
Ramblings about PowerShell by Aaron Jensen (@splatteredbits), creator of the Carbon DevOps PowerShell module.
Portland, Oregon
Joined May 2012
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ProGetAutomation 3.0.1 is out. Fixes a bug where calling certain APIs would fail to authenticate when using a username/password instead of an API key.
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#PowerShell #ProGet
Carbon.DSC is out! We've taken all the DSC functionality, including DSC resources, out of Carbon, and put them into this new module. Only one backwards-incompatible change.
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Yodel 1.1.0 is out. Query databases in PowerShell using .NET-native ADO.NET API.
This release adds a bunch of SQL Server-specific functions for getting database and table metadata.
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#PowerShell #Database #SqlServer
Rivet 0.23.0 is out. Script your database changes! Fixes an issue with your database's baseline schema not getting applied to new databases. Oops.
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#PowerShell #sqlserver #Database
TlsCertificateValidation 2.0.0 is out! Securely turn off certificate validation. Validate in pure PS.
* Requires .NET Framework 4.8 on Windows
* No longer uses Add-Type to avoid aggressive virus scanners.
#powershell #DevOps
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New Carbon.ScheduledTasks PowerShell module is out. All the scheduled task functions from Carbon are now in their own module.
* Get/Install/Uninstall-CScheduledTask
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#powershell #devops #carbonps #schtasks
Carbon.Registry 1.2.0 is out! Registry permissions functions migrated from Carbon:
* Get/Grant/Revoke/Test-CRegistryPermission
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#powershell #devops #registry #security #carbonps
Carbon 2.16.0 is around the corner and will contain deprecation warnings for all the functions that have moved to their own modules. There's a prerelease version out now that you can use to see if you should start migrating to the new modules.
New Carbon.Security PowerShell module is out!
* Get-CAcl: get ACLs across PowerShell editions.
* Get/Grant/Revoke/Test-CPrivilege (migrated from Carbon).
* Test-CPrivilegeName
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#powershell #devops #security #carbonps
Carbon.FileSystem 1.1.0 is out! We've migrated file/directory permission functions from Carbon.
* Get/Grant/Revoke/Test-CNtfsPermission
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#powershell #devops #security #fs #ntfs #carbonps
Carbon.Cryptography 3.4.0 is out. We've migrated private key permission functions from Carbon.
* Get-CPrivateKey
* Get/Grant/Revoke/Test-CPrivateKeyPermission
* Resolve-CPrivateKeyPath
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#powershell #devops #crypto #carbonps
New Carbon.Accounts module is out. We've migrated Carbon's ConvertTo-CSecurityIdentifier, Resolve-CIdentity, Resolve-CIdentityName, and Test-CIdentity functions into their own module.
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#powershell #devops
Carbon.IIS 1.4.0 is out.
Start-CIisAppPool and Start-CIisWebsite now start required WAS and W3SVC services, respectively. Fixed a couple info messages.
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#powershell #carbon #iis #devops
Carbon 2.15.0 is out. There's no new functionality. We deprecated Carbon's registry functions because we've moved them to their own module: Carbon.Registry.
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We've released a new Carbon.Windows PowerShell module. It will be where we put general-purpose functions for configuring Windows. Version 1.0.0 has functions for getting, adding, and removing back connection hostnames.
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PowerShell module Carbon.IIS 1.1.0 is out. We added a new Set-CIisWebsiteBinding function for configuring IIS website bindings. Enjoy!
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We've given Carbon's registry functions their own module: Carbon.Registry. There are some backwards incompatabilities, so read the release notes before switching. Enjoy!
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Rivet 0.20.0 released. Script your SQL Server database changes! Mostly internal changes, with some bug fixes.
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#sqlserver #powershell #evodb
Our cross-platform, build server agnostic build tool Whiskey 0.54.0 is out! Mostly bug fixes, but a new feature that respects .NET's roll forward configuration when Whiskey installs .NET for a build.
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#powershell #cicd
What PowerShell verb do you use for functions that encode/decode strings for use in HTML, JSON, JavaScript, etc? ConvertTo and ConvertFrom? I think the "convert" word is too generic. I wish PowerShell had Encode/Decode verbs.
#PowerShell