Tag: PowerShell
Remix Music with PowerShell
Remixing Music with RoughDraft and FFMpeg
Search-Script
Finding Needles in Haystacks with the AST
Two Wrongs Make a Right
In PowerShell, Two Wrongs Make a Right
The Power of Primes
Prime numbers are pretty powerful. That's why I just released a new PowerShell module based off of an old mathematical concept: PrimeTime. PrimeTime uses prime numbers as time intervals.
Friday Fun #1 - Servers with PowerShell
I've been doing WebDev with PowerShell for a while now. I find it a lot of fun. I'm somewhat obsessed with making things easy in PowerShell and trying to make development fun.
Issues loading Az PowerShell modules in Azure Automation
Newer Az PowerShell module versions (newer than v11) may fail to load in Azure Automation PowerShell runbooks on older runtime versions like 7.2. Switch to the Runtime Environment Experience, create a new Runtime Environment, select a new PowerShell version like 7.4 or 7.6 for the environment, and migrate your runbooks to the new environment.
Making Memes
It's Friday. Let's have some Fun! Let's write fun servers in PowerShell. About a week ago, I released Fun. It's a fun functional server in PowerShell.
Events are Easy
Events are easy. Events let you know when something happened, and respond to it if you choose. Events are incredibly useful.
Mastering Markdown
I've loved Markdown since the day it was a Daring Fireball post. It's a simple rich text format that gets the job done, and it's used everywhere. Markdown is supported out of the box on PowerShell 6+, using the ConvertFrom-Markdown command.
Freeform Functions
We all yearn for freedom. We want to be free from tyranny. We want to be free to live. We want to be free to do things we enjoy. Some of us yearn to be free of PowerShell's parameter structure.
PowerShell Profiles
I've been using PowerShell for a pretty long time, and I have some thoughts on profiles. Let's share some of what I think makes a good profile and a bad profile. The profiles are the script run when a PowerShell launched. Any user can have a profile, and all users can have a profile.
Splatting the GitHub CLI
Brevity may be the soul of wit, but I may be bad at it. But let's try to make a quick post about a little daily PowerShell timesaver: splatting the GitHub CLI. I'm going to show you how you can save typing and time with the GitHub CLI.
Static Sites are Simple
Static Sites are simple. They're just files, and mostly text. Here's a PowerShell one-liner to make a really simple static site: We make static sites with whatever language we want, and we can publish them about anywhere for free.
The PowerShell Wiggum Loop
One of the best things about PowerShell is that you can interactively explore anything. Long before the Wiggum Loop was a thing, PowerShell let you explore interactively with prompting. Here's how you can embody the spirit of Ralph Wiggum and find your way around PowerShell. All parts of the PowerShell Wiggum Loop are as old as PowerShell itself. To be fair, the Simpsons did it first (1989).
Hello World
I'm James, and the code above is Hello World in PowerShell. Long ago, I worked on the PowerShell team and helped build a really beautiful and interesting scripting language. In the past couple of decades I've been continuing to explore and grow the capabilities of the language, and have beamed with pride as more and more people have been inspired.
Deleting All Workflow Runs In GitHub Repository With PowerShell
A PowerShell script that paginates the GitHub REST API to bulk-delete every workflow run in a repository, with rate-limit handling and dry-run support.
Quickly Finding Previously Typed Commands With PowerShell
Search PowerShell command history with Get-History and PSReadLine across sessions to recover long ffmpeg or scripting commands you ran weeks ago.
Reading Azure Active Directory Recommendations From PowerShell
Pull Azure Active Directory tenant recommendations from PowerShell using the Microsoft Graph API, with sample code for auth and parsing the JSON output.
Caffeinate Windows With PowerShell
A PowerShell equivalent of macOS caffeinate -d that uses the SetThreadExecutionState Win32 API to keep Windows awake without faking key presses.
Generating Windows 10 Notifications With PowerShell
Triggering native Windows 10 toast notifications from PowerShell using the WinRT ToastNotificationManager API to alert on long-running script steps.
Write GitHub Actions In PowerShell
Author a custom GitHub Action that runs PowerShell Core inside a Docker container, replacing the default bash entry point for cross-platform scripts.
SFTP auf Microsoft IIS korrekt einrichten
Dieser Artikel behandelt häufige Probleme bei der Einrichtung eines SFTP-Servers auf Microsoft IIS, darunter Zertifikatsfehler, Probleme mit passiven Verbindungen und Benutzerberechtigungen. Er bietet Lösungen, wie die korrekte Generierung von Server-Zertifikaten mittels PowerShell und die Behebung
Launching Windows Store Apps From Desktop
Launching Windows 8 Store apps from the desktop via registered URI schemes like bingfinance: and bingmaps: pulled out of the Windows Registry.
Quest NDS Migrator LogFile Parser
I am currently helping a customer migrate from Novell to Microsoft and they are using the Quest migrator product to move their data to new DFS servers.