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  • PowerShell Summer Tips part 3 – Get-Member

    PowerShell Summer Tips part 3 – Get-Member

    July 21, 2025
    Fundamentals, Guides, PowerShell

    When using PowerShell, Objects play a really important and fundamental role in how the system operates and interacts with data. They form the core of PowerShell’s ability to manage and manipulate information effectively. Then, moving beyond just understanding Objects, we also encounter the third key concept that is essential to grasp for working efficiently in…

  • Thoughts from PowerShell Conference Europe 2025 in Malmö

    Thoughts from PowerShell Conference Europe 2025 in Malmö

    July 20, 2025
    Conference, Learning, PowerShell

    Last edited: 2025-07-23 It’s been nearly a month since the PSConf EU conference took place in Malmö.The event was truly an excellent conference, featuring a wide range of engaging speakers and attracting many wonderful people from the community. I had the opportunity to attend, and I gained a tremendous amount of knowledge.In fact, I learned…

  • PowerShell Summer Tips part 2 – Get-Help

    PowerShell Summer Tips part 2 – Get-Help

    July 18, 2025
    Fundamentals, Guides, PowerShell

    The second PowerShell command that you absolutely cannot live without is Get-Help, an essential tool for any PowerShell user. In the first part of this series, we encountered the cmdlet Set-Culture while listing cmdlets for the International module. If we want to obtain more detailed information about the Set-Culture cmdlet, we can do it in…

  • PowerShell Summer Tips part 1 – Get-Command

    PowerShell Summer Tips part 1 – Get-Command

    July 16, 2025
    Guides, PowerShell

    Master PowerShell This Summer: Essential Tips for Using Get-Command Like a Pro Back in 2018, I wrote a series of blog posts focused on the fundamental PowerShell commands that every user should know.These are the essential cmdlets that you truly can’t live without when working in PowerShell. Now, I have revamped and updated this article…

  • How to Create a Lab Machine with VirtualBox

    How to Create a Lab Machine with VirtualBox

    June 16, 2025
    Guides, PowerShell, VirtualBox, Visual Studio Code

    In my previous guide, I demonstrated the detailed process of how to download and install VirtualBox on your computer. In this guide, I will walk you through the steps needed to set up a Windows 11 Lab Machine within VirtualBox. Although setting up a Windows 11 virtual machine in VirtualBox requires a few more steps…

  • What to do when you can’t install Hyper-V

    What to do when you can’t install Hyper-V

    June 15, 2025
    Guides, VirtualBox

    In my detailed article about setting up Hyper-V using the Quick Create feature to establish a comprehensive Lab Environment with Windows 11, specifically designed for PowerShell and Visual Studio Code labs, all of the setup procedures and configurations rely heavily on the fact that you are running Windows 11 Pro or Enterprise editions on your…

  • Export and Import settings in different ways for Visual Studio Code

    Export and Import settings in different ways for Visual Studio Code

    June 10, 2025
    GitHub, Guides, Microsoft, PowerShell, Visual Studio Code

    In a previous blog post, I demonstrated how to configure Visual Studio Code by installing the necessary extensions and adjusting the settings specifically for PowerShell development. If you happen to use Visual Studio Code across multiple computers, different work environments, or various lab machines, it can quickly become a tedious and time-consuming task to set…

  • Setting up Visual Studio Code for PowerShell

    Setting up Visual Studio Code for PowerShell

    June 8, 2025
    Guides, PowerShell, Visual Studio Code

    In my guide Create a Lab Machine, I walk you through the complete process of setting up a virtual Lab Machine running Windows 11 within Hyper-V using the Quick Create feature. This includes configuring the language settings properly to suit your preferences, installing the latest version of PowerShell 7 for enhanced scripting testing, and setting…

  • Comment Based help as a snippet

    Comment Based help as a snippet

    June 4, 2025
    Guides, PowerShell, Visual Studio Code

    This is my first User Snippet posted for Visual Studio Code.I know there is a default snippet included with the PowerShell extension. All the code and information provided on this website are offered “as is” without any guarantees or warranties of any kind. Although the code and information are tested, we do not warrant that…

  • Create a lab machine

    Create a lab machine

    May 29, 2025
    Guides, Hyper-V, PowerShell

    A step-by-step guide to quickly and easily create a Hyper-V lab machine for PowerShell and Visual Studio Code development

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