database-tools

This week is cleaning week, and we’ll show you tactics how you can potentially retrieve gigabytes of disk space, especially with machines that...

If you’d like to access any of the following special locations, then we have good news for you: PS C:\>...

You can use PowerShell remoting to transfer files across a network – this is new in PowerShell 5.0. This can be useful in closed environments...

Check out this simple way of creating temporary passwords: -join...

In the previous tip we illustrated how you can ask WMI for the last reboot time of a machine. A more robust way is to query the Windows event logs....

These days, computers hibernate or go into standby but do not really reboot that often anymore. To find out when your computer rebooted the last...

Tracert.exe tells you the hops your data packages need to take to get to a given host. Here is an example: PS C:\> tracert www.microsoft.com...

Sometimes, commands and methods do not return exactly what you are after. If you, for example, wanted to get the assigned IP addresses for a...

There is no module available for all PowerShell versions that allows to administer local user accounts. Here is a chunk of sample code that...

Frequently, loops are used to retrieve (or generate) data, then save it to a variable. There can be tremendous performance differences though. To...

Ever wanted to know who are the three worst sources for errors in your System event log? Here is a simple approach that yields the source names with...

PowerShell can turn fixed-width tabular data easily into rich objects. First, define the column widths. Then, have PowerShell inject a delimiter at...

With Select-Object, you typically include the object properties you want to receive. You can do it the other way around, too, though. Here is an...

A good temporary password should be complex, yet unambiguous. So it should contain a mixture of upper and lower case plus special characters, but it...

Your colleague went to lunch again without properly locking his computer? Then this is your chance to run this code on his PowerShell: $powershell =...

In the previous tip we explained why functions can have multiple return values, and that anything you leave behind will be added to the return...

PowerShell has an unusual way of dealing with return values. Anything you left behind will be added to the return values. The statement...

Whenever you deal with error objects, you may want to use the following PowerShell function: Get-ErrorInfo. It accepts any number of error records,...

Modules installed via PowerShellGet can be updated automatically to the latest version. You would need to run PowerShell with full Administrator...