Introduction

The PSProductivityTools PowerShell module contains commands for productivity tools & topics such as time management.

Installation

The module is published to the PowerShell Gallery, which means you can install it using the following command from the PowerShellGet module:

Install-Module -Name PSProductivityTools

or the following if you want it installed the current users profile ($env:userprofile\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules) rather than the system wide location ($env:programfiles\WindowsPowerShell\Modules):

Install-Module -Name PSProductivityTools -Scope CurrentUser

When a new version is released with bug fixes or new functionality you can update to the latest version simply by typing the following command:

Update-Module -Name PSProductivityTools

PowerShellGet is included by default in PowerShell V5, and available downlevel for PowerShell 3.0 and 4.0.

If you want to install the module without leveraging PowerShellGet, you can either clone the Git-repository or download this ZIP-file and place the contains in one of the following locations:

• $env:userprofile\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\PSProductivityTools
• $env:programfiles\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\PSProductivityTools

Requirements

• PowerShell 4.0 or later on the computer the module is installed on

Usage

After installation, you can view available commands by using Get-Command: Get-Command -Module PSProductivityTools

The module currently contains the following functions:

• Publish-SfBContactInformation - Publish-SfBContactInformation is a PowerShell function to configure a set of availability settings in the Skype for Business client.
• Start-Pomodoro - Returns information about which DPM servers a DPM agent is attached to and what data sources is protected.

Planned features and todo-list

• Add Pester tests
• Add help
• IFTTT integration for muting cell phone when starting a new Pomodoro session
• Add option for customized note when ending Pomodoro
• Add function to set up custom presence states on local machine
• Add function to download Lync SDK

Contributors

Jan Egil Ring - author Ståle Hansen - author

Everyone is welcome to assist by forking the project and submitting pull requests with proposed fixes and enhancements.