Five Certificate Headaches in a Month
Five certificate problems across five services in one month — and the Certz commands I reached for instead of the usual OpenSSL contortions.
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Five certificate problems across five services in one month — and the Certz commands I reached for instead of the usual OpenSSL contortions.
Certz is a cross-platform CLI for creating, inspecting, linting, and monitoring X.509 certificates — here's what shipped in 0.4.
Every new website requires some level of security configuration before launch.
My friend Neil Shack released an excellent series of books that every Sitecore enthusiast should have entitled The Little Book of Sitecore Tips .
In some recent conversations on Sitecore Slack Chat I needed to determine why a component script in SXA was not working as desired (broke).
Have you ever wondered how to notify a user about workflow changes to an item in Sitecore, but not through email?
Let me start off by saying that the work done by Himadri here is a great example at the flexibility of SPE .
Here recently I was thinking about how I could perform some of the system maintenance tasks that you would have to manually run from the Sitecore Control Panel.
Today I needed a quick report to find out the number of "pages" on our site.
Question came up at work today on how to move a workstation in Active Directory from one OU to another.
Recently I challenged myself to find integrations with Sitecore PowerShell Extensions that have not yet been published.
As of late I've spent more time using Sitecore PowerShell Extensions .Today I decided to change the wallpaper with a random image from the media library.
Sitecore PowerShell Extensions Delete unused media items older than 30 days.
Every once in a while I have what I think is a cool idea.
Recently I needed to help a colleague run a scheduled task on-demand.
Running PowerShell Commands The command Get-Verb is an example of a cmdlet (pronounced "command-let").
The other day I was talking to Mike Reynolds (@mike_i_reynolds) about his idea of a FileWatcher for the Sitecore CMS log files.
I was trolling through the Sitecore Marketplace the other day and found this cool module for reporting about media library items called Unused Media Manager .
Today I was doing some reporting on file sizes and saw that I had columns with data in bytes.
Note: The employeeID is formatted to 7 characters so that if you had numbers with leading 0s they would still be matched.
Here's the link to get the latest version of Windows PowerShell.
$code = @" using System; namespace AwesomeNamespace { public enum AwesomeActivityType { Nothing, Sleeping, Eating, UsingSPE } public class AwesomeClass { public
Below is an example of how to unlock all items under the Content tree.
Here's a quick way to kick users :) # Use the static class to get the list of sessions then for each session kick the user using the session id.
I'm at it again. Had fun today creating packages and serializing items with SPE.
Creating a function. Code below.
Sounds like I have a lisp :) Need to work on my annunciation.
Today I needed to create a report of all Active Directory users with duplicate EmployeeId.
Basic run through on using the Console and ISE from within Sitecore.
Finally put together an introduction to the Sitecore PowerShell Extensions module.
While getting access transferred from one user to another, you may need to know how the group memberships are different between two users.
I've been meaning to put this together for a while and just now got around to doing it.
Today at work we had a need to add users to specific Active Directory groups based on the first letter of the first name.
I put together a PowerShell Script Module some time ago and thought I would make it available for others.
If you have not already, I highly recommend you work on the events for the Scripting Games .
I wanted to use a "using block" found in C# to dispose of objects in PowerShell such as Streams or other object types that require the calling of Dispose.
I found it a little difficult to bring in functions into a session so I thought this would help others with what helps me get the job done.
Today I was working on our automated build process at work, and found myself running a batch file in a console window that I wanted to remain open.
Here are a few quick steps to "undo" the default changes performed by Enable-PSRemoting.
I've been playing around with PowerShell remoting quite a bit lately and I thought making a tutorial on the basics would help solidify my understanding.
Introduction on using the splatting feature in Windows PowerShell 3.
Ed Wilson "The Scripting Guy" posted a great article a while back on how to determine if a command exists here .
I saw an article about Adobe's release of a new font called Source Code Pro which was designed in part to help reduce the confusion between certain characters.
Edit: I renamed the function because I didn't really like the name.
I started a training series on using Windows PowerShell 3.
I found that making these videos at home is far more relaxing than trying to sit in my cube at work.
PowerShell : Downloading with BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) The background: Recently I have been learning PowerShell.