Tutorials

Media Sync: Organize Your Photos and Videos with PowerShell

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Do you have photos and videos that you have taken over the years that are scattered all over the place? Do you want to have all your photos and videos …...

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NetNeighbor Watch: The PowerShell Alternative To Arpwatch

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In this post, we are going to setup NetNeighbor Watch on a Raspberry Pi. NetNeighbor Watch can keep an eye on your network and send you an email when a …...

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Creating a PowerShell Module to Improve Your Code

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Do you have PowerShell code that you reuse in your scripts over and over? Do you have server names hard coded in variables? Are you using a text file or …...

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Simple PowerShell GUI

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Over the years, I have supported and created multiple types of GUIs.  I finally decided a few years ago to create a very simple menu driven PowerShell GUI.  I wanted …...

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The Ternary Cometh

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Developers are likely to be familiar with ternary conditional operators as they're legal in many languages (Ruby, Python, C++, etc).  They're also often used in coding interviews to test an …...

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Learn To Use Verbose Output Streams In Your Pester Tests

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I'm going to file this under "Either I'm a genius, or there's a much better way and everyone knows it except for me." I recently began adding a suite of …...

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Secure Your Powershell Session with JEA and Constrained Endpoints

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Index What is a Constrained Endpoint and Why Would I Need One? Setup and Configuration Using our Endpoint What is a constrained endpoint and why would I need one? Powershell …...

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Pester – Parameters and Hashtable Fun!

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I have written a short excerpt on how to pass parameters from an object to a Pester test. I have turned this into a function: Invoke-POVTest. The function is primarily …...

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PowerShell Gotchas

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You can certainly find a number of articles around that present PowerShell pitfalls that can easily trip you up if you are not careful. I took a different approach in …...

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Pitfalls of the Pipeline

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Pipelining is an important concept in PowerShell. Though the idea did not originate with PowerShell (you can find it used decades earlier in Unix, for example), PowerShell does provide the …...

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