Cloud LCM – Prototype for DSC-as-a-Service

I’ve been experimenting over the past few weeks with a project I’ve been planning to work on for years now. It is this concept of being able to deploy PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) in a server-less mode. In any traditional DSC project, the actual configuration gets executed by a local service that comes with […]

Read More Cloud LCM – Prototype for DSC-as-a-Service

Monitor the Compliance of your Office 365 Configuration with Azure DevOPS and DSC

As previously discussed in my The PaaS/SaaS DSC Paradigm article, the continuous monitoring of Software-as-a-Service configurations is something that keeps me up at night. Still to this day, when a customer asks me what the recommended way to run Office365DSC configurations and to ensure continuous compliance is, I still don’t have a good answer to […]

Read More Monitor the Compliance of your Office 365 Configuration with Azure DevOPS and DSC

DevOPS for SharePoint Admins

I am sitting in the speakers room at the European Collaboration Summit as I am writing this blog article, just finished giving a talk on DevOPS for SharePoint Admins here in Wiesbaden, Germany. The session I delivered was focused around building a completely automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipeline to automate the deployment of […]

Read More DevOPS for SharePoint Admins

North American Collaboration Summit Session

This past week I had the honor of presenting a session on Azure DevOPS for SharePoint Admins at the North American Collaboration Summit in Branson Missouri alongside some of the best and smartest SharePoint people there are. Huge thanks to my friend Mark Rackley (@MRackley) for putting on such a great show. In my session, […]

Read More North American Collaboration Summit Session