Powershell

Logging All Errors

In a previous tip you have seen that cmdlet errors can only be caught by an error handler if the -ErrorAction is set to "Stop". Doing this...

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Logging Script Runtime

If you'd like to monitor how long a script takes to run, you could use Measure-Command, but this cmdlet is for diagnostic purposes only and...

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Reading All Text

You can use Get-Content to read in any plain text file. However, Get-Content will return the file content line by line, and you get back a string...

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Storing Secret Data

If you wanted to store sensitive data in a way that only you could retrieve it, you can use a funny approach: convert some plain text into a secure...

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Testing UNC Paths

Test-Path can test whether or not a given file or folder exists. This works fine for paths that use a drive letter, but can fail with pure UNC...

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Enabling Classic Remoting

Many cmdlets have built-in remoting capabilities, for example Get-Service and Get-Process both have the parameter -ComputerName, and so does...

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