With that out of the way, we can take a dive into writing a couple of functions that support objects coming from the pipeline. Something that is very important to know when building functions that ...

Designing PowerShell functions, like coding, is an art. There are lots of shortcuts and best practices that you will come up with yourself to make your coding easier over the long run.

If your automated script takes action based on a value, it's critical to make sure the value is correct. Good thing PowerShell has ways to validate the values that are passed to a function.

Most eager PowerShell users over-build their functions or scripts to do too many things. You'd get more reuse from old code if your code was more granularly and tightly scoped.

Yes. You can customize PowerShell according to the tasks, functions, aliases, pane color, etc. There is so much you can do to make PowerShell perform commands easily and to your own liking.

I use Powershell's "custom-object" command to create custom objects with properties I want to save. But custom-object applies only to one variable. Is it possible to create a custom class, like in ...

In a recent blog post, Amazon announced it would release a preview of refactored AWS Tools for PowerShell, allowing developers and administrators to manage their AWS services from the PowerShell ...

They also follow a similar naming convention with PowerShell functions; instead of the word “function” they use the word “configuration,” for example.

Microsoft removes the version still included for compatibility for good. It has long been considered obsolete.