Inside IT Automation

Inside IT Automation

Inside IT Automation is a podcast gathering IT professionals who are passionate about automation. Every episode consists of a friendly conversation with a guest who is generally an IT Automation professional. Check our episodes to learn more.

Episodes

August 27, 2025 40 mins

In this interview, Damian Scoles talks about the strengths and weaknesses of using PowerShell and Microsoft Graph. We talk about real-world applications, and hear his insights and tips. This episode offers valuable perspectives on the evolving possibilities of Microsoft Graph and PowerShell.

Damian is Microsoft MVP in M365 & Services, a technical architect and well-known PowerShell book author. 

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In this "Inside IT Automation" episode, Heiko has a conversation with Emrys MacInally at the PSConfEU in Antwerp. They talk about PowerShell, PSConfEU, Public speaking at conferences and more. 

Emrys is Team Lead Deployment and Automation at medavis GmbH and PowerShell enthusiast. 

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In this "Inside IT Automation" episode Heiko has a conversation with Xavier Clinquart at the PSConfEU in Antwerp. They talk about the PowerShell Conference, "Shorten The Code", the PowerShell community and the Belgium PowerShell community in particular and more. 

Xavier is a Senior System Engineer at Axxes IT Consultancy and the co-founder of the Belgium PowerShell User Group.

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In this "Inside IT Automation" episode, Heiko has a conversation with Guy Leech at the PSConfEU in Antwerp. They talk about the PowerShell Conference, Guy's PowerShell journey, AI and more. They will also be a few dad jokes :-).

Guy is a Microsoft MVP, Citrix CTP, VMware vExpert, Parallels VIPP and a well known PowerShell expert.

NOTE: Unfortunately, the recording stopped at around the 30-minute mark. That's why the abrupt ending. ...

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In this episode of "Inside IT Automation" we speak with Matthew Dowst.

Matthew is a Managing Consultant for Quisitive (formerly Catapult Systems) and the lead architect for their managed automation team. He has spent the last 10 years working  extensively with PowerShell to help clients of all sizes automate  their production workloads. In addition, Matthew is very involved  in the PowerShell community, writing blogs, authoring mod...

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In this "Inside IT Automation" episode, Bruno Buyck shows how he teaches PowerShell with the help of Lego bricks. He demonstrates his Lego PowerShell module and how his students can use it to learn about parameters, functions and more. 

Bruno is a long time PowerShell consultant and PowerShell trainer in Belgium. He is the founder of Trouble Shooter BV.

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In this "Inside IT Automation On Tour" episode we are meeting Erwin van Hunen at the European Collaboration Summit in Wiesbaden, Germany. 

Erwin is the 'Father' of PnP PowerShell, an open source PowerShell module that is used millions of times everyday worldwide to perform automated tasks towards Office 365 and SharePoint. He is also a Microsoft MVP and well-known public speaker, and technology evangelist. As Chief Technolgy Office...

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In this episode of "Inside IT Automation" we speak with Kamen Nikolov. Kamen led the PowerCLI development team in Sofia. He is a VMware vExpert and an active member of the VMware community.  

In our conversation he talks about his PowerShell journey, the role PowerShell played when developing the VMware PowerCLI module, the PowerCLI functionality, Power Actions and more. 

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In this "Inside IT Automation" episode, we are having a conversation with Harm Veenstra at the PSConfEU in Antwerp where we talk about why PowerShell is fun, blogging, PowerShell 7, AI and more.

Harm is Microsoft MVP, Top 5 Contributor in MSFT PowerShell and Intune Community, PowerShell Evanglist and a Consultant for NEXXT. His blogging at PowerShellisFun.com.

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In this video, Shomit Ghose dives deep into the world of entrepreneurship, the power of data and AI, and the rapidly evolving future of automation.

With years of experience as a venture capitalist and tech leader, Shomit shares invaluable insights on what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur in today’s data-driven world. He explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping industries, the role of dat...

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In this episode of "Inside IT Automation" we speak with Adam Bertram aka "Adam the Automator". Adam is an independent technology professional focused on building, doing, and sharing. He is a subject-matter expert in automation, DevOps, and IT systems that just so happens to know how to convey knowledge gained through experience in the form of blog posts, written articles, online courses, and workshops.

Get great insights and tips a...

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In this "Inside IT Automation" episode Heiko has a conversation with Microsoft MVP Doug Finke. They talk about the current state of AI and how it helps to achieve more with PowerShell. 

Doug does a live demo of his PSAI PowerShell module and shows how it helps to interact with OpenAI from PowerShell.

They also cover the principles of AI, Cursor, DeepSeek and much more. 

Doug is a long time Microsoft MVP, AI tinkerer, author of "Win...

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In this "Inside IT Automation" we are having a conversation with Steve Lee at the PSConfEU in Antwerp. We talk about the PowerShell 7, AI, Project Mercury PowerShell DSC and more. He also gives some insights into how the Microsoft PowerShell team works. 

Steve is a Principal Software Engineer Manager at Microsoft. He works in the Microsoft PowerShell team.

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In this "Inside IT Automation" episode, Jakub Jareš talks about the Pester PowerShell module and how it helps testing PowerShell code.

Jakub is a senior software developer for Microsoft, with passion for open source, testing and teaching. He knows C#, F#, PowerShell and Go. Jakub talks on conferences about testing and development and was a Microsoft MVP 2014-2020, and PowerShell Community Hero 2019.

He has made significant contribu...

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In this "Inside IT Automation" episode, we have a conversation with Piotr Tarnawski aka AngrySysOps aka Angry Admin. They talk about VMware automations, PowerShell, AI and more. 

The Angry Admin is Senior Systems Engineer, VMware vExpert, Blogger and Content Creator on YouTube.

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PowerShell changed the lives of many IT professionals, system engineers and automation architects around the globe. Let's meet Jeffrey Snover. The man who had the vision, the team and the perseverance to bring this wonderful technology to life. In this talk, you will learn about the history of PowerShell and how it helps IT teams to automate tasks and processes today and tomorrow.

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