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.) …
Do you have a lot of large photos that you’d like to resize, to reduce upload times, and make more friendly for the web? Check out this free picture re-sizing extension for Windows! I’ve been using this on Windows 10 Enterprise RTM (Build 1024), and it works great! It’s an …
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. …
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 …
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 …
IMPORTANT: This post was authored in August 2014, and is out of date.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 …
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 …
Today I’d like to take a few minutes to talk about setting up Git for your development projects on the Windows platform. I’ve long been a fan of Mercurial, because the installation process is easy, and the tooling is native to the Windows platform. While Git and Mercurial are very …
You love PowerShell, right? And you love the Microsoft .NET Framework? Are you setting out to automate the Microsoft Office 2013 Lync Client with PowerShell? If you answered “yes” to the last three questions, then you’ve come to the right place! We’re going to take a look at how to …
Are you looking for Microsoft Office Visio stencils, or PNG icon sets, for Microsoft Azure? Perhaps you’re building an architectural diagram or writing technical documentation. Either way, Microsoft has recently made available an updated set of Visio stencils, PNG icons, and a Microsoft PowerPoint slide deck to preview them all! …
