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Curly Blue and the meaning of scripting – Part 5

December 25, 2016 Dec 25, 2016 12/25/16
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Curly Blue learns the true meaning of scripting in PowerShell. When we last saw our hero, Curly Blue, he had discovered not only the ease of use of PowerShell but also the vast community resources provided by Github. Because of this one reason alone, his co-workers, Loopy and Codestock, had no need to fret over the upcoming holiday ...

Curly Blue and the meaning of scripting – Part 4

December 24, 2016 Dec 24, 2016 12/24/16
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Curly Blue learns how to use GitHub resources on PowerShell to clean out old office installations. When we last saw our hero, Curly Blue, he had been hanging around the office of Azura and discovering the simple ways he could use Windows PowerShell with minimal learning. In the past few days, he’s seen how easy it is to work and ...

Curly Blue and the meaning of scripting – Part 3

December 23, 2016 Dec 23, 2016 12/23/16
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Curly Blue discovers the raw power of Cim-Instance combined with PowerShell remoting. We continue with Curly Blue as he searches understand the meaning of scripting. He is still sitting in the office with Azura. The co-op student, Hermie, has run off to chase something that wandered into his phone. Virus or virtual creature, nobody ...

Curly Blue and the meaning of scripting – Part 2

December 22, 2016 Dec 22, 2016 12/22/16
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Curly Blue learns how to use built-in PowerShell script examples in Windows. Yesterday we met our new friends, Curly Blue and Linux. Curly had started his new job as a IT Professional at Contoso. The challenge for poor Curly was that he had never learned scripting or, for that matter, gotten into the spirit of it. He had mastered a ...

Open Source PowerShell – Part 2

November 11, 2016 Nov 11, 2016 11/11/16
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Use PowerShell scripts within Python and Bash (and those within PowerShell). (image) I am curious just how much I can use Open Source PowerShell within Linux and macOS.  Is it an isolated environment, or can it interact with other shells? (image) Thanks for your question.  Our good friend, Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, ...