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Execution policy can prevent scripts from running. It is designed to be a user preference setting, so you should always be able to change the...

In a previous example we used HashSets to compare numeric lists, and find out which elements were found in both list, or in just one list. The same...

Often a script needs to find out whether two lists are the same, or which elements are missing from a list. Instead of investing much programming...

Occasionally you see scripts that use Select-Object to append information to existing objects. This can look similar to the code below: Get-Process...

In the previous tip we looked at command extensions for the good old PowerShell ISE. Here is another sample that adds the CTRL+K keyboard shortcut...

The good old PowerShell ISE exposes some expandability connectors. If you’d like to toggle comments in selected text by pressing CTRL+K, for...

In previous scripts we worked a lot with hash tables, and even loaded them from .psd1 files. If you need the data in a different format, for example...

In a previous tip we introduced Import-LocalizedData to read in data stored in a .psd1 file. Starting in PowerShell 5, there is a new cmdlet named...

There are many ways how a script can store data information. One is especially convenient. Here is the code: Import-LocalizedData -BaseDirectory...

PowerShell can use .NET type names, for example to convert values to a given type. Frequently, scripts use a variety of formats to define .NET...

Error handling does not necessarily have to be complex. It can be as simple as checking whether the last command executed successfully: # suppress...

Beginning in PowerShell 5, the PowerShell console features colorized text, and there is a wealth of other new features provided by a module named...

By converting a path to a FileInfo object, you can easily determine the path parent folder or file extension. Have a look:...

Often, code needs to check on files, and for example test whether the file exists or exceeds a given size. Here is some commonly used code: $logFile...

Beginning in PowerShell 5, you can use Start-Transcript in any host to log all the output created by your script. Here is how you can easily add...

On Windows 10, the operating system ships with a bunch of high-quality text-to-speech engines and is no longer limited to just the English language....

Occasionally, you might read about Trim(), TrimStart(), and TrimEnd() to remove text from strings. And this seems to really work well: PS C:\>...

In the previous tip you learned how you can use Export-CliXml to serialize data and then use Compress-Archive to shrink the huge XML files to only a...

If you’d like to safely store credentials (usernames and password) for your personal use in a file, here is a very simple yet extremely...

Start-Job transfers a script block to a new PowerShell process so that it can run separately and in parallel. Here is a very simple sample...

When you start signing script files, you want to make sure signatures stay intact even if the certificate that signed it expires at some day in the...