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Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 finally come with a built-in PDF printer called “Microsoft Print to PDF” that you can use from...

Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 come with extensive printer support thanks to the PrintManagement module. If you’d like to print official...

In the previous tip we introduced the FileSystemWatcher and illustrated how it can miss filesystem changes when your handler code takes too long. To...

A FileSystemWatcher can monitor a file or folder for changes, so your PowerShell code can immediately be notified when new files are copied to a...

Here is another file system task that sounds worse than it actually is. Let’s say you need to remove all folders below a given level in a...

If you’d like to respond to new event log entries in real time, here is how your PowerShell code can be notified the moment a new event entry...

With Get-EventLog, you can easily dump the content for any given event log, however if you’d like to directly access a given event log, you...

In PowerShell, to measure time, you can simply subtract datetime values from another: $Start = Get-Date $null = Read-Host -Prompt "Press ENTER...

Lines like $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition can be useful to determine the folder in which the current script is stored, i.e. to access other...

Here is a piece of PowerShell code that connects to the local firewall and dumps the open firewall ports: $firewall = New-object -ComObject...

In the previous tip we implemented a timeout using PowerShell background jobs so you could set a maximum time some code was allowed to run before it...

If you’d like to make sure some code won’t execute forever, you can use background jobs to implement a timeout. Here is a sample...

Once a PowerShell script carries a digital signature, you can easily find out who signed the script, and more importantly, whether the script is...

Before you give away a PowerShell script to others, it is a good idea to digitally sign it. A signature acts like a “wrapper” for your...