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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 ...