Month: March 2015

PowerShell 3.0 ISE and later When you want to select the information returned by a cmdlet, you typically use Select-Object: Get-Process |...

All Versions There are free Active Directory cmdlets from Microsoft (part of the RSAT tools) and Dell (Quest). They take the complexity out of...

All PowerShell versions Some variables are protected and cannot be changed. To identify these, take a look at this line: Get-Variable | Where-Object...

All PowerShell versions Variables in PowerShell are volatile. You can overwrite and delete them – unless you create constants. Constants can...

PowerShell 3.0 and later If your script needs additional resources, like text lists of server names, or picture files, or anything else, then make...

PowerShell ISE In the PowerShell console, you can pipe commands to the old-fashioned “more.com”, or better yet, to Out-Host...

All Versions Sort-Object is your one-stop solution for sorting. If it’s primitive data, simply pipe it to Sort-Object. If it is object data,...

All versions Let’s assume you would like to open your favorite websites in a browser when you start your day. PowerShell can do this for you...