If you've been using PowerShell, then you know that one of the great things about it is the ability to take objects outputted from one cmdlet, easily send it to another cmdlet and have it know how to ...

In the last lesson we started learning how to forge our own PowerShell tools. I started with a simple need, calculate the median and range for a set of numbers. Now that we know how to do it from the ...

If your automated script takes action based on a value, it's critical to make sure the value is correct. Good thing PowerShell has ways to validate the values that are passed to a function. In recent ...

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PowerShell modules and scripts aren’t generally written with interactivity in mind. After all, automation is generally about hands-off activities. However, there are times when you might need to write ...

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This article will focus on how to customize Windows Server PowerShell profiles. If PowerShell is your daily tool, you may want to create and customize your profiles. PowerShell profiles are basically ...

In Part 1 of this series, I showed you an example of PowerShell's native validation capabilities. In that installment, I wrote a function that accepted a text string as input. The function then used ...