He/Him. Microsoft MVP and GitKraken Ambassador. 🌏 Poshsecurity.com. 🏳🌈 Gay. 🐱 Cat owner.
The organizers of the Melbourne Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Meetup would like to know how we can make the Meetup better and to understand your areas of interest and backgrounds to better serve you as members of this community focused Meetup group.
Azure Automation State Configuration (previously Azure Automation DSC), is a service provided by Azure that allows you to write, manage and compile PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) configurations and assign these configurations to target virtual machines (or any server or workstation to be honest). On its own, State Configuration provides some basic configuration examples, but its true power comes form the ability for you to define your own configurations.
The Posh-SYSLOG PowerShell module continues to surprise me. I originally developed the module in early 2012, making it available on GitHub in 2013. Since then I've continued to maintain the module, even though I don’t directly use the module.
In September I presented The Boring Security Talk at DDD Melbourne, NDC Sydney and the Melbourne Cloud and Datacenter Meetup.
This talk was an ambitious talk and I was attempting to cover a wide range of topics that are not commonly discussed. I really enjoyed putting the talk together and presenting it to everyone.
I'm excited to announce that I'll be presenting a new talk, “The Boring Security Talk” at both DDD Melbourne and NDC Sydney in September.
I'm happy to announce that Planet PowerShell is now enforcing HTTPS for all aggregated sites. I gave some extra time for authors to make the change. In the end only 3 authors opted out of moving to HTTPS, so I'm happy with the result.
DNS is one of those critical systems that never gets the attention it deserves. Every organisation relies on DNS. It is critical for the smooth operation of your business and yet, it's rarely considered as important as web and email. Your customers can’t find your corporate website or email servers without DNS, without DNS your business isn’t online. People shouldn’t be required to remember an IP address (something that's next to impossible with IPv6) just to access the corporate intranet!
Previously I announced that Planet PowerShell will be enforcing HTTPS for all aggregated sites from August 1st (2018-08-01). That date is now a little over 4 weeks away.
