PowerShell for Admins

PowerShell for Admins
Joel Newton
PowerShell for Admins

New PS Module for working with F5's LTM REST API

If you use F5’s BIG‑IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) for load-balancing, then you may find the new PS module I’ve written helpful. The module uses the REST API in ver. 11.6 of the LTM to query and manipulate an F5 LTM device. You can add and remove members from a pool, enable and disable …

pscookiemonster
PowerShell for Admins

Survey Results: Source Control for the IT Professional

First off - thank you to everyone who participated in the version control survey! We’ve had a fun few weeks - Somehow the PowerShell Summit, Build, and Ignite were scheduled back-to-back-to-back. Among a host of other announcements and tidbits, we found that Microsoft has open sourced the DSC …

David Jones
PowerShell for Admins

Setting up the PowerShell.org DSC tools from Github

I have created a short blog series about how to setup the DSC tooling from the PowerShell.org DSC repository. With the mindset of contributing changes. Test-HomeLab -InputObject ‘The Plan’ Get-Posh-Git | Test-Lab Get-DSCFramework | Test-Lab Invoke-DscBuild | Test-Lab Test-Lab | Update-GitHub -David …

pscookiemonster
PowerShell for Admins

Dealing with the Click-Next-Admin

I had a good deal of yard work to do this weekend; I see yard work in a similar way that a click-next-admin sees Windows PowerShell. I want no part in it. So I wrote a quick bit on how we can deal with the click-next-admin. Jeffrey Snover recently gave a TechDays Online session where he candidly …

Don Jones
PowerShell for Admins

Why is Remoting Enabled by Default on Windows Server?

There was a brief and lively discussion on Twitter recently stemming from someone asking for advice on how to convince management to turn on Remoting. “Fire Management, if they have to ask” was apparently not an option, although it should have been. I mean, at this stage, you either know …

Don Jones
PowerShell for Admins

Management Information: The OMI/CIM/WMI/MI/DMTF Dictionary

Not too long ago, over on DonJones.com, I wrote an article that tried to explain some of the confusion between Microsoft’s World of Management Instrumentation - e.g., WMI, OMI, CIM, and a bunch of other acronyms. I glossed over some of the finer details, and this article is intended to provide …