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The PowerShell code you write can turn up in interesting places. Production services might rely on it. Your co-workers might take a peak and borrow ideas from it. You might decide to share it online. Someone might see your code online and use it in their own solutions. Hit the link for a quick bit …
PowerShell.org has come a long way, both spiritually and physically, since our inception in September of 2012. Let’s look at some screen grabs from the Internet Archive, and take a stroll through our history.
Join us virtually on Tuesday, June 9th at 8:30pm Central Time when PowerShell MVP Trevor Sullivan will present “Creating Object-Oriented Scripts using PowerShell Classes” . During this deep, technical discussion, we will take a look at PowerShell classes, and then authoring PowerShell Desired State …
Jason Helmick and I were recently up in Redmond recording a Microsoft Virtual Academy series entitled, “Building Your Datacenter One DSC Resource at a Time.” While we were there, we decided to film a tongue-in-cheek promo for the series that started with the premise that, “if you …
In this entry I combing all I covered into a set of scripts to automate the process of creating a small footprint VHDX base image and a WIM to use a sorce that is fully patched. And I added a script to update the files on a regular basis. Check it out and let me know what you think. Creating a small …
Take a minute think about how many PowerShell scripts you have written for yourself or your team. Countless functions and modules, helping to automate this or fix that or make your teams lives easier. You spend hours coding, writing in-line help, testing, packaging your script, distributing it to …
Continuing from our May meeting, Tome will be presenting a beginner’s track on Powershell covering String manipulations, Functions and Powershell Scripts. We also have Powershell MVP Doug Finke, who will be covering the new components as part of the Powershell V5.0 release, including PSPM, Classes …
We’ve had a number of people ask about a self-assessment for their PowerShell Toolmaking skills. We’ve decided to publish one, just once, in July. Here’s how to get it.
Configuration IDs - Globally Unique Identifiers, or GUIDs, that DSC nodes use to identify themselves to a pull server - have always been a limiting factor in DSC design and architecture. In the April 2015 preview of WMF5, however, Microsoft has completely overhauled Configuration IDs. If …
If you use F5’s BIG‑IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) for load-balancing, then you may find the new PS module I’ve written helpful. The module uses the REST API in ver. 11.6 of the LTM to query and manipulate an F5 LTM device. You can add and remove members from a pool, enable and disable …
