⭐ New YouTube Video ⭐ You wrote your first Terraform file, but what are all these other files? 🤔 This video breaks down provider versioning, lock files, and the Terraform state file so you understand how Terraform tracks your infrastructure and keeps deployments consistent.

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👀 New YouTube Video 👀 Learn Terraform from scratch! ➡️ This video covers installation, creating a project, and deploying simple local resources while understanding the basics of configuration files, workflow, and providers.

I've got a $100 gift card and 50% off any course or certification from @linuxfoundation.org to use. I've completed CKA/CKAD and am working on CKS. Any suggestions from the community? I'm primarily interested in courses, not necessarily certifications. #kubernetes @cncf.bsky.social #linux

🎉 New YouTube Video 🎉 Working in IT requires learning new skills all the time. In this video, I reflect on the times learning something outside my current role paid off later.

I'm studying for the Certified #Kubernetes Security exam. What are your recommendations for study materials besides the Killer Shell course on YouTube? #CKS

This week I posted the last video in the #PowerShell Command Line to Scripting mini-course. If you've watched any of the videos, I'd love to hear your feedback if it helped you! youtu.be/bYAAj1mqzDw?...

📣 New YouTube Video 📣 🧠 Write better PowerShell scripts! This video covers learning how to plan your scripts with pseudocode and following best practices for clean, reliable code using naming conventions, formatting, comments, and more.

👀[Throwback Thursday]👀 Working on a project locally and need to move your Terraform state to an Azure storage account? Learn how in this tutorial!

🔔 New YouTube Video 🔔 Learn how to work with external data in PowerShell! 💡 This module shows you how to read and write CSV, JSON, and XML files, import/export structured data, and call web APIs using `Invoke-RestMethod`. Perfect for real-world automation!

👀[Throwback Thursday]👀 Learn how to create and manage dynamic arrays inside PowerShell using this tutorial!

🔥[Throwback Thursday]🔥 Learn more about the different Azure high availability options from this tutorial!

🚨 New YouTube Video 🚨 Take control of errors in PowerShell! ⚠️ This module covers try/catch/finally, ErrorAction, throw, and Get-Error to handle problems gracefully and keep your scripts running smoothly.

💯 New YouTube Video 💯 Learn how to write reusable PowerShell functions! ➡️ This video covers function basics, parameters, return values, variable scope, adding help, and advanced function features like CmdletBinding. Perfect for beginners writing scripts.

☁️[Throwback Thursday]☁️ Learn how to use resource dependencies (correctly!) in Terraform with some Azure examples!

⬇️ New YouTube Video ⬇️ Learn to make your PowerShell scripts more dynamic and reusable with parameters! 🚀 We'll cover defining parameters, setting data types, and validation—then wrap up with a fun refactoring challenge.

💯[Throwback Thursday]💯 Did you know you can configure Terraform to deploy to multiple Azure subscriptions? Learn how in this tutorial!

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Build on your PowerShell scripting skills by learning how to make decisions in your code. In this video, we’ll cover if statements, for and while loops, and switch statements. Then, put everything into practice by building a fun number guessing game from scratch. youtu.be/zphDREshbYk

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Last year I decided to dive into developing my YouTube channel. Today I hit 1,000 subscribers! Pretty exciting. I focus on a lot of PowerShell, but moving forward I am focusing on Azure and other cloud-related technologies. www.youtube.com/@jeffbrowntech #powershell #azure #youtube #cloud

⭐ New YouTube Video ⭐ This first module covers variables, data types, operators, and methods. The module concludes with your first challenges in writing a sentence analyzer script and a temperature converter.

🚨 New YouTube Video 🚨 Want to learn PowerShell scripting but don't know where to start? This video series is for you! This first video is an overview of the course topics and how to set up your local system to follow along with the content.

☁️[Throwback Thursday]☁️ Make your PowerShell functions easier to use by adding tab and argument completions in this ultimate guide!

🔔[Throwback Thursday]🔔 Learn how to programmatically deploy Teams templates using the Graph API.

👀 I'm one part interested in this but also one part irritated because Notepad is supposed to be a simple text editor (old man rant)

Me: I like to keep my desktop clean and icon free. Random app update: adds shortcut back to desktop Rude 🤬

💯[Throwback Thursday]💯 Terraform for_each is a powershell meta argument, but if you set up the for_each or your variable wrong, it can lead to indexing issues. Find out more in this article!

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👍[Throwback Thursday]👍 I wrote a PowerShell module to export Microsoft Teams PSTN usage records, check it out!

👀[Throwback Thursday]👀 Learn all the ins-and-outs about how to manage your Teams audio conferencing minutes and features.

⚡[Throwback Thursday]⚡ Need to add an existing Azure resource to your Terraform configuration? Learn how by using Terraform Import!

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👍[Throwback Thursday]👍 Learn how to fully convert PowerShell objects to JSON.

A job I applied for on 12/16/2024 just let me know they are not moving forward with my application. Yeah, I figured.

⭐️[Throwback Thursday]⭐️ Learn how to incorporate PowerShell modules into your Azure Function Apps. This includes both custom modules and modules from the PowerShell Gallery.

⚡[Throwback Thursday]⚡ Learn how to add the -WhatIf parameter to your PowerShell functions and scripts.

👀 New YouTube Video 👀 Have you ever thought about being an IT consultant? ➡️ In this video, I cover my motivations to be a consultant and why I returned to working in internal IT.

⚡[Throwback Thursday]⚡ Avoid copying & pasting Terraform code by using dynamic blocks in your resources!

⭐ New YouTube Video ⭐ In this video, I review the recent updates I made to the PowerAzPlus module for version 1.2.2. New functionality includes reporting on Azure virtual network address spaces and exporting/importing multiple key vault secrets.

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🔥[Throwback Thursday]🔥 Microsoft is retiring Azure Automation Run As accounts in favor of managed identities. Learn all about managed identities, how to enable them, and how to authenticate inside a PowerShell runbook.

🔔[Throwback Thursday]🔔 Learn the different ways to configure Terraform to authenticate to Azure for your deployments.

It seems if your first or last name starts with J you’re destined to be a PowerShell legend 😆

Congratulations to this year’s #PowerShell Community Award winners @robsewell.com @posh.guru and @andrewpla.tech Keep up the good work. 🏆🏅

💯[Throwback Thursday]💯 Learn how to work with multiple GitHub accounts, each with their own SSH key.

🚀 New YouTube Video 🚀 Secrets, keys, and identity—oh my! 🔐 Learn how to lock down your Azure Function App with Key Vault secrets, identity-based auth, and network restrictions.

From a distance, I've semi-rolled my eyes at seeing the push of AI/Copilot in Microsoft products. However, two features I've seen related to Teams are totally cool: 1. Meeting recaps 2. Asking what I missed when joining a meeting late To me, this is AI done well 👏