JumpCloud Community

At this point in the series, I would hope you need no further convincing of PowerShell’s utility, even to someone whose main job is maintaining and managing Macs.  If you’re still on the fence, you can agree PowerShell has certain advantages in some ...

When last we met, dear Reader, I made an offhand remark about spreadsheets and pivot tables, a throwaway joke about something a lot of people don’t understand. But it got me thinking. You’ve probably never worked much with spreadsheets, and why would...

Before I get to today’s topic, a bit of follow-up from the last installment: In part 3, in order to determine the latest release of the target installer package from Github’s API, I used this line of code:     $AvailableVersion = ((Invoke-WebRequ...

If you’re reading this series, I expect you have some experience with writing scripts already. As such, I think we can dispense with the typical “Hello world” examples and jump right into building something you might actually use. The goal in learnin...

Before we dive into writing and debugging our own scripts with PowerShell and VSCode, I thought it might be helpful to examine a few of the ways in which PowerShell and bash differ, and where your previous experience with one might help in embracing ...