Month: June 2014

There are plenty of low level system functions that PowerShell can use. This one, for example, creates a temporary file name:...

Let's assume you have a bunch of scripts (or pictures or log files or whatever) in a folder, and you'd like to rename all files. The new file name...

If you'd like to reorganize your picture archive, then here is a piece of code that reads the "DateTaken" information from picture...

To run gpupdate.exe remotely, you could use a script like this: function Start-GPUpdate { param ( [String[]] $ComputerName ) $code = { $rv = 1 |...

Have you ever been puzzled just what the connection string would look like for a given database? When you create a new data source in Control Panel,...

Splatting is a great way of forwarding parameters to another cmdlet. Here is an example that can be used to encapsulate WMI calls and make them...

Splatting was introduced in PowerShell 3.0, but many users still never heard of this. It is a technique to programmatically submit parameters to a...

If you need to find out the Active Directory groups your user account is in, typically you would query the Active Directory, and you would have to...