March 2026 PowerShell Potluck
In this issue: Is Elevated PowerShell 7.6 Deck Requirements Installation Show-SpectreSystemStatus Scripting Challenge Summary Let's jump right into my...
Solving The Uptime History Challenge
In this issue: Event Log IDs FilterXML Processing the List Looping for Two Get-HistoryUptime Making It Pretty Summary Last month I left you with our usual...
Scripting For Water
In this issue: Storing Data A PowerShell Class Formatting Data Add-Water Motivate Me Get-Water Measure-Water Summary Last fall I made a decision to improve...
Regular Expression Actions
In this issue: Anchors Split Replace ConvertTo-ComplexString Summary If you've been following along the last few issues, and practicing, using regular...
Regular Expression Features
In this issue: Ranges Not in the Range Grouping Single Character Escaping Putting It Together Summary Welcome back to the next lesson in how to use regular...
Getting Started With PowerShell Regular Expressions
In this issue: Like vs Match -Like -NotLike -Match -NotMatch Why Do Regular Expressions Matter? Word Characters Non-Word Characters Numeric Characters Non-...
PowerShell Tools For Linux
In this issue: Get-LxUptime Get-LxTotalMemory Get-LxMemoryInfo Get-LxTotalDiskSize Get-LxDiskInfo Get-LxStatus Get-LxService Get-LxOSInfo Get-LxTools Aliases...
Even More PwshSpectreConsole Tools
In this issue: Show-TopProcessInfo Live Update Show-SystemTree Convert-SpectreColor Show-SpectreColorSample SpectreConsole Profile Summary Let's return to...
February 2026 PowerShell Potluck
In this issue: PSTuiTools Add-TypeName Import-FromJson PowerShell Community Awards Scripting Challenge Summary It was a short month, but I think covered a...
Resolving The Registry Challenge
In this issue: Using Registry PSDrives Get-LocalAutoRun Formatting the Output Using Win32_Registry Get-AutoRun Summary At the end of last month, I gave you,...
Proxy Problems
In this issue: Documentation Building Your Own Creating Custom Comment-Based Help Dynamic Parameters Copy Parameters A Function Template Copy-...
Enhancing the Proxy Command
In this issue: Adding Remoting Defining Parameters Updating PSBoundParameters Where Are the Parameters? Creating the Script Block Get-Service Proxy with...
Getting Behind PowerShell Proxy Functions
In this issue: What Is a Proxy Function? Creating a Proxy Function Getting Command Info Getting Command Metadata Generating the Proxy Function Code Clean Up...
Registry Management with PowerShell and .NET
In this issue: Creating Registry Keys Creating Registry Values Registry Value Types Updating Registry Values Creating a Registry Tree Removing Registry Items...
More Registry Roaming
In this issue: Exploring Other Registry Hives Resolving SIDs Querying User Registry Keys Get-RegistryKeyInfo What About Remoting? Get-PwshRegistryInfo...
Capturing The Registry With A (dot)Net
In this issue: Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey Opening A Registry Hive Opening A Subkey Accessing Registry Values Get-RegistryKeyData Creating a Registry Tree...
January 2026 PowerShell Roundup
In this issue: PSIntro Are You Using That? Try/Catch Error Types Conference Planning PowerShell Summit PSConfEU The End of an Era A New Scripting Challenge...
A Custom PSVersionTable Solution
In this issue: A Few Notes on History Streams December 2025 Scripting Challenge Copy Confusion Attack of the Clones Hashtable Updates Operating System Info...
Streaming File History
In this issue: Getting Content Content Options Adding a Stream Getting Stream Data Updating a Stream What About Add-Content? Helper Functions Get-...
PowerShell Hide And Seek
In this issue: Files and Folders Hiding Files and Folders Un-Hiding Files and Folders Command Parameters DontShow Hidden Members Show-HiddenMember Defining...
