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Why Doesn’t My Pipeline Work?

Anonymous — Tue, 07 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

I saw a little discussion thread on Twitter this morning which I felt needed a little more room to explain. Plus since we’re in ScriptingGames season beginners might like a few pointers. I always talk about PowerShell, objects and the pipeline. But sometimes what looks like a pipelined expression in the PowerShell ISE doesn’t behave [...]

Verbose or Debug?

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 05:00:00 GMT

This morning there was some discussion on Twitter about when to use Write-Verbose and when to use Write-Debug. They both can provide additional information about what your script or function is doing, although you have to write the code. Typically, … Continue reading →

Filtering Empty Values in PowerShell

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 05:00:00 GMT

I saw this tip today and wanted to leave a comment but couldn’t see how. So I thought I’d post my comments here. This is actually a question I see often and there are better ways to write this kind … Continue reading →

Creating ACL Reports

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 05:00:00 GMT

I saw a tweet this morning that was a PowerShell one-liner for capturing folder permissions to a text file. There’s nothing wrong with it but it’s hard to be truly productive in 140 characters so I thought I would take … Continue reading →