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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...

PowerShell 7 comes with a built-in parameter to run different tasks in parallel. Here is a simple example: 1..100 | ForEach-Object -ThrottleLimit 20...

Here is a somewhat unknown parameter: -RepeatHeader! What does it do? Let’s assume you want to see results page by page (which only works in a...

With PowerShell 7, the language gets a new operator that created a lot of debate. Basically, you don’t have to use it, but users with a developer...

In PowerShell 5, a new cmdlet called Get-ComputerInfo was introduced which does what systeminfo.exe did in the past, yet Get-ComputerInfo is...

For a long time, the command-line utility systeminfo.exe provides a wealth of information about a computer and can return object-oriented results...

In this mini-series, we are looking at the differences between Get-WmiObject and Get-CimInstance. Future PowerShell versions no longer support...