There’s times when you need to run an unsigned PowerShell script on Windows Server for convenience, for example when you pull it down from online. A word of warning – obviously – you need to know what any script does before you ever execute it – especially with privilege. Now, […]
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It’s been a common practice of mine over the past three decades (yes) to use the Telnet client as a quick and easy way of determining whether a TCP port is open between two computers. As of Windows Server 2012, Telnet Client is not installed by default, which means you […]
Continuing on from the previous article, PowerShell Basics – Consuming a Web API, let’s move on to some slightly deeper scripting. Querying an API in isolation is seldom useful in isolation, as it requires a deal of manual work to keep feeding the script. What if we could programmatically import […]
Over the weekend I decided to do some tinkering with data from my long list of vinyl records. I’ve been trying to ensure that the more valuable LPs are stored away from the hands of my little cohorts – and popular website discogs.com happens to have both marketplace data, and […]
A few years ago [1] I wrote about how you could enable Domain Accounts to self-manage their ServicePrincipalNames. This is particularly advantageous when using Kerberos to secure services. We recently needed to set up some service accounts in Active Directory to participate in establishing a Kerberos capability for middleware integration. […]
Identity Server 3 supports the Client Credentials OAuth2 grant. I wrote a brief introduction to both OAuth2 and IdentityServer3 last month, this is a follow-on article exploring some other facets of authentication. This is a little bit like basic authentication, in that the client (the application which wants to consume […]
Following on from the last instalment where I looked at supporting PowerShell script development in Visual Studio 2010, I’m going to take a closer look at PowerShell integration with the newer Visual Studio 2012. Again, I’ll be leveraging the excellent Quest PowerGUI product and the associated Visual Studio extension. Installation […]
Recently I needed to write up a new Powershell script to automate some actions independently of our major release cycle. This took me down a road with two possible options – write the script in Visual Studio 2012 or in Visual Studio 2010. I’ve decided to pursue both avenues, just […]