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All PowerShell versions In a previous tip we illustrated how you can take a DELL serial number and check online the warranty status. Other vendors...

PowerShell Version 2.0 and later If you own a DELL computer, you can take advantage of a web service that takes your computer serial number and...

PowerShell 2.0 and later Anyone who needs to manage MSI installer packages may benefit from an open source project found here:...

PowerShell 3.0 and later Sometimes you will stumble across tips like the following one: $FilePath = "$env:SystemRoot\WindowsUpdate.log"...

PowerShell 4.0 and later If you know that a given script needs Administrator privileges, then a simple #requires statement is enough to make sure...

Windows 8.1 or Server 2012 R2 Both Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 come with a module called “PrintManagement”. It includes all cmdlets...

Windows 8.1 or Server 2012 R2 Both Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 come with a module called “PrintManagement”. It includes all cmdlets...

Windows 8.1 or Server 2012 R2 To update Group Policy settings on a remote machine, use Invoke-GPUpdate, and submit the name of the computer where...

Windows 8.1 or Server 2012 R2 Both Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 come with a module called “PrintManagement”. It includes all cmdlets...

All PowerShell versions PowerShell uses short names for the most common .NET types. To see if there is a short name for a .NET type you are using,...

PowerShell ISE 3.0 and later To turn PowerShell code to all uppercase letters in PowerShell ISE, select the text, then press CTRL+SHIFT+U. To turn...

PowerShell Version 3 and later To permanently map a network drive, use New-PSDrive with the –Persist parameter. This parameter makes the drive...

All Versions If your script wants to output warnings or error messages, you can use Write-Warning or Write-Error. Both cmdlets will use the default...

PowerShell 2.0 and later Here is a function that illustrates two things: it shows how you can limit a parameter to a given data type, and it shows...

PowerShell 3.0 and later The PowerShell ISE supports line breakpoints only: they make the code stop once the debugger hits that particular line. You...

Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 To detect whether a script runs in a 32-bit or 64-bit environment is fairly easy: check a pointer size, and test whether it...