PowerShell functions act as small, reusable building blocks of code that streamline your workflow and make your scripts more efficient. We’ll explain more about PowerShell functions and share basic ...

Posey's Tips & Tricks. How To Validate Input in PowerShell Functions, Part 1. If your automated script takes action based on a value, it's critical to make sure the value is correct.

For example, instead of hard coding a username in your script, allow it to be passed as a parameter. Document your functions ...

PowerShell is more than a simple scripting language, but less than a full-blown programming language. PowerShell is a command-line shell that provides a powerful platform for performing an array of ...

Also like function names, you should avoid using a plural if at all possible. Add Help and Examples to Your Function When you were first starting out with PowerShell, I'm sure that much like myself, ...

The PowerShell Blacksmith Part 4: Fine-Tuning Functions. Part 4 takes the function created last time and adds a validation attribute. By Jeffery Hicks; 10/15/2013; In the last article we finished ...

Most eager PowerShell users over-build their functions or scripts to do too many things. You'd get more reuse from old code if your code was more granularly and tightly scoped. Find out more about ...

What started out as a personal project to fine-tune new Windows 10 has blossomed into a full GitHub project supporting versions 1809 and up. It lets you uninstall OneDrive the correct way, and more.

Hi there,I have seeing some shell script examples that use (use, not declare!) variables like this:${VAR_1} while on other examples, it is like this: ...