If you just want to syntax check your Powershell code with Pester, scroll to the bottom and grab my describe block. If you’d like you’d like to go on a little journey with me, keep reading.

I’m in the process of getting as much of team’s Powershell code through a CI pipeline using Azure DevOps. Due to some issues with accidentally pushing code with syntax and encoding errors to production, one of the first things I wanted to do was just simply validate that the code was valid. I found a post on the PowerShell.org forums from 2014 that inspired me to write this test:

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