Have you been keeping an eye on the SAPIEN Information Center? If not, here are some articles you may have missed! Working with SemanticVersion in PowerShell by June Blender, November 3, 2016 As the versions of Windows PowerShell and PowerShell (not only Windows!) proliferate, it becomes more important to know on which version of PowerShell […]
Category: Howto
Enable WMI Explorer Remote Connection Permissions
One of my first tasks, after I was hired at SAPIEN, was to figure out why users couldn’t view WMI classes on remote computers and turn the solution into an easy-to-follow blog post. After completing that, I had to turn it into a script so that it was even easier to set up. Although I […]
Setting up PowerShell on your Mac (Update!)
Now that PowerShell is available on the Mac, we thought it would be useful to show how easy it is to setup a Mac terminal session that automatically opens into PowerShell. Figure 1 shows what we mean. First you need to download the PowerShell macOS package from here (look for the Get PowerShell section in the README.md) and […]
HelpUri v. HelpInfoUri
Although the names are similar and often confused, these properties are different. If you confuse them, the help for your PowerShell commands and modules won’t work. The HelpUri property stores the URL (http or https) of online help for a command. It’s a property of commands (cmdlets, functions, workflows). When a user runs Get-Help -Online, […]
Write a Multi-Form PowerShell GUI App
Tested on: PowerShell 2.0+, PowerShell Studio 2016 This step-by-step example shows you how to create a very simple multi-form PowerShell GUI app. The app consists of a parent form that gets data from a child form and displays it. When you finish, you’ll know how to use the basic multi-form features of PowerShell Studio. For […]
Introducing the SAPIEN Information Center
Over the years, the articles in this blog have grown extensively. There’s a lot of valuable information in here, but it’s become hard to find because it’s mixed in with various tour announcements, special offers, conference recaps, and the like. So, we have decided to pull the important articles and place them—along with information relevant […]
How Git branches affect files on disk
When I started using Git back in 2012, I wasn’t new to source control systems. I used a database-backed source control system back in the 80’s and, at Microsoft, I used Visual Source Safe (VSS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS). I was a whiz at checking files in and out, examining and comparing versions, and […]
Add custom tools to the menu
There are so many features in PowerShell Studio and PrimalScript that I think I can’t live without, like the Format Script button, file groups, and conditional breakpoints. But, there are few features I’d love to have that aren’t there. They’re easy enough to add, but they’re really personal to me. Fortunately, I can add them […]
Property Pane: Change property values of multiple objects
Sometimes, I say things so many times that I start to believe them, even when I’m wrong. Here’s a correction of one of the details that I’ve gotten wrong repeatedly. “You can only use the Properties pane on one object at time.” — me Um, no. The Properties pane in PowerShell Studio displays the properties […]
GitHub: How to update your fork
Like almost everyone in the DevOps world, I use GitHub, not because I like it, but because everyone uses it. In fact, I dislike it, because it’s confusing by design. Its misleading language excludes users, rather than welcoming them. To use it, you have to forget the actual meaning of words in English, or even […]
