Posts Tagged ‘Windows PowerShell’
Friday, August 19th, 2016 by Ferdinand Rios
Now that PowerShell is available on the Mac, we thought it would be useful to show how easy it is to setup a Mac terminal session that automatically opens into PowerShell. Figure 1 shows what we mean. [caption id="attachment_12634" align="aligncenter" width="1130"] Figure 1 - PowerShell Terminal Session[/caption] First you need to download the PowerShell macOS package from here (look for the Get PowerShell section in the README.md) and install it using the directions found here . Once PowerShell is installed and running on your system, follow the instructions below to set up your PowerShell terminal Here are the steps to follow: Open Terminal on…
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Tags: Mac, Macintosh, macOS, OS X, powershell, Windows PowerShell
Posted in Bash, General, Howto, PowerShell, Windows PowerShell | 33 Comments »
Tuesday, August 9th, 2016 by Ferdinand Rios
iPowerShell, our little iOS app, has come a long way over the years. It started out as simply a reference tool for PowerShell cmdlets, about_help and provider help. Over the years, we added YouTube videos, PowerShell Twitter posts, PowerShell Web Access, remote connectivity with PSWA and SSH, and a color coded editor. Today we announce iPowerShell for the Mac! This is a desktop application with most of the major features of its mobile sibling (we have not yet implemented the script editor). With this desktop application, admins can use their Macs to connect to PowerShell either through PSWA or…
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Tags: iPowerShell, Mac, powershell, scripting, Windows PowerShell
Posted in General, iPowerShell, PowerShell | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, July 12th, 2016 by June Alane Reif
Over the years, the articles in this blog have grown extensively. There's a lot of valuable information in here, but it's become hard to find because it's mixed in with various tour announcements, special offers, conference recaps, and the like. So, we have decided to pull the important articles and place them—along with information relevant to PowerShell and scripting—in a more organized and easily searchable venue. We are proud to introduce the SAPIEN Information Center. The most recent articles are always highlighted in a list on the left side of the window. The SAPIEN Information Center currently has the following…
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Tags: PowerShell Studio, PrimalScript, SAPIEN, scripting, Windows PowerShell
Posted in General, Howto, PowerShell, PowerShell 5.0, Scripting, Tip, Windows PowerShell | 5 Comments »
Friday, June 24th, 2016 by June Blender
Applies to: PowerShell 5.0.10586.122, 5.1.14367, Pester 3.4.0 I'm one of those people who thinks a score of 99% is failing, so I love to see those 100% scores when I use the CodeCoverage parameter of Invoke-Pester. But, while assembling my Pester presentations for DevOps Global Summit 2016 and PowerShell Conference Europe 2016, I realized the 100% code coverage score means that 100% of my code (every line) ran during the test. It doesn't mean that 100% of my code is tested. Code coverage reports are really valuable, but you need to understand what they test and how to use them.…
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Tags: behavior-driven development (BDD), code coverage, Invoke-Pester, Pester, powershell, test-driven development (TDD), testing, Windows PowerShell
Posted in Pester, Test-Driven Development, Testing | 20 Comments »
Monday, June 20th, 2016 by June Blender
In March 2016, SAPIEN Technologies, Inc. posted a survey asking users and administrators which versions of Windows PowerShell they're running. We got 148 responses by the April 8 when we closed the survey. This blog post reports the findings. While reading them, please keep in mind that this is not a statistically valid survey. We didn't select users or control for anything. Still, I did not expect these results. I might be a bit naïve about enterprise computing, but I'm surprised by the widespread adoption of Windows PowerShell 4.0 and 5.0. My sense is that the community moved much more…
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Tags: juneb, powershell, PowerShell 2.0, PowerShell 3.0, PowerShell 4.0, powershell 5.0, Survey, Windows PowerShell
Posted in PowerShell 5.0, PowerShell Versions, Survey, Windows PowerShell | 15 Comments »
Friday, June 17th, 2016 by June Blender
Applies to Pester 3.4.0 Like any Windows PowerShell script, a script that contains Pester tests can include parameters. It's easy enough to run the script and pass parameters and values in the usual way. But, when you use Invoke-Pester to run the script, you need to pass the parameters in a hash table. This blog explains how to do it. This post is the third in a series about how to run Pester tests. See also, How to Run Pester Tests and Invoke-Pester: Run Selected Tests. See the posts in this Pester series: How to Run a Pester Test Invoke-Pester:…
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Tags: BDD, juneb, powershell, TDD, testing, Windows PowerShell
Posted in Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), General, Pester, Test-Driven Development, Testing, Windows PowerShell | 22 Comments »
Wednesday, March 16th, 2016 by June Blender
If you're learning about classes in Windows PowerShell 5.0, one of the first new concepts that you'll encounter is inheritance. When you create a class that is based on another class, your new subclass or child class automatically gets the inheritable members (e.g. properties and methods) of the parent class or base class. Inheritance is a really powerful and useful concept, so it's important that you understand it. Fortunately, it's pretty easy. Also, the inheritance principles that you learn in PowerShell are also used in other programming languages, so learning them in PowerShell gives you a head start on new…
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Tags: juneb, powershell, powershell 5.0, PowerShell classes, Windows PowerShell, Windows PowerShell 5.0, Windows PowerShell classes
Posted in Classes in PowerShell 5.0, PowerShell 5.0, PowerShell 5.0.10586.122, Windows PowerShell | 16 Comments »
Monday, March 14th, 2016 by June Blender
Like most things, once you know the basics, it's really easy to build GUI applications with Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Studio. And, like most things, it's hard to learn the basics. We're here to help. We just posted a two-part series of videos. You can watch them in any order. My First Form: Build a Simple PowerShell GUI App is a step-by-step guide to building a little PowerShell GUI app that displays the versions of Windows and Windows PowerShell on your system. My First Form: Controls and Properties is like a prequel. It introduces you to the concepts of the Windows Forms controls…
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Tags: GUI programming, juneb, powershell, PowerShell GUI, PowerShell Studio, PowerShell Studio 2016, Step-by-step, video, Windows PowerShell
Posted in Beginners, GUIProgramming, Howto, PowerShell Studio, Videos, Windows PowerShell | 9 Comments »
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016 by June Blender
My friend, Thom Schumacher, who has been leading the Arizona PowerShell User Group for the past few months, is getting to know PowerShell Studio. Like many of us, he came to PowerShell Studio from PowerShell ISE, so he looks for the "ISE way" to do things in PowerShell Studio. "How do I use PSEdit in PowerShell Studio?," Thom asked on Twitter. Here's my answer. Um, you don't need it Being very literal, you don't need the PSEdit function in PowerShell Studio. The PSEdit function, which is defined in and works only in PowerShell ISE (not in the ISE module), opens…
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Tags: juneb, powershell, powershell editor, PowerShell Studio, psedit, Windows PowerShell
Posted in Beginners, PowerShell Studio, Tip, Windows PowerShell | 6 Comments »
Monday, February 15th, 2016 by June Blender
In January, I had the honor of presenting to the Mississippi PowerShell User Group (MSPSUG). I've known the organizers, Mike Robbins and Rohn Edwards for years, and truly respect them. The PSUG is online-only, which makes it a challenge for presenters, but they attract a very sophisticated audience, so my talks there are really conversations. This was a perfect venue for my "Avoiding Version Chaos" talk. (More at PowerShell Saturday in Tampa on March 19, 2016.) In one part of the talk, I demonstrated how to use noun prefixes to distinguish among commands with the same names. The demo flopped…
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Tags: modules, powershell, powershell 5.0, scripting, Windows PowerShell
Posted in Beginners, Best practices, General, Howto, PowerShell 5.0, PowerShell Studio, UserGroup, Windows PowerShell | 10 Comments »
