https://randombrainworks.com/ Musings of a Desktop Engineer, Scripter, and Developer. 2024-06-19T12:36:13-04:00 Nasir Zubair https://randombrainworks.com/ Jekyll © 2024 Nasir Zubair /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2018-01-28T21:39:17-05:00 2018-01-30T19:30:00-05:00 https://randombrainworks.com/2018/01/28/powershell-background-jobs-runspace-jobs-thread-jobs/ Nasir Zubair

Update Jan 30,2018 Updated with information about Invoke-Parallel and Split-Pipeline. Parallelization in PowerShell has been a painful endeavor. There are the native BackgroundJobs, also refered to as PSJobs, which you may recall kicking off using Start-Job cmdlet. However, they felt clunky to use. This can be attributed to the fact that each job was run in its own process. This, combined wit...

2017-02-27T16:07:51-05:00 2017-02-27T16:07:51-05:00 https://randombrainworks.com/2017/02/27/powershell-canonical-paths-and-case-sensitivity/ Nasir Zubair

PowerShell is not case-sensitive. Windows is not case-sensitive. Generally, these statements do not matter when you’re working with PowerShell and Windows. However, as .Net Core and PowerShell Core move towards supporting *nix platforms, this has the potential of causing problems. Most PowerShell cmdlets, will ingest the path parameter as provided. For example, Set-Location C:\wINDows\sYsTEm...

2017-02-17T17:15:57-05:00 2024-06-17T13:04:57-04:00 https://randombrainworks.com/2017/02/17/git-moving-commits-between-repositories/ Nasir Zubair

I use a local git repository as my scratch/temp workspace when playing around with and developing scripts. I developed this habit a couple of years ago and have stuck with it fairly successfully. A simple PowerShell script I had been toying with recently, ended up evolving into something that can be used in another project. The script, along with commit history, was in my non-public personal r...

2014-09-02T16:55:08-04:00 2024-06-19T12:02:07-04:00 https://randombrainworks.com/2014/09/02/extracting-files-from-appsense-environment-manager-database/ Nasir Zubair

We recently experienced some data loss issues with our Appsense Environment Manager installation. Long story short, a change we made to our application groups ended up deleting the user data associated with a particular application group. What is Appsense Environment Manager, you ask? It’s a desktop personalization platform, which consists of an agent running on the client and a database to go...

2014-03-16T21:33:08-04:00 2024-06-19T12:02:07-04:00 https://randombrainworks.com/2014/03/16/external-filters-for-kendo-grid/ Nasir Zubair

So What is Keno UI Grid?  Kendo UI Grid is a feature rich HTML5 Grid control provided as part of Telerik’s Kendo UI Web framework. Kendo Grid provides a lot of features out of the box, such as filtering, grouping, paging, sorting, and support for various data formats. Filtering The default filtering interface for Kendo Grid is very powerful. However, it is generic to accommodate for all kind...