One of the challenges you face while developing any PowerShell script is that modules that reside on your target platform are not available on your local computer. Just as an example, try installing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 modules on your 32…
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When you develop scripts for other computers you don’t always have the luxury of installing the relevant modules on your own computer. In many cases they simply won’t install because you are running the wrong OS or don’t have some…
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Once a year we need to refresh this information, so forgive us if you heard this before.
Our trial software is usually not crippled in any way, so just because your are evaluating it nothing should be switched off. So…
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A week ago I was hanging out with PowerShell trainer extraordinaire Jason Helmick and while we where geeking out over PowerShell tricks and software features (yes, I know, bad, isn’t it?) I asked him how he would improve file groups.…
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PowerShell’s profiles make setting up your work environment a bit easier, allowing you to pre-load your most common snapins or modules, define functions, set variables and whatever else you need on startup.
However, since there are quite a number of…
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In this installment of our series about user interface design for administrators we explore the transformation of a command line script to a Windows application.
We start with a simple little script as shown below:
It just prompts for a…
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This post is the first in a series describing some fundamental design guidelines. Software developers usually have some kind of training in designing user interfaces or they benefit from having a specially staffed department for this task. Administrator usually don’t…
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While investigating a bug report about ChangeVue’s installer we stumbled across a discrepancy with PowerShell’s PSModulePath environment variable.
On a virgin Windows 7 machine the environment variable is set to “C:\windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\” via a System Environment Variable.There is no default that…
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We get that question all the time. Before we start, please note that we do not advise to ever put credentials as plain text into any kind of code. Use encrypted strings, store encrypted credentials in files or, if all…
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If you package your script with PrimalScript’s or PrimalForm’s packager you have the option of including a manifest. This manifest can be used to make your executable file prompt for elevation when executed.
It’s easy to spot the difference between…
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