PowerCLI Amateur declaration

This blog aims to be a helping hand for folks who aren't programmers.

Personally, I'm not a coder or developer - I work in IT. 
IT professionals in big companies often need to automate some tasks but might not know how.
There's a lot of information on the internet, but much of it is geared towards those who already know programming. Many scripts use programming techniques that non-programmers don't get.

On my journey with PowerShell/PowerCLI, I've learned that even complex scripts can spark ideas, and you can use them in a simpler way. I want to show you how to do this easily and without over-complicating things.

But I also don't want to make things too simple.

Folks often use too many pipes in their scripts. I get why - a pipe lets you put a whole script on one line, which seems easy, and you can copy/paste it into the PowerShell command line. 

This works well for short and simple tasks, but not for longer and more complicated ones.
That's when the simple turns into the complex.
These one-line scripts are prone to mistakes and can be hard to read because they're so long.

I like to split these long lines into pieces that are easier to read and fix.

So, stick with me.