database-tools

PowerShell can access all public .NET classes, so it is (fairly) easy to create a message box: $result = [System.Windows.MessageBox]::Show('Do...

Ever wanted to find out how long a particular command or portion of your script took to complete? Here is a simple Stopwatch object that can help...

PowerShell 3 or better This week we are looking at how you can change coloring both in the PowerShell console and PowerShell ISE so you can fine...

This week we are looking at how you can change coloring both in the PowerShell console and PowerShell ISE so you can fine tune your PowerShell...

This week we are looking at how you can change coloring both in the PowerShell console and PowerShell ISE so you can fine tune your PowerShell...

This week we are looking at how you can change coloring both in the PowerShell console and PowerShell ISE so you can fine tune your PowerShell...

This week we are looking at how you can change coloring both in the PowerShell console and PowerShell ISE so you can fine tune your PowerShell...

This week we are looking at how you can change coloring both in the PowerShell console and PowerShell ISE so you can fine tune your PowerShell...

PowerShell 3+ This week we are looking at how you can change coloring both in the PowerShell console and PowerShell ISE so you can fine tune your...

We are about to enter “Color Week” with plenty of tips how you can choose better colors for the PowerShell ISE editor and the console....

Here is an easy way to find the ASCII code for any character you may have scraped from a website, or found in a script that you copied from the...

WMI can provide the raw data about hard drive size and free space. PowerShell then takes that information and provides user-friendly results like...

PowerShell 2+ Many older DCOM-based commands require a “Remote Administration Firewall Exception” to access remote systems. This...

PowerShell 3+ If you’d like to know which programs start automatically on your machine, WMI may help: PS C:\> Get-CimInstance -ClassName...

PowerShell 2+ When you read in CSV data and would like to rename the CSV headers, here is a simple approach: just read in the text line by line, and...

In the previous tip we illustrated how Convert-Umlaut was able to convert special characters in a string. This becomes even more useful if a...