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Ed Wilson from the Scripting Guys demonstrated how PowerShell can use free web services to find out holidays. You do need direct (non-proxy)...

Aliases are shortcuts for commands and useful in interactive PowerShell. Once you write scripts, however, you should no longer use aliases and...

Ever wondered how a website knew which country you are from? That's because there are IP address segments assigned to certain regions. And...

Get-Process can easily return the CPU load for each running process, but this information by itself is not very useful: Get-Process | Select-Object...

PowerShell 3.0 uses .NET Framework 4.x so it has WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) capabilities built-in. This way, it only takes a few lines of...

Often, when you start writing a PowerShell script, you use temporary (dirty) variable names that later you'd like to polish. Renaming script...

ISE 3.0 features automatic outlining, so structures like braces can be collapsed or expanded by clicking the small "+" or "-"...

PowerShell can automatically find and list all variables that you use in a script. This way, you can easily create variable documentation for your...

A lot of products come with their own PowerShell consoles. There are special PowerShell consoles for Exchange, for SQL Server, for Active Directory,...

ISE has a simple yet effective debugger built-in that you can use to step through your code. The debugger does require that you save your script...

In ISE 3.0, you can easily switch focus between the interactive console pane and the editor script pane by pressing CTRL+D (to go to the console)...

Sometimes, in larger PowerShell scripts it is hard to find the corresponding opening or closing bracket or brace. One thing you can do, of course,...

Thanks to MVP Shay Levy from http://powershellmagazine.com fame, here's a quick way of dumping all ISE 3.0 keyboard shortcuts; a lot of them are...

If you think you understand PowerShell parameter binding, then have a look at this simple function which exposes a little-known PowerShell behavior:...

  If you need to know the object nature of command results, you probably know that you can pipe them to Get-Member like this: Get-Process |...

Here is another (and very solid) approach to remove leading zeroes from an IP address using a regular expression: '010.012.000.101' -replace...

There are two simple tricks to find out your current fully qualified domain name (FQDN). You can either resort to ping.exe: PS> ping -a localhost...

If you'd like to find out how long it is until next Sunday (or how many days have passed since last Sunday), simply use the property DayOfWeek. It...

If you must run an application with a different identity, Start-Process offers the parameter -Credential. This would launch the Notepad editor using...

If you need to change and adjust settings in a registered scheduled task, there is a COM interface called 'Schedule.Service' that you can...

There is an underestimated option to make schtasks.exe dump scheduled tasks as CSV data. PowerShell can grab the CSV data and turn it into objects,...

A hash table can store any data type. If you want more control, you can create a typed dictionary (which behaves pretty much like a hash table): $ht...