Windows PowerShell vs PowerShell

There are few differences in the PowerShell language between Windows PowerShell and PowerShell. The differences are most notable in the availability and behavior of PowerShell cmdlets between Windows and non-Windows platforms and the changes that stem from the differences between the .NET Framework and .NET Core.

March 26, 2022 · 1 min · 97 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

Repost: Welcome to the New Normal

I couldn’t resist of not sharing this. Excelent post from P3 regarding our friendship with Corona virus.

March 13, 2020 · 1 min · 18 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

Power Query – Week start and end dates in same column

Someone asked me the other day below thing: “On the same column I want a Range of dates not Duration between two dates So I have a Creation date and fulfillment date I need to come up with a column of weekly Range like for example 10/21 – 10/27 10/28 – 11/01 11/02 – 11/09…

November 2, 2019 · 3 min · 443 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

TRUE or FALSE?

December 27, 2018 · 0 min · 0 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

ITIL 4 coming soon

A new version of ITIL will be released in early 2019.

December 19, 2018 · 1 min · 66 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

How to get and view WordPress Statistics in Power BI

Soheil Bakhshi from http://biinsight.com has a super good article on how to get your stats from a WordPress site/blog and analyze them in Power BI. For lazy guys out there, he already built a Power BI template file that you can use straight away. The only thing you’ll need is WordPress API key but don’t…

May 11, 2018 · 1 min · 68 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

Expressions that yield variant data-type cannot be used to define calculated columns.

Error: “Expressions that yield variant data-type cannot be used to define calculated columns.“ Cause: IF based Calculated Columns in Power BI or Power Pivot with 2 different data types is not allowed. Solution: Format one data type as needed using FORMAT() function. [code language=”sql”] Age = IF ( TableName[Birthday] < TODAY(), FORMAT ( Year (…

April 26, 2018 · 1 min · 80 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

HTML vs XHTML

Ever wondered what HTML and XHTML is about? Long and official story can be found at W3Schools. Short story, below. Simply put, XHTML is the same as HTML but stricter. There are rules in place that one must follow. You are no longer allowed to leave tags unclosed or place them wherever you want. And…

March 29, 2018 · 2 min · 292 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

Ok, e-books

Let’s start with some bullshit talk to tell you how this topic started. Feel free to skip it if you’re not curious. Personally, I’m not the kind of person who reads books not related to IT; think I can count all books I read throughout my lifetime and there are no more than 10, but…

March 28, 2018 · 4 min · 664 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

Getting back online

After many years, giving this blog a rebirth. I lost my backup files and only found very few posts and those mainly about ConfigMgr 2012. Will post them below anyway; better few than nothing. Next planned articles will be about e-books and plain html maybe, we shall see Stay tuned! Also need to create/update “About”…

March 27, 2018 · 1 min · 67 words · Vitalie Ciobanu