This October I will be traveling to Europe and Asia. During this trip I will be speaking about PowerShell, demonstrating SAPIEN Technologies products, and most importantly I will show how PowerShell Studio can make you a better scripter. Itinerary October 10th, 2018 (Wednesday) London – PowerShell Day UK Full day event 10 South Place (Wilson […]
Category: Windows PowerShell
PowerShell Studio: Working with Remote Systems (Part 2)
This is the second post in a blog series about working with remote systems using PowerShell Studio. The following topics are covered: Part 1 – Caching Remote Systems PowerShell Modules Part 2 – PowerShell remoting In the previous blog post I covered how to use the Cache Export tool to cache module information from a remote system using […]
PowerShell Studio: Working with Remote Systems (Part 1)
This is the first post in a blog series about working with remote systems using PowerShell Studio. The following topics are covered: Part 1 – Caching Remote Systems PowerShell Modules Part 2 – PowerShell remoting In this first installment I will show you how to use SAPIEN Technologies’ Cache Export tool to collect module information […]
Module Manager: The indispensable new tool for managing PowerShell modules
SAPIEN Technologies recently released a free Preview version of the new Module Manager tool. This tool will make your module management free of headaches! How many times have you discovered that you are working with an outdated module? Or perhaps you already have a routine of doing a manual, tedious search for the latest releases […]
PowerShell Studio: Azure Background Jobs in GUI application with Helper Functions
PowerShell Studio provides application templates and helper functions to help you speed up your development process. The recent blog post series on creating an Azure application shows the evolution of an Azure solution from a console script to a Windows application. In the previous post I used an empty form with two controls (Button & RichTextBox), […]
New Video – PowerShell Studio: Working with Azure cmdlets in Background Jobs in a GUI app
This is the latest installment in our video series on working with Azure cmdlets in background jobs. In this example we are executing the PowerShell script in a Windows GUI Application. View the video here: SAPIEN PowerShell Studio: GUI Working with Azure Cmdlets In Background Jobs Minor Sample Script Changes As the sample script evolves to […]
New Video – PowerShell Studio: Working with Azure cmdlets in Background Jobs
Our latest video shows two different ways to execute a console AzureRM script as a job using PowerShell Studio 2018. In this short video we demonstrate how to use the Azure cmdlet Stop-AzureRmVM to stop an Azure VM by submitting the script code as a background job in two different ways: 1. Create the scriptblock containing […]
SAPIEN Technologies on Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core
SAPIEN Technologie’s PrimalScript™ and PowerShell Studio™ products have always supported Windows PowerShell. With the Generally Available (GA) release of the open source PowerShell Core, we began the integration and support of this new technology into our products. The chart below shows the differences between the Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core products: We use this as […]
PowerShell Studio: How to prevent Powershell cmdlets from hanging in GUI apps
We have seen issues reported in our support forum where Azure commands are not terminating, or more likely their cmdlets are not returning in a GUI environment. This is due to the Powershell pipeline being held up by the GUI, which could prevent Powershell from processing internal messages and events thus causing a hang when a […]
PAUSE and CONTINUE added to PowerShell Service Packager Engine
We recently added support for a more refined handling of events in PowerShell based Windows services—allowing for the handling of Start, Stop, and Run events separately. Please see this article for details. https://www.sapien.com/blog/2018/02/27/new-powershell-service-template-for-primalscript-2018/ The latest service builds of PrimalScript 2018 and PowerShell Studio 2018 include the ability to handle Pause and Continue events. The PowerShell Service […]
