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December 20, 2022

Creating an install script from WinGet Export

I recently bought a new laptop, my first new personal machine since 2015, and with that comes the joy of setting up all of my utilities and applications again. My good friend Rob Sonders (Twitter|LinkedIn) has been raving about WinGet and how it has simplified his life, so I figured this was the perfect time to try it out. So far I have been really impressed with how simple it makes installing software from all kinds of different sources. I immediately recognized how easy this can be used to script the setup of new workstations, and decided to start maintaining a running list of all the applications I’ve installed with WinGet.

July 29, 2020

Azure Stack Hub: Accessing the Privileged Endpoint (PEP)

As a Cloud Operator responsible for managing an Azure Stack Hub system you need to be familiar with how to use the Privileged Endpoint (PEP). The Microsoft Documentation is a great place to get started, but there are a couple additional tips that I’ve gathered that aren’t covered in the documentation.

Tip 1: You don’t need Get-Credential

Instead of taking the step if acquiring the credential and storing it in a variable, just pass the CloudAdmin user name to the New-PSSession cmdlet in the -Credential parameter. When the command runs it will prompt you for the password.

July 28, 2020

Welcome to Main Engineering

It’s been a while, but I’ve realized that it’s time to make a return to active blogging. I’ve had the occasional post through my employer’s blogging platform, but I need to get better about blogging consistently and I wanted to have a forum that was mine.

My goal is to treat this blog as an archive of thoughts and experiences as I encounter new challenges in my professional career. I hope that they provide value, and perhaps even entertainment, to you as a reader.