After publishing a project Create an interactive HTML report with PowerShell data, few people gave me feedback, They implemented this and found it very useful that it shows the serial number of server/desktop hardware parts without opening the system and doesn't require downtime, All happens remotel…
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Running Your First PowerShell Scripts With Jenkins and Git
Jenkins is the the top and leading open source automation server, It offers hundreds of plugins to help building (develop), deploying and automating any project. It is a great orchestration tool for automation. In this article I will use it to schedule a simple Job for PowerShell script using Git.
Send Email using PowerShell with .net object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage
I have written this article to understand how email can be sent using System.Net.Mail.MailMessage .net object with PowerShell. Below is the complete documentation regarding this object https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.mail.mailmessage?view=net-7.0. Although you can use simp…
Send system disk space utilization HTML report Email using PowerShell
This script generates system disk drive usage HTML reports using PowerShell. This is very handy for sending weekly or daily reports of servers in html or host it on web server for monitoring. In my case VDI team contacted me for creating a system Disk HTML reports for VDI and sending them to concern…
Executing PowerShell script from PHP HTML web server
Recently I was reading some Advanced Python coding books, I was especially fascinated by the Flask module. This project is an outcome of the same, If similar can be achieved with PowerShell and HTML, I wrote some code in HTML, PHP and PowerShell and it is working well after testing. Here in this pro…
Find and use Azure Marketplace VM images with Azure PowerShell
You can use this write up to find Azure Virtual Machine images available on the Azure Marketplace using PowerShell Module Az (Azure) commands. Before proceeding you need to know a few jargon vocabulary related to Azure cloud VM Images. You can use below properties to find VM templates on Azure cloud…
Building basic simple Web Server using PowerShell
While writing few solutions for html code I wanted to test basic html web pages, which I required to check with web server, here PowerShell can be handy to create simple and basic web server to serve html web page for testing purpose.
Download this code basic_webserver_httplistener.ps1 here…
Powershell Animation ANSI FileInfo color support for ANSI escape sequences | ASCII Art
Microsoft has released a new version of PowerShell 7.2. After installation of latest Microsoft PowerShell I was reading release notes and what's new document on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/whats-new/what-s-new-in-powershell-72?view=powershell-7.2. While reading, there is a…
Resolved PowerShell Visual studio code stuck with 'Starting up PowerShell' in status bar
On one of the my colleagues new laptop we were setting up Visual Studio Code environment. After installing Microsoft PowerShell extension on VSCode when executing PowerShell ps1 script, it was getting stuck/freeze/hang with message "Starting up PowerShell" at the bottom-right side, and it was showin…
Resovled issue with PowerShell - Trust relationship Rejoin computers in domain without restart
While working with The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed issue on Windows Servers, I used PowerShell cmdlet Test-ComputerSecureChannel and cmd command netdom to resolve the broken AD computer account trust relationship without reboot. Apart from these com…
PowerShell fix repair The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed
This is the issue I have always seen with Windows Server Administrator. They face below issue a lot in their day to day activities while logging with their domain account. When they login with local account it was successful. The cause of this issue is simple, whenever computer joins into domain the…
PowerShell save export data to XML file
I wanted to create XML file using PowerShell and PowerShell offers different ways to create XML file in different formats, with PowerShell you can create and generate different types of XML format. One of the simple way I shown in this article PowerShell Create XML document with XmlWriter .net obj…
PowerShell Create XML document with XmlWriter .net object
XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language it was designed to store and transport data and to be both human- and machine-readable. I wanted to create a simple readable XML files using PowerShell for few of the projects. There are native cmdlets (Export-CliXML and ConvertTo-XML) available in the Po…
Powershell Create new file if not exist, if exist Rename file
This small PowerShell script helps to create a new file inside the folder if file does not exist, if file exists rename it with the date and times. This logic I always use in my scripts when I want to implement logs system for my script. When the file is renamed (While creating new file) it adds dat…
PowerShell XML OperationStopped: No coercion operator is defined between types 'System.Object&' and 'System.Object'
While working with XML files using Powershell, I imported XML file and started exploring data inside XML. On the left hand side I have opened XML file in notepad. XML has nested objects. While accessing the nested data (Address) inside XML table I was receiving error OperationStopped: No coercion o…
PowerShell Encode or Decode an WebURL
While working few web scrapping project, I was able to get the table data, but few of the data had few special characters in the table, which was in http encoded format. Related article is a Powershell web scrapping extract table from html. The encoded http data was not readable. This data can be …
PowerShell convert string to base64 value
Base-64 encoding is a way of taking binary data and turning it into text so that it's more easily transmitted in things like e-mail and HTML form data. I had few requirement to convert / encode text string to Base64 string and vice versa, From encoded Base64 string to convert/decode to normal string…
Create an interactive HTML report with PowerShell data
Basically I wrote this project as an fun/poc, but it went very well. I wanted to show the HTML + PowerShell capabilities to my (Asset collection team) colleagues as there are endless possibilities what you can build using HTML + Powershell. After launching the html file in the chromium browser the w…
Automate Many-to-One client certificate mappings for IIS hardening using PowerShell
Recently while talking to one of my colleage from another department, he wanted help on PowerShell scripts to automate few IIS Webserver (Internet Information Services) advanced configuration where he was struggling setting few IIS settings of manyToOneMappings for hardning purpose, other setting…
Configure vCenter 7 Profile from PowerShell GUI
While working on POC of new feature VMware vCenter Server 7 Profiles, as there is no GUI available to configure it. At the moment of writing it can be only consumed and configured with Rest APIs. Although Rest API can be configured from vCenter Server developer center > API explorer, but it is not…
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