After reading countless blogs online, purging through hundreds of pages of books, you feel comfortable enough to begin working with PowerShell and start knocking out one-liners like they are going out ...

However, if you're new to writing PowerShell functions, you may find that your function breaks when you attempt to use the pipeline. To use the pipeline effectively, a function must be specifically ...

Don Jones, TechMentor presenter and cochair, discusses some of his observations on how people are using PowerShell, and how they could do a better job.

If your automated script takes action based on a value, it's critical to make sure the value is correct. Good thing PowerShell has ways to validate the values that are passed to a function.