Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Monday, September 12th, 2016 by June Blender
Recently, a PowerShell friend lamented that his PowerShell Studio license was expiring and he was going to miss using his Studio while he convinced his management to renew. He was wrong. SAPIEN licenses never expire. Never ever ever ever. Legally, they're perpetual. When you buy SAPIEN software, it's yours. End of story. SAPIEN software is not a service. The software license doesn't expire. Your software doesn't self-destruct when you open it or undergo a dramatic virtual crumbling into ashes. Your software license is forever. You can start your software and use it tomorrow, next year, in 10 years, in 100…
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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
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2016 by June Blender
Although the names are similar and often confused, these properties are different. If you confuse them, the help for your PowerShell commands and modules won't work. The HelpUri property stores the URL (http or https) of online help for a command. It's a property of commands (cmdlets, functions, workflows). When a user runs Get-Help -Online, Get-Help opens the default browser to the HelpUri property value. The HelpInfoUri property of modules stores the URL of the online location of the HelpInfo XML file that enables updatable help for the module. In fact, a non-null value of HelpInfoUri indicates that the module…
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Monday, August 15th, 2016 by Lanae Dale
Today, SAPIEN Technologies, Inc. celebrates a milestone; Thirty years in business. As we reminisce on all of the years leading up to this point, we want to send a special thank you to all of our loyal customers, past, present, and future, who we would not be here today without. For one full week, starting now, please join us in celebrating with 30% off your entire software purchase. This includes all new license purchases and eligible renewals and reinstatements. There are two ways to obtain your discount: Directly through our on-line store using the discount code 30YEARS, OR via Purchase Order to…
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Tags: 30 Years, Celebration, Milestone, sale, Savings
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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
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Monday, August 8th, 2016 by June Blender
Because dynamic parameters can be added to a command from multiple sources, the command author (who writes the help) cannot predict the dynamic parameters that might be available at runtime. Therefore, Get-Help expects dynamic parameters to be documented in the help file for the code that adds the dynamic parameters; not the code that has the dynamic parameters. This makes sense in theory, but, in practice, it's not discoverable and it's very confusing for users. To write help for the dynamic parameters that you add to cmdlets and functions, you need to sneak it into the description. I'll show you…
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Thursday, July 28th, 2016 by June Blender
Applies to: PowerShell Studio 2016, Windows PowerShell 3.0+ I recently wrote an article with step-by-step instructions for creating a very simple multi-form PowerShell GUI application. In our sample app, we use PowerShell Studio features that make it very easy to open a child form from the main form and gets the text in the textbox on the child form. In this article, I'll explain what goes on in the background to make these features work. You might not care -- just so they work -- and that's fine. But if you're wondering how this happens, or you need to debug…
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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 »
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016 by June Blender
Read our job posting: C# Developer One of the best things you can do for your career is to keep it continually challenging. Never be the smartest person at work. Never be the most experienced. Never watch the industry progress while leaving you behind. Never continue doing it the way you’ve always done it. If you’re looking for something new and challenging, consider joining SAPIEN Technologies, Inc., a small, agile software company that is continually improving to stay at the edge of the technology curve. SAPIEN Technologies, Inc. currently has a job opening for a Windows software developer in our…
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Tags: developer, Job opening, opportunity, SAPIEN, software developer
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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 »
