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WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) is part of any Windows operating system and a common and widely used way of getting information about a...

Converting old Word documents to the new .docx format can be a lot of work, and in part 1 you learned the basic steps to automate conversion....

Converting old Word documents to the new .docx format can be a lot of work. Thanks to PowerShell, you can automate the conversion: function...

Most PowerShell commands live in modules, and by adding new modules, you can add new commands to your PowerShell environment. To find out whether a...

WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) is a great information source: you can find almost any information about your computer somewhere. The hard...

Often, a single object needs to be examined, i.e. a process or an Active Directory user. When you display an object in a grid view window such as...

How about turning a single object into a hash table? This way, you can display one object property per line when you output the object in a grid...

Let’s assume you want to hide all object properties that have no value (are empty). Here is a simple approach: # get any object $object =...

Via the secret “PSObject” property, you can get detailed information about object members. For example, if you’d like to know...

In PowerShell, most data are represented as PSObjects, a specific object “wrapper” added by PowerShell. To get to this specific wrapper,...

This is the second part of our text encryption/decryption series. In the first part you learned how you can safely encrypt text on a machine. Now...

Let’s take a look at a safe way of encrypting text on a computer. The below Protect-Text function takes any text and encrypts it...