Moving my blog

I decided to give a try to Jekyll and moved my blog to Github Pages.

Here is the new link: https://lazywinadmin.github.io/

You can subscribe to my RSS feed here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/lazywinadmin

See you there ! 😉

PowerShell - NetBackupPS: Module for Symantec NetBackup

In my previous job, we used Symantec NetBackup to handle backups and restores. To handle some of the reporting, the storage admins were using the Symantec CLI tools (bunch of Exe).
Example of usages: Find the scratch tapes in a particular robot... or in a particular site...

I wanted to parse the output and be able to reuse the information for other commands or to report information to the team. I realised that could be a good exercice to improve my parsing skills using PowerShell and decided to work on some more cmdlets and eventually a module.

Blogger - Adding PowerShell code in your blog post

From time to time you might be interested to have your code syntax highlighted or presented with a neat format in your blog posts.

Plain text is boring and it can really mess up the layout of your post. Also It can be very hard to understand some code without some sort of syntax highlighting.





Here are a few methods that I found useful for Blogger: (those can probably be applied to Wordpress and other platforms)

• Method 1: Using Syntax Highlighter from Alex Gorbatchev
• Method 2: Using an Editor to copy the code as HTML language
• Method 3: HTML CSS Rectangle (PowerShell console look a like)
• Method 4: Embedded code using Gist (GitHub)