I had the pleasure to co-present PowerShell and Office 365: ITPro #Awesomesauce with my friend and colleague Mike Dixon at the Boston Office 365 User Group yesterday. It was a great session with a lot of good questions. It was recorded so I’ll share the link to the video once it’s available. Big thanks to Hitachi Consulting for the sponsorship too!
I really enjoyed this talk because it kind of went against my natural thread. I’m a developer at heart, been a developer since graduating high school in 1997. I went from IT role to IT role but stuck with development. I’m an architect now (I feel all grown up), and I help teams design some pretty amazing solutions spanning technologies. However I won’t let go of the code. I support my team by pushing the best code practices, code reviews and writing my fair share of code. I like to learn new code in my spare time. I just love it.
This session was targeted to IT Pros: the non-developer type, “those guys” that used to make us developers’ lives harder with their governance policies and limitations on servers (I’m dating back to 2000’s, no one does that now, right? :| ). Given the huge push to cloud: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc. the IT Pro’s role has increased dramatically in my eyes. In a lot of cases, when we come into a company to help create a solution on Office 365, it’s usually been lumped on top of the IT team, who already have their full time job. Going to the cloud is sold as easy and cost effective, but it does take dedication and training to do it right. Generally, new solutions are spun up in the cloud, but the legacy systems remain intact, full production ready with the same SLA for months after they’ve moved to the cloud. It’s not fair to IT.
This session helps bridge the gap a little between developer and IT Pro by providing some real value to IT. PowerShell doesn’t have to be scary or looked as a developer “thing”. It’s awesome, and can do some amazing things that once was only for development teams. Any IT Pro (admin, grunt, wire jockey) can type in commands and build something beautiful. That’s what it is, just commands. This is why I enjoyed this talk, enabling the IT Pros to do more and hopefully bolster them up to do their jobs in Office 365 more effectively and less tediously.
By the way, here’s the deck!
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How do we get the recording?
Powershell is no longer “Just a scripting language”. It has become a full programming language with the ability to call .net funtions. It now even runs on Linux. It has become a must learn for IT OPS