Josh Miller is the Operations Lead for Trintech’s Dataflow Services offering, this involves a mixture of time in Visual Studio, the PowerShell ISE, and on phone calls with clients. Josh is also a leader of the DFW PowerShell user group.
Josh MillerNote: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. There are several things you can do to make more readable scripts. You can do good documentation and use variables that are meaningful.
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Josh MillerNote: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. I have scripts that work with multiple versions of the same third-party .
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Josh MillerWe use a lot of certificates for website authentication, and they expire each year. Some people end up with a collection of expired certificates.
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Josh MillerExcel can be used to view HTML. If you add some CSS styles to the result of ConvertTo-HTML you can add much more rich output to Excel then you would get with a simple Export-Csv
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Josh MillerThe -Encoding parameter in many native I/O cmdlets uses the [Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.FileSystemCmdletProviderEncoding] enum. PS> [System.Enum]::GetNames([Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.FileSystemCmdletProviderEncoding]) Unknown String Unicode Byte BigEndianUnicode UTF8 UTF7 UTF32 Ascii Default Oem Files that come from an IBM mainframe such as the AS/400 are often exported to ASCII or Unicode when a PC is the intended consumer.
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