Every pithy witticism begins with quotation marks

Sat, 23 Jul 2016 22:56:52 +0000

“To be or not to be”. Without getting into a debate over whether Shakespeare was musing about being a logician, suffice to say that in writing prose, the rules ofwhen andhow to use quotation marks are relatively clear. In PowerShell, not so much. Sure, there is anabout_Quoting_Rules documentation page, and that is a good place to start, but that barely covers half the topic. It assumes you need quotes and then helps you appreciate some of the factors to consider when choosing single quotes or double quotes.
But do youneed quotes? Remember PowerShell is a shell/command language so “obviously” you can do things like this:

PS> Delete-Item C:\tmp\foobar.txt PS> Get-ChildItem *.log PS> Get-Process svchost, conhost, powershellIt would certainly be cumbersome if you needed to quote each of those arguments, so PowerShell was designed well, in that respect.
But what if you ran the same commands just slightly differently?

PS> "C:\tmp\foobar.txt" | Delete-Item PS> "*.log" | Get-ChildItemHere youmust use quotation marks or you will suffer the wrath of a terminating error from the PowerShell host most certainly!
Those are just a couple of the many examples I consider inWhen to Quote in PowerShell. Accompanying the full article, I also included a wallchart that condenses all the article’s salient points into a single-page reference. Here’s a fragment of the wallchart:

Read the article and download the wallcharthere.

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MSPSUG July 12th Virtual Meeting: Exploring SQLPS, the SQL Server PowerShell Module

Mon, 11 Jul 2016 18:21:52 +0000

Join the Mississippi PowerShell User Group virtually on Tuesday, July 12th 2016 at 8:30pm Central Time when Mike Fal will be presenting “Exploring SQLPS, the SQL Server PowerShell Module”.
A big hurdle for using PowerShell and SQL Server together is the SQLPS module. Both old and new users of PowerShell don’t completely understand its capabilities. In this session, we’ll talk about the cmdlets you may not know about, tricks to save time using the provider, and even a few gotchas on how the provider works that can save you some time and energy. When we’re finished, you will have a deeper understanding of how you can use SQL Server and PowerShell together.
Visit the Mississippi PowerShell User Group website to learn more about Mike and to find out more details about this month’s meeting.
The Mississippi PowerShell User Group Meetings are held online (via Skype for Business) on the second Tuesday of each month at 8:30pm Central Time and are free to attend. The system requirements to attend these online meetings can be found on the MSPSUG website under the “Attendee Info” section.
Register via EventBrite to receive the URL for this meeting.
Note: It is not necessary to live in Mississippi or join our user group to attend our meetings or present a session for our user group.
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Finding PowerShell Sessions At Conferences and Events

Fri, 01 Jul 2016 13:20:03 +0000

The Current State

Articles from July 2016 on PowerShell.org - Welcome Automaters!

Deploying Modules to the PowerShell Gallery

Is everything in order?

Every pithy witticism begins with quotation marks

MSPSUG July 12th Virtual Meeting: Exploring SQLPS, the SQL Server PowerShell Module

Finding PowerShell Sessions At Conferences and Events

Articles from July 2016 on PowerShell.org - Welcome Automaters!

Deploying Modules to the PowerShell Gallery

Is everything in order?

Manual steps

Drop in the scaffolding!

Substitute in values for your own module as desired

We’re in the repo! Download 4 scaffolding files:

Replace my encrypted NuGetApiKey with yours!

Commit your changes, push them to GitHub, and you’re good to go!

Wait, what does this all mean?

Takeaways