processes on Linux using OMI and CIM, and how easy it is to create CDXML based commands on top of it.
Title: GUI and PowerShell Remoting: better together
Speaker: Bartek Bielawski
Description: With PowerShell remoting in version PS3 delegation and constrained endpoints became something any admin can configure and implement.
But constrained means usually not comfortable. Something we should and can address.
In this session we will start with basic setup, walk thru implicit remoting and finally, we will build simple GUI on top constrained remoting endpoints.
All based on real-life example of the tool that was using this exotic combination.
Title: Desired State Configuration (DSC)
Speaker: Ed Wilson (The Microsoft Scripting Guy)
Description: Windows 4.0 introduces a new Windows PowerShell killer feature – Desired State Configuration.
As part of the Management Framework 4.0 it is platform and OS independent in that it works wherever you can install Windows PowerShell 4.0.
Learn how to create custom MOF (managed object format) files using Windows PowerShell, how to apply these MOF files to
configure both local and remote machines, and how to correct configuration drift. It is easy, if you can write
a Windows PowerShell function, you can write a DSC. If you have never even written a function, you will learn that in this session as well.
Title: PowerShell workflows
Speaker: Ed Wilson (The Microsoft Scripting Guy)
Description: In this session, I talk about the Windows PowerShell workflow.
I begin with an overview of the technology and identify specific scenarios in which using a Windows PowerShell workflow simplifies scripting challenges.
I then look at the steps required to develop a workflow, and point out some of pitfalls to avoid.
Finally, I show similarities and differences between workflows, functions, and modules.