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Month: March 2025

MVP Summit 2025

This year was my first in-person MVP Summit at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond. In this blog post, I will highlight a few things about the week, but... I won't share any details about the sessions because of the non-disclosure agreement (NDA). 🙂

Harm Veenstra PowerShell Leave a comment March 29, 2025March 31, 2025 2 Minutes

Launching Start Menu apps using PowerShell

Sometimes, you want to run a few applications as a different (Admin) user on your system. Usually, I do that by (Shift) Right-clicking applications, etc... In this small blog post, I will show you a simple way to start multiple applications using PowerShell, making life somewhat easier 😉

Harm Veenstra PowerShell 5 Comments March 21, 2025March 28, 2025 3 Minutes

When you take a look at your old PowerShell scripts…

Sometimes, I browse my old scripts in my private GitHub repository and think... Why did I write it / Where's the error handling / I could improve this with what I learned after writing that years ago, etc. In this blog post, I will show you a few examples of just that and how I improved 🙂

Harm Veenstra PowerShell Leave a comment March 14, 2025March 14, 2025 4 Minutes

Retrieve End of Life information using PowerShell

One of the things that I do when writing documents for customers is check if the products I advise or the customers use are still supported. The end-of-life date is essential, and in this blog post, I will show you how to retrieve that information quickly 🙂

Harm Veenstra PowerShell 6 Comments March 7, 2025March 7, 2025 5 Minutes

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