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Module Monday February 13, 2023

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It’s Monday after the Super Bowl so we are going to keep this lite.  Today’s module isn’t business related at all, unless your in the Lego business. It’s a great module that helps you view and maintain your Lego collection. 

With that said, welcome the Brickset Module. I’ve already been playing with it and really like it. I was initially going to make my own, but I rather use his as a base and expand off of it.

If you already have your collection in a csv or xlsx it makes it super easy to add them in, instead of going to the website to add them each. If you already have a brickset account and an excel sheet? I’m working on a script to compare and sync between the two.

Any option on the Brickset website can be done in the module, see how many pieces or mini figs you have, see only certain themed sets, and even pulling instructions for sets you have!

Hope this makes your Lego experience even more fun and you get to learn/practice PowerShell skills while playing with it!

I’ll be working on some dashboards too in the near future. Any certain things you want to see?

GitHub:

https://github.com/jonathanmedd/BricksetModule

One-Liner Wednesday February 8, 2023

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This week’s One-Liner is brought to you by no other than Steve Lee. I can’t take credit for it, but want to make sure others see it. The only caveat is that it needs to be run in an elevated session.

Invoke-Expression "& { $(Invoke-RestMethod 'https://aka.ms/install-powershell.ps1') } –useMSI -Quiet"

It does what you think it does… installs PowerShell 7, using the MSI and silently. I’ve used it before many times and works great. There are also many other switches you can which I’ve linked to the GitHub below.

A few are:
Daily
DoNotOverwrite
AddtoPath
Preview

Try it out, and let me know what you think!

GitHub:
One-Liner

Module Monday February 6, 2023

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Monday, already? Yup, but at least you get a new Module Monday today. This is one is for anyone who does any broadcasting, whether live or pre recorded. I’ve barely even touched the surface of what you can do with it, but with this module you can really get your feet wet. To give you an idea, it has a command for every websocket request!

With that said, OBS-PowerShell is the module you need to download, either from the PowerShell Gallery or from James’ Github and I’ll have links below for each.

This does more than just push start and stop for you, you can see all available inputs, get all of your stats, and you can even set the input audio balance! With this module, I can’t do it justice, but as mentioned before if you do any broadcasting and use PowerShell, definitely check it out! Let me know how you find it useful. I’ll be doing a follow up on this module in the future when I have more hands on time with it and I’ll add your input too!

PowerShell Gallery:
OBS-PowerShell

GitHub:
OBS-PowerShell

Module Monday January 30, 2023

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We are back, and hope you had a great weekend! Today’s module is one Jeff Hicks had told me about last week and I started playing with it. It’s a neat module that makes managing your tasks easy. His module is called PSWorkItem.

It allows you to create predefined categories with a description, that you can add your tasks too. You can even set the default category so that you don’t have to keep on typing the category name for each task for your primary category. The categories can highlighted in the color of your choosing if you need that feature. Another great feature is that you can input due dates and view tasks by a numnber of different filters. There is an option to put percentage complete which can be very useful if you have certain milestones for your code, and once you reach it you could have it automatically update PSWorkItem for you.

If you are looking for a simple task list that gets the job done, I highly recommend this, especially since you can easily integrate it into your coding. I know there are other ways, but you could even create a template of tasks that need to be completed for a project, then link that project so that after each task is run successfully, it automatically completes it for you.

I know Jeff has a future task of making it so you can use it with a WPF or TUI, but I’d also love to see it integrated with PowerShell Universal.

GitHub:
PSWorkItem

One-Liner Wednesday January 25, 2023

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Today’s one-liner is one that you or may not have to use a lot depending how your environment is setup and how you setup computers. Either way, its great to have it so you don’t have to go digging for it in the GUI. Ever had a time when you are trying to connect to a computer, and can’t? You make sure the computer is connected to the right wifi or that it is wired in, has the right IP address, and has internet… but nothing seems to work. Then you turn off your firewall and you can ping it… you know you can’t leave the firewall off all the time. What to do?

Set-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "File and Printer Sharing (Echo Request - ICMPv4-In)" -Enabled True

There is your answer. That simple one line of code enables pinging without turning off your whole firewall. You can do this in group policy or add it to your golden image for imaging computers.

Hope this helps and saves time you prepping computers!

Module Monday January 23, 2023

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It’s already the 4th Monday in January, can you believe it? At least that means we get an extra Module Monday next week, but lets stick to this one for right now!

Enjoy Markdown, and want to generate markdown help for your existing module, or create markdown help for modules you are currently working on? PlatyPS is the module you need.

Supported scenarios:

  • Create Markdown
    • Using existing external help files (MAML schema, XML).
    • Using reflection
    • Using reflection and existing internal external help files.
    • For a single cmdlet
    • For an entire module
  • Update existing Markdown through reflection.
  • Create a module page .md with summary. It will also allow you to create updatable help cab.
  • Retrieve markdown metadata from markdown file.
  • Create external help xml files (MAML) from platyPS Markdown.
  • Create external help file cab
  • Preview help from generated maml file.

If any of that looks to be useful, definitely check out PlatyPS!

Github:
PlatyPS