It started with a tweet As with many things in my life it started with a tweet That looks awesome, I thought, so I watched the YouTube video.Scott has written a C# application that would change the scene depending on some text in the PowerPoint slide notes. Then, by applying a Chroma filter to the… READ MORE
PowerShell Introduction When Microsoft introduced PowerShell in the mid-2000’s, it was a pretty big deal. The venerable cmd.exe (based on DOS’s command.com) was not very effective in comparison to open source shells popping up on Windows that drug half of a GNU/Linux installation along with them. About 13 years ago I wrote about Microsoft’s new… READ MORE
In this first part of a multi-series blog, I will explain why and how we should use Azure Functions and PowerShell together. Next, I will show you how to deploy a PowerShell based Function. Azure Functions Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that allows you to run small pieces of code (called “functions”) without worrying… READ MORE
Scenario I want to write a function that will query an image site and download a picture so I can insert it into a blog post. After watching a local PowerShell User Group presentation on using Invoke-RestMethod, I decided to give it a try. API Parameters Invoke-RestMethod is a PowerShell utility specifically for quering web sites that… READ MORE
Do you have a PowerShell GUI that needs to accept text input? Maybe you want to be able to copy and paste a list of computers, ip addresses, user names or some other data. I will show you how to add a text box into your PowerShell GUI to handle that input. If you haven’t… READ MORE
As you may be aware already (hopefully!), we have Microsoft Teams cmdlets surfacing in the SharePoint PowerShell PnP module since July 2020. Today, we’ll work again with those cmdlets. As a matter of fact, we’ll use 2 modules for this blog post. PowerShell PnP Azure AD So make sure you’ve got both installed to be… READ MORE
Using PowerShell with Azure VM. Sometimes you need to change something on a VM. You may want to rename it for compliance reasons, change the network, change the disk name, etc Once you create a VM in Azure there is no way to rename it or one of its components. Also, if you want to… READ MORE
If your are a developer who uses PnP PowerShell module to deploy and configure your environment or your clients’, you have certainly faced some issues to manage the versions of PnP PowerShell module with your scripts. I will share with you an approach that I am using myself to use my current scripts and the… READ MORE
I faced some troubles in executing cmdkey.exe on a PowerShell remote session, while I was trying to automate the creation of a SQL Failover Cluster Instance on Azure VMs, using Azure Premium File Share (PFS) as shared storage. You need cmdkey.exe since you must persist Azure PFS access credentials on the Credential Manager of both cluster nodes, into the… READ MORE
It’s now roughly one year since Microsoft launched the the Power Platform Business. It’s been extremely interesting in the past 12 months to watch how this new platform strategy starts to play out in the world outside Redmond, as the pieces of this grand puzzle begin to become visible here and there. Having worked in… READ MORE
