database-tools

Here is a fun function to provide you with a good first level support response in case everyone is off for Christmas: #requires -Version 3 function...

If your boss needs a list of operating systems used by computers in your AD, this may be a good start: #requires -Version 1 -Modules ActiveDirectory...

Here is a quick script that scans all OUs in your Active Directory for computer accounts, then groups them per OU by operating system: #requires...

When you open a CSV file in Excel, you get a very fast data import, but the result is "black and white"; CSV data has no way of colorizing...

PowerShell ISE supports code snippets, and you can easily create your own: #requires -Version 3 $code = @' | Where-Object { $_ } '@...

ForEach-Object is a powerful pipeline cmdlet, but foremost it is an anonymous function. ForEach-Object is great to build "prototype...

There are a number of routine pipeline cmdlets like Where-Object and Select-Object, yet the only essential cmdlet is ForEach-Object. All the other...

It's time for Christmas again, so here is a PowerShell classic: # inspired by: #...

When you declare a parameter mandatory and the user does not specify it, PowerShell prompts the user for it. Another way of creating mandatory...

To improve user-friendlyness, you could replace Read-Host by the following Show-InputBox function and get an inputbox dialog window: #requires...

By accessing the Windows low-level API functions, a script can constantly monitor the keyboard for keypresses and log these to a file. This...

By accessing the Windows low-level system calls, PowerShell can query the keyboard for pressed keys. The following example waits until the user...

You may have heard about pInvoke.net, a site that documents internal Windows API signatures. Signatures describe low-level Windows API system calls....

For monitoring purposes, it is often not known how long a script needs to run. So here, an endless loop is used. The script runs for as long as the...

When you set or change environment variables in PowerShell, this only affects the process set, so changes apply only to the current PowerShell...

Sometimes it is crucial to replace special characters in text before you can use it. For example, if you plan to create Active Directory accounts,...

PowerShell can talk to web services, and there are some public web services that you can contact via internet. Here are two functions: Get-Airport...

When you access .NET types and objects directly in your PowerShell code, you must make sure that the appropriate .NET assemblies are loaded. If you...

You may have come across the –f operator before and wondered what it does. It’s the format operator and provides an extremely easy way...

PowerShell can quickly create backup files of your files. All you need to adjust is the type of files you want to backup, and the file extension you...

With only a few lines of code you can implement a command called Out-OfficeWord. It takes the data you pipe into it and inserts them into a new Word...

WMI is a great source of information but it is not always easy to find out the names of valid WMI classes to query. Here is a little search tool: it...