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This is the second old-school post this week. Hey, I’m clearing the decks of some odd stuff that I had to do. Today, it’s uploading all files in a folder (but not sub-folders) to FTP, if they have been updated in the past 24 hours. There’s not much to explain here. It’s a simple System.Net.WebClient […]
If you’re a bit like me, you like to keep your desk clear. The same goes for all those pesky git branches you accumulate over time. Whether you are using Visual Studio, VSCode, or some other editor, it would be nice if you could burn it all down except for trunk. The good news is, […]
I’m running an IIS site with ARR as a load balancer. It’s pretty common to want to take a server out of balance or to put it back in using a script. The below script takes the first server out of balance by setting enabled = $false. The other servers are left in. You could […]
Today I made my first contact with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). WSL lets you run Linux on the command line without having to dual-boot, with lots of built-in help that makes things work across your network and file system. If you are new to WSL, I found it helpful to complete the get started […]
This is a pretty specific example about finding and running a task in Task Scheduler based on the task’s action argument (the argument passed to the action executed when the task runs). However, the same script could be adjusted to filter the task based on other properties. This task is written as an Octopus Deploy […]
I needed to get a history of completed pull requests from Azure DevOps and the simplest way to do this was to call the Azure DevOps REST API from a PowerShell script. The examples below assume you have already created a Personal Access Token, which you can get from the User Settings menu in Azure […]
If you are dealing with Windows Task Scheduler, you will almost certainly benefit from being able to automate tasks using PowerShell. Here are some useful tricks to get you started. We’ll use a scenario where we want to re-create a Task Schedule automatically, which will involve: Stopping the task if it exists Removing the task […]
When importing a file full of data into a test system, I discovered that the CSV library I was using to do all the work was stopping when it reached a blank line. That makes sense, it thinks the data has ended. On inspection, I found quite a lot of blank lines, so there was […]
Yesterday I had to look at a list of stuff on a third-party website and match it up to a list of stuff we control. It took quite a bit of time and some Excel shenanigans to complete the task and as I know it’s going to crop up again, I decided to employ PowerShell […]
It seems like everyone has a high-quality, expensive, programmable deck on their desk these days. Elgato’s Stream Deck, with it’s glowing LCD buttons, comes in flavours that cost between £100 and £200 (depending on how many buttons you want). It’s beautiful bit of kit that glows its way into the hearts of tech geeks everywhere. […]