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Month: September 2025

Do While, While and Do Until in PowerShell

I used this again in a few scripts while creating packages in Intune for a customer, where I had to wait for specific tasks to finish. In this brief blog post, I will outline how it works and discuss its use cases.

Harm Veenstra PowerShell Leave a comment September 26, 2025September 26, 2025 2 Minutes

Search and download Microsoft Updates using the MSCatalogLTS PowerShell module

You can use the Microsoft Update Catalog site to search and download Microsoft Updates, but there's also MSCatalogLTS 🙂 In this blog post, I will demonstrate how it works and explain why it's superior to the traditional catalog site.

Harm Veenstra PowerShell, Security, Windows Updates Leave a comment September 18, 2025September 19, 2025 2 Minutes

PowerShell v7.5.3 and v7.4.12 releases

Two days ago, PowerShell v7.5.3 (Current) and v7.4.12 (LTS) were released. You might not have even noticed it updating in the background because Windows Update did it for you 😉 In this brief blog post, I will list the changes from the release notes and URLs.

Harm Veenstra PowerShell 4 Comments September 12, 2025September 12, 2025 3 Minutes

No more PowerShell v2.0 in Windows 11 and Server 2025?

While we sometimes discuss whether to use Windows PowerShell v5 or PowerShell 7, PowerShell v2.0 is being removed in the newer builds of Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025. In this brief blog post, I will share some information about this topic.

Harm Veenstra PowerShell 2 Comments September 5, 2025September 6, 2025 1 Minute

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  1. PowerShell is fun :)PowerShell Preview v7.7.0-preview.1 release on PowerShell MSI Package Deprecation starting with the new preview updates (v7.7 Preview 1)May 1, 2026

    […] of the bigger things, as mentioned earlier here, is that there is no MSI installer available for Windows anymore.…

  2. Harm Veenstra on Celebrating my 250 PowerShell-related posts!April 26, 2026

    Thank you 😊

  3. Thomas on Celebrating my 250 PowerShell-related posts!April 26, 2026

    Congratulation Harm. You have for sure been very productive the last 4 years :-)

  4. PowerShell is fun :)Celebrating my 250 PowerShell-related posts! on PowerShell Function for the cmd.ms websiteApril 24, 2026

    […] Jambuilds, which helped me work out the best method for my PowerShell Function for the cmd.ms website […]

  5. PowerShell is fun :)Celebrating my 250 PowerShell-related posts! on It’s a lot of work reinstalling your system… But not with PowerShell and Winget!April 24, 2026

    […] wrote my first post on April 21st, 2022: https://powershellisfun.com/2022/04/21/its-a-lot-of-work-reinstalling-your-system/. It was something I was updating again after reinstalling my…

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