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Friday Fun – A PowerShell Console Menu

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

When working in PowerShell, and especially when scripting, you might want to give the user a choice of actions. For example, you might develop a configuration script that another admin or technician will run. Perhaps one of the steps is … Continue reading →

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Get PowerShell View Definitions

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

When you write objects to the pipeline in Windows PowerShell, at the end of the pipeline PowerShell’s formatting system handles displaying the results to the console. It accomplishes this by using a set of rules stored in XML configuration files. … Continue reading →

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Bool vs Switch

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Jeffery Hicks

I have to say I’m generally impressed with the quality of submissions to this year’s Scripting Games. But there is a recurring concept that some people are using and I think there’s a better way. Some contestants are defining function … Continue reading →

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