finetuna, the PowerShell module for fine-tuning OpenAI models, has been updated to version 2.0. This release now depends on PSOpenAI, supports Azure OpenAI services, and provides a demo notebook along with some sample data.

If you're new to finetuna, it makes OpenAI model fine-tuning in PowerShell simpler. It does file …

TLDR: This error is expected and the change is legitimate. To update, switch to Install-Module, then slap on the -SkipPublisherCheck and -Force parameters and continue your update.

1Install-Module dbatools -Force -SkipPublisherCheck

I've always been very proud that dbatools is Code Signed like a "real" …

I recently got into VS Code Dev Containers and Azure Functions, and I love them. Unfortunately, the PowerShell Azure Functions pretty much come out of the box with a high likelihood of throwing Ominsharp exceptions when debugging.

Two of the files the setup process generates, launch.json and tasks.json, use the func …

If you work in an offline environment, you're probably familiar with how painful it can be to install anything, including PowerShell modules like dbatools.

In the past, dbatools had no dependencies, so the installation process was somewhat straightforward — you could even download a zip from our GitHub repo. However, …

Note: This blog post is going to borrow a bit from Microsoft's official documentation in "Connect with Azure Data Studio" and from our book, Learn dbatools in a Month of Lunches. It also addresses dbatools 2.0, which is currently in pre-release.

Microsoft recently made some changes to the default encryption …

So much is new and different! If you'd like to try it while you read this blog post, you can currently install dbatools 2.0 by executing the following command:

1Install-Module dbatools

Requirements

dbatools still works on PowerShell v3 an v4! Thanks to Microsoft for making that possible with SMO.

PowerShell v5.1 is …

I cannot believe my eyes.

I imagine some PowerShellers will disagree with me but when developing modules that support older versions of PowerShell, I refuse to even try to support Core vs Desktop in my module manifest. I imagine this will be the case for the next decade or two.

I've been working on dbatools 2.0 for a …

I've been trying for years to get dbatools to import faster. There's a lot of plain-text code to import and even more help. Binary modules like Microsoft's SqlServer module benefit from prior compilation and can be imported in like 500-900ms whereas dbatools generally takes 2-5 seconds.

I've written about module …