and that was 2014…

We just started 2015 so I figured it was the time to look back at what I did in the past 12 months.

I have some of stats which may be of interest, but of course also on a more personal level 2014 was an Awesome year !!


Achievements and Projects

• Became a Microsoft MVP for Windows PowerShell !! What an achievement!! And had the chance to attend my first Summit in November where I got to meet tons of other MVPs.
• Received the PowerShell Heroes 2014 recognition from PowerShell.org with 4 other people
• Joined Warner Brother Games studio in Montreal as a Senior System Administrator. My role is mostly focused on Automation and Microsoft Products
• Created the PowerShell Module NetBackupPS, which basically parse the output of the Symantec NetBackup cmd line tools. Unfortunately I don't have access to this solution so I can't really continue the development but the code in on GitHub and anybody is welcome to contribute.
• Created the PowerShell Module WinFormPS, which allows you to interact with some Winform controls.
• Created the PowerShell Module AdsiPS, which allows you to interact with Active Directory. Microsoft AD Module and Quest AD Snapin are really awesome but I wanted to develop my knowledge with Active Directory and play around with .NET Framework/LDAP Queries.
• Presented my first presentation on "How to get started with PowerShell" at my work office

Stats for my blog lazywinadmin.com for 2014:

• 39 Blog Posts
• +450 000 pageviews
• Top5 2014 blog posts:
• PowerShell - LazyTS
• PowerShell - Parse this: NetStat.exe
• PowerShell - Playing with the new OneGet module (v5 preview)
• PowerShell - Playing with the new ConvertFrom-String cmdlet
• PowerShell - ConvertFrom-String and the TemplateFile parameter

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