Tag: windows
Designing Command Line Tool User Experience

Introduction Software developers, infrastructure & DevOps engineers, and operational IT staff are heavy users of the command line. The benefits of the command line are clear: Commands are / should be readable Commands are repeatable Commands can be shared amongst a team (eg. via source control / chat / etc.) …
Image Re-sizing Utility for Windows
Import-DscResource Warning Message in WMF 5.0 April 2015 Preview

The latest version of the Microsoft Windows Management Framework (WMF) Core 5.0 package has some improvements to the PowerShell and Desired State Configuration (DSC) experience. One of those improvements is a warning message that will appear, if you do not use the Import-DscResource dynamic keyword to import the PSDesiredStateConfiguration module. …
PowerShell 5.0: Debugging Background Jobs
By now, you’ve probably already heard about the Microsoft Windows PowerShell 5.0 September 2014 Preview. If you haven’t already, you really need to download it and get familiar with all of the new features that are coming out with it. PowerShell 5.0 is also included in the Windows 10 Technical …
PowerShell: Build Windows 10 Server Technical Preview VM in Azure

You’ve probably heard about Windows 10 and the Windows Server Technical Preview, right? You can download the Windows 10 Client operating system from https://insider.windows.com, and you can download the Windows Server Technical Preview from your MSDN account, if you have one. A lot of people have stated that the download …
Use PowerShell DSC to Install DSC Resources

IMPORTANT: This post was authored in August 2014, and is out of date. At this point, you should be installing PowerShell DSC resources from the PowerShell Gallery, using the PowerShellGet\Install-Module command. Introduction A lot of the functionality provided by Microsoft PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) comes, not from the core …
Use PowerShell DSC to Enable Screencast Recording on Azure VMs
Do you ever record screencasts, and post them to YouTube, or some other video sharing site? Well, maybe you do, maybe you don’t, but I sure do (when I find time)! For the sake of simplicity, I use an older, free Microsoft tool called Expresion Encoder 4.0 with Service Pack …