Microsoft this week announced a few sundry news bits for IT pros maintaining Windows and Microsoft 365 environments.
Microsoft this week announced the arrival of a new Community Hub feature in Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager.
Represented by the pipe symbol (found on the backslash key on most keyboards), the PowerShell pipeline allows one command's output to be treated as input for another command.
Earlier versions of PowerShell only had one way to display errors, and it wasn't always the most helpful. Microsoft's support of the Get-Error cmdlet in PowerShell 7 makes error messages much more useful.
An open source project gives DBAs the ability to channel PowerShell for automating and scaling complex SQL Server tasks, starting with the most basic: database backups.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 05/13/2020
Problem: Mounting a Hyper-V virtual hard disk outside of the VM breaks the VM. Solution: PowerShell.
Occasionally, Hyper-V's error alerts raise more questions than answers. Here's how to clear up these mystery errors.
In the second part of this series, Brien shows how to import a .CSV file into a PowerShell array, including two methods for zooming in on just the specific data you need and filtering out the rest.
When it comes to bulk administration, few things are handier than .CSV files. In this two-part series, Brien demos his top techniques for working with .CSV files in PowerShell. First up: How to create a .CSV file.
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that PowerShell 7 has reached "general availability" (GA) commercial release.
While Hyper-V doesn't have a tool that controls the order in which VMs boot up, there are some workarounds available, some of them involving PowerShell.
Microsoft described progress on its coming PowerShell Secrets Management Module in a Thursday announcement.
Microsoft announced earlier this week that PowerShell 7 is now available as a "release candidate" version.
Microsoft is promising to deliver a smaller container size and improved PowerShell performance with its next release of Windows Server.
Microsoft is planning a "general availability" release of PowerShell 7 for production environments sometime in January.