Version Update, Code Signing and publishing to the PowerShell Gallery with VSTS

At the fabulous PowerShell Conference EU I presented about Continuous Delivery to the PowerShell Gallery with VSTS and explained how...

Professional and Proficient PowerShell: From Writing Scripts to Developing Solutions at PASS Summit

PASS Summit is the largest conference for technical professionals who leverage the Microsoft Data Platform. PASS Summit 2018 is happening November...

Checking Availability Groups with dbachecks

It’s been 45 days since we released dbachecks
Announcing dbachecks – Configurable PowerShell Validation For Your SQL Instances https://t.co/2dmUdKtgTQpic.twitter.com/N8W01KaKo9
— Rob Sewell (@sqldbawithbeard) February...

Easily Splatting PowerShell with VS Code

So I always like to show splatting PowerShell commands when I am presenting sessions or workshops and realised that I...

dbachecks – Configuration Deep Dive

Today is the day that we have announced dbachecks  a PowerShell module enabling you to validate your SQL Instances. You...

Announcing dbachecks – Configurable PowerShell Validation For Your SQL Instances

For the last couple of months members of the dbatools team have been working on a new PowerShell module called dbachecks....

VS Code – Terminal crashes when formatting script

I love VS Code. I love being able to press ALT + SHIFT + F and format my code.

The Problem
Yesterday all I...

How I created PowerShell.cool using Flow, Azure SQL DB, Cognitive Services & PowerBi

Last weekend I was thinking about how to save the tweets for PowerShell Conference Europe. This annual event occurs in...

How to write a PowerShell function to use Confirm, Verbose and WhatIf

In my last blog post I showed how to run a script with the WhatIf parameter. This assumes that the...

How to run a PowerShell script file with Verbose, Confirm or WhatIf

Before you run a PowerShell command that makes a change to something you should check that it is going to...