Month: December 2014

GroupPolicy Module When you create a new Group Policy, you can set a comment (or description). There is no apparent way, however, to change the...

PowerShell 2.0 and later This sample code finds all PowerShell scripts in a given drive, then checks the scripts for valid digital signatures, and...

All PowerShell versions When you run native EXE console commands inside your scripts, these commands typically return a numeric return value. This...

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All Versions To extract certain parts from raw strings, you can often use a combination of text splitting and text substring commands. For example,...

All PowerShell versions If you need to stress test systems, or need large dummy files for other purposes, here is some code that can create even...

All Versions To make sure output text is not excessively long, you can use logic like this to shorten text that is longer than a given maximum...

ActiveDirectory Module We already illustrated previously how you can use Get/Set-Acl to read and write permissions to files and folders. The truth...

All versions Here is yet another approach that you can use to detect errors emitted by console applications: $ErrorActionPreference = 'Continue'...

All PowerShell versions With Get-Acl, you can output the security information from files and folders as plain text in SDDL format (Security...