Month: March 2014

Many cmdlets have built-in remoting capabilities, for example Get-Service and Get-Process both have the parameter -ComputerName, and so does...

Credential objects contain a username and a password. You can create them using Get-Credential, and then supply this object to any cmdlet that has...

Did you know that Windows logs any USB stick type you ever used? To get that information from the Registry, simply use this function: function...

Maybe you'd like to get a list of timeservers registered in the Registry database. Then you probably run code like this: Get-ItemProperty -Path...

PowerShell grants access to your certificate stores by using the cert: drive. You can use this drive to find certificates based on given criteria....

Running applications such as robocopy.exe from PowerShell sometimes is not trivial. How do you submit arguments to the EXE so that PowerShell...

There are many ways to add or change NTFS permissions. One is to reuse existing tools such as icacls.exe. This function will create new folders that...

If you just want to profile a local or remote system and get back the most commonly used pieces of information, then do not waste time for your own...

Sometimes, a script may need to run a command that needs elevation (Administrator privileges). Instead of requiring the script to run with full...

In the previous tip, we illustrated how you can use Registry information to find wireless network adapters. Here is now a function...

There are many ways of finding network adapters, but apparently none to identify active wireless adapters. All information about your network...

When a cmdlet returns raw data, you may want to convert the data into a better format. For example, WMI can report the free space of a drive but...

WMI can retrieve information about drives easily. This will get you the drive information for your local machine (use -ComputerName to access a...

Relative dates are important to get data within a special time frame, avoiding hard-coded dates and times. This script will get all error and...