A place to learn about PowerShell and share stories of automation
December 31, 2015Dec 31, 201512/31/15Summary: Learn the basic use of a here-string in Windows PowerShell.
What is a here-string and how do I use it?
In PowerShell, you can use here-strings to declare blocks of text. They’re declared just like regular strings except they have an @ on each end.
December 31, 2015Dec 31, 201512/31/15Summary: MVP, Thomas Rayner, continues to inspire holiday spirit by using PowerShell to trigger multimedia.
Yesterday in Sounds of the Holidays–Part 1, I tried to inspire my coworker, Matthew, with some cool holiday messages. Unfortunately, Matthew is still being a Grinch and I need to step up my game.
December 30, 2015Dec 30, 201512/30/15Summary: Learn how to specify the launch state of an application through Windows PowerShell.
How can I launch a minimized application in Windows PowerShell instead of opening the window in the foreground?
Use the –WindowStyle parameter with the Start-Process cmdlet, and select Minimized, for example:
Start-Process -WindowStyle Minimized 'iexplore.exe'
December 30, 2015Dec 30, 201512/30/15Summary: MVP, Thomas Rayner, inspires holiday spirit by using Windows PowerShell to trigger some multimedia.
Hello! I’m Thomas Rayner, a proud Cloud & Datacenter Management Microsoft MVP, filling in for the Scripting Guy for a couple days. You can find me on Twitter (@MrThomasRayner),
December 29, 2015Dec 29, 201512/29/15Summary: Use the Azure cmdlets to get the current status of a Desired State Configuration file on a virtual machine.
How can I use Windows PowerShell to determine if a Desired State Configuration (DSC) file that I applied to an
December 29, 2015Dec 29, 201512/29/15Summary: Matthew Hitchcock, Microsoft MVP, delves into how to troubleshoot problems in the Azure VMDSC Extension.
If you joined me yesterday in Advanced Use of Azure Virtual Machine DSC Extensions, you saw how I created an advanced Desired State Configuration (DSC) file to configure my Azure VM.
December 28, 2015Dec 28, 201512/28/15Summary: Use Azure PowerShell cmdlets to send a Desired State Configuration file to be used later by a virtual machine.
How can I use Windows PowerShell to send a DSC file to be used later by a virtual machine?
Use the Publish-AzureVMDscConfiguration cmdlet and specify the path to your DSC script.
December 28, 2015Dec 28, 201512/28/15Summary: Use Azure PowerShell cmdlets to send a Desired State Configuration file to be used later by a virtual machine.
How can I use Windows PowerShell to send a DSC file to be used later by a virtual machine?
Use the Publish-AzureVMDscConfiguration cmdlet and specify the path to your DSC script.
December 28, 2015Dec 28, 201512/28/15Summary: Matthew Hitchcock, Microsoft MVP, takes us through a deeper look at Azure DSC.
Today we have the first part of a two-part series by Matthew Hitchcock. Here’s a bit about him:
Matthew has deep experience in identity and directory services,
December 27, 2015Dec 27, 201512/27/15Summary: Boe Prox shows how to use Windows PowerShell to display hidden files.
How can I use Windows PowerShell to display hidden files and folders?
There are a couple of approaches that use Get-ChildItem:
Get-ChildItem –Hidden
Get-ChildItem –Attributes H
