PowerShell Cmdlet Deep Dive: Remove-EventLog Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell blog! Today, we’re exploring a powerful but sometimes overlooked cmdlet in your toolbox: Remove-EventLog. According to Microsoft, this cmdlet deletes an event log or unregisters an event source, making it essential when maintaining clean and organized event logs, especially on servers or development machines. Understanding…

PowerShell Cmdlet Deep Dive: Write-EventLog Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell Blog! Today, we are exploring one of the lesser-known but extremely useful cmdlets in PowerShell: Write-EventLog. As per Microsoft’s definition, this cmdlet writes an event to an event log. Working with event logs is critical for auditing, logging, and troubleshooting in production environments. Write-EventLog allows…

Exploring PowerShell’s New-JobTrigger: Schedule Your Tasks with Precision Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell blog! Today we’re diving into the incredibly useful New-JobTrigger cmdlet. This cmdlet is your key to automating scheduled tasks using PowerShell jobs. According to Microsoft’s documentation, the New-JobTrigger cmdlet creates a job trigger for a scheduled job. That means you can schedule…

Exploring the Get-PSReadLineOption Cmdlet in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell Blog! Today we are diving into a nifty cmdlet that might not be widely known among beginners but offers great utility when customizing your PowerShell experience: Get-PSReadLineOption. The official description from Microsoft reads: Get-PSReadLineOption: Gets values for the options that can be configured. The…

Understanding Write-Verbose in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans Powershell blog! Today we are diving into one of the lesser-appreciated yet incredibly useful cmdlets in PowerShell: Write-Verbose. According to Microsoft Docs, the Write-Verbose cmdlet “writes text to the verbose message stream.” But what does that mean in practice? Let’s unpack it. What is Write-Verbose? Write-Verbose is…

Exploring New-PSSessionConfigurationFile in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell Blog! Today, we’re going deep into one of those lesser-known but super powerful cmdlets in PowerShell: New-PSSessionConfigurationFile. According to the official Microsoft documentation, the New-PSSessionConfigurationFile cmdlet creates a file that defines a session configuration. These session configuration files can be used to register custom PowerShell sessions…