Get-Started: PowerShell 3.0 – Mastering parameters with the Show-Command CmdLet

Welcome to the first PowerShell 3.0 post in the Get-Started learning series. Today we are going to work with PowerShell 3.0 and the Show-Command CmdLet. Because this is a PowerShell 3.0 CmdLet I am assuming that you are working with Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 or that you have installed the PowerShell CTP for your … Read more

Get-Started – The DiscoPosse PowerShell 101 series

With so much focus on PowerShell for systems administrators today, one thing I wanted to do was to bring scripting to the non-scripters. What I have found quite often is that many of today’s new administrators have not had any exposure to shell commands and scripting because they have not had a need to during … Read more

PowerShell cURL – Yes It Exists – Invoke-RestMethod

cURL is a tool we all find very useful, and if we are PowerShell users, we often want to have the combination of PowerShell and cURL.  With PowerShell 3.0, one of the really great CmdLets that is available is Invoke-RestMethod. This handy little CmdLet allows us to now use the PowerShell scripting language to access … Read more