Powershell

Here is a very special (and very underdocumented) way to use PowerShell parameters. Have a look at this function: #requires -Version 2 function...

PowerShell is an extremely powerful language and can access web services and web pages. If you combine that with dynamic parameters, you get a...

Let's assume you have a bunch of Word files and would like to know how much pages they contain. Here is a function that takes the path to one...

PowerShell can use Add-Type to access internal Windows API functions. This way, it is easy to bring any process window into the foreground. Here is...

In parts 1 and 2, you learned how a PowerShell function can process information that was submitted to parameters or piped via the pipeline. In our...

In part 1 we showed how a PowerShell function can receive input both from a parameter and via the pipeline, and process it in real-time. This is the...

This is the first of the three tips showing you how a PowerShell function can accept data via pipeline or parameter. In part 1, the function...

PowerShell can use UIAutomation calls to find out useful UI information about any process. You can find out whether a process accepts keyboard...

In PowerShell 5.0, Compress-Archive can easily compress files and folders to a ZIP file: PS C:\> Compress-Archive -Path c:\sourcefolder...

If you have Windows Defender installed on your machine, you can use this PowerShell command to run a quick scan on a drive of your choice: PS>...

By default, the Telnet client is disabled on Windows systems. You can easily enable it with a one liner in PowerShell, though. Just launch a...

By default, PowerShell remoting uses Kerberos authentication and works only in domain environments, and only when you specify computer names, not IP...

Beginning in PowerShell 4.0, you can use validators for variable assignments. This gives you a quick and easy way of validating user input, too. The...

To restore custom settings in PowerShell ISE to factory defaults, try running these lines: $PSise.Options.RestoreDefaults()...

Have you ever tried to enable PowerShell remoting with Enable-PSRemoting, and just got an error complaining about not being able to check the...

Sometimes, Windows Explorer does not show correct icons. When you update to PowerShell 5.0, for example, both PowerShell and PowerShell ISE got new...

If you need to return multiple items in a nicely formatted text report, here is a simple trick: get yourself an ordered hash table (supported in...

Test-Connection can ping multiple computers only sequentially, and it does not let you specify a timeout. So when you need to check a large number...

The Test-Connection cmdlet implements a simple ping to check whether a system responds to an ICMP request. Unfortunately, you cannot specify a...

When you run a native console command via PowerShell remoting, special characters like German Umlauts will be damaged because remoting uses a rather...

PowerShell supports not just the file system, so you can set the current path to a different provider (Set-Location). Here is a trick that always...

Beginning in PowerShell 3.0, you can create pre-initialized objects by using a hash table. Simply add the properties you want to preinitialize, then...

PowerShell 3.0 added an alternative to Get-WmiObject: Get-CimInstance seems to work very similar and can retrieve information from the internal WMI...