SAPIEN Solutions

We've long been advocates of outputting objects, rather than text, and of keeping individual functions very single-task-specific. Here's an ultimate example of these two philosophies: The first function, Get-DriveInventory, emits custom "drive inventory objects" rather than text. The second, Write-DriveInventory, takes these objects and writes their properties to a pre-designed…   More »

This are examples from Don's "Pass Your Next Audit By Using Windows PowerShell" session. They're also great examples of how to use filtering functions and custom objects to produce flexible, customized output with Windows PowerShell. Auditing with PowerShell Examples  …   More »

Whenever possible, functions (especially) and scripts (to a lesser degree) should emit custom objects, not just text. This ensures that the output of these constructs can be piped to other cmdlets, like Where-Object, Sort-Object, and so forth, further extending PowerShell's capabilities. To create a custom object: $obj = New-Object PSObject…   More »