Monthly Archives: June 2012

Many scripting languages require you explicitly write out to screen – VBScript was an example. This leads to PowerShell that looks like this Get-Service |foreach {  Write-Host $_.Name, $_.Status} This is bad on so many levels. Firstly you are doing … Continue reading →

Many forum questions revolve around that question.  In some cases the answer is that its not possible. It might not be possible because PowerShell itself can’t do something BUT it is much more likely that there just isn’t away to … Continue reading →

A question on the forum asked about creating a function that accepts pipeline input OR has a path parameter.  Means it can be used like this myfunction -Path C:\scripts\Test\proc.csv or (Get-Content C:\scripts\Test\files.txt) | myfunction First create a csv file Get-Process … Continue reading →