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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. Harm Veenstra on PowerShell v7.6 LTS Release and why it mattersMarch 30, 2026

    Bug fixes mostly,.NET changes etc. But always good to know and to be on supported releases

  2. Thomas on PowerShell v7.6 LTS Release and why it mattersMarch 30, 2026

    Hi Harm Not that there are that many new features, but always nice to be on the newest release. Thanks…

  3. Harm Veenstra on Learning PowerShell on Microsoft LearnMarch 20, 2026

    Nice ❤️ Stephan is doing great stuff!

  4. Calvin on Learning PowerShell on Microsoft LearnMarch 20, 2026

    The PowerShell performance considerations are also a huge resource, given they state most of the techniques are not idiomatic but…

  5. Harm Veenstra on Intune Proactive Remediation for “Microsoft Windows Unquoted Service Path” / CVE-2013-1609, CVE-2014-0759, CVE-2014-5455March 11, 2026

    You could check the intune logs or the Remediation log on one of those clients to see what's going on…

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