So, my employment was terminated in lieu of notice last week, and I think I’m still coming to terms with that a bit.
The main thing I want to do here is clean up some of my old PowerShell scripts into a better format. (Also, clean up the CSS formatting on the splash page - I am not a web developer by nature!)
- To delete anything that no longer has any relevance.
- To turn the mostly monolithic modules into a much easier to maintain collection of scripts - breaking out each individual function into its own script file, making finding the one I’m looking for to be much easier.
- With ad-hoc scripts that I’ve written, figure out if there’s anything worth keeping and turn that into a function in the module if so.
- To get everything properly version controlled and on GitHub - my old boss didn’t really understand the need for version control, resulting in me bodging something together using scheduled
robocopys. The Head of IT did understand the need for version control, but the idea to get me set up on the TFS server came too close to the hammer falling. - To write tests for all functions using Pester.
- To write help for all functions using PlatyPS.
I want to write at least one post a week, to help keep me focused.
My plans otherwise are to look for a temporary position, and get my home lab set back up so I can take the 70-411 somewhere around my birthday. Ideally, I also want to use this as a learning opportunity for using PowerShell DSC - I already have basic domain setup scripts, though they need cleaning up. I’d also like to use a Nano Server trial as a DSC pull server.
The main problem is that I’m severely struggling for local storage at the moment, so getting that expanded is priority one - I want to be very sparing if I end up using Azure VMs for this task (though of course, learning more about Azure wouldn’t hurt either - except my wallet, and I need to be sparing with that until I find something else).
So yeah, if you’re in the UK, in the Barnsley/Sheffield/Wakefield kind of area and looking for an experienced Service Desk Engineer (or Junior Infrastructure Technician) who’s pretty decent at scripting things, let me know.