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Over time I’ve learned to write my scripts better. I try to follow best practices, at least as far as I can allow myself. One such best practice is capitalization

** Disclaimer ** I do not know everything about PowerShell and I am sure I will miss some methods of detection of empty values. However, what follows is based on

Output files from scripts can be useful for assessments, tracking changes, documenting settings and more. These files may be named in such a way that it is understandable to you,

Handling your PowerShell scripts output is pretty important. The output files could be used for reporting, documentation or just general knowledge gathering purposes. Like all data outputs, garbage in does

One of the more interesting cmdlets that was pointed out to me recently is Out-GridView. I found that for a script I wrote, being able to visually display choices and

Imagine you are testing out a new script and you find a cmdlet that does not have a ‘-WhatIf’ switch available as an option. What can you do? Not much

** Note ** Apologies for the late post, was working on getting one book out and just finished up the technical material for another book. ** End Note ** When

The ability to join multiple lines or multiple variables into one line or one variable can prove quite useful when working with certain data sets. Example #1 For this example,

Drop folders can be used for a lot of things. Files placed in these folders can be processed by PowerShell for whatever purpose they were defined for. Sample usages of

Years ago WMI was de-emphasized for CIM. Wait. Do you know what those are? CIM – “The Common Information Model (CIM) is an extensible, object-oriented data model that contains information