Moving from PowerShell Journeyman to PowerShell Master
I’ve just finished writing another book on PowerShell . The book looked at a number of core Windows Features and components, from…
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Setting up DHCP in Windows Server 2019
In my recently published book ( Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell ), I included several recipes to show how to insta…
Calling a PowerShell Function like a Method is a Bad Idea
As a frequent contributor to Spiceworks’s PowerShell forum (come visit at: https://community.spiceworks.com/programming/powershel…
My Book Scripts
I saw a comment over on Amazon relating to my last PowerShell book (see Amazon Book Listing ) from Long Time Programmer. His comm…
PowerShell’s $OFS built-in Variable And What It Does
The other day, I was working on converting some C'# to PowerShell. 95% was trivial and almost muscle memory. Then I came to t…
Using Azure PowerShell and PowerShell 3 or 4? You need to update PowerShell SOON (probably).
I recently saw a GitHub Pull Request ( https://github.com/Azure/azure-powershell/issues/5149 ) for the Azure PowerShell cmdlets (…
Managing Azure with PowerShell - A Spiceworks Blog Series
One of my fun tasks these days is being a group administrator and moderator on Spiceworks community forums . The forums are IT Pr…
Hyper-V and PowerShell - A Tale of Two Modules
I've been working on a book project (see: http://tfl09.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/my-next-powershell-book.html for details!) and …
Windows 10 Build 14328 – Two Interesting PowerShell Changes
I’ve just updated my text Windows 10 test VM to the latest Insider build, 14328. Needless to say, one of the first things I did w…
Bash on Windows– 10 Things I Learned Today
I’ve been playing today with Bash on Windows 10. I blogged earlier about how to install it. Now to getting down to use it. I spen…
Introducing the PowerShell ISE Preview
Now this is pretty cool: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2016/01/20/introducing-the-windows-powershell-ise-preview.asp…
PowerShell’s Get-Random Cmdlet–a curiosity
I’ve been working on a new set of Introduction to PowerShell courses for a new client – and in doing do, I’m recycling bits of th…
Announcing: PowerShell PowerCamp – Oct 17-18 – London
I am pleased to announce another PowerShell PowerCamp for October 17-18th. To be held at Microsoft Victoria (Cardinal Place) Lond…
Calling Console Applications from PowerShell
In some recent training, I challenged the attendees to 'throw away' Cmd.EXE and to use the PowerShell console for everyth…
Managing Multiple Azure Subscriptions
Like many in the industry, I have multiple Azure subscriptions. When I create Azure resources, such as VMs, they are created in o…
Jeffrey Snover AMA – A must watch!
I've just finished a most enjoyable couple of hours watching An AMA (ask me anything) interview with Jeffrey Snover, Microsof…
Using the DSC Resource Kit – Hot Fixes may be needed
It's that time of year, and with some upcoming PowerShell classes to teach, I've been rebuilding my classroom lab environ…
Proper Shut Down of Nutanix 2012 R2 Hyper-V Cluster
Happy 2015!! I’m seriously backed up and delinquent on blog posts so prepare for a deluge of interesting topics soon. As pain…
Updated Azure Module Is Released
I am just back from teaching Azure and Office 365 in Belgium where we used the latest version of the Azure Cmdlets. The new versi…
PowerShell V5 – Feb 2015 Preview
Continuing with the approach of regular updates to PowerShell V5, the PowerShell team yesterday published a new version. You can …