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 ...

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 ...

One of the best things about Windows PowerShell is the pipeline. The pipeline is beneficial in so many ways, and it is in part what makes PowerShell fun to code in. The capability of the pipeline to ...

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 ...