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Any version If you browsed to a folder using File Explorer, and then would like to open a PowerShell with the current folder set to the browsed...

Here is an example that illustrates how you access a REST API online. The script retrieves GIT tips. GIT is an open-source control system. Even if...

All PowerShell Versions Simply add a new drive to one of the file locations you often visit: # create folder if it does not exist yet $path =...

PowerShell 2+ Sometimes it may take some time for a PowerShell command to complete, and while the command is working, the user gets no visual clue....

PowerShell 5 PowerShell 5.0 on Windows 10 ships with a much-enhanced and colorful PowerShell console. PowerShell 5.0 on other operating systems just...

PowerShell 5 The free Microsoft RSAT tools come with a full-blown ActiveDirectory module, but sometimes simple AD tasks can be mastered with just a...

PowerShell 2+ Objects can have a nested and complex inner structure, and it can be tiresome to examine properties one by one. Here is a simple...

PowerShell 3+ Often, all you want is suppress errors, and find out whether a given cmdlet worked or not. Here is a very simplistic approach that...

PowerShell 3+ Today, we dive a little deeper in the programming part, and show you how a PowerShell function can have parameters that have dynamic...

PowerShell 3+ / PowerShellGet In the previous tip we explained PowerShellGet. This module ships with PowerShell 5.0 but is available for download on...

PowerShell 3+ Did you know that you can easily export modules from other computers to your local machine? Assume you don’t have the RSAT tools...

PowerShell 5 Beginning with PowerShell 5.0, the PowerShell ISE can connect to other processes that run a PowerShell runspace, display the source...

PowerShell 2+ If you do PowerShell remoting, you may have experienced “double-hop” problem. It occurs when you try to pass on your...

PowerShell 2+ NTFS permissions are represented by complex object hierarchies that are hard to read. A much simpler way is to output the structure in...

PowerShell 2+ Let’s do two things. First, have a look at a useful small new function that does DNS resolution. Then, let’s discuss why...

PowerShell 3+ / PowerShellGet In the previous tip we introduced PowerShellGet and showed how you can install this module from...