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Whenever you would like to display, print, or save as PDF in a tabular form, WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) may be a good way. Originally,...

In the previous tip, we created cheat sheets for PowerShell commands. We used command names and their synopsis to create cheat sheets like this:...

In the previous tip, we created cheat sheets for PowerShell commands and turned them into HTML reports that could be opened in a browser, and...

In the previous tip, we created cheat sheets for PowerShell commands, and as a reminder, this line would create a sheet for network commands...

Here is a clever trick to create cheat sheets for your favorite PowerShell commands. Any PowerShell command ships via a module, so if you have a...

In Windows 10, PowerShell can be launched via WIN+X (or by right-clicking the start menu icon). If your Windows 10 offers to open the outdated...

If you’d need to find out whether a given Active Directory user exists, and provided you have installed the ActiveDirectory PowerShell module...

Typically, WMI objects contain properties with valuable information. This line would retrieve all information about all running Notepad instances...

In the previous tip we explained why Get-CimInstance may have advantages over the older Get-WmiObject cmdlet. Now here is another example that...

There are two cmdlets you can use to retrieve WMI data: the older Get-WmiObject cmdlet, and the more modern Get-CimInstance cmdlet. When used...

WMI is an awesome information source for admins. All you need is the name of a WMI class that represents something you find interesting. The easiest...

When you want to inspect individual objects and their properties, piping an object to Out-GridView is of limited use: the grid view window will...

In the previous tip we introduced a new function called Remove-EmptyProperty that removes properties that have no value. Let’s expand it a bit so...

Objects are filled with rich information, yet objects may contain empty properties. This is especially true for objects retrieved from Active...

There are many ways how cmdlets can get remote information from another computer. Here are just a few: # try and connect to this computer # (adjust...

In the previous tip we created a function called ConvertFrom-ErrorRecord that makes it easy to retrieve all relevant error information from...

Whenever PowerShell raises an error, an error record is written to $error which is an array storing the last errors that occurred. You can try and...

In the previous tip we illustrated how to download files from the internet using Invoke-WebRequest. However, this works for HTTP addresses only....