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How can you automatically check the supported languages for an online document? Provided the URL uses a language ID, it’s easy to create a list of...

Careful with ArraysWith PowerShell you never know whether a cmdlet returns an array or a single object. That’s because PowerShell automatically...

In Windows 10 and better, you can use Get-Volume to get volume IDs and other information about your drives: PS> Get-Volume DriveLetter...

You can query WMI to get a list of your drives volume IDs like so: Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Volume | Select-Object -Property DriveLetter,...

 HTML can be a simple way of formatting data for output reports. In this last part we illustrate how you convert the final HTML report to PDF...

HTML can be a simple way of formatting data for output reports. In this 3-part series, we first illustrate how you compose HTML reports, then show a...

The -match operator is frequently used in scripts however not everyone seems to understand how it really works. It can be a really dangerous filter...

In the previous tip we looked at a number of clever alternatives to avoid Add-Member when creating your own new objects. While using hash tables to...

In the previous tip we looked at creating simple data objects, and it became evident that instead of using Add-Member, you can cast a hash table to...

Often the cmdlet Add-Member is used to create simple objects like this: $user = New-Object -TypeName psobject | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty...

In the previous tip we used Get-WinEvent to read the Windows event log system and get a list of recently installed software, similar to this:...

As part of your debugging and quality control you may want to log the data that gets assigned to individual variables. For example, you may want to...

In our previous mini series we showed different approaches to get to the names of installed OS languages using different PowerShell methods. The...

In part 2 of this series, you already witnessed how much easier and faster it was to query the list of installed operating system languages using...

Let’s assume you need to find the installed language packs for a Windows machine. In this three-part series, we use PowerShell’s features to tackle...

If you have data related to countries, you may want to visualize and highlight this geographic data. Classic bar- and chart-graphs won’t always work...

One of the big pitfalls in PowerShell code is the automatic variable $PSScriptRoot which always holds the path to the folder the current script is...