Ramblings about PowerShell by Aaron Jensen (@splatteredbits), creator of the Carbon DevOps PowerShell module.

Portland, Oregon
Joined May 2012
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. Get it on the Gallery: powershellgallery.com/packag… Release notes on GitHub: github.com/webmd-health-serv…
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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. github.com/webmd-health-serv… #PowerShell #Database #SqlServer
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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.
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New Carbon.Security PowerShell module is out! * Get-CAcl: get ACLs across PowerShell editions. * Get/Grant/Revoke/Test-CPrivilege (migrated from Carbon). * Test-CPrivilegeName powershellgallery.com/packag… github.com/webmd-health-serv… #powershell #devops #security #carbonps
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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 powershellgallery.com/packag… github.com/webmd-health-serv… #powershell #devops #crypto #carbonps
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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. powershellgallery.com/packag… github.com/webmd-health-serv… #powershell #devops
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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. github.com/webmd-health-serv… powershellgallery.com/packag…
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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. powershellgallery.com/packag… github.com/webmd-health-serv… #powershell #cicd
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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
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