WLW Plugin for Open Live Writer #OLW available

I use Windows Live Writer for quite some time to write my post for my WordPress blog. The last version that was published by Microsoft was in the year 2012. So I was very happy when a few days ago the Open Live Writer (OLW) was announced. The OLW is an open source clone of the Windows Live Writer and is supported by a group of volunteers. Check out the post from Scott Hanselman for more details. What kept me from using it until now was the missing WLW Pluging (The Live Writer Source Code Plug-in For WordPress.com Blogs) from … Continue reading WLW Plugin for Open Live Writer #OLW available

Extend xSharePointAdministration Desired State Configuration (DSC) with custom resources

I’ve got a lot of positive feedback about the DSC module xSharePointAdministration – but there was not a lot of activity in git hub. The reason might be, that developers do not use PowerShell or DSC very often – and scripting guys and administrators do not use git hub. Also the learning curve for writing custom DSC resources is pretty hard. So I decided to give you a little jump start here. Write normal PowerShell scripts first Do not try to directly write your DSC resource. The debugging experience is not as good as it should be. Start by building … Continue reading Extend xSharePointAdministration Desired State Configuration (DSC) with custom resources