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Brian Farnhill

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PowerShell and Azure Premier Field Engineer

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26 from 4 Dec 2013 to 26 Oct 2017
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2017 5

  1. Moving my blog!
  2. Using the launch.json file in VS code for improved PowerShell debugging
  3. "The provided value for the template parameter is not valid" in ARM template deployments
  4. Adding additional intellisense to VS Code when editing PowerShell scripts
  5. Getting IDs to use with the Package DSC resource

2016 4

  1. Running Azure Automation runbooks from IFTTT tasks
  2. xSharePoint is now SharePointDsc - what you need to know!
  3. Consuming preview builds of xSharePoint through PowerShellGet
  4. Configuring SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups in Azure RM Virtual Machines

2015 8

  1. Retrieving the URL of an app catalog site in SharePoint 2013
  2. Better approaches to unit testing PowerShell scripts that call SharePoint cmdlets
  3. How to unit test PowerShell scripts that call cmdlets from the SharePoint snap-in
  4. Cross server DSC dependency options with Azure Resource Manager templates
  5. Deploying the Azure DSC extension through ARM
  6. Announcing the xSharePoint module for PowerShell DSC!
  7. Using DSC to download from Azure file storage to an Azure VM
  8. System.IO.FileLoadException for System.ServiceModel.dll in SharePoint 2013

2014 8

  1. Multiple zones for host named site collections in SP2013
  2. Exception 'Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching.DataCacheException: ErrorCode<ERRCA0017>:SubStatus<ES0006>
  3. Using Windows Azure Automation Preview to manage Azure VMs
  4. Calculating RPS statistics from IIS logs
  5. Approaches to optimising SharePoint client side communication
  6. Opening RDP session to an Azure VM with PowerShell
  7. Managing Windows Azure VMs through PowerShell
  8. Using the CycleTile in Windows Phone 8 with images from the internet

2013 1

  1. Directly querying SharePoint databases