Scenario Recently, a question came up on StackOverflow, about PowerShell, where someone wanted the ability to copy a file to a remote system via Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). The question went on to clarify that the individual did not want to have any dependency on SMB (Server Message Block) shares, …
Microsoft just made a huge splash today, by announcing that PowerShell is now available on Linux! I created a launch video that demonstrates how to get PowerShell Core running inside a Docker container! You can see the video over on Microsoft’s MSDN Channel 9. https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/msftazure/Run-PowerShell-Natively-on-Linux-with-Docker Check if PowerShell is Running …
Have you already provisioned a Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine, with a dynamic private IP address? Do you want to change that dynamically provisioned IP address to a static IP address? If so, you’re in luck! This process is relatively easy using the Microsoft Azure PowerShell module. Install PowerShell 5.0 First, …
In PowerShell, you can easily create environment variables using a few different methods. However, these are only scoped to the current PowerShell process, and not to any process running inside the user’s profile, or any process running on the system. Here are a few examples of methods that you can …
This will be a fairly brief article that talks about single quotes vs. double quotes in the PowerShell automation language. Single Quotes In PowerShell, single quotes are commonly used to define string literals. If you want to include a single quote inside of a single-quoted string literal, then you simply …
Check out this post over at Art of Shell that talks about supporting emojis in PowerShell! The post starts out … We all use emojis, to some extent, on a daily basis. We write smiley faces in text messages, e-mails, on Twitter, on Facebook, and other social media platforms. These …
The Azure PowerShell Extensions module (AzureExt) for Windows PowerShell has seen another interesting update! Let’s take a look at some of the high-level changes: External dependencies have been completely removed The module now supports PowerShell ISE Snippets for Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Resources New command: Remove-AzureRmResourceGroupGui New command: Start-AzureRM Check …
I recently tried publishing a very small, simple PowerShell module to the PowerShell Gallery. I ran into a few errors that were rather cryptic. To get more debugging information, I ran Publish-Module with the -Verbose switch parameter. The main errors I noticed were as follows: Invalid URI: The format of the …
For some time now, the PowerShell Gallery has been available, enabling the upload of PowerShell modules to a centralized repository. This repository provides an easily discoverable location from PowerShell 5.0’s PowerShellGet module. In order to install a PowerShell module in PowerShell 5.0, a user must simply type Install-Module -Name <ModuleName>. …
Introduction If you’re a regular PowerShell script or module author, you’re probably accustomed to creating .NET objects using object constructors. In the Microsoft .NET Framework, each struct or class can have one or more constructors. A constructor enables the type consumer to instantiate the object using a set of zero …
