Well as i said over 2 years ago…

It absolutely has been interesting šŸ™‚Ā  As i said in my previous post, i joined the amazing team at Nebbia Technology in Orlando.Ā  I can honestly say that when i wrote that last blog post i had no idea how amazing the team really is.Ā  I work with some of the most talented thought leaders in the industry on a daily basis.Ā  It is truly a joy to go to work everyday.Ā  I am working as an Azure and Azure DevOps consultant out of my home office mostly or on-site with our valued clients.

I have the opportunity to enable change in organizations from the inside out and it’s an amazing feeling.Ā  Ā I shared this on social media as well but i got this feed back this week from my Director of Business Development … had a call with **client** today and they said they are really seeing all the work we did with them last year come to fruition. Client said that one of the quickest wins with the biggest ROI was the build automation project Jeff Truman did with their 2 mobile apps. Client said it has completely shifted the mentality of that team and they now build things end to end instead of just building it and not working about deployment.Ā  It’s so gratifying to enable our clients to truly transform the way they work and even the way they think about work.

I know i said it in the last post too, but this time i really promise that i will continue blogging more actively in the future.Ā  I am also going to link here some of the blogging i have been doing at work.

Till next time (Which will be soon)Ā  — Scriptwarrior out

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Well that was interesting….

ScriptWarrior here… it’s been a few months again but i promise this time that I will be blogging more often. Ā  Quite a bit has happened since the last time i posted. Ā I did do quite a bit of work on the DSC Non-domain joined Azure IAAS project that i spoke about in my last post. Ā It was great experience and I was excited to place the configuration into production and let it rip. Ā I was about a week or two from deployment and unfortunately i was unable to complete the project.

I came into work on Dec 1st, and was notified that my position was no longer really a thing with the company i was working for. Ā It was a complete departure from normal for me and i was unemployed for the first time in quite a few years. Ā I started to reach out to my extensive network and weighing out some opportunities that i had been keeping an eye on. Ā Then literally 4 days after becoming unemployed… i was employed again!

I have now joined an amazing team in Orlando FL called Nebbia Technology. Ā I am working as an Azure Cloud / DevOps Consultant and could not be any happier. Ā I am super excited for 2017 and all that it has in store.

I will make it a point to be posting back here at least once a month minimum.

That’s my End Of Year / New Years Resolution šŸ™‚

Check out the Nebbia Technology blog post about me joining the company …Ā here.

Merry Christmas and See you all next year!

–ScriptWarrior Out

 

Yes my blog still exists and so do i…. :o)

Hello All,

I just realized it’s been nearly 2 years since i last posted here. I have made some moves and PowerShell is still very central to all that i do on a daily basis.

Lately i have really been digging into Desired State Configuration and I am prepping my talk for this month’s Tampa PowerShell User Group. I am going to discuss a project that I have been kicking through at work.
Securing a non-domain joined server via Desired State Configuration to mimic Group Policy Object Domain Joined Security.

Stay Tuned
-ScriptWarrior

Welcome to my session…. please turn up your phone!

I have been meaning to get back to my much ignored blog so here goes šŸ™‚

I took the reigns of the Tampa Bay Powershell User Group about 5 months ago now.Ā  I have very much enjoyed firing the group back up and getting some traction back under this community in the Tampa area.

So why the Title of this post you may ask?…. One of the ground rules of my User Group is just as it reads above.

Turn your cellphone ringer UP not down when you come to the meeting.Ā  In fact, i normally make an announcement that the person that gets the most work calls during the meeting will win a book or some other type of schwag.Ā  Why you ask?Ā  We all know that most of the people that come out to a Powershell User group are either interested in using Powershell or are already using it.Ā  It is also assumed that they are likely Windows Admins on a IT Operations type team.

We all know what those 2 things mean…. ON CALL!.Ā  If you are on call and you are getting calls during the user group then it’s obvious that you need Automation.Ā  Powershell is no longer a fringe subject … it is now literally a necessity if you are in IT OPS or even Development.Ā  There are just not enough hours in a day to deal with every situation that comes up manually.Ā  Remote Desktop is not the way to manage windows infrastructure any more.

So… Turn your phone up and get the most obnoxious ring tone.Ā  If your phone is ringing during my session…. You need Powershell most of all šŸ™‚

— ScriptWarrior

DO YOU PAY ATTENTION?

Great read from the venerable Don Jones – take a look šŸ™‚

Don JonesĀ®

This is going to be an odd post, I think. Iā€™ve becomeā€¦ disquieted. Not upset, not concerned, just a bit at odds with something, and Iā€™m not even sure how to clearly express it.

Itā€™s about paying attention to details.

Now, Iā€™mĀ extremely detail-focused. Clinically so. Possibly pathologically. But I feel I have to be; itā€™s easy enough to make mistakes (and I make plenty) if youā€™re not paying attention, and in my industry aĀ single mistyped character can break things in pretty awful ways. So I think detail is important to what we do.

So Iā€™m a bit amazed at the folks in my industry ā€“ presumably folks just as concerned with detail as myself ā€“ who have remarkably little grasp of detail. For example, I got an e-mail from someone the other day who was trying to find my ā€œLearn PowerShell at Lunchtimeā€ book. Heā€™d read about itā€¦

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MS TechEd 2012 Day 2 Recap

Hello again from MS TechEd 2012.Ā 

Yesterday (Day 2) was another exciting and exhausting day.Ā  The sessions were top notch as usual and yesterday was a bit more System Center focused for me.Ā  My current responsibilities at my job “encouraged” me to venture into the System Center talks.Ā  I have to say that having used SCCM and SCOM in the past, the 2012 versions look promising to say the least.Ā  The Orchestrator product is the automation piece that i feel has been missing a long time in the system center platform.Ā  Microsoft has really knocked it out of the park with that product and better yet…. it all runs on top of Powershell and just uses SCCM and SCOM for the plubming.Ā  BRILLIANT!Ā 

Last night was also an amazing time.Ā  We had a commmunity event from 6-9 that was just fabulous.Ā  I split time between the Server 2012 tables and the Powershell Area.Ā  The Server 2012 tables was also the area for System Center and the Microsoft Reps were very knowledgable and had great tips and tricks.Ā  Then once I was able to finally decipher the table layout, I found my Powershell peeps.Ā  Sitting around a table with the likes of Ed and Teresa Wilson, Jeff Hicks, Bo Prox and Jason Hofferly was just an amazing experience.Ā  Those guys have such a vast array of knowledge that is all tied together by this single paassion.Ā  It is really amazing how Powershell allows AD guys to talk shop with SQL guys and Group Policy Admins to talk geek with Developers.Ā  Powershell, I feel, has really bridged the gap that siloed Microsoft Technologies for far too long.Ā 

After hours was not without it’s fun either.Ā  Catching up with some Microsoft buddies and talking shop over a cold one is never a bad time.Ā  Spent some time with the Tampa IT Pro Evangelist Blain Barton and some of this cronies.Ā  He is a class act and is by far one of the most personable Technical Resources I have ever had the pleasure of interacting with.Ā 

It was a very long but fulfilling day and now we are already into day 3.Ā  More to come!Ā  The takeaway from all this…. If you can attend one of these events DO IT!Ā  It it very much worth it šŸ™‚

Till Next Time – ScriptWarrior OUT!