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Using Claims Authorization Rules in ADFS 2.0

Get-PowerShell — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:10:31 GMT

I am willing to bet that 90% of the time you have created claims you never really noticed that there are actually 3 tabs for claims that you can use. Most of the time, we are just messing with the “Issuance Transform Rules.” When you walk through the...(read more)

Using Enterprise AD Credentials to Manage Azure Access Control Service

Get-PowerShell — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 22:10:53 GMT

ACS is Azure’s Access Control Service. It is a cloud based Secure Token Service (STS). With the recent advent of Windows Azure Active Directory and ACS being offered for free , I am envisioning more and more enterprises beginning to leverage these services...(read more)

A New Blog !

Get-PowerShell — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:19:39 GMT

Hey folks. I wanted to let you know I have started a new blog over at The IT Fishing Pole . The basic concept of the Fishing Pole is the old saying “Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish, feed him for a lifetime.. or at least until...(read more)

Windows 8 Active Directory PowerShell Provider

Get-PowerShell — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:03:28 GMT

One of the most potentially useful features of the AD tools provided by Microsoft is the AD PowerShell Provider. A Provider in PowerShell allows a user to interact with a data structure similarly to how they would interact with a file system. You can...(read more)

Random Collection of New Features found while Exploring PowerShell V3

Get-PowerShell — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 22:46:22 GMT

I spent some time this afternoon playing around with PowerShell V3 and came across a (very random) set of new features and functionality that I thought I would highlight here. My wife is pretty convinced I have Adult Attention Deficit Disorder. This random...(read more)

A new PowerShell V3 Cmdlet - Invoke-WebRequest

Get-PowerShell — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:00:58 GMT

Playing around with PowerShell V3, I just came across an incredibly powerful new cmdlet called Invoke-WebRequest. This cmdlet will return content of a web site organized by properties. You can access the following properties from the returned Microsoft...(read more)

PowerShell V3 Enables Windows 8 Server to be optimized for the Cloud

Get-PowerShell — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:44:05 GMT

Windows Server 8 took the stage on Day 2 of the BUILD conference. This OS was built from the ground up to be highly optimized for private and public cloud computing. To have an OS that is optimized for the cloud, there must be a management framework ...(read more)

PowerShell V3

Get-PowerShell — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:52:43 GMT

I have the privilege of attending BUILD this year. I am super excited about Windows 8. All the BUILD attendees were given a new Samsung Slate PC running a pre-release Developer Edition of Windows 8. One of the first things I did was crack open PowerShell...(read more)

Use Nuget to Share PowerShell Modules in your Enterprise

Get-PowerShell — Mon, 23 May 2011 14:13:04 GMT

Nuget is not just for developers! If you are an IT Pro, you can use it as well. Nuget is a relatively new tool from Microsoft that provides the ability for people to easily share and use code. Microsoft is marketing it to developers as the way to share...(read more)

When Read-Host doesn’t quite cut it

Get-PowerShell — Fri, 06 May 2011 18:37:54 GMT

Ninety percent of the time when you are writing PowerShell code, you can use parameters in advanced functions to get the data you need to get from a user. However, there are times that you may want to have a bit more control over the user experience....(read more)

NetApp PowerShell Toolkit 1.4 Released! Get-NaHyperVHost

Get-PowerShell — Wed, 04 May 2011 16:09:37 GMT

Last Friday, NetApp released version 1.4 of their PowerShell Toolkit. They have a total of 501 Cmdlets with this release. Their stuff just keeps getting better and better. There are a couple of Cmdlets that I wanted to highlight because they were extremely...(read more)

NetApp PowerShell Toolkit has a PowerShell Provider

Get-PowerShell — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:11:03 GMT

I was at the PowerShell Deep Dive the first half of this week. During a break, I had the chance to meet Clinton Knight, the lead guy behind the NetApp PowerShell Toolkit. Since v1, I have been asking for a provider . Well it turns out that they slipped...(read more)

Use PowerShell to find out if a Disk Partition is GPT or MBR

Get-PowerShell — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:08:17 GMT

When you go to create a partition on a disk in Windows, you can use two different styles, MBR and GPT. The stand for Master Boot Record and Guid Partition Table. One of the major differences between these two is the size of partition you can create. If...(read more)

Generating Output as Objects

Get-PowerShell — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:18:18 GMT

PowerShell is based on objects. Objects are sent down a pipeline. Cmdlets take objects as input and emit objects as output. Scripts and Functions should do this as well. This enables end users to take advantage of thins like Format-Table , Format-List...(read more)

Extra Points for Style when writing PowerShell Code

Get-PowerShell — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:26:10 GMT

This is a blog post I have been meaning to write for a while. Really, being a judge for the 2011 Scripting Games caused me to get this post out. As a judge for the games, I have been reading dozens of scripts every day, and I am sure you can imagine it...(read more)