BurntToast 1 February 2021 Crouton #15 - You Can't Silence Toast Focus assist is a favoured tool of practiced speakers and presenters on Windows. It does put you in a bit of a bind if the thing you're presenting requires notifications though.
PowerShell 6 September 2020 Review: PowerShell for Sysadmins Are you a sysadmin? Looking to stop wearing out your mouse? Could this be the book for you?
PowerShell 8 August 2020 Actionable Toast Notifications, Finally Cracked Them! I don't know how to express a happy dance with text. If I could that's what would be here because I've finally removed a thorn from my side that's been there for five years.
PowerShell 29 July 2020 The Anatomy of Toast BurntToast just turned five, and I've only now realized that I've never written about how all the module's "advanced" functions work together to create a toast notification.
Backup 18 July 2020 Synology Active Backup Suite Review Have you ever come face to face with something that shines a spotlight on a gap in your knowledge of a subject? This happened to me recently when I was asked to review Synology's Active Backup Suite.
PowerShell 21 June 2020 Fun with Azure Key Vault Part 2: Integration with Azure Functions Now that we have our credentials stored in an Azure Key Vault, how do we go about using them in other Azure services?
PowerShell 27 May 2020 So *That's* What OutBuffer Is For! OutBuffer has been lurking in amongst the common parameters on most cmdlets for years, but I've never taken the time to ask what it's for.
PowerShell 22 May 2020 Fun with Azure Key Vault Part 1: Vault Creation and Storing PSCredential Objects I'm so used to storing fully formed credentials in the local Windows Credential Manager. How do I transition that into the "secrets" centric world that is the cloud?
Meta 13 April 2020 I'm Josh King, Sysadmin, and This Is How I Work (During Lockdown) My last "How I Work" post was over three years ago and I've been considering an update for a while. What better time to do that than during the COVID-19 lockdown?
Featured PowerShell 13 March 2020 Staying up to Date on PowerShell Releases with Update Notifications - #PS7Now If you're not stalking the PowerShell team on Twitter, or obsessively refreshing the PowerShell repo on GitHub, how are you meant to be aware of new releases?
