Powershell

In the previous tip we introduced the lesser-known “ArgumentCompletion” attribute that can provide IntelliSense-like autocompletion to parameters....

If you’d like to hardcopy the content of a PowerShell console, you can copy and select the text, but this messes up colors and formatting. A better...

When PowerShell encounters a problem, it displays a rather lengthy error message: PS> 1/0 Attempted to divide by zero. At line:1 char:1 + 1/0 +...

Wouldn’t it be nice if parameters would suggest valid arguments for the user? Sometimes they do. When you type below command and press a SPACE after...

Wouldn’t it be nice if parameters would suggest valid arguments for the user? Sometimes they do. When you type below command and press a SPACE after...

Wouldn’t it be nice if parameters would suggest valid arguments for the user? Sometimes they do. When you type below command and press a SPACE after...

Wouldn’t it be nice if parameters would suggest valid arguments for the user? Sometimes they do. When you type below command and press a SPACE after...

Let’s assume you want to return IP addresses from all network cards but separate them by address type. Here is an approach that uses solely...

Windows Terminal is a new multi-tabbed tool for console-based shells. It is officially available via the Microsoft Store and currently requires...

Chocolatey is a package management system that helps you download and install software packages. Unlike the PowerShell Gallery, Chocolatey is not...

The PowerShell team has once published the rich and detailed PowerShell 3 language reference, and since the core language never changed, this...

Invoke-WebRequest can easily download files for you. The code below downloads the PowerShell Language Reference published by PowerShell Magazine,...

Many PowerShell users start to take a look at PowerShell 7, and run it side-by-side to the built-in Windows PowerShell. Both PowerShell versions...

Good news for any PowerShell users dealing with Active Directory: in recent Windows 10 builds (Enterprise, Professional), Microsoft included the...

When Windows installed updates or made related changes to the operating system, changes may become effective only after a reboot. While a reboot is...

There is no a built-in way to launch a PowerShell script hidden: even if you run powershell.exe and specify -WindowStyle Hidden, the PowerShell...

Process objects returned by Get-Process can tell whether the process is currently responding to window messages and thus to user requests. This line...

If you’d like to test whether a specific computer or URL is online, for decades ping requests (ICMP) have been used. In recent times, many servers...

PowerShell comes with Test-NetConnection which works like a sophisticated ping tool. In its default, you can ping computers: PS>...

In the previous tips we investigated the UPnP.UPnPDeviceFinder and how to identify devices in your network. Let’s look at some use cases. Obviously,...

In the previous tip we illustrated how to use the UPnP.UPnPDeviceFinder to find devices on your network. You already learned how to enumerate all...

In the previous tip, we used the UPnP.UPnPDeviceFinder to discover smart devices hooked up to your network. Today, let’s take a closer look at...

You are probably living already in a connected smart home with many devices hooked up to your network. PowerShell can help you find your devices...

In the previous tip we looked at how to retrieve the list of currently installed updates from the Windows Update Client. This list can be polished,...

Get-Hotfix only lists operating-system-related hotfixes: Get-HotFix In reality, it is just a thin wrapper around a WMI query which produces...

In the previous tip you learned how to abort the PowerShell pipeline once the required number of results is in, potentially saving a lot of time:...

Sometimes it can save a lot of time to manually abort a PowerShell pipeline. For example, if you don’t know exactly where a file is located...

There are situations when you’d like to know how long some code took to execute, for example to return statistics or compare code, and there are...

In PowerShell 7, there is a new parallel ForEach-Object that can execute code in parallel and speed up things considerably. The same technique can...

PowerShell 7 comes with a new ForEach-Object that supports parallel execution: 1..100 | ForEach-Object -ThrottleLimit 20 -Parallel { Start-Sleep...