Lately our continuous integration process has encountered some errors with automatic SSRS report deployments to our Test environment when reports are merged to the appropriate branch. Unfortunately when this fails the process makes no attempt to re-deploy the reports on the next build. Those CI failures left me with a need to mass download the…
Start Scheduled Task and Wait On Completion with PowerShell
Some of our application servers have scheduled tasks to deploy a staged build of our application to the current app server. In the past when I wanted to manually run the task I would do one of the following: Remote desktop into the app server and run the task from Scheduled Tasks Use Computer Management…
Out of Office PowerShell Script, Part I
Sometimes the small things annoy me, and recently that was the overhead in the Out of Office (OOF) process at work. It’s not overly bearing but enough to be annoying: Create and route a record in our custom Leave Request System for approval Update BMC Remedy System with planned PTO (i.e. notice for routed HelpDesk…
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Open PowerShell here I recently ran across a couple blog posts on adding an “Open Powershell window here” explorer folder extension similar to what was often done with the dying command prompt. I made a few modifications to include both the x86 version of PowerShell as well as the 64 bit version. I run on…
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For more on this topic, check out my book Instant Oracle Database and PowerShell How-to. The What The past couple days in between tasks at work I decided to start a basic set of PowerShell cmdlets for Oracle. I wanted an easy way to work with our DB from the command line while leveraging the…
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