PowerTip: Ensure that errors in PowerShell are caught
May 31, 2018May 31, 201805/31/18Here’s how to make sure your errors get caught with Try Catch Finally.
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Windows PowerShell and the Text-to-Speech REST API (Part 3)
May 31, 2018May 31, 201805/31/18Use Windows PowerShell to access the Cognitive Services Text-to-Speech API.
PowerShell PowerTip: ISE crashing and auto complete not working
May 30, 2018May 30, 201805/30/18Hi all, I’m going to start putting out these short PowerShell PowerTips every so often. They won’t be full blog posts, but they will be short and useful!
Have you been having issues with the ISE crashing and not auto completing since windows update 1803?
Run PowerShell code in Puppet
May 23, 2018May 23, 201805/23/18Normally, it’s preferable to use specific Puppet and DSC Windows modules to manage systems in Puppet, but an alternative is running PowerShell commands and scripts by using the exec resource. This can be helpful for transitioning existing PowerShell code into Puppet quickly.
Doing more with functions: Verbose logging, Risk mitigation, and Parameter Sets
May 15, 2018May 15, 201805/15/18Welcome back to PowerShell for Programmers, this week I’m trying gitGist again for the code blocks. Let me know what you think about it vs the normal syntax highlighter I use 🙂
As we’ve seen in the other posts about functions,
PowerTip: Get all your local certificates by using PowerShell
May 9, 2018May 9, 201805/9/18How can I use Windows PowerShell to enumerate all certificates on my Windows computer?
Get certificate info into a CSV by using PowerShell
May 9, 2018May 9, 201805/9/18Summary: Certificate management is always challenging. Let’s explore how to use PowerShell to export local certificate information to a comma-separated values (CSV) file on Windows 7 (or later) computers.
Q: Hey, Scripting Guy!
How can I get all my certificate info into a CSV on my Windows computers?
Grabbing Excel (XLSX) values with PowerShell
May 8, 2018May 8, 201805/8/18The Goal:
Import data from XLSX files conveniently like import-csv lets you do with simpler data.
The preamble:
Excel is a mainstay of the business world at this point, which means a lot of the data you might have to work with will come at you as an XLSX file or need to be one.
