Articles

PowerShell articles, tutorials, and guides from community experts.

Will Anderson
PowerShell for Admins

What You Missed This Week in PowerShell!

Blogs Keeping PowerShell Modules Up To Date by Thomas Lee on Saturday July 14th, 2018 Learn a simple technique for checking which of your modules from the PowerShell Gallery have an update. When TLS 1.2 Breaks Invoke-WebRequest by Lawrence Hwang on July 15th, 2018 In Windows PowerShell, …

Will Anderson
PowerShell for Admins

What You Missed This Week in PowerShell!

This week we’re starting a new series of blog posts called (obviously) ‘What You Missed This Week in PowerShell!’. Our team of volunteers is scouring the web to find interesting articles, and forum posts related to our favourite topic! In the meantime, I want to give a ’thank …

Don Jones
PowerShell for Admins

Help Us Improve our Ebooks – Your Chance to Contribute!

We recently re-launched all of our free ebooks at https://leanpub.com/u/devopscollective. These books have all been authored by a variety of people, myself included, and most were originally authors in Word. As we translated them into Markdown (which is what Leanpub uses for its source), a few …

Don Jones
PowerShell for Admins

OnRamp Scholarship open to non-US Applicants

I have managed to clear the regulatory hurdles and our OnRamp Scholarship is now open to applicants from outside the US. We will update the application materials and web pages as soon as possible, but there’s no need to wait to submit an application. There are two caveats: first, the option to …

Don Jones
Announcements

Looking for a PowerShell.org Contributor

We’re looking for someone who can publish a regular “What You Missed This Week” blog post on PowerShell.org each Friday (excepting the odd week off for vacations, of course). This is meant just as a roundup of interesting posts from around the web; we know tons of people are …

Don Jones
PowerShell for Admins

How PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit Began

Back in… gosh, 2009, 2010 or so, an Arizona company named NetPro hosted PowerShell Deep Dive, part of their The Experts Conference event (the first was held in Las Vegas for just 50 people). After hosting two years (I think) though, NetPro was purchased by Quest Software, which moved to close …

Don Jones
PowerShell Summit

We Need Your Help.

We need your help. As you may have heard, we’re launching a new “OnRamp” track at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2019. Limited to 40 students, this will be a hands-on class designed to bootstrap someone into the technology and our community. There’s a whole brochure about it! We’re also …

Eli Hess
PowerShell for Admins

Executing LINQ Queries in PowerShell – Part 2

And we’re back! Ok, so in the last blog we began a conversation about delegates and using LINQ in PowerShell. In today’s post, I’m going to give an example of how it can be incredibly useful. Let’s talk about Joins. Joins In my line of work, I’m constantly running into …

Eli Hess
PowerShell for Admins

Executing LINQ Queries in PowerShell – Part 1

Greetings PowerShellers! Lately, I’ve been itching to write something up on Microsoft’s Language-Integrated Query (LINQ). You’ve likely encountered it if you’ve done any development in C#. LINQ is an incredibly powerful querying tool for performing look-ups, joins, ordering, and …