One of the most usefull features in PowerShell are arrays, i already talked about them in a previous post. Today i’ll write about their sister: Hashtables. Hashtables are really awesome for your daily scripting work, in many scripts they are at the center becauseyou can access item not only with the index, but by whatever…
Hi, Today i’ll just share a little function to use a public REST API to use Geolocalisation in your PowerShell scripts. Everything need to use it is in the help bellow….
Hi, It’s been a while i hadn’t publish a post on this blog. Mainly because i’m really busy at work 😉 So now, it’s time to work on a session i’ve submited for Microsoft ReBuild here in France.. This session will focus on DSC and Azure. So my first need is a Domain, i’ve looked…
In PowerShell, arrays are a wonderfull and very powerfull tools which will help you in your daily labor. Today, i wanna speak about that, returning to the basics and help you mastering it. Mosts of your scripts deal with multiple servers, files, and more. PowerShell arrays can’t be used like any other data types, you…
Here we go again! Another Power The Shell blog post. Today, let’s go back to basics ! We’ll talk about the pipeline. If I read the definition in a dictionary, it’s common sense for another people out of the PowerShell business that it’s something that is transporting gasoil from one point to another. Well, it’s…
Hello, This is a quick script to help you in your daily work, in fact a script to list entries of you hosts file 🙂 Function Get-HostFileEntry { $HostOutput = @() $HostFile = $env:windir + “\System32\drivers\etc\hosts” [regex]$r=”\S” Get-Content $HostFile | ? { (($r.Match($_)).value -ne “#”) -and ($_ -notmatch “^\s+$”) -and ($_.Length -gt 0) } |…
As you may know, Windows Framework Management 5 is out as a preview, for already two weeks. Sadly, i didn’t have much free time lately so i can only talk about it now. But let’s have a look about the killer feature of this new version of PowerShell ! Microsoft clearly choose the correct direction…
Instead of speaking about PowerShell 5.0 which is offered to us by Microsoft since twodays, I’ll talk today about Desired State Configuration (DSC) the killer feature of PowerShell 4.0. I won’t talk about the rythm of the PowerShell releases 😀 What’s DSC ? Do you know puppet ? i’m not talking about one of the…
This post is coming after a discussion on twitter about how to submit arguments ton an .exe files after a tips on powershell.com. I’m not agree at all with this technic, this is not a “powershell” way to do things. All the time i say that there are many ways to script and bypass a…
Hi, During my last techdays sessions about PowerShell remoting, i was speaking about CIM Sessions on third party vendors. Here is an example to gather CIM datas from an DELL iDRac. Since the lastest versions of iDRac, WSMan & DMTF standards are included, so indeed we can play with PowerShell 3+ with it through CIM…
