July 2019 Meetup with Matt Muras and Mathias Jessen
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We start at 6.05pm this month, quick introduction and group update then onto our speakers. Food between 7.15pm and 7.45pm.
6.15pm - 7.15pm: Applying the HP / HPE PowerShell Scripting Toolkit by Matt Muras (@vmse_mmuras)
In this discussion, I will describe & demonstrate a method I am using to automate the configuration of servers using the HP / HPE PowerShell Scripting Toolkit. Some folks may only have 10 or 20 servers, but what if you had 50 or 100 servers, or in my case 200 physical servers & climbing. We have started a larger rack refresh project that will eventually mean we will have processed over 200 servers using this method.
7.45pm - 8.45pm: A PowerShell Wrapper for Sprache by Mathias Jessen (@iisresetme)
I was recently introduced to Sprache - a parser combinator library written in C# that allows the construction and combination of parsers with ease. This presentation will briefly cover what a parser combinator is, after which we'll have a look at Spraak - a work-in-progress set of wrapper cmdlets for Sprache that might allows us to build powerful parsers using a simple PowerShell DSL