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In the previous tip we illustrated how a grid view window can display all available user profiles, lets you select one, and deletes it: #requires...

We’ve received massive feedback on our tips dealing with user profile management, so we decided to add a couple of additional tips. In the...

We’ve received massive feedback on our tips dealing with user profile management, so we decided to add a couple of additional tips. Typically,...

We've received a massive feedback on our tips dealing with user profile management, so we decided to add a couple of additional tips. WMI can...

When a script is executed remotely, you can run into “Access Denied” issues that often are related to the double-hop issue. Here is an...

When you need to get information from multiple computers via PowerShell remoting, you could query each machine separately. A much faster way is to...

Converting a string that contains a number is trivial in PowerShell: PS C:\> [double]"77.234" 77,234 PS C:\> If the string contains...

You may have heard about PowerShell default parameter values and $PSDefaultParameterValues. When you assign a hash table to this special variable,...

If you have exported an Excel sheet to CSV and would like to import this file into PowerShell, here is how to do this: $path =...

When a PowerShell function performs system changes that may be risky, it is worth supporting the –WhatIf and –Confirm risk mitigation...

PowerShell can automatically bind values to parameters by data type matching. Here is a sample that shows what benefit this can be. Simply run this...

[AllowNull() _i="0" _address="0" theme_builder_area="post_content" /][AllowEmptyString() _i="1" _address="1" theme_builder_area="post_content" /]

PowerShell can set environment variables only in its process set, so these changes will not persist and are not visible outside of PowerShell. To...

PowerShell 5 introduces cmdlets to copy text to the clipboard, and paste it back: Set-Clipboard and Get-Clipboard. Set-Clipboard also supports the...

Whenever a user logs on to your computer, a user profile is created, and in the previous tip we explained how PowerShell can dump a list of user...

["MYDOMAINUser01" _i="0" _address="0" theme_builder_area="post_content" /]

Provided you have enabled PowerShell remoting (see our previous tips), you can easily run commands and scripts on many computers at the same time....

[targetComputerName _i="0" _address="0.0.0.0" theme_builder_area="post_content" /][targetComputerName _i="1" _address="0.0.0.1"...

If you’d like to test-drive PowerShell remoting, you need to enable it at least on the target machine (the one you’d like to visit). For...

If you’d like to persist information in your script, you might want to save your data as an object in JSON format. Here is an example: #...

If PowerShell won’t let you run a script, you may have to enable script execution first, for example like this: Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope...

If you’d like to nicely format output text, you may want to use a PSCustomObject and output it as a formatted list like so: $infos =...

If you’d need to find out the SID for a user name, here is a useful chunk of code that does the job: $domain = 'MyDomain' $username =...