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Publishing on – Thur June 22 PowerShell supports a wide variety of text file formats, so what’s the best way to save and read data? In the first two...

PowerShell supports a wide variety of text file formats, so what’s the best way to save and read data? This largely depends on the type of data, so...

PowerShellGet is a module and contains important cmdlets such as Install-Module, so this module is really the prerequisite for downloading and...

Microsoft released a module a couple of years ago (updated 3 weeks ago) that you can use to identify whether your hardware is vulnerable against...

Most of the time, localized resources are tagged with a culture name such as “en-us” or “de-de”. If you’d like to know what such an ID stands for,...

Both Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod are simple-to-use cmdlets to download information from the web. For example, this simple code can query...

To explicitly convert one data type to another, PowerShell offers two ways: PS> [int]5.6 6 PS> 5.6 -as [int] 6 While both approaches yield identical...

In our previous tip we showed how you can easily turn local folders into ISO file images. Today, we look at how you can mount (and dismount) your...

PowerShell can turn regular folders into ISO files. ISO files are binary files that can be mounted and then behave like a read-only CD-ROM drive. In...

Due to popular request, here is a code that illustrates how you can use nested progress bars and show a "real" progress indicator for each task your...

PowerShell's built-in progress bar can be nested, showing one progress bar per task. For this to work, assign distinct ID numbers to your progress...

Publishing on – Mon May 15 The built-in PowerShell progress bar supports a “real” progress indicator provided you submit a “percentCompleted” value...

Can you spot what’s wrong in the code below? $result = 'NO' if ($result = 'YES') { 'Result: YES' } else { 'Result: NO' } It always returns “Result:...