PowerShell - Kyle Does Tech

Use PowerShell to interact with a console application that doesn't accept arguments

Today I needed to use a tool that our in house devs made a little while ago. It changes something in a record on a remote CRM server. The app doesn't accept arguments from the command line as it was never thought anyone would have to run this on 98

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Clear the Windows Update Cache

Sometimes Fairly often, lately it seems, you need to clear the Windows Update download directory. It could be that there's an update that keeps failing to install or no new updates will come down because something is funky. My new policy for any kind of problem with Windows Update is

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Adding a parameter to a Powershell MAML help file.

Recently I've been trying to learn a little bit of C#, and I decided that the best way for me to start is to include something that I'm familiar with, PowerShell. I decided that I would try to wrap Slack.Webhooks in a PowerShell cmdlet, this should've been easy seeing

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Installing Update Rollups on Microsoft Dynamics CRM Reliably.

I've been working with CRM for a little over 7 years now and in that time I've gone through the process of installing rollup updates probably hundreds of times. In our development environment we have about 12 CRM servers ranging anywhere from CRM 4.0 up to Dynamics 365. On

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Install Dynamics 365 for Outlook without an Internet connection using PowerShell

Today I had the need to follow this Technet article and was a little annoyed that I had to manually create all of the folders and download and rename all of these files manually. So I have written a powershell script to do steps 2 - 3 for you. You

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CRM 2011: Moving organisations from one environment to another en masse

In our development environment we have quite a few CRM servers and every now and then we have a need to build new ones and migrate all of the organisations from one server to another. I thought I would share the way that I do it in case you were

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CRM 2011 and WMF5 (PowerShell 5)

I decided to install WMF5 on a CRM 2011 server installed on WS2008R2 and see what happened. Environment The CRM server is deployed in IFD mode and had no Organisations on it at the time WMF5 was installed but was confirmed to be working correctly before the test. SQL2008R2 Reporting

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Configuring IIS SSLBindings in Powershell

There seem to be a lot of posts kicking around the web about how to do this, and they all show the same solution. Unfortunately that solution doesn't seem to work when you are using a wildcard SSL cert and need to target a binding that is identified by it's

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Make Your ADFS Logon Page Less Boring!

If logging into ADFS is something that your users have to do on a daily basis, why make it a boring affair? I wrote a PowerShell Script that randomly chooses an image from a specified directory and sets it as the Illustration for the login page. It has the ability