My DSC works from PowerShell ISE but not from Release Management 06 February 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) If you are like me you learned Desired State Configuration (DSC) before trying to incorporate it with Release Management. I recommend this because you get a pure understanding of DSC and its full capabilities. The only caveat to learning DSC this way is certain things are different when used ... [More]
Never forget -Verbose again 28 November 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Working with DSC I am constantly having to type –Verbose on my Start-DscConfiguration calls. However, I stumbled across this cool feature of PowerShell that I thought I would share that will set the –Verbose switch on all your calls for you. PowerShell has a collection of Preferen... [More]
Open new tab in PowerShell ISE without using the mouse 11 October 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Often while using PowerShell ISE I find the need to open additional files, however, I hate using the mouse. There is a nice command you can use to quickly open a new tab in the current instance of PowerShell ISE. Simply type ‘ise’ followed by the path to the file to open.
Track current location in PowerShell Title Bar 11 October 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) CLIs or Command-line interfaces are great tools but can become difficult to use when you are buried deep into the file system. The prompt becomes so long that your commands begin to wrap onto additional lines making it hard to identify errors. However, with PowerShell you can move the curre... [More]
Start-DscConfiguration access denied 25 September 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Problem: When I try and execute Start-DscConfiguration I get the following error message: The WS-Management service cannot process the request. The WMI service returned an 'access denied' error. + CategoryInfo : PermissionDenied: (root/Microsoft/...gurationManager:String) [], CimExcepti... [More]
I can't find PowerShell ISE on Windows 8.1 17 August 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Problem: I can't seem to find the PowerShell ISE on Windows 8.1. Solution: http://trekker.net/archives/where-is-the-powershell-ise-in-windows-8/