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Normally I post amusing PowerShell-related content on Fridays as part of my Friday Fun series. These are light-hearted articles about using PowerShell. Almost always they are not practical but they serve as a learning vehicle. My topic this week seems...
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Microsoft’s just published details of it’s ‘official’ course on PowerShell V3 . This is being written by Don Jones, so it should be a pretty solid course. I look forward to teaching this course, which is meant to go live in May. I don’t know who the TE...
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Our customers have certainly not been shy about their interest in multiple languages of Windows PowerShell Updatable Help, and we're grateful to hear how much they would value localized Help. Our challenge is this: Updatable Help is a new feature for this release of Windows PowerShell, and we have...
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If you have worked on VMware, you might already be aware of a concept of DRS rules. Using DRS rules, we can create VM anti-affinity rules so that no two virtual machines hosting similar application roles run on the same ESX host. For example, when you...
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I use hashtables quite a bit. Often generating hashtables on the fly from other sources. But sometimes the hashtable keys that come from these external sources don’t align with what I intend to do with the hashtable. For example, one of the nifty...
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This the third part in a multi-part set of articles. See the first article for the start of the set and to understand better what this is all about – see here: http://www.tfl09.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/building-hyper-v-test-lab-on-windows-8.html . Base...
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This the second part in a multi-part set of articles. See the first article for the start of the set and to understand better what this is all about – see here: http://www.tfl09.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/building-hyper-v-test-lab-on-windows-8.html . Building...
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# Create-ReferenceVHDX.ps1 # Script that will create a reference VHDX for later VM Creation # Version 1.0.0 - 14 Jan 2013 # Define a function to create a reference VHDX. Function Create-ReferenceVHDX { [Cmdletbinding()] Param ( # ISO of OS [string] $Iso = 'C:\downloads\9200.16384.120725-1247_x64frev_Server_Datacenter_VL_HRM_SSS_X64FREV_EN...
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A while ago, I published a post on exporting Visio pages to PNG format. This is something I do quite often. This post received good amount of views and I had a couple of people reaching out to me asking if I can extend that function to export visio pages...
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Over the recent holiday period, I got my hands on Don Jones and Jeff Hick’s latest book: Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches, published by Manning (see: http://morelunches.com/toolmaking.html for details of the book). For anyone wanting...
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I’ve received a lot of interest for my last few posts on graphing with the PowerShell console. But I decided I could add one more feature. Technically it might have made more sense to turn this into a separate function, but I decided to simply modify...
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This is the first part of a multi-part blog article on a set of scripts to create VMs using Microsoft’s Hyper-V on both Windows 8 and Server 2012. Background For many years, I’ve used virtual machines heavily. The articles, courses and books I write rely...
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Many of you have been having fun with my PowerShell Console Graphing tool I posted the other day. But I felt the need to make one more major tweak. I wanted to have the option for conditional formatting. That is, display graphed entries with high values...
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Yesterday I posted a tool that creates a console-based graph. That command uses Write-Host which means nothing is sent to the pipeline. The only way you can really save the result is with a screen capture. Of course, you can manually use whatever screen...
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I’ve written before about using the PowerShell console as a graphing tool, primarily using Write-Host. Most of what I’ve published before were really proof of concept. I decided to try and come up with a more formal and re-usable tool that...