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This is part 6 of our mini-series covering PowerShell script block logging, and it’s time to address a final thing: when you execute very...

This is part 5 of our mini-series covering PowerShell script block logging. We are almost done, and what’s missing is a better way to read...

This is part 4 of our mini-series covering PowerShell script block logging. By now, you know how to read logged PowerShell code, and how to turn on...

This is part 3 of our mini-series covering PowerShell script block logging. By default, PowerShell logs only code that is considered security...

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Beginning with PowerShell 5, the PowerShell engine starts to log executed commands and scripts. By default, only commands considered potentially...

If you need numbers with leading zeroes, for example for server names, here are two approaches. First, you can turn the number into a string, then...

If you’d like to show a default MessageBox with some buttons for the user to click, try this function: function Show-MessageBox {...

If you’d like to open a quick and dirty input box to prompt a user for some data, you could access Microsoft Visual Basic and...

There are plenty of ways how PowerShell can read in text files, and they can differ considerably in time. Check for yourself. The examples below...

If you’re working across countries and time zones, you may want to use universal time instead of local time. And to ensure that the time...

In the previous tip we illustrated how you can access detailed event log information that you retrieved via Get-EventLog by using...

When you query an event log with PowerShell, by default you get back a text message with the logged information. For example, if you’d like to know...

PowerShell comes with a number of hard-coded type accelerators that serve like aliases for commonly used .NET types, and since they are a lot...

“Type Accelerators” work like aliases for .NET types. They are intended to save typing. For example, the [ADSI] “type”...

Have you ever wanted to send text directly to Notepad, without having to use a file? Typically, you would need to write the text to a file, then...

Format-List by default displays object properties in a list, and if a property contains an array, the array is turned into text, and only a few...

If you are about to launch a lengthy automation script, why not turn off the display right away instead of waiting for the screen saver timeout to...

Here is a simple example illustrating how you assign IP address, gateway, and DNS server to a network adapter. The script lists all active network...

Even experienced PowerShell users often ignore that PowerShell comes with an excellent help system, much similar to the man pages in Linux. All you...

Windows 10 comes with a load of apps preinstalled, and even if you remove things manually, they might come back after the next big Windows 10...

In the previous example we showed the special nature of the -NewName parameter in Rename-Item. it accepts a new file name, but also a script block...

Renaming a single file is easy using Rename-Item, but sometimes cmdlet parameter can be much smarter and help you automate in bulk. For example,...