Email to Stoke City Football Club
Given recent form and the pending threat of relegation to England’s third tier of football, I decided to write an email to the club. They tell me it’s been given…
Disk Encryption – Windows 10 Home
Bitlocker is not available on Windows 10 Home. I didn't know this, then I found that there was an alternative called, unremarkably, "Device Encryption". It is hardware dependant and it seems that a lot of hardware, even fairly new hardware, doesn't support all of the requirements.
Powershell Tutorial – Intro
My aim with this content is to produce something that will help me solidify the new knowledge from that course and write something that you can consume in small chunks.
Getting help
A Word on Fonts Before we dive into the typing anything into the PowerShell console, a quick word on fonts and colours. There are a number of "special characters" that…
About PowerShell
PowerShell - my spell checker keeps trying to correct my spelling to "Powers Hell" and for some this might be a more accurate description, but what is it's history?
Aliases, Modules and Environment Variables
A brief tutorial on aliases, modules and how to read and set environment variables using PowerShell
PowerShell – General cmdlet constructs
Cmdlet structure And so to a discussion on cmdlet structure. PowerShell use a verb noun structure which may be followed by some parameters. Parameters are not compulsory as we saw…
Introducing the Pipeline
The pipeline is a feature that allows the output of one command to be automatically transferred into another command. You can string any number of commands together and they will…
Filtering Results
Often when you run a cmdlet you will get far more results than you can view. You will need to tell the cmdlet which particular ones you want and you…
Output
Any output from any PowerShell cmdlet or script is sent to the pipeline, we will look at this in more detail in the next section, the pipeline has some default…