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A deep dive into PowerShell parameter defaults

Today we take a closer look at the null-coalescing operator and how it can help us in writing smarter, more concise scripts. PS> $userDate ?? (Get-Date -Format "yyyy-MM-dd") 2021-02-14 PS> $userDate = Get-Date -Year 2020 -Format "yyyy-MM-dd" PS> $userDate ?? (Get-Date -Format "yyyy-MM-dd") 2020-02-14 How it works We can write some simple code to visualize what the null-coalescing operator is doing function nullCoalescingOperator ($leftValue, $rightValue) { if ($null -eq $leftValue) { return $rightValue } else { return $leftValue } } Usually we will want to assign the resulting value to a variable....

Filter arrays in PowerShell

My first ever product

For the love of Pete, please delete your old snapshots regularly! Old snapshots have caused incidents and even outages more than once in my career and it is really easy to preemptively look for them and get them removed before anything happens. Why To put it plainly, they can cause issues - like 03:00 in the morning pager alert issues and additionally eat up storage space like crazy. Degraded performance of the VM having the snapshot Degraded performance to full outages for other VMs on the same data store due to rapidly increasing snapshot sizes VMware recommends a series of steps to reduce risk when using snapshots:...

Show vCenter on VMs in PowerCLI with this custom property

Finding files, do I even need to describe how important this is?

A look back on four months of blogging and engaging the PowerShell community

What I think about affiliate links