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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

Microsoft Entra PowerShell modules

The new Microsoft Entra PowerShell modules are available, replacing the deprecated AzureAD modules. This blog post will highlight the installation, changes, and features.

Harm Veenstra Entra ID, PowerShell 8 Comments January 31, 2025January 31, 2025 4 Minutes

Fixing Windows 11 24H2 – No Internet Access Issue using PowerShell and Intune Remediation

There are articles and forum posts from people who upgraded to Windows 11 24H2 and are experiencing Wi-Fi issues. In this blog post, I will share an Intune Remediation script that may resolve the issue on your devices.

Harm Veenstra Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Networking, PowerShell 5 Comments January 23, 2025January 29, 2026 4 Minutes

PowerShell v7.5.0 RC1

The Release Candidate (RC) was first released in November 2024. Even though it's an RC, it's considered a “go-live” release, meaning it’s a supported release in production. In this blog post, I will give you more details on how to install it.

Harm Veenstra PowerShell Leave a comment January 18, 2025January 25, 2025 2 Minutes

Show expiring local Certificates using PowerShell

You always use certificates but forget when they expire until it's too late. In this blog post, I will show you how to use a small script when starting a PowerShell session to display certificates about to expire on your Windows system.

Harm Veenstra PowerShell, Security Leave a comment January 10, 2025January 10, 2025 2 Minutes

2024 Overview

It's 2025, so it's time to reflect on 2024 :). In this blog post, I will highlight all the great PowerShell things that happened during the year.

Harm Veenstra PowerShell Leave a comment January 3, 2025January 3, 2025 2 Minutes

Using Get-Command in PowerShell

Something that I use very often is Get-Command. It shows you what module the cmdlet is from, what cmdlets a module has, etc. In this last blog post of 2024, I will show you how it works 🙂

Harm Veenstra PowerShell Leave a comment December 27, 2024December 27, 2024 5 Minutes

Validate list of Email Addresses using PowerShell

What if you have an extensive list of email addresses? And if you must validate them for syntax and check if there's an email server for that domain? PowerShell is your friend 🙂 In this blog post, I will show you how to import, validate, and export the results of those email addresses.

Harm Veenstra PowerShell Leave a comment December 20, 2024October 16, 2026 5 Minutes

PowerShell Function for the cmd.ms website

I'm a big fan of the cmd.ms website because it has all the links to quickly jump to a specific blade in a portal instead of clicking multiple parts of a Microsoft Management portal to get there. In this blog post, I will show you how to use a PowerShell function to open one or multiple management websites from the command line.

Harm Veenstra PowerShell 1 Comment December 12, 2024December 17, 2024 7 Minutes

The PowerShellSaturday Karlsruhe event (30-11-2024) #PSSaturdayKA

The PSSaturday event in Karlsruhe took place on November 30th, 2024; in this blog post, I will share some highlights of the event, including my session :).

Harm Veenstra Fun, PowerShell 4 Comments November 30, 2024December 5, 2024 4 Minutes

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  1. Harm Veenstra on PowerShell Preview v7.7.0-rc.1 ReleaseOctober 31, 2026

    Nice one to mention, not been using that.. Yet 😅

  2. ArieH on PowerShell Preview v7.7.0-rc.1 ReleaseOctober 31, 2026

    The FetchExternalReference flag on Test-Json cmdlet is something to look very careful on, for those using it.In my system, some…

  3. dbash13 on Using ErrorAction in PowerShellOctober 14, 2026

    Good explanation! I think a post explaining the advanced functions that take advantage of these built-in variables would be useful…

  4. Harm Veenstra on slmgr.vbs replacement in PowerShell using the OSLicense moduleOctober 6, 2026

    It replaces slmgr.vbs because Microsoft will remove VBScript in later versions of Windows. The advantage is that administrators will still…

  5. Harm Veenstra on Updating your PowerShell modules to the latest version, plus cleaning up older versionsOctober 6, 2026

    Newer versions of the PowerShell modules that you already have installed contain updates, security and bugfixes. Removing older versions will…

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