Out-GridView Returns
Out-GridView Returns! It’s been almost 3 years since PowerShell Core debuted for Linux and Mac, and as we’ve increased our cmdlet coverage more and more, one cmdlet has always stood out as a top, cross-platform request. Today, we are excited ... continue reading
How to Copy files from Windows to Linux using PowerShell Remoting
With the release PowerShell Core 6, the PowerShell Team brought PowerShell to other platforms like Linux and macOS. This new cross-platform approach allows users to take advantage of some pretty cool features. In this blog post, I am quickly going ... continue reading
Azure Policy Guest Configuration – Client
This post builds upon the introduction published earlier to the PowerShell blog. In this post we are going to explore the Azure Policy Guest Configuration client and how configuration content is consumed. The full documentation for this service is available ... continue reading
PowerShell Basics: Meet About – The Owner’s Manual for PowerShell
When I began to learn PowerShell, I asked a few experts in the field how they learned to use it with very few books or online references available at the time they began using it. Every one of them pointed ... continue reading
How To Upload files to Azure Blob Storage using PowerShell and AzCopy
Azure Blob Storage is a great place to store files. In this post, I quickly wanted to show you how you can create a simple script to upload files to Azure blob storage using PowerShell and AzCopy. AzCopy is a ... continue reading
Using PSScriptAnalyzer to check PowerShell version compatibility
PSScriptAnalyzer version 1.18 was released recently, and ships with powerful new rules that can check PowerShell scripts for incompatibilities with other PowerShell versions and environments. In this blog post, the first in a series, we’ll see how to use these ... continue reading
PowerShell Basics: Connecting to VMs with Azure PSRemoting
If you use PowerShell on-premises, chances are good you use PSRemoting (or PowerShell Remoting). It allows you to manage systems using remoting tools like Enter-PSSession and Invoke-Command. When you move to Azure, you have similar tooling available when you enable ... continue reading
The PowerShell Extension is now in the Azure Data Studio Marketplace
We are excited to announce the PowerShell Extension is available in the Azure Data Studio (ADS) marketplace! Now you can write PowerShell scripts with the full benefits of PowerShell Editor Services using the excellent IDE-like interface that Azure Data Studio ... continue reading

Parsing Text with PowerShell (3/3)
This is the third and final post in a three-part series. Parsing Text with PowerShell Part 1 Useful methods on the String class Introduction to Regular Expressions The Select-String cmdlet Parsing Text with PowerShell Part 2 the -split operator the ... continue reading
Windows Security change affecting PowerShell
The recent (1/8/2019) Windows security patch CVE-2019-0543, has introduced a breaking change for a PowerShell remoting scenario. It is a narrowly scoped scenario that should have low impact for most users. The breaking change only affects local loopback remoting, which ... continue reading