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PowerTip: How to Upload DSC File to Azure

Summary: Use Azure PowerShell cmdlets to send a Desired State Configuration file to be used later by a virtual machine. (image)  How can I use Windows PowerShell to send a DSC file to be used later by a virtual machine? (image)  Use the Publish-AzureVMDscConfiguration cmdlet and specify the path to your DSC script.  ...

PowerTip: How to Upload DSC File to Azure

Summary: Use Azure PowerShell cmdlets to send a Desired State Configuration file to be used later by a virtual machine.(image)  How can I use Windows PowerShell to send a DSC file to be used later by a virtual machine?(image)  Use the Publish-AzureVMDscConfiguration cmdlet and specify the path to your DSC script.   &...

Weekend Scripter: Remove a Long Path File

Summary: Boe Prox shows how to remove a file with a long path. Honorary Scripting Guy and Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, Boe Prox, here today filling in for my good friend, the Scripting Guy. This is a continuation of this weekend series on working with PowerShell and PInvoke to do things that you normally couldn’t do natively. ...

PowerTip: Display Titles of Windows

Summary: Boe Prox shows how to use Windows PowerShell to find the titles of windows.(image)  How can I use Windows PowerShell to find the titles of windows?(image)  Use Get-Process and display the title of the processes for windows by looking at            the MainWindowTitle property...