Sometimes, as a developer, you want to be be able to keep track of free space on a drive, the size of a log, the...
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A date with PowerShell
At the beginning of July, we welcomed our 3rd son into the world. As days past my wife and I would say, “wow, he’s 11...
5 Tips for Writing DSC Resources in PowerShell 5
PowerShell 5 brought class based DSC Resources, which majorly simplifies the process of writing custom DSC resources. During my time working on some custom resources, I developed...
Practical PowerShell Unit-Testing
By the time you are using PowerShell to automate an increasing amount of your system administration, database maintenance, or application-lifecycle work, you will likely come...
Making Awesome Dashboards from Windows Performance Counters
Having an understanding of your systems performance is a crucial part of running IT infrastructure. If a user comes to us and says “why is my application...
Documenting your PowerShell API–solved!
Long has it been known how to easily document your PowerShell source code simply by embedding properly formatted documentation comments right along side your code,...
The Unicode PowerShell module
After authoring last month scripting games puzzle, which involved some scripting around the Unicode standard, I decided to have some fun and write a PowerShell...
Convert VBA Macros To PowerShell for Microsoft Office Automation
There is a lot of documentation out there for interacting with Microsoft Office including Outlook, Excel, Word, etc with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). A...
Connect to all Office 365 Services with PowerShell
If you are not on Office 365 or have a tenant set up with Microsoft yet, now is the time to reserve your tenant name!...
Using PowerShell to enable ChatOps on Windows
ChatOps is a term used to describe bringing development or operations work that is already happening in the background into a common chat room. It...