Dan Franciscus
Dan Franciscus is a systems engineer and VMware Certified Professional (VCP) specializing in VMware, PowerShell, and other Microsoft-based technologies. You can reach Dan at his blog (http://www.winsysblog.com/) or Twitter at @dan_franciscus.
Articles by the Author
The Future of Remoting in Windows - OpenSSH
With OpenSSH, you can remote into any operating system from any operating system. This is a wonderful thing!
Anatomy of a Chocolatey Package
In this article, I will dive into a Chocolatey package to show the important components.
Running PowerShell Scripts in Puppet
There are times when you have a complex script that you just need to get into configuration management. Re-writing scripts into manifests is time-consuming, no doubt about it. In this article, I will show how to run PowerShell scripts from Puppet.
Automate Multi-Platform Machine Image Builds with Packer
The majority of organizations are not going to use one specific provider to host their systems. Whether it be VMware on-premises, Azure in the cloud, AWS, or Hyper-V, most will be operating on more than one.
Installing Chocolatey Packages Remotely with PowerShell
One “free” solution for deploying Chocolatey packages remotely is PowerShell. Using PowerShell remoting techniques, software can be deployed in parallel on many different machines at once. In this article, I will demonstrate this.
Auditing Software with Chocolatey
Knowing what software is installed on your desktops and servers is crucial in an organization. This is common sense to sysadmins. We like to know information such as installation date, version and who installed it. By default, in Windows, you can get some of this...
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