The 10 Technical IT Books of Most Influence on Me

The 10 Technical IT Books of Most Influence on Me

In the name of transparency, or maybe stating the bleeding obvious, I confess I am that guy who can happily read an IT reference book or something like docs.microsoft.com or Practical 365 in the way someone else would read a popular fiction book.  It's partly an inability to turn off from the job, and partly just because I like learning how everything works.  I've digested a ton of them over the last decade, so…

PowerShell: Run Cmdlet If Another Was Successful (And Keep Trying Until It Is)

Today I'm sharing a useful bit of PowerShell I gracelessly punt from script to script whenever I need to make sure a prerequisite it met before running something and to keep checking until it's met, then run what I need: "do X when Y is ready and keep checking Y until it's ready". The original use for this was my script to create a new Microsoft 365 user, but hold off on some parts…