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Month: February 2026

Over 1.000.000 views!

Today, my site crossed the 1 million views mark 🙂 I'm just looking at this huge number and thinking... How?! To celebrate, I will highlight some things from the journey in this small blog post.

Harm Veenstra Fun, PowerShell 6 Comments February 27, 2026February 27, 2026 2 Minutes

Using Strict Mode in PowerShell

PowerShell is incredibly flexible; it's a forgiving scripting language. But this could turn into scripts not written according to best practices or that rely on things that work automatically, and sometimes fail without really understanding why. In this blog post, I will show you how Strict mode works and how it can help you 🙂

Harm Veenstra Formatting, PowerShell 1 Comment February 20, 2026February 20, 2026 3 Minutes

Using the ZLocation PowerShell Module to navigate folders

Switching back and forth between folders on your system requires a lot of typing and thinking about where that xyz folder was located... Zlocation helps you navigate frequently accessed folders. In this small blog post, I will show you how it works.

Harm Veenstra PowerShell 1 Comment February 13, 2026February 15, 2026 2 Minutes

a Hidden gem in PowerShell : Format-Custom

It was something I ran into this week, Format-Custom. Usually I display things in a list or table, but this is different... And very useful! In this blog post, I will show you how it works.

Harm Veenstra Formatting, PowerShell Leave a comment February 6, 2026February 6, 2026 3 Minutes

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  1. Harm Veenstra on Keep Microsoft Teams status Available instead of away using PowerShellApril 13, 2026

    Nice catch, makes sense to leave it out of the loop and updated blog and GitHub. Thanks!

  2. Harm Veenstra on Keep Microsoft Teams status Available instead of away using PowerShellApril 13, 2026

    I mentioned "Run as Admin" only if you run it as a Scheduled Task, you don't need Admin permissions but…

  3. Jean-Claude DuBois on Keep Microsoft Teams status Available instead of away using PowerShellApril 13, 2026

    Should be no need to "Run As Admin". The script makes no admin calls.

  4. Jean-Claude DuBois on Keep Microsoft Teams status Available instead of away using PowerShellApril 13, 2026

    Let me suggest an update.. Move the line $wshell = New-Object -ComObject wscript.shell to the first line of the script.…

  5. Harm Veenstra on Intune Win32 PowerShell Installer TypeApril 8, 2026

    Never thought about that... Does it show when running it in user context? If so, the use the normal install…

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