PowerShell Easy Caching

The other day I answered a question on StackOverflow about how to cache the results of slow running operations easily in PowerShell. I thought it had the makings of a good blog post so here we go! Continue Reading...
PowerShell quickie - function to make your Mocks faster

In C#, writing unit tests is king, and Moq is the hotness we use to Mock objects and methods, like the MockObjects we get with Pester in PowerShell. Continue Reading...
DIY Microsoft Teams On-Air Light!

Children. You love them. They in turn, run into your meetings all the time. Sometimes wearing pants. Wouldn't it be great to have a way to keep them informed of when Daddy or Mommy is in a meeting? Something nice and big and obvious that they can just totally ignore, right? Continue Reading...
Joining Microsoft

I have really loved these last three years with #BigBank #SpoilersItWasWellsFargoAllAlong and made some great friends and had some awesome experiences creating and sharing sessions at MMS with my friends I made along the way. Continue Reading...
Progressive Automation Pt II - PowerShell GUIs

In our previous post in the series, we took a manual task and converted it into a script, but our users could only interface with it by ugly manual manipulation of a spreadsheet. So in this post, I'll show how I would typically go about building a PowerShell WPF GUI from an existing automation that kind of works OK. Continue Reading...
Quick Guide - Setting up Remote Management of your child's PC

With everyone working remote now, it's really helpful to have a method to remote control your kid's computers, _especially_ if they are hard to keep on task like mine. So I wrote this short guide to help you get a handle. **This guide expects you to have two computers, one for you, one for your kids to use.** Continue Reading...