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Answer for SO question

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38315185/how-to-use-bats-mock-to-assert-against-calls-to-a-mocked-script-in-bash-testin Brief suggestion:

There is a newer more actively developer bats-mock that uses a slightly different approach that could be worth exploring. https://github.com/grayhemp/bats-mock

I'll be back later with.....MORE.

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FreeDOS easy to update USB or PXE boot (Legacy or EFI)

I've been wanting to do this for quite a while, ever since I had to make up dozens of USB drives with a system image for deployment to migrate from Windows XP to Windows 7 for a large enterprise. Any tweaks to the image required re-writing all the drives, and the quickest way to burn up a cheap drive is repeated reads and writes. Then I learned partway through the rollout from the support staff performing the hands-on reimaging that on some systems the boot took forever, and while investigating I discovered that there was a BIOS update that remedied the issue and the system boot dropped from 10-15 minutes to a minute or two. After that I added updating the BIOS to our reimage procedure checklist, but again I was making multiple copies of the USB so that each tech could have one to do the fairly quick BIOS update before switching over to the other USB for imaging the system. Luckily at the time I had opted for the USB "full" image of FreeDOS which had sp

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If wanting to run a .ps1 with a double click it IS possible to edit the registry to allow this, the issue is that scripts that aren't elevated may fail, and it bypasses some of the ExecutionPolicy restrictions or hardcodes the same policy for all of them.

This Q&A has a number of options for making it work, but the best practice scenario I'm going with is creating a .bat file to call a .ps1 file, and then putting a shortcut to the .bat file on the Public Desktop so that the shortcut can be set to run as Administrator and prompt for the password if UAC is configured that way.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10137146/is-there-any-way-to-make-powershell-script-work-by-double-clicking-ps1-file

For reference the "Run with PowerShell" in the right click menu uses this as the "Command" registry key, "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" "-Command" "if((Get-ExecutionPolicy ) -ne 'AllSigned') { Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process Bypass }; & '%1'"

If a user has changed the association

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Bash Madness

This was conceived out of a desire to avoid if [ -z $1 ]; then echo "SomeVar required"; exit 1; fi for all the positionals since the number I want to handle might change. Eventually it may handle shift and named or - or -- delimited arguments, but we are starting of simple slow.

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Taken from https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/activedirectoryua/2016/02/09/identity-management-for-unix-idmu-is-deprecated-in-windows-server/

3.   Scripts (preferred method for bulk operations and automation)
   

· Using Active Directory PowerShell Cmdlet:

o Below is sample code to query/configure the various attributes

Import-Module ActiveDirectory

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am espoelstra on github.
• I am ewspoelstra (https://keybase.io/ewspoelstra) on keybase.
• I have a public key ASA4Wj5n6SKF6igKIU17oqoo1MCo5aCHClgnczS_YobHKgo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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#Based on <http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Get-PendingReboot-Query-bdb79542>
function Test-RebootRequired 
{
    $result = @{
        CBSRebootPending =$false
        WindowsUpdateRebootRequired = $false
        FileRenamePending = $false
        SCCMRebootPending = $false
    }

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Set-StrictMode -Version Latest

# Constants
if (!(Test-Path variable:\NET_FW_DISABLED))        { Set-Variable NET_FW_DISABLED        $False }
if (!(Test-Path variable:\NET_FW_ENABLED))         { Set-Variable NET_FW_ENABLED         $True }
if (!(Test-Path variable:\NET_FW_IP_PROTOCOL_TCP)) { Set-Variable NET_FW_IP_PROTOCOL_TCP 6 }
if (!(Test-Path variable:\NET_FW_IP_PROTOCOL_UDP)) { Set-Variable NET_FW_IP_PROTOCOL_UDP 17 }
if (!(Test-Path variable:\NET_FW_PROFILE_DOMAIN))  { Set-Variable NET_FW_PROFILE_DOMAIN  0x1 }
if (!(Test-Path variable:\NET_FW_PROFILE_PRIVATE)) { Set-Variable NET_FW_PROFILE_PRIVATE 0x2 }
if (!(Test-Path variable:\NET_FW_PROFILE_PUBLIC))  { Set-Variable NET_FW_PROFILE_PUBLIC  0x2 }

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$commandArgs = "/i Octopus-Server.msi /quiet INSTALLLOCATION=C:\OctopusServer /lv Octopus-Server-Install-Log.txt"
Start-Process "msiexec" $commandArgs -Wait -Verb RunAs

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	var server = "http://yourserveraddress:8065/"; //Your server and IP address
	var apiKey = "API-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX";             // Get this from your 'profile' page in the Octopus web portal


	var endpoint = new OctopusServerEndpoint(server, apiKey);
	var repository = new OctopusRepository(endpoint);
		
	var task = new Octopus.Client.Model.TaskResource();
	task.Name = "AdHocScript";
	task.Description = "Script invoked via API";