Windows PowerShell’s execution policy is well known feature that helps prevent users from accidentally running malicious scripts. I hit an interesting situation recently where Get-ExecutionPolicy showed that I was allowed to run scripts, but in practice I still couldn’t execute scripts from a .NET application’s hosted runspace. What was the problem? The execution policy settings differed across x64 and x86 processes. Since this problem isn’t covered in the official documentation I figured it deserved a quick write-up.
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Book Review: Cloud Architecture Patterns: Using Microsoft Azure
Building scalable systems for the cloud involves leveraging unique design patterns specific to cloud services. In Bill Wilder’s book, Cloud Architecture Patterns: Using Microsoft Azure, he walks through these patterns in detail with practical examples for Microsoft Azure. Although this book is now several years old, most of the patterns still hold up today.
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