May, 2017

Get-PhysicalDisk options

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These are the Get-PhysicalDisk options for identifying the disk you want -UniqueId <string> -ObjectId <string> -FriendlyName <string> -InputObject <CimInstance#MSFT_PhysicalDisk> -StorageSubsystem <CimInstance#MSFT_StorageSubsystem> -StorageEnclosure...

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String casing

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There are times when you may want to change string casing. You have a couple of options. There are a couple of methods on the string class that you can use to modify the case of a string.

PS> 'aaa'.ToUpper()
AAA

PS> 'AAA'.ToLower()
aaa

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Build a better pull server

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DSC functions in 2 modes – push (most basic) and pull. Creating a pull server is a non-trivial task and the out-of-the-box pull server has some issues. Some of the folks at powershell.org have decided its time to build a better pull server. There’s a project on github that supplies the code...

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Diskpart and PowerShell – part 6: Multiple partitions on a disk

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So far we’ve looked at creating a single partition on a disk. This time we’ll look at how you can create multiple partitions on a disk. The are good reasons not to do this but its something I’ve seen done on a frequent basis. Lets create a 20GB disk as an example and mount it

New-VHD...

			
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PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell

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if you are an Azure user see this post from the PowerShell team about the Azure Cloud Shell - 0 Comments     RSS Feed     Email a friend

Diskpart and PowerShell – part4: Remove a partition

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So far you’ve seen how to create and modify partitions and volumes. Its now time to look at how you remove a partition. Mount the test VHD

Get-VHD -Path C:\test\Test1.vhdx | Mount-VHD

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Diskpart and PowerShell–part 4: Expand a volume

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You've seen how to create a volume but how do you expand a volume? Let’s create a new disk and mount it

New-VHD -Path C:\test\Test1.vhdx -Dynamic -SizeBytes 20GB
Get-VHD -Path C:\test\Test1.vhdx | Mount-VHD
Initialize-Disk -Number 1

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Table or List

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A question on the forum asked why a object is displayed in a table if it has 4 or fewer properties and as  a list if it  has more than 4 properties:

PS> [PSCustomObject]@{P1=1; P2=2; P3=3; P4=4}

P1 P2 P3 P4
-- -- -- --
 1  2  3  4


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PowerShell v6 beta

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PowerShell v6 has reached a significant milestone – the release of the first PowerShell v6 beta version. There have been 18 releases of alpha code since August 2016 when the open source PowerShell v6 project started. There is no indication of how many beta releases there will be before...

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Are your domain controllers real?

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A question on the forum asked about discovering if domain controllers are physical or virtual machines. In other words Are your domain controllers real? This will do the job:

foreach ($domain in (Get-ADForest).domains) {
 Get-ADDomainController -filter * -server $domain |
 sort hostname...

			
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