Powershell

Here is a one-liner that retrieves your original Windows product key: (Get-WmiObject -Class...

In the previous tip we explained how PowerShell can send PDF documents to the default PDF printer. This generic approach is OK for simple scenarios...

To automatically print PDF documents, unfortunately you cannot use Out-Printer. Out-Printer can only send pure text documents to a printer. However,...

Windows 10 comes with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) feature that you can use to run various Linux distributions. Launch a PowerShell with...

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Here is a one-liner that returns the SID for the current user and can be used in logon scripts, for example:...

Here is a straightforward way to test ports on a local or remote system. You can even specify a timeout (in milliseconds): function Get-PortInfo {...

It can be easy to mess up console colors in the PowerShell console. A single call with accidental values, or a script that messed with the colors,...

Sometimes when you try to access web services (or download internet content in general), PowerShell may bail out and complain about not being able...

Classic foreach loops are the fastest loop available but they come with a severe limitation. Foreach loops do not support streaming. You need to...

There are many ways to create a list of network drives. One involves a COM interface that was used by VBScript as well, and we’ll pick it to...

You can always use Send-MailMessage to send a mail via any SMTP server. If you’d like to use your Outlook client, though, i.e. to keep access...

Polishing raw text is not always trivial, and when you’d like to make sure names or texts are well-formed, and each word starts with a capital...

Every Windows installation has a unique UUID that you can use to distinguish machines. While computer names can change, the UUID won’t: PS>...

In the previous tip we illustrated how Get-Date can take a format string and convert DateTime values to strings. The string conversion always uses...

Formatting date and time to your needs is easy with the -Format parameter provided by Get-Date. You can use it either with the current date, or...

In the previous tip we created the function Out-PDFFile which accepts any PowerShell results and turns them into a PDF file – using the built-in...

In the previous tip we explained how you can use PowerShell on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 to set up a PDF printer that prints anything to a...

In the previous tip we illustrated how you can use the built-in “Microsoft Print to PDF” printer to send PowerShell output to PDF files. However,...

Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 finally come with a built-in PDF printer called “Microsoft Print to PDF” that you can use from...

Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 come with extensive printer support thanks to the PrintManagement module. If you’d like to print official...

In the previous tip we introduced the FileSystemWatcher and illustrated how it can miss filesystem changes when your handler code takes too long. To...