Monthly Archives: May 2017

Get-PhysicalDisk options

Posted on Wednesday 31 May 2017 by richardsiddaway

These are the Get-PhysicalDisk options for identifying the disk you want -UniqueId <string> -ObjectId <string> -FriendlyName <string> -InputObject <CimInstance#MSFT_PhysicalDisk> -StorageSubsystem <CimInstance#MSFT_StorageSubsystem> -StorageEnclosure <CimInstance#MSFT_StorageEnclosure> -StorageNode <CimInstance#MSFT_StorageNode> -StoragePool <CimInstance#MSFT_StoragePool> -VirtualDisk <CimInstance#MSFT_VirtualDisk> When dealing with disks installed in the machine then the friendly … Continue reading →

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String casing

Posted on Tuesday 30 May 2017 by richardsiddaway

There are times when you may want to change string casing. You have a couple of options. There are a couple of methods on the string class that you can use to modify the case of a string. PS> ‘aaa’.ToUpper() … Continue reading →

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Build a better pull server

Posted on Monday 29 May 2017 by richardsiddaway

DSC functions in 2 modes – push (most basic) and pull. Creating a pull server is a non-trivial task and the out-of-the-box pull server has some issues. Some of the folks at powershell.org have decided its time to build a … Continue reading →

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Diskpart and PowerShell – part 6: Multiple partitions on a disk

Posted on Friday 26 May 2017 by richardsiddaway

So far we’ve looked at creating a single partition on a disk. This time we’ll look at how you can create multiple partitions on a disk. The are good reasons not to do this but its something I’ve seen done … Continue reading →

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PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell

Posted on Tuesday 23 May 2017 by richardsiddaway

if you are an Azure user see this post from the PowerShell team – https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2017/05/23/coming-soon-powershell-in-azure-cloud-shell/

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Diskpart and PowerShell – part4: Remove a partition

Posted on Monday 22 May 2017 by richardsiddaway

So far you’ve seen how to create and modify partitions and volumes. Its now time to look at how you remove a partition. Mount the test VHD Get-VHD -Path C:\test\Test1.vhdx | Mount-VHD You can’t remove a volume – you have … Continue reading →

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Diskpart and PowerShell–part 4: Expand a volume

Posted on Sunday 21 May 2017 by richardsiddaway

Let’s create a new disk and mount it New-VHD -Path C:\test\Test1.vhdx -Dynamic -SizeBytes 20GB Get-VHD -Path C:\test\Test1.vhdx | Mount-VHD Initialize-Disk -Number 1 This time we’ll create a volume that only uses part of the disk New-Partition -DiskNumber 1 -DriveLetter F … Continue reading →

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Table or List

Posted on Thursday 18 May 2017 by richardsiddaway

A question on the forum asked why a object is displayed in a table if it has 4 or fewer properties and as  a list if it  has more than 4 properties: PS> [PSCustomObject]@{P1=1; P2=2; P3=3; P4=4} P1 P2 P3 … Continue reading →

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PowerShell v6 beta

Posted on Wednesday 10 May 2017 by richardsiddaway

PowerShell v6 has reached a significant milestone – the release of the first PowerShell v6 beta version. There have been 18 releases of alpha code since August 2016 when the open source PowerShell v6 project started. There is no indication … Continue reading →

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Are your domain controllers real?

Posted on Tuesday 9 May 2017 by richardsiddaway

A question on the forum asked about discovering if domain controllers are physical or virtual machines. This will do the job foreach ($domain in (Get-ADForest).domains) {   Get-ADDomainController -filter * -server $domain |   sort hostname  |   foreach { … Continue reading →

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