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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...

All PowerShell Versions If you'd like to audit NTFS permissions on your file servers, here is a suggestion how you could start. This script...

All PowerShell versions Typically, NTFS permissions in the file system are inherited. You can, however, add explicit permissions to files and...

All Versions Typically, to access COM objects, these objects need to register themselves in the Windows Registry, and PowerShell needs the...

PowerShell 3.0 and later When you use Get-ChildItem to list files, by default, hidden files are excluded. To include hidden files, use the...

GroupPolicy Module When you create a new Group Policy, you can set a comment (or description). There is no apparent way, however, to change the...

PowerShell 2.0 and later This sample code finds all PowerShell scripts in a given drive, then checks the scripts for valid digital signatures, and...

All PowerShell versions When you run native EXE console commands inside your scripts, these commands typically return a numeric return value. This...

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All Versions To extract certain parts from raw strings, you can often use a combination of text splitting and text substring commands. For example,...

All PowerShell versions If you need to stress test systems, or need large dummy files for other purposes, here is some code that can create even...

All Versions To make sure output text is not excessively long, you can use logic like this to shorten text that is longer than a given maximum...