As most people know, Microsoft releases patches on the second Tuesday of the month. In some organizations these patches are deployed to development, test and QA systems within a couple of days of the release. However, production systems can’t be patched until the next maintenance window. Assuming this patch window…
In my previous two posts about hashtables I provided examples for creating a hashtable, returning a specific value and a description around performance. This post will focus on the errors you should expect if you start using a hashtable. The most common exception I see happens when the data I’m…
To help describe these concepts, I have listed a few examples based on a CSV file containing HTML color codes. For purposes of sample data, create an array object of colors and HTML color codes. $colorCodes = Import-Csv ColorCodes.csv Define a hashtable object: $colorCodeHT = @{} Examples for adding to…
In the previous post I provided a quick introduction to creating and using a hashtable object. If you are paying attention, you might have asked “Why would I go to extra work to create a hashtable when I can make the original object work?” The answer is performance…but lets expand…
I was recently working on a script for a co-worker who is trying to learn more powershell. In the script I had used a couple of hashtables to store information…which caused a couple of questions as he was reviewing the code. This post is an introduction to powershell hashtables. A…