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The cloud these days not only offers virtual machines and storage, but also brand new and exciting services such as the cognitive services. You need...

PowerShell 5 finally includes support for ZIP files, so if you want to backup all of your PowerShell scripts into one ZIP file, here is a one-liner:...

Local admin privileges are extremely powerful, and you should use techniques such as JEA to minimize the number of local Admins as much as you can....

By default, script block logging data is open to anyone, not just Administrators. When script block logging is enabled, any user can access the log...

In the previous tips, we took a deep look at how PowerShell 5 script block logging works: in a nutshell, when enabled, all PowerShell code that...

Some scripts may leave variables with sensitive information behind. This can happen by accident, when the global scope is used, or when users call...

Here is a super easy and useful PowerShell function called Out-HTML: function Out-HTML { param ( [String] $Path = "$env:temp\report$(Get-Date...

Frequently, PowerShell functions work with sensitive information, i.e. log-on information including passwords, and store this information in...

Credentials are objects that contain a user name and an encrypted password. If your PowerShell functions should be able to accept credentials,...

Ever wanted to know the original URL behind network drives? Here is an easy PowerShell way: # make sure the below drive is a mapped network drive #...

Downloading very large files can be a challenge because the download process may take longer than a machine is turned on. With BitsTransfer, you can...

A very convenient built-in way to download files, even with SSL connections, is Start-BitsTransfer. It also sports a progress bar that shows the...

Invoke-WebRequest can download files for you but may struggle with HTTPS URLs. To use SSL connections, you may have to change a default setting....

Here is a quick one-liner that dumps all Group Policy objects that have all settings disabled: Get-Gpo -All | Where-Object GpoStatus -eq...

Get-EventLog always requires you to specify exactly one event log via -LogName. You cannot use wildcards, and you cannot browse all event logs at...

You probably have used Get-EventLog frequently to dump event log information, for example: PS> Get-EventLog -LogName System -EntryType Error...