Database Administration Phil Factor in Database Administration Representing Hierarchical Data for Mere Mortals Why is it that we use XML, but with so little enthusiasm when it does so much, and is so... 06 October 2016 20 min read
Blogs Phil Factor in Blogs PSYaml: PowerShell does YAML PSYaml is a simple PowerShell module that I’ve written that allows you to serialize PowerShell objects to “YAML Ain’t Markup... 23 September 2016 17 min read
PowerShell Nicolas Prigent in PowerShell PowerShell Just Enough Administration A major difficulty for a System Administrator who wishes to provide access for auditors, Helpdesk staff, developers and other IT... 05 September 2016 16 min read
PowerShell Nicolas Prigent in PowerShell PowerShell Desired State Configuration: DSC Resources Desired State Configuration (DSC) allows you to automate the way that you manage configuration data for software services as well... 23 August 2016 11 min read
Blogs Phil Factor in Blogs Creating PowerShell Stacks and Expression Evaluators To demonstrate that dynamic modules in PowerShell can be used to easily create objects with methods and properties, Phil Factor... 02 August 2016 10 min read
.NET Michael Sorens in .NET Using C# to Create PowerShell Cmdlets: Beyond the Basics It is just the first stage to make your C# Cmdlet do what it is supposed to do. Even though... 22 July 2016 21 min read
Nicolas Prigent PowerShell Desired State Configuration: Automating and Monitoring Pull mode The Pull mode of Desired State Configuration (DSC) is more complicated to implement because you need to meticulously manage the... 16 June 2016 17 min read
Michael Sorens Persistent PowerShell: The PowerShell Profile You can mould PowerShell to the way you want to work, with all the settings and modules that you require,... 16 May 2016 19 min read
Nicolas Prigent PowerShell Desired State Configuration: Pull Mode Automated configuration management is simpler with Desired State Configuration (DSC) and Push mode, but what is the best way to... 10 May 2016 15 min read
Michael Sorens Unified Approach to Generating Documentation for PowerShell Cmdlets Now, it is easy to provide professional-quality documentation for PowerShell cmdlets, and to keep it in sync when you make... 22 April 2016 2 min read
Laerte Junior Questions About PowerShell Basics That You Were Too Shy To Ask Developers who are already familiar with application languages will be baffled by different aspects of PowerShell to the beginner to... 11 April 2016 16 min read
Nicolas Prigent PowerShell Desired State Configuration: LCM and Push Management Model PowerShell's Desired State Configuration (DSC) framework depends on the Local Configuration Manager (LCM) which has a central role in a... 17 March 2016 13 min read
Nicolas Prigent PowerShell Desired State Configuration: The Basics 'Desired State Configuration (DSC) is an essential part of the configuration, management and maintenance of Windows-based servers. It allows a... 10 February 2016 13 min read
Nicolas Prigent PowerShell Day-to-Day SysAdmin Tasks: Securing Scripts Although PowerShell is popular, for malicious intruders it represents a very attractive attack vector into your system. The obvious way... 01 December 2015 16 min read
Michael Sorens Ins and Outs of the PowerShell Pipeline For many developers, understanding pipelining in PowerShell is like understanding reductive physicalism: you think you've just about got it, and... 22 October 2015 10 min read
Michael Sorens The Complete Guide to PowerShell Punctuation It is the punctuation, the strange dollar signs, brackets and parentheses that bewilder anyone learning PowerShell. Add to that the... 30 September 2015 10 min read
Michael Sorens Build Your Own Resource Monitor in a Jiffy It's great to be able to monitor a counter or any other changing metric while engaged in development work. You'd... 14 September 2015 18 min read
Michael Sorens When to Quote in PowerShell The one question about PowerShell that trips up almost everyone is about when and how to quote strings. Because PowerShell... 12 August 2015 16 min read
Nicolas Prigent PowerShell Day-to-Day Admin Tasks: Monitoring Performance By reading performance counters from services such as SQL Server or Exchange, you can get a wealth of performance information.... 01 July 2015 13 min read
Michael Sorens The Poster of the Plethora of PowerShell Pitfalls One of the downsides of learning a new computer language is that transfer of training doesn't always work to your... 25 June 2015 28 min read
