Information Technology

• How IT Pros Can Automate the Employee Onboarding Process
• Jul 9, 2015

Adam Bertram explains the advantages of automating the processes involved in onboarding a new employee. Most of the initial steps in outfitting a new staffer are identical, regardless of the new hire's position. So why are we repeating those steps by hand when we could automate the process?

• Windows PowerShell: Peering Through the Pipeline
• Jun 11, 2015

You've probably done at least a little pipeline work with Windows PowerShell. Did you get the expected results every time? Timothy Warner, author of Sams Teach Yourself Windows PowerShell 5 in 24 Hours, points out how most of us go wrong when piping. Learn more powerful ways to use the pipeline.

• Desired State Configuration Basics in Windows PowerShell
• Jun 9, 2015

This chapter from Windows PowerShell in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself, explains the historical background of DSC, basic tenets of DSC, the DSC authoring environment, configuring the DSC environment, writing your first configuration script, and DSC push configuration.

• Understanding the Windows PowerShell Release Cycle
• Apr 20, 2015

Timothy Warner, author of Sams Teach Yourself Windows PowerShell 5 in 24 Hours, explains how Windows PowerShell releases are related to Windows version releases and which bits go with what. It's not a 1:1 relationship, so you might need to uninstall if things don't go quite as expected. With Tim's help and the Windows Management Framework, you'll get it right from the start.