This article presents the instructional video for our recent post Creating an MSI Installer for a packaged script executable.
Build Installer
The video briefly covers the four script engine options:
Changes to the script Two additional scripts used in Custom…
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In a previous article we demonstrated a number of script packager solutions. In this post we show other ways to provide information to a script executable.
The sample script is used to map a network drive to an existing shared…
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The PowerShell pipeline can pass objects from one command to another, enabling output from a function to stream – or ‘pipe’ – as input into another command. In this article we will demonstrate how to leverage this functionality to seamlessly…
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We have seen issues reported in our support forum where Azure commands are not terminating, or more likely their cmdlets are not returning in a GUI environment. This is due to the Powershell pipeline being held up by the GUI, which…
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I recently had the great honor of attending my eldest son’s Ph.D. thesis defense. It was one of those mommy moments — you know, “my son the doctor.”
Jackson Cahn, Ph.D. with his parents, June Blender and Andy Cahn
Photo…
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If you subscribe to the SAPIEN newsletter you should have seen this already. If not, why don’t you take a moment to subscribe? Create an account at my.SAPIEN.com and you’ll automatically be subscribed. Each month you’ll get all the latest…
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“I’m new to scripting and need a book recommendation.” “Should I learn VBScript or PowerShell?” “What are some good books or resources for learning scripting?”
These are natural and common questions. A few years ago the answers would have been…
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I like seeing all the votes for our short PowerShell production poll. Over 100 responses and still overwhelmingly more of you are using PowerShell in production. If you aren’t, I hope you’ll vote and leave a comment why on the…
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Sorry you didn’t make it to the Big Apple for the last Techmentor conference. It was a small and intimate show which I always like because it is easier to talk with attendees and answer questions. Plus your odds are…
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PowerShell’s [DATETIME] object has some handy methods for calculating a date such as AddDays().
PS C:\> get-date
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 4:11:18 PM
PS C:\> (get-date).AddDays(23)
Friday, September 26, 2008 4:11:34 PM
PS C:\>
You can even subtract by adding…
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