PowerShell Word Play
A few weeks ago an Iron Scripter PowerShell challenge was issued that involved playing with words and characters. Remember, the Iron Scripter challenges aren’t intended to create meaningful, production...
View ArticleSolving the PowerShell Counting Challenge
A few weeks ago, an Iron Scripter PowerShell scripting challenge was posted. As with all of these challenges, the process is more important than the end result. How you figure out a solution is how you...
View ArticleShow ANSI Samples
Earlier this week I did a live session for the PSPowerHour. I talked about ways to dress up your PowerShell work and console sessions. One of things I talked about was using ANSI escape sequences to...
View ArticleSolving the PowerShell Object Age Challenge – Part 1
A few weeks ago, the Iron Scripter site posted an interesting challenge about writing a generic function to get the age of objects. Many things that we deal with in PowerShell have an “age” such as...
View ArticleSolving the PowerShell Object Age Challenge – Part 2
The other day I shared part of my solution to an Iron Scripter challenge to write a generic function to report on the age of an object. The idea being that you could pipe any type of object to the...
View ArticleBuilding a PowerShell Inventory
A few weeks ago, a new Iron Scripter PowerShell scripting challenge was issued. For this challenge we were asked to write some PowerShell code that we could use to inventory our PowerShell script...
View ArticleAn Expanded PowerShell Scripting Inventory Tool
The other day I shared my code that I worked up to solve an Iron Scripter PowerShell challenge. One of the shortcomings was that I didn’t address a challenge to include a property that would indicate...
View ArticleFormatting PowerShell TimeSpans
I often will figure out how to do something and later struggle to remember how to do it a months later. Rather than trying to remember what piece of code I wrote, why not write about. Assuming I can...
View ArticleAnswering the PowerShell Word to Phone Challenge
A few weeks ago, the Iron Scripter challenge was to write code to convert a short string into its numeric valuesusing the alphabet as it is laid out on a telephone. A number of solutions have already...
View ArticleUpdating PowerShell About Help
During some recent work, I realized my new Windows PowerShell 5.1 installs are missing the About help topics. Apparently, this is a known issue, although I don’t think it gets a lot of attention....
View ArticleDiscovering Provider Specific Commands
I’ve been diving into PowerShell help lately while preparing my next Pluralsight course. One of the sad things I have discovered is the loss of provider-aware help. As you may know, some commands have...
View ArticleDoing More with Windows Sandbox
One of the reasons I was looking forward to updating to Windows 10 2004 was to have access to the Windows Sandbox feature. I think I tinkered with a pre-release version and was intrigued. I normally...
View ArticleFriday Fun – A PowerShell Nonsense Challenge
Today I thought I’d share my PowerShell solution to a recent Iron Scripter challenge. The challenge was to create PowerShell code that would create nonsense documents, with a goal of creating 10 sample...
View ArticleUpdated PowerShell Tools
I’ve released a new version of my popular PSScriptTools module, which you can install from the PowerShell Gallery. The module is collection of commands and tools that I use in my scripting and...
View ArticleTaking Issue with PowerShell
Do you have a moment? I think it’s time we had a little chat. No, no…you have done anything wrong. In fact, what I really need is your help. Because you are a member of the global PowerShell community,...
View ArticleFriday Fun: Back to School with PowerShell
For today’s fun with PowerShell, I thought I’d share my solutions for a recent Iron Scripter challenge. If you aren’t familiar with these cghallenges, and you should be, they are designed to test your...
View ArticleActive Directory Objects and the PowerShell Pipeline
This article is something I’ve been meaning to write for sometime. As often as I tell people PowerShell is easy to use once you understand its core concepts, that isn’t always the case. This is a...
View ArticleAnswering the WSMan PowerShell Challenge
Today, I thought I’d share my solution to a recent Iron Scripter challenge. I thought this was a fascinating task and one with a practical result. I’d encourage you to try your hand at the challenge...
View ArticlePowerShell Color Combos
A lot of my PowerShell work lately has involved color. I find myself using ANSI escape sequences quite often. I’m also playing with different color schemes in Windows Terminal. And I still on occasion...
View ArticleEasy PowerShell Custom Formatting
One of the features I truly enjoy about PowerShell, is the ability to have it present information that I need in a form that I want. Here’s a good example. Running Get-Process is simple enough and the...
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