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PowerShell PowerTip: What you should know about streams

July 10, 2018 Jul 10, 2018 07/10/18

Kory Thacher

PowerShell has a concept called Streams, which are the different places data can go (output, error, verbose, etc). You usually don't have to worry too much about these streams if you're just writing simple scripts, but it helps a ton to know: What this means for you, as users, is that you can get a non-terminating error, and ...

Regular Expressions (REGEX): Introduction

July 5, 2018 Jul 5, 2018 07/5/18

Kory Thacher

Hi all, this week I'll be talking about Regular Expressions. I've got a few posts planned to get you set up and going with some basic Regex. Regex is used for extracting and validating data. Essentially, you can think of Regex as windows wild cards on steroids. Anytime we need to match data with a little more clarity than the *s and ?s ...

PowerTip: Determine your version of PowerShell and host operating system

June 29, 2018 Jun 29, 2018 06/29/18

Doctor Scripto

Identify your PowerShell environment by making use of built-in PowerShell variables.

Windows PowerShell and the Text-to-Speech REST API (Part 5)

June 29, 2018 Jun 29, 2018 06/29/18

Doctor Scripto

Send and receive content to the Text-to-Speech API with PowerShell.

PowerShell PowerTip: Checking your PowerShell version

June 26, 2018 Jun 26, 2018 06/26/18

Kory Thacher

If there is one question I could say I get the most in PowerShell, it is: How do I check my version? Its not a hard thing, but its not an obvious thing. We can actually check our version with a build in variable called PSVersionTable Hope that helps, tune in more often to get short and sweet PowerTips...