The PowerShell Podcast Hickory Dickory Docs
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In this episode, we talk to the Microsoft docs team (Sean Wheeler, Mike Lombardi, and Mike F. Robbins) about the success of docathon at Summit. We then talk about the value of contributing to docs, and all of the ways the barriers are being lowered for contributing. Last, we find out that Mikey will spend his weekends creating documentation on unrelated products, so he can come in fresh writing documentation for his job…..true dedication. A lot of links in this one. We encourage you to click away. In an unsurprising twist, the experts of docs have relevant docs for everything we talked about.
Bio and links:
Sean Wheeler - For the past 6 years, I have been the lead documentarian for PowerShell. I ensure that users have the content they need. I also support and encourage the PowerShell Community to add value via open-source contributions to the documentation. In my 24 years at Microsoft, I have taught many workshops on scripting, debugging, and advanced troubleshooting. Using my scripting expertise, I created tools to help customers collect and analyze data used to support and optimize their environments.
Mikey Lombardi is a Senior Content Developer at Microsoft, working on PowerShell Learn content. Always a gentleman, Mikey has been a positive force in the community for a long time. You like PowerShell? Awesome Documentation? Amazing tabletop campaigns? You found them, my friends. Follow him. FOLLOW HIM NOW!!!!!!
Mike F. Robbins is the Lead writer for Azure PowerShell at Microsoft. He is a regular speaker at PowerShell conferences and has an active blog, which is successful enough to make him a six time MVP. He is an Author, Editor of the PowerShell Conference Book: Volume 1, and an overall swell guy.
See The PowerShell Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgxHqNb29to
https://learn.microsoft.com/powershell/scripting/learn/shell/optimize-shell https://learn.microsoft.com/powershell/scripting/how-to-use-docs3#downloading-the-documentation-as-a-pdf https://learn.microsoft.com/powershell/scripting/community/contributing/using-github-codespaces https://github.com/PowerShell/Community-Blog/blob/main/Docs/README.md
https://aka.ms/azps https://mikefrobbins.com/
https://learn.microsoft.com/powershell/azure/az-predictor
https://github.com/mikefrobbins/SystemConfiguration/blob/main/PowerShell/Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1
https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/PSStyle/1.1.3
Introduction - PowerShell | Microsoft Learn
https://learn.microsoft.com/training/modules/azure-command-line-tools-intro/
https://sqlsaturday.com/2023-07-29-sqlsaturday1060/
https://dlvhdr.github.io/gh-dash/
https://www.powershellchatt.com/
About the Authors
Andrew Pla
PowerShell MVP, podcast host, and Community Director of PowerShell Summit
I’m a technical educator and community builder. I’m a Microsoft PowerShell MVP, podcast host, speaker, and Community Director of PowerShell Summit. I also work at PDQ alongside sysadmins and IT pros every day.
Community isn’t just what I do. It’s where I get my energy. I genuinely light up when I see someone land a new job, level up a skill, or show up to their first conference. I love sharing that passion with others.
Every week I host a live podcast and stream on YouTube covering PowerShell, automation, and the humans behind the keyboards.
If you’re on your IT journey and need someone in your corner, you’re in the right place. Find more at andrewpla.tech/links.

Jordan Hammond
Long-time co-host of The PowerShell Podcast
Jordan Hammond was a long-time co-host of The PowerShell Podcast and a regular host of the PDQ streams.
