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This is a follow-up to the blog post [HOWTO] Convert Images to Enterprise Architect Model Images. As already described there, we wanted to use the official cisco network topology icons […]
We wanted to use the official cisco network topology icons (B/W: EPS (7.6 MB) | JPG (4 MB)) in Enterprise Architect to associate them with elements. To avoid importing these […]
In one of our projects we needed to create a lot of components that expose interfaces. The steps to design this in EA are quite tedious: Link the Interface to […]
Enterprise Architect allows you to create custom document templates to be used in your reports. Internally EA uses the oldie-goldie RTF document format for these templates. When exporting these templates […]
It has been some time since I have last posted something on our blog, so I will start with something easy: today I made the switch from Sparx Enterprise Architect […]
After playing around with the Office 365/Exchange 2016 REST API I decided to summarize the knowledge and the experiences I gained in this blog post. The goal of the tryout […]
Today my boss asked me to extend the session lifetime for Outlook Web App to have a lower login frequency. As described in the article Session timeouts for Office 365 the session timeout is set to 6 hours by default. To change the session timeout the following steps have to be executed. Connect to Exchange Online using PowerShell Open a […]
Last week I had to set up an Azure File Share for data transfer purposes. Clients will upload data to the Azure File Share and the data will then be […]
In one of our current projects we had to access a Microsoft Access Database (.mdb) with PowerShell. I first tried to access the .mdb using the Invoke-SqlCmd Cmdlet from our PowerShell module biz.dfch.PS.System.Data. Unfortunately connecting to the Access database with the Invoke-SqlCmd Cmdlet does not work as it uses SqlClient from the C#/.NET namespace System.Data under the hood. After a […]
During development of a PowerShell binary module I had to do deal with two different credential types (System.Management.Automation.PSCredential and System.Net.NetworkCredential) and came across a behaviour I wanted to write down. The PowerShell binary module I developed contains several Cmdlets. One of them defines a parameter of type System.Management.Automation.PSCredential. Inside the Cmdlet we need to have an object of type System.Net.NetworkCredential. […]
While doing some tests with our new TraceListener and log server I did some tests where I wanted to find out how long the log server would take to start accepting messages. So I started to constantly send messages from the console: When I looked at the server logs I noticed that the arriving messages came in unusually slow. So […]
Recently I started writing a PowerShell binary module in C# (mainly due to facilitate testing and move away from Pester limitations). In this post I will describe the format of […]
Microsoft .NET offers a very flexible logging system exposed via the System.Diagnostics namespace. Unfortunately (and not surprisingly), by default the pre-packaged listeners do not support writing messages to log4net directly. However, we can extend the logging outputs by implementing custom TraceListeners and when asking our favourite search engine for “TraceListener log4net” we find there are already plenty of implementations of […]
Todays blog post is about setting up a PowerShell remote session configuration on a Windows machine. A PowerShell remote session configuration can be used when connecting from another machine (hereinafter called as Client) to the machine the PoSH remote session configuration resides on (hereinafter called as Target) using Enter-PSSession Cmdlet. A PoSH remote session configuration allows you to define under […]
One of the cool features of PowerShell script based Cmdlets is the possibility to define default values for Cmdlet parameters. This is typically done like this: Whenever we invoke such a Cmdlet without specifying the Name parameter the PowerShell runtime will insert the value my default value into that parameter. C# based PSCmdlet provide a similar approach to this by […]
For years all our PowerShell modules we released were script modules (i.e. they were written in PowerShell). However, it is certainly possible to write PowerShell modules in C# as binary modules. Of course there are already plenty discussions whether one or the other approach is better. It really depends on the exact requirements. For us the limitations of Pester (especially […]
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