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Super-Charged Cmdlet Aliases

It works like magic, but it works - Bring your aliasing to a whole other level!

Posted on 2020-12-02 (Last modified on 2025-07-28)

Backstory I recently wrote a post about PowerShell Aliasing for the folks over at ScriptRunner. The one issue I had while researching for this post was this: You can not create a alias for a function and overwrite one of it’s parameters at the same time while keeping nice features like tab-complete. For a concrete example of this visit please look at the original post. At the end of the post I asked if anyone had a solution to this problem - and the internet delivered! [Read More]

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Linked: Powershell Aliasing

A deep dive into aliasing with PowerShell

Posted on 2020-12-02 (Last modified on 2025-07-28)

I published a post about aliasing with PowerShell over on the ScriptRunner blog.

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Why You Want To Install PowerShell On Windows

Why installing PowerShell on Windows may actually be a good idea

Posted on 2020-11-28 (Last modified on 2025-07-28)

Q: Wait a minute! Don’t I already have PowerShell?

A: Yes. However you may want to continue reading because things are never as simple as they appear.

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Collections and Randomization

Randomize Collections in PowerShell

Posted on 2020-11-18 (Last modified on 2025-07-28)

Randomizing a collection is useful in a variety of situations and in most languages it is fairly straight forward.

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How To Grep With PowerShell

It's just like Bash, but more powerful!

Posted on 2020-09-30 (Last modified on 2025-07-28)

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.

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How To Tail With PowerShell

How to replace tail in PowerShell

Posted on 2020-09-21 (Last modified on 2025-07-28)

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.

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Bash Utilities In Powershell

Replacing common bash utilities in PowerShell

Posted on 2020-09-20 (Last modified on 2025-07-28)

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. In this series I want to challenge this notion. PowerShell can compete with, an in some cases outperform, the quick scripts and common daily tasks done in Linux shells. [Read More]

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Vmware Tools Copy Files

Posted on 2020-09-17 (Last modified on 2022-07-01)

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Copy To Guest

$vm = Get-VM -Name TEST
Get-Item "X:\yourfile.txt" | Copy-VMGuestFile -Destination "c:\temp" -VM $vm -LocalToGuest -GuestUser "Administrator" -GuestPassword "Pa$$w0rd"

Copy From Guest

$vm = Get-VM -Name TEST
Copy-VMGuestFile -Source c:\yourfile.txt -Destination c:\temp\ -VM $vm -GuestToLocal -GuestUser "Administrator" -GuestPassword "Pa$$w0rd"

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Hello World

Who am I and what to expect on this blog

Posted on 2020-09-13 (Last modified on 2025-07-28)

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Ansible VMware Connection Plugin & Become

Posted on 2020-07-02 (Last modified on 2021-08-09)

When using VMware as the connection plugin to connect to remote hosts you commonly set two facts for username and password: ansible_vmware_tools_user: "mkamner" ansible_vmare_tools_password: "Super Secret PW" This will work just fine for windows and with many tasks on linux. However, if you want to use become: true on linux it will fail with the strangest error messages. For example: apt will fail, because it can’t acquire the lock file [Read More]

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IANA To openSSL Ciphers

Posted on 2020-03-07

Handy table to map IANA IDs of ciphers to their openSSL IDs used in web server configurations, for example [[nginx]] ssl_ciphers or proxy_ssl_ciphers

https://testssl.sh/openssl-iana.mapping.html

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