Validating CSV Headers In Your Scripts

Validating csv files tends to be one of those things that has to be customized for each script. I was tired of this, and wanted to make a way to be able to validate csv files before any of the script was run to prevent issues - so I created a new project to be able to validate CSV files and return WHAT of the csv file is invalid.

This is only the first start of the project with more to come eventually to allow the cmd to be a little more flexible in HOW it determines if a CSV is valid or not.

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Work Philosophy - Part 1/10

While coming back from the Global Powershell & DevOps summit in April of 2016, I had a chance to think about HOW I perform my job currently, and HOW I want to be performing it eventually, and what are the items that get me there. This ultimately became my philosophy of work, and maybe this will spur you on to think about how you do the work that you do daily.

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HPE Synergy Automation - Creating Server Profiles

HPE OneView offers multiple ways to automate the infrastructure in the datacenter. The basis for automating the hardware are server profiles and server templates. Deploying templates can be simplistic but with a little additional code, this simple concept can be expanded to automatically deploy templates to profiles and wait for the creation of the profiles to complete.

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HPE Synergy Automation - An Introduction

I recently finished a very large project to automate the deployment of physical servers on the HPE platform without using DSC, Puppet, or Chef. This series will be not only to document this process for myself but also for others who work with HPE servers and are looking to automate their server deployments and keep them consistent and quick.

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