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In a previous tip you learned how PowerShell can list all available time zone IDs. Today, we show you how to set the time zone using the utility...

There is a little known utility called tzutil.exe which can both set the current time zone and get all available time zones. Today, let's check...

Microsoft Office has many different versions and exists as a 32-bit and 64-bit edition. Finding the installation path with PowerShell can still be...

Typically, when you set breakpoints in your script and then step through your code using F11 or "Debug/Step Into", the debugger will visit...

In the PowerShell console, you may have noticed "suggestions" that appear with common errors. Suggestions are designed to help you better...

PowerShell logs all errors in $error variable (unless the cmdlet uses -ErrorAction Ignore). $error contains the error records which in turn contain...

As pointed out in a previous tip, PowerShell 3.0 now supports the use of validators for variable assignments. This is a great way of ensuring that a...

Most high-level cmdlets dealing with services have built-in code to wait for state changes. So when you run Restart-Service to restart a service,...

In a previous tip we illustrated how in PowerShell 3.0, you can now use validators to restrict the data that can be assigned to a variable. Here is...

In a previous tip we explained how you can enumerate who is connected to your machine via PowerShell Remoting, and how you can terminate individual...

To kill a remote PowerShell session that runs on your machine, you could kill the wsmprovhost.exe task associated with it, but identifying the...

Ever wanted to find out who is running a (hidden) remote PowerShell on your machine? Here's a simple one-liner: Get-WSManInstance -ConnectionURI...