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6 Command Line (PowerShell & CLI) Tips & Tricks for Microsoft Azure you should know about!

Thomas Maurer — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 09:12:48 +0000

There are many experiences and possibilities to manage your Microsoft Azure resources, one of them being the command line experience using the Azure CLI or Azure PowerShell. In this blog post we are going to have a look at 6 tips & tricks for managing your Microsoft Azure resources using the command line with Azure …

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Az Next – AI-powered interactive assistant Azure CLI

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 07:34:19 +0000

As you know, the Azure CLI already AI-build in with the az find command, and you might have seen a great feature like AI-powered PowerShell module called Az Predictor Module (Azure PowerShell Predictions), which does what the name says, predict PowerShell commands. Now with az next, the team also brought a similar feature to the Azure CLI. The team’s goal with az next is …

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Get System Uptime with PowerShell

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 08:24:42 +0000

Sometimes you want to know how long your system is running. There are multiple ways to get the uptime of your system using the GUI or command line. PowerShell also offers a simple way to get the system uptime. If you are running PowerShell 6 or PowerShell 7 you can get the uptime with this …

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How to Add Sleep/Wait/Pause in a PowerShell Script

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 13:54:38 +0000

Many of you know the “timeout” command we used when we created Windows Batch scripts. This pauses/waits/sleeps the script for a specific amount of time. In PowerShell, we can use the Start-Sleep cmdlet to suspend/pause/sleep/wait the activity in a script or session for the specified period of time. You can use it for many tasks, …

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Empty Windows recycle bin with PowerShell

Thomas Maurer — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 14:29:38 +0000

Windows has the concept of the recycle bin, from which you can restore files you have deleted. You might want to clear the Windows recycle bin from time to time, to remove unnecessary files and free up space. You can do that using the Windows user interface, or you can empty the Windows recycle bin …

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Install Apps from the Microsoft Store using WinGet

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 10:24:13 +0000

Back at Build 2020, Microsoft showed a new package manager for Windows called WinGet (Currently in Public Preview). The winget command-line tool enables IT Pros and developers to discover, install, upgrade, remove, and configure applications on Windows 10 computers. This tool is the client interface to the Windows Package Manager service. One of the latest experimental features …

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Recover Files on Windows using the Windows File Recovery Tool

Thomas Maurer — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 11:17:32 +0000

Did you accidentally delete an important file, wiping a hard drive or partition, or need to restore corrupted files and data? We all have been there, with the newly released Microsoft Windows File Recovery tool you can recover and restore files on Windows. In this blog post, I am going to show you how you …

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How to Change the Windows Terminal Default Shell Profile

Thomas Maurer — Sun, 24 May 2020 13:55:44 +0000

The Windows Terminal is now generally available as version 1.0. I already shared a blog post on how to customize the Windows Terminal and shared my personal settings.json file with a lot of different examples, like the integration of PowerShell Remoting, SSH Remoting, changing the background image and much more. One question I got is, …

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Change the Windows Terminal Theme from Light to Dark

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 07:18:07 +0000

This is again a very small post on the Windows Terminal, like how to open the Windows Terminal from the command prompt or run and how to change the Windows Terminal background image. This time I got asked about how you switch the Windows Terminal Theme from light to dark. Well, the answer is pretty …

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New Microsoft Code and Terminal Font Cascadia Code

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 08:04:17 +0000

Cascadia Code is the latest monospaced font shipped from Microsoft focusing on delivering an excellent font for command-line experiences and code editors like Visual Studio Code. The Cascadia Code font was first announced at the Microsoft Build conference in May 2019. And yesterday, Microsoft just released Cascadia Code version 1909.16 and it is available publicly …

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