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Cloud operating system deployment: WinPE in Azure

February 9, 2017 Feb 9, 2017 02/9/17
Doctor Scripto
Jason Ryberg is a Consultant for Microsoft, where he writes PowerShell code and provides DevOps support.  Have you ever wanted to boot to WinPE in Azure and select an Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) Task Sequence?  As part of an informal cloud-readiness evaluation, I was asked to deploy a server image to Azure. The image that I was given ...

Debugging PowerShell script in Visual Studio Code – Part 1

February 6, 2017 Feb 6, 2017 02/6/17
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Here's a look at the many features of the PowerShell debugger for Visual Studio Code. In previous blog posts, we covered how to get started with PowerShell development in Visual Studio Code and the editing features of Visual Studio Code and the PowerShell extension.  If you don’t already have Visual Studio Code configured with ...

PowerTip: Find all the Azure Automation jobs that will run in the next two days

January 31, 2017 Jan 31, 2017 01/31/17
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, Thomas Rayner, shows how to find all the Azure Automation jobs that will run in the next two days. Is there a way to find all the Azure Automation jobs that will run in the next two days? Use the Get-AzureAutomationSchedule cmdlet, and check out the NextRun attribute. Here is an example: Get-...

Nearly everything has changed for SQL Server PowerShell

January 25, 2017 Jan 25, 2017 01/25/17
Doctor Scripto
2016 was the best year in SQL PowerShell history! I guess I should have mentioned that here sooner. Wired® Magazine recently said that Microsoft SQL Server was the surprise hit of the year. The primary cited reason is the SQL Server port to Linux, but there are several other reasons to be really excited about SQL Server and SQL Server ...

View passwords of wireless profiles without using netsh.exe

January 13, 2017 Jan 13, 2017 01/13/17
Doctor Scripto
Ever since the GUI lost the ability to view the password of a wireless profile, I wanted to provide this functionality in PowerShell. A search of the Internet for how to view the password of a Wi-Fi profile returns numerous examples of how to use netsh.exe to accomplish this. I wrote a previous blog post about how to view Wi-Fi profiles, and ...