Under The Stairs

As many readers know, I've regularly contributed to the Spiceworks online community ( www.spiceworks.com/comunity ) for a long time. As ...

Most IT Pros know and use the Get-Content to get the contents of a file into a variable/array. You can then process the array to do useful ...

This week I got the news that my latest PowerShell book has been published and is available for order: You can order it today from all the u...

I n a previous post, I noted some challenges I faced with Hyper-V. The TL;DR is that Windows Update breaks Hyper-V, often as a result of a ...

 I love Hyper-V inside Windows 11 (and inside Windows 8.x and 10 in their day). An utterly simple hypervisor (to use) but one that provides ...

Introduction Group policy is a feature of Windows Server Active Directory which automagically deploys groups of policies to users and comput...

Windows Explorer has a nice feature that shows the contents of a selected file. Click on a file and in the right pane you can see the conten...

 This week, I got into a twitter discussion about a presenter posting their slides for delegates. My personal preference is to always share ...

 Many of you reading that blog know I'm a big supporter of PowerShell 7. I hope that many of you share my enthusiasm. After writing seve...

  Review of Will Fuqua’s book “Windows Terminal Tips, Tricks, and Productivity Hacks”   I have had the pleasure of reading through this re...

I am pleased that my publisher, Packt, have announced my next book on PowerShell. The new book is entitled Windows Server Automation with Po...

 I have been a member of the Windows Insiders group since 2014, and have enjoyed testing out the updates and looking at some of the new fea...

In my morning email was a message from the publishers of two (and soon three) books. My books are on PowerShell, but as many of you know, th...

I recently posted ( https://tfl09.blogspot.com/2020/12/my-latest-powershell-book-copies.html ) about my latest PowerShell book, published by...

  After a long development process, my latest PowerShell book has been published by Wiley This book began before the Covid pandemic began an...

When using PowerShell in Windows, The Get-ChildItem (and other cmdlets) return objects of the type System.IO.FileInfo for files in the NTFS ...

As part of a book I am writing, I wanted to show how simple it could be to create your own cmdlet in C#. This was to be a part of an advance...