While developing a PowerShell function to query the API of the webcomic XKCD I decided to explore and implement Parameter Sets. These allow you to provide your users with different sets of parameters based on different use cases (assuming you have multiple use cases), which as a result provides a more dynamic set of functionality from a single cmdlet.
This post details how PowerShell can be used to run a custom Slack Bot that utilises the Slack RTM (Real Time Messaging) API.
In my previous post I talked about creating a Powershell function to lookup terms in a large internal glossary I had collated. This post takes this a step further and creates a custom slash command integration in a Slack chatroom that calls out to a Powershell-based Azure Function to query my (now) Azure hosted glossary.
I’ve recently started a new role and as a result I have a lot of new business terms and acronyms to get to grips with. A list of about 50 of these were handed to me on my first day which was really helpful, but when I searched around the intranet and various other sources of documentation I found there were many more.
This post contains an operational validation test for Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) using the Pester testing framework module with Powershell. It performs a few basic checks to ensure SEP is running and healthy. It is intended as a starting point and could be developed further. Your individual requirements will likely vary depending on how you have SEP configured and deployed in your environment.
This is a guide for anyone new to the Pester testing framework module for Powershell who would like to learn how Pester works in order to maintain or create Pester test scripts that are used for operational testing.
This post is a list of resources and tips to help anyone new to Windows Powershell in getting started with the language. If Powershell is completely new to you, I recommend you review all of the listed resources. If you find other great resources along the way, please feel free to comment below and i’ll contribute them to this list.
One of our AWS based products uses auto-scaling and when new instances are deployed a script automatically creates sensors for them in PRTG (our monitoring tool). When the instances are scaled down/terminated there is not a script that automatically removes them from PRTG (in part so that we can temporarily retain the monitoring history). As a result, our monitoring over time can become cluttered with redundant paused devices, so a script was needed to automate the process of clearing those down.
