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In the previous tip, we introduced a function that generates nicely centered headers and accepted a single string. Here is the function and its...

Reporting and writing log files is a common task in PowerShell. Here is a simple function to create nicely centered headers. Adjust $width to the...

Here is a simple one-liner that returns your computers’ current IP address and its full DNS name: PS>...

Slmgr.vbs is an ancient VBScript used to automate Windows license management. In the previous tip we started bypassing slmgr.vbs by reading the WMI...

Most Windows license and activation tasks can be automated using an ancient VBScript called slmgr.vbs. It does not make much sense to use this tool...

Most automated license key management tasks are done via a command called slmgr. This command is actually an ancient VBScript. To read all of your...

Let’s start this mini-series with a one-liner that extracts your Windows license key: PS> $key = (Get-WmiObject -Class...

It’s amazing how versatile PowerShell is: with just a couple of lines of code, you can turn any photo and image into a piece of ASCII art....

In the previous tip, we asked Active Directory to validate user account passwords. The same can be done with local accounts. Your PowerShell code...

PowerShell can easily verify a password against a domain account. In other words, you can bind script logic to passwords maintained in Active...

Whenever you start or stop a service, it may take some time for the service to actually adopt the desired state – or it can of course fail....

WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)is not just a technique to create UIs. You can create any type of vector-based graphics composition and save it...