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Script Wars: The Farce Awakens (part IV)

December 21, 2017 Dec 21, 2017 12/21/17
Doctor Scripto
Summary: A quick recap shall we? Newly graduated from IT training and future guru in the world of Windows PowerShell, Rey Skyworker has been hired on by her mentor, Ben Kerberosie. Already, she has helped peers from her team improve their PowerShell code to do some basic error trapping and cleanup of the data upon entry.Not bad for somebody ...

Script Wars: The Farce Awakens (part III)

December 20, 2017 Dec 20, 2017 12/20/17
Doctor Scripto
Summary: When last we saw our hero, Rey Skyworker, she was aiding her new co-worker, Tin. They managed to implement better error trapping by using the "Try Catch" statement in Windows PowerShell. The fact they could do this so easily it has tickled Tin's curiosity.----------------------------"Now Rey, I'm looking at this and as I see it, I...

Script Wars: The Farce Awakens (part II)

December 19, 2017 Dec 19, 2017 12/19/17
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Yesterday, we met a newly graduated IT professional, Rey Skyworker, as she discussed the ways of "The Farce." It was during this discussion that her instructor, Ben Kerberosie, discovered she had a natural gift in understanding how to implement some good practices into writing her scripts.Today, we sit quietly (I mean all of you in ...

Script Wars: The Farce Awakens (part I)

December 18, 2017 Dec 18, 2017 12/18/17
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Seven years ago, “Hey, Scripting Guy!” was approached by a member of the community to see if we would be interested in doing something a little fun for the holidays.  The result was a seven-part series called “A PowerShell Carol.”So when we were approached continuously in following years, we allowed this madness to continue...

PowerShell support for certificate credentials

December 15, 2017 Dec 15, 2017 12/15/17
Doctor Scripto
Summary: It's not a very well-known feature, but the PSCredential object, and the PowerShell Get-Credential cmdlet, both support certificate credentials (including PIN-protected certificates). In this post, we take a look at how a certificate credential is marshaled inside a PSCredential object, how you can do this marshaling yourself, and how...