Month: June 2014

Background jobs can be a great thing to speed up scripts because they can do things in parallel. However, background jobs only work well if the code...

PowerShell supports the keyword "exit" which is a scope-based. It may work much differently than you assumed it would. Let's take a...

There are two special keywords in PowerShell that you can use in loops: break and continue. With continue, the loop continues but skips the...

To read a Windows environment variable in PowerShell, simply use the prefix "env:": PS> $env:windirC:\WindowsPS> $env:USERNAMETobias...

Nested hash tables can be a great alternative to multidimensional arrays. They can be used to store data sets in an easy-to-manage way. Have a look:...

When you assign new items to an array often, you may experience a performance problem. Here is a sample that illustrates how you should not do it:...

Often, people use file-based logging. There is nothing wrong about that, but using the built-in event log system provided by Windows may be much...

When you want to use error handlers with errors that occur inside a cmdlet, then you can only catch such exceptions when you set the -ErrorAction of...

You can use the -split operator to easily split a path in its components. The result is always an array. Simply use comparison operators to exclude...

Maybe you'd like to be able to occasionally skip certain parts of your profile script. For example, in the ISE editor, simply add this...

You probably know that PowerShell supports profile scripts. Simply make sure the file found in $profile exists. It's a plain script that gets...