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On Preferences and Scopes
Progress in PowerShell: a tale of Verbosity and other preferences with lessons in Scopes and Proxies thrown in It started, as these things often do, with ...
How to Preview PowerShell Scripts In PowerShell
Q: When I use Windows Explorer and select a PowerShell script file - I do not see the script in the preview window. Can I fix that? A: You can make a few ...
How to Use $PSDefaultParameterValues
Q: When I use cmdlets like and , how do I change default values of the Keep and Wrap parameters? A: Use the automatic variable. When I first discovered ...
How to Use $FormatEnumerationLimit
Q: When I format an object where a property contains more than 4 objects, I never see the extra property values. How can I fix that? A: Use the variable. ...
How to use the Secret modules
Q: I have a bunch of scripts we use in production that make use of Windows credentials. In some cases, these scripts have an actual password in plain text, ...
A closer look at the Crescendo configuration
In my previous post, I looked at the details of a Crescendo output handler from my VssAdmin module. In this post, I explain the details of a cmdlet definition ...
A closer look at the parsing code of a Crescendo output handler
In my previous post, I showed you how to parse the output from the command. The output of is not very complex. The goal of the post was to introduce some ...
Converting string output to objects
In my previous post, I talked about using Crescendo to create a PowerShell module for the command in Windows. As I explained, you have to write Output Handler ...
Understanding Get-ACL and AD Drive Output
Understanding Active Directory ACL using PowerShell can be a bit tricky. There are no out-of-the-box cmdlets with ActiveDirectory PowerShell module to help in ...