Posts tagged with #powershell
Total: 17
Posts
| 2020-11-18
(updated 2025-10-23)
| 2 min read
#powershell
Randomizing a collection is useful in a variety of situations and in most languages it is fairly straight forward.
Posts
| 2020-09-30
(updated 2025-10-23)
| 4 min read
#powershell
Series: Bash to PowerShell
Filtering data, from log or config files to data returned by an api, is an important operation to remove noise from it and make further analysis possible.
Posts
| 2020-09-21
(updated 2025-10-26)
| 3 min read
#powershell
Series: Bash to PowerShell
Printing the last or first, few lines of a file is a common operation in day to day operations.
On Linux most people will, without thinking twice, use tail and it’s counterpart head to achieve this.
Posts
| 2020-09-20
(updated 2025-10-23)
| 1 min read
#powershell
Series: Bash to PowerShell
Whats the first thing coming to mind when seeing a command line?
For most people it is Linux, be it Ubuntu, Debian or RedHat. And it is completely understandable. A big part of our industry has a background in Linux and sees it as the superior system for quick scripts and the like.
Notes
| 2020-09-17
(updated 2025-10-25)
| 1 min read
#powershell
#vmware
$vm = Get-VM -Name TEST
Get-Item "X:\yourfile.txt" | Copy-VMGuestFile -Destination "c:\temp" -VM $vm -LocalToGuest -GuestUser "Administrator" -GuestPassword "Pa$$w0rd"
$vm = Get-VM -Name TEST
Copy-VMGuestFile -Source c:\yourfile.txt -Destination c:\temp\ -VM $vm -GuestToLocal -GuestUser "Administrator" -GuestPassword "Pa$$w0rd"
Notes
| 2020-01-01
(updated 2025-10-25)
| 1 min read
#powershell
#slashpage-uses
PowerShell holds a special place in my heart as it was the first ever tool I dived into deeply and used to automate my daily work.
To this day it runs a bunch of fundamental automations in my life.
Notes
| 2019-05-13
(updated 2025-10-25)
| 1 min read
#powershell
#vmware
Errors connecting to vCenter or any ESXi server in the cluster without certificate errors?
wget https://{{ YOUR VCENTER }}/certs/download.zip --no-check-certificate