When performing file migrations, PowerShell's Copy-Item is not ideal. I've since forgotten the original reasons I concluded this with the rest of the Internet, but this quote from reddit covers it pretty well. The Copy-Item and Move-Item cmdlets are general purpose commands. They have the ability to handle many …

Back in 1996, as I watched a movie about Italy at the Drexel Theatre in Columbus OH, I decided that one day I'd live in Europe. I didn't need to move immediately. I just put it on my long-term agenda and figured things would eventually work themselves out with gentle guidance. Part of that gentle guidance was to …

Back in January and February, I wrote couple posts that highlighted my journey into livestreaming, from understanding the different services/platforms to the lighting I used. Since then, I got pretty deep into the hardware part but actually returned to a simplified setup. The third iteration was pretty intense. I even …

Back in January, I wrote an introduction to livestreaming titled My First Twitch Livestream Setup. In it, I created the how-to guide for getting started that I wish I had the day I found Twitch. It's now been a couple weeks and I'm becoming more acclimated to Twitch, though I still don't get emotes and would prefer if …

This post is about all the things I use to fill my life with dark mode. I'm mostly writing to tell everyone about a free browser plugin, Dark Reader, that's incredible, but will include other extras as well. Dark Reader The browser plugin Dark Reader has changed my life and I'm obsessed with it. As I explained to a …

Back in December, I found Twitch and fell in love with livestreaming. It was amazing watching people code in PowerShell with blinged out profiles and cool cut screens. Whaaat, this is a thing? I love it! Getting started I jumped into streaming (I'm potatoqualitee on Twitch) as soon as I found the PowerShell Live Twitch …

Recently, I was trying to publish a module and ran into an error: Failed to generate the compressed file for module 'Attempting to build package ...' After searching for a bit, I found someone who fixed a similar issue with a nuget reisntall. That got me thinking that my psd1 was not problematic, but rather my …

Update: This method is faster but some anti-virus software hate it. I've since reverted our method of import to an all-in-one ps1 👎 Considering dbatools now has over 500 commands, we are always eager to keep an eye on the speed of our import process. As outlined in the blog post decreasing module import times, we've …

Recently, I had a couple colleagues tell me that their PowerShell code sucks. One of them is a beginner who manages a large SharePoint farm and the other is more advanced and wrote a few commands that saves me hours of work each week. See the disconnect there? Their PowerShell code, which helps manage Enterprise …

Yesterday, I presented at PSPowerHour and during my intro, my iPad's volume turned up so I got distracted when talking about something that really meant a lot to me. And I'm a bit bummed that I wasn't able to properly convey how much it meant that I was awarded as a PowerShell Community Hero earlier this year. I was …