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PowerShell: Getting Started - Using the ISE and Creating Functions

PowerShell: Getting Started - Using the ISE and Creating Functions

Welcome to my Getting Started with Windows PowerShell series! In case you missed the earlier posts, you can check them out here: Customizing your environment Command discovery We will be exploring…

Apr 7, 20166 min read

PowerShell Quick Tip: Basic use of the -f format operator

PowerShell Quick Tip: Basic use of the -f format operator

What the -f? There are many ways to manipulate/build strings in PowerShell. One of my favorite ways is to use the -f format operator. When you use the operator, it evaluates everything to the right…

Apr 5, 20162 min read

PowerShell: Getting Started - Command Discovery

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PowerShell: Getting Started - Command Discovery

Welcome to my Getting Started with Windows PowerShell series! In case you missed the earlier posts, you can check them out here: Customizing your environment We will be exploring: A review of some…

Mar 31, 20168 min read

PowerShell: Getting Started - Customizing Your Environment!

PowerShell: Getting Started - Customizing Your Environment!

Welcome to my Getting Started with Windows PowerShell series! We will be exploring: Just what PowerShell is. The different versions of PowerShell. How PowerShell works. Customizing your PowerShell…

Mar 24, 20169 min read

PowerShell: List out your PuTTY sessions

PowerShell: List out your PuTTY sessions

I wanted a way to export my PuTTY sessions as I was about to reformat my machine. You could export the registry keys and keep them, but I wanted something more visual as well. So I turned to my dear…

Mar 15, 20161 min read

PowerShell Quick Tip: Use a text file to omit values in an array

PowerShell Quick Tip: Use a text file to omit values in an array

After making the Lun Check Script I had an issue come up when somebody decommissioned a server. The LUNs that were mapped needed to be set offline for a week, then deleted. Since the script would…

Mar 1, 20161 min read

PowerShell: NetApp LUN monitoring with a PRTG custom sensor

PowerShell: NetApp LUN monitoring with a PRTG custom sensor

When a LUN goes offline, bad things tend to happen on the host using it. It is good to know sooner rather than later if that happens. I was looking for a way to do this and what made the most sense…

Feb 24, 20164 min read

PowerShell: Easy function for connecting to sessions on remote domain controllers

PowerShell: Easy function for connecting to sessions on remote domain controllers

One of the things I love doing with PowerShell is enabling my team to learn how to use it while providing tools that make specific or repetitive commands easy to use. Enter-PSSession is easy and…

Feb 15, 20161 min read

PowerShell Quick Tip: Simple logging with time stamps

PowerShell Quick Tip: Simple logging with time stamps

Today I was writing a script at work to check sysvol replication. We have a DC that will sometimes not share the love outbound, yet inbound works just fine. That means to test it I needed to create…

Feb 13, 20161 min read

PowerShell: Fun with Weather Underground's API (part 2)

PowerShell: Fun with Weather Underground's API (part 2)

In the last post we learned how to use Weather Underground's API to resolve a city name and get data back from it. Once we get those two URLs we can use them to get data back from the API. I also…

Feb 9, 20165 min read

PowerShell: Control your LIFX light!

PowerShell: Control your LIFX light!

LET THERE BE LIGHT! This post has been updated on 5/18/17 to reflect changes made to the Lifx API! I stumbled upon the fact that LIFX has an API you can use today. Having found that out I wanted to…

Feb 7, 20163 min read

PowerShell: Fun with Weather Underground's API (part 1)

PowerShell: Fun with Weather Underground's API (part 1)

Free APIs can be fun! After doing some work with the Victor OPs API, I personally wanted to see what else was out there. I haven't messed with APIs too much in the past, but now I'm all about it.…

Feb 5, 20162 min read