One of the more common tasks for an administrator is to write a script for a helpdesk employee or a fellow admin who is maybe not so PowerShell savvy (yet). Many of you like to package that script as an executable file to prevent the user from “experimenting” with your code and messing things up […]
Tag: Script
Open a SAPIEN Forum from PowerShell
UPDATE: Added a -Search parameter that searches all SAPIEN forums for the term that you specify and then opens the page with the results. Thanks to Prasoon V. Karunan for the contribution. I love helping people learn Windows PowerShell and SAPIEN products. I answer questions on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit (love the /r/powershell subreddit), Google+, Slack, email, […]
A tale of two crashes
One of our long time customers recently sent me an email with a desperate plea for help. The customer would like to remain anonymous, so we will just call him “Joe”. Joe asked if I would be so kind as to extract the scripts from all the packaged executables that he had created with PrimalScript […]
PrimalForms 2011: Slimmer Form Code
In the latest service release (v2.0.11) we updated PrimalForm 2011’s code generator so that it produces slimmer scripts. We wanted to increase the readability and at the same time reduce the size of the generated script. The following is a script block generated by the previous version of PrimalForms 2011: Now we have the same […]
Your output may vary
While I was testing the new PowerShell enabled RSEE service, I used one of the many files our users send us to illustrate one thing or another or to report a bug. Using real world script files rather than some “clean” in-house samples makes for a better test as far as I am concerned. (Disclaimer: […]
How safe are my scripts in PrimalScript/PrimalForms packages?
This is a question that has come up a lot lately. Our Script Packager used in PrimalScript 2009 and PrimalForms 2009 stores the scripts and additional data files encrypted and in some cases, compressed inside the executable.Some formats create temporary files and use the original Windows tool to run a script; others execute directly from […]
PrimalForms 2009: Exported Script Formatting
In order to start the planning stages of the next version of PrimalForms, we decided to conduct a review the current version. After gathering user feedback on the subject, we concluded that the script formatting needed a makeover to make it easier for the users to read the final script. In order to address user […]
March PowerShell Oneliner
In this month’s SAPIEN newsletter I offered a PowerShell oneliner to returns usage information for a specified folder. I don’t have room in the newsletter to go into detail so here is more in-depth coverage of this oneliner. I’ll also have a downlink link at the end.
Get TweeterTagged User
If you use Twitter and like to script, especially in PowerShell, then I think you’ll like this. A new site, TweeterTags.com has launched that allows you to tag your Twitter profile. The upshot is that this makes it easier to discover like-minded individuals. So let’s say I want to find all the PowerShell tagged users, here’s how I can do it directly from PowerShell with a simple script.
