Mastering PowerShell Pester Should Command and Operators
Jeff Brown 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…
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Getting Started with Pester Testing in PowerShell
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…
Graph API, PowerShell, and Microsoft Teams Tutorial
Last week, I covered Getting Started with Microsoft Teams and Graph API that highlights Graph API basics and creating an Azure Application Registration. In this post, you’ll learn how to…
How To Create a PowerShell GUI Prompt for Input
In a previous article, you learned how to create a prompt inside of PowerShell by recreating the action prompt for the Remove-Item cmdlet. PowerShell can also create a graphical or…
How to Create Prompts in PowerShell
In this post, I’m going to demonstrate two ways to create prompts in PowerShell and how to take action on the response. I’m going to attempt to replicate the prompt…
How to Publish Your First PowerShell Gallery Package
If you’ve written a module or script that you feel others could benefit from using, definitely consider publishing it to the broader community. This post is about how to publish…
Add PowerShell 7 Preview Profile to Windows Terminal
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…
Mastering PowerShell Try Catch with Exception Messages
You have had it happen before. You run a PowerShell script, and suddenly the console is full of errors. Did you know you can handle these errors in a much…
Scheduling PowerShell Scripts with Usernames and Encrypted Passwords
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…
Installing and Configuring Posh-Git with PowerShell
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…