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Month: July 2024

Using Switch in PowerShell

Everyone uses If statements in their scripts: If this, then that. Or If not this, then that, multiple If, and even Elseif. But there is another option, Switch. In this blog post, I will show you how you can use Switch and make your scripts more readable in the process 🙂

Harm Veenstra PowerShell Leave a comment July 26, 2024July 26, 2024 3 Minutes

500.000 views!

And... my blog site just passed 500.000 views! I started my first blog post on April 21, 2022, and the views have been increasing ever since. 🙂 I want to thank you all in this blog post and show you how much the site grew over time.

Harm Veenstra PowerShell Leave a comment July 16, 2024July 17, 2024 2 Minutes

PowerShell PSDrive

This is sometimes forgotten, the easy way of accessing or checking network drives, certificates, registry, variables, etc. In this blog post, I will show you what a PSDrive does and some examples of its use.

Harm Veenstra PowerShell Leave a comment July 12, 2024July 12, 2024 3 Minutes

Using Pop-Location and Push-Location in PowerShell

At PSConfEU, somebody asked me if I used Pop-Location and Push-Location. Well, I know it's there, but no. 🙂 In this blog post, I will show you how to use it and that it might come in handy!

Harm Veenstra PowerShell Leave a comment July 5, 2024July 5, 2024 3 Minutes

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