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Delete Your Old VMware Snapshots

Posts | 2021-01-01 (updated 2025-10-22) | 3 min read
#powershell #sysadmin #vmware-powercli

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.

How to Find With PowerShell

Finding Files, Do I Even Need to Describe How Important This Is?

Posts | 2020-12-31 (updated 2025-10-23) | 5 min read
#powershell
Series: Bash to PowerShell

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

Looking Back at 2020, Four Months of Blogging

A Look Back on Four Months of Blogging and Engaging the PowerShell Community

Posts | 2020-12-22 (updated 2025-10-23) | 4 min read
#personal #yearly-review

The year is coming to an end, with all its ups and downs 2020 surely was challenging to say the least. I wanted to take this time to openly reflect on my first couple months of blogging and what the future holds for ps1.guru

Affiliate Links

What I think about affiliate links

Posts | 2020-12-17 (updated 2025-10-23) | 1 min read
#opinion #personal

Lets talk about affiliate links for a moment.

TLDR: I will use affiliate links where it is possible for me, which isn’t often to be honest.

Super-Charged Cmdlet Aliases

It Works Like Magic, but It Works - Bring Your Aliasing to a Whole Other Level!

Posts | 2020-12-02 (updated 2025-10-23) | 4 min read
#powershell #productivity

I recently wrote a post about PowerShell Aliasing for the folks over at ScriptRunner.

The one issue I had while researching for this post was this:

You can not create a alias for a function and overwrite one of it’s parameters at the same time while keeping nice features like tab-complete.

For a concrete example of this visit please look at the original post.

At the end of the post I asked if anyone had a solution to this problem - and the internet delivered!

Linked: Powershell Aliasing

A deep dive into aliasing with PowerShell

Posts | 2020-12-02 (updated 2025-10-23) | 1 min read
#linked-posts #powershell

I published a post about aliasing with PowerShell over on the ScriptRunner blog.

Read now: English or Deutsch

Powershell 7

Why Installing PowerShell on Windows May Actually Be a Good Idea

Posts | 2020-11-28 (updated 2025-10-23) | 2 min read
#powershell #windows

Q: Wait a minute! Don’t I already have PowerShell?

A: Yes. However you may want to continue reading because things are never as simple as they appear.

Collections And Randomization

Randomize Collections in PowerShell

Posts | 2020-11-18 (updated 2025-10-23) | 2 min read
#powershell

Randomizing a collection is useful in a variety of situations and in most languages it is fairly straight forward.

How To Grep With PowerShell

It's just like Bash, but more powerful!

Posts | 2020-09-30 (updated 2025-10-23) | 4 min read
#powershell
Series: Bash to PowerShell

Filtering data, from log or config files to data returned by an api, is an important operation to remove noise from it and make further analysis possible.

How to Tail With PowerShell

How to Replace Tail in PowerShell

Posts | 2020-09-21 (updated 2025-10-26) | 3 min read
#powershell
Series: Bash to PowerShell

Printing the last or first, few lines of a file is a common operation in day to day operations. On Linux most people will, without thinking twice, use tail and it’s counterpart head to achieve this.