Detailed Biography

Dan Franciscus is a systems engineer specializing in PowerShell, VMware, Chocolatey, and Puppet. Dan is also a freelance tech writer who has been published by Ipswitch, TechTarget, and 4sysops.

Contact Information:

• Blog: www.winsysblog.com

Articles Authored

• 

  Using PowerShell Operators

  Last updated: Monday, March 29, 2021

  Published in: CODE Magazine: 2019 - July/August

  You need PowerShell operators if you’re writing a script or module, and there are quite a variety to choose from. Dan takes us on a tour of some of the ones you’ll use the most.

  • .NET 4.0
  • .NET 4.5
  • C#
  • PowerShell
• 

  Five PowerShell cmdlets for Beginners

  Last updated: Thursday, April 1, 2021

  Published in: CODE Magazine: 2019 - May/June

  The sheer number of PowerShell cmdlets that come straight out of the box with Microsoft products these days can be bewildering. Dan provides a handy guide to the most important ones.

  • CLI
  • cmdlets
  • Command Line
  • PowerShell
  • Scripting
• 

  Chocolatey on Windows

  Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022

  Published in: CODE Magazine: 2019 - January/February

  Using Chocolatey’s graphical user interface, you can bundle code into packages for easy replication and distribution. This is great news if you’ve got several versions of your client software, and you’ll appreciate Dan’s tour of Microsoft’s Chocolatey tool.

  • Chocolatey
  • Nuget
  • Package Management