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PowerShell comes with a number of looping constructs. These looping constructs cannot stream, so you cannot pipe the results to other cmdlets and...

As you probably know, there are two breeds of PowerShell: Windows PowerShell ships with Windows operating systems and is based on the full .NET...

To adjust an audio volume and mute/unmute the speaker, PowerShell can use C# code and access API functions like this: Add-Type -TypeDefinition...

In the previous tip we explained how you can use web services to safely test passwords and find out whether they have been compromised before....

Complex passwords are not necessarily safe. For example, “P@ssw0rd” is a very complex password, however extremely insecure. That’s...

In the previous tip you have seen how you can enable all SSL security protocols in PowerShell to connect to web services and web sites:...

Depending on your PowerShell and .NET Framework version and update, the default security protocol for secure web connections may still be SSL3. You...

Let’s assume you need to split a text using a fixed width. For example, if you needed the first 5 character of a text, plus the remainder, how...

Before the advent of PowerShell 5 (and Get-FileHash), to calculate hashes for strings and files, you’d need to resort to pure .NET methods....

A hash is a way to uniquely identify a text without exposing the actual text. Hashes are used to identify texts, find duplicate file content, and...

When you pipe objects to Out-GridView, the cmdlet shows the default properties, so when you use a grid view window as a selection dialog, you have...

When you output data in PowerShell, it gets silently piped to Out-Default and ends up as text in the console. By overriding Out-Default, you can...