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Azure - "VMScaleSetCannotReferenceLoadbalancerWhenLargeScaleIsEnabled"
'VM scale set cannot reference a load balancer when LargeScale property is enabled.' The error may...
Date: 08/06/2018
Azure - Virtual machine scale set does not support disk encryption
New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment : 3:49:21 PM - Resource Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets...
Date: 07/26/2018
Azure - PowerShell Azure locations with zones
#Requires -module AzureRM #find regions that support Zones and what VM SKus are supported function...
Date: 07/10/2018
PowerShell DSC - LocalConfigurationManager cycle behaviour
LCM will start the 15 minute cycle based on: • A new metaconfig is applied using...
Date: 06/01/2018
Azure - PowerShell setting Blob Tiers
function Set-AgedBlobsToTier { PARAM ( [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)] [int] $AgeInDays,...
Date: 05/25/2018
Windows 10 and "no longer located in"
After numerous updates to Windows 10 on the fast track, I realised there were a half-dozen folders...
Date: 04/25/2018
PowerShell - reinstall Windows 10 Store app
#Reinstall-StoreApp.ps1 #Requires -RunAsAdministrator $Store=Get-Appxpackage -Allusers |...
Date: 03/02/2018
PowerShell Azure - Get-AzureExtensionHighestVersion
function Get-AzureExtensionHighestVersion { [CmdletBinding()] PARAM ([string]$extension,...
Date: 12/14/2017
Azure - DSC automation (Windows vs Linux)
{ "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",...
Date: 12/14/2017
PowerShell - DSC Linux MOFs and logs
working with DSC on Linux, there are a few things to know that don't seem to be documented anywhere...
Date: 12/12/2017
PowerShell Azure - Invoke-AzureRmVMRunCommand
Invoke-AzureRmVMRunCommand has a parameter -CommandId which the single example shows as -CommandId...
Date: 12/08/2017
PowerShell - SharpCompress and untar
#needed to untar a tar.gz file and found the SharpCompress package, which will do it all! #region...
Date: 10/22/2017
PowerShell - Get-Credential and certificates
Matthew Bongiovi had a discussion on Get-Credential and how it works. So useful, that I thought I'd...
Date: 09/16/2017
PowerShell Azure - find a sku offer publisher
who is the publisher for FreeBSD? What offer? What sku? # Find-AzureSKU bsd function...
Date: 07/31/2017
PowerShell - Expand-Aliases
#Requires -Version 3 function Expand-Aliases { <# .SYNOPSIS find any aliases in use and expand...
Date: 07/12/2017
PowerShell - Try/Catch/Retry
try/catch/fix and continue $tries = 0 while ($tries -lt 2) { try { $tries++...
Date: 06/06/2017
PowerShell - DSC Environment Analyser (DSCEA)
Awesome! An open source release of DSC Environment Analyzer (DSCEA), a PowerShell module that uses...
Date: 03/23/2017
DSC WebDownloadManagerGetActionFailed event id 4252
WebDownloadManagerGetActionFailed event id 4252 C:\ Update-DscConfiguration -CimSession ms2 -Wait...
Date: 12/01/2016
PowerShell - Pester
What is Pester and Why Should I Care? - an excellent series from The Scripting Guy!...
Date: 09/01/2016
PowerShell - native on CentOS
as a follow-on to my earlier post, install PowerShell onto Ubuntu, I decided to spin up a CentOS...
Date: 08/29/2016
PowerShell - native on Ubuntu
all the things I did when installing DotNetCore and PowerShell for Linux onto an Ubuntu server...
Date: 08/23/2016
PowerShell - on Linux on Docker!
Trevor Sullivan gives an excellent walkthrough!...
Date: 08/23/2016
Azure - DSC howto
my colleague Mark has posted an excellent walk-through to guide you in using DSC in Azure....
Date: 07/28/2016
PowerShell - Out-ColourMatch
#Out-ColourMatch.ps1 Set-StrictMode -Version Latest function Out-ColourMatch { <# .Synopsis...
Date: 06/21/2016
BING - SafeSearch ; safe search ; StrictMode ; strict mode
One of the hardest things to uncover is where to point BING to ensure your students or children get...
Date: 05/24/2016
Azure - Azure Stack is a game changer
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-stack/webcast/ Snover and Russinovitch give an...
Date: 02/09/2016
Azure - MS loves Linux!
an awesome collection - go look!...
Date: 02/08/2016
Azure - DirSync
How to waste an entire afternoon! Finally got AAD Connect installed at a Canberra government...
Date: 02/08/2016
Azure - Puppet on-premises deploying to Azure
HowTo: Puppet on-premises to deploy resources into Azure IaaS infrastructure. Terms: Puppet - is an...
Date: 02/05/2016
Azure CLI - the cross-platform way
After having a ton of fun with raw PowerShell in both ASM ('Classic') and the far more sensible ARM...
Date: 12/10/2015
PowerShell - Analogue Clock
analogue-clock.ps1 # Set-StrictMode -Version latest Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Drawing Add-Type...
Date: 09/09/2015
Azure - ARM replacing ASM in Azure PowerShell
What Is Switch-AzureMode And Why Are We Deprecating It?...
Date: 06/14/2015
SharePoint - distributed cache
A colleague found the other day that: If distributed cache on dedicated servers is not working, with...
Date: 06/25/2014
SharePoint: CSS - text at bottom of DIV
A seemingly simple request recently had me spinning around for a day, wrestling with CSS. A set of...
Date: 10/11/2013
SharePoint - pre-requisites they left out..
KB 2554876 - The SharePoint parsing process crashes in Windows Server 2008...
Date: 08/27/2013
SharePoint - PreUpgradeCheck for 2010?
what would be similar to the old PreUpgradeCheck? Get-SPContentDatabase | ForEach-Object {...
Date: 08/15/2013
Ebooks! SharePoint! SQL! Windows! Azure!
Date: 06/21/2013
Windows - what version of PS is on the machines?
function GET-PSVERSIONINFO ([string[]] $TargetComputers) { $HKLM =...
Date: 06/05/2013
SharePoint - Microsoft SharePoint Store
I was deeply puzzled this afternoon, when I configured my App Catalogue and all was fine - except I...
Date: 05/09/2013
SharePoint - FBA config tool
If you have ever wrestled with the insanity of Forms Based Auth you WILL love this:...
Date: 02/27/2013
SharePoint - Excel web services failure
Office Web Services on SP2010+SP1. Using Kerberos. We see PPT and Word rendering fine. Excel gives...
Date: 02/13/2013
SharePoint - copy MySiteDB to a standby farm
This week I encountered a puzzling issue when copying MySiteDB to a standby farm. Everything and...
Date: 02/13/2013
SharePoint - content types changes not being pushed out.
This week I encountered where your content type is being pushed from hub to Site Collections, but is...
Date: 02/13/2013
SharePoint Web Services GUIDs - named
I'm always forgetting this command to translate those silly GUID services into text which...
Date: 02/11/2013
SharePoint - SPmonitoredScope - Dashboard
In order for custom code to show up in the dev dashboard you need to make use of the...
Date: 01/22/2013
Windows - BeatUp-Windows - stress memory and cpu's
BeatUp-Windows.ps1 # $psProcess = gps -id $PID $psInstances = (gps -Name $psProcess.name).count if...
Date: 01/18/2013
SharePoint - AV scanning SharePoint.
Make sure you tell it to ignore your search indexes and other SharePoint areas!See:...
Date: 01/14/2013
Windows - Get-WindowsUpdateLog
Get-WindowsUpdateLog.ps1# walk the WindowsUpdate.log to list the # Security Updates that have been...
Date: 01/09/2013
SharePoint - import a picture from AD for the user profile
Consider the following scenario. You have JPG pictures in AD, stored with the users thumbnailPhoto...
Date: 01/04/2013
PowerShell - add a JPG into AD for the user photo
Update-AD-Picture.ps1## copy a .jpg into a byte array, then push that into # the "thumbnailPhoto"...
Date: 01/04/2013