When you first start writing scripts, modularity, reusability, and best practices may not be top of mind. As your scripts become more complex, however, creating reusable elements becomes essential. By ...

If you've been building PowerShell scripts for a while now you've surely came across instances where you need to reuse a particular snippet of code. Rather than copying and pasting that snippet of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn how to transform everyday PowerShell one-liners and batch scripts into advanced functions with validation, pipeline support and help. Understand how to organize reusable code into modules with ...

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 ...

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In today’s cloud-centric world, we’re seeing an explosion in the number of servers under IT management. Virtual machines made servers cheap, and containers will push prices down further. As a result, ...

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 ...