I wasn’t intending on making this a 2 part post (Part 1), but I couldn’t leave the code alone. I mentioned in part 1 that additional encoding options could be added, and that’s exactly what I have done here.

Here’s a quick one. In this post we’ll create 2 basic functions for encoding and decoding strings.

Creating VMs from a base image can make your life a lot easier. Not having to sit through and select the same options during an OS install is a big time save.
A lot of work can go into creating a base image, but it doesn’t have to. I will briefly touch on how to create a base Windows image and then get into the automation of creating a Hyper-V VM from that template.

In this post I will be building a Hyper-V Virtual Machine from scratch, using only PowerShell

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I try to run commands that need administrative rights without checking if I have those permissions in my current session. There have even been cases where I have built a function or script that needed a single command to run as an Administrator somewhere near the end, only to have the function get half way before saying ‘Access denied’.

I recently found myself having to do some testing on a few Windows Server 2008r2 machines.