The PowerShell pipeline can pass objects from one command to another, enabling output from a function to stream – or ‘pipe’ – as input into another command. In this article we will demonstrate how to leverage this functionality to seamlessly…
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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 with detailed help but no code, and you add the code to the script to…
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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 side of pen testing. If you’re unfamiliar or have never heard of it before, I…
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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 when you run Get-Help on the function, Get-Help displays both a description and notes for…
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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, explains why we made them, and offers a workaround in case you really need it.…
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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 PowerShell, including running and debugging without profiles, avoiding cmdlet and parameter aliases (right-click\Expand to cmdlet,…
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We get this question every week: Why can I not include my data files, secondary scripts, modules, other executables etc. with the packaged executable and have it unpack them when I run it?
If you have been a SAPIEN customer…
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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 to Prasoon V. Karunan for the contribution.
I love helping people learn Windows PowerShell and…
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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 know from years of experience that many people don’t upgrade their versions quickly.…
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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 backtick continuation character or the placement of comment-based help for a function will elicit enough…
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