PowerShell Cmdlet Spotlight: New-PSDrive Welcome back to Wahmans Powershell blog! Today we are exploring the New-PSDrive cmdlet, a powerful but sometimes underused part of the PowerShell toolkit. According to Microsoft’s documentation, New-PSDrive: Creates temporary and persistent drives that are associated with a location in an item data store. Think of it like creating a shortcut…

Using Wait-Debugger in PowerShell: A Developer’s Secret Weapon Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell blog! Today, we’re diving into a small but powerful cmdlet that can greatly improve your scripting and debugging process: Wait-Debugger. What is Wait-Debugger? Wait-Debugger is a cmdlet in PowerShell that halts the script execution and attaches the debugger before running the next…

Understanding ConvertTo-Xml in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans Powershell blog! Today, we are diving into a very handy cmdlet in PowerShell: ConvertTo-Xml. This cmdlet is especially useful when you need to transform objects into an XML format for either human readability, data exchange, or further processing. According to Microsoft’s documentation, ConvertTo-Xml “Creates an XML-based representation…

Exploring the Power of Get-ScheduledJob in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell blog! Today we are diving into a cmdlet that’s particularly useful when you’re working with scheduled background tasks in PowerShell: Get-ScheduledJob. As described by Microsoft, Get-ScheduledJob gets scheduled jobs on the local computer. In short, it lets you see what scheduled PowerShell jobs…

PowerShell Cmdlet Deep Dive: Enter-PSSession Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell blog! Today, we’re diving into one of the foundational cmdlets for PowerShell remoting: Enter-PSSession. According to Microsoft: The Enter-PSSession cmdlet starts an interactive session with a remote computer. This cmdlet is incredibly useful when working with remote systems for administrative tasks, troubleshooting, and automation. It…

Understanding the Power of Set-Service in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans Powershell Blog! Today, we’re diving into a versatile cmdlet in PowerShell: Set-Service. According to Microsoft, this cmdlet “Starts, stops, and suspends a service, and changes its properties.” Whether you’re just getting started with PowerShell or you’re automating complex service configurations in large environments, Set-Service…