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
Nicolas Prigent PowerShell Day-to-Day Admin Tasks: WMI, CIM and PSWA WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) is the basic way of querying and changing basic information about any windows server, including SQL... 28 May 2015 12 min read
Michael Sorens A Plethora of PowerShell Pitfalls: Part 2 There are some pitfalls in PowerShell for the unwary. Many people who are learning PowerShell come across quirks that can... 12 May 2015 16 min read
Nicolas Prigent Automating Day-to-Day PowerShell Admin Tasks – Jobs and Workflow If you are aiming to optimise the use of your time by doing as much as possible via scripting, you... 13 April 2015 13 min read
Michael Sorens A Plethora of PowerShell Pitfalls PowerShell has some very valuable features, but it is a mistake to believe that all those skills that you've derived... 02 April 2015 19 min read
Michael Sorens Practical PowerShell Unit-Testing: Checking program flow Pester offers a relatively small number of commands to Unit-test PowerShell scripts, but these commands have tremendous capabilities. Pester even... 05 November 2014 16 min read
Michael Sorens Practical PowerShell Unit-Testing: Mock Objects Pester allows you to automate the testing of PowerShell scripts. It can test the output of a function as you... 04 November 2014 17 min read
Michael Sorens Practical PowerShell Unit-Testing: Getting Started By the time you're using PowerShell to automate an increasing amount of the system administration, database maintenance, or application-lifecycle work,... 03 November 2014 19 min read
Phil Factor Getting Data Into and Out of PowerShell Objects You can execute PowerShell code that creates the data of an object, but there is no cmdlet to generate the... 21 October 2014 12 min read
Robert Chipperfield Introduction to Continuous Integration Servers So you've got your database under source control, and now you want to start running automatic tests and builds with... 19 June 2014 14 min read
Michael Sorens PowerShell One-Liners: Accessing, Handling and Writing Data In the grand finale to Michael Sorens' series of PowerShell one-liners, we come to the handling of data, reading it... 05 June 2014 18 min read
Michael Sorens PowerShell One-Liners: Collections, Hashtables, Arrays and Strings The way to learn PowerShell is to browse and nibble, rather than to sit down to a formal five-course meal.... 13 May 2014 20 min read