Remove an iSCSI Target Portal with PowerShell

I ran into a small problem with removing iSCSI Target Portals using PowerShell the other day and thought it might be worth documenting. Pretend you have an iSCSI Target Portal configured with a Target Portal Address of 192.168.129.24: You might therefore expect that you could remove this Target Portal with the command: Unfortunately this won’t work: And neither does this: What you actually have to do is specify both the Target Portal Address and the Initiator Portal Address when deleting an iSCSI Target Portal:
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WMF 5.0 Download Removed from Download Center

Bit of a bump in the WMF 5.0 road today: Microsoft has removed the WMF 5.0 RTM download from the download center because of a significant bug: We recently released Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 RTM delivering many requested improvements and fixes, via the Microsoft Download Center as announced in a previous blog post. However, we have discovered a bug which resets the PowerShell module environment during installation. As this issue can have a serious impact on our customers, we are taking the action to stop delivery of WMF 5.
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Creating Professional DSC Resources – Part 6

The purpose of this series of articles is to try and document a few of the lessons I learned while releasing new DSC resources as well as contributing to the existing Microsoft Community DSC resources. These articles are not intended to tell you how to write DSC resources from a programming perspective, but to give you some ideas on what might be expected of a DSC resource you’re releasing to the public.
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Creating Professional DSC Resources - Part 5

The purpose of this series of articles is to try and document a few of the lessons I learned while releasing new DSC resources as well as contributing to the existing Microsoft Community DSC resources. These articles are not intended to tell you how to write DSC resources from a programming perspective, but to give you some ideas on what might be expected of a DSC resource you’re releasing to the public.
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Markdown Preview in Visual Studio Code

I used to keep around a copy of Markdown Pad to enable me to preview any markdown files I created. However, after an update to a Awesomium SDK Markdown Pad stopped working. I reported the issue but it hasn’t been resolved yet. But after Irwin Strachan mentioned using Visual Studio Code as a Markdown editor, I wondered if there was an extension that allowed it to Preview the Markdown as well - because that was really all that was missing for me to do away with Markdown Pad.
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