Understanding Add-Type in PowerShell: Add .NET Power to Your Scripts Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell Blog! Today, we’re diving into a powerful cmdlet that enables you to go beyond traditional PowerShell scripting: Add-Type. According to Microsoft Docs, Add-Type “Adds a Microsoft .NET class to a PowerShell session”. That might sound simple, but this small statement…

Getting to Know Start-Sleep – A Handy PowerShell Cmdlet Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell blog! Today, we’re diving into a straightforward yet immensely useful cmdlet in PowerShell: Start-Sleep. As defined by Microsoft, Start-Sleep suspends activity in a script or session for the specified period of time. While it may sound basic, don’t underestimate the power…

Format-Custom: Customize Your PowerShell Output Welcome back to Wahmans Powershell blog! Today, we’re diving into a useful but often underutilized cmdlet: Format-Custom. From Microsoft: The Format-Custom cmdlet uses a customized view to format the output. This cmdlet is especially handy when you want more control over which properties to display and how objects are structured…

Exploring the Power of Get-Event in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell Blog! Today we’re diving into the Get-Event cmdlet — a neat tool in PowerShell’s toolbox that lets you retrieve events from the event queue. This can be very handy when working with event-driven scripts or responding to asynchronous events. What is Get-Event? According…

PowerShell Cmdlet Deep Dive: Register-ArgumentCompleter Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell Blog! Today we’re diving into a powerful yet often underutilized cmdlet: Register-ArgumentCompleter. This handy tool allows you to create custom auto-completions for your PowerShell commands — aka IntelliSense on steroids! What is Register-ArgumentCompleter? According to Microsoft Docs: Register-ArgumentCompleter registers a custom argument completer. It means…

Enable-ScheduledJob: Bring Your Scheduled Tasks to Life Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell Blog! Today we’re diving into a handy cmdlet in the PowerShell Scheduled Jobs module: Enable-ScheduledJob. As described by Microsoft, Enable-ScheduledJob… well… Enables a scheduled job. It might sound too simple at first, but trust me — this cmdlet plays a vital role when…