#VSCode #PowerShell #Windows #MacOS

I use VSCode for all my coding. One thing I appreciate about the PowerShell module in VSCode is how it recommends best practices inline with my script.

One of the recommended best practices for PowerShell is to use a list of approved verbs that define which words can be used in functions. This makes sense—I love the way PowerShell uses the Verb-Noun structure to keep things standardized and avoid confusion.

Sometimes the recommended list of verbs doesn't include what I'm trying to do, like “Check” or “Verify”. When I write a function using an unapproved verb, VSCode puts an orange squiggly line and these alerts get counted with others that I would consider more important:

This makes my VSCode environment noisy and it can be difficult to sift through all the alerts to try to identify real issues. After some digging, I found a way to hide these alerts without turning off the whole PSScriptAnalyzer feature.

Note: In the code examples, I've removed the signature blocks. Don't change or delete this section in your environment—If you do, you'll need to re-install the PowerShell extension and/or VSCode.

#OneDrive #Windows #SharePoint #Teams #Microsoft #MacOS

Earlier today, a user was looking for recommendations for which file shortcut to use that would be cross-platform compatible. The user wanted everyone who was invited to a shared folder to be able to click links to other locations without much hassle. If you've used OneDrive, Teams, and/or SharePoint across different devices, you may have run into issues where shortcuts work on certain devices and other shortcuts are un-openable. This can be really confusing if you're working with a group of people that have a mix of device types.

I did a little bit of testing and I can say that right now, the best option for cross-device compatible shortcuts is to use the .url format created on the web in SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams.

This post will go into different file shortcuts across platforms and how to create these .url shortcuts. I'm not focusing on mobile devices because hopefully your users only access files through the official Microsoft apps and are not directly downloading files. This post may save you some headaches going forward.