Professional and Proficient PowerShell

IT Pros are seeing the benefit of using PowerShell to automate away the mundane. A modern technology professional needs to be able to interact with multiple services and learning PowerShell increases your ability to do that and your usefulness to your company.

At the end of this fun filled day with Rob, a former SQL Server DBA turned professional automator, you will be much more confident in being able to approach any task with PowerShell and you will leave with all of the code and demos.

We will cover:

How to learn how to interact with any technology using PowerShell
Understanding the syntax
The importance of Get-Help and how PowerShell enables you to help yourself
Why to write your own Modules and how to make them available to all of your team
A quick automated method to creating your module framework
Unit testing and debugging your code
How to continuously deliver changes to your PowerShell modules using GitHub and Azure DevOps

We will have a lot of fun along the way and you will return to work with a lot of ideas, samples and better habits to become a PowerShell ninja and save yourself and your organisation time and effort. Prerequisites: Know how to open PowerShell!! It is better if you have typed in a command. Those brand new to PowerShell might find the learning curve steep but everyone will find benefit.

Rob Sewell

Rob is a SQL Server DBA with a passion for Powershell, Azure, Automation, and SQL (PaaS geddit?). He is a Cloud and Data Center MVP, an officer for the PASS PowerShell Virtual Chapter, co-leader of SQL South West and has spoken at and volunteered at many SQL and PowerShell events all over the world. He is a member of the committee that organises SQL Saturday Exeter, PSDay.UK and also European PowerShell Conference. He is a proud supporter of the SQL and Powershell communities.

He relishes sharing and learning and can be found doing both via Twitter and his blog. He spends most of his time looking at a screen and loves to solve problems. He knows that looking at a screen so much is bad for him because his wife tells him so. Thus, you can find him on the cricket field in the summer and flying a drone in the winter.

He has a fabulous beard