What I did for the week ending 2018/03/30

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Last week was a very light week for learning.

I watched:
  1. DSC in a vSphere Environment by Luc Dekens on YouTube. Mainly, I am interested in DSC as I have moved on from VMWare in my home lab.
  2. Test your Powershell code with AppVeyor for ITPros with André Kamman & Rob Sewell on YouTube.

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