Sergey Babkin
Error handling, part 4: error information recap
<<Part 3 Part 5>> Picking up again the series on the error handling, here is the summary...
Author: Sergey Babkin Date: 04/21/2015
How to convert a short 8.3 path name to a long path name in PowerShell
Here is another recipe that seems to be far from obvious. I've needed to convert a path name that...
Author: Sergey Babkin Date: 04/01/2015
Another solution to multi-hop PowerShell remoting
I've discovered another solutions for the problem of two hops in the PowerShell remoting, that I...
Author: Sergey Babkin Date: 03/18/2015
Error handling, part3: the ETW way
<< Part 2 Part 4>> The Part 2 ended with the summary: In a good error reporting system,...
Author: Sergey Babkin Date: 03/17/2015
Error handling, part 2: error types
<< Part 1 Part3 >> Over the years I've seen various error handling conventions and...
Author: Sergey Babkin Date: 03/13/2015
Error handling, part 1: how not to
Part 2>> With this post I start the series on how to handle the errors right. I've been...
Author: Sergey Babkin Date: 03/06/2015
Security descriptors, part3: raw descriptors and PowerShell
<< Part 2 In this part I'll get to the manipulation of the security descriptors with...
Author: Sergey Babkin Date: 03/02/2015
Security descriptors, part 2: principals, SIDs and PowerShell
<< Part 1 Part 3 >> Now let's get to the code examples. Dealing with the security...
Author: Sergey Babkin Date: 02/27/2015
Security descriptors, part 1: what they are, in simple words
Part 2 >> I've been dealing with the security descriptors recently. I've figured out for...
Author: Sergey Babkin Date: 02/26/2015
Time conversions in PowerShell (and .NET in general)
I've been dealing with the timestamps on the files, and I needed to convert between 3 formats: the...
Author: Sergey Babkin Date: 02/20/2015
Powershell script blocks are not closures
I've been experimenting some more with the script blocks, and I've found that my description of them...
Author: Sergey Babkin Date: 01/02/2015
Making credentials
The PowerShell remoting commands use the parameter -Credential. If you use a string for its value,...
Author: Sergey Babkin Date: 12/08/2014
sed in PowerShell
One of the things that had been annoying me in PowerShell is the lack of sed, the Streaming text...
Author: Sergey Babkin Date: 11/25/2014
How to create a brand new registry hive
First of all, the registry hive is a file that holds the contents of a whole registry root key on...
Author: Sergey Babkin Date: 11/10/2014
calling the script blocks in PowerShell
The script blocks are the PowerShell way to pass a chunk of code as an argument to a command. So...
Author: Sergey Babkin Date: 10/30/2014
Introduction
In my background I'm a Unix (and sometimes Linux) guy. So now when I work on Windows, I discover the...
Author: Sergey Babkin Date: 10/29/2014