After reading a number of Windows Terminal posts by Thomas Maurer and seeing Windows Terminal Preview available in my Windows App Store, I finally decided to dive in again. I was sooo excited when Microsoft first made the announcement but was disappointed when I found out I’d have to run a specific version of Windows and compile the app myself. Whaat? No way, too much work. Now, it’s more widely available, so I decided to jump in and try it out. I love it and even miss Windows Terminal when I develop PowerShell on my Mac. So here’s the Theme I’m contributing, which is based off of my favorite ..read more

Just ran into this issue and solved it by using powershell -ExecutionPolicy bypass C:\path\to\script.ps1. Seems there was an issue with the signed module so I just set it to not check the sign ..read more

Recently, I ran into an issue after applying a few security updates and subsequent reboots: a number of the SQL services did not start successfully. After running the following script, I’ve had success with SQL services starting as expected after reboot. It’s basically a built-in service start retry. You can read more on Microsoft’s docs page or for a visual guide, check out Ibrahim Soliman’s blog. In this case, I used a script instead of the GUI because the GUI is limited. In the script above, I can specify exact times per retry whereas in the GUI I cannot. Also, I can’t believe I never noti ..read more