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What are PowerShell Workflows?

PowerShell Workflow PowerShell workflows are one of the most exciting PowerShell 3.0 features. The functionality is built on the .Net Framework Windows Workflow Foundation. It allows you to take more...

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Forget Thunderbirds, its Windows Integrated Scripting Environment to the Rescue

It’s becoming very hard these days to avoid PowerShell. And I have a confession to make – I have been sweeping it aside for a while now until I absolutely can’t avoid it. Well now you can’t avoid it! I...

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SCCM 2012 R2 – Start Using PowerShell

Import-Module ConfigurationManager ? Nope, won’t work, at least not without jumping through a few hoops. Looking at the helpful red hints (I get lots of these!), the module is not found in the default...

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Adding members to a SSAS Database Role using PowerShell.

I needed to automate populating a “sales” role with sales people. However, we did not have any security groups in Active directory that I could use to simplify this. What I found was we had the sales...

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Quickly seeing an objects members in a GridView

I find that I frequently want to see the members of objects I am working with, and prefer to do this in a GridView. If, however, there are objects of different types in the collection there can be...

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Creating a PowerShell GUI Application

PowerShell is a very powerful command console that provides support for the management of systems and technologies.  While the initial focus was on Microsoft technologies, there is growing support for...

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#PSTip: Get DDLS Blog Posts Feed via Windows PowerShell

You’ve got to love Windows PowerShell, especially after its v3.o iteration. A lot of new Cmdlets, one of my favorite being Invoke-WebRequest. Here’s a classic example of putting the cmdlet in use....

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Automatically Maintaining SQL Server Reporting Services Folder Permissions...

I needed to automate setting the permissions of a “Sales” folder on our SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services. The Sales staff within our organization need to be assigned only the “Browser” permission to...

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PowerShell using ConvertTo-HTML to produce tables with borders

I have found the ConvertTo-HTML cmdlet, usually followed by Out-File a very quick way to produce a record of information collected from earlier comdlets.  The problem with the standard use of it,...

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PowerShell can do EVERYTHING

The other day a colleague put his head into my classroom and said he had found something that PowerShell could not do! I was horrified, how could this be. There must be a mistake! The problem he found...

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