Install oh-my-posh On Windows
Oh-my-posh is a theme engine for PowerShell that’s separate from your default PowerShell console. It’s powered by posh-git and has status indications for git, failed, and admin commands.
Install Windows Terminal (WT)
Windows Terminal is a more modern command-line tool that has features including “multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and the ability to create your own themes and customize text, colors, backgrounds, and shortcuts“.
Install posh-git on Windows
Posh-git is a PowerShell module that integrates with Git to show git status information on the command line, and it comes with tab completion for common commands.
Install Chocolatey on Windows
This post is a guide on installing the Chocolatey package manager on Windows by running a PowerShell command. Chocolatey allows you to manage software packages on your system with simple ‘choco’
Enable Windows Subsystem for Linux (with Ubuntu 18.04)
WSL allows Windows users to develop and run applications within a GNU/Linux environment. Previous to this feature release we needed VM’s or a dual boot setup.
Remove Quotes from a CSV File with PowerShell
This is a post on how to remove quotes from a CSV file using PowerShell. If your dealing with a large CSV file, running the Import-CSV cmdlet below will consume a lot of system resources (RAM mostly).
“..ps1 cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on this system” – PowerShell
When attempting to run a PowerShell script you may receive the following error: ps1 cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on thissystem.
Testing Connectivity to Remote Server Ports with PowerShell
All admins need a tool to test connectivity to remote servers on TCP ports. In Windows, this is commonly done using PuTTy or PowerShell.
Forcing Encryption in SQL Server
If you’re ever planning to allow external connections to a SQL Server, one of the first things to ensure is that the data is encrypted at rest and in-transit.
Running PowerShell Scripts as Scheduled Tasks in Windows
When you need something scheduled in Windows, the Task Scheduler is the tool at-hand. Running PowerShell (.ps1) scripts as Scheduled Tasks is done differently than differently than running regular .bat scripts.
