Legacy Blog Posts

I’m moving from Wordpress.com to GitHub pages. My old content is a bit unwieldy, rather than importing it, here are the old posts roughly grouped by topic.

GitHub, Pester, and AppVeyor

• Testing DSC Configurations with Pester and AppVeyor
• GitHub, Pester, and AppVeyor: Part 2
• Fun with GitHub, Pester, and AppVeyor

Learning and Exploring PowerShell

• How Do I Learn PowerShell?
• Exploring PowerShell: Common Parameters, Variables, and More!
• PowerShell Pipeline Demo
• Exploring PowerShell Objects: Flattening
• Learning and Exploring PowerShell: A Practical Example
• Learning and Exploring PowerShell

SQL and PowerShell

• SQLite and PowerShell
• SQL For PowerShell, For SQL Newbies

REST APIs, Infoblox, and Ranting

• Querying the Infoblox Web API with PowerShell
• REST, PowerShell, and Infoblox

Tips, Tricks, Suggestions, and Best Practices

• Why PowerShell?
• Building PowerShell Functions – Best Practices
• PowerShell Splatting – build parameters dynamically
• Quick hit: Dynamic Where-Object calls
• Credentials and Dynamic Parameters
• PowerShell Resources
• PowerShell Cheat Sheet

Practical Modules and Functions

• Remotely Brick a System
• PowerShell and Tables
• Granular access via PowerShell Remoting
• Get-ntfsAccess
• Parallel PowerShell: Part II
• Get-VolatileInfo – Quick Troubleshooting Info
• New-RemoteProcess
• Parallel PowerShell
• Get-NetworkStatistics

Random

• User Account Control Basics
• PowerShell Summit 2014 wrap
• Tools of the trade
• Why you need an SSD
• Building a whitebox Home Lab
• PowerShell 3.0
• PowerShell Web Access
• Bacon Egg and Cheese
• Welcome