[NoBrainer] Sending Gelf messages to Graylog2 via PowerShell
Recently I was testing Graylog2 as a store for metering data and had to bulk-load a larger amount of data into its database. My goal was to create synthetic and […]
Creating a docker image for WSO2 Complex Event Processor
Introduction While working on a project for one of our customers I had to perform some testing that involved one of the WSO2 product family members, namely the Complex Event […]
Full example of an ODATA Controller for ActiveDirectory search operations with the LightSwitch HTML Client
Introduction First, thank you all for your feedback to my first post, regarding the Extending the LightSwitch HTML client with a cascading push menu. Today I will show you, how […]
Promote a Linked Clone Virtual Machine to a Full Clone with PowerCli
Linked clone VirtualMachines share their base disks with their parent virtual machine. Only changes (delta) are stored in the childs virtual disks. These results in two major benefits: Fast Provisioning time Space savings However, linked clones have some limitations: Diskspace cannot be adjusted Performance impact – Depending on storage cache The following PowerCLI snippets will promote all virtual disks […]
[NoBrainer] How to easily pass parameters to a script in a PowerShell job
Today I had to pass a long list of parameters to a Cmdlet inside a PowerShell job. At first it looked like this, which seemed rather horrbile (i.e. unreadable) to me. There had to be a cleaner approach to this – and so it was … there are some samples around the Internet on how to use the Start-Job Cmdlet […]
Extending the LightSwitch HTML client with a cascading push menu
This article is about a project with the LightSwitch HTML Client and Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 and addresses a shortcoming in LightSwitch that it only provides very basic menu […]
Module: biz.dfch.PS.Ipam.Infoblox.Api
GENERAL This Microsoft PowerShell module contains Cmdlets to perform various base actions and utility/convenience functions against the Infoblox REST API (WAPI). You can download this module via GitHub at biz.dfch.PS.Ipam.Infoblox.Api or via NuGet with Install-Package biz.dfch.PS.Ipam.Infoblox.Api. DESCRIPTION This module uses Invoke-RestMethod internally. You can also use the functionality of the provided InfobloxApi.dll assembly that is more efficient. The current implementation […]
Validating JSON objects with PowerShell Advanced Function Parameters
PowerShell makes it really easy to convert JSON into (PSCustom) objects with the means of ConvertFrom-Json. But manually verifying every property after conversion is particular tedious and annoying work. Recently I wrote about Using typeful JSON Deserialisation and Validation in PowerShell. However, sometimes this is just not feasible as you might not have a C# class describing your data. Scripting […]
vCloud Director: Federation certificate expiration emails / Certificate regeneration troubles in large environments
Hi, this is Daniel and this is my first post about a small gotcha you might experience with VMware vCloud Director and the surprising resumé that there is no automated solution for fixing that. Since vCloud Director 5.1 it is possible to enable your organization to use an SAML Identity provider. And even if you don’t use it, vCloud Director […]
[NoBrainer] PowerShell modules, digital signatures, nuspec files and packages automated
As announced a couple of days ago we started pushing some of our PowerShell modules to GitHub and NuGet. And soon it became obvious that keeping all the scripts, signatures, versions and packages in sync was some tedious and error-prone work. This should definitely be automated, you might instantly think – and right you are! So here are some small […]
[NoBrainer] Create C# extension methods via Add-Type and Update-TypeData in PowerShell
[Note] This is a rather old article from 2014. The world and PowerShell have changed. For an even easier way than presented here see the comment at the bottom of the article. In this post I present a quick refresher on how to make C# extension methods available to objects and classes in PowerShell sessions. C# allows you to extend […]
Module: biz.dfch.PS.Cumulus.VI
This is Microsoft PowerShell module is part of our Apache 2.0 based open source automation framework “Cumulus”. You will find all related posts via the “Cumulus” tag. You can use this module to perform operations against VMware vCenter infrastructure (the module makes use and abstracts VMware’s supplied PowerShell PowerCLI snapin). You can download the module on GitHub or on NuGet […]
Module: biz.dfch.PS.Sccm.Utilities
This is Microsoft PowerShell module is part of our Apache 2.0 based open source automation framework “Cumulus”. You will find all related posts via the “Cumulus” tag. You can use this module to perform provisioning against SCCM 2012 infrastructure (the module makes use and abstracts Microsoft’s supplied PowerShell module ‘ConfigurationManager’). You can download the module on GitHub or on NuGet […]
[Bug] PowerShell Scripts in ScriptsToProcess attribute appear as loaded modules
Microsoft PowerShell module manifests allow you to define scripts that are run prior to actual loading of the module itself. These scripts run in the caller’s scope (and not in the module’s scope) and can be defined by stating them in the ‘ScriptsToProcess’ attribute of the manifest. However, each of these scripts will appear as if they have been loaded […]
Module: biz.dfch.PS.RabbitMQ.Utilities
This Microsoft PowerShell module contains Cmdlets to work with RabbitMQ queues, send and receive messages. It uses a wrapper I earlier presented that solved the problem of loading the official RabbitMQ .NET client into a PowerShell session. These Cmdlets further facilitate the handling of sending and receiving of messages via AMQP queues. You can download the module on GitHub or […]
[Bug] PowerShell HelpUri and inline help not working as expected
[UPDATE 2014-12-01] An update to this issue. It seem that this only appears PowerShell v3 and not in PowerShell v4 any more. When we create our Cmdlets we often supply a link to an Internet resource where we can put updated or more extensive help information. We normally do this in addition to providing some inline help in the Cmdlets. […]
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