Over time I’ve found there are many reasons why I may be asked to debug systems I do not have convenient access to. It is painstaking to get lists of diagnostic information in circumstances such as these because it requires a lot of information relay...
Since PowerShell Core was announced not quite a year ago, I have had a surprising number of reasons to migrate or refit existing PowerShell code to run on PowerShell Core. In some cases keeping future development compatible with both environments add...
There are times when you cannot avoid having to reboot a system and continue with an automation task. When you hit one of these, you start down the road of finding the built-in ways that Windows allows you to stage a task to start when the system res...
I was working through some nasty Windows automation problems buried deep in a Cloud Formation template. Something appeared to be overwriting a certificate private key that we were placing on the system. The block of automation code that might contain...
If you’re like me, you grow tired of having to install a seperate terminal utility on Windows to use ssh to connect to the vast array of devices and services that use it as a primary communications mechanism. Why can’t it just be done from the comman...
