database-tools

To map a network printer to a user profile, here's a powerful low level command: rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n...

Get-Date can extract valuable information from dates. All you need to know is the placeholder for the date part you are after. Then, repeat that...

Ever wanted to know how many days you need to work this month? Here's a clever function that lists all the weekdays you want that are in a...

Here's a simple way to convert a decimal to a hex representation, for example, if you want to display an error number in standard hexadecimal...

Let's assume you want to launch a new PowerShell session from an existing one. To carry over information from the initial session, you can use...

Ever wanted to display a dialog box from PowerShell rather than spitting out console text? Then try this function: function Show-MsgBox { param (...

Here’s a simple way of creating an ASCII table through type casting: 32..255 | ForEach-Object { 'Code {0} equals character {1}' -f $_, [Char]$_ }...

Sometimes you may want to know if your function received parameters over the pipeline or direct. Here is a way to find out: function test {...

PowerShell is single-threaded and can only do one thing at a time, but by using background jobs, you can spawn multiple PowerShell instances and...

You can use regular expressions and the –match operator to validate user input. Here’s a loop that keeps asking until the user enters a...