Many of us who are writing PowerShell code are using Appveyor (especially for personal projects). And most of us use this to run Pester tests. Automated testing is great, it allows to set a certain standard of code quality without slowing down code delivery.
As you may already know, the only PowerShell certification program is being abandoned. Some people in the PowerShell community are trying to justify this by saying “There is no need for PowerShell cert” or “it’s too difficult to test PowerShell knowledge”.
Recently, I had to manage the configuration of the remote control settings of client machines with PowerShell DSC. These settings are located in the registry key HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HidIr\Remotes :
PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) makes it easy to apply a configuration to a bunch of servers. But what if the servers are already in production, if the update requires a service restart and we need to make this happen with no service disruption ? That’s a different story.
One of the things I love about PowerShell, is that once we know the fundamentals, we can learn the rest on our own, by just exploring and experimenting. As I like to tell people, discoverability is the number 1 feature of PowerShell.
Given the number and the complexity of certificate-related issues we get at VMware Support, I wanted an automated way to check whether a certificate file meets the vCenter Server certificate requirements.
An introduction to the PackageManagement module If you are using Windows 10 or if you have installed the Windows Management Framework 5.x available here, you may have noticed a PowerShell module named PackageManagement. This is the new name for what was called OneGet in previous versions of the ...
A while back, I saw this article from the Scripting Guy on parsing RSS feeds. Being an avid RSS feeds consumer and podcast watcher/listener, this was a “aha” moment.
The symptoms of a full RAMdisk on a ESXi host can be pretty nasty and diverse. The possible causes are also very diverse (search for ramdisk full in the VMware Knowledge Base, you will see what I mean).
As you may know, the Storage Views and Storage Reports features have been removed from vSphere 6. Here is the official (and laconic) statement from the vSphere 6.0 release notes :