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Month: February 2025

Using Warp as PowerShell terminal

This week, after the official Windows release of Warp on February 26th, I saw many YouTube clips of the new Terminal app. I decided to try it and see what it does differently from my trusty Windows Terminal app. This blog post will show you my first impression of the application.

Harm Veenstra PowerShell 11 Comments February 28, 2025February 28, 2025 3 Minutes

25 Years of Active Directory and my PowerShell experience managing it

This week, on the 17th of February, Active Directory celebrated its 25th birthday 🙂 I will share my experience managing it with PowerShell in this blog post.

Harm Veenstra PowerShell 2 Comments February 21, 2025February 21, 2025 4 Minutes

Retrieve blocked DNS queries from PiHole using PowerShell

I use PiHole for Ad-blocking at home, and yes, sometimes that causes some issues if it blocks Microsoft (Or other) management addresses. In this blog post, I will show how you can live-track blocked DNS queries and get some insights while troubleshooting 🙂

Harm Veenstra Networking, PowerShell 4 Comments February 14, 2025May 25, 2025 6 Minutes

Using the PowerShell WinGet Client module to install your apps on your new computer

Installing all your (management) apps on a new system always takes too much time. In this blog post, I will show you how to use PowerShell and the WinGet Client module to install them quickly.

Harm Veenstra PowerShell, Winget 4 Comments February 7, 2025February 7, 2025 3 Minutes

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  1. PowerShell SnippetRace 22-23/2026 | PowerShell Usergroup Austria on Using PSBoundParameters or IsPresent when checking PowerShell Switch or Parameters usageMay 30, 2026

    […] or not. PSBoundparameter is very commonly known, probably $isPresent is a little less known. Read Haarm Veenstras blog on…

  2. Harm Veenstra on Create executables of PowerShell scriptsMay 24, 2026

    Ah 😊 it should be "create an executable of a PowerShell script' perhaps 🤔 Oh well 😎 Perhaps even from…

  3. Ray on Create executables of PowerShell scriptsMay 24, 2026

    Exutable 😬

  4. Harm Veenstra on Create executables of PowerShell scriptsMay 24, 2026

    Converting PowerShell Scripts to an executable, yes. What is your question/remark?

  5. Peter DuDeck on Create executables of PowerShell scriptsMay 24, 2026

    PowerShell to Exutable (PS2EXE)???

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