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In a previous tip we talked about using PowerShell Remoting to execute code on a remote machine, and how to use "using:" to carry over...

Get-ChildItem supports basic wildcards, but it does not support the rich feature set of regular expressions. If you combine Get-ChildItem with...

One common problem with enabling PowerShell Remoting on your box is public networks. As long as there are active network connection labeled as...

When you use PowerShell Remoting to execute scripts and commands on another machine, you may have run into an issue like this: $class =...

If you want to replace variables in a PowerShell script, in PowerShell ISE 3.0 you can use the following function: function Replace-Variable {...

PowershellMagazine.com has prepared a set of very useful quick reference sheets for PowerShell 3.0, the ISE editor and more. Microsoft now offers...

In a previous tip we illustrated how you can use Start-Process to launch an elevated PowerShell from within your script to do elevated tasks. The...

Active Directory and other services sometimes use a custom GUID format. To convert a GUID to that format, all blocks of the GUID need to be...

If you must make sure that a function within your script is inaccessible from outside calls, you can use this trick. Save this code as a script...

Select-String is an extremely useful cmdlet for parsing log files. You can use it to dump all lines in a text file that contain a certain keyword....

There are two ways for replacing text, and both have their advantages and pitfalls: Each string has a Replace() method which works very...