Posts regarding PowerShell topics
Should is a command that performs our tests or assertions in our script. It is used for comparing objects and throwing failures when the test is expected to fail. We use Should inside of It blocks in the test script. Should also has different operators for performing tests.
Pester is a framework designed for validating and testing your PowerShell commands, whether they are in functions, cmdlets, modules, or scripts. You write your tests to make sure your PowerShell code does what it is supposed to, or use it to validate changes made to an existing script.
Last week I covered Getting Started with Microsoft Teams and Graph API, and this is the follow up post on how to use Graph API with PowerShell to create Microsoft Teams teams and channels. Before…
So last week I covered how to create a prompt inside of PowerShell by recreating the action prompt for the Remove-Item cmdlet. While researching and writing that post, I came across an example of how…
Most of the time, we write solutions in PowerShell to perform a task without user input. We're automators - we create solutions and schedule them to run on-demand or on a schedule to automatically take…
The PowerShell Gallery is a fantastic resource for finding modules, scripts, and DSC resources written by Microsoft and others in the community. There's been a shift from downloading MSIs to install PS modules to using…
With the announcement of PowerShell 7 Preview 5 being released yesterday, I decided I needed to download this preview version and check it out. At the same time, I recently listened to the Azure DevOps…
An error in a PowerShell script will prevent it from completing successfully. Using error handling with try/catch blocks allow for managing and responding to these terminating errors. In this post I will cover the basics…
A quick and easy way to automate something is to schedule a PowerShell script using Windows Task Scheduler. However, sometimes you need to connect to remote resources using a username and password. This post will…
I'm not a developer, but I do enjoy programming and writing scripts. In an effort to be "more official", I've decided I needed to work more with Git and source control. Coming from a more…