database-tools

Doug Finke has created an awesome PowerShell module called ImportExcel which comes with all the commands you need to import and export data from and...

In the previous example we looked at how numeric HTTP response codes can automatically be converted to descriptive text, simply by converting them...

In the previous example we created a small PowerShell function that checks web site availability, and as part of the test results, a HTTP response...

When a web site is unavailable, often the question is whether it’s you, or whether the web site is generally down for everyone else, too....

Accessing RESTful web services is trivial for PowerShell: simply send your input data to a public web service, and receive the results. Here are...

PowerShell can validate AD username and passwords against the Active Directory: Add-Type -AssemblyName System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement...

If you’d like to add an incrementing number to your output, here is a simple way: Get-Process | Select-Object -Property '#',...

If you ever write PowerShell functions that need to accept sensitive input such as passwords, make sure you allow users to submit SecureString...

The most widely known PowerShell hosts are certainly powershell.exe and powershell_ise.exe because they ship out-of-the-box. However, there can be...