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    • EddieJenningsE
      EddieJennings @dafyre
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      @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      This will sound super-n00bish, but oh well. $args in PowerShell has changed my life. That is all. Continue with your regularly scheduled ML trolling, lurking, and posting.

      How so?

      I really only ever used it to check for extra arguments/parameters in my functions / scripts to output an error if the $args.count is higher than it should be, for example.

      What are you using it for?

      I'm working on a script right now that will make use of start-job and using $args lets me pass the value of a variable between scopes. In this case, I'd be passing a value from earlier in the script into the start-job scriptblock.

      Man, it took me forever to figure out how to do something similar!

      Hence, my life being changed 😄

      What are you doing with start-job ? I've not had a good reason to use that yet.

      Because of an $issue I have a script that runs periodically that checks the max RAM available for VMs within certain Citrix silos. At its core, the script runs Get-WMIObject against the servers. Every once in a while we have a server that's online, but for some reason is having a problem, which bascially causes the WMI query to never time out nor finish.

      My plan is to rewrite the script to use jobs, which I can kill after X amount of time. Doing this will allow my script to return 3 possible results: 1. VM is showing the issue with RAM. 2. VM is offline, and now 3. VM is online, but WMI query is taking longer than it should -- go investigate.

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      • zachary715Z
        zachary715 @dbeato
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        @dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        @dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        Finished setting up BookStack with LDAP

        What a pain but is all good.

        This is something I've been looking at doing just haven't stopped to play with yet. Any bumps you ran into that you're willing to share please do to minimize my pains :face_with_stuck-out_tongue:

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        • zachary715Z
          zachary715
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          Don't know if there are any baseball fans in here, but yesterday's Opening Day games were crazy! Very excited to have baseball back.

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          • WrCombsW
            WrCombs @zachary715
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            @zachary715 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

            Don't know if there are any baseball fans in here, but yesterday's Opening Day games were crazy! Very excited to have baseball back.

            Didn't get to watch any yesterday - work got in the way

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            • zachary715Z
              zachary715 @WrCombs
              last edited by

              @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              @zachary715 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              Don't know if there are any baseball fans in here, but yesterday's Opening Day games were crazy! Very excited to have baseball back.

              Didn't get to watch any yesterday - work got in the way

              Here's some quick highlights when you get some time... https://www.mlb.com/news/memorable-moments-from-opening-day-2019

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              • EddieJenningsE
                EddieJennings @zachary715
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                @zachary715 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                Don't know if there are any baseball fans in here, but yesterday's Opening Day games were crazy! Very excited to have baseball back.

                I was able to catch the last few innings of the A's game. Unfortunately, this was game 3 for the A's, since they and Seattle played two regular season games in Japan a week ago.

                <rant>
                It boils my blood that they had to play two regular season games and be in the appropriate mindset for it, and then play three more exhibitions games.
                </rant>

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                • WrCombsW
                  WrCombs @zachary715
                  last edited by

                  @zachary715 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  @zachary715 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  Don't know if there are any baseball fans in here, but yesterday's Opening Day games were crazy! Very excited to have baseball back.

                  Didn't get to watch any yesterday - work got in the way

                  Here's some quick highlights when you get some time... https://www.mlb.com/news/memorable-moments-from-opening-day-2019

                  Sounds like an amazing opening day.
                  Kind of salty that I missed it.

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                  • zachary715Z
                    zachary715 @EddieJennings
                    last edited by

                    @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    @zachary715 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    Don't know if there are any baseball fans in here, but yesterday's Opening Day games were crazy! Very excited to have baseball back.

                    I was able to catch the last few innings of the A's game. Unfortunately, this was game 3 for the A's, since they and Seattle played two regular season games in Japan a week ago.

                    <rant>
                    It boils my blood that they had to play two regular season games and be in the appropriate mindset for it, and then play three more exhibitions games.
                    </rant>

                    That was a great experience for the people of Japan getting to see their hometown legend as he goes out into retirement. Not ideal for the A's maybe, but part of the MLB efforts to expand the game into other parts of the world. The team I follow, the Reds, will be playing down in Mexico in a couple weeks and then later in the year there will be a game or two in London.

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                    • ObsolesceO
                      Obsolesce @dafyre
                      last edited by Obsolesce

                      @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      @Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      This will sound super-n00bish, but oh well. $args in PowerShell has changed my life. That is all. Continue with your regularly scheduled ML trolling, lurking, and posting.

                      How so?

                      I really only ever used it to check for extra arguments/parameters in my functions / scripts to output an error if the $args.count is higher than it should be, for example.

                      What are you using it for?

                      I'm working on a script right now that will make use of start-job and using $args lets me pass the value of a variable between scopes. In this case, I'd be passing a value from earlier in the script into the start-job scriptblock.

                      Man, it took me forever to figure out how to do something similar!

                      You could just set the -scope of the variable to global...

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                      • EddieJenningsE
                        EddieJennings @Obsolesce
                        last edited by

                        @Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        @Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        This will sound super-n00bish, but oh well. $args in PowerShell has changed my life. That is all. Continue with your regularly scheduled ML trolling, lurking, and posting.

                        How so?

                        I really only ever used it to check for extra arguments/parameters in my functions / scripts to output an error if the $args.count is higher than it should be, for example.

                        What are you using it for?

                        I'm working on a script right now that will make use of start-job and using $args lets me pass the value of a variable between scopes. In this case, I'd be passing a value from earlier in the script into the start-job scriptblock.

                        Man, it took me forever to figure out how to do something similar!

                        You could just set the -scope of the variable to global...

                        I've never used -scope when defining a variable. I'll have to try that out. 🙂

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                        • ObsolesceO
                          Obsolesce @EddieJennings
                          last edited by

                          @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          @Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          @Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          This will sound super-n00bish, but oh well. $args in PowerShell has changed my life. That is all. Continue with your regularly scheduled ML trolling, lurking, and posting.

                          How so?

                          I really only ever used it to check for extra arguments/parameters in my functions / scripts to output an error if the $args.count is higher than it should be, for example.

                          What are you using it for?

                          I'm working on a script right now that will make use of start-job and using $args lets me pass the value of a variable between scopes. In this case, I'd be passing a value from earlier in the script into the start-job scriptblock.

                          Man, it took me forever to figure out how to do something similar!

                          You could just set the -scope of the variable to global...

                          I've never used -scope when defining a variable. I'll have to try that out. 🙂

                          https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/set-variable?view=powershell-5.1

                          Change to version 6 documentation if you are using that.

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                          • jmooreJ
                            jmoore @zachary715
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                            @zachary715 I missed them all unfortunately and I hate that.

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                            • zachary715Z
                              zachary715 @jmoore
                              last edited by

                              @jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              @zachary715 I missed them all unfortunately and I hate that.

                              Well I've got good news for you. There's 161 games left to be played :winking_face:

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                              • jmooreJ
                                jmoore @zachary715
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                                @zachary715 haha yeah!

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                                • LilAngL
                                  LilAng
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                                  Brewing half caffeine coffee. Because its the weekend and i need all the sleep i can get

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                                  • WrCombsW
                                    WrCombs @LilAng
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                                    @LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    Brewing half caffeine coffee. Because its the weekend and i need all the sleep i can get

                                    Not me. I need to be as caffeinated i can get today !
                                    No specific reason...

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                                    • LilAngL
                                      LilAng @WrCombs
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                                      @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      Brewing half caffeine coffee. Because its the weekend and i need all the sleep i can get

                                      Not me. I need to be as caffeinated i can get today !
                                      No specific reason...

                                      haha I have been having trouble sleeping and i drink 3-5 cups a day. today it snowed so i'm cold and will drink more so i'll reduce caffeine.

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                                      • WrCombsW
                                        WrCombs @LilAng
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                                        @LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        Brewing half caffeine coffee. Because its the weekend and i need all the sleep i can get

                                        Not me. I need to be as caffeinated i can get today !
                                        No specific reason...

                                        haha I have been having trouble sleeping and i drink 3-5 cups a day. today it snowed so i'm cold and will drink more so i'll reduce caffeine.

                                        Fair enough !

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller
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                                          @Romo had a small car accident this morning, so we are extra busy around here. And we have four people to interview when he gets back!

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @LilAng
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                                            @LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            @WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            @LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            Brewing half caffeine coffee. Because its the weekend and i need all the sleep i can get

                                            Not me. I need to be as caffeinated i can get today !
                                            No specific reason...

                                            haha I have been having trouble sleeping and i drink 3-5 cups a day. today it snowed so i'm cold and will drink more so i'll reduce caffeine.

                                            3-5 cups a day will definitely cause sleeping issues.

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