Managing Hosts File using PowerShell Classes
Learn how you can manage Hosts file with powershell. Add / remove entries to a local, or a remote hosts file using this module, based on powershell classes. ok ok ok [...]
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05, 2017
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03, 2017
Guest post swisscom ICT blog
For the ones that are curious what an implementation of Pester in a big environment could look like, I would recommend that you read my guest blog post on the [...]
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01, 2017
How to parse netsh advfirewall rules using windows powershell
In this powershell treasure chest post I want to explain how we can parse the results of netsh advfirewall command to workable powershell objects using regex. For the ones that didn't [...]
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01, 2017
Parsing the WindowsUpdate.log using PowerShell and regex
Are you searching to parse the windowsupdate.log file, the following function is here to help! It will either parse the windowsupdate.log file from your default location, or you can specify [...]
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01, 2017
learning regex
Regex is cool! It is true! Regex allows you to find specific chunks of text in a known sentence, file, document etc… Regex is really useful to parse big [...]
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12, 2016
How to learn pester in 3 blog posts: Part 3 Advanced concepts
This blog post is part 3 of a series of 3 posts to learn how to write PowerShell pester test. After seeing the fundamentals of pester in part 1, we dove [...]
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12, 2016
How to learn Powershell Pester in 3 blog posts: Part 2 – deep dive into the code
This blog post is part of a series of 3 posts to learn Powershell Pester. After seeing the fundamentals of pester in part 1, we are now going to deep [...]
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12, 2016
How to learn Pester in 3 blog posts: The fundamentals
Going forward in the Devops world, you will sooner or later end up asking yourself the following questions: I made a change to my code, does it still work? How [...]
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11, 2016
Using polymorphism in PowerShell Classes
This blog post is part of my second series about powershell classes,but this time, it is in collaboration with 4sysops.com This series has a total of 6 posts that [...]
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11, 2016
How to benefit from powershell class Inheritance?
This blog post is part of my second series about powershell classes, this time in collaboration with 4sysops.com. This blog post focuses on powershell class inheritance. This series has [...]
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11, 2016
A practical use case for PowerShell Classes Part 3: PowerShell static methods
This blog post is part of a web series of 5 posts that covers everything that needs to be known about powershell classes. The series covers the creation of [...]
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10, 2016
French PowerShell Meetup n°2 – Wrap up
Not so long ago, we have founded the French PowerShell user group . The second meetup was held yesterday, where I did a presentation on PowerShell Classes (Read more about [...]
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10, 2016
A practical use case for PowerShell Classes Part 2: Powershell enums
In part two of this web series about powershell classes, I would like to talk about how to use a powershell enum and go through a use case which [...]
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09, 2016
Using powershell to set, change and replace an ip address
I have been automating the provisioning of Hyper-V hosts using SCVMM and PowerShell, and one of the tasks that I had to do involved to set an use powershell [...]
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09, 2016
First French PowerShell UserGroup Wrap up
In case you missed it, we have founded the French PowerShell user group last month and this is a short wrap up on how great the response from the french [...]
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09, 2016
PowerShell on Mac Os x: The discovery of a new world
Recently Microsoft announced that PowerShell has been open sourced, and made generally available on Linux and Mac Os X. It is currently (04.11.2016) in alpha version available on github. I [...]
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08, 2016
Embrace version control using github powershell (part 2)
In part one of these series on version control we have seen the basics that are needed to get started with git and to setup version control locally in our [...]
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08, 2016
Powershell Linux just became real. Get started right now!
Microsoft released some great news yesterday (18/08/2016): PowerShell is now Open sourced, and available on Linux AND MacOSx (!!!). Yeah, amazing isn't it??!! Everybody talks about powershell linux; blogs, youtube [...]
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08, 2016
Ze French PowerShell UserGroup is born!
Yes, you read it correctly, these french weirdos are getting organized, and will provide PowerShell knowledge in french, for free! For the ones that were present at my BPUG [...]
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08, 2016
BPUG Meeting N°6 -> It was a blast!
Basel PowerShell UserGroup Three days ago (17/08/2016) we had the honnor to have Ed & Teresa Wilson as Guests at our 6th Basel PowerShell User Group meeting (BPUG). It was [...]
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08, 2016
How to print a webpage in PDF with powershell
I have been asked to do kind of a special thing the other day: Stéphane, do you know if we can print a webpage in PDF with powershell, so we [...]
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08, 2016
How to automate PDFCreator with PowerShell
automate pdfcreator using powershell Have you ever needed to automate the printing of PDF documents? Well, you can do that using PDFCreator and powershell. Indeed, PDFCreator (version [...]
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06, 2016
How to create a configmgr enhanced detection method using powershell?
Have you ever felt the pain of trying to automate configmgr enhanced detection methods / enhanced detection rules using PowerShell? I know. it hurts. It feels like scripting VBS in notepad like [...]
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06, 2016
Save the Date – BPUG Meeting planned with (super) guests
--UPDATE-- 24/06/2016 Registration link added A short post to make you all save the date of the 17th of August 2016 where our next BPUG meeting will held place. This time [...]
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01, 2016
BPUG Meeting N°5 Open for registration
Next BPUG meeting scheduled on 24th of February 2016 at 18h Due to Illness of the main speaker, the event is postponed until mid march. New dates will [...]
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12, 2015
BPUG #4 meeting – Presentation material
Next Meeting: Date: 26.02.2016 Agenda: 1.Claudio Spizzi: Deploying SCOM Using PowerShell DSC 2.?? à Open for speakers ;) Last Meeting : Date: 24.11.2015 Agenda: The topics were the following ones: Stéphane [...]
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10, 2015
Posh-StarWars: the most usefull powershell module in the galaxy!
Diving deep into RESTFULL api brought me all the way from my powershell prompt to the intergalactic universe of Star wars. How to join your favorite science fiction movies and [...]
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09, 2015
BPUG Meeting #4
The Doodle spoke! The 4# BPUG meeting will be held on the 26th of November at 19h. Please take a (Free) ticket on the EventBrite page located here under. PS: [...]
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09, 2015
Embrace version control using powershell git (Part 1)
PowerShell git: The beginning! I am writing this blog post from the airport / air plane heading back to Basel. I was at the Powershell summit (#pshsummit) in Stockholm and [...]
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08, 2015
How to install SMA on Windows Azure Pack : Part 2
Before even starting to talk about the installation of "SMA" (which standands for "Service Management Automation" ) let's briefly explain what it is and where it comes from. What is [...]