PowerShell Summit 2014 Europe (Français/French)

English version.

La conférence PowerShell Summit Europe organisera sa première édition du 29 septembre au 1er octobre 2014.
Trois jours de sessions PowerShell par les membres de l'équipe PowerShell, MVPs et d'autres experts PowerShell.

C'est le lieu de rassemblement pour des tous enthousiastes et utilisateurs PowerShell ; l'endroit pour faire de nouvelles connexions, apprendre de nouvelles techniques et offrir quelque chose à vos pairs et collègues.

Pour avoir participé aux deux premières Éditions Nord Amérique en avril 2013 et avril 2014 à Seattle, si vous voulez développer vos connaissances et découvrir comment d'autres professionnel TI utilisent PowerShell dans leur environement... c'est la conférence de prédilection auxquel vous devez assister!!!!

PowerShell - Handy function to connect to Office365 services

I just started to play with a Microsoft Office 365 environment (Azure Active Directory, Lync Online and Exchange Online) and I thought I would make it through PowerShell obviously :-)

But when you start your PowerShell console... you need to load modules, connect to each services, enter your credentials...yada yada yada...

With Office 365 you can administer the following services using PowerShell:

• Azure Active Directory
• Exchange Online PowerShell
• SharePoint Online PowerShell
• Lync Online PowerShell

New-Job -Company WB -Role SysAdmin

Next week I will be starting a new job at Warner Brothers Gaming studio in Montreal as a Senior Microsoft System Administrator.

It is with mixed emotions that I'm leaving my current employer Domtar where I spend the last five years. In 2009 I started as a Windows System Administrator to support Windows Servers and VMware Systems. I then changed position in 2013 to become a Core Infrastructure Administrator where my role was mostly focused on VMware Systems and Automation (using mostly PowerShell).

I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere appreciation to my friends and colleagues at Domtar, I have learned a great deal from you and will miss your company.

Thanks for reading! If you have any questions, leave a comment or send me an email at fxcat@lazywinadmin.com. I invite you to follow me on Twitter @lazywinadm / Google+ / LinkedIn. You can also follow the LazyWinAdmin Blog on Facebook Page and Google+ Page.

PowerShell Summit 2014 NA - Day 3

The PowerShell Summit 2014 NA is now over ! The organizers really did an awesome work !! I can't wait for next year!! In 2015 the event will be hosted in Charlotte, NC around the same time.

PshSummit 2014 NA serie posts:
PowerShell Summit 2014 NA - Day 1
PowerShell Summit 2014 NA - Iron Scripter Competition
PowerShell Summit 2014 NA - Day 2
PowerShell Summit 2014 NA - Day 3 (current post)

Anyway, here is my small Day 3 retrospective:

PowerShell Summit 2014 NA - Day 2

Another day of PowerShell Awesomeness !!!  Learned a ton of things today !! Made some new PowerShell friends ANDDD met so many PowerShell Team members!! Nana, John Slack, Bruce,...etc... and Diane Dubois a new member from France! It was a great surprise! Awesome! I was really not expecting to speak French at the summit ;-)

Note: The names of the PowerShell Team members might not be correct, sorry about that (please correct me!)

PshSummit 2014 NA serie posts:
PowerShell Summit 2014 NA - Day 1
PowerShell Summit 2014 NA - Iron Scripter Competition
PowerShell Summit 2014 NA - Day 2 (current post)
PowerShell Summit 2014 NA - Day 3

PowerShell Summit 2014 NA - Iron Scripter scenario

Monday evening, the PowerShell Summit 2014 NA organized an Iron Scripter competition. The goal was to fix/create 3 scripts and to get them rated by 3 juges. We had 45 minutes to complete everything, including time for the juges to score the scripts.

PshSummit 2014 NA serie posts:
PowerShell Summit 2014 NA - Day 1
PowerShell Summit 2014 NA - Iron Scripter Competition (current post)
PowerShell Summit 2014 NA - Day 2
PowerShell Summit 2014 NA - Day 3

PowerShell Summit 2014 NA - Day 1

The PowerShell Summit 2014 North America kicked off this morning ! What a day! The organizers really did an Awesome Work!! Great Summit so far! This event is a great opportunity to meet old friends, make some new ones and put faces on names.

I also took this opportunity to bring a couple of PowerShell books, and get them signed by authors (a lot of them are at the summit).


For me it was kind of a long day, I am still jet lagged and couldn't sleep anymore when I woke up at 5am. After a 30 min run and a small breakfast I was on my way to the Summit.

PowerShell - Playing with the new OneGet module (v5 preview)

One very cool thing in the last Windows Management Framework V5 Preview release is the new module OneGet which allow us to manage a list of software repositories, search/acquire/install/uninstall package(s).

This has been present in the Linux world for a very long time, for example with APT-GET (Debian). This new feature is basically a global silent installer for applications and tools. We should also be able to do configuration tasks and anything that you can do with PowerShell. The power you hold with a module like OneGet is only limited by your imagination! :-)

Note that this is a preview, there is no documentation yet, the features and behavior are likely to change before the final release.

OneGet Module ?

OneGet is a new way to discover and install software packages from around the web. With OneGet, you can:

• Manage a list of software repositories in which packages can be searched, acquired, and installed
• Search and filter your repositories to find the packages you need
• Seamlessly install and uninstall packages from one or more repositories with a single PowerShell command