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When a third party owns and curates your PowerShell modules, you risk introducing problems and have to give up the dream of keeping proprietary stuff private. ProGet gives you all …

Running PowerShell scripts is easy if you're a PowerShell guru. But what if you need non-experts to run your scripts? Using Otter to add a graphical user interface (GUI) to …

There are many public ways to store your PowerShell modules (like the PowerShell Gallery and GitHub). However, these often aren't acceptable for organizations the need extra privacy and security Creating …

I think we can all agree that Spiderman Peter Parker’s Uncle Ben was right: “With great PowerShell comes great responsibility.” Okay, obviously I added the “shell” part. But it’s true …

Combing through hard drives, emails, USBs and file folders looking for a script is annoying, its wasteful, but most importantly, it’s not necessary. It’s common for a company’s scripts to …

Script Hell. That tangled wasteland of unorganized, I-swear-I’ve-written-this-15-times-already PowerShell scripts. No one wants to be in script hell. The best time to get your team out of script hell was …

There are a million-and-one books and articles about how to improve your coding practices, but identifying which ones are worth your time would take forever. THIS article summarizes the core …

Unless you’re the reincarnation of some famous daredevil, you know better than to put anything into Production without testing. This includes your PowerShell scripts. Googling around has probably yielded the …

Most people AREN’T using PowerShell to its full potential — and if you’re not using its full potential, you’re wasting time and resources. The good news is that your competition is likely …

How do you convert your Windows Batch scripts to PowerShell? The basic “how” is ridiculously easy: Rename the file from .bat/.cmd to .ps1. If it runs exactly the same as …