Josh King is a PowerShell developer and automation enthusiast known as the creator of BurntToast, sharing practical projects and tools around PowerShell, notifications, and home automation through his ToastIT blog.
116 articles from this blog
An overview of Universal Automation, a new PowerShell-based automation platform from Ironman Software, highlighting its features and beta release.
Explains a PowerShell wildcard pitfall involving square brackets in the -like operator and how to avoid pattern errors.
A PowerShell MVP reflects on 2019 career achievements and sets 2020 goals for community speaking, blogging, and video content.
A video tutorial on using Azure DevOps for PowerShell projects, part of the 2019 Azure Advent Calendar community event.
A guide on using PowerShell and a matrix/spreadsheet approach to visualize and audit Active Directory group memberships for IT administration.
A guide to replacing long chains of PowerShell 'like' operators with more efficient and scalable regular expressions (RegEx) for string matching.
A technical guide on implementing custom snooze and dismiss buttons for toast notifications using the BurntToast PowerShell module.
Explores using PowerShell 7's new ternary operator to simulate elseif logic through nesting, with examples and readability considerations.
A guide to participating in Hacktoberfest 2019, focusing on contributing to open source PowerShell projects and finding issues to work on.
Explains the new ternary operator syntax in PowerShell 7, comparing it to traditional if/else statements and testing its performance.
A guide to refactoring Azure DevOps Pipelines using templates and centralized repositories to reduce repetition and improve maintainability.
A technical comparison of parallel processing methods in PowerShell 7, evaluating the new ForEach-Object Parallel feature against the established PoshRSJob module.
Author announces receiving the Microsoft MVP award in Cloud and Datacenter Management, thanking mentors and family, and pledging continued PowerShell community work.
A technical guide on using PowerShell's BurntToast module to create localized toast notifications, supporting multiple languages.
A developer shares their journey learning Regex by applying it to normalize phone numbers in Active Directory, moving from copy-pasting to understanding patterns.
A technical guide on implementing graceful, in-place updates for toast notifications using the BurntToast PowerShell module, focusing on progress bars.
A technical review of Veeam Backup for Office 365 v3, focusing on selective folder backup features and performance improvements.
A technical blog post about using Shoulder Taps, a Windows 10 notification feature, with the BurntToast PowerShell module.
A guide on configuring selective backup jobs in Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 during a migration, focusing on Exchange Online and OneDrive.
A developer details migrating a personal blog archive tweet automation script from a home server to Azure Functions, exploring serverless PowerShell.
