In my experience splatting is one of those often overlooked and underutilized features of PowerShell. Full disclosure, I don’t use it regularly myself. Most times I just forget it’s a thing. For those that are new to PowerShell, splatting looks more difficult than it really is. The whole idea...
PowerShell Quicktips
PowerShell Quicktip #2: Filter-Left
A practical example of why you should filter as far left in your scripts as possible. It might matter. #1 Get-Service | Where-object { $_.Status -eq 'Running' -and $_.name -like 's*'} #2 Get-Service -name s*| Where-object { $_.Status -eq 'Running'} #1 Measure-Command -Expression {Get-Service | Where-object { $_.Status -eq...
PowerShell QuickTip #1 – Exploring PowerShell CMDlets with Show-Command
Using Show-Command can be useful for those with little PowerShell experience to get a quick idea of what you can do with a particular CMDlet.