As the first installment in this series, I want to go back to the topic I wrote on in my very first blog post back in 2009. In that post, I talked about why PowerShell (1.0) was something that I was interested enough in to start blogging. Many of the points I mentioned there are …
I’ve been blogging here since 2009. In that time, I’ve tried to focus on surprising topics, or at least topics that were things I had recently learned or encountered. One big problem with that approach is that it makes it much more difficult to produce content. I really enjoy writing, and I’m teaching PowerShell very …
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A quick one because it’s Friday night. I recently found myself translating some C# code into PowerShell. If you’ve done this, you know that most of it is really routine. Change the order of some things, change the operators, drop the semicolons. In a few places you have to do some adjusting, like changing using …
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In my last post I showed several instances of the syntax help that you get when you use get-help or -? with a cmdlet. For instance: This help is showing how the different parameters can be used when calling the cmdlet. If you’ve never paid any attention to these, the notation can be difficult to work …
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Positional Parameters Whether you know it or not, if you’ve used PowerShell, you’ve used positional parameters. In the following command the argument (c:\temp) is passed to the -Path parameter by position. The other option for passing a parameter would be to pass it by name like this: It makes sense for some commands to allow …
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I’ve been using PowerShell for about 10 years now. Some might think that 10 years makes me an expert. I know that it really means I have more opportunities to learn. One thing that has occurred to me in the last 4 or 5 months is that I’ve been missing the point with PowerShell error …
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There has been a lot of PowerShell activity in Missouri lately. I started the Southwest Missouri PSUG in June and have had 4 successful meetings covering the following topics: June – organizational July – Error Handling August – Pester September – DSC I also spoke at the St. Louis PSUG in August (on Error Handling). Ken Maglio …
This week, I (finally) hit 10,000 points on StackOverflow. On some level, I know it’s just fake internet points, but it’s a nice milestone. Like everyone I know in IT, I often find useful answers to questions I have on StackOverflow. Since there are so many answered questions on that site, I generally don’t even …
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