DevOps

The first month of the year has come and gone but here is a recap of the Azure announcements for January.

Microsoft announces GPU hardware acceleration and GUI app support for WSL 2 at Build 2020.

Taking a look at the developer preview of a new PowerShell module from Microsoft that aims to make storing and securely accessing secrets easier in your PowerShell scripts.

The Windows Admin Center (WAC) is a web portal for managing local or remote servers via a gateway that uses PowerShell Remoting and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) over WinRM. WAC will eventually replace Server Manager, and going forwards, is where Microsoft will make future investments in Windows Server GUI management.

Last month I kind of wrapped up 2019. But this month I want to look forward. While I would love to talk about things that I might or might know about, such a violation of my non-disclosure agreement would get me in trouble with Redmond. So instead, I want to talk about what I think we IT pros need to learn about in 2020 to stay relevant.

While it is easy to grasp the basic idea of how containers work and how they differ from virtual machines (VM), understanding container images and layers is a bit more complicated.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I explain how Microsoft’s new terminal software for Windows 10 improves on the existing console.

During May, the month was filled with Azure announcements, here are the key items that you need to know about.

How to run remote commands on Windows Server using Puppet Bolt installed in Ubuntu with the help of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

How to use Puppet Bolt Tasks to run remote jobs on Windows Server.