Tips and Tricks

#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 nice Content Catalog page. It provides a few useful search criteria to filter the content and find the sessions you are mostly interested in.

#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 just two DSC-related snippets (DSC Configuration (simple) and DSC Resource Provider (simple)).

#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 familiar “My Computer” window which includes several groups such as Devices and drives,_ Folders_, Network locations (in case you have mapped drives), etc.

#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 processes of a server when you double click the Worker Process tile in IIS manager (inetmgr.

#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 script to upload files to a remote FTP server.

#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 servers and I prefer using static MAC addresses for all my workload virtual machines.

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