I’ve been writing quite a lot of PowerShell recently and I decided that I really should look into using some kind of source control system. I’ve used Git before, integrating GitHub with VisualStudio and this time I wanted to integrate with the PowerShell ISE (by the way, if you don’t have a Windows 8.1 shortcut for the PowerShell ISE, Carlo/Happy SysAdmin describes how to find it).
It’s actually pretty straightforward using Keith Dahlby’s posh-git scripts (what a great name that is!) and GitHub Desktop. Jeff Yates has a post that describes the process but I found I needed to do a bit more to make it work for me…
My PowerShell ISE didn’t have a profile, so I created one and added the entries Jeff suggests but, even so, I was getting errors in my console:
Resolve-Path : Cannot find path ‘C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\GitHub\PoshGit_869d4c5159797755bc04749db47b166136e59132’ because it does not exist.
At C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\GitHub\shell.ps1:26 char:26
+ $env:github_posh_git = Resolve-Path “$env:LocalAppData\GitHub\PoshGit_869d4c51 …
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (C:\Users\username\…47b166136e59132:String) [Resolve-Path], ItemNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ResolvePathCommandResolve-Path : Cannot find path ‘C:\profile.example.ps1’ because it does not exist.
At C:\users\username\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShellISE_profile.ps1:3 char:4
+ . (Resolve-Path “$env:github_posh_git\profile.example.ps1”)
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (C:\profile.example.ps1:String) [Resolve-Path], ItemNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ResolvePathCommandThe expression after ‘.’ in a pipeline element produced an object that was not valid. It must result in a command name, a script block, or a CommandInfo object.
At C:\users\username\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShellISE_profile.ps1:3 char:3
+ . (Resolve-Path “$env:github_posh_git\profile.example.ps1”)
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : BadExpression
After some hunting around, and an attempt to install posh-git manually, I realised that the shell.ps1 script from Github Desktop was looking for posh-git in a folder at $env:LocalAppData\GitHub called PoshGit_869d4c5159797755bc04749db47b166136e59132 (I’m guessing that’s a GUID in the foldername, so it’s likely to be different for others). After copying a clone of posh-git to that folder and reloading my profile (. $profile), everything was working as it should to commit changes from within PowerShell.
Unfortunately, without these settings in place, Office 365 will continue to alert that there are issues with domains that may cause “possible service issues”. To prevent this, navigate to the domains section of the Office 365 Admin Center and click fix issues next to one of the domains that is reporting problems. Then, on the right-hand side of the page, click the checkbox next to “Don’t check this domain for incorrect DNS records”. Once this is set, Office 365 should stop alerting for domain issues.
I use Office 365 at work and I expect I could have asked to use that on a home PC (it covers me for up to 5 devices) but then I found 
