Manuel Batsching manualbashing

Network Troubleshooting

Ping from iDRAC:

racadm ping <ip>

View Logs

Raw gist URLs follow the pattern below:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/[gist username]/[gist ID]/raw/[gist commit ID]/[file name]

To view the latest version, simply remove the [gist commit ID] part:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/[gist username]/[gist ID]/raw/[file name]

This is mostly an experiment with dynamic parameters in PowerShell.

It wraps around ColorTool.exe:

choco install colortool

and uses console themes from this repository:

Pimping Up Your PowerShell & Cmder with Posh-Git, Oh-My-Posh, & Powerline Fonts

Backstory (TLDR)

I work as a full-stack developer at work. We are a Windows & Azure shop, so we are using Windows as our development platform, hence this customization.

For my console needs, I am using Cmder which is based on ConEmu with PowerShell as my shell of choice.

Yes, yes, I know nowadays you can use the Linux subsystem on Windows 10 which allow you to run Ubuntu on Windows. If you are looking for customization of the Ubuntu bash shell, check out this article by Scott Hanselman.

Use this in a function to exit on ESC, without overriding the ESC key globally.

GuiEscape:
    Gui, Destroy
return

Build pipeline

Use the following steps in your pipeline (Windows build agent):

steps:
- checkout: self
  clean: true
  persistCredentials: true

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Open a gist and paste the screenshot to the commentary field of a markdown gist
Take the resulting markdown expression and paste it back into your gist.

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/panpipe

	function Invoke-GridHistory {

	[Alias('ghistory')]
	param(
	$Filter = '*'
	)
	Get-History \|
	Where-Object CommandLine -Like $Filter \|
	Select-Object -ExpandProperty CommandLine \|
	Out-GridView -OutputMode Single \|

	$VerbosePreference = 'Continue'
	foreach ($vmh in (Get-VmHost))
	{
	Write-Verbose "Move all VMs from $vm to $targetHost"
	$vmh \| Get-VM \| Move-VM -Destination $targetVMHost

	Write-Verbose "Send $vmh to Maintenance mode"
	$vmh \| Set-VMHost -State Maintenance

	Write-Verbose "Restart $vmh"