Git Commit Messages and Hooks
Maintaining integrity in your code is hard. Git hooks are an easy way to manage your workflow so you never commit code that doesn’t meet your standards. How do you know if
Nicholas M. Getchell
Poor Man's GUI
If you’re like me, you try to automate everything through the PowerShell console. Automate employee account creation, easy. Check the registry on 500 remote servers, wouldn’t break a sweat. How about
Using ThreadJob for Performance
Parallelizing work in PowerShell has been a drag. Runspaces are too complicated to spin up and background jobs are too resource intensive. There is a parallel foreach parameter when using workflows but I've
Deploying PowerShell Down-level
There have been many great features added to PowerShell throughout the years. Lots of new cmdlets come through the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) or baked into the new version of the operating
PowerShell Core 6.0 Released
PowerShell Core 6.0 has been released thanks to the hard work of the PowerShell Team. It is a stripped down version of PowerShell that runs cross-platform. That means PowerShell for Linux, MacOS,
Generate Random Passwords
Whether you’re at a help desk resetting passwords or setting up service accounts, you always need to be able to generate good random passwords. You know, the kind nobody wants to type