Talk: Use PowerShell to make automations more sustainable

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It’s always DNS – Now including cloud native DNS resolvers!

Ever had this situation where you couldn’t reach a database or other service while it should work? In how many of these cases was the issue related to DNS in the end? The headaches of getting the DNS to work properly in complex environments with multiple domains and networks is tricky enough as it is. But now Microsoft Azure has introduced the “Azure Private DNS resolver” which is a cloud native solution to all our DNS problems. Or at least that’s what the packaging says. Join this session to learn what this new technique can and can’t do and how it will help your environment. During the session we will look at some common DNS scenarios and how using the private DNS resolver can fix some of their potential issues. If you want to get a grip on your internal DNS structures, and next time say the issue wasn’t caused by DNS, then join!

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Test Your Code Quality with Pester and PSScriptAnalyzer

When writing PowerShell code it’s easy to make small mistakes. For example, renaming a variable but forgetting one occurrence, or using an unapproved verb in a function name. To combat these errors there is a tool called PSScriptAnalyzer which can do a lot of the code quality checks for you. But in the day and age of collaboration and continuous deployment it’s not good enough anymore to just run this utility separate. In this talk Leo Visser will show you how you can use the testing framework Pester to have these code quality checks be integrated in your tests. Besides the basics the talk will also cover how to exempt some files from some rules and how to manage this.

Run PowerShell with Azure deployment scripts

Have you ever tried to create a schedule with a Bicep Template and received an error because the start date was in the past? Or did you ever run into the issue it would have been nice to add a delay to some parts of your deployment? These problems can be solved with parameters or splitting up your deployment into different steps, but sometimes we want everything to be in one template for easy sharing or usage in bigger deployments. For these scenarios we can use Azure deployment scripts. This allows you to run pieces of code during your deployment. Join me in this talk as I demonstrate how to run PowerShell code during a resource deployment to calculate necessary values and add delays. After this talk a whole new world of options will open up to you when looking at resource deployments in Azure!

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