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PowerShell and the new Coreutils for Windows

Microsoft released Coreutils for Windows at the beginning of this month, command-line tools that are native to Linux, macOS, and WSL. In this blog post, I will show you how they work and if you can use them with PowerShell, too 🙂

Harm Veenstra PowerShell 1 Comment June 11, 2026June 11, 2026 5 Minutes

PSConfEU 2026

I attended my third PSConfEU event, this time it was in Wiesbaden (Germany). In this long blog post, I will recap the week, the sessions, the event, the people I met, and everything else surrounding it.

Harm Veenstra PowerShell, PSConfEU Leave a comment May 31, 2026September 30, 2026 16 Minutes

Using PSBoundParameters or IsPresent when checking PowerShell Switch or Parameters usage

Had a talk with a colleague about whether to use IsPresent or PSBoundParameters to validate if a Switch or Parameter was used in a Script or Function. In this blog, I will explain what they do and how you can use both.

Harm Veenstra PowerShell 2 Comments May 29, 2026May 29, 2026 3 Minutes

Create executables of PowerShell scripts

Giving PowerShell scripts to people often results in questions like, "How do I start this?" or "I ran this, but nothing happens..." (When sending a script that contained a function). In this blog post, I will show you how to create an executable of a script and its limitations.

Harm Veenstra PowerShell, Security 5 Comments May 22, 2026May 22, 2026 2 Minutes

PowerShell Methods

In scripts, I often use Methods to perform actions or retrieve information. In this blog post, I will show you how to discover and use them 🙂

Harm Veenstra PowerShell 1 Comment May 15, 2026May 15, 2026 3 Minutes

Using Get-Help About_ in PowerShell

The Get-Help Cmdlet is great for showing information about Cmdlets, but there are also the About Topics with conceptual help to better help you understand how PowerShell works. In this small blog post, I will show you how to query and use them.

Harm Veenstra PowerShell Leave a comment May 8, 2026May 15, 2026 2 Minutes

PowerShell Preview v7.7.0-preview.1 release

Three days ago, the latest PowerShell Preview version was released, following the previous Preview version, 7.6 (which is now the new LTS). In this short blog post, I will highlight some changes and how to install v7.7.0-preview.1.

Harm Veenstra PowerShell Leave a comment May 1, 2026May 1, 2026 9 Minutes

Celebrating my 250 PowerShell-related posts!

My first post was in April 2022, 4 years later, I'm at 250 posts 🙂 In this blog post, I want to look back and thank all the people I met since then who helped me, left comments, or contributed to my scripts.

Harm Veenstra Fun, PowerShell 2 Comments April 24, 2026April 24, 2026 3 Minutes

Check mail records using the DomainHealthChecker PowerShell Module

Verifying DNS records for Exchange Online is something that I do for migrations or security scans. I wrote a function for that in the past, but the DomainHealthChecker module is pretty extensive! In this small blog post, I will show you how to use it.

Harm Veenstra Microsoft Exchange, PowerShell, Security 1 Comment April 17, 2026April 17, 2026 2 Minutes

PowerShell MSI Package Deprecation starting with the new preview updates (v7.7 Preview 1)

PowerShell always had an MSI package that you could download and distribute yourself to install and update, starting with Preview 1 of v7.7, which has changed to MSIX. In this short blog post, I will explain what this means.

Harm Veenstra PowerShell 1 Comment April 10, 2026April 10, 2026 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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