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PowerShell 3+ Often, all you want is suppress errors, and find out whether a given cmdlet worked or not. Here is a very simplistic approach that...

PowerShell 3+ Today, we dive a little deeper in the programming part, and show you how a PowerShell function can have parameters that have dynamic...

PowerShell 3+ / PowerShellGet In the previous tip we explained PowerShellGet. This module ships with PowerShell 5.0 but is available for download on...

PowerShell 3+ Did you know that you can easily export modules from other computers to your local machine? Assume you don’t have the RSAT tools...

PowerShell 5 Beginning with PowerShell 5.0, the PowerShell ISE can connect to other processes that run a PowerShell runspace, display the source...

PowerShell 2+ If you do PowerShell remoting, you may have experienced “double-hop” problem. It occurs when you try to pass on your...

PowerShell 2+ NTFS permissions are represented by complex object hierarchies that are hard to read. A much simpler way is to output the structure in...

PowerShell 2+ Let’s do two things. First, have a look at a useful small new function that does DNS resolution. Then, let’s discuss why...

PowerShell 3+ / PowerShellGet In the previous tip we introduced PowerShellGet and showed how you can install this module from...

PowerShell 3+ PowerShell 5.0 ships with a new module called PowerShellGet, and on older PowerShell versions, you can easily download and install...

PowerShell 2+ In a previous tip we introduced automatic type-based parameter binding. Here is a use case. The function Test-Binding accepts files...

PowerShell 2+ PowerShell can automatically bind arguments to parameters based on type. Simply define different parameter sets. Here is an example:...

All Versions .NET objects often have properties that you can read to retrieve information. Some of these properties may actually be writeable, so...

All Versions While you can declare a parameter as mandatory, this leaves not much control to you. If the user omits the mandatory parameter,...

All Versions By default, PowerShell displays the current path in its input prompt which wastes as lot of space. When you overwrite the...

Any version By processing things in parallel rather than sequential, a script can complete much faster. Here is an example that uses background jobs...

In the previous tip, we explained how you can use a regular expression to split strings in groups of a given length. Let’s explore what else...

All PowerShell Versions Ever wanted to split a string in chunks of a given length? Regular expressions can help. Here is an example that splits a...

WPF-based windows are the preferred way to create user interfaces this way - because the code is much easier to write, shorter, and WPF scales well...

In the previous tip we explained how you can create WPF-based windows in PowerShell. However, when you play with WPF code inside PowerShell ISE, it...

WPF is a great technique to create user interfaces in PowerShell. Most of the window content can be defined using XAML, a description similar to...

Send-MailMessage has been around for many years. It can be used to quickly send an email without the need to have an email client at hand. All you...

Thanks to Jaap Brasser’s finding, here is an easy way of encrypting a bunch of credentials: $CredPath = "$home\Desktop\mycreds.xml"...

Here is a safe way of saving credentials to a file: $CredPath = "$home\Desktop\mycred.xml" Get-Credential | Export-Clixml -Path $CredPath...