Enhanced profile – Display my custom functions
Somehow, I can be compared to a goldfish : my memory is really, really poor... And I do eat fish! But no, I can't help... Sometimes I wrote a usefull function that I embed in my profile and some weeks...
View ArticlePOODLE: SSLv3.0 vulnerability (CVE-2014-3566)
Microsoft's products were not affected by HeartBleed but this time, even if the criticity is far less, Microsoft's products are in the scope. This vulnerability (CVE-2014-3566) allows the plaintext of...
View ArticleFrench justice and politics, Hadopi or the Stone Age
Last week, a French court ordered the major French ISPs to block The Pirate Bay website. This decision was made following a complaint filed by a company of rights holders, the SCPP – Société Civile des...
View ArticleTips & tricks from Jeffrey Snover
Want to know the tricks of the architect and inventor of Powershell, Jeffrey Snover? Click on the course (Advanced Tools & Scripting with PowerShell 3.0 Jump Start) and simply learn how to...
View ArticleOff-topic – Animagraffs
This post is absolutely off-topic and has nothing to do with PowerShell (or IIS my second hobby…) but we are currently in a period of holidays and celebrations, so fun. Moreover, and above all, we all...
View ArticleMerci Manu!
Holly shit, they did it! Exceptionally, this will be the only english sentence of this post. English is not my native language, obviously, but this time the subject is not exclusively technical and I’m...
View ArticleWindows Management Framework 5.0 February preview available
Even if there’s still, as far as I know, no official release date for WMF 5.0 a new version of the preview is available since one week. Once again, this preview includes both stable and experimental...
View ArticleWMF (Windows Management Framework) 5.1 is live
We are pleased to announce that we are releasing the Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.1 today via the Microsoft download center. WMF 5.1 upgrades Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008 R2,...
View ArticleConvert value in CSV file
Someone asked me recently how to convert a field value in a CSV file before to process the file with Log Parser. The value in this example is in bytes and needs to be converted to terabytes. The column...
View ArticleYAWPU
YAW what!? No, I’m not trying to learn some Iroquoian language. That’s just the acronym of the useless script I just wrote to demonstrate a friend how Write-Progress can be hijacked. Thats why I called...
View ArticleFind mp3 files with low Bit Rate
Here’s a function to find all folders containing mp3 files (listed if ‘-details’ switch is used) with a bit rate under the threshold (128kbps by default)
View ArticleSelf-Destruct
Sometimes we need want to play secret agents, sometimes we just want to remove our trail. Remote execution is one thing and then, sometimes, for non-legitimate purpose we need a local script to be...
View ArticleWorking behind a proxy
New job, new PC, erf… new things to configure. Ok, I’ve created my profile, now I would like to have an up2date ‘Get-Help’. Everyone knows the command: Here comes the trouble: Update-Help : Failed to...
View ArticleAnnouncing PowerShell 7.0
Today, we’re happy to announce the Generally Available (GA) release of PowerShell 7.0! Before anything else, we’d like to thank our many, many open-source contributors for making this release possible...
View ArticleAnnouncing PowerShell 7.1
We’re proud to announce the release of PowerShell 7.1, the latest major update to PowerShell 7. This release includes a number of improvements and fixes that build on top of the PowerShell 7.0 release...
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