A PowerShell Mystery
The other day I was prepping for my sessions at the upcoming PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit. As I usually do, when I am building demos that will connect to remote machines I often use the local...
View ArticleFriday Fun: Perk Up Your PowerShell Prompt
I haven’t written a Friday Fun post in quite a while. Often these posts don’t have much practical value but hopefully illustrate a concept or technique. Although what I have today is something you...
View ArticleGet Git Configuration with PowerShell
A few weeks ago I was teaching a PowerShell fundamentals course. Towards the end of the week we start creating simple scripts and functions. One night after class I was thinking about giving them...
View ArticlePowerShell Practice Makes Perfect
I have been teaching and presenting about PowerShell for over 10 years. I always put a great emphasis on doing as I firmly believe that is the best way to learn something like PowerShell. I’ve also...
View ArticleTalking PowerShell
Hard to believe the year is almost have over. Other than the PowerShell Summit, most of my travel this first half of the year has been for private PowerShell classes. After taking some well-earned rest...
View ArticleMaking Short Links Long with PowerShell and WPF
Sometimes, when I have nothing better to do, I kill some time giving Todd Klindt and Shane Young a hard time during their podcast. You should join me sometime. Anyway, during a recent show Todd...
View ArticleConverting PowerShell to Markdown
I have been working a lot with markdown documents over the last year or so, primarily due to all the books I’ve been working on published at Leanpub.com. With the growing use of markdown in projects...
View ArticleSearching for a CIM/WMI Class with PowerShell
I got a question on Twitter about an older function I has posted to get antivirus information via WMI. The function continues to work fine with Windows 10, although there’s always room for improvement....
View ArticlePowerShell Calendaring Revisited
Early this week, I came across an old snippet of code in my scripts folder, originally published by Lee Holmes. It was an old script, from 2008, on using PowerShell to display a calendar with out of...
View ArticleCreating Colorful HTML Disk Reports with PowerShell
I have no idea what possessed me, but the other day I came across an older script that uses PowerShell to create an HTML report showing drive utilization for a group of computers. The utilization is...
View ArticleJoin Me for a 2 Day PowerShell Scripting Workshop
I am very happy to announce a 2 day public PowerShell learning event. In association with the fine people behind the Techmentor conference, I will be presenting a 2 day PowerShell Scripting workshop in...
View ArticleFriday Fun: PowerShell Thriller Revisited
A number of years ago I shared a fun PowerShell script that generated a description of a new thriller you might find in the action thriller section of your local book store. I modeled it after the...
View ArticleMore Fun with PowerShell Thrillers
Last week I posted a Friday Fun article about using PowerShell to create a synopsis for a hypothetical thriller novel. Naturally I wasn’t satisfied to leave it at that. Don’t get me wrong, it was a...
View ArticleFriday Fun with Timely PowerShell Prompts
If PowerShell is a part of your daily routine, you most likely have a console window open all day. In addition to using PowerShell to get stuff done, you can use PowerShell to keep you on track. I’ve...
View ArticleYour Christmas PowerShell Prompt
Continuing my fun with PowerShell prompts and because we are in the Christmas season. I’m bringing back my Christmas countdown prompt. I have updated so it should work in both the traditional console...
View ArticleRevised Everything PowerShell Prompt
Since it is Friday and time for some more PowerShell fun, and I’ve been sharing some of my prompt functions, I thought I’d re-share my kitchen sink prompt. This PowerShell prompt function does *a lot*...
View ArticleA PowerShell Up/Down Prompt
It appears many of you are taken with the possibilities of PowerShell prompt functions. In previous posts, I alluded to the fact that you could do just about anything in a prompt function. Today I have...
View ArticleMore PowerShell Monitoring Prompts
Wow. Do you all love PowerShell prompts or what? My prompt to display up/down information was very popular. How about a few more? As I mentioned in my previous post, performance is super critical when...
View ArticleMy Telemetry PowerShell Prompt Function
I’ve enjoyed building these PowerShell prompt functions. Because performance is critical, it has forced me to create efficient code. For example, I’ve been using Get-CimInstance to retrieve select...
View ArticleThe Ultimate PowerShell Telemetry Prompt
Well, I knew I wouldn’t be satisfied. The other day I shared a PowerShell prompt function that could display telemetry like information for a few remote servers. One of the drawbacks was the limited...
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