Unblock a file with PowerShell?
If you are using PowerShell v3, you can use the Unblock-File cmdlet. The “blocking” part is simply an alternate data stream of the file, named “Zone.Identifier”. You can display it…
PowerShell Environment
http://powershell.org/wp/2015/08/08/continuous-integration-continuous-delivery-and-psdeploy/ Fun with Github, Pester, AppVeyor. Jakub Jareš has a great set of articles on PowerShellMagazine.com (One, Two, Three),
Variable scoping in PowerShell
ou can use scope modifiers or the *-Variable cmdlets. The scope modifiers are: global used to access/modify at the outermost scope (eg. the interactive shell) script used on access/modify at…
Log4net tutorial – Great library for logging
https://csharp.today/log4net-tutorial-great-library-for-logging/ A lot of applications use logging as a way to store information about performed operations. Such data is very useful when you have to diagnose an issue. Logging could…
How does the RemoteSigned execution policy work?
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2007/03/07/how-does-the-remotesigned-execution-policy-work.aspx You might have wondered how the “RemoteSigned” execution policy protects us from running unsigned PowerShell scripts downloaded from the internet. We use the URL Security Zones API related to…
The object-orientedness of PowerShell and what you see may not be what you get
PS ewu\My Documents\GitHub\PowerShell> get-aduser ewu -Properties LastLogonDate | Select LastLogonDate LastLogonDate ————- 1/1/2016 6:22:01 PM PS ewu\My Documents\GitHub\PowerShell> get-aduser ewu -Properties LastLogonDate | Select LastLogonDate | gm TypeName: Selected.Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADUser ======…
&& and || operators
The right side of && will only be evaluated if the exit status of the left side is zero. || is the opposite: it will evaluate the right side only…
The Official Bankster Dictionary
https://smartknowledgeu.com/blog/2012/04/the-official-bankster-dictionary/ In the underground world of banking, doing wrong means doing right, up is down, and left is right. I happened to stumble upon a secret version of the Bankster’s…
SSH Tunnel – Local and Remote Port Forwarding Explained With Examples
http://blog.trackets.com/2014/05/17/ssh-tunnel-local-and-remote-port-forwarding-explained-with-examples.html There are two ways to create an SSH tunnel, local and remote port forwarding (there’s also dynamic forwarding, but we won’t cover that here). The best way to understand…
Linux Articles
http://www.cyberciti.biz/howto/shell-primer-configuring-your-linux-unix-osx-environment/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/grep-regular-expressions/