Mmm, software

It would seem that I've just stumbled across the practical technical limit to how many services a Service Fabric application can have an...

I've recently run into the issue of needing to use multiple modules that happen to contain cmdlets that have the same name in each. Acco...

> $creds = Get-Credential > $session = New-PSSession -ComputerName "myremotemachine.mydomain.com" -UseSSL -Credential $cred...

My team recently migrated their code to Visual Studio Online (aka VSO aka VSTS), which means that any time we do our builds, we now have to ...

It's often very useful to invoke commands on other machines, e.g. in deployment scripts. It can be even more useful to have logging of w...

Got this error at an extremely inconvenient time when trying to write some automation scripts for Windows Optional Features using the DISM m...

There's a module for that! Import-Module MSMQ See the page on MSDN .

First, let's start off by seeing which Windows features for MSMQ are available in your installation: Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Onlin...

Further to one of my previous blog posts about how to configure an ASP.NET web application for Application Initialization (warmup), here...

I got sick and tired of coming up with hacks for including Entity Framework migrations as part of my deployment processes, so I came up with...

Apparently it's quite easy, according to Microsoft . All you need is a slightly tweaked NuGet repository.

To get the cmdlets, you'll need to install the Remote Server Administration Tools, available here . Alternatively, you can follow the ...

They're apparently not that easy to find. The SQL Server PowerShell Tools come as part of the SQL Server Feature Pack for their respecti...

I've recently realized that it's of incredible benefit to start designing our systems such that they're open and easily queryabl...

I'm ashamed to admit that only today did I find out that there are PowerShell cmdlets for TFS. You can load them into a PowerShell ses...

As it turns out, Azure has a ton of cmdlets available in the PowerShell command line to help you quickly and easily manage aspects of Azure....

Apparently it's ridiculously easy to parse XML in PowerShell once you have the right objects set up: [xml] $xml = Get-Content .\Deplo...

Retrieve the current list: $curValue = (get-item wsman:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts).value Set the new list, appending the new host on...

Lately I've been dealing with a lot of remote management for the purposes of automating our deployment process for the product on which ...

The command : Remove-Item -recurse -force [directory name] The really sad thing is that I googled this and there are no sites that explicitl...