Don’t copy and paste the same code over and over again. Instead, create a PowerShell function and save yourself time.

One of the best things about Windows PowerShell is the pipeline. The pipeline is beneficial in so many ways, and it is in part what makes PowerShell fun to code in. The capability of the pipeline to ...

Are all of the default PowerShell cmdlets exactly the way you like them to be? Do they have all of the parameters you think should be standard and have no extras? Probably not. We all have our quirks ...

If you are building PowerShell longer than a few lines, it is good practice to break up your code into reusable snippets. This way you can only call the code snippet over and over instead of ...

If your automated script takes action based on a value, it's critical to make sure the value is correct. Good thing PowerShell has ways to validate the values that are passed to a function. In recent ...

PowerShell modules and scripts aren’t generally written with interactivity in mind. After all, automation is generally about hands-off activities. However, there are times when you might need to write ...

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I use Powershell's "custom-object" command to create custom objects with properties I want to save. But custom-object applies only to one variable. Is it possible to create a custom class, like in ...