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Steve Parankewich
Announcements

Boston PSUG Kick Off Meeting Tomorrow

Hello fellow PowerShell enthusiasts. I have been missing for a few months with a new child that has occupied most of my extra time! I look forward to get back in the blogging gear soon. I just wanted to send out a note that we are hosting our first kick off meeting for the Boston PowerShell User …

Jaap Brasser

Dutch PowerShell User Group opens its doors on Slack

In the past few weeks there has been a flurry of activity in the DuPSUG organization. We have been working on organizing the first PowerShell Saturday in the Netherlands and we recently also opened our doors on Slack, with our DuPSUG slack initiative. On Slack we will provide a platform on which we …

Don Jones
Books

Your feedback wanted! New eBook Hosting for PowerShell.org

After dealing with numerous problems from PenFlip (where our free ebooks are currently located), we’ve decided to try two new hosting providers: GitBook and LeanPub. Both of these are, or can be, based on Git/GitHub, which means the Markdown text of the book will always be open-sourced and …

msorens
PowerShell for Admins

Documenting your PowerShell API–solved!

Long has it been known how to easily document your PowerShell source code simply by embedding properly formatted documentation comments right along side your code, making maintenance relatively painless… But if you advanced to writing your PowerShell cmdlets in C#, you have largely been on …

i255d
Scripting Games

Scripting Games May 2016 AD Puzzle

I love working in AD (Active Directory) with PowerShell. I find that I have had to really dig in to learn some of the syntax nuances that you need to understand to really mine data and change configurations within Active Directory. This puzzle reflects the kind of situation that people have to deal …

Don Jones
PowerShell Summit

Verified Effective Exam Results

We’ve uploaded the results of the Verified Effective: PowerShell Toolmaker exam, which was administered at the recent PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2016. Note that this exam has, for a couple of years now, been available only as an on-site, in-person, proctored experience - we do not offer …

Jacob Moran
PowerShell for Admins

Keeping it simple – Line breaks in PowerShell

Trying to get your code to look good when reading it later can be tricky For line breaks in function scripts, there are two out-of-the-box options: First, you can break a line after the pipe key, which is an elegant and easy-to-read approach. Second, you can arbitrarily break a line with a back tick …