Articles Tagged “PowerShell”
10 articles tagged “PowerShell”, newest first.
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When Task Scheduler Tasks Don't Run or Exit with 0x1 — Isolating the Cause and Designing for Reliable Operation
A design guide to putting Windows Task Scheduler into reliable production use: execution accounts and logon types, what 'Run whether user is logged on or not...
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Automating Business Processes with Power Automate — Cloud Flows, Desktop Flows, and Robust Error Handling
A practical design guide to Power Automate: the difference between cloud flows and desktop flows, when to use PowerShell or VBA instead, licensing, error han...
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How to Run PowerShell from C# (CSharp) and Receive the Results as Objects
How to launch PowerShell from C# and receive results as PSObject rather than strings — a practical walkthrough of the PowerShell SDK, AddCommand, AddParamete...
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Testing PowerShell with Pester — A Practical Approach to Making Operations Scripts Harder to Break
A practical walkthrough of testing PowerShell scripts with Pester v5 — safely covering date handling, file operations, deletion logic, mocking, and CI execut...
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Practical PowerShell Command Recipes — Growing the Small Tools You Use Every Day
A practical roundup of PowerShell commands for everyday work, covering where to use Measure-Object, Group-Object, Select-String, Compare-Object, Tee-Object, ...
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Applied PowerShell Scripting — Safely Automating Log Investigation, Archiving, and Reporting
Practical steps for safely automating log investigation, CSV reporting, archiving old logs, keeping audit trails, and Task Scheduler execution with PowerShel...
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PowerShell Command Basics — The Operations to Learn First and How to Use Them Safely
So that PowerShell beginners never get lost in real work, this article covers how to find cmdlets, the pipeline, file operations, CSV processing, execution p...
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Preparing for VBScript Deprecation: An Audit Guide for VBA and Internal Tools
Preparing for the phased deprecation of VBScript: inventorying VBA, Excel macros, and internal tools, static detection, execution logging, choosing replaceme...
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Windows Text Encodings and Line Endings - The Basics of Mojibake and CRLF/LF
Why text gets garbled on Windows and why CRLF vs LF still causes trouble. How UTF-8, UTF-16, and CP932 (Shift_JIS) differ, plus rules that prevent mojibake.
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An Introduction to Windows Text Encodings - The Mojibake That Happens When Integrating with Linux
A practical look at why mojibake happens on Windows, through the differences between CP932, UTF-8, UTF-16, BOMs, code pages, PowerShell, and Linux locales.