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Working with non-native PowerShell encoding (EBCDIC)

Josh Miller
3 Min To Read
17 Jun, 2013
- How to

The -Encoding parameter in many native I/O cmdlets uses the [Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.FileSystemCmdletProviderEncoding] enum. PS> [System.Enum]::GetNames([Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.FileSystemCmdletProviderEncoding]) Unknown String Unicode …

Desired State Configuration in Windows Server 2012 R2 – Online hands on lab

Ravikanth C
1 Min To Read
12 Jun, 2013
- Power shell dsc

I am sure you all must have already looked at the Desired State Configuration (DSC) feature announcement by Jeffrey Snover and Kenneth Hansen at TechEd 2013.

#PSTip Deleting a SQL mirroring endpoint with SMO and PowerShell

Ravikanth C
1 Min To Read
11 Jun, 2013
- SQL
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. In earlier tips, we looked at how we can get all SQL endpoints, check if a SQL endpoint exists or not, and creating SQL mirroring endpoints.

#PSTip Creating a SQL TCP mirroring endpoint with SMO and PowerShell

Ravikanth C
2 Min To Read
10 Jun, 2013
- SQL
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. In today’s tip, we will see how we can use PowerShell and SMO to create a SQL TCP mirroring endpoint.

#PSTip Refresh the PSModulePath environment variable without re-opening console

Ravikanth C
1 Min To Read
06 Jun, 2013
- Tips and tricks

A co-worker had asked me a question about why the SQLPS module was not available for importing immediately after an automated install of SQL using a PowerShell script.

#PSTip Provide CapsLock status in Read-Host prompt

Ravikanth C
1 Min To Read
05 Jun, 2013
- Tips and tricks

In Windows, you get a message about the CapsLock status when logging on to Windows OS and with CapsLock on. You see this kind of experience in many other applications including web applications.

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