Monthly Archives: April 2017

ISE or VS code?

Posted on Sunday 30 April 2017 by richardsiddaway

When PowerShell v2 shipped with the ISE it was seen as a great step forward. We now had a decent editor for creating PowerShell code and running that code. You could also invoke the debugger. Some extensions to ISE have … Continue reading →

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IT Professional?

Posted on Sunday 30 April 2017 by richardsiddaway

Way back when we were known as Administrators. Then the term IT Professional (often irritatingly shortened to IT Pro) appeared. We’re doing the same job but have a fancy new title. Are System Administrators really professionals in the true sense … Continue reading →

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DevOps ebook

Posted on Saturday 29 April 2017 by richardsiddaway

DevOps is the latest “big thing” in IT. Whether it will make a difference or be dropped as everyone rushes to embrace the next “big thing” only time will tell. For now, there’s a free ebook from the DevOps Collective … Continue reading →

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DSC Configuring Sharing

Posted on Saturday 29 April 2017 by richardsiddaway

A new set of repositories on Github document a process for sharing end-to-end scenario based DSC configurations https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2017/04/28/dsc-configuration-sharing/ These are open to community involvement

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Mass dismount VHDs

Posted on Friday 28 April 2017 by richardsiddaway

I’m going to be creating, using and discarding a number of VHDs for my diskpart and PowerShell series. When I have a number of them mounted I want a quick way to dismount them. Assuming I consistently keep them in … Continue reading →

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Diskpart and PowerShell–part 3: Initialize disk and create volume

Posted on Friday 28 April 2017 by richardsiddaway

Last time we created a virtual disk and mounted it. In this post we’ll initialize the disk and create a volume. Start by remounting the disk Get-VHD -Path C:\test\Test1.vhdx | Mount-VHD You can now initialize the disk: Initialize-Disk -Number 1 … Continue reading →

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Diskpart and PowerShell–part 2: Create a virtual disk

Posted on Thursday 27 April 2017 by richardsiddaway

Before we start digging into the diskpart/Storage module functionality we need a disk to practice on. I don’t recommend using your machine’s system disk – bad things will happen. The Hyper-V module has  a New-VHD cmdlet so lets use that … Continue reading →

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DiskPart and PowerShell–part 1

Posted on Wednesday 26 April 2017 by richardsiddaway

An attendee at the Summit made the statement that the DiskPart utility didn’t have any equivalent in PowerShell. That’s not strictly true as the storage module provides a lot of functionality that maps to diskpart functionality. The module contents include: … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Summit 2017 thoughts

Posted on Monday 17 April 2017 by richardsiddaway

2017 saw our largest Summit to date. 250 PowerShell fanatics (I use the word advisedly) descended on Bellevue Washington. The conversations had already started when I arrived at the hotel on the Friday night before the Summit! We had a … Continue reading →

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Abandoned technologies

Posted on Tuesday 4 April 2017 by richardsiddaway

Why do some technologies become widely adopted and others are seemingly abandoned – often without any real testing. What do I mean by abandoned technologies? Things like Server Core for instance. And I suspect that nano server and even containers … Continue reading →

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