Office 365: Office 2016 Installation from USBKey using relative path

[30/04/17] Update: Following this post, I’ve pushed this script to GitHub if you want to contribute. I was trying to use the Office Deployment Tool (ODT) with a relative path for our Office 2016 ProPlus deployment (on USB Key & Hard Drive). USB Keys are mounted each time with different letters depending on how many devices are already mounted. I was stuck because the ODT XML Configuration file does not support relative paths. ...

March 9, 2017 · 2 min · 219 words · zoph

Using Jira REST API with PowerShell

For automation purposes, I needed a tool to interact with the REST API of Atlassian Jira over PowerShell commands. I found a great module developed by replicaJunction and contributors on GitHub called PSJira. Installation You will need PowerShell >=3.0 Install-Module PSJira (if you have Package Management Installed Module) and for sure, an Atlassian Jira instance First-Run 1 Set-JiraConfigServer -Server 'https://my.jira.server.com:port' Setup jira credentials in .ps1 Encrypt credentials (Once) Do this with the Windows session of the user who will launch the .ps1 scripts (service account) ...

January 3, 2017 · 2 min · 251 words · zoph