​For the past few weeks a lot has been spoken, written and talked about is GDPR Compliance. I have always retained the view that Europeans are much more intelligent when it comes to compliance and regulatory of Personal Data then Americans.  I am not going to use the word privacy because its been the most mocked around word in some quarters and of course in USA we all know how well its protected and implemented. :D

I'll start with first highlighting some key aspects of GDPR - like

​Its not something new and before GDPR we had Data Protection Act so if you had it implemented then you will go through less pain since a lot of elements are partially covered by it. The whole idea and concept is to know how the data is collected, where the data resides, stored, processed, deleted, who can access it and how its used for EU citizens. This means that organizations will be required to show the data flow or lifecycle to minimize any risk of personal data being leaked and all required steps are in place under GDPR.

In short, GDPR is to have common sense data security  ideas, especially from the Privacy by Design school of thought: minimize collection of  personal data, delete personal data that’s no   longer necessary, restrict access, and secure data through its entire lifecycle and also by adding requirements for documenting  IT procedures, performing risk assessments under certain conditions, notifying the consumer  and authorities when there is a breach, as well as  strengthening rules for data minimization.

​Some of us have already worked with PowerShell and love it, while others seem to be confused and wonder how can one remember so many commands to get things done. Maybe its time we break it down for the guys who find it difficult to work with and show them how powerful it is when dealing with every day tasks related to SharePoint - for both Admins and Developers.

It contains logic loops, variable, methods and other entities from the programming world. 

The scripts can be written using any text editor and i usually write my PowerShell scripts using Notepad++ and then save it as a plain-text file having a .ps1 extension. To run the scripts you can initiate PowerShell console session and its basically the command-line console with blue as background color and text in white.  You can always change the background color  to suit your needs.

The following line will  print a line of red text on a yellow background:

Write-Host "See how cool this is?" -Backgroundcolor
orange -Foregroundcolor black

The console keeps the various variable declarations in memory for the entire duration of the PowerShell session. The image below shows you a fairly simple PowerShell session in which variables have been declared and are remembered throughout the execution of the various commands. It starts by declaring two variables, variableA and variableB, whose values will later be reused to perform mathematical operations. The script continues by changing the value of one of the two variables already declared and rerunning the same addition operation to get a different result based on the new value entered.