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Powershell ISE and ISESteroids

Overview I've been programming for over half my life now in one form or another. Over the years I've dabbled in Visual Basic 6.0, Java, Ruby on Rails, Perl, PHP, and most recently Powershell. I was asked recently if I could help a non-profit with some administrative tasks within their Windows environment. So, I set out to learn some PowerShell. First Encounter I first encountered PowerShell a few years back when I helped build a script with a GUI that would allow the admin to easily create and remove distribution groups based on a database of people. That was about 6 years ago and since then I hadn't touched the stuff. At that time Powershell 2.0 had just released if I recall correctly, and there existed very limited resources for learning and fixing code. So, when I picked PowerShell back up a few weeks ago I was very surprised how easy it was to learn again. I wrote a program that would do a significant portion of what we needed in a matter of a few days. The...