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PowerShell 3.0 and later Objects can contain nested properties, and the data you are after may be “somewhere” inside an object. To...

All PowerShell Versions Some cmdlets (like Remove-ADGroupMember) automatically ask for confirmation. This can be a problem in scripts running...

PowerShell 3.0 and later Beginning in PowerShell 3.0 PowerShell no longer ships its help files. Instead, you need to download them via Update-Help,...

Windows 8.1/Server 2012 R2 Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 come with a bunch of highly useful cmdlets for network adapter management. When you want...

PowerShell 2.0 and later In a previous tip we introduced an “acoustic progress bar” that made PowerShell play a sound for as long as it...

PowerShell 3.0 and later PowerShell ISE is completely scriptable and is accessible through the $psISE variable. This variable is present only within...

PowerShell Version 3 or better Get-Process gets you a list of all running processes, but it will not reveal the process owner. To find the process...

PowerShell 3 and better There are plenty of information web services out in the Internet, and many of them return results in JSON format. Here is an...

PowerShell 3.0 and later If you define a PowerShell function with some parameters, and you want a given parameter to have a default value that is an...

PowerShell 3.0 and later By default, PowerShell includes the current path into the prompt, and when you launch PowerShell as regular user, the...

PowerShell Version 2.0 and later In a previous tip we illustrated how you can use a web service to retrieve warranty information for DELL computers....

PowerShell 2.0 and later Let’s assume you want the user to submit a list of file extensions, or you are getting them from some other source....

PowerShell 3.0 and later Sometimes, it is hard to find out why a PowerShell script is not doing what it should do. To get a better understanding of...

PowerShell 3.0 and later PowerShell ISE already supports collapsible code regions. When you write functions, loops, or conditions, you will notice a...

PowerShell 3.0 and later In a previous tip we explained how you can turn Out-GridView into a selection dialog, and suggested a couple of ideas. One...

PowerShell 3.0 and later By default, Out-GridView is a one-way road: you can pipe data into it and display it in a grid view window, but you cannot...

PowerShell 3.0 and later Get-Service lists all services installed on your computer. It has no parameter to select only running or stopped services,...

PowerShell 3.0 and later Out-GridView is a very useful cmdlet to output results to an extra window. Unlike outputting to the console, Out-GridView...

PowerShell 3.0 and later When you develop PowerShell scripts in the PowerShell ISE, you will probably make a lot of changes and revisions, and...

Windows 8/Windows 8.1 You may have noticed that the Windows 8 start screen by default is missing PowerShell tools like the PowerShell ISE. When you...

Windows 8.1, Server 2012 R2 Investigating Active Directory replication failures becomes easy with Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2. A new cmdlet...

All Versions PowerShell can access static methods of .NET types. Here are some real world one-liners that can do a lot for you: [Math]::Round(7.9)...

All Versions Typically, when you declare a parameter as mandatory, and the user does not submit it, PowerShell takes care and prompts the user for...

All PowerShell versions To add some sophistication to your script, here is a simple function that opens the OpenFile dialog and lets the user pick a...

All Versions When you browse the file system with Get-ChildItem, you may stumble across folders that you have no access to view. If you’d like...

ActiveDirectory Module Sometimes you may want to directly access properties related to the terminal service in an Active Directory account. Here is...

PowerShell ISE 3.0 and later While it is generally not recommended to hard code passwords in scripts, there are sometimes scenarios where this is...

PowerShell 3.0 and later In PowerShell 3.0, a new feature called “Automatic Unrolling” was introduced. With it, you can write code like this:...

All PowerShell versions To preserve all the PowerShell commands that you entered in a PowerShell session, check out this one liner:...

All PowerShell versions In a previous tip we illustrated how you can take a DELL serial number and check online the warranty status. Other vendors...