For whatever reason, I seem to be migrating most of my coding activity to Visual Studio Code from the PowerShell ISE. I’m not really sure why other than the look and feel seems to be more pleasing than the ISE… to me anyway. Anywho, I have wanted to hack out...
Enable PowerShell Remoting to an Azure Virtual Machine, without Domain Membership
I recently started an Azure subscription in order to move all the servers I use to test PowerShell code to the cloud. Right now I have only a couple Virtual Machines, one running Windows Server 2016, that’s my Domain Controller. I also have a Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtual...
Basic and Advanced Filtering of PowerShell Objects using Where-Object
This is a very minimal introduction into filtering pipeline objects using Where-Object and comparison operators. This video will give you the syntax and a simple example. To unleash the full capabilities of comparison operators take a look at the help file. # Basic Syntax example Get-Service | Where-Object Status...
Azure VM Connect Button is Greyed out, lets fix it.
Something a little different with this video, no PowerShell goodness. I’m an Azure rookie, and I’ve had a few challenges getting a VMs up and running. I’ll have a few more videos documenting what I’ve learned so hopefully, it will allow you to get spun up quicker than I.
PowerShell Quicktip #2: Filter-Left
A practical example of why you should filter as far left in your scripts as possible. It might matter. #1 Get-Service | Where-object { $_.Status -eq 'Running' -and $_.name -like 's*'} #2 Get-Service -name s*| Where-object { $_.Status -eq 'Running'} #1 Measure-Command -Expression {Get-Service | Where-object { $_.Status -eq...
PowerShell Basics: Sorting and Selecting Objects with Sort-Object and Select-Object
# Selecting #Default Get-Process # All Properties Get-Process | Select-Object -Property * | Out-GridView # Sorting # Changes the default sorting order for Get-Process Get-Process | Sort-Object CPU # Minimize the data and sort Get-Process | Select-Object ProcessName, CPU | Sort-Object CPU -Descending ## Caution # Mission: Get...
PowerShell Hash Tables and Calculated Properties Basics
This video is a basic overview of how to use hash tables and calculated properties to make PowerShell data more usable. <# .SYNOPSIS How to use Hash Table and Calculated Properties .DESCRIPTION A basic walk through of how to use Hash Tables and Calculated properties .PARAMETER <Parameter_Name> None .INPUTS...
PowerShell QuickTip #1 – Exploring PowerShell CMDlets with Show-Command
Using Show-Command can be useful for those with little PowerShell experience to get a quick idea of what you can do with a particular CMDlet.
How to view PowerShell Desired State Configuration Manager resource properties
Since my two previous Desired State Configuration Manager videos, I have gotten more than a few questions asking how to view a specific DSC resources properties. Unlike your typical PowerShell CMDlet, you can’t view properties of a DSC resource using Get-Member. To view DSC resource properties you have to...
PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) How-To for Beginners (Pull Mode)
This script will accomplish 3 things; configure a pull server, create a basic configuration to be pulled by a target node, and create a Local Configuration Manager configuration for the target node. Execute the following code on the Pull Server: # Step 1 Install xPSDesiredStateConfiguration Install-Module -Name xPSDesiredStateConfiguration #...