by Alex Verboon
I just found out that meanwhile (since October last year) the Rest API for wordpress now also works on self-hosted wordpress sites. So i can now access the content of my blog through PowerShell. $posts = Invoke-RestMethod -uri “https://public-api.wordpress.com/rest/v1/sites/www.verboon.info/posts/?number=50” $posts.posts Read More …
I am currently working on a script where I need to create a scheduled task that runs a powershell script at a given time. With PowerShell 4.0 a scheduled task can be easily created with the new cmdlets New-ScheduledTaskAction, New-ScheduledTaskTrigger Read More …
I frequently visit kbupdate.info which is a great resource for finding latest KB updates, but still you have to manually click through the various lists. Now that I am learning PowerShell anyway, i thought i’ll give myself another task to Read More …
The below script makes use of a webservice hosted by webserviceX.net and provides stock quote information. <# .Synopsis Retrieve stock information .DESCRIPTION Retrieve stock information .PARAMETER Symbol Stock symbol of one or more companies .EXAMPLE Get-StockInfo -Symbol MSFT,INTC .LINK .NOTES Read More …
Windows 8.1 has the .NET Framework 4.5.1 enabled by default. If you need .NET Framework 3.5 which also includes support for .NET 3.0, and 2.0, then you must enable the feature as it is not enabled by default.However to enable Read More …
Whenever I worked with Azure, first thing i usualy did was fire a web search to get the url for the Azure Management portal. I know I could bookmark it……..it’s just that I already have way too many bookmarks. But Read More …
Hey there, when i watched the last edition of “The Defrag Show” this week-end Gov Maharaj gave an interesting explanation about the difference in behaviour when using the Shutdown option within the charms bar or the Widnows X-menu. To keep Read More …
Today we’ve been looking at App-V 4.6 package settings before and after migrating them from ConfigMgr 2007 to ConfigMgr 2012, so after opening the App-V mmc console 3x manually…..another script was born. The below Get-Appv4PkgInfo.ps1 script retrieves information from the Read More …
Today I completed the Microsoft Virtual Academy Advanced Tools & Scripting with PowerShell 3.0 Jump Start course. If you haven’t looked at it yet, I realy recommend you do so, lots of good stuff there. So for the purpose of Read More …