ChatOps is a term used to describe bringing development or operations work that is already happening in the background into a common chat room. It involves having everyone in the team in a single chat room, then bringing tools into the room so everyone can automate, collaborate and see how …
I am back this week with a quick how-to article on delivering, installing, or launching version controlled files. In the past I ran into problems when having administrators launch my PowerShell tools from a network share. The performance was slow when launching it across the WAN, and the file would …
Thanks to all those who participated in the PowerShell Editor Services Hack Week last week! Much progress was made on fixing bugs and adding new features to both PowerShell Editor Services and the PowerShell extension for Visual Studio Code. Here’s a quick summary of the contributions that …
Do you wish your favorite editor had better PowerShell editing support? Do you have a great idea for a new feature for the PowerShell extension in Visual Studio Code? We’re dedicating next week, December 6th through 13th (Sunday through next Sunday), to hacking together on new features to enable …
Convert-WindowsImage.ps1 is a very popular method to create VHD’s with. However it’s not a module, and in it’s current form cant be added to one. So I have started a new project on GitHub called WindowsImageTools and posted the results to the PowerShell Gallery. It has a few …
Automation is awesome, but what if you need to run a script with elevated privileges? If you are following security best practices then the account you login with most likely doesn’t have the required elevated privileges. Storing your password in plain text in your scripts is no good either. …
I’m Locked Out, Help! If you’ve been a sys admin for more than a week you’ve probably heard this…“I’m locked-out, help!”. Normally the user has made their way to your cube and is impatiently tapping their foot waiting for you to magically solve there …
Hello Powershell.org! This is the first time I’ve posted for anyone outside of my own powershell blog site PowerShellMasters.com and I just want to thank PowerShell.org for everything they do for our community. I think most of you would agree that this site is one of the best PowerShell sites …
Take a minute think about how many PowerShell scripts you have written for yourself or your team. Countless functions and modules, helping to automate this or fix that or make your teams lives easier. You spend hours coding, writing in-line help, testing, packaging your script, distributing it to …
We all know that working with WMI/CIM can be frustrating. So little of it is documented, and it can be tough to find the class that has the exact info you need. A long time ago, SAPIEN released a very nice WMI Explorer tool that, recently, was taken offline. The reason is that the company was …
