Category Archives: Fitnesse

Silent IIS UrlRewrite, ARR and FARM provisioning by #PowerShell

Recently, I had the task to run several fitnesse instances in on the single AWS EC2 instance. The requirement was what each fitnesse instance should be accessible trough port 80 (HTTP). IIS as reverse proxy came to the rescue. But there were one more requirement – IIS Reverse Proxy configuration should be automated. Here >> konstantinvlasenko/IISContinue reading “Silent IIS UrlRewrite, ARR and FARM provisioning by #PowerShell”

Installing AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell through PowerShell

AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell (new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile(‘http://sdk-for-net.amazonwebservices.com/latest/AWSToolsAndSDKForNet.msi’, ‘c:\downloads\AWSToolsAndSDKForNet.msi’) (start c:\downloads\AWSToolsAndSDKForNet.msi ‘/qn’ -wait -PassThru).ExitCode

HOWTO: Create AWS EC2 spot instance with the specific IAM Role

Get IAMInstanceProfile $iam=[Amazon.AWSClientFactory]::CreateAmazonIdentityManagementClient($awsKeyId, $awsKey) $req = (new-object Amazon.IdentityManagement.Model.GetInstanceProfileRequest).WithInstanceProfileName(‘S3Reader’) $res = $iam.GetInstanceProfile($req1).GetInstanceProfileResult $iamprofile = (new-object Amazon.EC2.Model.IAMInstanceProfile).WithArn($res.InstanceProfile.Arn).WithId($res.InstanceProfile.InstanceProfileId) Create LaunchSpecification $spec = (new-object Amazon.EC2.Model.LaunchSpecification).WithInstanceProfile($iamprofile).WithSecurityGroup(‘your security group’) $spec.ImageId = ‘ami0000000’ $spec.InstanceType = ‘m1.small’ Create spot request $ec2=[Amazon.AWSClientFactory]::CreateAmazonEC2Client($awsKeyId, $awsKey) $req = new-object Amazon.EC2.Model.RequestSpotInstancesRequest $req.InstanceCount = 1 $req.SpotPrice = ‘0.02’ $req.LaunchSpecification = $spec $ec2.RequestSpotInstances($req).RequestSpotInstancesResult.SpotInstanceRequest[0].SpotInstanceRequestId

PowerShell: Wait till time service initiated synchronization with the time source (Windows 2008)

$ew = new-object system.management.ManagementEventWatcher $ew.query = “Select * From __InstanceCreationEvent Where TargetInstance ISA ‘Win32_NTLogEvent'” while(!(get-eventlog -logname ‘System’ -Source ‘Microsoft-Windows-Time-Service’ | ? {$_.EventId -eq 35})){ $ew.WaitForNextEvent() }

PowerShell: Wait till time service initiated synchronization with the time source (Windows 2003)

$ew = new-object system.management.ManagementEventWatcher $ew.query = “Select * From __InstanceCreationEvent Where TargetInstance ISA ‘Win32_NTLogEvent'” while(!(get-eventlog -logname ‘System’ -Source ‘W32Time’ | ? {$_.EventId -eq 35})){ $ew.WaitForNextEvent() }

Windows Core: Install PowerShell 3.0 by using PowerShell 2.0

Run the script below in the PowerShell 2.0 on your Windows Core (new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile(‘http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/6/1/361DAE4E-E5B9-4824-B47F-6421A6C59227/dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64_SC.exe’, ‘c:\dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64_SC.exe’) .\dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64_SC.exe (new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile(‘http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/7/6/E76850B8-DA6E-4FF5-8CCE-A24FC513FD16/Windows6.1-KB2506143-x64.msu’, ‘c:\Windows6.1-KB2506143-x64.msu’) .\Windows6.1-KB2506143-x64.msu It is not unattended installation. You will be prompted several times to click Next.

Installing AWS CloudFormation Command Line Tools on Windows Core

AWS CloudFormation Command Line Tools (new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile(‘https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-cli/AWSCloudFormation-cli.zip’, ‘c:\AWSCloudFormation-cli.zip’) (new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile(‘https://s3.amazonaws.com/velaskec/7z920.exe’, ‘c:\7z920.exe’) (start 7z ‘x c:\AWSCloudFormation-cli.zip -oc:\ -r’ -wait -PassThru).ExitCode

AWS PowerShell store credentials

The AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell enable you to set up default credentials and a default region which can be used in every PowerShell session you run. This approach avoids having to specify these every time you run a cmdlet. The default credentials are placed in the credentials store under the profile name, AWS PS Default.Continue reading “AWS PowerShell store credentials”