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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 to test my scripts. This seemed to be super-useful for my day-to-day scripting, but unfortunately the learning curve was a bit steeper than I thought it would be.

#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 controllers using the AD module, one of the properties each DC has is the IsReadOnly property.

#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 (QoS = Quality of Service ) can be controlled via special parameters of the virtual network card for a given 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 network team asked if we could disable the default DNS registration flag (shown below) because our computers are not allowed to update DNS servers directly.

#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 programing and scripting languages has its own extensions to the popular Markdown style.

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 the “double hop” problem. An administrator uses PowerShell remoting to connect to Server A and then attempts to connect from Server A to Server B.

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