Brien Posey

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In this PowerShell tutorial, we'll show you how to visualize disk space using a custom tool. In Part 1 of this series, we will focus on creating the folder tree feature for the PowerShell solution.

Earlier this year, Microsoft introduced a new feature called Prompt Templates into Designer. Although I initially ignored this feature for no other reason than that its name sounded boring, I eventually discovered that Prompt Templates inspire creativity in a way that very few other features do. Better still, Prompt Templates are useful whether you work alone or are working in a collaborative environment. In this article, I want to show you what Prompt Templates are, how to use them and why they are so helpful.

In this continuation of our series on building a PowerShell tool to track lost disk space, we'll focus on adding a feature to identify and display the 10 largest files on the hard disk.

Recently, I have been hard at work, creating some really complex PowerShell scripts related to a few projects that I have been working on. One of the big lessons that I have learned through all of this is that if you can avoid it, it's best not to hard code anything that might potentially need to change. Instead, you can store those values in a JSON file and then have your script to read the configuration files and adapt according to the values stored within it. This approach involves some extra work up front, but it can go a long way toward making your scripts more dynamic and flexible. In this article series, I want to show you how I go about creating a configuration file and how I make that configuration file work with my PowerShell scripts.

Learn how to use PowerShell's GUI capabilities to dynamically create configuration files that enhance script flexibility and usability.

When desktop administrators can't access the Windows 10 Print Management console, they need to identify the issue quickly and install it if necessary.

This article ends our series about using PowerShell to visualize disk space usage. Part 3 explains how to generate a PowerShell pie chart displaying disk space.

Organizations turn to infrastructure-as-code tools to automate infrastructure deployment and streamline application development, particularly as it applies to DevOps.

Before I tell you with at least 30 percent certainty what is coming in 2025, let's look at my previous predictions to see if i was close to the mark.