Phil Factor in General Storing and Retrieving the Initialization and Configuration Data for Applications All developers hit the problem of how and where to store and set their configuration, profile, or initial data. A long time ago, it was... 05 September 2024 14 min read
Laerte Junior in PowerShell Extending Get-Process to show the Process Chain using PowerShell Proxy Functions A proxy function or wrapper function allows you to deploy a custom version of a function or cmdlet while the internal functionality remains implemented. That... 01 July 2024 8 min read
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Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Move Disks or Virtual Machines between Tenants on Azure Move objects on Azure is not simple. Move between Tenants is extremely difficult or not possible. I faced the challenge to move a virtual machine... 01 November 2023 7 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs List Azure Functions based on Configuration Values A company’s Azure environment can easily grow to a level that managing all the objects may become harder. The solution of this problem requires methods... 10 April 2023 4 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Template for automating Power BI Refresh I wrote before about Automating table Refresh in Power BI. On that article I explained how to schedule a refresh script using the Azure Automation... 02 May 2022 3 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Updating Powershell version in Azure CloudShell Azure Cloudshell uses PowerShell 7.2.1. However, Powershell 7.2.2 is already available and we have also a PowerShell version 7.3.0 in preview. Wouldn’t it be nice... 04 April 2022 3 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Azure Storage: Mapping File Shares and Powershell drives Mapping an Azure Storage Account file share on a local machine is a powerful feature. In this post, Dennes Torres explains how to do it... 28 March 2022 4 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Evaluating policies in a tenant-wide level and more Azure tricks I wrote many blogs about policies in Azure. First, I started talking about How essential Policies are. After that, I included them in a blog... 10 January 2022 3 min read
Blogs Phil Factor in Blogs Display-Object: a PowerShell utility Cmdlet How do you list all the objects and values within a PowerShell object, investigate an object or explore its structure? There must be a simple... 07 July 2021 9 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Azure SQL Automation: Improving the Indexing Job The Azure SQL Databases don’t give us access to the SQL Server Agent. Usually, we use SQL Server Agent to schedule jobs on premise, but... 28 June 2021 7 min read
PowerShell Greg Moore in PowerShell PowerShell editors and environments part 2 In this article, Greg Moore demonstrates two additional PowerShell editors: Azure Data Studio Notebooks and Visual Studio Code.… 15 March 2021 12 min read
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PowerShell Nicolas Prigent in PowerShell Hyper-V and PowerShell: The Basics Because it is important with maintaining Virtual Machine environments to be able to repeat routine tasks completely accurately, Windows PowerShell has grown in importance for... 18 November 2016 12 min read
Nicolas Prigent PowerShell Desired State Configuration: LCM and Push Management Model PowerShell's Desired State Configuration (DSC) framework depends on the Local Configuration Manager (LCM) which has a central role in a DSC architecture. It runs on... 17 March 2016 13 min read
Laerte Junior The PoSh DBA: Assigning Data to Variables Via PowerShell Common Parameters Sometimes, it is the small improvements in a language that can make a real difference. PowerShell is able to introduce extra common parameters that can... 07 March 2016 7 min read
Michael Sorens Using C# to Create PowerShell Cmdlets: The Basics Although PowerShell Cmdlets are usually written in PowerShell, there are occasions when the level of integration with existing C# or VB libraries is awkward to... 19 February 2016 18 min read
Sander Stad Documenting SQL Server with PowerShell SQL Server instances are generally poorly-documented. How easily can you tell if something has changed? How easily can you check that there is adequate space... 11 February 2016 20 min read
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