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Start-Automating is the software automation company.
We love helping people save time and money by automating away the mundane.
We are the premiere professionals in PowerShell, Microsoft's automation platform.We build a powerful web platform atop PowerShell, PowerShell Pipeworks.
We use PowerShell to produce Apps, Software Services, and Websites. We also create compelling cmdlets and many PowerShell modules.
We can help you automate Azure, Office365, Twilio, or (almost) anything else.
What We Automate
Why We Automate
What We Build
What We Do
Who We Are
Azure
Data
PowerShell
Office365
Twilio
Windows
We can help you understand the cloud space if you're just getting started. We can help you understand the benefits of using cloud architecture and help save you time and money while operating your Azure instance.
Here are a few cool ways we've automated Azure:
We can help you:
To find out if we can help you automate your data, please contact us
It was originally published by Microsoft in 2006, and is the backbone of everything in the IT ecosystem, especially the Microsoft technology set.
We are the premiere professionals in PowerShell. We have written many PowerShell Modules and indispensible PowerShell tools, like IsePack, PowerShell Pipeworks, ScriptCop, EZOut, and ShowUI.
Powershell is an incredibly versatile and easy-to-use scripting language, with a focus on creating well-designed reusable parts called Cmdlets. We are experts in developing PowerShell cmdlets, and in helping architect PowerShell-based solutions to suit any customer's needs
Here is an incredibly short list of things that are designed to be automated with Windows PowerShell.
In a very short period of time, PowerShell has gone from obscure to pervasive within the IT industry. Contact Us to learn how PowerShell can help you.
Start-Automating has helped Office365 and has been an Office365 customer since just prior to launch. We build the tool Microsoft uses to demonstrate Office365 to new customers, the automation used to validated every deployment to Sharepoint dedicated, and much of the health monitoring that keeps Office365 alive and well.
We've also been Office365 customers since it's launch in June 2011, and extensively automate our own account. We use the Exchange component of Office365 to manage the mail for dozens of different sites. We store asset information, manage mailing lists, and coordinate communication across dozens of web properties.
We also run a nifty Script-O-Matic for Office365, Optimize365. Please, contact us about how we can help you automate Office365.
Start-Automating is a Twilio partner and expert implementer. Our web platform, PowerShell Pipeworks includes implicit support for Twilio, letting us develop phone automation in a flash. You can Contact Us, or you can leave us a voicemail by calling 206-607-6555. Talk to us about how Twilio's automation can help you.
We're especially expert at connecting parts of the operating system with PowerShell. We can customize data collection and machine configuration any way you want, or intelligently integrate different IT tools to provide improved value.
Our years of experience with can help you work wonders with Windows. Why not Contact Us and tell us more about what you'd like to do?
Start-Automating is a very cloud-centric company.
We think Azure is absolutely amazing, and use it in almost all the automation we build.We can help you understand the cloud space if you're just getting started. We can help you understand the benefits of using cloud architecture and help save you time and money while operating your Azure instance.
Here are a few cool ways we've automated Azure:
- We build PowerShell Pipeworks
- 50+ Services. 100+ Domains. 1 Azure Instance
- Continious Integration
Want to learn more? Contact Us
We love to Start Automating data
We can help build you automation to convert tedious data into actionable information.We can help you:
- Convert Old or Unstructured Data into any custom format
- Save structured data to the cloud for safe keeping
- Mine Useful Results from Large Mounds of Data
- Convert data into action
To find out if we can help you automate your data, please contact us
PowerShell is an automation platform.
It has been built into every Windows desktop and server since Windows 7.It was originally published by Microsoft in 2006, and is the backbone of everything in the IT ecosystem, especially the Microsoft technology set.
We are the premiere professionals in PowerShell. We have written many PowerShell Modules and indispensible PowerShell tools, like IsePack, PowerShell Pipeworks, ScriptCop, EZOut, and ShowUI.
Powershell is an incredibly versatile and easy-to-use scripting language, with a focus on creating well-designed reusable parts called Cmdlets. We are experts in developing PowerShell cmdlets, and in helping architect PowerShell-based solutions to suit any customer's needs
Here is an incredibly short list of things that are designed to be automated with Windows PowerShell.
Cloud Services
- Amazon Web Services
- Azure
Microsoft IT
- Active Directory
- Forefront
- Exchange
- IIS
- Office365
- Sharepoint
- System Center Operations Manager
- WMI
Virtualization
- HyperV
- VMWare
- XenDesktop
In a very short period of time, PowerShell has gone from obscure to pervasive within the IT industry. Contact Us to learn how PowerShell can help you.
Start-Automating is optimized with Office365
We've been proud Microsoft Partners of Office365 since the beginning.Start-Automating has helped Office365 and has been an Office365 customer since just prior to launch. We build the tool Microsoft uses to demonstrate Office365 to new customers, the automation used to validated every deployment to Sharepoint dedicated, and much of the health monitoring that keeps Office365 alive and well.
We've also been Office365 customers since it's launch in June 2011, and extensively automate our own account. We use the Exchange component of Office365 to manage the mail for dozens of different sites. We store asset information, manage mailing lists, and coordinate communication across dozens of web properties.
We also run a nifty Script-O-Matic for Office365, Optimize365. Please, contact us about how we can help you automate Office365.
Start-Automating talks Twilio
Twilio is one of the most exciting cloud platforms around: It lets you automate cloud based calling and texting.Start-Automating is a Twilio partner and expert implementer. Our web platform, PowerShell Pipeworks includes implicit support for Twilio, letting us develop phone automation in a flash. You can Contact Us, or you can leave us a voicemail by calling 206-607-6555. Talk to us about how Twilio's automation can help you.
Start-Automating works wonders on Windows with PowerShell.
We know Windows. Start-Automating was started and initially staffed by veteran Microsoft employees who helped ship an operating system or a few. We bring to the table an encylopedia understanding of Windows ecosystem development and a cornacopia of contacts within Microsoft.We're especially expert at connecting parts of the operating system with PowerShell. We can customize data collection and machine configuration any way you want, or intelligently integrate different IT tools to provide improved value.
Our years of experience with can help you work wonders with Windows. Why not Contact Us and tell us more about what you'd like to do?
Save Time
Save Money
Start Automating
We believe strongly that if a task is going to be repeated, it should be automated.
By automating a task, you save yourself valuable time.
Saving time lets you:
Automation saves you money in many important ways: it improves reliability, enables scale, and cultivates competition.
Automated tasks reduce risk.
Automation sets you up for Six Sigma without costing six figures.
Being automated means:
Help us understand what you need to automate by contacting us
The biggest benefit to automating anything is that it saves you time.
Time is the one thing we can never get back. Why waste it repeating yourself? We enjoy automating away the annoyancesWe believe strongly that if a task is going to be repeated, it should be automated.
By automating a task, you save yourself valuable time.
Saving time lets you:
- Focus on what's more important
- Avoid the depression of repetition
- Improve your work/life balance
Everyone know's that time is money.
Not everyone is aware that saving time is not the only way automating saves you money.Automation saves you money in many important ways: it improves reliability, enables scale, and cultivates competition.
Automated tasks reduce risk.
Automation sets you up for Six Sigma without costing six figures.
We believe in helping everyone save time and money by automating.
Everyone should be able to experience the big benefits of being automatedBeing automated means:
- Competing at a fraction of the cost of your competition.
- Being ready to react instead of busy with the back and forth.
- Saving less time on each repeated task, instead of more
Help us understand what you need to automate by contacting us
Apps
Cmdlets
Flexible Frameworks
Integrated Intranet
Modules
Software Services
Websites
We also build internal and custom apps we cannot show here.
At Start-Automating, we have developed roughly 8000 cmdlets to date. As far as we are aware, that is the record. We can help you understand the process of designing quality cmdlets. We can provide cmdlet development training or implement cmdlets on your behalf.
To get a sense of the breadth of cmdlets we have created, check out Our Modules
Framework development is an incredibly subtle science. Good frameworks are easy to extend, fleet on footprint, and amazingly well architected. They often allow anyone and everyone in an organization optimize the way things are done. They are capable of being customized, and are concentrated on cutting down the cost and complexity of the tasks you want to tackle.
We've forged a few frameworks at Start-Automating, and have made many more for customers. Here are some of our flexible and free-to-use frameworks:
We've also built several frameworks that are used every day at the largest software company on earth, Microsoft:
Frankly, we find that framework building can be a lot of fun. We love a challenge. Contact Us to communicate your challenges: We'l see if a flexible framework might help make them extremely easy.
Almost everything you automate in a workplace has to be made easy to use for everyone in the company (and no one outside of the company). This almost always means the development of an Intranet application.
As experienced automators, we know more than most the importance of providing ease around your automation. We also know how hard it can be to integrate anything in a Windows intranet when you're building an Intranet web application atop a language that loves Linux a little more, like PHP or Perl. The combination of these two needs led us to build PowerShell Pipeworks, a powerful web language built atop PowerShell.
Pipeworks is a powerful tool for powering up any site, and it's a potent part of any Intranet experience. We've built incredibly integrated intranet experiences atop Pipeworks, including powerful web front ends that keep state of the art software services such as Office365 up and running.
Please contact us to talk about how we can integrate your business with an intranet site.
Start-Automating makes many Rich Internet Applications.
We use our web framework, PowerShell Pipeworks, to produce rich internet applications and their backend with Windows PowerShell.Win8 Apps
Hand Crafted Apps
We also build internal and custom apps we cannot show here.
Autogenerated Apps
These applications were automatically generated with PowerShell Pipeworks.- BetterBeer - Beer database
- CodeCraft - Churn out the code with CodeCraft
- EZOut - Flexible formatting in PowerShell
- Formulaic - Math tools and flashcards
- Get-Random - The World Weird Web
- Optimize365 - Open up options on Office365
- Start-LearningPowerShell - PowerShell resources
- ScriptCop - PowerShell static analysis tool
- WmiSpy - WMI online lookup tool
Cmdlets are the simple, resuable components that form the backbone of PowerShell.
Cmdlets ideally have simple and self-explanitory cmdlet names, like Send-MailMessage, and a comprehensive set well-documented and easy to understand parameters, such as -Body, -Subject, -To-, -Cc, -Bcc.At Start-Automating, we have developed roughly 8000 cmdlets to date. As far as we are aware, that is the record. We can help you understand the process of designing quality cmdlets. We can provide cmdlet development training or implement cmdlets on your behalf.
To get a sense of the breadth of cmdlets we have created, check out Our Modules
Flexible Frameworks are Few are Far Between.
A flexible framework can make a project fast and fulfilling. An unforgiving framework can lead to endless frustration.Framework development is an incredibly subtle science. Good frameworks are easy to extend, fleet on footprint, and amazingly well architected. They often allow anyone and everyone in an organization optimize the way things are done. They are capable of being customized, and are concentrated on cutting down the cost and complexity of the tasks you want to tackle.
We've forged a few frameworks at Start-Automating, and have made many more for customers. Here are some of our flexible and free-to-use frameworks:
- PowerShell Pipeworks is our framework piping out pages in PowerShell
- ShowUI is our framework for simplifying WPF development
- IsePack is our framework for PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment tools
- ScriptCop is our framework for analyzing PowerShell scripts
- EZOut is our framework for writing formatting and types in PowerShell
- AutoBrowse is our framework for automating the web browser
We've also built several frameworks that are used every day at the largest software company on earth, Microsoft:
- Dashpoint lets engineers drill down on details within the Office365 data centers
- PowerTest helps people test PowerShell products throughout Microsoft
- PSProductStudio has helped Microsoft automate their bug tracking system, Product Studio, for many years
- PSWTT has bridged together the common windows test tool, WTT, and PowerShell
- PowerRazzleShell has powered up interactions with Source Depot, Microsoft's Source Control system, since 2006
- PowerTracker has helped run Nebula, the system that build out test boxes for all of the Windows division on demand
- VMBot runs the Zero Day Attack Lab, the largest and most complex VM farm in the world
Frankly, we find that framework building can be a lot of fun. We love a challenge. Contact Us to communicate your challenges: We'l see if a flexible framework might help make them extremely easy.
Windows is the way of the workplace. PowerShell powers Windows. We power PowerShell.
Our professionals have been automating windows as a platform since the early days of the desktop.Almost everything you automate in a workplace has to be made easy to use for everyone in the company (and no one outside of the company). This almost always means the development of an Intranet application.
As experienced automators, we know more than most the importance of providing ease around your automation. We also know how hard it can be to integrate anything in a Windows intranet when you're building an Intranet web application atop a language that loves Linux a little more, like PHP or Perl. The combination of these two needs led us to build PowerShell Pipeworks, a powerful web language built atop PowerShell.
Pipeworks is a powerful tool for powering up any site, and it's a potent part of any Intranet experience. We've built incredibly integrated intranet experiences atop Pipeworks, including powerful web front ends that keep state of the art software services such as Office365 up and running.
Please contact us to talk about how we can integrate your business with an intranet site.
Start-Automating has made many PowerShell Modules.
Must Have Modules
- PowerShell Pipeworks - The PowerShell Web Platform
- ShowUI - Simplify UI scripting
- EzOut - Easily make types and formatting files
- ScriptCop - PowerShell Static Analysis
Nifty Niche Modules
- AutoBrowse - Automate IE
- CodeCraft - Code Generation Tools
- DemoPowerShell - Demo file player for PowerShell ISE (v1) and PowerGUI
- Heatmap - Lightweight performance monitoring with PowerShell
- Patchy - Patch management with PowerShell
- PingMe - PingMe. Quick machine monitoring
- ScriptCoverage - Code Coverage For PowerShell
- PSRSS - Tools to work with the native RSS feed store
- PSImageTools - PowerShell Image Manipulation Tools
- PSSystemTools - A Grab Bag of General System Tools for PowerShell
- TaskScheduler - Automate the Windows Task Scheduler
- Twilio - Talk to the Twilio API in PowerShell
- XBPS - Automate Xbox Developer Kits with PowerShell
Start-Automating creates several automated software services
Phoneominal
Phoneominal is a remarkably smarter phone line. Phoneominal simplify communication clutter by letting you make or take phone calls from the cloud. Phoneominal phone lines cost $3/month, and calls start at $.03/minute.
Start-Automating makes many websites and online tools
Blogs
Education
Entertainment
PowerShell Resources
- Show-PowerShell - PowerShell Videos
- Start-LearningPowerShell - PowerShell tips, resources, walkthrus, and video
- PowerShellJobs.com - PowerShell employment opportunities
Online Tools
Web Resources
- shouldbeonschema.org - Microdata for the masses
Cloud Development
Intranet Development
PowerShell Staffing
PowerShell Training
Systems Administration
Please Contact Us to see how we can help you realize the cost savings of the cloud.
We've built Intranet solutions from the small button to check on a server to the big infrastructure that helps keep large software services like Office365 up and running.
We build a web framework, PowerShell Pipeworks that seamlessly integrates with Windows PowerShell, the linga franca for internal administration. This lets us save tons of time and money that would be spent forcing most web technologies to work with Windows administration technologies.
Our framework is free to use, and provides seamless Intranet authentication using active directory, small workgroups, and LiveID. This lets us provide you a secure intranet experience, no matter what the size or shape of your IT department looks like.
Please Contact Us so we can help you with your Intranet needs.
We maintain the only specialist site for PowerShell Jobs, powershelljobs.com, and maintain a private database of PowerShell skillsets. We've helped Microsoft, Citrix, and Bank of America find staff to suit their needs. Please get in touch if we can help you start staffing.
All prices are in US dollars, and include Travel and Entertainment
PowerShell Possibilities is a 3-day course that shows you the basics of PowerShell and then puts your knowledge to practical use.
Start-Automating started out of this passion: the founder worked on the WMI team, the Task Scheduler Team, and the PowerShell team at Microsoft, and developed a personal reputation for providing powerful tools. This reputation continued to grow within Microsoft: We built tools tackle bug triage, send out status updates, track complex changes across Windows, and we helped re-engineer the way that Windows itself is built every day.
This passion became a calling: To help anyone and everyone automate away their annoyances.
We've since helped many clients millions of man-hours by helping them to Start-Automating. Our automation helps ensure that top-tier software services like Office365 stay up and running every day. We can tie together everything and anything in the Windows ecosystem. Please contact us about what administration challanges you face, and how we can save you time and money by automating your administration.
Start-Automating is a cloud-centric company
We maintain dozens of sites on Windows Azure, and operate our Office with Office365. We have developed on the few web platforms to be deeply cloud-centric, PowerShell Pipeworks, and have made it the center of our automated lines of business.Please Contact Us to see how we can help you realize the cost savings of the cloud.
Start-Automating specializes in creating intregrated intranet experiences in next to no time flat.
We've built Intranet solutions from the small button to check on a server to the big infrastructure that helps keep large software services like Office365 up and running.
We build a web framework, PowerShell Pipeworks that seamlessly integrates with Windows PowerShell, the linga franca for internal administration. This lets us save tons of time and money that would be spent forcing most web technologies to work with Windows administration technologies.
Our framework is free to use, and provides seamless Intranet authentication using active directory, small workgroups, and LiveID. This lets us provide you a secure intranet experience, no matter what the size or shape of your IT department looks like.
Please Contact Us so we can help you with your Intranet needs.
Start-Automating can help find you diamonds in the rough market of semi-qualified scripters.
Start-Automating is the only PowerShell specialist company in the world. We are well-respected within the PowerShell community and are deeply familiar with PowerShell experts around the world. When hiring for a specialitiy like PowerShell, we can save you the time and trouble of dealing with unqualified staffers who are incapable of identifying poor PowerShell candidates.We maintain the only specialist site for PowerShell Jobs, powershelljobs.com, and maintain a private database of PowerShell skillsets. We've helped Microsoft, Citrix, and Bank of America find staff to suit their needs. Please get in touch if we can help you start staffing.
Start-Automating offers several courses to sharpen your scripting skills.
All prices are in US dollars, and include Travel and Entertainment
A PowerShell Primer
A PowerShell Primer is one-day course designed to help anyone understand some of the potency of PowerShell.
Outline
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Powering up PowerShell
- Core concepts
- The Object Pipeline
Learning Your Way Around
- The Trinity of Discoverability
- The Help System
Showing off the system
- Getting data from WMI
- Exploring event logs
Ready for Remoting
- PowerShell remoting versus 'native' remoting
- The 2nd hop problem
A Smidgeon of Scripting
- Writing your first fairly permanent scripts
- Producing fault-tolerant automation
- Handling errors
- Scripting Securely
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PowerShell Possibilities
PowerShell Possibilities is a 3-day course that shows you the basics of PowerShell and then puts your knowledge to practical use.
Day 1 is a PowerShell Primer.
Day 2 introduces you to system scraping techniques.
Day 3 talks thru the process of toolmaking.
Outline
Rates
Reserve Dates
Day 1 - A PowerShell Primer
Powering up PowerShell
- Core concepts
- The Object Pipeline
Learning Your Way Around
- The Trinity of Discoverability
- The Help System
Showing off the system
- Getting data from WMI
- Exploring event logs
Ready for Remoting
- PowerShell remoting versus 'native' remoting
- The 2nd hop problem
A Smidgeon of Scripting
- Writing your first fairly permanent scripts
- Producing fault-tolerant automation
- Handling errors
- Scripting Securely
Day 2 - Scraping the System
Scripting with Superglue
- How PowerShell brings the OS together
- How to combine different data into one set
Know your OS
- The standard sequence of scripting a solution
- Where to look first, second, third
- Seeing trouble coming
Wonders of WMI
- Useful WMI classes
- Key WMI concepts
- WMI weirdness
- WMI and the 2nd hop problem
- WMI eventing
- WMI autodiscovery
Cludging together the command line
- When parsing .exe’s is a good idea
- Basic parsing technique
- Command line wrapping gotchas
Discovering .NET
- What is .NET
- Exploring .NET in PowerShell
- Cool .NET classes
- Compiling on the fly with Add-Type
- The Powers of PInvoke
Day 3 - Flexible Functionality
The Fun of Functions
- Why functions are better than ad-hoc scripts
- Small steps for scripters, giant leaps for organizations.
A little help
- Adding inline help
- Keeping inventory information in functions
- Standard verbs and sane names
Verification and Validation
- Mandatory parameters
- Mandatory credentials
- ValidateSet, ValidateRange, ValidatePattern, and ValidateScript
- Supporting –WhatIf and -Confirm
The Powers of the Pipeline
- Handling Pipeline input
- ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName
The Powers of Parameter Sets
- Many experiences in one script
- Parameter Disambiguation
Useful tools
- Scripting with ScriptCop
- Checking your CodeCoverage
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Potent PowerShell
Potent PowerShell takes almost anyone from the basics of understanding PowerShell to being about to create comprehensive experiences around PowerShell
Outline
Rates
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Day 1 - A PowerShell Primer
-1- Powering up PowerShell
- Core concepts
- The Object Pipeline
-2- Learning Your Way Around
- The Trinity of Discoverability
- The Help System
-3- Showing off the system
- Getting data from WMI
- Exploring event logs
-4- Ready for Remoting
- PowerShell remoting versus 'native' remoting
- The 2nd hop problem
-5- A Smidgeon of Scripting
- Writing your first fairly permanent scripts
- Producing fault-tolerant automation
- Handling errors
- Scripting Securely
Day 2 - Scraping the System
Scripting with Superglue
- How PowerShell brings the OS together
- How to combine different data into one set
Know your OS
- The standard sequence of scripting a solution
- Where to look first, second, third
- Seeing trouble coming
Wonders of WMI
- Useful WMI classes
- Key WMI concepts
- WMI weirdness
- WMI and the 2nd hop problem
- WMI eventing
- WMI autodiscovery
Cludging together the command line
- When parsing .exe’s is a good idea
- Basic parsing technique
- Command line wrapping gotchas
Discovering .NET
- What is .NET
- Exploring .NET in PowerShell
- Cool .NET classes
- Compiling on the fly with Add-Type
- The Powers of PInvoke
Day 3 - Flexible Functionality
The Fun of Functions
- Why functions are better than ad-hoc scripts
- Small steps for scripters, giant leaps for organizations.
A little help
- Adding inline help
- Keeping inventory information in functions
- Standard verbs and sane names
Verification and Validation
- Mandatory parameters
- Mandatory credentials
- ValidateSet, ValidateRange, ValidatePattern, and ValidateScript
- Supporting –WhatIf and -Confirm
The Powers of the Pipeline
- Handling Pipeline input
- ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName
The Powers of Parameter Sets
- Many experiences in one script
- Parameter Disambiguation
Useful tools
- Scripting with ScriptCop
- Checking your CodeCoverage
Day 4 - Making Modules
E Pluribus Unum
- Creating one cohesive story out of many scripts
- Why modules are useful
Function Families
- Creating 'extendable' commands
- Function families and organizational ends
Common Cmdlet Families
- Get/Set
- Import/Export
- Get/Test/Repair
- Start/Stop
- Send/Receive
Talking about Topics
- Documenting what you’ve done
- WTFM (Write the Friggin Manual)
Working with Walkthrus
- Creating a .walkthru.help.txt file
Day 5 - Powerful PowerShell
Making PowerShell Easy
- Look. No Console!
- Quick Windows UI around PowerShell
- Quick Web UI around PowerShell
ISE is Nice
- Creating quick clickable tools for admins (Icicles)
- Monitoring Made Easy
Integrated Intranet
- Making Modules into Web Sites with PowerShell Pipeworks
- Pipeworks user system and Active Directory
- Impersonation and Integration
My Script, My Service
- Thinking of PowerShell as Software as a Service
- Commands and permissions
- Threat modeling
Powering Phones with PowerShell
- Sending calls from PowerShell
- Sending texts from PowerShell
- Receiving calls in PowerShell
- Receiving texts in PowerShell
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The PowerShell Pipeworks Primer
A 1-day intro to building web sites and services with PowerShell Pipeworks
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Building basic sites
- Your first Pipeworks page
- Understanding Sites and services
- Pipeworks directory structure
- Scripting securely
How Pipeworks makes sites simpler
- Simplified Service Oriented Architecture
- Joining Windows and Web
- Autocoding away annoying complexity
Markdown and Mashups
- Simple sites without HTML
- Connecting the clouds
- Stitching together services
- Easy intake forms
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PowerShell Pipeworks Possibilities
A 3-day dive into using PowerShell Pipeworks and creating web, Intranet experiences around your PowerShell
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Day 1 - Pipeworks fundamentals
Building basic sites
- Your first Pipeworks page
- Understanding Sites and services
- Pipeworks directory structure
- Scripting securely
- Simple membership systems
How Pipeworks makes sites simpler
- Simplified Service Oriented Architecture
- Joining Windows and Web
- Autocoding away annoying complexity
Markdown and Mashups
- Simple sites without HTML
- Connecting the clouds
- Stitching together services
- Easy intake forms
Day 2 - Module Publishing
Quality cmdlet design
- The Virtuous Cycle
- Thinking in experiences
- Subtle tips and tricks
How metadata matters
- How help is used in Pipeworks
- Making the most of Markdown
- Writing walkthru topics
Pipeworks directives
- Creating customized experiences
- Commonly used directives
- Directives and cmdlet-to-cmdlet flow
The Pipeworks Manifest
- Powers of the Pipeworks Manifest
- Analytics, Styles, and other Stuff
- Fancy without Fighting For it
Day 3 - Integrated Intranet
Creating data dashboards
- Demands of Dashboard design
- Flexible Formatting
- Using Out-Html and graphs
Simplifying Security
- How to collect data
- Threat modeling
- Reducing attack surface
Corporate data design
- Dealing with data
- Avoiding overload
- Confirming with confidence
Identifying and impersonating users
- Membership in the intranet
- The 2nd-hop problems
- Securely impersonating users
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Potent PowerShell Pipeworks
A 5-day deep dive into using PowerShell Pipeworks and creating web, Intranet, cloud, phone, and application experiences with PowerShell Pipeworks. Completely change your automation arsenal by taking this course.
Outline
Rates
Reserve Dates
Day 1 - Pipeworks fundamentals
Building basic sites
- Your first Pipeworks page
- Understanding Sites and services
- Pipeworks directory structure
- Scripting securely
- Simple membership systems
How Pipeworks makes sites simpler
- Simplified Service Oriented Architecture
- Joining Windows and Web
- Autocoding away annoying complexity
Markdown and Mashups
- Simple sites without HTML
- Connecting the clouds
- Stitching together services
- Easy intake forms
Day 2 - Module Publishing
Quality cmdlet design
- The Virtuous Cycle
- Thinking in experiences
- Subtle tips and tricks
How metadata matters
- How help is used in Pipeworks
- Making the most of Markdown
- Writing walkthru topics
Pipeworks directives
- Creating customized experiences
- Commonly used directives
- Directives and cmdlet-to-cmdlet flow
The Pipeworks Manifest
- Powers of the Pipeworks Manifest
- Analytics, Styles, and other Stuff
- Fancy without Fighting For it
Day 3 - Integrated Intranet
Creating data dashboards
- Demands of Dashboard design
- Flexible Formatting
- Using Out-Html and graphs
Simplifying Security
- How to collect data
- Threat modeling
- Reducing attack surface
Corporate data design
- Dealing with data
- Avoiding overload
- Confirming with confidence
Identifying and impersonating users
- Membership in the intranet
- The 2nd-hop problems
- Securely impersonating users
Day 4 - Connecting Clouds
Integrating with Office365
- Sending mail via SMTP
- Easy intake forms
- Receiving mail
- Automated provisioning
Finding data with Factual
- Looking for leads
- Places and products
- Operating Hours
Working with Wolfram|Alpha
- Materials Metadata
- People and Places
- Fine-Grain Financial
Talking with Twilio
- Twilio basics
- Making calls
- Sending texts
- Ways Pipeworks Powers up Twilio
Small Swarms in Azure
- Cloud capabilities
- Using Start-At
- Smarter scheduling
- Securely excuting scripts
Day 5 - Apps and Anything After
Scheming about Schematics
- Understanding Schematics
- Stacking schematics
- Publishing with Pipeworks
Automatically Building Apps
- App Schematics
- Using Fittings
Sleek user Systems
- Custom user data
- Partioning prudently
- Off-site processing
Cmdlets and Cashflow
- Pricing cmdlets
- Making meaningful margins
- Automating away annoyances
| Pacific Northwest |
Rest of US & Canada |
European Union |
|---|---|---|
| $4000 | $5000 | $6000 |
Start-Automating can significantly simplify your system administration story.
As the premiere PowerShell professionals we are able considerably more capable than your average company when it comes to automating any systems administration. We love building automated tools to help any administration action a lot easier to accomplish.Start-Automating started out of this passion: the founder worked on the WMI team, the Task Scheduler Team, and the PowerShell team at Microsoft, and developed a personal reputation for providing powerful tools. This reputation continued to grow within Microsoft: We built tools tackle bug triage, send out status updates, track complex changes across Windows, and we helped re-engineer the way that Windows itself is built every day.
This passion became a calling: To help anyone and everyone automate away their annoyances.
We've since helped many clients millions of man-hours by helping them to Start-Automating. Our automation helps ensure that top-tier software services like Office365 stay up and running every day. We can tie together everything and anything in the Windows ecosystem. Please contact us about what administration challanges you face, and how we can save you time and money by automating your administration.
About Start-Automating
Clients
Our History
We build a powerful web platform atop PowerShell, PowerShell Pipeworks.
We use PowerShell to produce Apps, Software Services, and Websites. We also create compelling cmdlets and many PowerShell modules.
We can help you automate Azure, Office365, Twilio, or (almost) anything else.
Start-Automating is the software automation company.
We love helping people save time and money by automating away the mundane.
We are the premiere professionals in PowerShell, Microsoft's automation platform.We build a powerful web platform atop PowerShell, PowerShell Pipeworks.
We use PowerShell to produce Apps, Software Services, and Websites. We also create compelling cmdlets and many PowerShell modules.
We can help you automate Azure, Office365, Twilio, or (almost) anything else.
Start-Automating has helped many companies automate or find qualified automators.
Here are a couple that are in the Fortune 100
We love to help out others in the Puget Sound. Here are a few we've worked with:
- 3Sharp
- Counseling West Seattle
- Edgile
- Seattle Children's Hospital
- Talking Dog Media
- WebFoot Staffing Solutions
We've also helped several smaller companies automate or find automators
Start-Automating was founded in October 2010 by James Brundage, a former member of the Windows PowerShell team.
Start-Automating initially helped Microsoft to build the partner launch toolkit for Office365 and helped developed updated versions of the Sharepoint deployment tool SPEasySetup. Start-Automating also assisted Microsoft Sharepoint Online Dedicated in the development of health monitoring tools for their deployments.
Start-Automating developed a growing reputation for being able to create tough to-build-tools and put a prettier face of them then a normal PowerShell console. Start-Automating's reputation for creating compelling experiences atop PowerShell was solidified by working with the community to merge the Powerboots and WPK projects into one unifed platform for WPF in PowerShell, ShowUI.
Start-Automating's reputation for tough tasks was solidified in summer of 2011, when Start-Automating became an official Microsoft vendor and began work on the Zero Day Attack Lab and updates to System Center 2012's Cmdlets.
The Zero Day Attack Lab is the most complex automation we've built (to date) for Microsoft, and the largest VM farm in the world. It is used to provide test virtual machines of nearly endless variety for security testing. It helped Start-Automating develop extensive expertise in patching and virtualization automation.
Start-Automating's work on System Center 2012 is a testament to their PowerShell prowess. System Center 2012 failed a certifcation related to the quality of their cmdlets, and Start-Automating was contracted to save the day. In less than 1 month Start-Automating built over 90 cmdlets, nearly doubling the automation available to every individual using System Center 2012. Start-Automating also cultivated considerable capabilities in automating System Center that can be applied to both System Center 2012 and System Center 2007.
As more customers requested more diverse experiences atop PowerShell, Start-Automating spent the time to develop PowerShell Pipeworks. Pipeworks is a web framework built atop PowerShell that's perfect for putting up paywalls and offering software as a service, and it forms the backbone of Start-Automating's current and future projects.
Pipeworks powers Start-Automating's software services and Websites. Pipeworks helps Start-Automating pop out Apps for them or anyone else, and it has quickly created a cottage industry of intranet development with Pipeworks for Microsoft and many others.
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