Monthly Archives: September 2016

PowerShell classes

Posted on Thursday 29 September 2016 by richardsiddaway

I’ve just had an article on PowerShell classes published on the UK TechNet bog – https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/uktechnet/2016/09/29/powershell-classes/

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Few days left

Posted on Tuesday 27 September 2016 by richardsiddaway

You have a few days left to get your sessions proposals submitted for PowerShell & DevOps Global Summit 2017 –  details from https://powershell.org/2016/08/01/powershell-and-devops-global-summit-2017-call-for-topics/ For more topic ideas see https://powershell.org/2016/09/06/nearing-last-call-for-powershell-summit-topic-proposals-topic-ideas/ We are treating end of September as a hard deadline so … Continue reading →

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Windows Server 2016 launches

Posted on Tuesday 27 September 2016 by richardsiddaway

The launch of Windows Server 2016 has been announced at Ignite – https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/hybridcloud/2016/09/26/announcing-the-launch-of-windows-server-2016/ Evaluations can be downloaded from the link in the above post. Soon be time to re-build the test lab

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September 2016–DSC Resource updates

Posted on Friday 23 September 2016 by richardsiddaway

Two new modules of DSC resources are available: OfficeOnlineServerDsc SystemLocaleDsc A number of updates to existing resources have been made available. Details from https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2016/09/21/dsc-resource-kit-september-release/

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Update-Help errors

Posted on Monday 19 September 2016 by richardsiddaway

One the latest build of Windows 10 – 14296 I’m getting errors when updating help. Three modules do’t seem to have help available Update-Help : Failed to update Help for the module(s) ‘Microsoft.PowerShell.Operation.Validation’with UI culture(s) {en-GB} : The value of … Continue reading →

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Talk like a pirate day

Posted on Monday 19 September 2016 by richardsiddaway

In honour of International talk like a pirate day  – http://talklikeapirate.com/wordpress/ What’s a pirate’s favourite programming language? R   What’s a pirate’s favourite load balancer? ARR = Application Request Routing –  see http://www.iis.net/learn/extensions/installing-application-request-routing-arr Normal service may be resumed quite soon

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Unregistering the default repository–PS version dependent?

Posted on Sunday 18 September 2016 by richardsiddaway

In this post – https://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2016/09/17/powershell-repositories/ – I stated that you could unregister the default PowerShell repository. I also said that the statement in the documentation for Unregister-PSrepository that you couldn’t unregister PSGallery was incorrect. A couple of readers have left … Continue reading →

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PowerShell repositories

Posted on Saturday 17 September 2016 by richardsiddaway

A reader on my blog asked if you can unregister the default PowerShell repository so you just use an internal repository. First off – PSGallery is the default repository PS> Get-PSRepository | Format-List Name                      : PSGallerySourceLocation            : https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v2/Trusted                   : FalseRegistered                … Continue reading →

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Dealing with CIM properties that are integer arrays

Posted on Friday 16 September 2016 by richardsiddaway

Saw a post about WmiMonitorID that intrigued me If you use the WmiMonitorID: PS> Get-CimInstance -Namespace root\wmi -ClassName WmiMonitorID | select -f 1 Active                 : TrueInstanceName           : DISPLAY\GSM598F\4&19086f00&0&UID200195_0ManufacturerName       : {71, 83, 77, 0…}ProductCodeID          : {53, 57, 56, 70…}SerialNumberID         : {51, … Continue reading →

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Latest Windows 10 build fixes Surface Pro 2 wireless issue

Posted on Friday 16 September 2016 by richardsiddaway

The latest Windows 10 build  – 14926  –  fixes the issue that took out the wireless adapter on my Surface Pro 2 in build 14915. Wasn’t a major issue as I could successfully revert to 14905 but unexpected for  all … Continue reading →

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