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Feb 21, 2018
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PowerShell and the REST API for the IT pro

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Summary: This post provides a quick introduction to what the REST API is, and how it applies to Windows PowerShell. Q: Hey, Scripting Guy! I can see there is this cool cmdlet called Invoke-RestMethod. I've been told REST API's are all around, and this allows me to consume that data. Could you give me a hand getting started? —SH A: Hello SH, Glad ...

Scripting Guy!Windows PowerShellSean Kearney
Dec 29, 2017
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Cross-platform PowerShell remoting in action

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Summary: Learn how to configure and use cross-platform PowerShell remoting in PowerShell Core. I’m Christoph Bergmeister, a London-based full stack .NET software developer with a passion for DevOps. To enable product testing of .NET Core apps across non-Windows machines in CI, I was one of the first people to use the new cross-platform remoting ca...

Scripting Guy!Windows PowerShellguest blogger
Dec 22, 2017
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Script Wars: The Farce Awakens (part V)

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Summary: Rey is skilled in PowerShell, and new to Contoso Holly Jolly Hat Company. Already she has been a great boon to her new co-workers and had her sneakers become the subject of a hungry trash robot. She was just about to walk out to the hall with Ben Kerberosie, when suddenly an dominant figure has blocked them, with the following words boomi...

Scripting Guy!Windows PowerShellSean Kearney
Dec 21, 2017
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Script Wars: The Farce Awakens (part IV)

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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 on th...

Scripting Guy!Windows PowerShellSean Kearney
Dec 20, 2017
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Script Wars: The Farce Awakens (part III)

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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 coul...

Scripting Guy!Windows PowerShellSean Kearney