I recently bought a new laptop, my first new personal machine since 2015, and with that comes the joy of setting up all of my utilities and applications again. My good friend Rob Sonders (Twitter|LinkedIn) has been raving about WinGet and how it has simplified his life, so I figured this was the perfect time to try it out. So far I have been really impressed with how simple it makes installing software from all kinds of different sources.

As a Cloud Operator responsible for managing an Azure Stack Hub system you need to be familiar with how to use the Privileged Endpoint (PEP). The Microsoft Documentation is a great place to get started, but there are a couple additional tips that I’ve gathered that aren’t covered in the documentation. Tip 1: You don’t need Get-Credential Instead of taking the step if acquiring the credential and storing it in a variable, just pass the CloudAdmin user name to the New-PSSession cmdlet in the -Credential parameter.