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September 10, 2013|
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All this Summer, we’ve been encouraging your feedback in a series of Great Debate posts. Most of the topics came from the 2013 Scripting Games, where we definitely saw people …...
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August 27, 2013|
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When should a script (or more likely, function) output raw data, and when should it “massage” its output? The classic example is something like disk space. You’re querying WMI, and …...
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August 20, 2013|
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This was a fascinating thing to see throughout The Scripting Games this year: When exactly should you use Write-Verbose, and why? The same question applies to Write-Debug. “I use Write-Debug to provide...
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August 13, 2013|
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In The Scripting Games this year, more than a few folks took the time to write detailed comment-based help. Awesome. No debating it – comment-based help is a good thing. But …...
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August 6, 2013|
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One of the most frequent comments in The Scripting Games this year was along the lines of, “you should have submitted this as a function, not a script.” Of course, …...
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August 1, 2013|
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Today’s Great Debate is a bonus, offered from former team member June Blender. Take it away, June! Like several of the excellent debates in our Great Debate series, this debate …...
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July 30, 2013|
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This should be interesting. During The Scripting Games, I observed (and in some cases made) a great many comments that I’m lumping under the name “Purity Laws.” You shouldn’t use …...
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July 23, 2013|
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Credentials suck. You obviously don’t want to hardcode domain credentials into a script – and PowerShell actually makes it a bit difficult to do so, for good reason. On the …...
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July 16, 2013|
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Take a look at this: # version 1 Get-Content computers.txt | ForEach-Object { $os = Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem -comp $_ $bios = Get-WmiObject Win32_BIOS -comp $_ $props = @{computername=$_;...
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July 10, 2013|
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Here’s an age-old debate that we can finally, perhaps, put an end to: The backtick character for line continuation. The basic concept looks like this: Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_BIOS ` -ComputerName …...
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