Monthly Archives: September 2019

Receive-Job Keep parameter

Posted on Sunday 29 September 2019 by richardsiddaway

The Receive-Job Keep parameter is required if you want the data contained in the job to remain available. if you don’t use the –Keep parameter (a switch) the data will be deleted. Its a pain to remember to use the … Continue reading →

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PowerShell Day UK 2019 slides and code

Posted on Sunday 29 September 2019 by richardsiddaway

Had a great day at PowerShell Day UK 2019. The PowerShell Day UK 2019 slides and code for my session are available at https://github.com/RichardSiddaway/PSDay2019.

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UK PowerShell day is Saturday

Posted on Thursday 26 September 2019 by richardsiddaway

The UK PowerShell day is Saturday – 28 September  – two days away. If you want to be there tickets are still available – https://psday.uk/ If you’re going – say hello See you there

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Ternary operator

Posted on Wednesday 25 September 2019 by richardsiddaway

PowerShell v7 preview 4 adds a Ternary operator to PowerShell. A ternary operator is a way to provide shortened coding for a simple if-else block. Its an operator that takes three operands rather than the usual two hence the name … Continue reading →

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Get-ExecutionPolicy

Posted on Tuesday 24 September 2019 by richardsiddaway

I’ve used Get-ExecutionPolicy since PowerShell v1 and never stopped to think about it. The cmdlet normally returns just the current policy PS> Get-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned However, if you dig a little deeper PS> Get-ExecutionPolicy -List         Scope ExecutionPolicy         —– ————— MachinePolicy       … Continue reading →

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PowerShell v6.2.3

Posted on Tuesday 17 September 2019 by richardsiddaway

PowerShell v6.2.3 is available from https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases It fixes a debugging performance issue and updates the .NET SDK and runtime framework version. Similar fixes are available in v6.1.6 released at the same time

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Hyper-V VM IP address

Posted on Monday 9 September 2019 by richardsiddaway

Saw a question about getting the Hyper-V VM IP address. One thing with Hyper-V is that the VM has to be running for you to retrieve the IP address. Once you VM is running you can get the IP address … Continue reading →

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