PowerShell SnippetRace 48-51/2025

Try/Catch, EntraID, string, encryption

Events

  • Post-Event Recording PowerShell Usergroup Austria Q4/25: See recording link
    See for PowerShell Ecosystem and a somehow half-finished PlatyPS demo.

Snippets

Use Try/Catch with specific error types

We have been writing about Try/Catch before, but its always a topic where you can dive deeper.What it does exactly, the difference between PS5/PS7, and using specific error types. Read Harm Veenstras blogpost about this powerful concept.

Microsoft EntraID PowerShell 1.1.0 released

The pain with managing the former AzureAD product now named EntraID was massive, as the PowerShell Modules have grown in different directions. Now finally the EntraID Module is out and on a new version. The version ships with a couple of of updates and 4sysops wrote an article on it.

PowerShell String Manipulation – Swap Lines

Our Austrian buddy-MVP Patrick Grünauer wrote a post about string-manipulation and how to change the content within a file. Read his article here.

Podcast on PowerShell and encryption

Usually i dont post podcasts here, but this one sounded interesting. The guest is the mathematician Al Carlson talking about patterns in cryptography. If you want to lean more about this topic listen to the podcast, and find all links here.

Have a nice pre-christmas time.

R.

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