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Summary: Manipulate string data from Get-Date in PowerShell. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is here today to have a little more fun with our silly project to build a hexadecimal clock in the PowerShell console. Well, after all, who said scripting wasn’t allowed to be fun? That’s usually how I learn, by playing about! Yesterday, we defined...

Summary: Use the built in features of PowerShell to easily add new Element to a string array. I created an array of strings in PowerShell, but I need to add to it. Is there a simple way to do this? Absolutely. Just use += to add an element to your string array. In the following example, we add a new element to the array that’s named $HSG

Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is here today, and I’m going to sit down and have some fun this week. Today I was feeling a bit bored and, for some reason, the thought “hexadecimal clock” entered my head. Don’t ask why because I’m not quite sure about the “Why” part. But, it just did. Then, I sat down and thought, what’s involved? Really? ...

Summary: Use the Azure Resource Manager cmdlets to assign credentials and create the virtual machine. This blog post is part of a series about how to create Azure Resource Manager virtual machines by using PowerShell. To get the most out of this series, read the posts in order. If you’re new to PowerShell, you might want to start with ...

Summary: Use the Azure Resource Manager cmdlets to select the operating system image for a virtual machine. This blog post is part of a series about how to create Azure Resource Manager virtual machines by using PowerShell. To get the most out of this series, read the posts in order. If you’re new to PowerShell, you might want to start...