New-PSRoleCapabilityFile: Define Custom Capabilities in PowerShell Sessions Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell Blog! Today we’re diving into the New-PSRoleCapabilityFile cmdlet — a powerful tool for defining what users can do in a constrained PowerShell session. This cmdlet is particularly useful when you’re building Just Enough Administration (JEA) configurations, allowing you to fine-tune what capabilities are…

Getting Started with Save-Help in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell Blog! Today we’re diving into a handy cmdlet that often gets overlooked but is extremely useful in both small lab environments and large enterprise setups — Save-Help. Save-Help is a PowerShell cmdlet that downloads and saves the most current Help files for PowerShell modules…

Exploring the Get-Event Cmdlet in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell blog! Today, we’re diving into the Get-Event cmdlet, a lesser-known but very useful tool in PowerShell for handling event-driven programming. According to Microsoft Docs, Get-Event “gets the events in the event queue”—essentially, it allows you to inspect events that have been registered and triggered…

PowerShell Cmdlet Deep Dive: Get-ItemProperty Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell Blog! Today we’re diving into one of the lesser-sung heroes of the PowerShell arsenal — Get-ItemProperty. According to Microsoft, this cmdlet “gets the properties of a specified item.” Simple, right? But wait! Simplicity in PowerShell often hides surprisingly powerful capabilities. Let’s explore how this cmdlet…

Understanding Write-Error in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell blog! Today, we will explore a fundamental yet powerful cmdlet in PowerShell: Write-Error. This cmdlet is used to generate error messages by writing them to the error stream. Whether you are building scripts for automation or writing modules, knowing how to effectively use Write-Error is essential…

PowerShell Cmdlet Deep Dive: Get-Verb Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell Blog! In today’s post, we’re diving into a lesser-known but incredibly useful cmdlet: Get-Verb. The Get-Verb cmdlet retrieves all the approved PowerShell verbs that are recommended for writing advanced functions and cmdlets. Using standardized verbs helps you write consistent, user-friendly PowerShell code that’s easy to…