My most useful 8 liner yet

August 20, 2014 FoxDeploy

In my line of work, I’m constantly copying and pasting from e-mails, SharePoint, into PowerShell to do some meaningful work. Ā This means all day long I’m setting variables equal to paste, then removing blank entries, and then splitting them (because people never say ā€˜please migrate these computers’ and provide a list like $computers=ā€compAā€,ā€compBā€,ā€compCā€.

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Using Try Catch to get Better Output in your Functions and Tables

August 19, 2014 FoxDeploy

Recently at a client, we have a situation arise in which we needed to verify which Domain a number of PCs were joined to.

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Thank you ScriptingWife!

August 07, 2014 FoxDeploy

When I heard that Don Jones brought a few thousand copies of The DSC Book, which I contributed to, as give-aways for this year’s PowerShell summit, Ā I was ecstatic to be printed! Ā And I really wanted to have a copy of the book. Ā Unfortunately, they ran out very quickly, and Don informed me that we had no more available.

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Quick Fix : Registry key to disable Hardware Graphic acceleration for Office

July 22, 2014 FoxDeploy

Hope this helps guys!

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Using Try/Catch efficiently over a large list of commands

July 16, 2014 FoxDeploy

If you want to try catch over multiple commands, try this. We’re using the Invoke character to run a number of commands through a single try/catch block because frankly we can’t be bothered to type that much!

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Three tips for effectively using Try/Catch in PowerShell

July 16, 2014 FoxDeploy

Preamble

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