Griff Barker

@griff.systems

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Husband, systems engineer, pretend blogger, Corgi haver. The code I write almost usually works. Stage manager for a community theatre company. Badminton, cycling, golf, and racquetball. #PowerShell #DataPrivacy 🔗 https://griff.systems/

two mixed breed Corgis laying on a pile of blankets near a window
A doe near the cart path of a golf course fairway dotted with trees
screenshot of the Clicks Communicator, a Blackberry-alike smartphone with a full physical keyboard and square touchscreen.
a bronze colored 1974 Porsche 914.
polyPoSh logo featuring a hexagon with terminal icon, configuration gear icon, server icon, followed by lettermark; the image is multi-colored using primary and secondary colors in the same scheme as Microsoft products.
Fish and chips in a flat takeaway box
A Windows XP pop-up window saying that a task failed successfully.
screenshot of a macos desktop with a ghostty terminal displaying neofetch information and the output of $PSVersionTable in PowerShel.
black and white photo of an Australian shepherd corgi mixed breed dog laying on a couch.
sample output
# assumes you have employees.csv in your present working directory $newReport = Import-Csv -Path .\employees.csv | ForEach-Object { $searchName = $_.Name $adObject = Get-ADUser -Filter { Name -eq $searchName } -Properties Title, Department [PSCustomObject]@{ Name = $_.Name Email = $_.Email Title = $adObject.Title Department = $adObject.Department } } $newReport | Export-Csv -Path .\employees-new.csv -NoTypeInformation -Force
Venn diagram with circles so closely overlapping that they are functionally the same, showing that people who don't understand a specific thing are basically the same people who crash out about a specific thing.
Car sales man meme. Top text: "some poor VM". Bottom text: "You can fit so many winget packages in this bad boy"
$packageName = "Microsoft.VisualStudioCode" $url = (winget show $packageName | Select-String 'Installer URL:\s*(http\S+)').Matches.Groups[1].Value $tmpExe = "$env:TEMP\winget_temp.exe" $iconOut = "$env:TEMP\$packageName.png" Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url -OutFile $tmpExe -Headers @{ "Range" = "bytes=0-3145728" } Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Drawing [System.Drawing.Icon]::ExtractAssociatedIcon($tmpExe).ToBitmap().Save($iconOut) Remove-Item $tmpExe Write-Output $iconOut
a tri-color corgi-aussie mixed breed dog sits with one paw raised on park grass.
Windows PowerShell ISE Icon: Play button over piece of paper Hotkey: F8 Behavior: Runs selected code
"Important: The modules described in this document use .NET Framework. This makes it incompatible with PowerShell 6.0 and later, which use .NET Core."
get-distributiongroupmember -id 'group name' | % {$_.primarysmtpaddress.split('@')[1]} | group # Sample Output # # Count Name Group # ----- ---- ----- # 2 adomain.tld {adomain.tld, adomain.tld} # 182 bdomain.tld {bdomain.tld, bdomain.tld, bdomain.tld, bdomain.tld…} # 11 cdomain.tld {cdomain.tld, cdomain.tld, cdomain.tld, cdomain.tld…}
screenshot of the video game Hytale's main menu including the game's logo and my avatar.
>> function myFunc { > param( > $MyData > ) > > begin { > # declare arrayList > $list = [System.Collections.ArrayList]::new() > > # putting static data in that arrayList > [void]$list.Add('ExistingItem1') > [void]$list.Add('ExistingItem2') > [void]$list.Add('ExistingItem3') > } > process { > # putting user-provided data in that arrayList > [void]$list.Add($MyData) > } > end { > # returning that arraylist using the unary array expression > return ,$list > } > } >> $test = myFunc -MyData 'AddedItem1' >> $test ExistingItem1 ExistingItem2 ExistingItem3 AddedItem1 >> $test.GetType() IsPublic IsSerial Name BaseType -------- -------- ---- -------- True True ArrayList System.Object
function myFunc { define a listArray of integers [collections.arrayList]$array = 1..10 use the prepended comma to emit the entire listArray as # the object instead streaming the integers themselves # to the pipeline ,$array } (myFunc).GetType()
A screenshot of a Windows application containing three columns of different admin-related tools such as utility snap-ins such as certificate manager, control panel settings such as windows firewall, and obscure/more specific settings from the "God Mode" options in Windows. The window has a filter bar to search for tools as well as a context indicator showing what user the app is running as, along with buttons to launch the selected tool, launch a powershell session as a specific user, or exist the application. The GUI is built using WindowsPresentationFramework and XAML.
two mixed-breed corgis sitting together on a couch.
"google seach - help i accidentally" meme template with "made a service manager in powershell" as the inserted meme text
```powershell (iwr https://bsky.app/ -useb).headers['strict-transport-security'] # Sample Output # max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains ```
Screenshot of demonstrative PowerShell code: ```powershell # ONE-LINER --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Get-ADUser -LDAPFilter "(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))(|(memberOf=CN=GroupName,OU=Groups,DC=example,DC=com)(extensionAttribute1=SYNC))(!(|(cn=*svc*)(cn=*service*)(description=*DoNotSync*))))" # JOINING ARRAY OF STRINGS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ $ldapFilter = @( "(&", "(objectCategory=person)", # users "(objectClass=user)", # users "(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))", # enabled users "(|(memberOf=CN=GroupName,OU=Groups,DC=example,DC=com)", # in GroupName group "(extensionAttribute1=SYNC))", # with extensionAttribute1 value "SYNC" "(!(|(cn=*svc*)(cn=*service*)(description=*DoNotSync*)))", # manual exclusions ")" ) -join '' Get-ADUser -LDAPFilter $ldapFilter ```
A screenshot of a Windows Sandbox instance. Within it is a Windows Terminal session where the command `(New-Object -COMObject InternetExplorer.Application).Visible = $true` has been run and an Internet Explorer window has opened in the foreground. The bsky.app URL is in the address bar and the Bluesky logo appears centered on the webpage.
A jade green and wood paneled mini-ITX computer case (Fractal Terra) sitting on a wooden desktop with plants and film cameras surrounding it.
A screen recording demonstrating how the functions from the PowerShell module "PSProfileWatcher" work.
screenshot of a powershell terminal session demonstrating how to pipe standard output from one cmdlet into Out-File to save the output of the cmdlet to a file. Get-Package Get-Package | Out-File -Path packages.txt Get-ChildItem Get-Content packages.txt
A fawn and white colored Corgi-Chihuahua mixed breed dog sleeping nestled cozily into a white, brown, and gray mushroom-patterened blanket with one pay extended toward the camera.
Screenshot of discord text channel where someone comically denies that they lost their hardcore world of warcraft character.
A logo containing iconography of a computer command line, a database, and a database view.
>> Invoke-DiceRoll -D20 1 Die Unit RollValue --- ---- --------- d20 1 19 >> Invoke-DiceRoll -D6 4 Die Unit RollValue --- ---- --------- d6 1 2 d6 2 2 d6 3 4 d6 4 6 >> Invoke-DiceRoll -D6 4 -D4 1 Die Unit RollValue --- ---- --------- d4 1 3 d6 1 1 d6 2 3 d6 3 2 d6 4 6
Set-ADUser -Identity 'username' -Replace @{ 'msDS-SupportedEncryptionTypes' = 28 }
Close up of a Corgi-Aussie mixed breed dog wearing a cone at the vet.
A tri-color Corgi-Aussie mixed breed dog sits on a dog bed, looking up at the camera sadly as if wanting to be pet.
Earth Wind and Fire performing "September" with Dark Souls noun-verbed style text overlaid, stating "Twenty-first Remembered"
Screenshot of PowerShell terminal with the function `Test-Friday` outputting the party popper emoji.
A side-by-side comparison of the visual representations of two files based on their SHA256 hashes, as drawn using the Turtle PowerShell module.
```PowerShell switch ( [DateTime]::Today.DayOfWeek.Equals( [DayOfWeek]::Friday ) ) { $true { if ( [DateTime]::Today.Day.Equals(13) ) { # Friday the 13th easter egg Write-Output "😨" } else { Write-Output "🎉" } } $false { Write-Output "😭" } } ```
Screenshot of a PowerShell Core shell where the function `Test-Friday` has been run, which output a crying face emoji.