PowerTip: Identify if you are running on PowerShell Core

September 11, 2019 Sep 11, 2019 09/11/19
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Pulling up the properties of $PSVersionTable to identify your PowerShell editionHey, Doctor Scripto! I want to write my modules and scripts to be more portable. How can I tell if I am executing on PowerShell Core?Just use the $PSVersionTable object and examine the PSEdition value. If it returns 'Core' you are running ...

Maximizing the Power of Here-String in PowerShell for Configuration Data

September 11, 2019 Sep 11, 2019 09/11/19
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Discovering some of the awesome and neat ways to leverage a Here-String in a Script or functionQ: Hey, Doctor Scripto!I used to write scripts with supporting configuration files that never really changed. I was wondering if there was any way to put them INSIDE the script directly to make it self contained.—ABA: Hello...

PowerTip: Read a JSON configuration file as a PowerShell object

September 4, 2019 Sep 4, 2019 09/4/19
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Using the ConvertFrom-Json Cmdlet in PowerShell to read a JSON formatted fileHey, Doctor Scripto! I've seen a lot of JSON files in use in Azure. I'm not very good with editing JSON properly. Is there an easy way to read this and at least edit it with PowerShell?Most definitely my good friend. For the file below called...