Tag: PowerShell

19 posts
Friday Fun #1 - Servers with PowerShell

Friday Fun #1 - Servers with PowerShell

I've been doing WebDev with PowerShell for a while now. I find it a lot of fun. I'm somewhat obsessed with making things easy in PowerShell and trying to make development fun.

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Jun 26, 2026

Issues loading Az PowerShell modules in Azure Automation

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Jun 24, 2026
Making Memes

Making Memes

It's Friday. Let's have some Fun! Let's write fun servers in PowerShell. About a week ago, I released Fun. It's a fun functional server in PowerShell.

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Jun 19, 2026
Events are Easy

Events are Easy

Events are easy. Events let you know when something happened, and respond to it if you choose. Events are incredibly useful.

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Jun 2, 2026
Mastering Markdown

Mastering Markdown

I've loved Markdown since the day it was a Daring Fireball post. It's a simple rich text format that gets the job done, and it's used everywhere. Markdown is supported out of the box on PowerShell 6+, using the ConvertFrom-Markdown command.

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May 26, 2026
Freeform Functions

Freeform Functions

We all yearn for freedom. We want to be free from tyranny. We want to be free to live. We want to be free to do things we enjoy. Some of us yearn to be free of PowerShell's parameter structure.

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May 11, 2026
PowerShell Profiles

PowerShell Profiles

I've been using PowerShell for a pretty long time, and I have some thoughts on profiles. Let's share some of what I think makes a good profile and a bad profile. The profiles are the script run when a PowerShell launched. Any user can have a profile, and all users can have a profile.

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May 10, 2026
Splatting the GitHub CLI

Splatting the GitHub CLI

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but I may be bad at it. But let's try to make a quick post about a little daily PowerShell timesaver: splatting the GitHub CLI. I'm going to show you how you can save typing and time with the GitHub CLI.

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May 10, 2026
Static Sites are Simple

Static Sites are Simple

Static Sites are simple. They're just files, and mostly text. Here's a PowerShell one-liner to make a really simple static site: We make static sites with whatever language we want, and we can publish them about anywhere for free.

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Feb 23, 2026
The PowerShell Wiggum Loop

The PowerShell Wiggum Loop

One of the best things about PowerShell is that you can interactively explore anything. Long before the Wiggum Loop was a thing, PowerShell let you explore interactively with prompting. Here's how you can embody the spirit of Ralph Wiggum and find your way around PowerShell. All parts of the PowerShell Wiggum Loop are as old as PowerShell itself. To be fair, the Simpsons did it first (1989).

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Feb 1, 2026
Hello World

Hello World

I'm James, and the code above is Hello World in PowerShell. Long ago, I worked on the PowerShell team and helped build a really beautiful and interesting scripting language. In the past couple of decades I've been continuing to explore and grow the capabilities of the language, and have beamed with pride as more and more people have been inspired.

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Jan 27, 2026

Deleting All Workflow Runs In GitHub Repository With PowerShell

A PowerShell script that paginates the GitHub REST API to bulk-delete every workflow run in a repository, with rate-limit handling and dry-run support.

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Jan 16, 2025

Quickly Finding Previously Typed Commands With PowerShell

Search PowerShell command history with Get-History and PSReadLine across sessions to recover long ffmpeg or scripting commands you ran weeks ago.

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Dec 29, 2024

Reading Azure Active Directory Recommendations From PowerShell

Pull Azure Active Directory tenant recommendations from PowerShell using the Microsoft Graph API, with sample code for auth and parsing the JSON output.

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Feb 12, 2023

Caffeinate Windows With PowerShell

A PowerShell equivalent of macOS caffeinate -d that uses the SetThreadExecutionState Win32 API to keep Windows awake without faking key presses.

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Nov 11, 2020

Generating Windows 10 Notifications With PowerShell

Triggering native Windows 10 toast notifications from PowerShell using the WinRT ToastNotificationManager API to alert on long-running script steps.

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Aug 25, 2020

Write GitHub Actions In PowerShell

Author a custom GitHub Action that runs PowerShell Core inside a Docker container, replacing the default bash entry point for cross-platform scripts.

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Dec 11, 2018

SFTP auf Microsoft IIS korrekt einrichten

Dieser Artikel behandelt häufige Probleme bei der Einrichtung eines SFTP-Servers auf Microsoft IIS, darunter Zertifikatsfehler, Probleme mit passiven Verbindungen und Benutzerberechtigungen. Er bietet Lösungen, wie die korrekte Generierung von Server-Zertifikaten mittels PowerShell und die Behebung

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Oct 13, 2015

Launching Windows Store Apps From Desktop

Launching Windows 8 Store apps from the desktop via registered URI schemes like bingfinance: and bingmaps: pulled out of the Windows Registry.

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Nov 27, 2012