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Use PowerShell to download video Streams

June 07, 2016 FoxDeploy

Streaming is cool and all, but there are times when it's nice to have videos saved locally, like the huge backlog of content from MMS and TechEd. However, a lot of streaming services want you to only view their videos within the confines of their web page, normally with a sign-in session. In this post, I'll show you a few ways to download videos you'll run across online, and how you can use PowerShell to download some of the REALLY tricky ones. Continue Reading...

Part V - Building Responsive PowerShell Apps with Progress bars

May 17, 2016 FoxDeploy

In this post we'll be covering how to implement progress bars in your own application, and how to multi-thread your PowerShell applications so they don't hang when background operations take place. The goal here is to ensure that our applications DON'T lock up when the users click anything. Continue Reading...

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Planning for SCCM Current Branch

May 10, 2016 FoxDeploy

This is mostly an info dump of what we know and what we suspect about how Current Branch will play out for SCCM. This plan is currently in place for a number of my customers, including some big enterprise customers. It's how I'm doing it, but I will admit that I don't have any secret info here (nothing NDA breaking :0 here). Continue Reading...

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