PowerShell in Action – June 2, 2017 – Microsoft Burlington
Join us for a day of PowerShell. Just as it is a tool for you to do amazing things, we are going to use it as a tool to explore amazing technologies. If you are looking to learn PowerShell, we have an entire track dedicated for you. If you already know the basics, go deep and learn more in our full professional track. There will be sessions on Azure, Containers, Nano Server, and hands-on lab sessions where you will be able to put the practices you learn to use on your own equipment. Don’t forget to Bring a laptop and power supply. Also, for security to get in the building, you will need to present an official ID.
Whether you are on the Dev or the Ops side, there is plenty here to learn.
Purpose: Introduce and Dive Deep into PowerShell leveraging the latest and greatest technologies such as Windows Server 2016, Office 365, Nano Server, Containers, DevOps, Azure Cloud
Target Audience: Those that work in the IT sector.
- Professional System Administrators, security professionals, virtualization professionals, or others that are part of the “Operations” side of the business.
- Developers (generally enterprise, but all are welcome) who want to learn how they can make their life better by learning PowerShell, Containers, DevOps and other technologies
- Those that what to learn introduction or deep dive on the technologies covered in this event.
- Early career IT or Dev
Audience Expectations: Learn about PowerShell and how to leverage PowerShell for managing, automating other technologies that are growing rapidly. Most of the content presented will have some element or lessons in PowerShell. Take home the lab guide, a USB drive with all content and scripts.
Platinum Sponsor: Microsoft
Keynote Presentation by: Tim Mangan
A Walk-through of a real-world example of PowerShell to automate VM Management and application packaging
The Windows ADK for the 1703 release includes PowerShell based scripts for automation in a Hyper-V environment. Although intended for App-V packaging, these scripts make a great example for general automation of VMs including the following:
- OS Image creation
- Unattended VM creation and OS installation
- Creating a local account in the VM and enabling remote management
- Setting VM Parameters (ex: memory, CPU, NIC, AutoStart)
- Creating a checkpoint
- Reverting and starting the VM
- Copying files into the VM and injecting commands
Event Information
We will focus on Automating via PowerShell but also cover DevOps practices, Containers, Windows Server 2016 Nano and how Azure helps deliver and leverage all of these technologies. There will be a fee to cover expenses (USB drives, Drawing prizes, Snacks, Drinks, Lab Guides, etc.) (equivalent to other all day classes for $1200). Wow, we landed a great partner and sponsor, Microsoft! As a result, we are now able to offer a new reduced Price, $25.00!!!! (was $50). Still looking for other sponsors too 🙂
All Attendees Will Get
- A full day of training on PowerShell and many other great and new technologies
- USB Thumbdrive with all content scripts, slides, additional resources, etc.
- Printed and bound Lab Guide so you can do more labs on your own
- Door prizes and the opportunity to win great drawing prizes
Overall breakdown of the day…
- Introductions
- Keynote: Tim Mangan
- Breakouts (two tracks): Professional | Getting Started
- Lunch & Hands-On Labs (Thanks to Microsoft)
- Hands-On Labs
- Raffle Drawing Prizes
All-Star Speaker Lineup …
- Tim Mangan
- Gene Laisne
- Robert Borges
- Dan Stolts
- Lee Benjamin
- Warren Frame
- Bill Wilder
- Jason Haley
- Jeffery Hicks
- More…
Topics and Technologies…
- PowerShell
- Containers
- Hyper-V
- Nano Server
- PowerShell on Linux
- Azure
- Docker
- DevOps
- Office365
Traditionally Windows VMs (virtual machines) in Azure would include a Windows Server Datacenter license. The cost of this license was built into the hourly/monthly fee for that VM. This made systems easy to roll out using the GUI wizards and made licensing a cinch. If you are moving existing virtual machine workloads to the cloud, this can be expensive since you paying again for licenses you’ve already purchased.