PowerShell: Recursion And Finding Loops In A Hierarchy With Active Directory Example

Recently, a friend of mine asked me about the best way to find loops in a hierarchy, specifically with Active Directory groups that may be nested (either by design or by mistake) thereby causing loops and this recursion based solution was my recommended answer for him. The Problem: Here is the example he gave me: …

PowerShell: Get Security Updates List From Microsoft By Month/Product/KB/CVE With API

I am a regular at my local PowerShell user group. I keenly look forward to our monthly meetings. We share a lot amongst ourselves. It is a small but close-knit group. Recently, one of the members, Julie came up with a coding challenge for the group. This blog post is about the challenge. My solution …

PowerShell: Abort after encountering [x] errors within the last minute

This short article is about how to abort out of your PowerShell loop if you have encountered [x] errors within the last minute. The technique can be reapplied to any similar situation. Before I elaborate on how this is done, I want to give Kudos to Brian Wilhite, my friend and organizer of Charlotte PowerShell user …