Announcing PowerShell, DevOps, and Cloud Conference 2021

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 26 Jul, 2021
• • Conferences

PowerShell Conference Asia 2019 was a huge success. The attendee turnout was …

A reader counter using PowerShell, Azure functions, and table storage

• Ravikanth C
• 7 Min To Read
• 24 May, 2021
• • Azure functions
  • Azure tables
  • Azure

We have recently moved PowerShell Magazine from WordPress to Hugo static pages. …

A YAML primer for administrators

• Ravikanth C
• 11 Min To Read
• 15 May, 2021
• • Yaml

In today’s cloud and agile infrastructure world, JSON and YAML play a …

Make your code faster with Profiler

• Jakub Jareš
• 4 Min To Read
• 04 May, 2021
• • Modules
  • Profiler
  • Performance

Making PowerShell code faster has always been a difficult task. There are few …

Announcing PowerShell Magazine author toolkit v1.0

• Ravikanth C
• 5 Min To Read
• 03 May, 2021
• • News
  • Modules
  • Psmag author kit

We just announced moving PowerShell Magazine from WordPress platform to a …

The all new PowerShell Magazine is here and more to come!

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 03 May, 2021
• • News

This one took a while but we finally moved to a new home! No more painful …

Getting Started with PSArm

• Ravikanth C
• 7 Min To Read
• 05 Apr, 2021
• • Modules
  • Psarm
  • Azure resource manager
  • Azure

In the first part of this series, you learned about PSArm – a PowerShell …

PSArm - PowerShell DSL For Azure Resource Manager - Introduction

• Ravikanth C
• 5 Min To Read
• 01 Apr, 2021
• • Modules
  • Psarm
  • Azure resource manager
  • Azure

Those who worked on Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates understand that …

PowerShell wrapper around the Calendarific API

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 23 Mar, 2020
• • Modules

Calendarific offers a webservice for listing holidays from different countries. …

PowerShell and DevOps Conference Asia 2020

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 12 Mar, 2020
• • Conferences

PowerShell Conference Asia 2019 was held in Bangalore (India). It was such a …

The Case of Unknown Custom Object Property

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 10 Feb, 2020
• • Debugging

In the last two or three months, I have been busy working on a complete end to …

Secrets Management in PowerShell

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 07 Feb, 2020
• • Modules

In any method of automation secrets management is a very critical part. You …

PowerShell Conference Europe 2020

• Tobias Weltner
• 17 Min To Read
• 30 Jan, 2020
• • Conferences

June 2, 2020, PowerShell Conference Europe opens for the 5th time in Hannover, …

Parsing Failover Cluster Validation Report in PowerShell

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 30 Jan, 2020
• • Scripts

If you have ever worked with the Test-Cluster command in the failover clustering …

Weekly Module Spotlight: ImportExcel

• Ravikanth C
• 4 Min To Read
• 09 Sep, 2019
• • Modules

In my previous job, I worked at a customer site that had multiple Windows and …

Weekly Module Spotlight: Polaris

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 03 Sep, 2019
• • Modules

I create HTTP REST APIs a lot in my proof-of-concept work and I generally use …

Weekly Module Spotlight: PSHTML

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 21 Aug, 2019
• • Modules

Ever wanted to generate HTML documents dynamically? Until now, you had to …

Pester Result Reporting With Suggestions And XSL Support

• Prasoon Karunan v
• 6 Min To Read
• 25 Jul, 2019
• • Dev ops
  • Pester

I believe there is no introduction required for pester in PowerShell community. …

Podcast – A vision for Continuously Integrated Data Center

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 15 Jul, 2019
• • Dev ops

I was recently featured on the Latest Shiny Podcast (@l8istsh9y) hosted by Rob …

Garuda – Session Demo From #PSConfEU

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 11 Jul, 2019
• • Modules
  • Pester

In the earlier parts of this series, I introduced you to the concepts and design …

Inviting Women In Tech to PowerShell Conference Asia

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 10 Jul, 2019
• • Conferences

I have been talking to several automation engineers (for a vacant position) and …

Garuda – Architecture and Plan

• Ravikanth C
• 5 Min To Read
• 24 Jun, 2019
• • Dev ops
  • Pester

In the first part of this series, I mentioned the reasoning behind starting …

PSPublicAPI – Module For Listing Free APIs For Use in Software and Web Development

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 18 Jun, 2019
• • Modules

The Public APIs repository on GitHub has a list of free APIs that you can use in …

Distributed and Flexible Operations Validation Framework – Introduction

• Ravikanth C
• 8 Min To Read
• 17 Jun, 2019
• • Dev ops
  • Modules
  • Pester

Operations validation using PowerShell and Pester has been one of my favorite …

#PSTip A Better Way to Generate HTTP Query Strings in PowerShell

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 14 Jun, 2019
• • Tips and tricks

While working on a module that interacts with REST API, I came across a …

PowerShell Conference Asia – Early Bird Ticket Sales

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 09 Apr, 2019
• • Conferences

PowerShell Conference Asia 2019 edition will be in Bangalore, India. We closed …

PSWindowsAdminCenter: PowerShell Module to Manage Connections, Feeds, and Extensions

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 19 Feb, 2019
• • Modules

I had published a PowerShell DSC resource module, last month, called …

PowerShell DSC Resource Module to Install and Configure Windows Admin Center

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 31 Jan, 2019
• • Modules

Windows Admin Center (WAC) is the new web-based management application for …

Using PowerShell for generating dynamic folders in Royal TS

• Jan Egil Ring
• 6 Min To Read
• 03 Jan, 2019
• • Scripts

Royal TS is a powerful tool for managing remote systems using many different …

#PowerShell Conference Asia 2019 – Call for papers!

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 01 Jan, 2019
• • Conferences

We announced back in October that the next edition of PowerShell Conference Asia …

Redfish Event Listener in PowerShell

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 13 Nov, 2018
• • Modules

The Redfish specification supports event mechanism through which the target …

Converting a PowerShell Project to use Azure DevOps Pipelines

• Daniel Scott-Raynsford
• 16 Min To Read
• 20 Sep, 2018
• • Azure dev ops
  • Dev ops
  • Azure

Introduction Continuous Integration (CI) is the process of integrating code into …

Configuring role-based access control (RBAC) for runbooks in Azure Automation

• Jan Egil Ring
• 3 Min To Read
• 27 Aug, 2018
• • Azure automation
  • Azure

When setting up runbooks in Azure Automation to invoke automation of a process …

#PowerShell Conference Asia 2018 #PSConfAsia

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 14 Aug, 2018
• • Conferences

The PowerShell Conference Asia resumes for its 4th year this October, bringing …

Configuring Azure environment to set up Azure SQL Database Managed Instance (preview)

• Jovan Popovic
• 5 Min To Read
• 23 Jul, 2018
• • Azure
  • Azure SQL

Azure SQL Database Managed Instance (preview) is a new database service in …

#PSConfEU Agenda as a PowerShell Drive using #SHiPS

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 03 Apr, 2018
• • Conferences
  • Modules
  • Shi ps

The SHiPS module has several use cases with structured data. I have written a …

PowerShell Conference EU 2018

• Tobias Weltner
• 8 Min To Read
• 09 Feb, 2018
• • Conferences

The US-based “PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit” sold out in record time this …

Azure DevTest Labs Artifact for installing PowerShell Core

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 22 Jan, 2018
• • Azure
  • Azure dev test

Unless you were living under a rock, PowerShell Core general availability isn’t …

PowerShell UserVoice: Add Support for NPM Type Version Specification in Module Manifest and #Requires

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 08 Jan, 2018
• • Modules

If you have ever used Node.js, the packages.json file is used to specify the …

#PSDSC Configuration Versioning in a Deployment Pipeline

• Ravikanth C
• 4 Min To Read
• 05 Jan, 2018
• • Dev ops
  • Power shell dsc

When we talk about applications or software deployed in the infrastructure, we …

Using NetworkAdapterProperty #PSDSC Resource to Configure Network Adapter Advanced Properties

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 04 Jan, 2018
• • Modules
  • Power shell dsc

At times we need to set the physical adapter advanced properties such as VLAN …

Using NetQoSDSC #PSDSC Resource Module to Configure Network QoS

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 03 Jan, 2018
• • Power shell dsc
  • Modules

As a part of larger hyper-converged infrastructure (based on S2D) configuration …

Hyper-V Server PowerShell Drive based on #SHiPS

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 02 Jan, 2018
• • Modules
  • Shi ps

In an earlier article, I had written about a PowerShell provider for Failover …

Failover Cluster PowerShell Drive based on #SHiPS

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 21 Dec, 2017
• • Modules
  • Shi ps

Simple Hierarchy in PowerShell (SHiPS) is a module that simplifies implementing …

#PSDSC FailoverClusterDSC – Deploy a Storage Spaces Direct Cluster

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 19 Dec, 2017
• • Power shell dsc
  • Modules

I have been working on the FailoverClusterDsc resource module and finally had …

Containerizing a web application

• Jan Egil Ring
• 12 Min To Read
• 20 Nov, 2017
• • Containers
  • How to

In this article, we will look at different options for containerizing a web …

PSRemotely – Authoring workflow (Part 1)

• Deepak Dhami
• 8 Min To Read
• 29 Jun, 2017
• • Dev ops
  • Pester
  • Modules

Introduction After setting up the context in the previous post, it is time to …

Infrastructure Blueprints – Adding Pre-deployment Validations

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 28 Jun, 2017
• • Dev ops
  • Pester
  • Power shell dsc

In one of my earlier articles here, I wrote about the Infrastructure Blueprints …

Discover and Package Dependent Resource Modules for a #PSDSC Configuration

• Ravikanth C
• 7 Min To Read
• 27 Jun, 2017
• • Power shell dsc

If you have ever used the Publish-AzureRmVMDscConfiguration cmdlet in the Azure …

Cisco UCS Custom Resource for the Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)

• Sumanth BR
• 9 Min To Read
• 29 May, 2017
• • Cisco
  • Power shell dsc

The Cisco UCS PowerTool Suite is a set of PowerShell modules for Cisco UCS …

#PSDSC Doing It Right – Configuration vs Orchestration

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 24 May, 2017
• • Dev ops
  • Power shell dsc

In the last part of this series, we looked at why resource granularity is …

#PSDSC Doing It Right – Resource Granularity

• Ravikanth C
• 6 Min To Read
• 23 May, 2017
• • Dev ops
  • Power shell dsc

This is the first article in the #PSDSC Doing It Right series. This series of …

Working with binary files in PowerShell

• Jan Egil Ring
• 4 Min To Read
• 22 May, 2017
• • How to

This article is co-authored by Jan Egil Ring and Ø__yvind Kallstad In this …

Infrastructure Blueprints – An Easier and Better Way to Share #PSDSC Configurations

• Ravikanth C
• 5 Min To Read
• 15 May, 2017
• • Dev ops
  • Power shell dsc

A while ago, I wrote an article to introduce Infrastructure Blueprints. Today’s …

PSRemotely – Framework to Enable Remote Operations Validation

• Deepak Dhami
• 9 Min To Read
• 07 Apr, 2017
• • Dev ops
  • Pester
  • Modules

Before we get started with what is PSRemotely, here is some background. As part …

PowerShell Conference EU 2017 – Speakers and Sessions

• Tobias Weltner
• 5 Min To Read
• 02 Feb, 2017
• • News
  • Conferences

Modern administrators are responsible for business-critical automation, …

#PSTip Tab complete properties

• Jan Egil Ring
• 1 Min To Read
• 31 Oct, 2016
• • Tips and tricks

Tab completion is a well-known feature in PowerShell, which speeds up the …

What is new in cHyper-V PowerShell DSC Resource Module?

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 24 Oct, 2016
• • Hyper v
  • Power shell dsc
  • Modules

I just finished testing and publishing the cHyper-V PowerShell DSC resource …

Azure DevTest Labs Artifact for Installing PowerShell on Linux

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 22 Aug, 2016
• • Azure
  • Azure dev test
  • Linux

Update: The PowerShell on Linux artifact is now available in official Azure DTL …

Open source PowerShell on Windows, Linux, and OS X!

• PowerShellMagazine
• 9 Min To Read
• 18 Aug, 2016
• • News
  • Linux

This article was co-authored by Bartek Bielawski and Ben Gelens. Windows …

Announcing Registrations – PowerShell Conference Asia 2016, Singapore

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 15 Aug, 2016
• • News
  • Conferences

PowerShell Conference Asia is back. After a successful last year, we are back …

ISESteroids 2.6 with new version of PSSharper released

• Tobias Weltner
• 11 Min To Read
• 10 Aug, 2016
• • News

PowerShell is everywhere these days. And solid PowerShell skills are probably …

Windows 10 Anniversary Update Brings Remoting Support for BITS

• Jan Egil Ring
• 2 Min To Read
• 03 Aug, 2016
• • News

In this article we will look at a new feature in the BITS service which is …

#PSTip New PowerShell Commands in Windows 10 Anniversary Update

• Jan Egil Ring
• 3 Min To Read
• 02 Aug, 2016
• • Tips and tricks

Windows 10 Anniversary Update was made generally available on August 2, 2016. …

Triggering Azure Automation runbooks from Microsoft OMS Alerts

• Jan Egil Ring
• 7 Min To Read
• 11 Jul, 2016
• • Azure automation
  • Azure

Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) is an IT management solution for the …

#PSTip Download and install Sysinternals Suite for Nano Server

• Jan Egil Ring
• 2 Min To Read
• 06 Jul, 2016
• • Tips and tricks

The Sysinternals Suite, which contains many tools an IT Professional should have …

Build Your Visual Studio Code Development Environment Using PowerShell DSC

• Ravikanth C
• 5 Min To Read
• 08 Jun, 2016
• • Power shell dsc
  • Vs code

I keep re-building my lab machines and in the process I rebuild my development …

DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and PowerShell DSC: Infrastructure Blueprints

• Ravikanth C
• 4 Min To Read
• 13 May, 2016
• • Dev ops
  • Power shell dsc

This part of the series is long due after the first post on DevOps, …

From PSConfEU 2016 – Session Recordings

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 13 May, 2016
• • News
  • Conferences

Session recordings – both videos and screencasts – from PowerShell Conference …

From #PSConfEU 2016 – A Conversation with Jeffrey Snover

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 12 May, 2016
• • Interviews

This post is a bit delayed, but PowerShell Conference Europe 2016 was a blast. …

#PSTip Convert PowerShell Data File to an Object

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 11 May, 2016
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 4.0 or later. Before PowerShell 4.0, if we …

PowerShell Location Bookmark for Easy and Faster Navigation

• Ravikanth C
• 4 Min To Read
• 06 May, 2016
• • Modules

I work at the command line most of the time and sometimes I find moving to …

Comparing commands between PowerShell versions

• Jan Egil Ring
• 4 Min To Read
• 29 Apr, 2016
• • How to

In the article Decoding PowerShell build numbers, I stated the need to have some …

Survey: PowerShell DSC Composite Resources

• Ravikanth C
• 4 Min To Read
• 22 Apr, 2016
• • Power shell dsc

While at the PowerShell Conference EU, we had some very good discussions around …

Decoding PowerShell build numbers

• Jan Egil Ring
• 3 Min To Read
• 10 Mar, 2016
• • How to

There are several ways to determine what version of Windows PowerShell you are …

How to add a new functionality to the Visual Studio Code PowerShell extension

• Jan Egil Ring
• 5 Min To Read
• 10 Feb, 2016
• • How to
  • Vs code

Visual Studio Code is a free code editor redefined and optimized for building …

PowerShell Conference Europe Speakers and Sessions

• Ravikanth C
• 4 Min To Read
• 12 Jan, 2016
• • News
  • Conferences

PowerShell is not just a simple little script automation language anymore. It …

DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and PowerShell DSC: The Introduction

• Ravikanth C
• 6 Min To Read
• 05 Jan, 2016
• • Dev ops
  • Power shell dsc

DevOps is the new cool thing (at least in the Windows world) everyone is talking …

PowerShell DSC Resources to Configure Switch Embedded Teaming and NAT Switch in Windows Server 2016

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 07 Dec, 2015
• • Hyper v
  • Power shell dsc

Earlier this year, I released a bunch of DSC resources packaged as cHyper-V …

Pester Explained: Describe, Context, and It Blocks

• Jakub Jareš
• 8 Min To Read
• 03 Dec, 2015
• • Dev ops
  • Pester

This article is a part of a larger series on Pester. Last time, we looked at how …

Pester Explained: Should

• Jakub Jareš
• 8 Min To Read
• 02 Dec, 2015
• • Dev ops
  • Pester

This article is a part of a larger series on Pester. Last time we looked at the …

Pester Explained: Introduction and Assertions

• Jakub Jareš
• 9 Min To Read
• 01 Dec, 2015
• • Pester
  • Dev ops

This article is a part of a larger series on Pester. I always found the word …

The case of potentially broken Package Management for Windows 10 Insiders

• Ben Gelens
• 3 Min To Read
• 30 Nov, 2015
• • Package management

I’ve been running in the Windows Insiders fast ring since it was incepted and …

Deploy Custom Azure Automation Integration Modules Using ARM Templates

• Ravikanth C
• 5 Min To Read
• 26 Nov, 2015
• • Azure
  • Azure automation
  • Azure resource manager

Update: Earlier generic linked template for deploying modules was removed and it …

PowerShell Tools For The Advanced Use Cases – part 3

• David O'Brien
• 5 Min To Read
• 23 Nov, 2015
• • How to
  • Dev ops

Posts in this series PowerShell Tools for the Advanced Use Cases, part 1 …

PowerShell Extension for #VisualStudio Code #Connect2015

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 18 Nov, 2015
• • News
  • Vs code

If you are not watching #VisualStudio #Connect2015, you are certainly missing a …

PowerShell tools for the advanced use cases – part 2

• David O'Brien
• 7 Min To Read
• 02 Nov, 2015
• • Dev ops
  • How to
  • Pester

Posts in this series PowerShell Tools for the Advanced Use Cases, part 1 …

PowerShell Conference EU 2016 – Registration Starts Now

• Tobias Weltner
• 3 Min To Read
• 02 Nov, 2015
• • Conferences
  • News

In 2016, the newly minted “PowerShell Conference EU” will be hosted in Hannover, …

#PSConfAsia An Interview with PowerShell Expert Janaka Rangama

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 20 Oct, 2015
• • Interviews

We concluded the first exclusive PowerShell conference in Asia a couple of weeks …

#PSConfAsia An Interview with PowerShell Expert Emerald Tabirao

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 19 Oct, 2015
• • Interviews

We concluded the first exclusive PowerShell conference in Asia a couple of weeks …

#PSConfAsia An Interview with PowerShell Expert Milton Goh

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 16 Oct, 2015
• • Interviews

We concluded the first exclusive PowerShell conference in Asia a couple of weeks …

#PSConfAsia An Interview with PowerShell Expert Ryan Yates

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 15 Oct, 2015
• • Interviews

We concluded the first exclusive PowerShell conference in Asia a couple of weeks …

#PSConfAsia An Interview with PowerShell Expert Gayathri Narayanan

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 14 Oct, 2015
• • Interviews

We concluded the first exclusive PowerShell conference in Asia a couple of weeks …

#PSConfAsia An Interview with PowerShell Expert Jason Brown

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 13 Oct, 2015
• • Interviews

We concluded the first exclusive PowerShell conference in Asia a couple of weeks …

Azure PowerShell 1.0 Preview Installation on Down-level PowerShell Systems Using PackageManagement Cmdlets

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 13 Oct, 2015
• • Azure
  • Azure power shell

If you have not seen this yet, Azure PowerShell 1.0 is in preview. If you have …

PowerShell Tools for the Advanced Use Cases, part 1

• David O'Brien
• 6 Min To Read
• 12 Oct, 2015
• • How to
  • Dev ops

Posts in this series PowerShell Tools for the Advanced Use Cases, part 1 (this …

#PSConfAsia An Interview with PowerShell Expert Girish Prakash

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 12 Oct, 2015
• • Interviews

We concluded the first exclusive PowerShell conference in Asia a couple of weeks …

#PSConfAsia An Interview with PowerShell Expert Jaap Brasser

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 09 Oct, 2015
• • Interviews

We concluded the first exclusive PowerShell conference in Asia a couple of weeks …

#PSConfAsia An Interview with PowerShell Expert Deepak Dhami

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 08 Oct, 2015
• • Interviews

We concluded the first exclusive PowerShell conference in Asia a couple of weeks …

#PSConfAsia An Interview with PowerShell Expert Narayanan Lakshmanan

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 07 Oct, 2015
• • Interviews

We concluded the first exclusive PowerShell conference in Asia a couple of weeks …

#PSConfAsia An Interview with PowerShell Expert Benjamin Hodge

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 06 Oct, 2015
• • Interviews

We concluded the first exclusive PowerShell conference in Asia a couple of weeks …

#PSConfAsia An Interview with PowerShell Expert Ferdinand Rios

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 05 Oct, 2015
• • Interviews

We concluded the first exclusive PowerShell conference in Asia a couple of weeks …

Summary from PowerShell Summit Europe 2015

• Jan Egil Ring
• 2 Min To Read
• 23 Sep, 2015
• • Conferences
  • News

The PowerShell Summit Europe 2015 was arranged in Stockholm, Sweden on September …

Part 4 – Journey to a Windows Azure Pack VM Role DSC Resource: The DSC resource

• Ben Gelens
• 18 Min To Read
• 22 Sep, 2015
• • Azure pack
  • Power shell dsc

In this series: Part 1 – Journey to a Windows Azure Pack VM Role DSC Resource: …

Why you should install WMF 5.0 Production Preview on your SMA runbook workers

• Ben Gelens
• 5 Min To Read
• 14 Sep, 2015
• • Service management automation

Although it is not officially supported yet, here is why you should install WMF …

#PSTip Using PowerShell runspaces to find unassigned IPv4 addresses

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 07 Sep, 2015
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or later. We often come across …

#PSTip Validate Active Directory Credentials

• Deepak Dhami
• 2 Min To Read
• 04 Sep, 2015
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or later. PowerShell let’s you tap into …

Journey to a Windows Azure Pack VM Role DSC Resource: Inside the module

• Ben Gelens
• 19 Min To Read
• 01 Sep, 2015
• • Azure pack
  • Power shell dsc

In this series, Part 1 – Journey to a Windows Azure Pack VM Role DSC Resource: …

Journey to a Windows Azure Pack VM Role DSC Resource: PowerShell Module Usage

• Ben Gelens
• 9 Min To Read
• 07 Aug, 2015
• • Azure pack
  • Power shell dsc

In this series, Part 1 - Journey to a Windows Azure Pack VM Role DSC Resource: …

Journey to a Windows Azure Pack VM Role DSC Resource: Introduction

• Ben Gelens
• 6 Min To Read
• 28 Jul, 2015
• • Azure pack
  • Power shell dsc

In this series, Part 1 – Journey to a Windows Azure Pack VM Role DSC Resource: …

Git for IT Professionals: Life Cycle of Repository Files

• Ravikanth C
• 6 Min To Read
• 27 Jul, 2015
• • Dev ops
  • Git

In this series so far, Part 1 - Git for IT Professionals: Getting Started Part 2 …

Git for IT Professionals: Working with Repositories

• Ravikanth C
• 5 Min To Read
• 15 Jul, 2015
• • Dev ops
  • Git

In this series so far: Part 1 – Git for IT Professionals: Getting Started Part 2 …

Git for IT Professionals: Getting Started

• Ravikanth C
• 7 Min To Read
• 13 Jul, 2015
• • Dev ops
  • Git

In this series so far: Part 1 – Git for IT Professionals: Getting Started (this …

PowerShell DSC for Linux: Pull Server

• Bartek Bielawski
• 7 Min To Read
• 10 Jul, 2015
• • Power shell dsc
  • Linux

Initial release of PowerShell DSC for Linux had one big gap: it supported only …

PowerShell DSC for Linux: Resources

• Bartek Bielawski
• 8 Min To Read
• 08 Jul, 2015
• • Power shell dsc
  • Linux

New version of PowerShell DSC for Linux doubled the number of resources …

Eliminating Redundant Code by Writing Reusable DSC Configurations

• Mike Robbins
• 7 Min To Read
• 07 Jul, 2015
• • Power shell dsc

Both PowerShell and DSC (Desired State Configuration) are designed for …

PowerShell DSC for Linux: Installation

• Bartek Bielawski
• 4 Min To Read
• 06 Jul, 2015
• • Power shell dsc
  • Linux

First version of PowerShell DSC for Linux is released. We announced that and …

Creating a Simple DSC Resource

• Jan Egil Ring
• 13 Min To Read
• 02 Jul, 2015
• • Power shell dsc

In this article, we will look at how to get started creating a very simple DSC …

PowerShell Conference Asia 2015 – Get-Here: Travel Tips

• Matthew Hitchcock
• 6 Min To Read
• 30 Jun, 2015
• • News
  • Conferences

As the PowerShell Conference draws closer, people have been asking a number of …

How to use WDS to PXE Boot a Nano Server VHD with PowerShell

• Emin Atac
• 10 Min To Read
• 29 Jun, 2015
• • How to
  • Power shell dsc

The goal of this article is to provide a more detailed step by step way of …

#PSTip Find variables in a script

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 22 Jun, 2015
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or later. I had recently completed …

PowerShell Conference Asia 2015 Update – Registration is Open!

• Matthew Hitchcock
• 4 Min To Read
• 17 Jun, 2015
• • News
  • Conferences

PowerShell Conference Asia 2015 is coming up fast so here’s a quick update on …

#PSTip Convert .docx to .pdf using Word.Application

• Jaap Brasser
• 1 Min To Read
• 11 Jun, 2015
• • Tips and tricks

The Word.Application object can be used to convert Word documents into PDF files …

#PSTip Determine compression ratio of compressed files

• Jaap Brasser
• 1 Min To Read
• 10 Jun, 2015
• • Tips and tricks

In the previous #PSTip Compress files and folders with …

#PSTip Compress files and folders with System.IO.Compression.FileSystem class

• Jaap Brasser
• 1 Min To Read
• 09 Jun, 2015
• • Tips and tricks

Using the CreateFromDirectory and ExtractToDirectory methods, it is possible to …

#PSTip Use Shell.Application to determine which folder is open in File Explorer

• Jaap Brasser
• 1 Min To Read
• 08 Jun, 2015
• • Tips and tricks

By using the Windows() method and the LocationURL and LocationName properties we …

#PSTip Get last login date for local account

• Jaap Brasser
• 2 Min To Read
• 05 Jun, 2015
• • Tips and tricks

Using the ADSI type accelerator in combination with WinNT provider we can …

#PSTip Access remote registry using PowerShell

• Jaap Brasser
• 1 Min To Read
• 04 Jun, 2015
• • Tips and tricks

Using the Microsoft.Win32.Registry class it is possible to access both–the local …

Pester: Triangulation and reusing test cases

• Jakub Jareš
• 2 Min To Read
• 04 Jun, 2015
• • Pester

Pester has a great feature called TestCases. This feature enables you to easily …

Coding defensively against enums

• Jakub Jareš
• 10 Min To Read
• 02 Jun, 2015
• • How to

Today I will show how to defensively script against enums and how to test …

#PSTip Validate if an Active Directory Organizational Unit exists or not

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 29 May, 2015
• • Tips and tricks

For some recent scripting work, I needed to find if an AD OU existed or not from …

PowerShell DSC for Linux released!

• Bartek Bielawski
• 2 Min To Read
• 14 May, 2015
• • Power shell dsc
  • Linux

The day that people who love both PowerShell DSC and xplat solutions where …

Introducing DNS Policies in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2

• Jan Egil Ring
• 4 Min To Read
• 13 May, 2015
• • News

In this article, we will have a look at DNS Policies – a new feature in the DNS …

Natively Query CSV Files using SQL Syntax in PowerShell

• Chrissy LeMaire
• 7 Min To Read
• 12 May, 2015
• • How to
  • SQL

Note: The previous version of this article relied on the 32-bit JET engine. It …

Manage your public DNS zones with Azure DNS

• Jan Egil Ring
• 3 Min To Read
• 11 May, 2015
• • Azure
  • Azure DNS

On May 4 2015, Microsoft has released a public preview of a new Microsoft Azure …

PSTip: Connect to Azure Virtual Machines without being prompted for credentials

• Jaap Brasser
• 1 Min To Read
• 16 Apr, 2015
• • Tips and tricks

When working with Azure it can be useful to quickly connect to a number of Azure …

Fasten your seat belts and start contributing to the DSC PowerShell resource repository!

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 16 Apr, 2015
• • Power shell dsc

The DSC resource development team at Microsoft released ten waves of DSC …

PSTip: Change a drive letter using Win32_Volume class

• Jaap Brasser
• 1 Min To Read
• 15 Apr, 2015
• • Tips and tricks

Changing a drive letter of a removable drive or DVD drive is an easy task with …

PSTip: Save untitled tabs in PowerShell ISE to clipboard

• Jaap Brasser
• 1 Min To Read
• 14 Apr, 2015

When working with the PowerShell ISE it can occur that there are a lot of …

PSTip: Use Shell.Application to display extended file attributes

• Jaap Brasser
• 3 Min To Read
• 13 Apr, 2015
• • Tips and tricks

In Windows files can have a lot of additional file attributes that are not shown …

PSTip: Retrieve scheduled tasks using Schedule.Service COMObject

• Jaap Brasser
• 3 Min To Read
• 10 Apr, 2015
• • Tips and tricks

In PowerShell 4.0, the Get-ScheduledTask cmdlet was introduced, but …

PSTip: Use Windows Forms to generate GUI messagebox

• Jaap Brasser
• 2 Min To Read
• 09 Apr, 2015
• • Tips and tricks

While it is great that PowerShell can do so many things in the background …

CompatAware: Scripting against different PowerShell versions

• Tobias Weltner
• 9 Min To Read
• 09 Apr, 2015
• • How to

You may remember “DLL Hell” from the old days. A very similar beast lives in our …

User Account Control and Admin Approval Mode – The impact on PowerShell

• Jaap Brasser
• 4 Min To Read
• 08 Apr, 2015
• • How to

In modern days Windows operating systems, User Account Control (UAC) is enabled …

PowerShell Conference Asia, 2015 – call for speakers and sponsors

• Matthew Hitchcock
• 5 Min To Read
• 06 Apr, 2015
• • News
  • Conferences

Exciting times! On September 18-19 2015, we at the Singapore PowerShell User …

Royal TS V3 (with a PowerShell module) released

• Jan Egil Ring
• 2 Min To Read
• 24 Mar, 2015
• • Modules
  • Royal ts

Back in January 2015, I wrote an introduction to the new PowerShell module in …

OMI with WSMan over HTTPS: Done right.

• Bartek Bielawski
• 4 Min To Read
• 23 Mar, 2015
• • Linux
  • Omi

When you install OMI for the first time, a pair of keys is generated for you. …

Rapid PowerShell Development with ISESteroids

• Tobias Weltner
• 13 Min To Read
• 14 Mar, 2015
• • Modules

Should you frequently experience de-ja-vus while writing PowerShell code – …

How PowerShell saved the day – Jan Egil Ring

• Jan Egil Ring
• 3 Min To Read
• 10 Mar, 2015
• • How to

We’re now kicking off a new series on PowerShell Magazine called “How PowerShell …

Improvements to DSC v1

• Jan Egil Ring
• 3 Min To Read
• 09 Mar, 2015
• • Power shell dsc

KB3000850, the November 2014 update rollup for Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and …

Working with PowerShell DSC for Linux, part 5

• Bartek Bielawski
• 6 Min To Read
• 27 Feb, 2015
• • Power shell dsc
  • Linux
  • Omi

Managing Linux can become a challenge if you don’t have some way of distributing …

Working with PowerShell DSC for Linux, part 4

• Bartek Bielawski
• 9 Min To Read
• 26 Feb, 2015
• • Power shell dsc
  • Linux
  • Omi

CTP of Linux DSC that was released last year has only five resources: nxService, …

Working with PowerShell DSC for Linux, part 3

• Bartek Bielawski
• 5 Min To Read
• 25 Feb, 2015
• • Power shell dsc
  • Linux
  • Omi

Linux is a system that stores configuration in text files. As a result, nxFile …

Working with PowerShell DSC for Linux, part 2

• Bartek Bielawski
• 6 Min To Read
• 23 Feb, 2015
• • Power shell dsc
  • Linux
  • Omi

PowerShell DSC for Linux caught my attention immediately after it was announced. …

Working with PowerShell DSC for Linux, part 1

• Bartek Bielawski
• 5 Min To Read
• 22 Feb, 2015
• • Power shell dsc
  • Linux
  • Omi

In the first part of this series, we covered the basis–how to get Desired State …

Mixed refresh mode support for DSC partial configurations

• Ravikanth C
• 6 Min To Read
• 20 Feb, 2015
• • Power shell dsc

Partial configurations in DSC allow department-level delegation of target system …

DSC Local Configuration Manager Refresh Modes in WMF 5.0

• Ravikanth C
• 5 Min To Read
• 19 Feb, 2015
• • Power shell dsc

In the WMF 5.0 Preview February release, a new DSC RefreshMode setting is added …

Windows Management Framework 5.0 February preview available

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 19 Feb, 2015
• • News

Windows PowerShell team announced the availability of Windows Management …

Using DSC to deploy Hyper-V converged virtual network – Assigning IP addresses to VM Adapters (Final Part)

• Ravikanth C
• 5 Min To Read
• 23 Jan, 2015
• • Power shell dsc

In an earlier article, I had introduced DSC resources that can be used to deploy …

Using DSC to deploy Hyper-V converged virtual network – Configuring Host VM Adapters (Part 3)

• Ravikanth C
• 9 Min To Read
• 22 Jan, 2015
• • Power shell dsc

In an earlier article, I had introduced DSC resources that can be used to deploy …

Using DSC to deploy Hyper-V converged virtual network – Creating a converged virtual switch (Part 2)

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 21 Jan, 2015
• • Power shell dsc

In an earlier article, I had introduced DSC resources that can be used to deploy …

Using DSC to deploy Hyper-V converged virtual network – Creating a host team (Part 1)

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 20 Jan, 2015
• • Power shell dsc
  • Hyper v

In yesterday’s article, I had introduced DSC resources that can be used to …

Announcing DSC resources to deploy Hyper-V converged virtual network

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 19 Jan, 2015
• • Power shell dsc
  • News

The converged virtual network within Hyper-V deployments is a common …

PowerShell OneGet: Gist-As-A-Package

• Doug Finke
• 8 Min To Read
• 14 Jan, 2015
• • Package management
  • One get

This article will cover a new powerful feature delivered in the PowerShell 5.0 …

Boost your productivity with Pester snippets

• Jakub Jareš
• 2 Min To Read
• 13 Jan, 2015
• • Pester

Authoring Pester tests is easy as it is, but if you are lucky enough to own a …

PowerShell Community Conference in Germany

• Aleksandar Nikolic
• 3 Min To Read
• 13 Jan, 2015
• • Conferences

The heat is on! The 3rd annual German PowerShell Community conference is taking …

PowerShell cmdlets to manage Azure Key Vault

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 09 Jan, 2015
• • Azure
  • News

Microsoft announced a public preview of Azure Key Vault. Azure Key Vault is a …

Introducing the Royal TS PowerShell module

• Jan Egil Ring
• 6 Min To Read
• 08 Jan, 2015
• • Modules
  • Royal ts

Royal TS is one of many applications on the market for managing Remote Desktop …

Using Azure Resource Management REST API in PowerShell

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 24 Dec, 2014
• • Azure

The Azure Resource Manager PowerShell module has a subset of functionality that …

Holiday present from PowerShell Magazine – DSC resource module to install and configure Azure Recovery Services Agent

• Ravikanth C
• 6 Min To Read
• 22 Dec, 2014
• • Power shell dsc

Ok, this is not as big as the PowerShell team’s holiday gift but something that …

Holiday gift from Windows PowerShell team – DSC Resource Kit Wave 9

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 18 Dec, 2014
• • News
  • Power shell dsc

Windows PowerShell team just released a new wave of DSC resources taking the …

Exploring and installing DSC resources published in PowerShell Gallery

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 15 Dec, 2014
• • Power shell dsc

Note: This article applies to Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 Preview …

Microsoft Monitoring Agent DSC resource updated to enable AD and management groups configuration

• Ravikanth C
• 4 Min To Read
• 12 Dec, 2014
• • Azure
  • Power shell dsc

A couple of weeks ago, I had announced a custom DSC resource module to install …

#PSTip Editing remote file in PowerShell ISE

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 08 Dec, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 5.0 or later. If you have ever wondered how …

ISESteroids RC

• Tobias Weltner
• 3 Min To Read
• 05 Dec, 2014
• • Isesteroids
  • News
  • Modules

ISESteroids originally started as a simple add-on to add professional editor …

A JSON primer for administrators

• Ravikanth C
• 6 Min To Read
• 01 Dec, 2014
• • How to
  • JSON

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is quickly becoming the most used …

DSC resource module for Microsoft Monitoring Agent install and configuration of Azure Operational Insights

• Ravikanth C
• 5 Min To Read
• 26 Nov, 2014
• • Azure
  • Power shell dsc

Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA) is used to connect target systems to System …

Using WMI SMTP Event Consumer DSC resource

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 24 Nov, 2014
• • Wmi
  • Power shell dsc

If you have not seen the earlier articles in this series, I had written about: …

Using WMI Event Log Event Consumer DSC resource

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 21 Nov, 2014
• • Wmi
  • Power shell dsc

If you have not seen the earlier articles in this series, I had written about: …

Using WMI Log File Event Consumer DSC resource

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 21 Nov, 2014
• • Wmi
  • Power shell dsc

If you have not seen the earlier articles in this series, I had written about: …

Using WMI Active Script Event Consumer DSC resource

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 19 Nov, 2014
• • Wmi
  • Power shell dsc

In my previous article, I talked about using WMI Commandline Event Consumer DSC …

DSC changes in Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview November 2014 release

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 19 Nov, 2014
• • Power shell dsc
  • News

If you’ve missed Windows PowerShell team’s announcement, WMF 5.0 Preview …

Using the WMI Commandline Event Consumer DSC resource

• Ravikanth C
• 5 Min To Read
• 18 Nov, 2014
• • Wmi
  • Power shell dsc

In my earlier article, I promised a detailed walk-through of each DSC resource …

PowerShell ISE add-on to manage WMI permanent event filters, consumers, and bindings

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 17 Nov, 2014
• • Power shell dsc

When I am working with Windows PowerShell, PowerShell ISE is my second home. I …

Troubleshooting WMI standard event consumer issues

• Ravikanth C
• 4 Min To Read
• 13 Nov, 2014
• • Wmi

While testing the DSC resource module I created for managing the WMI permanent …

DSC resource for managing WMI permanent event filters, consumers, and bindings

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 12 Nov, 2014
• • Power shell dsc
  • Wmi

I use WMI/CIM event functionality often in my orchestration scripts and WMI …

ISE Snippets for DSC Resource functions

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 04 Nov, 2014
• • Power shell dsc

PowerShell ISE 4.0 includes a couple of snippets for DSC including the DSC …

Azure PowerShell Tools 0.8.10 is available

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 29 Oct, 2014
• • Azure
  • News

If you have missed it, Scott Gu announced major set of updates to Azure …

The Power of Community

• Jan Egil Ring
• 2 Min To Read
• 28 Oct, 2014
• • Community

Since the early days of Windows PowerShell, the community around the product has …

PowerShell Risk Assessment with ISESteroids 2.0

• Tobias Weltner
• 10 Min To Read
• 27 Oct, 2014
• • Modules
  • Isesteroids

Sharing scripts and downloading sample code becomes common place. But how do you …

ForEach and Where magic methods

• Kirk Munro
• 22 Min To Read
• 22 Oct, 2014
• • How to
  • Language

ForEach and Where are two frequently used concepts that have been available in …

DSC Resource for Mounting and Dismounting ISO images

• Ravikanth C
• 4 Min To Read
• 15 Oct, 2014
• • Power shell dsc

Note: This DSC resource works only on Windows Server 2102 and above or Windows 8 …

DSC composite resource for auto administrator logon

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 07 Oct, 2014
• • Power shell dsc

For my lab setup, I sometimes need to enable auto administrator logon during OS …

Class-defined DSC resources in Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview

• Ravikanth C
• 6 Min To Read
• 06 Oct, 2014
• • Power shell dsc

By now, it should be no surprise that WMF 5.0 Preview added support for defining …

• Jason Stangroome
• 6 Min To Read
• 03 Oct, 2014
• • How to

I have been a long time Windows user and a PowerShell fan since it was …

Partial DSC Configurations in Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0

• Ravikanth C
• 10 Min To Read
• 02 Oct, 2014
• • Power shell dsc

Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 September 2014 Preview brought in many …

Pester Mock and TestDrive

• Jakub Jareš
• 11 Min To Read
• 30 Sep, 2014
• • Pester
  • Dev ops

In this part of Pester basics series, I will cover the most powerful tool from …

Installing WMF 5.0 Preview September 2014 using DSC xWindowsUpdate resource

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 29 Sep, 2014
• • Power shell dsc

If you have missed the announcement, Powershell team released wave 7 of the DSC …

Inter-node dependency and cross-computer synchronization with DSC

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 26 Sep, 2014
• • Power shell dsc

I had earlier ranted about why DSC is not an orchestrator and that I posted a …

PowerShell Magazine completes 3 years!

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 25 Sep, 2014
• • News

Time just flies. On 13th of this month, PowerShell Magazine completed 3 years of …

Easily Defining Enums, Structs, and Win32 Functions in Memory

• Matt Graeber
• 8 Min To Read
• 25 Sep, 2014
• • How to
  • Security
  • Info sec

In the past, I’ve spoken extensively on how to use reflection to define enums, …

New features introduced in Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview September 2014

• Jan Egil Ring
• 2 Min To Read
• 12 Sep, 2014
• • Power shell dsc
  • News

Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview September 2014 was released on …

Microsoft Azure PowerShell 0.8.8 is available

• Aleksandar Nikolic
• 2 Min To Read
• 10 Sep, 2014
• • Azure
  • News

Just a few hours ago, Azure team released Microsoft Azure PowerShell 0.8.8. The …

Using the ConvertFrom-String cmdlet to parse structured text

• Bartek Bielawski
• 11 Min To Read
• 09 Sep, 2014
• • How to

One of PowerShell strengths has always been string manipulation. PowerShell has …

Book: Announcing Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration Revealed

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 09 Sep, 2014
• • News
  • Power shell dsc

If you have followed my posts here and/or heard me speaking in the last 6 to 8 …

Windows Management Framework 5.0 (September 2014) preview is available for download

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 05 Sep, 2014
• • News

An updated version of WMF 5.0 preview is now available with a great set of …

OMI and NetworkSwitch module

• Bartek Bielawski
• 6 Min To Read
• 02 Sep, 2014
• • Omi

One of the first tasks I used PowerShell for was related to Windows Management …

New feature in Pester 3.0: Code Coverage metrics

• Dave Wyatt
• 4 Min To Read
• 01 Sep, 2014
• • Pester
  • Dev ops

Introduction I have a confession to make… I don’t actually practice TDD or BDD …

#PSTip Replacing special characters

• Bartek Bielawski
• 3 Min To Read
• 26 Aug, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Once upon a time I answered Stack Overflow question about easy way to replace …

DSC Resource Kit Wave 6 is here!

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 21 Aug, 2014
• • Power shell dsc
  • News

Windows PowerShell team published a new wave of DSC Resource Kit. It is Wave 6! …

Managing PCIe SSD devices in VMware ESXi by using PowerCLI cmdlets

• Krishna Prasad K
• 4 Min To Read
• 19 Aug, 2014
• • Dell
  • Vmware

PCIe Solid State Disk (SSD) devices provides higher IOPS and great sequential …

Azure PowerShell Tools 0.8.7 is available

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 19 Aug, 2014
• • Azure
  • News

Just a few hours ago, Azure PowerShell Tools version 0.8.7 was released. This …

Bartek Bielawski joins PowerShell Magazine editorial board

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 18 Aug, 2014
• • News

I am very happy to announce that Bartek Bielawski joined the PowerShell Magazine …

#PSTip Taking control of verbose and debug output, part 5

• Bartek Bielawski
• 3 Min To Read
• 15 Aug, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or later. In the final part of the …

#PSTip Taking control of verbose and debug output, part 4

• Bartek Bielawski
• 4 Min To Read
• 14 Aug, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or later. PowerShell commands, both …

Running commands as another user using DSC script resource

• Ravikanth C
• 4 Min To Read
• 13 Aug, 2014
• • Power shell dsc

A while ago, I received an email from a reader who wanted to run a few Exchange …

#PSTip Taking control of verbose and debug output, part 3

• Bartek Bielawski
• 2 Min To Read
• 13 Aug, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or later. In the first two tips of this …

#PSTip Taking control of verbose and debug output, part 2

• Bartek Bielawski
• 2 Min To Read
• 12 Aug, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or later. In the first part of this …

#PSTip Taking control of verbose and debug output, part 1

• Bartek Bielawski
• 3 Min To Read
• 11 Aug, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or later. One of the PowerShell features …

#PSTip Generating a self-signed certificate

• Jan Egil Ring
• 1 Min To Read
• 08 Aug, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Self-signed certificates might be needed for different purposes, such as the …

Bootstrapping DSC configuration using Azure VM DSC extension

• Ravikanth C
• 4 Min To Read
• 07 Aug, 2014
• • Azure
  • Power shell dsc

In one of the earlier articles, I demonstrated how we can use the Azure VM …

#PSTip Configuring trunk mode in Hyper-V

• Jan Egil Ring
• 1 Min To Read
• 06 Aug, 2014
• • Tips and tricks
  • Hyper v

With the introduction of Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012, the Hyper-V Extensible …

Understanding Azure VM DSC Extension

• Ravikanth C
• 6 Min To Read
• 05 Aug, 2014
• • Azure
  • Power shell dsc

The Azure team released the Azure PowerShell Tools version 0.8.6 that includes …

Azure PowerShell Tools version 0.8.6 is available

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 05 Aug, 2014
• • Azure
  • News

The Azure PowerShell Tools are updated very often. But, this 0.8.6 release, is …

#PSTip Functions and SQL filtering, Part 4

• Bartek Bielawski
• 3 Min To Read
• 31 Jul, 2014
• • Tips and tricks
  • SQL

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or later. Filtering information retrieved …

#PSTip Functions and SQL filtering, Part 3

• Bartek Bielawski
• 3 Min To Read
• 30 Jul, 2014
• • Tips and tricks
  • SQL

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or later. Whenever we retrieve …

Cross-domain configuration management with DSC

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 30 Jul, 2014
• • Power shell dsc

Most of the DSC examples we have seen so far here or elsewhere focused on single …

#PSTip Functions and SQL filtering, Part 2

• Bartek Bielawski
• 2 Min To Read
• 29 Jul, 2014
• • Tips and tricks
  • SQL

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or later. Adding support for easy …

Bootstrapping LCM meta-configuration in a Azure VM

• Ravikanth C
• 5 Min To Read
• 29 Jul, 2014
• • Azure
  • Power shell dsc

I have been a very active user of DSC both in the lab and on all my Azure VMs. …

#PSTip Functions and SQL filtering, Part 1

• Bartek Bielawski
• 3 Min To Read
• 28 Jul, 2014
• • SQL
  • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or later. This is the first tip in a …

Testing the effectiveness of Get-Random

• Matt Graeber
• 6 Min To Read
• 28 Jul, 2014
• • How to

An ongoing argument I’ve seen in the PowerShell community is regarding the …

#PSTip Show friendly GPO names with Get-ADOrganizationalUnit

• Jaap Brasser
• 1 Min To Read
• 25 Jul, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

When using the Get-ADOrganizationalUnit cmdlet there is a property available, …

How braces and semicolons became a part of my life

• Manoj Ravikumar
• 5 Min To Read
• 25 Jul, 2014
• • Learning power shell

A mishandled case, an irate customer and a top box (i.e. exceeded customer …

#PSTip Select non-administrative shared folders using Win32_Share WMI class

• Jaap Brasser
• 1 Min To Read
• 24 Jul, 2014
• • Tips and tricks
  • Wmi

Note: This tip required PowerShell 3.0 or above The Win32_Share WMI class can be …

Using PowerShell to troubleshoot the Exchange mailbox creation process

• Emin Atac
• 3 Min To Read
• 24 Jul, 2014
• • Exchange
  • How to

I’ve been recently tasked by the team responsible for user account management to …

#PSTip Enumerating mapped network drives using WScript.Network

• Jaap Brasser
• 1 Min To Read
• 23 Jul, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

In the ‘Create mapped network drive using WScript.Network‘ tip, it was shown how …

How I’ve started loving PowerShell

• Fabien Dibot
• 3 Min To Read
• 23 Jul, 2014
• • Learning power shell

So, it’s my turn to present myself! I’m Fabien, 32 years old and I started using …

#PSTip Rename a local or a mapped drive using Shell.Application

• Jaap Brasser
• 1 Min To Read
• 22 Jul, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

In the ‘Create mapped network drive using WScript.Network‘ post, it was shown …

Automating deployments in Configuration Manager with PowerShell

• Deepak Dhami
• 4 Min To Read
• 22 Jul, 2014
• • How to
  • Sccm

Introduction First of all, thanks to PowerShell magazine for giving me this …

#PSTip Create mapped network drive using WScript.Network

• Jaap Brasser
• 2 Min To Read
• 21 Jul, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

There are multiple methods of mapping network drives in PowerShell. In the past …

Using PowerShell to discover information about your Microsoft SQL Servers

• Mike Robbins
• 8 Min To Read
• 21 Jul, 2014
• • How to
  • SQL

I’m an infrastructure guy who supports many different products at multiple …

Kansa: A PowerShell-based incident response framework

• Dave Hull
• 21 Min To Read
• 18 Jul, 2014
• • Infosec
  • Security
  • Kansa
  • Modules

Known unknowns and unknown unknowns If you follow information security, you know …

DSC Resource Kit Wave 5 is available

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 18 Jul, 2014
• • Power shell dsc
  • News

Windows PowerShell team released DSC Resource Kit Wave 5. This wave has added …

Live Incident Response with PowerShell

• Emin Atac
• 5 Min To Read
• 17 Jul, 2014
• • Infosec
  • Security

We often see the offensive capabilities of PowerShell hit the headlines as it is …

Investigating PowerShell Attacks

• Matt Hastings
• 7 Min To Read
• 16 Jul, 2014
• • Infosec
  • Security

“Huh, that’s weird. Look at this system. I think the attacker used PowerShell.” …

Posh-Shodan module for the Shodan service

• Carlos Perez
• 10 Min To Read
• 15 Jul, 2014
• • Infosec
  • Security
  • Modules
  • Posh shodan

What is Shodan? Shodan is a search engine that lets one find hosts on the …

#PSTip Automatically persist history

• Jan Egil Ring
• 2 Min To Read
• 14 Jul, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or later. By leveraging engine events and …

Veil-PowerView

• Will Schroeder
• 5 Min To Read
• 14 Jul, 2014
• • Infosec
  • Security
  • Modules
  • Veil power view

I was led to PowerShell in the past few years as it began to rise to prominence …

Introduction to the PoshSec Framework

• Ben Ten
• 9 Min To Read
• 11 Jul, 2014
• • Info sec
  • Security
  • Modules
  • Posh sec

In March of 2013 I had the desire to create an open source Security Information …

#PSTip Quick objects using ConvertFrom-Csv

• Bartek Bielawski
• 2 Min To Read
• 10 Jul, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or later. PowerShell is designed to …

Introduction to PoshSec

• Matt Johnson
• 4 Min To Read
• 10 Jul, 2014
• • Infosec
  • Security
  • Modules
  • Posh sec

Security has always been a passion of mine. It was a few short years ago that I …

#PSTip Decoding an HTML-encoded string

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 09 Jul, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

In my previous tip, I showed some of my favorite methods to convert date time …

Owning Networks and Evading Incident Response with PowerShell

• Joe "clymb3r" Bialek
• 4 Min To Read
• 09 Jul, 2014
• • Info sec
  • Security

Up until several months ago, I was a member of a penetration test team tasked …

#PSTip Converting to the local time

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 08 Jul, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Several RSS feeds that I refer regularly have a publication date set to another …

#PSTip Finding if a system has PowerShell 4.0 or later

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 07 Jul, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or later. I was looking for a way to find …

Security in a Changing World

• Lee Holmes
• 3 Min To Read
• 07 Jul, 2014
• • Security
  • Info sec

If you surveyed the landscape of computer security a decade ago, you would find …

#PSTip Finding keyboard keys

• Jan Egil Ring
• 1 Min To Read
• 03 Jul, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

A previous article in PowerShell Magazine describes how to find keyboard …

Posh-SSH: Open Source SSH PowerShell Module

• Carlos Perez
• 12 Min To Read
• 03 Jul, 2014
• • Modules
  • Posh SSH

What Posh-SSH is a PowerShell 3.0 or newer module for automating tasks against …

#PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 6

• Bartek Bielawski
• 2 Min To Read
• 02 Jul, 2014
• • Xml
  • Tips and tricks

When we analyze XML documents with XPath we may need information about number of …

#PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 5

• Bartek Bielawski
• 2 Min To Read
• 01 Jul, 2014
• • Xml
  • Tips and tricks

XPath has one big disadvantage–it’s case sensitive. Unlike regular expressions, …

#PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 4

• Bartek Bielawski
• 2 Min To Read
• 30 Jun, 2014
• • Xml
  • Tips and tricks

Filtering using XPath is not limited to queries that make sure that existing …

#PSTip How to properly validate GUID parameter

• Emin Atac
• 2 Min To Read
• 27 Jun, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Most of you probably know how to create a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) with …

#PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 3

• Bartek Bielawski
• 2 Min To Read
• 26 Jun, 2014
• • Tips and tricks
  • Xml

Filtering data with XPath works very well even if we need more complex filters …

#PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 2

• Bartek Bielawski
• 2 Min To Read
• 25 Jun, 2014
• • Tips and tricks
  • Xml

XPath can be used to apply ‘filter left’ philosophy to XML documents. For …

#PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 1

• Bartek Bielawski
• 2 Min To Read
• 24 Jun, 2014
• • Tips and tricks
  • Xml

This is the first tip in a series of Select-Xml/XPath tips. Working with XML …

Dynamic Parameters in C# Cmdlets

• Ben Ten
• 15 Min To Read
• 23 Jun, 2014
• • Pscmdlet
  • How to

In my last article I wrote, I covered how to create dynamic parameters in a …

#PSTip Be cautious with profile customizations and PowerShell Workflow

• Jan Egil Ring
• 2 Min To Read
• 20 Jun, 2014
• • Service management automation
  • Tips and tricks

When working with Windows PowerShell Workflow, there are things to be aware of …

Dynamic Parameters in PowerShell

• Ben Ten
• 12 Min To Read
• 29 May, 2014
• • How to

Has there ever been a time when you wanted to call a function or cmdlet with …

#PSTip Test if a URL is absolute or not

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 29 May, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

The System.Uri class in .NET provides a way to validate if a URL is an absolute …

#PSTip Filtering a collection using comparison operators

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 28 May, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. Starting with PowerShell 3.0, …

Installing and configuring DSC for Linux

• Ravikanth C
• 7 Min To Read
• 21 May, 2014
• • Azure
  • Power shell dsc
  • Linux

[Update 1: 5/23/2014] Added pre-requisite install commands for Oracle Linux I am …

Microsoft announced the CTP release of Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration for Linux

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 20 May, 2014
• • News
  • Power shell dsc
  • Linux

When I was speaking at DevOpsDays India and demonstrating Windows PowerShel DSC …

PowerShell module management as a native feature is here!

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 15 May, 2014
• • News

Windows PowerShell team just announced the availability of WMF 5.0 Preview May …

Dell Business Client BIOS Configuration PowerShell Provider

• Vibha Garg
• 4 Min To Read
• 12 May, 2014
• • Dell

Familiar with a PowerShell provider? If yes, you must have appreciated the fact …

Copy DSC resources to Azure VMs using Custom Script Extension

• Ravikanth C
• 5 Min To Read
• 02 May, 2014
• • Power shell dsc
  • Azure

In an earlier article, I showed you how to use the Custom Script Extension. The …

Understanding Azure Custom Script Extension

• Ravikanth C
• 8 Min To Read
• 30 Apr, 2014
• • Azure

At Build 2014 conference, Microsoft launched the Azure VM Custom Script …

Windows PowerShell 4.0 and Other Quick Reference Guides

• Aleksandar Nikolic
• 3 Min To Read
• 24 Apr, 2014
• • News

We are pleased to announce the availability of Windows PowerShell 4.0 quick …

Microsoft Azure Automation

• Shay Levy
• 1 Min To Read
• 24 Apr, 2014
• • Azure
  • News
  • Azure automation

Microsoft launched a new service to simplify public, private, and hybrid clouds …

#PSTip Mapping the CIM ValueMap and Values qualifiers

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 23 Apr, 2014
• • Wmi
  • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. At PowerShell training I did …

Automatic Remote Desktop Connection

• Tobias Weltner
• 3 Min To Read
• 18 Apr, 2014
• • How to

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. As a PowerShell user, you …

Script Browser for Windows PowerShell ISE

• Shay Levy
• 1 Min To Read
• 18 Apr, 2014
• • News

Microsoft has released a new ISE add-on, developed by Microsoft Customer …

#PStip Enabling RSS inside Hyper-V guest OS

• Emin Atac
• 1 Min To Read
• 17 Apr, 2014
• • Hyper v
  • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. While reviewing results …

#PSTip Pause after UEFI boot failure when using Hyper-V Generation 2 virtual machines

• Jan Egil Ring
• 2 Min To Read
• 16 Apr, 2014
• • Hyper v
  • Tips and tricks
  • Wmi

Hyper-V in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 introduced Generation 2 …

#PSTip How to identify “memory limited” servers using PowerShell

• Shay Levy
• 2 Min To Read
• 15 Apr, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. Yesterday, I got a call from …

Introduction to Service Management Automation

• Jan Egil Ring
• 5 Min To Read
• 15 Apr, 2014
• • Service management automation

Service Management Automation (SMA) is a new component in System Center for …

Desired State Configuration changes/fixes in WMF 5.0 Preview

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 14 Apr, 2014
• • Power shell dsc

If you were under a rock and just came out, here is a bit of news for you. …

#PSTip Listing all blobs in a public Azure storage container

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 10 Apr, 2014
• • Azure
  • Tips and tricks

In the earlier article, I showed you how to deploy a Azure VM from VM depot. The …

#PSTip Replacing invalid XML characters

• Shay Levy
• 1 Min To Read
• 09 Apr, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. When authoring XML documents, …

Basics of Writing a PowerShell Module with C#, Part 2: Debugging

• Carlos Perez
• 9 Min To Read
• 08 Apr, 2014
• • Modules
  • How to
  • Pscmdlet

In this second part of the series on writing PowerShell modules in C#, we will …

Using the Windows Live APIs from PowerShell

• James O'Neill
• 12 Min To Read
• 07 Apr, 2014
• • How to

Microsoft has recently unveiled a REST API for OneNote Live, and since …

Windows Management Framework 5.0 preview is here!

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 03 Apr, 2014
• • News

While the PowerShell community is still looking at the Desired State …

Is native Windows PowerShell support coming to Visual Studio?

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 03 Apr, 2014
• • Power shell
  • Visual studio

Not completely yet. But, the Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC release seems to be …

Pushing DSC configuration to an Azure VM

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 02 Apr, 2014
• • Azure
  • Power shell dsc

I had described in an earlier article that Desired State Configuration requires …

Desired State Configuration and the remoting myth

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 01 Apr, 2014
• • Power shell dsc

Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration feature depends on PowerShell …

PowerShell Remoting with Azure Windows VMs

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 31 Mar, 2014
• • Azure
  • How to

These days, for all my demos at various events, I have been using Azure VMs …

ISESteroids – A Revolutionary PowerShell ISE Add-On

• Tobias Weltner
• 10 Min To Read
• 28 Mar, 2014
• • Modules
  • Isesteroids

If you love the built-in ISE editor that ships with PowerShell 3.0 and 4.0, but …

Testing your PowerShell scripts with Pester: Assertions and more

• Jakub Jareš
• 10 Min To Read
• 27 Mar, 2014
• • Dev ops
  • Pester

This is part two of Pester series of articles. In this article you will learn …

#PSTip Explore TechEd NA 2014 sessions with PowerShell

• Aleksandar Nikolic
• 3 Min To Read
• 26 Mar, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. TechEd North America 2014 has a …

#PSTip Create your own DSC resource snippets in PowerShell ISE

• Aleksandar Nikolic
• 2 Min To Read
• 25 Mar, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 4.0 or above. PowerShell ISE 4.0 comes with …

#PSTip How to remove the “Folders” group from my computer in Windows 8

• Shay Levy
• 2 Min To Read
• 24 Mar, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

When you double click the “This PC” desktop icon in Windows 8 you get the …

Set keyboard layouts available on logon screen in Windows 8.1

• Jakub Jareš
• 4 Min To Read
• 24 Mar, 2014
• • How to

While we worked on Windows 8.1 deployment, we were required to make multiple …

PowerShell Demo Extravaganza: Lego Mindstorms Robot, Part 1

• Krunoslav Mihalic
• 3 Min To Read
• 21 Mar, 2014
• • Demo

One of PowerShell Magazine’s editors is asking me for quite some time to write …

Writing help for custom DSC resources

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 21 Mar, 2014
• • Power shell dsc

Desired State Configuration is the hottest thing out there and everyone is …

Deploying Azure Virtual Machines from VM Depot using PowerShell

• Ravikanth C
• 4 Min To Read
• 20 Mar, 2014
• • Azure
  • Kemp
  • How to

VM Depot is a community-driven catalog of open source virtual machine images. …

How to view and restore hidden Windows Updates with PowerShell

• Emin Atac
• 2 Min To Read
• 19 Mar, 2014
• • How to

When you visit Windows Update, you can hide an update to avoid being prompted to …

The story of PowerShell Bangalore User Group (PSBUG)

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 19 Mar, 2014
• • Community

After Fredrik and Jan, I had to write this. I founded the PowerShell Bangalore …

#PSTip Get requests that are currently executing in a worker process

• Shay Levy
• 3 Min To Read
• 18 Mar, 2014
• • Tips and tricks
  • Wmi

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. IIS lets you view all worker …

Writing a PowerShell module in C#, Part 1: The basics

• Carlos Perez
• 6 Min To Read
• 18 Mar, 2014
• • Modules
  • Pscmdlet
  • How to

In this series we will cover the basics of building a Windows PowerShell binary …

Announcing PowerShell module for managing Kemp LoadMaster appliances

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 18 Mar, 2014
• • Kemp
  • News

In an earlier article, I talked about managing Kemp LoadMaster appliances (both …

#PSTip Reading file content as a byte array

• Shay Levy
• 2 Min To Read
• 17 Mar, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. A few days ago I had to write a …

The story of the Microsoft Technology User Group in Norway

• Jan Egil Ring
• 3 Min To Read
• 17 Mar, 2014
• • Community

The Microsoft Technology User Group (MTUG) in Norway was started in March 2010 …

#PSTip Get currently available MAC address from Hyper-V MAC address pool

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 12 Mar, 2014
• • Hyper v
  • Tips and tricks

I have written scripts to automate VM deployments across a farm of Hyper-V …

Get started with Pester (PowerShell unit testing framework)

• Jakub Jareš
• 9 Min To Read
• 12 Mar, 2014
• • Pester
  • Dev ops

Some time ago I stumbled upon the Pester framework that promised I would be able …

#PSTip Identifying read-only domain controllers

• Shay Levy
• 1 Min To Read
• 11 Mar, 2014
• • Active directory
  • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. When you get a list of domain …

#PSTip Setting VM Bandwidth Management QoS in Hyper-V using PowerShell

• Shay Levy
• 1 Min To Read
• 10 Mar, 2014
• • Hyper v
  • Power shell

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. The bandwidth utilized by a VM …

#PSTip How to disable DNS registration with PowerShell

• Emin Atac
• 2 Min To Read
• 07 Mar, 2014
• • Tips and tricks
  • Wmi

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. Today, a colleague in the …

#PSTip GitHub PowerShell syntax highlighting in Markdown

• Carlos Perez
• 2 Min To Read
• 06 Mar, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

GitHub, a service for hosting development projects that can be written in many …

Accidental Sabotage: Beware of CredSSP

• Joe "clymb3r" Bialek
• 4 Min To Read
• 06 Mar, 2014
• • How to
  • Security

One common issue that an administrator faces when using PowerShell remoting is …

#PSTip Installing and setting up AWS PowerShell Tools

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 05 Mar, 2014
• • Aws
  • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. I have been working with Amazon …

Is Desired State Configuration (DSC) everything I need?

• Ravikanth C
• 5 Min To Read
• 05 Mar, 2014
• • Power shell dsc

My answer is no! At least, not everything I need right now. A few days ago, I …

#PSTip Restarting PowerShell as an administrator

• Shay Levy
• 2 Min To Read
• 04 Mar, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. I bet this sounds familiar to …

Jan Egil Ring joins PowerShell Magazine

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 04 Mar, 2014
• • News

I am very happy to announce that Jan Egil Ring accepted to join PowerShell …

#PSTip Setting Hyper-V client settings

• Shay Levy
• 3 Min To Read
• 03 Mar, 2014
• • Hyper v
  • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. When working with Hyper-V in …

#PSTip How to identify Hyper-V virtual machines

• Shay Levy
• 2 Min To Read
• 28 Feb, 2014
• • Hyper v
  • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. There are several ways to test …

Reporting Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) disk space utilization

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 28 Feb, 2014
• • How to
  • Hyper v

The Failover Cluster cmdlets can be used to get information about Cluster Shared …

WMI Query Language via PowerShell available on Kindle

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 28 Feb, 2014
• • News
  • Wmi

Back in 2011, I published a free book on learning WMI Query Language (WQL) via …

#PSTip Hyper-V VM Connection Authorization

• Shay Levy
• 1 Min To Read
• 27 Feb, 2014
• • Hyper v
  • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. Virtual Machine Connection …

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 27 Feb, 2014
• • How to

Web Platform Installer or Web PI is a free tool that makes getting the latest …

#PSTip Monitoring Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) availability

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 26 Feb, 2014
• • Hyper v
  • Tips and tricks

Recently, I was troubleshooting an issue related to CSVs going offline randomly. …

How Current Path Affects Cmdlets

• Tobias Weltner
• 9 Min To Read
• 26 Feb, 2014
• • How to

Why and how would the current path affect how cmdlets work? What exactly is the …

#PSTip Editing your hosts file

• Shay Levy
• 1 Min To Read
• 25 Feb, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. Occasionally you need to make …

Converting Hyper-V virtual machine disks from VHD to VHDX

• Shay Levy
• 2 Min To Read
• 25 Feb, 2014
• • How to
  • Hyper v

I’ve read recently a post by Hyper-V MVP Aidan Finn about a script he wrote to …

#PSTip Controlling traffic of a VM network adapter in Hyper-V

• Shay Levy
• 1 Min To Read
• 24 Feb, 2014
• • Hyper v
  • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. Using the …

The story of PowerShell User Group Sweden

• Fredrik Wall
• 2 Min To Read
• 24 Feb, 2014
• • Community

My name is Fredrik Wall and I’m a co-founder/co-leader of the PowerShell User …

#PSTip How to prevent a VM from becoming a Router

• Shay Levy
• 1 Min To Read
• 22 Feb, 2014
• • Hyper v
  • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. Similarly to the Hyper-V …

#PSTip How to prevent rogue DHCP servers in Hyper-V

• Shay Levy
• 1 Min To Read
• 21 Feb, 2014
• • Tips and tricks
  • Hyper v

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. In a DHCP environment, it is …

#PSTip How to get the number of IIS current client connections

• Shay Levy
• 1 Min To Read
• 20 Feb, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. Using the Get-Counter cmdlet …

Another important milestone! PowerShell Magazine has published 500 posts!

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 19 Feb, 2014
• • News

You are reading the 500th post on PowerShell Magazine. Wow, what a journey! We …

#PSTip How to enable Web Deploy automatic backups using PowerShell

• Shay Levy
• 2 Min To Read
• 19 Feb, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. Web Deploy v3 introduced an …

#PSTip Comparing DateTime with a given precision

• Jakub Jareš
• 3 Min To Read
• 18 Feb, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. Comparing two System.DateTime …

#PSTip VM Port mirroring in Hyper-V

• Shay Levy
• 1 Min To Read
• 17 Feb, 2014
• • Tips and tricks
  • Hyper v

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. In a physical switch …

Announcing PowerShell Saturday India

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 15 Feb, 2014
• • News

PowerShell Bangalore User Group (PSBUG) and Bangalore IT Pro are happy to …

Desired State Configuration (DSC) Resource Kit Wave-2

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 09 Feb, 2014
• • Power shell dsc

Around Christmas time last year, PowerShell team released the wave 1 of DSC …

#PSTip Test if a download can be suspended and resumed

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 07 Feb, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Today, most of the web servers that provide downloads enable resumable …

#PSTip Setting keyboard layout in Windows 8 and Server 2012

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 06 Feb, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Have you ever wondered how you can set the keyboard layout using PowerShell? I …

#PSTip Using Start-BitsTransfer and waiting for download to complete

• Ravikanth C
• 2 Min To Read
• 17 Jan, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. There was a quick status this …

Managing Kemp LoadMaster using REST API and PowerShell

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 16 Jan, 2014
• • How to
  • Kemp

If you are an application or a network administrator, you would have certainly …

Announcing PowerShell Information Server (PSIS)

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 14 Jan, 2014
• • News

Johan Akerstrom – PowerShell expert from Sweden – released a PowerShell module …

#PSTip Validating version numbers without RegEx

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 03 Jan, 2014
• • Tips and tricks

If you have read my earlier post on the Hyper-V Copy-VMFile cmdlet, I was …

Are you still thinking about getting started with PowerShell?

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 30 Dec, 2013
• • Learning power shell

At present, Windows PowerShell is in version 4.0. It came a long way since its …

Desired State Configuration (DSC) Resource Kit Wave-1

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 27 Dec, 2013
• • Power shell dsc

Are you looking at writing your own DSC resources? Have you been following our …

#PSTip Extending Type Data

• Shay Levy
• 1 Min To Read
• 26 Dec, 2013
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. In the previous article Matt …

Simplifying Data Manipulation in PowerShell with Lambda Functions

• Matt Graeber
• 4 Min To Read
• 23 Dec, 2013
• • How to

Scenario: You have a large dataset and need to perform various transformations …

Using PowerShell Switch vs. Boolean Parameters in SMA Runbooks

• Jim Britt
• 3 Min To Read
• 20 Dec, 2013
• • How to
  • Service management automation

Hey Readers. In this article, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about a …

#PSTip Overriding the ToString() Method, part II

• Shay Levy
• 2 Min To Read
• 19 Dec, 2013
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. In this neat tip Jakub showed a …

#PSTip Overriding the ToString() Method

• Jakub Jareš
• 2 Min To Read
• 18 Dec, 2013
• • Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. In this very helpful tip, …

PowerShell Magazine Day!

• Aleksandar Nikolic
• 1 Min To Read
• 17 Dec, 2013
• • News

Today is PowerShell Magazine Day at Manning Books. Save 50% on these selected …

#PSTip Copying folders using Copy-VMFile cmdlet in Windows Server 2012 R2 (Hyper-V)

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 17 Dec, 2013
• • Tips and tricks
  • Hyper v

In an earlier article, I showed you how to use the Copy-VMFile cmdlet. However, …

PowerShell Certificate Pinning

• Carlos Perez
• 5 Min To Read
• 17 Dec, 2013
• • How to

Recently, we have seen in the news how governments intercept communications. …

Using Copy-VMFile cmdlet in Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 16 Dec, 2013
• • Hyper v
  • How to

With Windows Server 2012 R2, the Hyper-V product team introduced a new cmdlet …

Be “SMART” with Windows Azure Pack and SMA

• Jim Britt
• 3 Min To Read
• 11 Dec, 2013
• • How to
  • Azure pack

Service Management Automation (SMA) So, what exactly is SMA and why is it …

Secure Parameter Validation in PowerShell

• Matt Graeber
• 5 Min To Read
• 09 Dec, 2013
• • How to

Parameter validation in PowerShell is an extremely useful and easy way to alert …

#PSTip Converting .NET types to CIM types and vice versa

• Shay Levy
• 2 Min To Read
• 06 Dec, 2013
• • Tips and tricks
  • Wmi

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. If you get a list of CIM class …

#PSTip Check if a folder is shared

• Ravikanth C
• 1 Min To Read
• 27 Nov, 2013
• • Tips and tricks
  • Wmi