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Comparing Objects using JSON in PowerShell for Pester Tests

Recently I spent the good part of a weekend putting together Pester Tests (click here if you aren’t familiar with Pester) for my LabBuilder PowerShell module- a module to build a set of Virtu… Source:...

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Comparing Objects using JSON in PowerShell for Pester Tests

PowerShell, Programming and DevOps Recently I spent the good part of a weekend putting together Pester Tests (click here if you aren’t familiar with Pester) for my LabBuilder PowerShell module- a...

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Server Uptime

Richard Siddaway's Blog Its easy to get the last boot time of a Windows machine but how do you get the uptime function Get-Uptime { [CmdletBinding()] param ( [string]$ComputerName = $env:COMPUTERNAME...

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First release of AutoRuns module

>_ You may remember the excellent PowerShell Security series from PowerShell Magazine where I presented a Get-PSAutoRun function to investigate malware persistence ala “Sysinternals autoruns”. I’ve...

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First release of AutoRuns module

You may remember the excellent PowerShell Security series from PowerShell Magazine where I presented a Get-PSAutoRun function to investigate malware persistence ala “Sysinternals autorunsR… Source:...

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Open source PowerShell and OMI

Richard Siddaway's Blog OMI – the Open Source CIM server is available on github https://github.com/Microsoft/omi This appears to be a later version than currently shown on the open group web site...

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Create a GPO for PowerShell 5.0 settings

I’ve written the following piece of code to automate the creation of a Group Policy that would configure all the new PowerShell 5 settings – ScriptBlock Logging, Protected EventLog and … Source: Create...

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Safely storing credentials and other things with PowerShell

FoxDeploy.com Hey guys, This post is mostly going to be me sharing an answer I wrote on StackOverflow, about a technique I use in my PowerShell modules on Github to safely store credentials, and...

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Building Better PowerShell Dashboards

FoxDeploy.com First off, YUUGE props to Flynn Bundy for shining lights on the possibility with his post Making DSC Beautiful and @Neeco of HTML5Up.com for these gorgeous HTML5 and CSS templates. If...

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Breaking CIM sessions

Richard Siddaway's Blog A CIM session is analogous to a PowerShell remoting session but for CIM based cmdlets – the CIM cmdlets themselves and any CDXML based cmdlets e.g. the networking cmdlets By...

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PowerShell Summit: CIM Deep Dive

Richard Siddaway's Blog A big thank you to everyone who attended my Summit pre-conference workshop. The interaction was great and I really enjoyed it even though I was feeling the efffects of my...

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Creating a Robust Services Function

Fantastic script as usual… Learn Powershell | Achieve More I had a time when I needed to know whether or not a service had triggers, which would mean that the StartMode could be Auto (Triggered Start)...

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SQL Code for SCCM Status Message Viewer

FoxDeploy.com I found myself juggling many different Status Message views in SCCM to try to keep on top of various messages that would arise in one environment.  So I did what anyone would do, and...

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DeployImage Module for PowerShell 5

Energized About PowerShell This is a module I started to put together after the current MVP Summit when I decided I wanted to put together Nano Server. The current Technet documentation at the time...

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Getting Accurate File Versions

Rohn's Blog I used to think that getting a file version in PowerShell was a fairly simple process: PS> (Get-Item c:windowssystem32mshtml.dll).VersionInfo.FileVersion 11.00.9600.16410...

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Creating DNS records

Richard Siddaway's Blog Following on from my previous post about creating a reverse lookup zone in DNS here’s a function to create records in that zone. The function takes an IP address and name (of...

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Blocking Mixed Exchange 2013/2016 DAG

EighTwOne (821) In the RTM version of Exchange 2016, there’s an issue in that it is allows you to add Exchange 2016 Mailbox servers to Exchange 2013 Database Availability Groups, and vice-versa. As...

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Working with EPPlus and PowerShell

SqlChow I recently worked on a requirement, where the end user wanted to convert Excel files into tab-delimited text files. In my head I was like, this is easy: “PowerShell FTW! Yay!”. The reason for...

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Check UserID for Differences

What prompted me to look for this solution was an error we received while trying to run - Get-CSUser TBOLTON I received this error - Management object not found for identity "tbolton". + CategoryInfo :...

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Why Should I Learn PowerShell? Real World Example Saves the Day!

Posted on the Hey Scripting Guy BLOG.  Why Should I Learn PowerShell? Real World Example Saves the Day!  Some real life issues that came up. I was very happy to have been asked to contribute. Click On...

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