As you may or may not know, I recently decommissioned my old Dell PowerEdge 1950 server that I used for a few Lab virtual machines. While experimenting with PowerShell on these Virtual Machines, I have found myself in the situation where it would be easier to delete the Virtual Machines and re-create them instead of …

This is why I Love PowerShell… It’s simple, yet functional. From an Administrative perspective, I think we can all agree that any changes in your Domain Admins group without your knowledge would be of interest to you. If you’re in a large organization with access to enterprise management tools you probably have some …

For whatever reason, I seem to be migrating most of my coding activity to Visual Studio Code from the PowerShell ISE. I’m not really sure why other than the look and feel seems to be more pleasing than the ISE… to me anyway. Anywho, I have wanted to hack out some sort of code backup and version control solution for all …

I recently started an Azure subscription in order to move all the servers I use to test PowerShell code to the cloud. Right now I have only a couple Virtual Machines, one running Windows Server 2016, that’s my Domain Controller. I also have a Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtual Machine with Exchange 2013 installed. …

This is a very minimal introduction into filtering pipeline objects using Where-Object and comparison operators. This video will give you the syntax and a simple example. To unleash the full capabilities of comparison operators take a look at the help file.

A practical example of why you should filter as far left in your scripts as possible. It might matter.

This video is a basic overview of how to use hash tables and calculated properties to make PowerShell data more usable.

Using Show-Command can be useful for those with little PowerShell experience to get a quick idea of what you can do with a particular CMDlet.

Since my two previous Desired State Configuration Manager videos, I have gotten more than a few questions asking how to view a specific DSC resources properties. Unlike your typical PowerShell CMDlet, you can’t view properties of a DSC resource using Get-Member. To view DSC resource properties you have to use …