There's a couple informal planning steps I do prior to writing a single line of code for a potentially large PowerShell scripts. Describe the Script in One Sentence Let's say I want to build a script ...

Although Windows PowerShell is probably most commonly thought of as a command line environment for administrators, it can be used for more than just running commands. PowerShell can also be used ...

The only way to do that is through testing, and when using PowerShell, that testing suite is Pester. Pester is a unit testing framework built with PowerShell in mind. It was created because, although ...

One of the best new features in PowerShell 7 is the ability to perform parallel execution of script blocks, which can drastically reduce the amount of time it takes to process ForEach-Object loops.

I myself draw a line between signed and unsigned execution of scripts. I have clients that allow unsigned scripts and those clients that doesn't. But what is the general opinion on this?

This responsibility is on the author and is one of the purposes of the #requires statement. That being said, you might be able to use the AST, tokenize, or just parse raw text to look for v3 ...

One of the key differences between PowerShell and Command Prompt is how they handle output. CMD outputs plain text, while PowerShell outputs objects that can be arranged in multiple ways — as ...

I expected this to be a one-line script, but I was naive. Hicks came back to me with an amazing script that he’s allowing me to share with everyone. They don’t call him Professor PowerShell ...