Monday, July 20, 2020

Azure/PowerShell: Virtual Machines created from Image, Adding Applications to the Taskbar

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Once an Azure virtual machine is created from an image, users can be added either local users or by adding the machine to a domain. As part ...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

Azure/PowerShell: Virtual Machines created from Images, Cleaning cached up SQL Server Host Names

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As part of my DevOps role, I have created a set of standard images to be used by our QA engineers in creating test Virtual Machines on Azure...
Sunday, July 12, 2020

Creating Windows Shortcuts (links) with .NET Core and .NET Standard

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I was tasked with creating a shortcut in a C# application. As a technology goal, it was desired to use .NET Standard so the code could be mo...
Saturday, July 11, 2020

Windows How to Create/Copy a File Shortcut using File Explorer

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As with many of blog posts on this site, I create a rudimentary, background post for a more complex development or devops issue to be addres...
Tuesday, July 7, 2020

PowerShell/Nuget: Creating a NuSpec file Containing all Files in a Folder

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For a project, I needed a Nuget package that contained all files in a given folder hierarchy. This meant that the Nuget packaged included as...

PowerShell: Traverse all Folders and Files for a given Path

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For different projects, I keep writing the same code again. For a given directory, the code should recursively traverse the directory and po...
Saturday, July 4, 2020

PowerShell: Installing .NET 3.5 on a stock Azure VM running Windows Server 2012 R2

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To handle a pressing issue I needed to setup an environment running the following on an Azure VM. Windows Server 2012 R2 SQL Server 2014 Sha...