by Nik Charlebois
Over the past few weeks, a team of Microsoft Premier Field Engineers from around the globe and I have been kicking the tires on a crazy idea we’ve had for a while, a PowerShell DSC module that would allow us to manage Office 365 configurations. This is an ambitious task and one that is a […]
Read More Early Preview of Office365DSCFor each DSC project I am involved in, there’s been a point where I had the need to figure out a way to programmatically determine what is contained within my DSC script. As an example, one of the side projects I am working on is something called VisualDSC, which allows you to load a .ps1 […]
Read More DSCParser – Analyze your PowerShell DSC ScriptsThis is more of a brain dump than anything else. This week at a client, I had to simulate their environment which was becoming very slow when loading a specific library. That particular library had over 450 Content Types associated with it, but we were specifically interested in figuring out how many allowed content types […]
Read More Retrieve Allowed Content Types from a Document Set Using PowerShellReverseDSC for SharePoint is getting a User Interface! That’s right, you’ve read correctly, a GUI for the script based SharePointDSC.Reverse. This GUI is completely built using PowerShell (which is part of why it looks like its 1995 all over again), so all you need to do is download the script from GitHub (soon to be […]
Read More ReverseDSC for SharePoint Gets a FaceliftI just finished presenting a session at SPTechCon Boston which I entitled “VSTS, ARM and DSC for SharePoint 2019 – A match made in heaven“. The session had a very small number of attendees, which made me wonder if the audience I was trying to target with the session even existed in modern enterprises. Off […]
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