Friday Puzzle Solution: Write a Map Function for PowerShell
On Friday, February 24, 2017, I posted the following puzzle on Twitter and Facebook (and here!). We provide a Pester test script and a script…
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Category: Best practices
Enabling deep script block logging
As of the KB3000850 update and PowerShell 5.0, PowerShell has included script block logging so that admins would have more tools for the blue team…
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Friday Puzzle: Phantom Help
On Friday, December 16, 2016, I posted the following puzzle on Twitter. It shows a function that has no comment-based help or XML help, but…
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Why Breaking Changes?
In PowerShell Studio 5.3.130, we made some changes to projects that aren't recognized by previous versions of PowerShell Studio. This blog post describes the changes,…
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Use PSScriptAnalyzer in PowerShell Studio
Applies to: Windows PowerShell 3.0 and later PSScriptAnalyzer 1.1.0 and later PowerShell Studio 5.2.118 and later PowerShell Studio has long supported best practices in Windows…
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Distributing files with your packaged scripts
We get this question every week: Why can I not include my data files, secondary scripts, modules, other executables etc. with the packaged executable…
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Open a SAPIEN Forum from PowerShell
UPDATE: Added a -Search parameter that searches all SAPIEN forums for the term that you specify and then opens the page with the results. Thanks…
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Which versions of PowerShell do you run?
The PowerShell team released Windows PowerShell 5.0 on Windows 10 last year and just re-released Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 for earlier versions of Windows. But, we…
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There’s only one right place for curly braces
If you ever want to start an argument with programmers or scripters, mention your preferred code or script formatting habit. A tweet about the PowerShell…
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Update-Module 5.0 adds, not updates
Applies to: -- Windows PowerShell 5.0.10586.63 -- PowerShellGet 1.0.0.1 I'm a huge fan of sharing Windows PowerShell modules and making them easy to find…
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