script Archives - Thomas Maurer

Schedule and Run PowerShell Scripts for Azure VMs using Azure Automation

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 13:54:23 +0000

A while ago I wrote a blog post on how you can run a PowerShell or Bash script against multiple Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) using Run Command. In this blog post we are going to have a look on how you can schedule and run PowerShell and Bash scripts against Azure virtual machines (VMs) using …

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PowerShell: Download script or file from GitHub

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 05:13:54 +0000

Since a lot of people are starting to store their scripts and files in GitHub repositories, I often get the question, how can I download a script or a file from a Git repository using PowerShell. There are a couple of ways to you can obviously do this. You could use git and do a …

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How to run scripts against multiple Azure VMs by using Run Command

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 08:28:20 +0000

I wrote a blog post on how to run scripts in your Azure VM by using Run Command, and explained how handy this feature is to manage Azure virtual machines (VMs). In this blog post, we are going to have a look at how you can run scripts against multiple Azure virtual machines (VMs) by …

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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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Connect a Hybrid Server to Azure using Azure Arc

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 06:55:46 +0000

New week, new Azure tip video!. This week we are going to have a look at how you can connect a hybrid server to Azure using Azure Arc. Azure Arc enabled servers enables you to manage and govern your Windows and Linux machines hosted across on-premises, edge, and multi-cloud environments. You’ll learn how to deploy …

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How to Run Scripts in your Azure VM using Run Command

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 06:45:59 +0000

You can access your Azure IaaS virtual machine (VM) in multiple ways like SSH or RDP, depending on your operating system and configuration. However, if you have issues with the RDP or SSH network configuration, you need to have a way to troubleshoot your virtual machine (VM). Luckily Azure offers you different management tools to …

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How to Run Custom Scripts on Azure Arc Enabled Servers

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 08:41:26 +0000

With the latest update for Azure Arc for Servers, you are now able to deploy and use extensions with your Azure Arc enabled servers. With the Custom Script extension, you can run scripts on Azure Arc enabled servers and works similar to the custom script extension for Azure virtual machines (VMs). There is an extension …

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Write PowerShell Online using Visual Studio Codespaces

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 05 May 2020 05:31:16 +0000

Last week the Visual Studio Services team announced a new service called Visual Studio Codespaces. Visual Studio Codespaces allows you to do cloud-hosted development for wherever you’re working. While the new services support many different programming and scripting languages, it also supports PowerShell. In this blog post, I am going to show you how you …

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How to use PowerShell ISE Mode in Visual Studio Code

Thomas Maurer — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 06:12:14 +0000

If you are writing PowerShell code, you might have realized that there weren’t really improvements to the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (PowerShell ISE) in the last couple of releases. With PowerShell becoming more popular on cross-platform systems, Visual Studio Code (VS Code) becomes the editor of choice. However, by default Visual Studio Code has a …

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Judge at the Nutanix Coding Challenge

Thomas Maurer — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 11:16:05 +0000

Nutanix just announced the PowerShell Coding Challenge for your Nutanix environment. The challenge will be to build a script which solves a real world problem in these use cases: Provisioning/orchestration, reporting, data protection, disaster recovery and runbook automation. Do you have what it takes to write the best script for a Nutanix environment? Find out by …

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