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Book Review: Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition by Don Jones

24/01/2017 by Parvinder Nijjar Leave a Comment

During December I decided to dedicate myself to learning Powershell for the next few months. Many of the blogs I follow and some of my respected peers have recommended the Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches book and ashamedly I have owned the book and never gotten past the first chapters. The reason I […]

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Generate random numbers in PowerShell with Get-Random

16/04/2015 by Parvinder Nijjar Leave a Comment

Generate random numbers in PowerShell with Get-Random Have you ever wanted to generate random numbers for passwords, test data…. and wondered how you could easily generate them? Well I was confronted by the same situation on one of our servers where I needed some random numbers for inputting wait times to test an application but […]

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List Hotfixes installed with PowerShell with Get-Hotfix

08/04/2015 by Parvinder Nijjar Leave a Comment

Have you ever wondered what updates have been applied to your Windows operating system? Well a quick and easy way to do that is to use the PowerShell command Get-Hotfix. This will list out the description, the HotfixID and when it was installed. I used this on a few PCs where it appeared that updates […]

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