PowerShell Nicolas Prigent in PowerShell Azure and Windows PowerShell: Using VM Extensions In the third part of his series, Nicolas Prigent describes how to run post-deployment configuration and automation tasks on Azure... 09 October 2018 10 min read
PowerShell Robert Cain in PowerShell Advanced Testing of Your PowerShell Code with Pester Testing your PowerShell scripts is just as important as testing any code. In this article, Robert Cain demonstrates how to... 30 August 2018 19 min read
PowerShell Robert Cain in PowerShell Introduction to Testing Your PowerShell Code with Pester Everyone knows how important code testing is, and to be thorough, you must automate testing. This includes scripts such as... 16 August 2018 23 min read
PowerShell Greg Moore in PowerShell Introduction to PowerShell with SQL Server Using Invoke-SQLCMD PowerShell is the preferred scripting tool used by Windows and Active Directory administrators. It can also be used to administer... 08 August 2018 10 min read
T-SQL Programming Phil Factor in T-SQL Programming Getting Started with MongoDB and PowerShell: A Real-World Data Walkthrough Learn MongoDB with PowerShell using a real 6.5 million record dataset: install MongoDB, import CSV data, create indexes, run aggregation... 03 August 2018 26 min read
PowerShell Nicolas Prigent in PowerShell Azure and Windows PowerShell: Getting Information In the second part of his series, Nicolas Prigent describes in detail how to automate the login process using PowerShell... 26 June 2018 12 min read
PowerShell Nicolas Prigent in PowerShell Hyper-V Shielded Virtual Machines with PowerShell: Guarded Fabric, Host Guardian Service, and vTPM Configuration Configuring Hyper-V shielded virtual machines with PowerShell - the guarded fabric architecture, Host Guardian Service (HGS) for attestation, virtual TPM... 04 June 2018 14 min read
PowerShell Nicolas Prigent in PowerShell Real-Time IT Dashboard with PowerShell Universal Dashboard (PoshUD) Build a real-time IT monitoring dashboard in PowerShell using PowerShell Universal Dashboard (PoshUD). Covers installation, New-UDMonitor, chart types, and creating... 02 May 2018 12 min read
PowerShell Robert Cain in PowerShell Create Azure VMs with PowerShell Part 2 The ability to quickly spin up a virtual machine is one of the great things about Azure. In this article,... 30 April 2018 16 min read
PowerShell Robert Cain in PowerShell Create Azure VMs with PowerShell Part 1 Azure virtual machines are created for many reasons, even just to have an environment to quickly test something out. In... 21 April 2018 23 min read
PowerShell Nicolas Prigent in PowerShell Azure and Windows PowerShell: The Basics IT shops do not want to spend time and energy managing infrastructure and servers as was done in the past.... 29 December 2017 11 min read
PowerShell Robert Cain in PowerShell Azure PowerShell Functions: Reusable & Restartable Build reusable, restartable PowerShell functions for Azure. Learn patterns for idempotent resource group creation and reliable blob storage uploads with... 29 November 2017 15 min read
General Nicolas Prigent in General Building and Deploying Nano Servers Microsoft has introduced an installation option of Windows Server 2016 that provides an operating system designed and optimized for Cloud... 24 August 2017 9 min read
.NET Michael Sorens in .NET PowerShell LINQ Guide: Operators & Performance Complete reference for using LINQ operators in PowerShell. Covers syntax, delegates, performance gains over native loops, and working examples for... 19 May 2017 47 min read
PowerShell Michael Sorens in PowerShell PowerShell Time Saver: Automatic Defaults Because PowerShell needs to be usable as an immediate scripting language by IT professionals who type in commands at a... 30 January 2017 19 min read
PowerShell Nicolas Prigent in PowerShell Managing Hyper-V VMs using PowerShell Direct Virtual machines are easier to manage via PowerShell than with the the Hyper-V Manager console. PowerShell Direct takes this further... 13 December 2016 11 min read
Database DevOps William Brewer in Database DevOps Questions About the Use of PowerShell That you were Too Shy to Ask Let's forget the actual PowerShell code for a moment: Why is PowerShell important? Why should I use it? Where did... 12 December 2016 15 min read
T-SQL Programming Phil Factor in T-SQL Programming Lists With, or Without, Ranges in both T-SQL and PowerShell Whether you are working in a procedural language like PowerShell or in T-SQL, there is something slightly bothersome about having... 01 December 2016 19 min read
PowerShell Nicolas Prigent in PowerShell Hyper-V and PowerShell: The Basics Because it is important with maintaining Virtual Machine environments to be able to repeat routine tasks completely accurately, Windows PowerShell... 18 November 2016 12 min read
T-SQL Programming Phil Factor in T-SQL Programming PowerShell and SQLite: Query, Transfer Data, and Store Results Learn how to use SQLite with PowerShell and SQL Server: query SQLite databases via ADO.NET, transfer results to SQL Server... 03 November 2016 16 min read
