Editor's note: Adam Bertram originally wrote the article and Brien Posey expanded it. The PowerShell parameter is a fundamental component of most PowerShell scripts. Parameters make it possible to ...

When you first start writing scripts, modularity, reusability, and best practices may not be top of mind. As your scripts become more complex, however, creating reusable elements becomes essential. By ...

Create PowerShell functions only for reusable code, not unnecessary script fragmentation. Avoid over-engineering small PowerShell scripts that become difficult to read and maintain. Keep PowerShell ...

When PowerShell made its public debut in November 2006, and became available for all modern Windows versions early in 2007, it had already been knocking around in experimental and beta form for more ...

In the last lesson we started learning how to forge our own PowerShell tools. I started with a simple need, calculate the median and range for a set of numbers. Now that we know how to do it from the ...

A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions. In this post, we ...

In the last part of this series, we looked at defining a type for the output of our PowerShell tool. If you skipped that lesson, you should go back and read it first. I'll wait... Ok. Today we'll look ...

One of the most difficult things about PowerShell scripting is finding and fixing any bugs that exist within the script. This process isn't usually a big deal for short PowerShell scripts, but it can ...