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Expanding on existing automation with a bathroom occupancy light.

It’s been a long, eventful, decade.

If the wait for Preview1 felt long, the wait for Preview2 was even longer.

It may have taken 10 months, but preview releases are finally coming for BurntToast v1.

This post is part of #TheMVPChallenge.

BurntToast is finally growing up.

Focus assist is a favoured tool of practiced speakers and presenters on Windows.

Are you a sysadmin?

I don’t know how to express a happy dance with text.

BurntToast just turned five, and I’ve only now realized that I’ve never written about how all the module’s “advanced” functions work together to create a toast notification.

Have you ever come face to face with something that shines a spotlight on a gap in your knowledge of a subject?

Now that we have our credentials stored in an Azure Key Vault, how do we go about using them in other Azure services?

OutBuffer has been lurking in amongst the common parameters on most cmdlets for years, but I’ve never taken the time to ask what it’s for.

I’m so used to storing fully formed credentials in the local Windows Credential Manager.

My last “How I Work” post was over three years ago and I’ve been considering an update for a while.

If you’re not stalking the PowerShell team on Twitter, or obsessively refreshing the PowerShell repo on GitHub, how are you meant to be aware of new releases?

How do you deal with potentially getting nothing back from a cmdlet or function?

PowerShell 7 is out now!

PowerShell remoting is a truly powerful tool, but sometimes your scripts need a little help finding their way.

It’s all well and good putting buttons all over your toast notification, but text is a little plain.

I had the pleasure of testing Universal Automation while it was in private beta.

It’s funny how you can be a daily PowerShell user for years and completely miss something about a feature you regularly use… such as the “like” operators accepting more than two different wildcards.

Apparently I forgot to do one of these posts last year.

It’s long past time to wrap some modern smarts around KovertKringle, a PowerShell module for managing Secret Santa events.

“There’s way too much information to decode the Matrix.

RegEx continue to prove itself as a valuable tool in my tool belt when scripting.

Hitting snooze on your alarm clock is probably rather common.

I was thinking about the new Ternary Operator and had a random thought… can it handle elseif logic?

I’m gearing up for my fourth Hacktoberfest event, and so should you.

What the heck is a “ternary” and what’s it doing in my PowerShell?!

After reading some awesome posts on the topic, I’ve been shamed into making my pipelines a little more efficient.

PoshRSJob has been my go to module for Parallelization for years… let’s see if a head to head test with the new PowerShell 7 feature will change that.

Today I’m humbled, shocked, and proud to announce that I’m now a Microsoft MVP.

Toast notification data bindings have a number of uses.

After years of staring at it confused, I’ve finally given into the dark side and started to learn RegEx.

Following the release of BurntToast v0.7.0 there were a couple of headline features that needed to be written about.

I’ve been wanting to get this out for a while, but couldn’t find the right way to present it… rather than stressing, here’s a brain dump on VBO v3.

If you can forgive incomplete help, the latest update of BurntToast has some cool new features.

I can’t stand “expected warnings,” but getting selective in my VBO jobs got me back to my happy place.

A few scripts run on my home server, but can happily run in a serverless environment.

I’ve been testing a beta of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v3.

What good is a nicely built PowerShell module if no one can use it?

I’m a little late to this particular party, but I only just had the 1809 update on my workstation today.

When you want to keep an eye on build results, but don’t want to dedicate a screen to the web page, toast is the answer!

Some people learn by writing.

I didn’t do the best job of the examples in my original post on this topic.

The community, in and of itself, made 2018 for me.

Carrying out PowerShell based GitHub Actions in less than a minute?

I heard a rumor that v3 is already well into development… hopeful it’s not too late to register my feature wish list!