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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 important in the world of PowerShell? I’ll start with a link where you can read even more information at your leisure http://aka.

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 a user as early as possible that incorrect input was provided to a function or cmdlet.

#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 properties you’ll notice the CimType property.

#PSTip Check if a folder is shared

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

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. The WMI class Win32_Share gives us the information about all network shares that exist on the local machine.

#PSTip Convert a path to WMI compatible path

Ravikanth C
1 Min To Read
26 Nov, 2013
- Tips and tricks
- Wmi

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. Some of the WMI queries require that we specify the folder path with an escaped path separator.

Identifying Active Directory built-in groups with PowerShell

Shay Levy
4 Min To Read
26 Nov, 2013
- Active directory
- How to

Built-in groups are predefined security groups, defined with domain local scope, that are created automatically when you create an Active Directory domain.

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