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WMI is a fantastic source of information! Best of all, it works locally as well as remotely. For example, the next line gives you details about your...

As you have discovered in a previous tip, reading Eventlog entries is fairly simple using WMI and Win32_NTLogEvent: Get-WmiObject Win32_NTLogEvent...

Event logs are a great source of information. The only problem is that they tend to be overwhelming. Try using WMI and the Win32_NTLogEvent class to...

Reading text files is easy using the Get-Content cmdlet: $text = Get-Content $env:windirwindowsupdate.log However, Get-Content reads the file line...

To convert the ASCII value to a character, use type casting like this: [char]65 To do the opposite and convert a character to its ascii value, use...

Get-Acl is a convenient Cmdlet to expose NTFS file and folder settings. For example, to get a list of ownerships for a folder content, do this: Dir...

You need to sort a text file, maybe a list of servers or names? Here is how: $file = $homeserverlist.txtGet-Content $file | Sort-Object |...

Windows Media Player can be accessed using COM, and WMP in turn gives you access to your entire media. Using GetByName(), you can directly access...

Windows Media Player (WMP) gives you access to all of your media stored on your computer. PowerShell can access this information through COM using...

Often, in your document folders a lot of files exist, and most of the time they are not really organized. With the help of a little PowerShell...

By using the -passThru parameter, you can tell Compare-Object to return the actual objects you compared. Let's say you are looking for new...

Whenever you'd like to compare long-time results or compare data on different machines, you want to use persisted result sets. Persisted result...