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Finding Office 365 Cmdlets–It shouldn’t be this hard

I’m working on some courseware for Office 365, Microsoft’s online office product. I have a small business subscription ( www.reskit.net , for example is the hosted SharePoint external facing site), and you can get me at tfl@reskit.net . I love the product...

Published Sat, Mar 03 2013 6:16 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, Office 365, Office 365 cmdlets

Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices–A book by Ed Wilson

Ed Wilson, aka Microsoft’s The Scripting Guy, has written a number of PowerShell books (for MS Press). This book, Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices , is one I’ve been slowly reading through. Although this book is a couple of years old, the advice...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2013 6:13 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell V2, book, The Scripting Guy, PowerShell Best Practices, Ed Wilson

PowerShell Remoting – The Double Hop Problem And A Solution

I’ve been doing quite a bit of work lately with remoting – running scripts and script blocks on other machines. As part of my series on developing a Hyper-V VM lab, I’ve scripted the installation and configuration of a mini network. One of the patterns...

Published Sun, Feb 02 2013 6:41 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell Remoting, PowerShell V3, Setting up CredSSP with PowerShell V3, CredSSP

Working with Base64 Strings in PowerShell

Base64 is an encoding method that enables transfer of arbitrary binary data through restrictive networks. The most obvious, to me anyway, case of this is email. The SMTP protocol was designed to transfer 7-bit (aka ASCII) characters. If you want to transmit...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2013 1:12 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell V2, PowerShell V3, ETS, Base64, Extensible Type System

Building A Hyper-V Test Lab on Windows 8 – Part 5 Configuring DC1

Introduction This the fifth part in a multi-part set of articles on building a test lab with Hyper-V and PowerShell. See the following prior articles in this series. The purpose of these scripts/articles Creating a reference VHDX Creating Virtual Machines...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2013 7:26 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, scripts, script, Hyper-V, PowerShell V3, Deployment Scripts

Building A Hyper-V Test Lab on Windows 8 – Part 4 Creating a DC

Introduction This the fourth part in a multi-part set of articles on building a test lab with Hyper-V and PowerShell. See the following prior articles in this series. The purpose of these scripts/articles: http://www.tfl09.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/building...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2013 9:08 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, Hyper-V, PowerShell V3, Deployment Scripts

Improving PowerShell with 3rd party Modules

PowerShell is an awesome product with amazing potential. But as we al know, the product team can not do everything and neither can the various product teams at Microsoft. As has been quite evident since Monad first peeked it’s head outside Redmond, the...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2013 4:24 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, module, third-party, add-on

Microsoft PowerShell V3 Course (10961) Announced

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...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2013 10:49 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, training, PowerShell training, PowerShell V3, PowerShell v3 Training

Building A Hyper-V Test Lab on Windows 8–Part 2 Creating a Reference VHDX

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...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2013 12:58 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, Deployment Scripts

Building A Hyper-V Test Lab on Windows 8 – Part 2 Creating the Reference VHDX

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...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2013 6:27 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, Hyper-V, Deployment Scripts, Deployment

Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches – A great new book!

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...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2013 9:18 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, book, Jeff Hicks, Don Jones

Building a Hyper-V Test Lab on Windows 8 – Part 1

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...

Published Sun, Jan 01 2013 9:20 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, scripts, Implementation, Deployment Scripts, Deployment

So You Need a Further Excuse to Book Onto The Next PowerCamp? DONE!

The next PowerShell PowerCamp event is coming up shortly and we’re rapidly selling out of places. The PowerCamp event is two fast-paced days looking at the basics of PowerShell V3 – I cover as much as I can over two days. The PowerCamp event is primarily...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2012 11:35 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell V2, PowerCamp, PowerShell training, PowerShell V3, Pluralsight, MVP Systems, Coffee, PowerShell PowerCamp, Fun

Even More about Windows Server Core 2012 and GUIs

I’ve written a bit recently about Server Core in Server 2012. But here’s yet more details. In Server 2012, the GUI is an installable feature – one you can add or remove. There are actually three levels of GUI within Server 2012: Full GUI – the full blown...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2012 2:59 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell V3, Server 2012, Server Core, Server 2012 Server Core

More on PowerShell on Server Core

PowerShell and Server Core – Server 2008 R2 and 2012 in July, I wrote a few articles on PowerShell in Server core ( here , here , and here ). There were two key points noted in those articles. First, Server Core in Server 2012 has a removable GUI – you...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2012 4:14 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: PowerShell, PowerShell V3, Server 2012, Server Core

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