ICYMI: PowerShell Week of 1-February-2019
Topics include Active Directory FSMO Roles, text parsing, error handling, and much more.
Content pulled together by Robin Dadswell, Mark Roloff , and Brett Bunker.
Finding Active Directory FSMO Role Holders with PowerShell
by Adam Bertram January 25
Need to find which DCs hold your FSMO roles? Adam demonstrates a quick way to find their location using PowerShell.
Parsing Text with PowerShell (3/3)
by Steve Lee [MSFT] January 28
Part 3 in the series on parsing text with PowerShell. A nice wrap up to the series with some example uses.
How To Create Multi-Dimensional Arrays in PowerShell
by Brien Posey January 28
Do you need to go beyond basic arrays? Brien shows you how to create and use multi-demonsional arrays
PowerShell. Don’t Just Throw
by James O’Neill January 30
Why put a Return after a Throw? James gives some examples of why to use this technique in your error handling.
Error Handling in PowerShell - Best Practices
by Joel (Sallow) Francis January 31
Terminating errors? Non-Terminating errors? Joel explains them both and how to handle them in your code.
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Listing Office365 Outages
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Set-Clipboard - Using PowerShell to read and set the clipboard in Windows
John Impallomeni showing some clipboard magic from Powershell.
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