Monthly Archives: July 2014

There are 4 cmdlets for working with the history in a PowerShell session: Add-History – adds an entry to the historyClear-History – clears the historyGet-History -enables you see the current historyInvoke-History – enables you to run a line in your … Continue reading →

A uestion was asked on the forum about whether a parameter could be made mandatory sometimes and nor other – in particular if a parameter could be made mandatory if another parameter was used. My initial thought was that it … Continue reading →

Another in my occassional series on bad practices I’ve seen and recommend you avoid.  This time I want to look at creating objects. I recently saw some code that looked a bit like this: $os = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem$comp = … Continue reading →

The next wave of the DSC resource kit has arrived – see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/07/17/powershell-dsc-resource-kit-wave-5-arrives.aspx for details

Docker is a way to “virtualise” applications on Linux machines. With DSC for Linux you can manage Docker instances http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2014/07/17/configuring-docker-on-azure-with-powershell-dsc.aspx