A PowerShell New Year

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First off, let me thank all of you for your support and interest in my work this past year. Without it I'd be another old man sitting in his bathrobe talking to himself. I hope I can keep your interest in 2016.

To wrap up the year and to bring in the new, i have a final PowerShell gift for you.  I've started to use GitHub to host the scripts and projects I share on my blog.  Although you can also copy and paste the code from here.

Normally, I would post a screen shot but that will take away all of the fun. Hopefully you trust me. Save the script, open a PowerShell prompt in the console (not the ISE) and run it.

I hope you, your family, friends and colleagues have a wonderful 2016.

Cheers!

Behind the PowerShell Pipeline

8 thoughts on “A PowerShell New Year”

  1. #this must be run in the PowerShell console NOT the ISE
    if ($host.name -ne ‘ConsoleHost’) {
    Write-Warning “Sorry. This must be run in the PowerShell console.”
    #bail out
    Return
    }

    #get window dimensions
    $X = $host.ui.RawUI.WindowSize.width
    #subtract 5 to accomodate the end of the script
    $Y = $host.ui.RawUI.WindowSize.Height – 5

    #save current window title
    $title = $host.ui.RawUI.WindowTitle

    #get an array of console colors
    $colors = [enum]::GetNames([consolecolor])

    #
    Add-Type -AssemblyName System.speech
    $speak = New-Object System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer
    $speak.SelectVoice(‘Microsoft Zira Desktop’)

    #clear the screen
    cls
    #for every line of window height counting down
    $Y..1 | Foreach {
    #write a randomized colored row
    1..$X | foreach {
    Write-Host ” ” -BackgroundColor (Get-Random $colors) -NoNewline
    }
    #count down the last 10
    if ($_ -le 10) {
    $host.ui.RawUI.WindowTitle = $_
    $speak.Speak($_)
    #[console]::Beep()
    #Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 500
    }
    }
    $speak.Speak(‘Happy New Year!’)
    $msg = “Happy New Year!”

    $msg.ToCharArray() | foreach -Begin {Write-Host “`n”} -process {
    Write-Host $_ -NoNewline -ForegroundColor (Get-Random $colors) -BackgroundColor (Get-Random $colors)
    } -end { Write-Host “`n” }

    #reset the window Title
    $host.ui.RawUI.WindowTitle = $Title

  2. Happy new year Jeffrey,

    Really appreciate everything you do in furthering everyone’s knowledge on powershell.

    Yourself and Don have greatly enhanced my career and love for automation.

    Keep up the great work

  3. Awesome Jeff ! How on earth do you go about finding out this stuff ?! You’re a PowerShell genius !

      1. Thanks Jeff, really useful to know. Would you say PowerShell is easy to master out of the other scripting languages?

      2. I would think so. Definitely easier than VBScript. There are consistent naming conventions. Command names are plain. It is pretty clear what Stop-Service is going to do. Scripting syntax elements like If and Do are easier to learn. But it is like a foreign language which means the only way you gain proficiency is by using it every day.

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