Quickie - Join video files with PowerShell and FFMPEG
While I'm working on some longer posts, I thought I'd share a quick snippet I came up with this weekend as I was backing up a number of old DVDs of family movies. FFMPeg has the awesome ability to join a number of video files together for you, but the syntax can be kind of strange. Once I learned the syntax, I sought to make sure I never had to do it again, and created this cmdlet. Continue Reading...
Excursion: Model View Controller Programming - Part I
Faster: ConfigMgr Collection Manipulation Speed Test
Recently at work, we had a task come up which saw us needing to move tens of thousands of devices between collections in CM. We decided to run some tests to find the fastest way! We compared a lot of options, from using old CM cmdlets to new preview cmdlet versions and even making our own direct WMI Manipulation cmdlets. Finally, we tried just directly inserting them into collections via direct Collection manipulation in SQL which is totally unsupported. Which method one the day? Resad to find out! Continue Reading...
ClientFaux - the fastest way to fill ConfigMgr with Clients
Hard to test cases in Pester
Faster Web Cmdlet Design with Chrome 65
If you've been following my blog for a while, you know that I LOVE making PowerShell cmdlets, especially ones that consume an API or scrape a web site. However when it comes to tools that peruse the web, this can get a bit tricky, especially if a site doesn't publish an API because then you're stuck parsing HTML or loading and manipulating an invisible `Internet Explorer -COMObject` __barfs in Japanese_._Â And even this terrible approach is closed to us if the site uses AJAX or dynamically loads content. Continue Reading...
