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ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 24-May-2019
Topics include unit testing your NetApp, logging, Office templates, and *DRUM ROLL* recordings from Summit!
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PowerShell articles, tutorials, and guides from community experts.
PowerShell for Admins
ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 17-May-2019
Topics include working with the Graph API, Chocolatey, jazzing up your functions with pipeline support, and shrinking VMDKs. Special thanks to Robin Dadswell, Prasoon Karunan V, and Mark Roloff. How to shrink VMDK with a couple of PowerShell scripts? by Kevin Soltow on May 8th Not just a set of …
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ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 10-May-2019
Topics include PowerShell Summit, finding account lockouts, certs, and learning PS via Pester. Content curated by Robin Dadswell, Prasoon Karunan, and Mark Roloff. Takeaways from the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2019 by Matt Bobke on May 2nd If you couldn’t make it to Summit, fret not! …
Announcements
Summit 2020 – A New Addition
Last week at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit, we announced the dates for next year’s summit. The event will again be held at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington on April 27th to April 30th. DevOps + Automation Summit - Nashville We are also proud to announce that our flagship …
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ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 3-May-2019
Topics include GUI development, Azure Cloud Shell, Live streaming, Azure functions and more!
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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.
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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 …