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PowerShell – Convert Special Character String Into Numbers

Do you know the situation where you have to handle strings / string data that has a lot of complex characters? In certain situation it is just a pain to deal with strings that have special characters like “*ç%&/()=`è or even an entire Export-CliXML output content. Recently I had the need to embed such data […]

Azure DevOps – Commit URL On Azure Resource Tag (Part 2)

In my previous part I built a solution where I used https://rebrandly.com service to shorten the commit URL and add to a tag on a storage account. The problem might be, that you don’t want to us a public link shortening service like https://rebrandly.com  or any other like https://bit.ly etc. you might be afraid of […]

DSC – xRDSessionDeployment Server Keeps Rebooting

Some time ago I had been doing some interesting deployments using SMA and DSC in a push scenario. What does that mean? SMA is an engine that executes PowerShell (Workflows) at a scalable level and it is THE automation engine for on-premise scenarios, its counterpart in Azure is Azure Automation. DSC is Microsoft’s future way […]