PowerShell

The Office 365 Import Service does a good job of “bringing data home” by ingesting PST files and other data into Exchange Online mailboxes and SharePoint Online libraries. But sometimes you just want to do your own thing – and you can with the New-MailboxImportRequest cmdlet.

Microsoft PowerShell on Linux and macOS—yes, it’s now open source. If you think the world’s gone mad, you might be right. For die-hard Linux-heads, it’s never going to replace Bash, Perl or Python. But for Microsoft-centric dev/ops types, it promises to be a wonderful widget in the toolbag. Especially as more workloads move to “the cloud.”

Microsoft has released a version of PowerShell that will run on Linux, Jeff Hicks takes a closer look at this version of the powerful task-based command-line shell and scripting language.

Microsoft has announced today that they will be open-sourcing PowerShell and also bringing the platform to Linux and OS X; an alpha preview is available today.

PowerShell MVP and trainer Jeff Hicks continues his exploration of filtering in PowerShell and techniques to help you make your filtering more efficient.

Learn some useful tips for using the open source project called Pester with PowerShell, which you can use for testing and more.

If there is one cmdlet that confuses PowerShell beginners more than anything, it is Write-Host. Newcomers see commands like Write-Output, Write-Host, and if running PowerShell 5.0 Write-Information. Determining which one to use can be a bit overwhelming. So let me make it simple: For now you can ignore Write-Information.

We’ve come along way since we started this project on building a PowerShell hot fix reporting tool. We’ve wrapped up our functionality around the Get-Hotfix cmdlet. But there’s more to be done.

It’s time to dive deep into our series about how to build an advanced hotfix reporting tool and this time around, we provide assistance for those who have complex requirements.

Looking for an Advanced PowerShell HTML HotFix Report script? Jeff Hicks shows you how to make them.