powertips

If you’d like to open a quick and dirty input box to prompt a user for some data, you could access Microsoft Visual Basic and...

There are plenty of ways how PowerShell can read in text files, and they can differ considerably in time. Check for yourself. The examples below...

If you’re working across countries and time zones, you may want to use universal time instead of local time. And to ensure that the time...

In the previous tip we illustrated how you can access detailed event log information that you retrieved via Get-EventLog by using...

When you query an event log with PowerShell, by default you get back a text message with the logged information. For example, if you’d like to know...

PowerShell comes with a number of hard-coded type accelerators that serve like aliases for commonly used .NET types, and since they are a lot...

“Type Accelerators” work like aliases for .NET types. They are intended to save typing. For example, the [ADSI] “type”...

Have you ever wanted to send text directly to Notepad, without having to use a file? Typically, you would need to write the text to a file, then...

Format-List by default displays object properties in a list, and if a property contains an array, the array is turned into text, and only a few...

If you are about to launch a lengthy automation script, why not turn off the display right away instead of waiting for the screen saver timeout to...

Here is a simple example illustrating how you assign IP address, gateway, and DNS server to a network adapter. The script lists all active network...

Even experienced PowerShell users often ignore that PowerShell comes with an excellent help system, much similar to the man pages in Linux. All you...

Windows 10 comes with a load of apps preinstalled, and even if you remove things manually, they might come back after the next big Windows 10...

In the previous example we showed the special nature of the -NewName parameter in Rename-Item. it accepts a new file name, but also a script block...

Renaming a single file is easy using Rename-Item, but sometimes cmdlet parameter can be much smarter and help you automate in bulk. For example,...

In the previous tip we explained how you can get PowerShellGet up and running with your PowerShell version. Now let’s see how easily the...

In the previous tip we introduced the free ScriptBlockLoggingAnalyzer module which uncovers the code that PowerShell logs. By default, this is...

In the previous tip we explained how you can get PowerShellGet up and running with your PowerShell version. Now let’s see how easily the...

In the previous tip we explained how you can get PowerShellGet up and running with your PowerShell version. Now let’s see how easily the...

In the previous tip we explained how you can get PowerShellGet up and running with your PowerShell version. Now let’s see how easily the...

In the previous tip we explained how you can get PowerShellGet up and running with your PowerShell version. Now let’s see how easily the...

PowerShellGet is a new free extension for PowerShell that enables you to download and install free extensions and commands. It comes with PowerShell...

PowerShell is an extensible framework, and there are tons of free and very useful command extensions available on the PowerShell Gallery...

Whenever you would like to display, print, or save as PDF in a tabular form, WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) may be a good way. Originally,...

In the previous tip, we created cheat sheets for PowerShell commands. We used command names and their synopsis to create cheat sheets like this:...

In the previous tip, we created cheat sheets for PowerShell commands and turned them into HTML reports that could be opened in a browser, and...

In the previous tip, we created cheat sheets for PowerShell commands, and as a reminder, this line would create a sheet for network commands...

Here is a clever trick to create cheat sheets for your favorite PowerShell commands. Any PowerShell command ships via a module, so if you have a...

In Windows 10, PowerShell can be launched via WIN+X (or by right-clicking the start menu icon). If your Windows 10 offers to open the outdated...

If you’d need to find out whether a given Active Directory user exists, and provided you have installed the ActiveDirectory PowerShell module...