I’ve been working on a few revisions and additions to my ISE Scripting Geek module. Even though what I’m about to show you will eventually be available in a future release of that module, I thought I’d share it with you today. One of the things I wanted to be able to do was search…
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Friday Fun: Updated ISE Scripting Geek Module
A few years ago I published a module with a number of functions and enhancements for the PowerShell ISE. This ISEScriptingGeek module has remained popular over the last few years. But I wrote it for PowerShell v2. I have also come up with a number of new additions to the ISE that I use to…
In the Neighborhood
As some of you may have heard, I will be presenting in Helsinki, Finland on June 9th as part of the MVP All Stars seminar. I’m very excited about the conference and am looking forward to spreading the word about PowerShell to a new group of IT professionals. But it is a long trip from…
On the Road in 2015
As 2014 draws to a close it is time to start planning for 2015. Naturally it is still early but I wanted to share with you some of my plans for next year. As always I hope to get out as much as I can next year to talk about PowerShell and demonstrate how it…
Friday Fun: Another Christmas Prompt
In last week’s Friday Fun post, I shared with you a PowerShell prompt that would display a festive Christmas countdown clock. This week I have another holiday related prompt function. This one is pretty straight forward and is not that much different from the default PowerShell prompt function. Function Prompt { #only change background color…
Why You Should Attend the PowerShell Summit
As you might be aware, registration is open for the PowerShell Summit North America 2015 to be help April 20-22, 2015 on the Microsoft campus in Charlotte, NC. You may be wondering why you should attend or even if you should attend. To begin, take a few minutes to read the Summit 2015 Education brochure….
Friday Fun Christmas Countdown Prompt
It’s that time of year again where PowerShell can make all your wishes come true. Ok, maybe that’s a bit much, but PowerShell is the gift that keeps giving all year long. Again, maybe too much. How about this? Here’s a revised version of my Christmas countdown prompt. I’ve posted this in the past. But…
Friday Fun: I’m with the band.
I like to have fun with PowerShell, as is hopefully evident with this Friday Fun serious, and today that is especially true. Perhaps you need a quick break from the end of the week grind. Or maybe you want to learn something new about PowerShell. Hopefully today’s fun will meet both requirements. Today’s fun will…
Scary PowerShell
In honor of today’s festivities, at least in the United States, I thought we’d look at some scary PowerShell. I have seen a lot of scary things in blog posts, tweets and forum discussions. Often these scary things are from people just getting started with PowerShell who simply haven’t learned enough yet to know better….
Friday Fun – Take a Chance with PowerShell
Last week I showed you my PowerShell Bingo game. While the game itself might be a fun way to pass the time, the real goal was to teach you some PowerShell techniques and concepts without you realizing it. This week, I thought I’d keep with the gaming theme and take up chance. Specifically let’s roll…
PowerShell Dates, Times and Formats
If you are like me you use date time values constantly in PowerShell. From simply displaying the current date and time in progress message to using different values to create file or folder names. The Get-Date cmdlet has a -Format parameter which you can use. The tricky part is remembering what values to specify. Especially…
Friday Fun – Let’s Play a Game
Today is going to be a lot of fun. A few years ago, back when we were still running PowerShell 2.0 everywhere, I created a module to run a Bingo game in a PowerShell session. I primarily wrote the module as a learning tool for beginners wanting to know more about how to construct a…
Change is in the air
If you have read my blog for any length of time, or followed me, then you know that I have contributed a lot of content to a number of online resources over the years, often on a recurring basis. You may not realize it, but spreading out my workload over several sites can be quite…
The Altaro PowerShell Hyper-V Cookbook
For awhile now I’ve been contributing to the Altaro Hyper-V blog. Many of my articles centered on managing Hyper-V with PowerShell. I’ve gone through my library of management tools and written an eBook around them. All of the PowerShell scripts and functions have been polished up a bit. The eBook briefly discusses how to you…
Friday Fun: Pick Up Milk
Sometimes when working on a PowerShell problem, you might have to come to the conclusion that PowerShell is not the right tool for the job. There are some tasks or applications that simply don’t lend themselves to automation or PowerShell. This isn’t necessarily a limitation in PowerShell, nor would I say it is a deficiency…