database-tools

Often, code needs to check on files, and for example test whether the file exists or exceeds a given size. Here is some commonly used code: $logFile...

Beginning in PowerShell 5, you can use Start-Transcript in any host to log all the output created by your script. Here is how you can easily add...

On Windows 10, the operating system ships with a bunch of high-quality text-to-speech engines and is no longer limited to just the English language....

Occasionally, you might read about Trim(), TrimStart(), and TrimEnd() to remove text from strings. And this seems to really work well: PS C:\>...

In the previous tip you learned how you can use Export-CliXml to serialize data and then use Compress-Archive to shrink the huge XML files to only a...

If you’d like to safely store credentials (usernames and password) for your personal use in a file, here is a very simple yet extremely...

Start-Job transfers a script block to a new PowerShell process so that it can run separately and in parallel. Here is a very simple sample...

When you start signing script files, you want to make sure signatures stay intact even if the certificate that signed it expires at some day in the...

In the previous tips you learned how you can create a self-signed code signing certificate, save it to a PFX file, and read it back into memory....

In the previous tip we illustrated how you can use New-SelfSignedCertificate to create new code signing certificates, and store them as a PFX file....

If you’d like to digitally sign your scripts, the first thing you need is a digital certificate with the designated purpose set to “Code...

LDAP filters resemble the query language used by Active Directory, and if you have installed Microsoft’s RSAT tools, you can easily use the...

PowerShell remoting is a very fast way to query multiple computers because PowerShell remoting works in parallel. Here is a real world use case that...

The Get-FileHash cmdlet can generate hash codes for file content. It cannot generate hash codes for arbitrary text, though. And it is available only...

In the previous tip we explained how the Get-FileHash cmdlet (new in PowerShell 5) can generate the unique MD5 hash for script files. Hashes can be...

MD5 file hashes uniquely identify file content and can be used to check whether file content is identical. In PowerShell 5, there is a new cmdlet...