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Finding Drive Letters

Here is a simple function to find out the reserved drive letters: #requires -Version 3 function Get-DriveLetter { (Get-WmiObject -Class...

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Quickly Finding Scripts

To quickly locate a PowerShell script anywhere in your MyDocuments folder, take a look at this Find-Script function: #requires -Version 3 function...

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Hiding Variable Content

When you override the ToString() method of an object you control how this object is displayed. The object content stays untouched, though: $a = 123...

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Remove Array Elements

Did you ever need to compare two arrays? Compare-Object might help. Check this out: $array1 = 1..100 $array2 = 2,4,80,98 Compare-Object...

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Shortening Text

Let's assume you want to chop off some text at the end of a string. This is the traditional approach using string operations: $text = "Some...

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Avoid Using Redirection

While you can still use the old redirection operator to write command output to a file, you should rather use PowerShell cmdlets instead. Here is...

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Encode PowerShell Commands

When you need to run code as a PowerShell command in a separate powershell.exe, it is not always safe to submit the code. Depending on from where...

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Define Multiline Text

When you need to define multiline text, in PowerShell you typically use here-strings like this: $text = @" I am safe here I can even use...

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Current Script Path

In PowerShell 1.0 and 2.0, you needed a lot of weird code to find out the current script location: # make sure the script is saved and NOT...

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Change ISE Zoom Level

The PowerShell ISE sports a zoom slider at its lower right edge, and you can control this slider with PowerShell code. So you could set defaults for...

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Unzipping ZIP Files

In PowerShell 5.0, there is a new cmdlet that can unzip ZIP files: #requires -Version 5 $Source = 'C:\somezipfile.zip' $Destination =...

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Testing a Network Port

To see whether you can access a remote computer via a given network port, here is a test function called Test-Port; it takes a remote computer name...

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Finding Logged On Users

In a previous tip we explained how you find the physically logged on user. In this tip you will see how you can list the current logon sessions,...

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