Visual Studio Code is an excellent developer tool for PowerShell projects. However, regardless of which type of project you’re developing (C#, Node.js, Python, etc.), you can benefit from changing your default shell to the powerful, object-oriented PowerShell shell. Now, you may not want to change your default shell for the …
A Little History on PowerShell Editors Since 2009, PowerShell users have been rewarded with an improvement over Notepad, for authoring PowerShell scripts and modules. That tool is called the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Editor (ISE), which was originally included out-of-box with Windows 7 and PowerShell version 2.0. Over the years, PowerShell …
When you think of PowerShell, is writing a PowerShell “script” one of the first things you think of? If so, I implore you to read on and think about the next time you write any PowerShell code. During the rest of this article, I’ll attempt to describe a gap I’ve …
Evernote has recently come under fire for their new privacy policy that is intended to enable machine learning, with a goal of improving user experience. For some users, who aren’t storing critically sensitive data, this might not mean too much, but certain users have trade secrets that must be kept …
This week has certainly been an exciting one, especially in the cloud IT market! Amazon Web Services (AWS) just recently announced a really cool, new service called Amazon Polly! AWS Polly is a speech synthesis (text-to-speech) service, aimed at software developers and architects, that enables you to generate speech from …
I’ve been using Ubuntu Server for a while now, on various Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 instances, and the experience has been pretty awesome. I recently spun up a RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.3 instance on AWS EC2. RedHat 7.3 was just released about a week ago …
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 …
We recently set up a custom Docker Registry, using the VMware Harbor solution. The NGINX endpoint was secured using a TLS certificate from DigiCert. When we ran the docker login command, to authenticate to this registry, we were receiving a very common error message: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority …
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, …
