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Understanding PowerShell Terminology

PowerShell expert Jeff Hicks provides an overview of introductory PowerShell terms to help you get acquainted with PowerShell.

Last Update: Apr 17, 2023

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A Primer on Special PowerShell Operators

Last Update: Oct 19, 2022

PowerShell trainer Jeff Hicks wraps up his look at operators with some special cases.

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Filtering PowerShell

Last Update: Oct 10, 2022

PowerShell is all about working with objects. Some commands can return hundreds if not thousands of objects and often you only really need small subset. To get the small subset, you need to perform some type of filtering.

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PowerShell Classes Part 3 — Using Methods

In part 3 of the PowerShell Class series, Missy Januszko discusses how to define methods to perform actions against an instance of the class.

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PowerShell Classes Part 2 — Enumerated Types

In the second part of the series on PowerShell classes, learn how and where to declare constant values using Enums and explore the differences between enums and ValidateSet.

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Creating Your First PowerShell Class

Take your PowerShell programming to a new level by learning how to use classes.

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Deciphering PowerShell Providers

Learn what a PowerShell provider does and how it allows a common set of cmdlets to interact with differently-structured data stores.

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More PowerShell Filtering Options

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

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Which Write Is Right For PowerShell?

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.

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Getting Started with PowerShell’s Get-Member

If you are going to get anywhere with PowerShell you have to absolutely understand the concept of objects in the pipeline and in this post, Jeff Hicks breaks it down.

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