PowerShell for Admins
ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 3-May-2019
Topics include GUI development, Azure Cloud Shell, Live streaming, Azure functions and more!
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PowerShell articles, tutorials, and guides from community experts.
PowerShell for Admins
Find-Module, Find-Script – Don't Recreate the Wheel
The PowerShell Gallery is a collection of modules and scripts that is community driven to help us automate everyday tasks. Sometimes, we have an idea that could written into a function or script, however, most of the time, someone else had the same idea and published their work to the PowerShell …
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Phenomenal number of ACLs, itty-bitty living space
I recently had a need to backup file and folder ACLs for a client that would then need to restore them to their original objects following a hardware upgrade that would wipe them out. Easy enough, but the catch was that there was 1.5 million of them. Fortunately, getting ACLs in PowerShell is easy. …
PowerShell for Admins
ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 26-April-2019
Topics include building functions for cleaning your $PATH, xplat GUIs with Core, and the EXO module makes its way to the Cloud Shell.
PowerShell for Admins
Azure DevOps – Enable "Allow scripts to access the OAuth token" using PowerShell
Azure DevOps allows us to run custom scripts to help our software and infrastructure get delivered quickly. There are times that the scripts run without an issue, however, sometimes there is a need to invoke the Azure DevOps Rest API in the release pipeline to get our scripts running. Sure, you can …
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Get-Command – One of the best Cmdlets besides Get-Help
So laying on the sofa, sick, bored out of my mind, what better way to spend my time then writing a blog post about Get-Command . The Get-Command Cmdlet is apart of the Microsoft.PowerShell.Core module, it was introduced in PowerShell version 1.0 and is one of the most useful Cmdlets to find a …
PowerShell for Admins
ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 19-April-2019
Topics include DSC, Pester, validation attributes, and Azure AD.
PowerShell for Admins
Learn To Use Verbose Output Streams In Your Pester Tests
I’m going to file this under “Either I’m a genius, or there’s a much better way and everyone knows it except for me.” I recently began adding a suite of Pester tests to one of my projects and I found myself needing to mock some unit tests against a particular function …
PowerShell for Admins
ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 12-April-2019
Topics include splatting, PSRemoting to Azure VMs, and honey users.
Tips and Tricks
Hear, Hear for Here-Strings
Running commands in PowerShell that require a format that will not run natively in PowerShell could be a difficult task, or can it? PowerShell provides a way to store, for example, a JSON as a string, enter here-string. A here-string is a single or double quoted string in which the quotation marks …