In my experience splatting is one of those often overlooked and underutilized features of PowerShell. Full disclosure, I don’t use it regularly myself. Most times I just forget it’s a thing. For those that are new to PowerShell, splatting looks more difficult than it really is. The whole idea...
Format and Combine Merch by Amazon Sales reports in seconds with PowerShell
I dabble a bit in Merch by Amazon and have grown to hate the monthly sales reports they give you. For whatever reason, Amazon dumps a bunch of useless information in the first column of the CSV file. Why they do that, I have no idea, but it makes...
How to get the local Administrators of one or many computers remotely with PowerShell.
This is a request that was made by someone a few months ago. It’s been a while so I apologize for not remembering who requested it. We’re using the Win32_GroupUser class to get the local administrators of a computer or many computers remotely. The function is modular enough to...
Visual Studio Code and Azure DevOps (formerly VisualStudio.com) Integration Step-by-Step
My previous video walked through the process of using the old Visual Studio Team Services VS Code extension. That extension has now been deprecated. With the latest version or VS Code (I installed v 1.28.1) you should see the Azure Repos extension baked into VS Code. The only other...
Enterprise Security: How to configure and use Group Managed Service Accounts
I routinely see organizations big and small still using “regular” Active Directory user accounts as service accounts. Typically, they have the password for those service accounts set to never expire or an alternate password policy that only requires the password is changed yearly. If your organization is managing service...
Quickly deploy LAB Virtual Machines with the AutomatedLab PowerShell Framework
My Requirements: Use PowerShell to minimize the time spent on creating VMs. Install ADDS along with the VM creation. Use a differencing disk for all the VMs to save disk space. In the spirit of kickstarting this channel again, I needed to spin up a few Virtual Machines to...
I’m resurrecting the YouTube channel.
I’m going to resurrect the YouTube channel and start making videos as time allows. That said if you have something specific you would like to see contact me using one of the methods below and I’ll see if I can work it in at some point. More to follow…...
Advanced Auditing with PowerShell Desired State Configuration Manager (DSC)
Greetings interweb. It’s been a while but I’m back with a new video finally. This video focuses on Desired State Configuration Manager (DSC) and how to configure Advanced Auditing using DSC. You can certainly configure DSC using a group policy object (GPO). My use case for this is if...
Convert text files to PDF then merge PDFs in bulk with PowerShell and iTextSharp
To demonstrate this process, I will show you how I export all the PowerShell help and convert it to PDF files that I use instead of looking at the help files in the PowerShell Console. I realize you can view the PowerShell help files in the console and online....
Automate Creating Lab Virtual Machines in Azure with PowerShell
As you may or may not know, I recently decommissioned my old Dell PowerEdge 1950 server that I used for a few Lab virtual machines. While experimenting with PowerShell on these Virtual Machines, I have found myself in the situation where it would be easier to delete the Virtual...