While writing few solutions for html code I wanted to test basic html web pages, which I required to check with web server, here PowerShell can be handy to create simple and basic web server to serve html web page for testing purpose.
Microsoft has released a new version of PowerShell 7.2. After installation of latest Microsoft PowerShell I was reading release notes and what's new document on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/whats-new/what-s-new-in-powershell-72?view=powershell-7.2. While reading, there is a…
On one of the my colleagues new laptop we were setting up Visual Studio Code environment. After installing Microsoft PowerShell extension on VSCode when executing PowerShell ps1 script, it was getting stuck/freeze/hang with message "Starting up PowerShell" at the bottom-right side, and it was showin…
This is the issue I have always seen with Windows Server Administrator. They face below issue a lot in their day to day activities while logging with their domain account. When they login with local account it was successful. The cause of this issue is simple, whenever computer joins into domain the…
I wanted to create XML file using PowerShell and PowerShell offers different ways to create XML file in different formats, with PowerShell you can create and generate different types of XML format. One of the simple way I shown in this article PowerShell Create XML document with XmlWriter .net obj…
XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language it was designed to store and transport data and to be both human- and machine-readable. I wanted to create a simple readable XML files using PowerShell for few of the projects. There are native cmdlets (Export-CliXML and ConvertTo-XML) available in the Po…
This small PowerShell script helps to create a new file inside the folder if file does not exist, if file exists rename it with the date and times. This logic I always use in my scripts when I want to implement logs system for my script. When the file is renamed (While creating new file) it adds dat…
While working with XML files using Powershell, I imported XML file and started exploring data inside XML. On the left hand side I have opened XML file in notepad. XML has nested objects. While accessing the nested data (Address) inside XML table I was receiving error OperationStopped: No coercion o…
While working few web scrapping project, I was able to get the table data, but few of the data had few special characters in the table, which was in http encoded format. Related article is a Powershell web scrapping extract table from html. The encoded http data was not readable. This data can be …
Base-64 encoding is a way of taking binary data and turning it into text so that it's more easily transmitted in things like e-mail and HTML form data. I had few requirement to convert / encode text string to Base64 string and vice versa, From encoded Base64 string to convert/decode to normal string…
Basically I wrote this project as an fun/poc, but it went very well. I wanted to show the HTML + PowerShell capabilities to my (Asset collection team) colleagues as there are endless possibilities what you can build using HTML + Powershell. After launching the html file in the chromium browser the w…
Recently while talking to one of my colleage from another department, he wanted help on PowerShell scripts to automate few IIS Webserver (Internet Information Services) advanced configuration where he was struggling setting few IIS settings of manyToOneMappings for hardning purpose, other setting…
While working on POC of new feature VMware vCenter Server 7 Profiles, as there is no GUI available to configure it. At the moment of writing it can be only consumed and configured with Rest APIs. Although Rest API can be configured from vCenter Server developer center > API explorer, but it is not…
This script is just an update to new dll libraries of MahApps.Metro theme for Powershell WPF. I had already written basics of Part 3: Powershell wpf MahApps.Metro theme step by step guide but, It is almost 2 years back and I was using MahApps.Metro 1.6 version and new version of MahApps.Metro v2…
I was working on a script project where I wanted to create and defined names for multiple virtual machine in the series, with maintaining length of the string of names with numbers adding leading zeros, Below -f format operator one-liner command helps me to create the list.
In one of my blog Configure Dell iDrac9 Rest API with Powershell I showed how use x-auth-token to connect to Dell iDrac, here I instead of token, using basic authentication (use UserName and Password each time to connect to Redfish iDRAC rest api), This is just a example and I will be using expli…
This is small script I use to collect the table data from website to Powershell Object and then further it can be saved to csv file. For this example I am taking table example from https://datatables.net. I will try to convert table to Powershell Object. HTML tables has tags th (Table header) and …
This is a small script to slice or break array into groups of smaller array, and I use it in my scripts most often. This script is very helpful when I want to batch process multiple server at time but not on all the server, instead fewer servers at servers in batch. Once I have a very big fat list o…
Recently I was working on some PowerShell GUI project, Where I wanted to convert a range of number into another range of number maintaining ratio, for this I had to use one Arithmetic Math formula and, for example I have numbers between 1 to 200, Which I wanted to fit into new number of range bet…