Join the PowerShell tenth birthday celebration
SUMMARY: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson announces November 14, 2016 as date for PowerShell 10th anniversary celebration Can you believe that PowerShell is nearly 10 years old (that is a long time in...
View ArticlePowerShell regex crash course – Part 5 of 5
Summary: Thomas Rayner, Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, shows the basics of working with regular expressions in PowerShell. Hello! I’m Thomas Rayner, a proud Cloud and Datacenter...
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PowerTip: Know the difference between the .split() method and ‘-split’
Summary: Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, Thomas Rayner, shows how to split a string by using a string instead of just a character. I am trying to split the string “this is my amazing string” on...
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Open Source PowerShell – Part 1
Summary: Find and install the Open Source PowerShell software for Linux or Windows. I was reading up about a great new change in PowerShell. I heard that the newest version was Open Sourced on GitHub....
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PowerTip: Capture error code of a PowerShell session in Linux or macOS
Summary: Capture the status code of a PowerShell session in Linux or macOS. Could you show me how to run a PowerShell script in Linux or macOS and capture the status of whether that script succeeded or...
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How to avoid reinventing the wheel in Azure Automation
Summary: Take advantage of existing scripts to create your own solutions. Automation is the number one technical skill that IT needs to have to thrive in today’s quickly changing world. My...
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Part 3 – Use Azure Automation DSC to Configure Linux and execute PowerShell...
Summary: Learn how to configure and use PowerShell, Bash, and DSC with Linux. Hi, my name is Stefan Roth (Blog: http://stefanroth.net / Twitter: @stefanroth_net), and I am a Cloud and Datacenter MVP....
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Manage SharePoint Online site collections and the web templates with PowerShell
Summary: PowerShell commands can manage site collections and the web templates that create site collections. Christopher Weaver is a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (PFE) who focuses on SharePoint and...
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Open Source PowerShell – Part 2
Summary: Use PowerShell scripts within Python and Bash (and those within PowerShell). I am curious just how much I can use Open Source PowerShell within Linux and macOS. Is it an isolated environment,...
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PowerTip: Get the status code of a PowerShell script in Bash
Summary: Identify the results of a script running in Open Source PowerShell in a Bash environment. Is there any way to see the results of a PowerShell script? For example, if somebody sent an “Exit...
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Open Source PowerShell – Part 3
Summary: Pass and return data correctly between Bash and Open Source PowerShell. Could you show me some examples of actually passing and returning values between PowerShell and Bash? Honorary Scripting...
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PowerTip: Return a status code to Linux from PowerShell
Summary: Pass a result code back to a calling Linux environment from Open Source PowerShell. How can I pass a numeric value back to a calling Bash Shell to indicate an error? Just simply supply the...
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Open Source PowerShell – Part 4
Summary: Install and Configure SSH for Open Source PowerShell remoting. With PowerShell, up to this point, one thing that I love is the ability to connect various systems in my environment and run...
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PowerTip: Capture the output of a Linux application in PowerShell
Summary: Use the built-in features of PowerShell to obtain data produced by a Linux application. Can I run a Linux application like ls and capture its output in PowerShell? You certainly can! It’s no...
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Get started with PowerShell development in Visual Studio Code
Summary: Learn about the features in Visual Studio Code that help you write PowerShell code. Since the PowerShell integrated scripting environment (ISE) shipped with Windows PowerShell 2.0 in 2009, the...
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Make Visual Studio Code more like the integrated scripting environment
Summary: Learn some handy tips to make Visual Studio Code work more like the ISE. I was very intrigued with the release of Visual Studio Code last year. An editor that is light-weight and integrated...
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Curly Blue and the meaning of scripting – Part 1
Summary: Curly Blue learns how to automate cleaning of old data files by using PowerShell. This week, in the spirit of the holidays (and of course the previous six years!), Hey, Scripting Guy is...
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PowerTip: Limit Get-Childitem to a limited depth in the tree
Summary: Use the new -depth parameter to control how far down a directory you can search. I have a large file structure to search but I only want to go two folders deep on the search. Is there a way...
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Curly Blue and the meaning of scripting – Part 2
Summary: Curly Blue learns how to use built-in PowerShell script examples in Windows. Yesterday we met our new friends, Curly Blue and Linux. Curly had started his new job as a IT Professional at...
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PowerTip: List locked-out accounts in Active Directory with PowerShell
Summary: Use Active Directory cmdlets to identify locked-out user accounts and computer accounts. Is there a quick and easy way to find all users who are locked out in Active Directory by using...
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