Today, I had an interesting discovery in a PowerShell DSC project. The issue that I faced centered on an optional parameter that I had cast as Boolean. I want to make sure that the only valid options are $True or $False as these are the only valid values. Everything worked perfectly until I realized that […]
This post is a continuation of Building your first PowerShell Class. If you haven’t read the earlier post, then I would definitely suggest starting there. Today, we are going to continue developing our little class into something with a bit more pizzazz. We will start from our previous module and continue adding new methods (Get the […]
Yesterday, we talked about the components of a class. Today, I want to go through building a new PowerShell v5 Class and showcase some of the interesting nuances. Last night, I played with my toddler son in his playroom. To say that he has too many toys is probably an understatement. Since the oldest is […]
In the introduction to this series, I talked about the work that I am doing to create a PowerShell v5 class based Desired State Configuration (DSC) resource. As I started this project, I quickly turned to the ol’ google-foo to see what others were saying about best practices and tips. The first thing that I […]
A few weeks ago, I started working on a project to create new PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) that will integrate with the NetApp DataONTAP PowerShell toolkit. It has been a very exciting past month for me. I enjoy writing Powershell code and modules but for this project I started using two new components – PowerShell […]
Over the years, I have developed a series of functions that help me handle the logging and console output of my PowerShell code. It started after getting frustrated with repeating my code multiple times in different locations or worse, when I had to make a change to the formatting. As time went on, I realized […]