If you are building PowerShell longer than a few lines, it is good practice to break up your code into reusable snippets. This way you can only call the code snippet over and over instead of ...

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. In recent ...

Learn how to design and build your own interactive menus inside your PowerShell scripts. This will help non-PowerShell users easily navigate and use them.

PowerShell is more than just scripting and automation. Given the right functions, you can also use it to solve numerical equations -- from the simple to the complex. Here's how. PowerShell is not just ...

TLDR: The Microsoft PowerShell Certification Bundle includes three courses in using this powerful Microsoft program for automating and streamlining IT admin functions. Microsoft is a lot more than ...

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In Part 1 of this series, I showed you an example of PowerShell's native validation capabilities. In that installment, I wrote a function that accepted a text string as input. The function then used ...