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PowerShell uses virtual drives, which sometimes have a close mapping to the "real" drives you see in Windows Explorer. However, sometimes...

To delete things in the file system, you normally use a command like "del", which is an alias and points to Remove-Item in PowerShell:...

Add-Content is a versatile command if you need to add additional content to text files. For example, you can create log file entries like this:...

PowerShell automatically displays all object properties when you output the object to the console. Here is an example: Get-WmiObject win32_bios...

When running a PowerShell script, you may want to return a numeric exit code to the caller to indicate failure or success. You should use the...

If you'd like to get a list of all local Groups on your computer, you can use this line: Get-WMIObject Win32_Group -filter...

In case you need to get a list of all of your current Group memberships as derived from your current access token, use this line:...

PowerShell v1 has no support for working remotely but WMI natively is able to work on local or remote machines. Simply use the -computername...

If you'd like to get rid of a file share, such as the one you created via WMI in our last tip, this is how you can do it: (Get-WMIObject...

You can use WMI to help create new file shares. This is the line you need: md...

You can use Select-Object to rename existing object properties. For example, you would like to rename e a directory listing "Name"...

You can find out whether a system has CD-Drives by using a little function that returns all drive letters from all CD Drives in your system:...

As a rule of thumb, PowerShell creates real copies when you copy variables. So in the next example, changing the array in $a will not affect the...

PowerShell has a great way of integrating existing VBScripts. All you need to do is call the script using the console-based host cscript.exe. Then,...

Group-Object is perfect for grouping objects based on one or more properties. Once you group objects, you can then filter, or sort, based on their...

Format-Table is a great cmdlet to output formatted data. Sometimes, you may just be interested in the raw table data. You can simply hide the column...

Sort-Object is a great and versatile cmdlet to sort anything you want. Simply specify the property or properties you want to use for sorting: Dir...

Select-Object can limit results to only the first or last elements. Simply use -first or -last: dir | select-object -first 10Get-Process |...

If you ever need to read in a file and split file content into words, there are a couple of gotchas to keep in mind. First off, remember that...

Usually, when you assign a variable to another variable, its content is copied. Here is an example: $a = "Hello"$b = $a$a = "Hello...

PowerShell can still use COM libraries. Simply use New-Object -comObject and provide the COM library name to load it. With this approach, you can do...

Get-Member is the third important basic PowerShell cmdlet as it gives you a documentation of what a command returns. It lists all of the object and...

Get-Help is the second of the three most important PowerShell cmdlets as it retrieves all the Help for any cmdlet. If you just enter Get-Help, you...

There are only three cmdlets you should know by heart. One is the Get-Command, which can do a lot more than you might think. When called without...