Questions tagged [powershell]
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How to deal with outdated PowerShell and Azure PS in Azure Automation?
Azure Automation is a service for running scripts in the cloud, intended for the automation of administration tasks. While using it, I came across strangely outdated technologies being used under the ...
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What are the best practices to design a "verbose" mode in command line scripts?
To improve my command lines scripts, I want to add some optional console output, mainly for logging purposes. In my PowerShell modules, I use Write-Verbose for this (but it should be clear this isn't ...
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Enum versus ValidateSet
Currently, in my PowerShell scripts I am using [ValidateSet()] in my functions in order to limit the options for user input. Now I discovered the Enum as an alternative. I have read a couple of blogs ...
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Should powershell be used to develop a whole application?
We are automating the testing on an Web ERP solution (Dynamics) through a tool (RSAT, which uses selenium) provided by the developer of the ERP (Microsoft).
The RSAT has a list of instructions to do ...
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Custom object formatting caveats as to not confuse end users
Default display of objects in the Windows PowerShell console
In PowerShell you have format.ps1xml documents. These are used to simplify what and how object data is shown to the end user. A simple ...
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Correct way to initialize variables in PowerShell
Is there a preferred practice around initialising variables which are first defined within a branch of code, or is this purely subjective / personal preference?
i.e. there are multiple ways this can ...
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How to license (PowerShell) GUI Projects [duplicate]
After almost 2 years learning how to code (in Powershell) and some help at Stackoverflow from time to time, I'm now finally on my way to release my first GUI project.
I intend to release the compiled ...
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Unix way of filtering/mapping/mapcatting records via the pipeline?
At home I use Linux and have for more than a decade. At work we use Windows and so I find PowerShell more familiar. I am a Linux/Unix fanboy at heart, but I've had greater success grokking the ...
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Multiple files in powershell [closed]
How to using multiple files in Powershell to ensure modularity?
function.ps1 could have all the utility functions?
command1.ps1 could have calls related to a command?
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