Tests whether an machine is virtual or not Note - this is based upon a code fragment from a piece of malware discovered by John Lambert @JohnLATwC It looked pretty useful so I decided to clean it up and make it available to the rest of the world.

Invoke a scriptblock that may hang and need to be stopped and retried a number of times

All the DSC Resource providers implement the same signature so we import the module using the ResourceName as a Prefix. This produces a long name with "TargetResource" at the end of every cmdlet so we produce an alias which removes that and any "MSFT_" references and then add "DSR" for Desired State Resource so that we don't clobber any existing ... More info

Skip a number of objects in a stgream

Display the constructors for a given type