Category: PowerShell
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How to find AWS S3 bucket size and number of objects via PowerShell
Determine the size of and number of objects in an Amazon S3 bucket
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Create an elastic load balancer and update Route 53 DNS in PowerShell
Reduce AWS EC2 charges by not running ELBs for dev/test environments
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How to copy ADFS certificate thumbprints cleanly
How to avoid a 10-year-old gotcha using PowerShell
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What is dot sourcing in PowerShell?
Scope in an interactive shell is different
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Graphically deregister AWS AMIs and associated S3 snapshots
PowerShell’s Out-GridView cmdlet rocks
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Understanding AWS RDS recovery
RDS backup and restore are (mostly) automatic
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How to use PowerShell in Chef to install Windows Server features
Chef — the wildly popular configuration management system, whose motto is “infrastructure as code” — treats Windows as a second-class client, despite all protestations from from its creator, Opscode, to the contrary. Still, you can do some cool stuff with Windows and Chef in PowerShell, as long as you can stand the Ruby “domain specific language” that Opscode…
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How to tag AWS EC2 AMI snapshots with a tag from the owning AMI
Sync up Name tags between EC2 AMIs and EC2 snapshots
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Time to pop some stuff off the stack
It’s been a swirl lately. That means limited time to post here. It pains me when I don’t post here regularly. Mind you, I am always thinking about things to say. I’d rather just get it out there in short form than forget stuff. Herewith, a “short stack”. (How’s that for mixing pancake and computer…
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You say PowerShell braces, I say PowerShell assignments
I am very gratified with the increasing traffic this blog is receiving from a series of posts that describe how to automate tasks in EC2 in AWS with PowerShell. You can see them all here. As with any creative activity involving language, style is both personal and important. I’ve been getting the impression as I read others’…
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How to manage EC2 EBS volume snapshots with PowerShell
One of the best features of Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes in AWS is the capability to incrementally “snapshot” these volumes to more durable S3 storage. Everyone knows that if you don’t create these snapshots, one day your production EBS volume will go “poof” and disappear. Is that why the standard AWS icon, nearby, for a snapshot looks vaguely…
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Connect two AD FS federation servers
AD FS setup and configuration