Providing delegated administration to groups that need to perform various security functions has always been a difficult task, but thanks to Powershell V3 (currently in CTP 1 as of this blog post) and PowerGUI we have new tools to provide a solution. The Problem You have groups outside of database administration that need to have…
Tag Archive: PowerGUI
Creating Icons Files
While working on a PowerPack for PowerGUI I needed to create a bunch of icon files from bitmaps files so I started with a quick web search. I didn’t find any PowerShell scripts suited to the task, but did find an excellent C# WinForm by Haresh Ambaliya: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Convert-Image-file-to-Icon-c927d9f7 Although the C# app is useful, it…
SQL Server Powershell Extensions PowerGUI PowerPack
If you’ve been working with Powershell, you most certainly have heard of PowerGUI, for those of you who haven’t PowerGUI is a free utility provided by Quest. It’s both a script editor with PowerShell syntax highlighting and GUI builder for PowerShell scripts. The editor is a very usable standalone component which I recommend to folks looking for…
