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A practical case for using #PowerShell Classes Part 2: Powershell enum

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In part two of this web series about powershell classes, I would like to talk about how to use a powershell enum and go through a use case which will point out their use, and why you really want to integrate them into your scripts.

If you have missed the beginning of this blog post series, See part one here, and learn how powershell constructorsand their overloads…

PowerShell 5.0 RTM available for download

PowerShell 5.0, part of the Windows Management Framework 5.0 (WMF 5.0), is now released and available in the Microsoft Download Center. WMF 5.0 is currently available as a separate download for the following Windows versions: Operating System Service Pack Prerequisites Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 WMF 4.0 is installed This is a step away from the WMF 5.0…

Last week I met up with Bert Wolters for a video presentation/interview. Bert records a series of sessions on the latest and greatest functionality in Windows 10 and in this episode I discuss some of the new functionalities in PowerShell 5.0 in combination with Windows 10. The video has been recorded in Dutch. In the video I…

Clear-RecycleBin New PowerShell 5.0 cmdlet, available in Windows 10

In PowerShell 5.0 a new cmdlet has been introduced that provides the ability to clear the Recycle Bin programmatically. It supports the following four parameters: DriveLetter Force WhatIf Confirm Unfortunately there is no Get-RecycleBin cmdlet, for this purpose I have written a short function that enumerates the contents of Recycle Bin for the current user: Function Get-RecycleBin { (New-Object…

Windows 10 Build 10159 Released – Start of Windows 10 Blog Series

Microsoft announced the release of the latest build of Windows 10, Build 10159: Whoa! Another PC build!, it is available for download if you set the Windows Update settings to Fast. By setting it on this mode, Windows Update will automatically download the latest build when it becomes available. To get the most recent preview builds installed on your Windows 10 Technical Preview build navigate…

Using PowerShell to Connect with Raspberry Pi II

It took me 20 minutes to start running windows 10 on my IoT Device Raspberry Pi II. I have followed the instructions from Microsoft website (http://ms-iot.github.io/content/win10/SetupRPI.htm) and its bang on.

  Raspberry Pi II

Old Samsung Phone Charger

HDMI Cable

Ethernet Cable

Windows 10 (I’m running my surface on windows 10)

PowerShell V 5.0

Quick overview of the steps I have followed

Download…

PowerShell Scripting – Life is easier with ISE Steroids

I have been using various tools/Add-ons to write PowerShell scripts and wasn’t really found good one until one of my colleague Dave introduced to this link http://www.powertheshell.com/isesteroids2. I have to be honest saying this blown away my needs and wants are all in one tool which is ISE Steroids. So now I’m going to walk through some of the aspects of it. I won’t go in detail of basic setup…

Using PowerShell to Apply the Database changes with Change Log.

This script is developed to make the database deployments easier and track the changes in more easier manner. Also helps in case if you need to rebuild the entire database based on the delta scripts available. 

I have created three functions as mentioned below

Update the dbchangelog table of all the changes

Check for the database existence on the specified server.

Apply the available scripts in…