A few weeks ago, I was part of a PowerShell community event that was designed to educate and spark interest around the general release of PowerShell 7. I organized a week of blogging by some of your favorite PowerShell bloggers and community activists. We release a week’s worth of material using the #PS7Now hashtag. You…
Tag: PSBlogWeek
PowerShell 7 Cross-Platform Scripting Tips and Traps
One of the reasons you want to adopt PowerShell 7 on your desktop, is that it can be used cross-platform. Theoretically, you can write a PowerShell script or function that works on Windows, Linux, and Mac. However, this is not without challenges. In some ways, it feels like we are back to the early days…
PowerShell 7 Remoting Cleanup
Now that PowerShell 7 is here and hopefully installed on your Windows 10 desktop, you’re good to go, right? I’d say you probably all set. However, if like me, you were running PowerShell 7 betas or had PowerShell Core also installed, a little housekeeping might be in order. I don’t think what I’m going to…
A New PowerShell PSBlogWeek is Coming
If you’ve been on Twitter for a while, you may have seen a PSBlogWeek event in the past. This is an online event with a coordinated set of blog posts from a group of bloggers and community members all centered on a given topic. This idea is to share a lot of information on a…
PSBlogWeek Ebook and PDF Available
We really appreciate the interest in our PowerShell Blog Week experiment. It was a lot of fun and it seems many of you got something useful out of it as well. I wouldn’t be too surprised if you don’t see another event later this year, most likely with even more contributors. In the mean time,…
PowerShell Blogging Week: Supporting WhatIf and Confirm
We hope you are enjoying this experiment in community blogging. In today’s contribution I want to demonstrate how you can add support for WhatIf and Confirm to your advanced PowerShell functions. It is actually quite easy, especially if your function is simply calling other PowerShell commands that already support –Whatif and –Confirm. The recommended best…
PowerShell Blogging Week is Coming
As I’m sure you are aware there is a lot of great PowerShell goodness online through social media and blogs. Well, I and a few members of the PowerShell community have banded together to add to that goodness. During the week of March 30, look for new daily content from the group. Our topic is…