I created another VM in Hyper-V on my workstation to get it setup before transferring it to some clustered hosts. …
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Installing the SQL Server 2012 Native Client with PowerShell DSC
This was a gotcha for me. I finally figured out what the issue was after racking my brain for days. …
Deploy SQL Server 2019 with PowerShell DSC
This is still applicable for deploying SQL Server 2019 with PowerShell DSC onto Windows Server 2019, with and without Desktop …
PowerShell modules for use with Dynamics 365
PowerShell modules can be found in the Dynamics SDK’s. Microsoft Dynamics 365 (v8.x), Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 (on-premises), and the …
PowerShell modules to interact with secrets go GA
It’s official, version 1.0 of Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretManagement and Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretStore are available on PowerShell Gallery. I’ve been wanting to work with HashiCorp’s …
Release Candidate versions of PowerShell modules to interact with Secrets
There’s been preview versions of these modules that I’ve been following; but that ended today. The first Release Candidate is …
Quick RSAT Install for Windows 10
For the past few versions of Windows 10, Microsoft has made the Remote Server Administration Tools available through Features on …
Transfer DHCP Server IPv4 Scopes in Windows Server DHCP to another server with PowerShell
I had a call the other day from a customer that wanted to move all of their IPv4 DHCP scopes …
Use the Az Module with Visual Studio
With version 16.4 of Visual Studio, you now have the ability to use the PowerShell Az module. That’s right!! You …
Retrieve all variables in current PowerShell session
If you want to see what variables are loaded in the scope of your PowerShell session, it’s really simple. Command …
UPDATE – Deploy SQL Server 2017 with PowerShell DSC
The original post for this article was back in 2018 but since then I’ve been deploying SQL Server 2017 on …
New Azure DevTest Labs PowerShell module
Microsoft released a PowerShell module for Azure DevTest Labs. You can create labs query labs update labs delete labs create, …
Configuring Office 365 via PowerShell Desired State Configuration
We have used Nik Charlebois’ solutions such as ReverseDSC to extract configurations from existing services such as Microsoft SQL Servers …
Add PowerShell user snippet in Visual Studio Code to add comment based help header
I was tired of typing out comment blocks in each of my PowerShell scripts so I decided to create a …
RegEx and PowerShell from the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2018
RegEx has been around since the 1950’s and has tremendous support across all platforms and frameworks. A video was posted …
Turn on IIS Remote Management
I saw this on docs.microsoft.com and since I was always looking for how to do it, I figured I would …
Deploy SQL Server 2017 using PowerShell DSC
I didn’t get a chance to try this yet, but I will soon. Getting into DSC wasn’t a direct route …
PowerShell on Windows Server 2003
I came across an article on Microsoft’s Support Knowledge Base on how to enable Windows Remote Shell on Windows Server …
Can’t connect to Docker Container?
I found an extremely helpful post while working onsite at a client and docker kept failing to start with an …
Download the Pester Wiki from GitHub
Pester Pester is the ubiquitous test and mock framework for PowerShell. Pester GitHub Repo: https://github.com/pester/Pester To read the Pester Wiki …