Today’s Friday Fun is a little different in that it showcases two things I use almost every day: Microsoft Word and PowerShell. I am writing new articles and material almost daily and of course very often the content is PowerShell related. Usually I use the blog post template in Word to make it easier to…
Category: PowerShell
Friday Fun: I Can Run that Command in 3 Letters
If you have been using PowerShell for any length of time, I’m sure you are familiar with aliases. An alias is an alternative name to a PowerShell cmdlet. They are intended to serve as transition aids (like dir and ls) and as a means to keep interactive typing to a minimum. Although with tab completion,…
Chicago – My Kind of Town
I grew up in Northwest Indiana so naturally Chicago played a big role. I love Chicago and if I had to pick a major city to live, this would be it. So I’m very excited to be heading there for Ignite. I’m looking forward to catching up with old friends and meet some new ones….
PowerShell Play by Play with Don Jones
I’m very excited to tell you about this latest effort from Pluralsight. A few months ago I sat down with Don Jones, and we recorded a live course on getting started with PowerShell. The finished product has finally been released. Over the course of about an hour we talk about taking an idea or task…
More Fun Getting PowerShell User Groups
A few days ago I posted a PowerShell function to retrieve information about PowerShell user groups. That function returned basic group information like this. Each group on the site has its own page which is what that Link property is for. So it didn’t take much work to use the same techniques as my original…
Friday Fun: Get PowerShell User Groups
The other day Don Jones tweeted about find a PowerShell user group. In case you didn’t know, just about every user group associated with PowerShell can be found online at http://powershellgroup.org. This is a terrific resource for finding a user group near you. Of course, Twitter being what it is someone joked about the lack…
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,…
Practicing PowerShell in Helsinki
I am very happy to announce that in addition to my appearance at the MVP-AllStars conference on 9 June 2015 in beautiful Helsinki, Finland but that I will be following it with a 2 day, intense PowerShell workshop aimed at Järjestelmänvalvojat (system administrators or IT Pros). I think this is going to be a blast…
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…
Friday Fun: Open Last File in the PowerShell ISE
Over the last few articles I’ve been sharing some shortcuts to get most recently used or edited files. For today’s Friday Fun I thought I’d share something that I use in my PowerShell ISE profile. Whenever I start the ISE, I automatically open the last file I was working on. Instead of launching the ISE…
What PowerShell Script Was I Working On?
Last week I shared a script for finding recently modified files in a given directory. In fact, it wouldn’t be that difficult to find the last files I was working on and open them in the PowerShell ISE. Assuming my Get-RecentFile function is loaded it is a simple as this: get-recentfile -Days 4 -Newest 2…
Friday Fun: Get Recent Files
As you might imagine, I work on a lot of different files throughout the week. Sometimes it is hard to keep everything straight. I’ll want to return to script I was working on yesterday, but I can’t remember what I called it. So I spend a few minutes searching and filtering until I find it….
Send from PowerShell ISE to Microsoft Word Revisited
Many of you seemed to like my little PowerShell ISE add-on to send text from the script pane to a Word document. I should have known someone would ask about a way to make it colorized. You can manually select lines in a script and when you paste them into Word they automatically inherit the…
Pi in the Sky
In celebration of Pi day, I thought I’d post some quick and dirty PowerShell code you can use to calculate pi. I found some easy to follow explanations at http://www.wikihow.com/Calculate-Pi that weren’t too difficult to transform into PowerShell code. And you might even learn something new about PowerShell along the way. Before we begin, I…
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…