Powershell on saoe: The Nifty Oddity

Powershell: Working with XML

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 19:33:58 +0100

A few tips and tricks for handling XML data with Powershell.

Powershell: Console Colors

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 17:46:34 +0200

A brief reminder for the topic of Console Colors and Powershell.

Powershell: Dynamic Parameters

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This is an extension to my notes on parameters for scripts or (advanced) functions in Powershell:
Dynamic (or conditional) parameters are an interesting and cool feature, but also a bit tricky and cumbersome to set up.

Powershell: Working with JSON

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Thu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A few tips and tricks for handling JSON data with Powershell.

Powershell: Working with the Windows Registry

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Here are some tips and trick on how to work on the Windows Registry with Powershell.

Powershell: Using Write-Information

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 15:07:36 +0200

This started out as a short entry for my Powershell Snippets page, but it quickly turned out that this cmdlet needs a longer text for explaining proper handling…

Powershell: Select Choice

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The need to prompt a user for a choice in a text menu (i.e. in the console), and a slight dissatisfaction with the commonly recommended $Host.ui.PromptForChoice() after experimenting a bit with it, triggered me to ultimately write my own function.

Powershell: Name of the current Citrix desktop

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 17:28:09 +0200

For my day job, I wanted know the name of the ‘Citrix’ desktop on which I was currently logged in, because some features are only available on certain desktops in our environment.

C++: On #include guards

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

In C and C++ there exists the concept of include guards (header guards) to prevent that a header file (or rather the content of such file) is included more than once, because that could cause errors and strange behavior due to redeclarations or name collisions¹.

Powershell: PSCustomObject

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 14:06:32 +0100

Powershell’s PSCustomObject type has been a great tool, but since I don’t use it every day, I jotted down some sample code and links for my future self (or any other interested reader 😄 ), as a reminder.

Journal #11

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Well, looks like I somehow caught a severe case of “summer blues” last year, that’s why I didn’t code much in my spare time in the last couple of months. But now I’m slowly getting back in the saddle.

Powershell: Using Regular Expressions

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 21:04:54 +0100

This is not a introduction or tutorial on what Regular Expressions (RegEx) are or can do, but on how to use them with Powershell!

Journal #9

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The second half of 2020 was regrettably pretty unproductive for me in terms of (C++) code – that wasn’t really planned, but life is strange sometimes (… he says, sitting at home, during the COVID-19 lockdown).

Powershell Snippets

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 20:09:04 +0100

A collection of code snippets, small pearls of wisdom and bits of knowledge that may come handy at times.

Powershell: Remote Session

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 19:04:38 +0100

Notes on using a remote session with Powershell

Powershell: Cmdlet Aliases, Automatic Variables and other Shortcuts

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 19:36:31 +0100

Some notes on the items listed in the title 😉

Powershell: Splatting

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 19:20:29 +0100

Some notes on the method of “splatting” in Powershell code.

Powershell: Help

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 18:53:38 +0100

Some notes on where and how to get help-information for Powershell commands.

Powershell: Parameters for Scripts and (Advanced) Functions

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Some notes on parameters for scripts or (advanced) functions in Powershell.

Powershell: Transcript (Log)

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 21:09:37 +0100

A transcript logs all action of a Powershell session to a text file; good for documenting and archiving.

Powershell: Profile

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 21:05:18 +0100

A Powershell profile is a script file that is run each time a new Powershell is opened.

You can define session-specific items in it (variables, aliases, functions, etc.) or call other scripts and commands at the start of a new Powershell session.

Powershell: Handle input from the pipeline

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 20:36:13 +0100

A short description on how to make a Powershell function that can accept and process input data that it gets from the pipeline.

Notepad++: Run command

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 16:05:05 +0100

How to add custom commands to the Run menu.

QuickADUserInfo 1.0

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Tue, 05 May 2020 21:27:56 +0200

The first version of my new little helper script QuickADUserInfo has been released.

Powershell: Starting a Script the Easy Way

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 13:32:33 +0200

Powershell scripts can be very practical tools, but they lack an easy Just Do It mode:
Even as a developer/administrator/power-user, one has to remove several obstacles before you can use it; and if you plan to deploy a script to (normal) users, you should take care of some issues before.