The “Hey, Scripting Guys!” blog has been retired. There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.

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Showing results for October 2017 - Scripting Blog [archived]

Oct 27, 2017

Reverse Desired State Configuration: How it works

Doctor Scripto

Nik Charlebois is a Premier Field Engineer based out of Canada. He is the author of several books on SharePoint automation, and he writes blog posts on a regular basis about all things PowerShell. You can find out more about his work here. ReverseDSC PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) has been around for a few years now, and many organiza...

Oct 3, 2017

Use Docker to automate testing of PowerShell Core scripts

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Learn the basics about Docker, and see how to use it for PowerShell Core script testing on different operating systems. I'm Dan Ward, a Boston-based .NET software engineer who is just plum crazy about PowerShell and automation. Earlier this year, I uploaded my first GitHub project—a PowerShell whitespace cleaner that also replaces...