database-tools

Running 32-bit Code on the Same Machine

If you need to run 32-bit PowerShell code from within a 64-bit script, and provided you are Administrator and use remoting, you can remote against...

Modern Replacement for systeminfo.exe

For ages, systeminfo.exe returned all profiling information for a computer, and could made object-oriented in Powershell – somewhat: PS...

Built-In Support for Local Accounts

Beginning in PowerShell 5.1, there is finally built-in support for local user accounts. PowerShell 5.1 is currently available with Windows 10 and...

Careful with Add-Member!

Frequently, Add-Member is used to create custom objects, for example like this: $o = New-Object -TypeName PSObject $o | Add-Member -MemberType...

How PSCustomObject Really Works

In a previous tip we explained how PSCustomObject can create new objects really fast: $o = [PSCustomObject]@{ Date = Get-Date BIOS = Get-WmiObject...

Fast Approach to Creating New Objects

To wrap up multiple pieces of information, you best store them in custom objects. The easiest and fastest way is to use the PSCustomObject:...

Exploiting Your Command History

PowerShell “records” all your interactive command input to its command history, and Get-History shows them. If you played around with...

Testing Files and Folders (separately)

Test-Path is highly useful to test whether a file or folder exists, and it can be used with any of the PowerShell drives, so it can also test...

Getting Help for Cmdlet Parameters

There seems to be a bug in PowerShell 5.0 that limits the usefulness of the built-in help window. Whenever you run Get-Help with -ShowWindow, the...

Updating PowerShell Help with One-Liner

To get the most out of PowerShell, you should at least update PowerShell help once. This downloads and installs the base set of help files that show...

Downloading Pictures from Website

There are awesome websites out there, and one is www.metabene.de (at least for German visitors)-- on 33 pages, the artist presents his drawings for...

Check File Names for Illegal Characters

File names are quite sensitive and may not contain a number of reserved characters. To validate file names and make sure they are legal, here is a...

RETRIEVE ALERT STATISTICS SQL DM

Dear All,    I am trying to understand if there is a procedure to retrieve alert stats from past one month. scenario : lets say we are...

Finding Multiple Illegal Characters

Previously, we illustrated how to use the -match operator to find illegal characters in a text. The -match operator finds only the first match,...

Enabling CredSSP Trust from One Side

As previously shown, CredSSP can be used to remote code without double hop issues. To use CredSSP authentication, though, you need to make...

Finding Hidden Autostart Programs

Ever wondered why some programs launch whenever you log into Windows? Here’s a one liner listing autostarts that affect your login: #requires...

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